Chapter 5: Don't Dream (2)
The white-clothed scholar is called Ma Liang, and the blue-clothed scholar is called Ma Yan, they are brothers, and when they saw their younger brother Ma Jian come to their senses, Ma Liang was relieved.
Ma Liang's family lives not close, it is Xiangyang Majiahe, which is thousands of miles away from here.
Majia River, as the name suggests, the entire dozens of miles of river and the fertile fields on both sides of the river, are owned by the Ma family, the Ma family has thousands of people, is a famous local family, profound heritage, rich and rich.
Even if there are hundreds of young people in a big family like the Ma family, but there are no more than ten people who study, the two Ma Liang brothers can study at the same time because they have good qualifications and are famous prodigies in the local area.
If your reading qualifications are a little poor, the more you are a descendant of a big family, the less likely it is for you to study, because the competition in big families is fierce, and there is never a shortage of talents to study!
Therefore, those families with profound backgrounds pay more attention to teaching students according to their aptitude, which is also the fundamental reason why these famous families can maintain prosperity for a long time.
Only those nouveau riche and thin-hearted families do not spare money and make great efforts to cultivate those offspring who are not suitable for studying.
The success rate of this gambling method of cultivating talents is not high, but many people are tired of it and waste their hard-earned money.
Because most of these nouveau riche have money from business, their social status is quite low, so they are particularly eager to improve the status of their families through their children's education. There are also people who are engaged in so-called "lowly occupations" such as gambling and pornography, and even if they have more money, their children and descendants will not be able to study and become a career.
The mighty man is called Shamoke, and the village where he is located is called Shajiazhai.
Shamoke is also a person who has read books, and he also belongs to the kind of talent that is cultivated at any cost, and he can barely be regarded as a reader. But the biggest gain from his reading is not learning, but the respect for learning that goes deep into the bone marrow!
Shamoke's family is not a nouveau riche, he is also a person with great status, he is the young chief of the Xiongxi tribe in the barbarian Yizhong of Wuling Forest, and he is also the only heir of the chief.
Therefore, he had a reason to have to study! It is precisely because of the difficulty of reading that Samoko has great respect for readers, especially those who are full of wealth.
Although Shamoke can't read, he still has eyesight, and he found that Ma Liang happened to be such a reader.
On the first day that the Ma Liang brothers lived in the Sha family, because they knew that Ma Jian would not wake up for a while, Shamoke did not disturb him at will except for instructing his subordinates to deliver food on time.
He naturally saw that Ma Liang had a deep brotherhood, and now that he went to him, Ma Liang was not in the mood to talk deeply with him, but it would cause him unhappiness!
In Wuling Mountain, there are many snakes and insects, and the barbarian tribes are very familiar with the habits of snakes and insects, and even some tribes breed snakes and other poisons as a way to defend against enemies.
Although Shajiazhai does not breed snakes and insects, it often deals with these poisons, Shamoke estimated, Ma Jian also reached the time to wake up, so he went to the guest room to visit.
Shamoke came to Ma Liang's guest room, and Ma Liang just finished explaining to Ma Jian what had happened during his coma.
After Shamoko came in, Ma Tan, who was half-lying on the bed, did not dare to slack off on his life-saving benefactor, so he struggled to get up and give a salute to thank him, but Shamoke took the first step to hold him down.
After the greetings, Shamoke had nothing else to say, so on the grounds that Ma Liang needed to rest and Ma Jian needed to recuperate, he wanted to arrange another guest room for Ma Liang to live in.
Ma Liang hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, his upper and lower eyelids were fighting unhappily, and he actually wanted to sleep beautifully, but he couldn't rest assured that his younger brother Ma Yan was relieved, so he still tried his best to refrain from the arrangement of resting in another room.
In order to have more time to talk to Ma Liang, Shamoke naturally needed to arrange another place for him to live.
He also understood Ma Liang's concern for his younger brother Ma Yan, and outside this room, he specially arranged for Ma Jian to serve a subordinate, who could be on call, and Ma Liang left with Shamoke and went to another guest room to rest.
There was only Ma Tan alone in the room, but he couldn't calm down for a long time, and he tried his best, but he couldn't record what he learned in his dreams, so he was helpless, dazed, and fell asleep again!
After waking up, Ma Tan's first thought was to record what he learned in his dream, because he had a large memory, and he needed to plan and focus on recording those contents.
In fact, Ma Jian is also skeptical of the memory in the dream, but because he vaguely remembers a story of "slashing Ma Jian with tears", it is about being killed by Zhuge Liang at some point in the future because he violated military orders.
This made him restless, because Zhuge Liang was real, a senior brother he respected very much, and he was talented.
The memory in his dream vaguely remembers that Liu Bei seems to have started from Xinye and finally established Shu Han. This attracted his attention, because Ma Jian knew that after Liu Bei's defeat and retreat in Runan, he had been fighting against Cao Ren in Xinye Liu Biao.
Ma Jian tried hard to recall the vague memories in his dreams, and wanted to veto these ridiculous stories! To his surprise, he slept for two hours, and the vague memories in the dream had begun to fade, and there were several important points, all of which were a little blurry. It seems that the matter of recording cannot be delayed!
It's really difficult to be embarrassed, although there was already papermaking in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, paper was not mass-produced and popularized.
Although the materials used to make paper were low, the process was complex, and the productivity was low at the time, and the papermakers were all secretive, so the output of paper was very small.
Those families who have the ability to manufacture paper on a large scale have the advantage of "learning and excelling", and they do not want books to be widely circulated in their hearts, so the price of paper is still high, and it is not much cheaper than ordinary coarse cloth.
Writing with a brush, the font written is very large, the amount of writing materials needed is not small, ordinary families, or mainly books recorded in bamboo slips, some rich families, there are also silk books recorded.
Although the Ma family is a prominent family in the local area and is not short of money, the family has not promoted the use of paper, and the family's books are only a few precious silk books, most of which are incomplete bamboo slips.
At that time, it was difficult to read, mainly because there was no textbook, knowledge was mainly passed on by word of mouth between teachers and students, and without a good memory, it was impossible to remember at all, so the qualification to read was very important!
If Ma Tan uses bamboo slips to record what he learned in his dreams, although it is not as exaggerated as "it is difficult to write a book with all kinds of bamboos", the bamboo slips used must be a large number.
If you use silk books, so many memory contents, the amount of expensive silk books is not small, but the price is still very large, and Ma Tan, a scholar who has not yet reached adulthood, cannot afford it.