Chapter 4 Four Talents

With the little yellow father-in-law, when he arrived at the Lizheng Palace, His Majesty Li Er had just changed out of his court clothes, and he was holding a bowl in his hand, eating, and next to him, Empress Changsun was also there.

Wei Yan went in to salute, sat down, and glanced at his eyes, His Majesty Li Er ate the tomatoes he sent, peeled them, mixed with sugar, a very ordinary way to eat, of course, it was also taught by Wei Yan.

His Majesty Li Er said: "This tomato...... The taste is really good, this way of eating is also fresh, you kid, these eats and plays, and there are a lot of people who know how to play and play. ”

Wei Yan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know, when I was a child, my family was poor, and people were greedy, and my mother was skillful and loved me, so she gave me some snacks and food to coax me, and many things were learned from my mother." ”

Empress Eldest Sun said: "No wonder you are so young at such a young age, and it is difficult for you to come after a period of hard time." ”

Empress Eldest Sun's face was full of dignified kindness, which made Wei Yan a little uncomfortable, so he could only smirk. In other words, his actual age is twenty-seven or eighteen, and the eldest grandson queen is only thirty-four or five at this time, and he is a little embarrassed to talk to him in the tone of a deputy elder. In modern times, a woman of this age, he just calls her sister, but now he doesn't dare to call her sister to the eldest grandson, unless she is afraid of a long life.

His Majesty Li Er put down the bowl and said, "I called you here today for three things. First, it's your word! Knowledge requires a long period of hard work to accumulate, and I don't force you anymore, just go to find a secretary you say by yourself, but your handwriting, I Datang stipulates that all officials above the fifth grade must learn calligraphy. The imperial examination must have four talents, Mingshu is one of them, you are now a four-grade official promoted by me personally, you can't embarrass me, this calligraphy, you have to practice it well. ”

As soon as Wei Yan heard that he wanted to practice calligraphy, his face immediately became bitter, and he looked at His Majesty Li Er, and asked pitifully: "Your Majesty, can you remove the fourth-rank official who has just been promoted?" The minister has no big ambitions, and he is satisfied to be a six-grade petty official. ”

"Nonsense!"

His Majesty Li Er glared at him and said angrily: "What is your holy decree that you should be my own?" How can it be child's play! I have decided that from today onwards, you will learn calligraphy with my princes and princesses. My son was very happy to hear that he was going to learn calligraphy with you. ”

Wei Yan don't want to live, he is a lot older, and he actually wants to learn words with a four-year-old girl, let him die.

“…… Your Majesty, the minister wants to return to his hometown, I want to go home to farm and contribute to the agriculture of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Wei Yan was inexplicably sad and indignant, and his tone and expression were comparable to those of a martyr who was about to go to the execution ground.

His Majesty Li Er glared at him, but Empress Eldest Sun seemed to understand a little bit why the children in the palace liked to be with Wei Yan.

"Nonsense! How old are you! Dignified man, it's just such a little difficulty to become like this, in the future, how to take on the heavy responsibility I gave you! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is weak and can't afford it, so you just don't give it any heavy responsibility, so as not to smash Your Majesty's reputation for your discernment, because the minister is incompetent and implicates Your Majesty, how bad is that, right?"

“……”

His Majesty Li Er was speechless for a while, glared at Wei Yan, and said: "This matter is decided, I am Your Majesty, my words are the holy decree, you have to listen if you want, and you have to listen to it if you don't want to." ”

Wei Yan lowered his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, Yasheng said that harsh government is fiercer than a tiger. ”

“……”

His Majesty Li Er was speechless again, directly stretched out the dragon's feet, kicked over, kicked Wei Yan smirked for a while, and hurriedly flattered: "Your Majesty, in fact, the minister can also write, but he can't use a brush, don't believe it, Your Majesty can bring paper, and the minister will write it to Your Majesty." ”

His Majesty Li Er raised his eyebrows, and asked the chamberlain to take the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, Wei Yan carefully took out the baby quill from his arms, soaked in ink, and grabbed the quill to start writing, and the tip of the quill touched the paper, so he asked in a daze: "Your Majesty, what do you want to write?" ”

Empress Eldest Sun laughed, His Majesty Li Er was angry, and said angrily: "What to write!" Let you write. ”

"Oh." Wei Yan nodded honestly, swished, wrote two big characters on the paper in a beautiful Song style book: writing.

"Wei Yan, you dare to tease me!" His Majesty Li Er roared angrily, and Wei Yan hugged his head: "No, no, Your Majesty, how dare you!" It's just that His Majesty is too anxious to think of it for a while. ”

"Write from scratch! Write a few more words, so let's write a long article with your knowledge, and it will be difficult for you to write a poem. ”

His Majesty Li Er's words made Wei Yan dumbfounded, and with his language level, he wrote poems...... Wouldn't it be too embarrassing?!

Glancing at His Majesty Li Er's expression, it seemed that there was no possibility of negotiation, biting the goose feathers and thinking for a long time, remembering a poem that he used to like very much, and wrote it down. After writing, I silently thought in my heart, I'm sorry, Master Dongpo, you are going to become my relative.

His Majesty Li Er picked it up and looked at it with Empress Changsun, and while watching, he read: "'If there is a sound on the qin, why not sound it in the box?'" If the voice is on the fingers, why not listen to the fingers? 'Well, the poem is a good poem, the word, it is the way to write the book, but it is different from today's book, the penmanship is more round and beautiful, how about the queen? ”

Empress Changsun looked at it and said with a smile: "Ziyue's words are like his people, vigorous and powerful, chic and elegant, and written with goose feathers, but it is also a family of its own, it seems that the manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" a few days ago was indeed written by him himself. ”

Emotional people thought it was written by someone else, but he worked hard in vain. Wei Yan rolled his eyes in his heart, and hurriedly explained: "Hui Niangniang, the minister's family is poor, and he can't afford to use a brush. ”

"I see. This poem, Bengong likes it very much, Ziyue, who wrote this poem? ”

"Niangniang is wise, hehe, I know that Yichen's knowledge can't be written. This poem was written by a relative of Chen, and the minister liked it very much, so he memorized it. His Majesty asked him to write poems, but the ministers couldn't, so they had to borrow someone else's use. ”

His Majesty Li Er touched his beard and said: "The writing is so-so, although the pen is weird, but for the sake of the mother who likes this poem, you can pass the test, and you will not have to practice words." ”

Wei Yan was overjoyed: "Your Majesty is wise. ”

"Hmph, I don't want you to practice calligraphy, I will be wise, let you practice calligraphy, it is harsh and fierce than the tiger, Wei Ziyue, you slippery boy. Tell me, what do these symbols mean? ”

His Majesty Li Er scolded, Wei Yan smiled, looked up, and saw that His Majesty Li Er was pointing to the punctuation marks that he habitually used, patted his head, and was used to killing people, so he actually wrote it out easily: "Your Majesty, this is called punctuation." ”

"Punctuation?! Why? How to use it? I have read the manuscript you wrote before, and I have been puzzled by the meaning, so you can explain it to me in detail now. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wei Yan immediately explained the role and meaning of punctuation, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that a person's life is short, and the best time to learn is when he is young, his mind is easy to concentrate, his mind is simple, and he is easy to accept knowledge. It already takes a lot of time to be literate and understand the meaning of the text, and it doesn't seem cost-effective to spend time on hyphenation. And people are different, the same article, maybe because of the individual hyphenation is different, and interpret different meanings, but with punctuation marks are different, punctuation marks use certain norms and standards, as long as everyone adopts this standard, there will be no more multi-text phenomenon. ”