Sending Cui Guang away, Yuan Xi didn't even have the desire to beat Yuan Shang, he lay on the bed, and a boredom surged into his heart. At the same time, the memories of those past lives slowly came out.

In the past, he was an honest and honest cadre, and he didn't pay attention to the rules of officialdom to usher in and send out, and to exchange courtesies, so he seemed to be relatively outstanding. In terms of academic qualifications, he is an international student in a famous business school, and he is still a double degree. In terms of ability, the local fiscal reform he presided over is also perfect from the perspective of top-level design. But when it comes to human feelings, he doesn't understand it, but he disdains it, and it is this kind of purity that leads to the inability to promote the policy in the end.

His location is in the confidential department, and there is a lot of oil and water. In the past, there were many business people who gave gifts, and even his family members were infiltrated, so he almost broke off with his family. I can't imagine that I have traveled to ancient times, and these things are still inevitable.

He looked at the crystal clear jade on the case, and couldn't help but think: Defeat is also defeat Yuan Shao's belongings, what does it have to do with me? I'm just pushing the boat with the current, and there's no need to dwell on such trivial things.

He thought about it, relaxed his heart, and fell into a deep sleep.

After a long time, the sound of pushing the door was remembered outside, and then there was a light shaking in front of him, and Yuan Xi slowly opened his eyes.

Zhen Ji stood in front of the window, the light and shadow reflected the graceful curves, making him swallow his saliva and sit up.

Zhen Ji was playing with the jade given by Cui Guang in her hand, and when she turned her head and saw Yuan Xi wake up, she asked, "Husband, what is this?" ”

"Oh, it's just a jade artifact, someone else gave it."

"What kind of jade, such a strange shape."

"Hmm......" He saw the inkstone on the case, and said casually: "It's for grinding ink." ”

Zhen Ji said happily: "I just lack an ink ingot. But this thing is jade, can it also be polished into ink? ”

Yuan Xi said nonsense: "Yes, pour in the ink first, and then use this grinding, and the words written are particularly aura." ”

Zhen Ji's eyes lit up and murmured, "There is still such a wonderful use...... Then I'll try. ”

Yuan Xi hurriedly said: "It's too late to try again in the future...... and then smiled evilly and stretched out his paws: "Let's continue what we didn't finish yesterday first." ”

said that it was too late, and when Zhen Ji turned around, she had already picked up a roll of bamboo slips and handed it to him, and said: "Although the fu that the husband made yesterday is not complete, the words are beautiful and refined, which makes the concubine feel that the husband is very talented." But Fujun's talent has not yet been developed in time, and this volume of Zhuangzi is very suitable for Fujun's unbridled imagination. Zi said: 'If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die'. If the husband reads it carefully, it will definitely help. ”

Yuan Xi grabbed the bamboo slip in his hand, was stunned for a moment, and said: "This matter of studying, it will be a long time in the future, let's wait until we finish our business......" said and went to hug her waist again.

Zhen Ji deftly dodged and dodged, and giggled: "Reading is the first priority, when will the husband finish reading this volume of Zhuangzi, and after reading the notes of the great Confucian Zheng Xuan in it, the concubine will serve the husband." ”

Yuan Xi looked at her blushing pretty face, pinched the bamboo slip in her hand fiercely, and said, "Okay, it's a word." ”

Anyway, it's just a Zhuangzi, and I can read it in one night with only a few words. Back then, a "Wealth of Nations" had hundreds of thousands of words, still in English, and not all of them were gnawed down. Little girl, if you want to use this to prevaricate me, it's just beyond your strength.

However, Yuan Xi still overestimated his ability.

There are three challenges:

The first is the character, although the script was unified by the Qin State, but this is a work of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and all kinds of indescribable remote leaders are gathered in one place, making it difficult for him to adapt. If you have an electronic dictionary in hand, you can finish it with a few mouse clicks, or look it up on a search engine, and it will be clear at a glance. But now, he can only scratch the blind in front of the bamboo slips. Ask Zhen Ji, Zhen Ji said that she didn't know either, and she could only understand it by herself. The second is that the words are combined, and the level of classical Chinese needs to be mastered in Chinese in order to carefully deduce the meaning. And Zhuangzi's article is the most elegant, with a big brain hole, sprinkled with thousands of words, and I don't know what I'm talking about. Finally, let's talk about Zheng Xuan's remarks, since it is a note, you can explain the text thoroughly, but this great Confucian is more elegant than Zhuangzi, and the words are obscure. Could this be the pattern of the so-called Great Confucianism?

In short, this night, poor Yuan Xi looked at Zhen Ji's shadow, but still didn't do anything.

The next day, he continued to fight in front of the bookcase. He found Yuan Fu and asked, "You said you also know how to read?" ”

Yuan Fu nodded.

"That's great, show me, what does that mean?"

Yuan Fu said with a bitter face: "This ...... It's hard to be an old servant. The old servant knew the word, but he didn't know what it meant. If I knew what it meant, wouldn't I be an official? ”

"Didn't you say that there are no white men under the prime minister? What a braggart. Go, find all the people in the house who know how to read, and find out which other books have these words in them? Copy it down. The Analects, the Book of Books, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Book of Songs, all look for them as proof. ”

After a while, Yuan Fu pulled seven young people, all of whom were scholars from poor families, who had studied for a few years, and because they had no prospect of advancement, they sold themselves to Yuan's mansion to do chores. In these years, the imperial court still used the recommendation system to appoint officials, there was no imperial examination, and to become an official, either to promote filial piety or to maintain fame, either way, it needed to be recommended by someone in the local area. At the beginning, the squire's old parents would also recommend some scholars who were upright and filial in the poor family, but then this road gradually narrowed, and basically they had to spend a lot of money to become filial piety. Some scholars have no choice, either to be a miscellaneous official, or to work as a servant for the local tyrants of the family, in short, there is no chance to get ahead.

While reading the book, Yuan Xi took out the uncertain words and asked them to find them slowly. Several young people were scrawny, trembling through the precious bamboo slips.

Yuan Xi watched them grab a book to read, put it down again, and looked at each other repeatedly, and after a while, the two of them found the same information and came out, he thought about it for a while, and then said: "You have to divide the labor, so it's faster." So, take a piece of paper and spread it here,......" he said, pointing to one of the older young men, "and you will be responsible for marking the information they find, and if you find one, you will make a note of it, and then you will extract it on paper." He looked at the other six and said, "Each of you is in charge of a book, you are in charge of the Analects, you are in charge of the Book of Songs, you are in charge of the Book of Books, and so on each of you is in charge of a piece." Finally......" He looked at the eldest and said, "You will be in charge of sifting through them, and compiling their excerpts, and presenting them to me." ”

Several young people were stunned for a moment, and then began to read slowly. But there was nothing to be done in half a day.

Yuan Xi was a little dissatisfied, and called Yuan Fu and said, "You bring another piece of paper, record the number of clues they found, find one, and record one under their name." In the evening, meat is distributed according to the results of each person, and whoever finds more will eat more. ”

In this era, eating meat is a relatively luxurious thing, so it is most direct to use this as a reward.

As a result, the search is faster. After a while, quite a few clues have been extracted. Yuan Xi compared and analyzed the meaning, and while taking notes, he was gradually able to analyze the context of the first volume of Zhuangzi's leisurely travel.

Everyone else was busy, but only a young man, sitting cross-legged, was looking carefully at the bamboo slips, but he didn't find any clues for a long time.

Yuan Xi noticed him and called him over, "You didn't find anything?" ”

The young man looked up and said, "When I saw the annotations in the Analects, I couldn't help but fall into it, and the annotations of the Analects are more worth reading than looking for the source of the words." ”

Yuan Xi frowned and said, "Didn't you hear my task clearly?" The thing I explain is for you to find clues to these words, not for you to read. ”

The young man raised his head and straightened his chest, and said word by word: "Second son, with all due respect, you can only understand the meaning of the sage by reading a thousand times." If you pick out the words one by one, trying in vain to literally interpret the meaning of the saint, I am afraid that you will retreat from the north and south of the Great Dao. ”

"I asked you to work, and you educated me?" Yuan Xi was angry and called Yuan Fu and said, "Please let him out, I don't need such a person." ”

The young man was stunned, obviously he didn't expect him to say this, and hurriedly shouted: "Second son, Tang studied the Analects and Poetry Classics, and once studied under the great Confucian Uncle Ma Weng, and was forced to fall here for his livelihood. If the second son asks about the general trend of the world, Tang will answer correctly, but this kind of thing is really overkill. If the second son is interested in the world, Tang should be a think tank, and he is willing to follow the power of dogs and horses. ”

Yuan Xi said: "I have worked, what I need is someone who can implement my ideas and execute them perfectly." I can't afford to be so talented as you. Drag it out! ”

"Second son—"