The old master's house is at the head of the village, very close to the school in the village, of course, it is not far from Zhang Jie's house, that is, at the slow speed of the old man in the family, he is taking two hairy children, that is, a meal.

The old master's house is one of the few wealthy families in the village with blue bricks and red tiles, and the yard is very large, and it can be seen that the old master is a very elegant person, unlike ordinary people whose yards are full of vegetables. His family planted flowers and plants, as well as a few very pleasing fruit trees.

The old man and the old master in the family are of the same generation, and it seems that they should be very familiar with the old master, and when they entered the door, they didn't knock on the door, and directly shouted, 'San Lang is at home?' So he went leisurely into the courtyard.

When I was young, a gray-haired woman came out of the house, in her fifties, dressed differently from the average rural old lady, very elegant, the old lady was also very energetic, and the obvious difference with Zhang Jie's grandmother was that this old lady didn't look like a woman who walked around the kitchen all day, and she had a little bookish air on her body.

Zhang Jie, who was following the old man, stood behind him obediently, and then watched his grandfather and the old lady say hello.

Grandpa has a very high rank in the village, and generally people in the village have to call grandpa or uncle when they see grandpa, even the old man in the village has a lot to call him uncle, and there is a third uncle in the family who reads, in this small village, it is also half a family of scholars, and those who can read in the village, except for Zhang Jie's family, are the old master's family.

This may also be the reason why grandpa and the old master are relatively close, two years ago, when the grandfather was still in good spirits, he would often play chess with the old master and the like.

When my grandfather and the old lady exchanged a few words, I saw an old man with a goatee and a very old-fashioned face coming out of the house, and this old man was the gentleman who was a child in several nearby villages.

"It's a lot old, what is the call of San Lang Saburo, if the little third son of the family listens to you calling like this, he thinks you are calling him!"

The goatee was obviously very familiar with his old man, and when he met him, he took the initiative to pull his grandfather into the house, and he actually laughed a few words in his mouth.

"These are your two good grandchildren? It's all from the military banner family, I heard that the military flag kid began to prepare for his son to inherit his father's business when he was a child. ”

After entering the house, when the two old men were seated, the old lady gave tea, and listened to the old man with the goatee pointing to the two boys who followed him.

"One of the old families, one of the third family, don't you just bring it to make San Lang have long eyes!" If the old man of his own house is very leisurely, after taking a sip of tea slowly, he smashed his mouth and sighed lightly: "That is, you can still drink authentic tea at your house." ”

The old master with a goatee didn't care, but looked at the two children in front of him with a serious face, and then lightly pointed at Zhang Jie, who was quiet, and said, "Let me guess, this is your Sanlang's family." Then he pointed to Zhang Hao, whose face was a little red, and nodded: "This should be the old family." ”

The old man who was gently sipping tea was stunned, and after a while, he returned to normal, and did not explain anything, but said directly: "Mao Dan child, you can keep one as a disciple!" ”

The old master was not careless, he naturally knew the situation of Zhang Jie's family, these two children must only be left alone, and today he seems to be casual, representing the fate of a child in the future.

"You two go over, let Mr. test you well, and see what skills you have learned after so many days."

When the old man nodded to himself and Zhang Hao, Zhang Jie knew that the time had come to decide his fate.

The old man in the family still hasn't lost the face of the third uncle, although he has performed well enough in the past month, and he has learned the three characters smoothly and smoothly, and Zhang Hao has studied more than half a year than himself, and he is still stumbling until now, just by virtue of this, it should be obvious who the two should choose to study.

But Lao Tzu still didn't want to make this decision by himself, so he brought Zhang Jie and Zhang Hao today, thinking that he planned to borrow the old master's hand to help him make this decision.

At this time, it was naturally time to show what he had learned, and he came to the old master with a goatee generously, and Zhang Jie said respectfully: "Hello grandpa!" ”

"Well, it's a bit of a scholar's temperament." stroked his beard, and when Zhang Hao also dodged over, he saw the old master suddenly say: "The first sentence of the three-character scripture, at the beginning of man, nature is good, which of you can explain the meaning of this sentence?" ”

Hearing the old master's question, Zhang Jie was stunned, not to let the memorized writing, but to solve the problem, the third uncle occasionally explained some incomprehensible passages in the three-character scripture, but what he said was a little difficult to understand, maybe in the eyes of the third uncle, this first sentence was too simple, so he didn't say it, and it was because of this that Zhang Hao, who was already blushing on the side, looked even more cramped and uneasy.

Zhang Jie naturally didn't want to be embarrassed, groaned slightly, and explained the meaning of this sentence.

The old master on the side looked at Zhang Hao, who was cowering, seriously, and then looked at Zhang Jie, who had a calm face, and said to his old man very strangely: "What is the best choice for this?" ”

The old man who drank the tea naturally understood what the old master meant, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he pointed at Zhang Hao with a wry smile, and said: "This is the military flag family, and that one belongs to the old family." ”

"Oh?" The old master, who seemed to understand all of a sudden, touched his goatee's hand and paused, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Sure enough, it is the ninth son of the dragon!" ”

Zhang Hao on the side naturally didn't understand what the two old men were talking about there, but Zhang Jie heard it clearly, and it seemed that the matter of his own learning was so decided, with the old master's self-recognition, coupled with the authority of his grandfather, even if the three uncles and three aunts in the family were in the heart of their beloved son, they could not change anything.

It has not been in vain for me to read by candlelight for more than a month, and my mother Wang's wish has also been fulfilled.

"Haha! This kid is a little interesting, so he has to carve it well, it seems that you old stubborn family has a successor. The old master who laughed was obviously in a good mood, and then looked at Zhang Jie in front of him and said, "Tell me, what did you learn from your third uncle?" Have you finished reading the surnames? How many words can you write in a thousand-word essay? ”

Looking at the happy old master, Zhang Jie said respectfully: "Back to the master's words, the three-character scripture, the hundred family names have been memorized, and most of the thousand-character essays can be written." ”

When the smile on the old master's face was even better, he didn't want the old man on the side to suddenly say something a little pretentiously: "San Lang, how long do you think it took this kid to memorize the three-character scripture and the surname of the hundred families?" ”

After seeing the old master's slightly strange eyes, the proud old man said mysteriously: "In less than a month, the three-character scripture and the hundred family names have been memorized backwards, and the thousand-character text has basically been recognized, even if it is written silently, half of it can be written!" ”

Originally, he was about to refute the old man with a stinky face, but after listening to the other party's words, the old master's expression had completely turned into surprise.