Chapter Seventy-Two: Shouchangyuan

In the afternoon, the blazing sun shines on the earth, exuding a hot smell.

"Know, know, know......" The cicadas hid on the branches and sang, and Xu Gang and the two led the horses under the trees, and the sweat on their faces continued to condense into beads.

"Sister Ziyi, where is the house you rented?" Xu Gang took the water bag from the horse's back and took a sip, raised his hand to wipe it on his face, and then threw the sweat to the ground.

"Just turn around the street in front of you!" Liu Ziyi took out a sweat towel to wipe his face and pointed to the front.

Liu Ziyi's rented house, located in the west of Meizhou City, is a house facing south from the north, the layout of a small courtyard, the courtyard is planted with pear trees, peach trees and some flowers and plants, pears and peaches hang all over the branches, all full, exuding an attractive fragrance. Xu Gang picked a pear, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

"Phew! Phew~~~"

"Giggle~~ Call you greedy, it's not ripe at first glance, you still have to pick it!" Liu Ziyi covered his mouth and chuckled.

"I know it's not cooked yet, but I just want to eat it!" Xu Gang took another bite, causing his face to distort.

"Click~~~" Xu Gang endured the sourness and kept stuffing the pears into his mouth. They're all starving

Liu Ziyi's lunch was not cooked enough, he only ate half full, and after such a long journey, his stomach had already begun to be dissatisfied, if it weren't for the fact that this pear was really too sour, he would still want to pick another one.

After entering the hall, the pears in Xu Gang's hands were only a beard! Liu Ziyi looked at him with empty eyes, and quickly covered his cheeks, looking at it sour!

Liu Ziyi walked straight into the bedroom on the west side, leaving the east side to Xu Gang.

After a short rest, they went out together and walked to the school.

Shouchangyuan is just across the street behind the house they rented, and there is a plaque hanging on the gate, with three big characters on it, such as iron painting silver hooks, strong and beautiful.

"Sister Ziyi, let's go over there and buy some greeting gifts!" Xu Gang tugged at her sleeve and pointed to a few shops across the school.

Those shops mainly sell the four treasures of the study, Xu Gang they looked at several, did not choose the right gift, and finally walked into a store with calligraphy, painting and jade, after some bargaining, spent five times of iron money, bought a silk sandalwood folding fan, after the fan was unfolded, one side was painted with a Youlan painting, and the other side was inscribed with five words: "Youyoulan grass fragrance!" ”

After choosing a gift, Xu Gang took Liu Ziyi to the gate of the school, and there was a doorman sitting in the door, about twenty years old, with squinting eyes, and when he saw them, he greeted them.

Xu Gang reported his name to Squinting Menzi, and after telling him what he meant, Squinting Menzi seemed to have been instructed, nodded, and told Xu Gang that Mr. Liu was teaching in the lecture hall at the moment, and led them to the lecture hall.

Although the school was built in the middle of the city and surrounded by high walls, there was a world of difference inside. After entering the door, the garden of the school is the right side of the forest, with pine, bamboo, and plum as the main plants, and the left side is the forest, with ginkgo, weeping willow, metasequoia, camphor and other trees as the main plants, and the Confucian Temple is located in it.

There is a pond in the middle of the garden, the lotus flowers in the water, the lotus flowers compete with each other, the water in the pond passes through a small ditch that seems to be formed naturally, twists and turns, passes through the forest and passes through the wall, flows through the Confucian Temple, the lecture hall, the library building and other buildings, and is distributed in all corners of the courtyard.

"It's beautiful!" Liu Ziyi couldn't help but admire.

"Hmm!" Xu Gang was also fascinated by the scenery.

"Xu Gongzi, Liu Xiaoniang, the layout of this school was designed by Liu Fuzi himself, and it took about two years to build." Squinting Menzi's face was full of pride as he spoke, giving the illusion that this was what he had designed.

When Xu Gang heard this, he pretended to be very surprised, squinted his eyes and smiled happily, and led them to continue walking.

There is a pavilion in the center of the pond, called "Wenbo Pavilion", there is a wooden bridge leading to the pavilion in the south, east and west, three people pass through the south bridge, cross the pavilion, go down from the north bridge, and pass through a circular arch, and then come to the second courtyard of the academy, the lecture hall, the imperial book pavilion and other buildings are in it, and there is a corridor connecting each building.

"Young Master Xu, Little Lady Liu, there is a lecture hall in front, and the little one will send the two of you here!" Squinting his eyes, Menzi bowed and pointed to the building not far ahead.

"It's hard work!" Xu Gang hurriedly returned the salute.

Looking at the back of the squinting menzi in the distance, Xu Gang muttered: "Why don't you help us introduce it?" ”

"Xu Gongzi, let's go!" Liu Ziyi took two steps and found that Xu Gang hadn't followed, so he turned around and said hello.

There is a pillar on the left and right sides of the door of the lecture hall, which is written separately: industry is good at diligence and frolic, and success is in thinking and destroying.

As soon as Xu Gang and the others approached the gate, they heard a loud voice coming from the lecture hall, reading the poem: "The heron bird peeps into the distant waves, and the cold wind sweeps the shore sand." The fisherman suddenly startled, and the snow flakes slanted towards the wind. Then I heard many slightly immature voices, all words of praise.

However, there was a young male voice among them, who did not say all words of praise, but also had his own disagreement: "Sir, the student thinks this is a good poem, but the last sentence is not too appropriate. ”

Xu Gang and the others stood in the corner behind the lecture hall and looked at the boy who raised different opinions, his body was strong and strong, with a high head and huge cheeks, a long face, and bright eyes, but the distance between them and his eyebrows was a little far, looking a little weird, but he was very individual.

"It should be Master Liu on the stage!" Xu Gang looked at the middle-aged man standing next to the lectern and muttered.

"Well, he is Master Liu." Liu Ziyi recognized it at a glance, because she had seen it before.

"Oh?" Liu Fuzi was slightly stunned when he heard this, then fixed his eyes on Zizhan and continued to ask, "Zizhan, can you be specific?" ”

I saw this young man named Zizhan stand up respectfully, bowed his hand, and said slowly: "Sir, may I ask the last two sentences of your poem, 'The fisherman suddenly startled, and the snow flakes slanted in the wind', do these snow flakes refer to the feathers that fall from the heron's body?" ”

Liu Fuzi nodded and said with a smile: "Yes." ”

"So, how do the feathers drift away from the wind?" Zizhan asked.

Liu Fuzi was asked suddenly, frowned slightly, and thought for a while: "Well, the old man wants to use the word 'chase' to show the appearance of feathers fluttering in the wind." ”

After listening to Liu Fuzi's explanation, Zizhan shook his head slightly: "The heron was suddenly startled by the fisherman, so it is impossible for the feathers that fell when it was startled to float away obliquely with the wind. ”

When Liu Fuzi heard this, he fell silent, and after waiting for a while, he looked at Zizhan and asked humbly: "Zizhan, how do you think these two sentences should be changed?" ”

Zizhan bowed again, and replied very politely: "There are often cattails by the water, and the egrets are startled, and the snow-like feathers will definitely fall on the emerald green leaves."

After listening to his words, Liu Fuzi seemed to have an understanding, and nodded slightly: "It makes sense!" ”

Zizhan continued; "Therefore, the students thought that it would be better to change 'snow flakes chasing the wind slanting' to 'snow flakes falling on the leaves'."

"What a 'snow flakes falling on the leaves'!" Liu Fuzi's eyes lit up, and he shouted three times in a row: "Good, good, good!" ”