When Zhao Mingcheng returned to his mansion in Qingzhou, it was in the scorching heat, Li Qingzhao was wearing only a small coat, leaning on the railing, one of the two maids was fanning her, and the other was serving melons and fruits.

Waved the two maids away, Zhao Mingcheng took over the work of fanning, with a smile on his face: "Good wife......"

"But what's the problem?" Li Qingzhao asked lazily.

Because of the hot weather, her face was flushed, her eyes were wavering, and this lazy glance made Zhao Mingcheng's heart flutter.

After settling down, Zhao Mingcheng said: "Why does the good wife say this about me, isn't it because I have encountered a problem, so I won't come to talk to the good wife?" ”

Li Qingzhao looked at him with a smile, seeing that Zhao Mingcheng was a little embarrassed after all, he simply stopped going around in circles, and told him about going to Li Guojian again, especially Zhou Quan's request to compile a dictionary, and his eyebrows danced.

"What about Zhao Sheng?" Li Qingzhao asked.

Zhao Mingcheng was stunned, Zhou Quan's design of the dictionary was so attractive that he completely forgot about Zhao Sheng. Originally, he was going to bring Zhao Sheng back, but he was in a hurry to see Li Qingzhao, so he didn't look for this person.

"You, it's really ......" Li Qingzhao complained to her husband, but she also knew that her husband was this kind of nerdy temper, but it was just a little troublesome for Zhao Sheng to get away.

This thought only swirled in Li Qingzhao's heart, and he was driven away. Her attention is also focused on the dictionary that Zhou Quan said, which is almost like writing a book, and its significance must not be underestimated.

Li Qingzhao himself is a master of phonology, and he is well-read, Zhao Mingcheng is also knowledgeable and talented, the key is that both his wife and husband are very idle, although the confinement of the Zhao family has been lifted with Zhou Quan's efforts, but there is no suitable official position for a while, and compiling a dictionary will help Zhao Mingcheng to raise his hopes in Shilin, why not!

"This dictionary is really a merit in the present and a move for the future, but ...... What is the purpose of Zhou Quan's little guy asking us to do this? After Li Qingzhao was surprised, he began to think deeply.

"What can he mean, he is naturally shocked by his husband's knowledge, and then, and then ......" Zhao Mingcheng triumphantly wanted to brag, but he retreated in defeat under his wife's contemptuous gaze.

"Let's be honest, what does he want this dictionary to do, in my opinion, this Zhou Lang is a mercenary, but his little maid, it's a pity, smart and clever, I feel pity." Li Qingzhao said.

Zhao Mingcheng could only say Zhou Quan's intentions, and in Zhou Quan's own words, he wanted to compile a dictionary to help him become famous.

But in fact, Zhou Quan's bigger purpose is to use dictionaries to improve the literacy rate.

The frenzied rebuke of the civil official group after he returned to Beijing made Zhou Quan deeply aware that even the so-called "righteous gentleman" among the civil officials would still treat people like him as an outlier. He Zhizhong persuaded him to study for the imperial examination, in fact, he wanted to turn him into a member of the civil official group. But Zhou Quan has no interest in this.

Since the civilian-official clique wants to provoke a war, if you want to fight, then you will fight, and drive him Zhou Quan out of Beijing, then he, Zhou Quan, will dig up the roots of the civilian-official clique.

"Civil officials can have power, which is nothing more than literacy and sentence breaking, monopolizing culture. Then I'll popularize culture and dig up their roots directly! ”

Just like Zhou Quan said to Zhou Fu, if the other party doesn't take him to play, then he is ready to flip the table and start another game by himself.

And to popularize culture, the dictionary is an extremely important tool.

"Dictionary? Isn't that what Erya is? Li Qingzhao heard her husband say Zhou Quan's proposal, and was a little disapproving, in her opinion, there was no need to make such a name.

Then, she saw Zhao Mingcheng show an unfamiliar evil smile, and then took out a few pages.

On these pages, there are many symbols that Li Qingzhao has never recognized, but they are very simple to twist around.

"What kind of symbol is this?" Li Qingzhao asked in surprise.

"This phonetic note also, this number too, this operator too!" Zhao Mingcheng said proudly.

Li Qingzhao finished reading the first one, and then looked at the second one, this time it was the word "A" she knew, and there was a note next to it, which was drawn up with that kind of note, and then there was a number, Li Qingzhao guessed from the vertical of this number, this should be a "one".

Knowing "one", there should be "two" next to it, and so on, Li Qingzhao found another thing, these words are not vertical, but horizontal.

In fact, the ancients wrote calligraphy and painting, although mainly in vertical rows, after the invention of paper, there were also horizontal rows, but they were very few and not used to it. Li Qingzhao was a little curious: "Why is it horizontally arranged?" ”

"According to Zhou Quan, this is to facilitate number operation, for example......" Zhao Mingcheng practiced addition and subtraction operations for Li Qingzhao, which he learned from Zhou Quan, although he was not very proficient, but it was enough to shock Li Qingzhao.

Li Qingzhao saw a series of twisting tadpole texts, and as the pen in her husband's hand wrote them, she said curiously: "Why isn't this a brush?" ”

"This is a pencil, Zhou Quan said that the brush can be the way of calligraphy, but if it is simple, it is easier to ...... pencil."

Hearing her husband's mouthful of Zhou Quan, and then seeing these strange symbols in front of him, Li Qingzhao seemed to have a slightly light smile in front of his eyes. It suddenly occurred to her that her husband's smile was very similar.

Her husband went to see Zhou Quan for just a few days, and he was affected by this young man who was more than ten years younger!

Li Qingzhao raised his eyebrows, drove away the thoughts in his heart, and carefully read the pages while listening to her husband's explanation.

On each page, the page numbers are marked with the kind of awkward but easier to write numbers, and each page contains some words, but most of these words are simplified when they are usually written.

Li Qingzhao is no stranger to these simplified characters, and many of those redundant strokes have become concise as outstanding calligraphers such as Wang Xizhi and unknown scholars have improved them little by little.

"Did you really never read?"

After listening, Li Qingzhao sighed and said, the light in his eyes flashed, both surprised and regretful.

Such a "dictionary", if it is really written, is in no way inferior to "Erya", this is definitely a classic enough to be included in the Confucian scriptures!

"Why, the lady also thinks this son is extraordinary?"

"What an extraordinary, this dictionary alone, if it is really done, it is the great cause of thousands of years, others still only think about annotating the Six Classics, but he already wants to annotate the words! One day, everyone who reads books in the world will have this dictionary in their hands, and at that time, this week's ......"

Speaking of this, Li Qingzhao's face changed slightly, and Zhao Mingcheng also reacted, with a shocked face: "Then isn't he the enlightenment teacher of the world's scholars!" ”

No, it's more than that!

Zhou Quan said that this dictionary is a tool book to help first-time readers become literate, but judging from the situation he is currently proposing, even those who are well-educated will often use the dictionary in their daily lives.

This is not just a teacher of enlightenment, but a teacher of the preacher!

"The matter...... We can't do it, I'll go back and push him! Zhao Mingcheng knows that he is two pounds, and after he really compiles this dictionary, his husband and wife, as the principals, will inevitably be involved in the storm, attracting countless verbal criticisms.

There is no first and no second, and those who think they have read some books, a few will want the two of them to achieve such a name. Don't say it's them, it's the resurrection of Master Kong, these guys don't care if the other party is a master or not, they will rush up and bark first.

"Wait!" Li Qingzhao patted it lightly with his hand.

Zhao Mingcheng turned around in a daze and looked at his wife.

At this time, Li Qingzhao's eyes were shining, and his face was also radiant, which was really bright and moving.

And all over his body, there was a certain kind of light, which made Zhao Mingcheng irresistible.

At the beginning, he met Li Qingzhao by chance, and Zhao Mingcheng was moved by him, so he was desperate to marry Li Qingzhao.

Now Zhao Mingcheng has no resistance to such a Li Qingzhao!

"If you don't do this, I'll do it!" Li Qingzhao said.

Zhao Mingcheng has a deep relationship with her and understands her thoughts. Li Qing always hated himself for being a woman, so he couldn't write a book to open a generation, and he couldn't make contributions to the field to find a marquis.

Their husband and wife have not had children for a long time, which makes Li Qingzhao have nothing to do in his boudoir, but now it is different, with this, Li Qingzhao's goal of leaving a name in history can be completely realized.

"A good wife!" Zhao Mingcheng wanted to persuade him.

"Needless to say, if you don't want to, I'll do it alone, and it will take ten years to make it!"

"This ......"

When Zhao Mingcheng saw his wife's determined gaze, he knew that he could not be persuaded to move.

He smiled bitterly: "Ten years, I'm afraid it's too long." ”

Li Qingzhao pondered for a while, and then said, "Then seven years!" ”

"It's still too long, Zhou Quan can't wait."

Li Qingzhao was slightly dissatisfied: "If you want to complete the work, it will take five years at the shortest, even so, there will be a lot of mistakes, I don't want future generations to look at this dictionary and laugh at me for not learning it!" ”

"Zhou Quan only gave us two years to ......"

"How is that possible!" Li Qingzhao shouted: "He doesn't read poetry and books, and he doesn't know the difficult things, don't you know?" ”

"He knew, but he said it, he asked our couple to take the lead, invited literary friends, compiled this dictionary, he gave a thousand yuan, for the start-up funds, I have brought the money back...... "Zhao Mingcheng said with a sigh.

Li Qingzhao was stunned.

Relying only on the two of them, it is naturally protracted, but if you can invite a wide range of friends, gather twenty or thirty, and divide the work of everyone, then it will take two years to compile a dictionary, although it still seems rough, but it may not be impossible.

Because the most important and complex framework part of the entire dictionary, Zhou Quan had already prepared it and asked Zhao Mingcheng to bring it over. Li Qingzhao's next thing to do is just tinkering within this framework.

"A thousand starting assets, this kid is such a big hand, so big!" Li Qingzhao was stunned for a while, then raised his eyebrows and smiled.

This smile actually had a heroic spirit that was not inferior to Xu Mei, and Zhao Mingcheng couldn't help but shrink his body when he saw it.