Chapter 8: The Pheasant Slave and the Son

There are not many people in the primary school, counting more than 30 students, plus two bachelors and two school clerks, the total number of students is less than 40. There are all children under the age of ten here, and Li Su, who is already fourteen years old, walks among them, and really feels a little like standing out from the crowd. The little guys around were also very curious to look at this 'big classmate', and a few naughty ones even came over to ask Li Su if he had gone to the wrong place? Li Su was depressed and wanted to hit the wall.

The classrooms in the elementary school are very large, and when you enter the door, there are rows of individual low desks, behind which students have to kneel while studying. Li Su found a desk in the corner and sat down to try it, and found that it felt okay, after all, this body had already adapted to this kind of kneeling sitting.

"Sixth brother, didn't I expect you to be quite early? The Queen's Affair Chapter 8 The Pheasant Slave and the Son, I haven't come yet, thank you! Just when Li Su wanted to pick up the book on the table and look at it, a **-year-old Xiao Zhengtai ran to him and sat down. Li Yu saw it, he just met it yesterday, this little guy is his ninth brother, that is, it is the later Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.

"Oh, pheasant slave, the queen mother is the queen mother of all of us, what thank you do our own brother say?" Li Su patted him on the shoulder, and said righteously, Pheasant Slave is Li Zhi's nickname. Regardless of whether this Li Zhi will ascend to the throne in the future, it is necessary to build a good relationship now.

"Hehe, it's still the sixth brother who is right, then I won't give this osmanthus cake to the sixth brother." A small head stretched out from Li Zhi's back and said, his round little face and big eyes full of smiling expressions.

"You...... Why did you bring your son-in-law with you? Li Zhi stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Zhi in surprise and said, what came out of Li Zhi's back was the three-year-old little son, who was now nibbling on the last piece of osmanthus cake in his hand with a face full of scum.

Looking at the little son's naughty appearance, Li Zhi couldn't help but say with a bitter face: "Sixth brother, I can't be blamed for this, since the queen mother fell ill, there is no one to take care of the son, usually I play with her, but I can't bring her here when I come to study." Yesterday, the eighth chapter of the father, the pheasant slave and the emperor asked the sixth brother to come here to study, and the son was also coming, but the father couldn't resist her, so he had to agree. ”

I'm dizzy! When Li Su heard that his son came here because of him, he immediately had a headache. Although the Tang Dynasty is open, the upper class still attaches great importance to the defense of men and women, women are not allowed to study with men, and princesses are generally educated by their mothers or special palace maids. But now it's a good thing, his emperor father actually agreed to let his son come here to go to school, which is really too much to love this little princess, right?

"I want to sit with the sixth brother, and the ninth brother, you sit in front of me!" After eating the osmanthus cake, the son wiped his hands on Li Zhi and said. It could be seen that Li Zhi doted on his sister very much, pinched her little face and gave up his seat to his son.

"Sixth brother, are your injuries healed?"

"Sixth brother, do you really not know how to read?"

"Sixth brother, can you take me to play, the palace is suffocated?"

"Sixth Brother ......"

The little girl never stopped sitting down, and one question after another poured out of her little mouth, making Li Su tired of coping. Fortunately, the master came in at this time, and although the little girl was naughty, she knew how to be polite, and finally closed her chattering little mouth.

Li Su has already inquired, the old master who lectured above is surnamed Kong, named Kong Yingxue, a member of the Confucian family in Qufu, Shandong, and Kong Yingda, one of the eighteen bachelors, is still a cousin, although he is not as famous as Kong Yingda, but he is also a knowledgeable old scholar.

The curriculum of primary school is very simple, reading in the morning and practicing calligraphy in the afternoon, starting from the thousand-character text for those who have just entered school, and then learning Sima Xiangru's "Fan Jiang Chapter", Cai Yong's "Persuasion of Learning" and so on, until graduating at the age of ten, and then transferring to Chongwenguan or Hongwenguan for secondary and higher education.

In this era, the school or private school is not divided into classes, all students are students together, and each student's learning progress is different, which also causes a teacher to lead a limited number of students, which is the case here.

Old Master Confucius first learned about the students' academic progress one by one, and then circled the content to be studied today, let them familiarize themselves with it first, and he would explain them one by one later, and finally when he saw the son and Li Su, the old master's brows furrowed, for these two 'special' students, His Majesty Taizong had already informed him before, and now he was having a headache on how to teach them.

"Both Highnesses are literate, right?" Old Master Kong walked up to Li Su and his son expressionlessly with a ring ruler in his hand and asked, the ring ruler in his hand is not pretentious, don't look at the princes and nobles sitting here, but if anyone makes a mistake, there is no place to complain.

"Literacy, literacy! The little girl counted with her fingers, and found that her fingers were not enough, so she simply said with both hands, "My son knows a lot ......of words, and even my father praises my son for being smart!" The little girl looked proud, the children of the royal nobles were taken by their mothers to read and write before they went to school, and when they were sent to the primary school, they could almost read and write, but the little girl was only three years old, and Li Su was also known as amnesia, so Master Kong would ask them if they could read and write.

"Ahem~, Master, you also know that I have lost my soul, and now I don't know most of the words, so I ......" Li Su said with a little blush, even a three-year-old child knows more than him, and no matter how thick his face is, he can't bear it!

"Well, both of them have some foundations, so let's start with a thousand words, and learn to read and write. Now follow me along, you read along. Old Master Kong thought for a moment, and then made up his mind.

The thousand-character text is a sentence of every four words, and it is very rhyming, and it is catchy to read, and the hundred family names and three-character scriptures that appeared in later generations are collectively called 'three, hundred, thousand', which is the standard enlightenment reading for children in ancient times.

Probably because he was afraid that Li Su and his son would not be able to remember, Master Confucius taught a total of four sentences and sixteen characters, and instructed them to copy them a few times after they read them well. This made Li Su very speechless, it seems that this old master really taught himself as a three-year-old child.

Other Li Su didn't dare to say it, but the thousand-character text, the hundred-character surname, and the three-character scripture were all read by him since he was a child, and it may be a bit exaggerated to memorize it backwards, but there is absolutely no problem with memorizing it, and these are all thanks to his grandfather in his previous life. In his previous life, Li Su's ancestor was born as a landlord, and I heard that an old ancestor was also admitted to the Jinshi, and Li Su's grandfather received an authentic feudal private school education when he was a child.

The old man usually lives in the countryside, and once Li Su's father took him to see the old man, when Li Su had just entered elementary school. The old man was very happy to see his eldest grandson in the long house, and asked him if he had learned anything after school, but when the old man heard that Li Su had not studied three, hundred, or thousand, he was immediately furious. In the old man's mind, how can a child go to school without learning the three hundred thousand left by his ancestors, this is the most authentic enlightenment education, and Li Su's father was criticized for this.

At that moment, the old man made a decision: since you don't teach in school, then I will teach it myself. Ignoring his old body, the old man rummaged through the cabinets and found a few broken books, and began to teach them from the Three Character Classic. As a result, almost all the winter and summer vacations of Li Su's primary school were spent at his grandfather's house in the countryside, but unfortunately the old man just finished teaching the thousand-character text, and before leaving, he had to recite the thousand-character text he had just taught.

After the death of the old man, Li Su's academic pressure also began to increase, so the study of ancient texts was also abandoned, but he did not forget the three books of thousand-character text, hundred-character surname, and three-character scripture, whenever he thought about the old man, he would memorize a few paragraphs, and every year Qingming went to see the old man, and he also memorized it again in front of his grave, which can be regarded as a little filial piety of being a grandson.

If only I could learn calligraphy with the old man back then, even if it was to lay a foundation? Li Su couldn't help but sigh. At that time, the old man was afraid of delaying Li Su's normal studies, except for the requirement to memorize and understand the meaning of the content in the book, he was not taught anything else, and Li Su could not learn traditional Chinese characters and brush characters.

After the old master left, Li Su flipped through the book, although the traditional characters on it were very unfamiliar, but he had already memorized them well, so he could guess what the words were. The thousand-character text was made by Zhou Xingsi of the Southern Dynasty, and there is no repetition of a thousand words in the whole book, but later I heard that someone found a duplicate word, and Li Su is not very clear about this.

Li Su gave up after reading a few sentences boringly, secretly looked at the little girl, and found that this little girl was very serious about her back, shaking her head and shaking her head very much like that, which made Li Su can't help but think of the future generations, those flowers of the motherland who are crawling forward under the heavy exam-oriented education. Isn't it a waste to read every day at a young age when you are playing?

Thinking of this, Li Su had an idea, saw that the old master didn't pay attention to this, picked up the paper on the table and folded it, and after a while, a beautiful paper crane appeared in his hand, and then gently threw it to the little girl.

The serious little girl who was reading was stunned at first, and when she saw the exquisite paper crane, her little face immediately blossomed, and she picked it up and looked left and right, and she couldn't put it down, as for the book, she had already thrown it away. The rise of Li Yu's play, paper frogs, paper rings, paper lilies and other small things emerge in an endless stream, and he folded six or seven kinds of paper airplanes alone, but unfortunately he can't test fly now.

The little boy was attracted by all kinds of origami in Li Su's hands, Li Su was immediately snatched away by the little girl as soon as he folded it, and each one was reluctant to put it down, Li Zhi, the kid, also found the movement behind him, and when he saw the exquisite origami in his hand, he was also curious, and he wanted to but didn't dare to ask for it, so he could only look at it. !!