Chapter Twenty-Four: Tokyo Menghualu
At this time, the gentleman with an old-fashioned face and a heavy figure-of-eight pattern bowed into the door.
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Mr. glanced at Jiang Ruofu and snorted in his nose,
"New faces coming?"
"This course is the hardest, if you can't learn it, let's leave early."
As soon as the gentleman sat down, everyone took the book and put it in front of him, and everyone memorized a different passage.
But without exception, they are all related to human customs and etiquette systems.
Jiang Shuyun pulled Jiang Ruofu and said softly,
"Yesterday, Mr. assigned us to memorize "Tokyo Menghualu", one for each person, different people can repeat the same but can't memorize wrong, and if you memorize it wrong, you can't listen to the next class."
"You are new here, and I don't know the homework assigned yesterday, so I will try my best to explain it for you and my master."
Jiang Ruofu just smiled, temporarily borrowed Jiang Shuyun's book, flipped through it, and had a certain number in his heart.
After about half an hour, most of the people recited it in front of the gentleman, but there were also some people who made a mistake and stood aside, and they were still reciting it repeatedly.
Because it's not the past of this time, I don't care about this one next time, and I can only continue to listen to the next lesson if I memorize the content of the last time before the next classwork.
When everyone finished reciting, Jiang Ruofu and Jiang Lanqian, who were still sitting in the seats, were a little dazzling.
The old gentleman touched a handful of gray beards and said dissatisfied,
"Did those two newcomers skip school on the first day?"
Jiang Lan hurriedly explained,
"The students only came to the school today, and they don't know about yesterday's schoolwork, and the students will definitely complete the schoolwork in the future.
When everyone was reciting, she was like sitting on pins and needles, and when she was not in business before, she heard that this gentleman was teaching Mengzheng, and it was so strict that as long as she couldn't recite the content of the arrangement, she would let people stand outside the lecture hall and slam the door to prevent them from listening.
Those young students in Mengzheng's class were so frightened that they all ran away crying.
And this Mr. Gu only likes smart students, if it is a stupid student, no matter how hard he tries, he will disdain it.
It stands to reason that such a gentleman should offend many people, but Mr. Gu is disarmed and returned to the field, and he came down from the position of the imperial history, although the official position is gone, but the prestige and connections are still there, and no one dares to offend easily. If it weren't for Jiang's face, he wouldn't have agreed to give a lecture.
I heard that when Mr. Gu was an official, he was a good person, smiling at everyone, extremely thoughtful to everyone, and never made a mistake for decades.
After Zhishi, he is stubborn and paranoid, he doesn't like to let people get out directly, and he will treat each other coldly, with no room for maneuver, and if he likes it, he will bring it up in public and praise it, and he will take it back to the house to eat, and in the envious and jealous eyes of all beings, he will stuff the ancient books at the bottom of the box to the students he likes.
But even so, she is not stupid, but extenuating, she should not be disgusted by Mr., Mr. should be considerate, right?
Mr. Gu's eyes were always half-open and half-closed, staring at Jiang Lanqian.
He likes smart students, and although he doesn't like stupid but hard-working students, he is always a little kinder than stupid and hard-working students.
And the students who are smart and don't work hard are the ones he hates, but he hates them even more because he is smart and talks about his conditions.
Mr. Gu put the book on the table, and didn't look at Jiang Lanqian with half-open and half-closed eyes.
"I didn't carry it, did I?"
"Just get out without carrying it."
Jiang Lanqian argued,
"But students do have a valid reason, from the time they know the news to now, it is only half an hour, and everyone memorizes a whole volume, just half an hour, how can students remember the content of the whole volume?"
Mr. Gu glanced at her and picked up the teacup,
"You don't have to listen to my class in the future, you are too powerful, the old man can't teach you."
Jiang Lanqian opened her mouth, tears swirling in her eyes, and she couldn't say anything after all.
Those girls who were younger than Jiang Lanqian stared at her, Jiang Lanqian became more and more embarrassed, biting her lower lip and standing in her place, her nose was sore.
What did she do to come back?
It's already in business, what if you refuse and don't come back?
Now that I'm back, I'm insulted for no reason.
Mr. Gu looked at Jiang Ruofu and said angrily,
"Did you carry it? I got out and stood without my back. ”
Jiang Ruofu stood up like a stream, and just when everyone thought that she was going out to stand, Jiang Ruofu opened her lips and said,
"The servants and ancestors traveled north and south, Chongning did not go to Beijing, and lived in the south of the west of Jinliang Bridge in the west of the state. Gradually grow and grow, just under the hub..."
The people around were a little surprised.
She spoke without hurry or slow, and she was calm and relaxed,
"The gold is dazzling, and Luo Qi is fragrant. The new voice smiled at Liu Mo Huaqu. ”
Everyone in the lecture room looked at Jiang Ruofu in unison, her tone was still steady, not in a hurry,
"Luxury is the spirit of longevity. Zhan Tian Biao Yuan Xi Jiao Chi."
"Worship the suburbs. Watch the princess fall. ”
Fluent and ten, no astringency.
It seems that she is very familiar with this chapter she memorized.
The voice is crisp and pleasant, and the words are like pearls falling to the ground.
The breeze blew the wind curtain slightly, and the sunlight shone in unscrupulously from the window of the Ming Branch, and through the slender and long bamboo silk yellow curtain, the light and shadow shone sparsely on the person, and it was a little lazy for no reason.
The smoky blue skirt on her body and the green vines outside the window grow together, the window is so close to her, the wind is so close to people's hearts, her sleeves and skirt ripple like water ripples, rippling in the sun, quiet but seductive and sinking.
Under the bamboo silk wind curtain, next to the verdant flower-shaded vines, the girl recited the article calmly, standing like a breeze and an orchid.
The teenagers who were in class together through a curtain couldn't help but be stunned when they looked at the figure standing by the window.
The shadow is outstanding, obviously not clear, but it is more and more moving.
People can't help but want to lift the curtain and see the beauty clearly at the moment.
Her voice is cold, but with an unconscious upper and lower tone, soft to the bone, even if she is reciting a stereotypical article at the moment, it makes people feel that she is coaxing people softly.
It tickles in people's ears.
The woman in the Jiang Clan's Academy looked at Jiang Ruofu, and for a moment she forgot that this person in front of her was the most despised daughter of the Ten Thousand Tribulations.
It's just that I can't help but yearn for it, and I think that the picture is extremely beautiful, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.
The breeze ruffled her hair, and in the yellowish sunlight, her hair was like a veil of smoke, each one shining with a pale golden sheen.
The extremely white complexion is like snow, melted into the sun, the girl's slender white neck is also plated with shadow and sunlight, the beautiful and gentle lines are clean, although the appearance is outstanding, but the eyes are dignified, and the endorsement is not perfunctory at all.
Jiang Ruofu carried it all the time, it was very smooth, no one came to interrupt her, and even she herself was a little surprised.
After a while, everyone heard what she was reciting, and they were a little stunned, and they looked at each other
Is this back "Tokyo Menghualu"?
They haven't seen this volume in "Tokyo Menghualu".
No one interrupted Jiang Ruofu, she carried her back very steadily,
"Shu opened the book to see the prosperity of the time. The ancients had a sleepwalking in the country of Huaxu, and those who had endless pleasures were remembered today. ”
Everyone listened blankly.
If it was in a book, it stands to reason that some of them should have memorized and seen this excerpt.
After all, when everyone reads "Tokyo Menghualu", they also read the text once before choosing the article to memorize.
As long as it's in a book, it's going to have some impressions.
But they didn't have any impression of Jiang Ruofu's memorization chapter.
Everyone was stunned, until Jiang Ruofu recited, "Remembering today, looking back, isn't it Hua Xu's dream?" When the eyes said "Menghualu", everyone heard a little bit of Tokyo Menghualu.
Everyone pondered the meaning of the fragment she memorized, and finally someone suddenly realized that she had memorized not the volume in the text at all.
She recited the preface!
Everyone subconsciously repelled in their hearts.
But when you think about it, it's irrefutable.
Mr. Gu only said that he wanted to memorize one of the chapters, but he did not say that he had to memorize the main text, and the preface was also one of the chapters, so he could naturally memorize it.
No wonder no one was there who knew what she was carrying.
Yesterday, at the end of the day, they received the task of reciting, and all they could use was one night's time.
Tokyo Menghualu has a total of ten volumes, and Mr. Gu asked them to choose one volume to memorize. What they know about this book is not only the volume they choose to memorize, but also the other sub-volumes they read when they choose which volume to memorize.
However, it is limited to the volume segments of the main text.
It has nothing to do with the order at all.
Who would have thought that Jiang Ruofu would directly recite the preface!
The crowd was stunned.
This is really opportunistic, the preface is only 500 words, which is several times shorter than the main text!
Jiang Ruofu ignored everyone's strange gazes, and continued to clearly deviate word by word,
"The language of this record is slang, and those who do not decorate it with literature want to understand it up and down."
"The viewer is glad to be in detail. Shaoxing Ding Mao New Year's Day, Youlan Jushi Meng Yuan Elder Order. ”
The last preface fell, and she didn't speak again, which confirmed the fact that she really only memorized one preface.
Everyone looked at each other with different expressions.
Especially the girls who have worked hard to memorize the text scroll, who cares about the temporary goodwill of the moment at this moment, they are just dissatisfied and disdainful in their hearts,
No, no, what such an opportunistic move?
It's really hard for a little family to get on the stage, and she can't remember it for the next time, everyone knows in their hearts that she is new, and there is her sister's example in front, everyone will not make fun of her with this matter, but she has to get ahead, even if she can only memorize the order, she will delay everyone's time, and get ahead.
Use a rule-breaking approach to show that you're different.
It's really speculative.
Who is here to behave like that?
The girl who was dissatisfied with Jiang Ruofu's behavior hugged the book tightly, and her gaze became more and more unkind.
Sure enough, she was the daughter of a prostitute.
It is customary to flatter and welcome these actions.
has that good skin, even if it can confuse people, it is just a villain who can't be put on the stage.
Someone couldn't help but sarcastically say,
"Since you can't memorize the text, you don't need to use the preface to prevaricate Mr., right?"
"How many words are in the text, how many words are in the preface, there must be a bottom line for opportunism, in the school, don't bring these pickled thinking methods in, okay?"
"It's annoying to death, we worked hard to memorize a full volume, and she memorized a preface to fill up the numbers, is it embarrassing to go out and stand with her sister, or do you think your sister is embarrassed and don't want to go?"
Someone sneered,
"She's qualified to be embarrassed? She's the most humiliating one, okay? ”
"Sure enough, sure enough... It's still the same ......."
The meaning is not finished, but the Jiang family here knows very well what is next.
Jiang Ruofu clenched the corners of his sleeves, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.
His face was thin and red, and he clenched his teeth,
This is the school,
This is the opportunity she finally has to read.
Seeing that Jiang Ruofu looked like he was forbearing, everyone was proud that they had the upper hand, and they were just waiting for Mr. Gu to punish Jiang Ruofu.
Mr. Gu put down the book,
"Why do you memorize this paragraph?"
"There are many more practical text volumes in "Tokyo Menghualu", this preface seems to the old man to be pretentious, full of rhetoric, no word is useful, what is the use of memorizing?"
Everyone gloated, and sure enough, as they thought, opportunistic and clever will be rejected by Mr. Koo after all.
Jiang Ruofu said with a straight face,
"The text of the ten volumes does have a very profound portrayal of human customs, but the starting point of a book is often in the preface, ten volumes only see the prosperity and brilliance, but only in the order, you can glimpse the author's reminiscence of the years, your course is called erudition to the ancients, others may think that it is just a course that requires a wide range of ancient books, but this lesson is ancient, I think it is not only to refer to the ancient texts, but also to the ancients."
When Mr. Gu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and put down the book.
"Go on."
Everyone looked at Mr. Gu with a little dissatisfaction and puzzlement,
Why wasn't Mr. Koo angry?
Jiang Ruofu could see the banter and dissatisfaction of those people in her afterglow, and she continued stubbornly,
"The reason why Menghualu is recorded is because this whole story is not only a direct narrative, but also a memory, no matter how prosperous the description is, it is just a scene in memory. There are only one or two of their present minds in order. ”
"The road chief is rarely helped, early education dreams to Huaxu, but Huaxu has to wake up after all, everything in the author's pen is just a beautiful dream, Ban Baizhi is old, I don't know how to fight is just a dream, once the war is fired, Jingkang is difficult to rise, everything is annihilated in the memory, and the text is inevitably beautified and inconsistent."
Mr. Gu frowned,
"Strong words."
Jiang Ruofu looked at Mr. Gu, and said bluntly without the slightest evasion,
"Students don't have strong words, that's what students think."
Mr. Gu's face was extremely serious,
"As they say, you just prevaricate me, and most of the people are carrying something, you know?"
Jiang Ruofu saw Mr. Gu's face, but calmed down inexplicably,
"It's the fourth volume of the whole volume."
Mr. Gu tapped the book with his fingers and said in a stern tone,
"Volume 4 is the most broadened horizon and rich in content, you don't memorize Volume 4, but recite the preface that has no truth and forcibly sends the sad autumn, don't you think it's a pity?"
Mr. Gu spoke with a thorn, and snorted coldly, and the person who memorized the fourth volume was snickered, it turned out that Mr. Gu's favorite was really the fourth volume.
This Jiang Ruofu's speculation is just memorization, but now, Mr. Gu has a judgment standard, and Jiang Ruofu's behavior is more like a joke.
Jiang Ruofu was not afraid, and said loudly,
"The most open of volume four is just the ceremonial guard of the queen mother, crown prince and princess, but those etiquette customs are no longer in circulation today, the new dynasty has its own rules of the new dynasty, I am fighting for the eight wildernesses, all the countries are salty, prosperous through the ages, the monarchs and ministers are eternal, far more prosperous than Tokyo back then, why do I need to learn some of the declining temperament of the remnants of the mountains and rivers."
"Today's dynasty is far more prosperous and prosperous than the Northern Song Dynasty and Tokyo back then, and many things in Menghualu have declined, if it is not a historian who must study history, just an ordinary student, why do you need to study those fallen royal courts?"
"The students think that what Mr. wants us to see, in fact, is not to ask for the details in this text, but to let us learn from the past and think about the present, which should be the meaning of this knowledgeable course."
Mr. Gu stood up, his face serious,
"Since you are so conclusive, what do you think you understand and understand?"
Jiang Ruofu's face was solemn,
"This book describes the streets of Tokyo, the wine shops, the food, the honor guards, and the many sides of the market, but in fact, it is only two words."
Mr. Gu involuntarily slapped the table hard with a calm face,
"What two words?"
Jiang Ruofu was not afraid, her words were loud and clear, and her tone was affirmative,
"Comfort."
"During the more than 20 years that Elder Meng has been in Tokyo, Tokyo has been rich and happy, and Tokyo has even been so prosperous that the white-haired old man has never seen a fight. But it is precisely because the comfort is too much, I don't know how to be prepared for danger in times of peace, so the Jin soldiers are powerless to resist as soon as they enter the customs, and the three thousand people of the clan once hanged the royal court, and the prosperous and magnificent Song capital disappeared in an instant, the temple was destroyed, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. The beauty of Tokyo is all owned by the Golden Soldiers! ”
"Whether it is a country or a person, they are born in adversity and die in peace, the reason why Tokyo Menghualu is Menghualu is because it is too comfortable, comfortable like a dream, the dream is so beautiful that people relax their vigilance, and they are so beautiful that they are vulnerable."
"This is the real story of Tokyo Menghualu."
"It's not that Tokyo is prosperous and pleasant, but that it is comfortable and murderous."
Her voice was calm, and her voice was like a jewel falling to the ground, but it was heavy.
As soon as the word murder came out, the hall was full of the meaning of hunting and killing in the autumn wind for no reason.
Many people in the lecture room were shocked by this.
Mr. Gu's eyebrows turned into eight figures, sat down with a butt, and pointed at Jiang Ruofu and said,
"What's your name? Which generation of the Jiang family is from? ”
Jiang Ruofu said respectfully,
"Jiang Ruofu, separated by the three lines of the major sect, the ancestor is the patriarch's brother."
Mr. Gu picked up the teacup and took a big sip, and his face was a little anxious just now, as if his mood had become a little happy.
"You've learned from me."
Everyone was in an uproar, and those who failed to listen to Jiang Ruofu's answer were even more puzzled.
Mr. Koo, what does this mean?
Could it be that what Jiang Ruofu said fulfilled Mr. Gu's true intention of assigning this homework?
Everyone's minds turned, but they didn't want to believe that they were wrong, and lost to Jiang Ruofu, who only spent half an hour memorizing the order.
She only memorized a preface, and the text was completely incomprehensible, and she hadn't read the exact content of Menghualu at all, so how could she be appreciated by Mr. Gu!