Chapter 39: Going to School
Since Lin Jin promised Lin Ruhai to go to the Yangzhou prefect's house to go to school, on the day of school, he packed up neatly and went to school honestly. It's just that although Mr. Li, who teaches in the prefect's home in Yangzhou, is also from a Jinshi, his teaching level is not only 108,000 miles worse than that of Jia Yu Village, but his teaching attitude is also very problematic.
Within a few days of going to school, Lin Jin was hit several times. She was beaten not because she didn't answer Mr. Shang's questions or didn't make an article, but because she asked something other than the four books, Mr. Li couldn't get it, he was embarrassed and angry, and he taught Lin Jin a lesson several times under the banner of "not doing business".
saw through that Mr. Li was the kind of pedantic scholar who didn't know anything or anything except the four books in ancient times, and when she taught her to write Baguwen, she couldn't say why she was so problematic, why she wrote like this, but she didn't do it dryly, she had to do that, as if she was doing a math problem, which made Lin Jin tired to death.
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Lin Jin is tired from studying, but Daiyu is the opposite, she is very easy in Jiafu. The place where the three girls in Rongguo's mansion studied was in the two houses that were cleaned up in the back garden, and the one who taught them was an old man with a white head and a shaky head.
When Daiyu entered the house, Jia's mother once asked her what books she read, and she replied, "I just read the "Four Books", in fact, she is modest, you know, she can help Lin Jin write eight strands, so the four books and five classics are all understood.
Originally, she asked Jia's mother and sisters what books they read, and Jia's mother said, "What kind of book are you reading, but you recognize two words, not a blind person with your eyes open." made her think that Jia's mother admired the set of "a woman's lack of talent is virtue", so when she met Baoyu later, when Baoyu asked her what she was reading, she was busy changing her words to "just know a few words" according to her guessed mother's mind.
But after she went to school with Sanchun, she felt that she might have guessed the wrong grandmother's mind that day, and these cousins of her grandmother's family were studying, but they were afraid that they could only recognize two words as their grandmother said. Because Yingchun, Tanchun and Cherishing Spring are all too simple to learn, they are still in the enlightenment stage.
Although Yingchun is an older sister, she has been going to school for more than four years and almost five years of study, but the progress is the same as that of Tanchun. Both of them have finished learning thousand, three, and hundred, and are listening to the teacher explain the book "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment"; And Xichun has just finished learning "Thousand Character Text", and is reciting the "Three Character Classic" in the "Three Character Classic" according to the teacher's requirements. But to put it simply, you can know the original. These few words.
In this regard, Daiyu was very puzzled, thinking that her grandmother had cultivated a poetic and bookish character like her mother, how could she not attach importance to reading? But as she learned about the matter, she realized that this old Confucian was invited by the government to teach Yuan Chun, and Sanchun was just a light and followed to learn a few words. Therefore, when Yuan Chun was there, as the professor's key party, most of the old Confucian's energy was put on her, even if it was the big girl who had already decided to follow Yuan Chun into the palace with her, she spent more thought on Huqin than Yingchun. In this way, where can they take care of Sanchun and them, so it is already very good that they can learn to be like this.
At Daiyu's level, taking classes with Sanchun is like a college student going to elementary school, very boring, but not going to school, her peers in the house, Sanchun and Baoyu both went to school, she has no companion, and there is nothing else to do in the house, so she can't help but be a little bored, so after thinking about it, she took the math book that Lin Jin gave her to the class and learned.
It's not that she doesn't want to take books like the Four Books and the Five Classics, it's that she's worried that after she gets it to class, after being seen by Sanchun, she thinks that she reads more books than them, showing off, and even oppressing them; As for the number counting book, there is no concern about this, because Daiyu's mathematics is in the initial stage of enlightenment, and it is only at the level of the second or third grade of primary school.
Daiyu brought the counting book to the school, which can be said to be crooked, because if she came to the school with the Four Books and Five Classics, and met the old Confucian who did not understand and invited the Jia family to teach Sanchun, she would not be able to force the old Confucian to quit the museum.
Because don't look at this gentleman being crowned with the title of "Old Confucian", in fact, he is not even a showman, just an old boy who has tried and failed, but because he was the same year as Jia Dairu in the family studies, he has a good relationship, because of this connection, he was recommended by Jia Dairu to enter the house to teach Sanchun to read.
Due to the general defense of men and women, so in the case of not finding a suitable female gentleman, Yuan Chun was determined to be sent to the palace early, so if it was a man who taught her to read and write, it must be an old man. Mrs. Wang, who is the master of the house, is from the Wang family, who is not teaching girls to read and write at all, so Mrs. Wang has no requirements for the teacher who teaches Yuanchun knowledge.
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After school, Daiyu was useless to serve, so she personally packed up the study utensils and put them in her school bag, and the snow geese squeezed out the spring fiber and stepped forward to carry it.
Xichun saw that she was leaving, so she hurriedly put the girl she threw into the painting, ran to her in three steps and two steps, and asked with a smile: "Sister Lin, will you go back to the room in a while?" ”
Daiyu let out an "um".
Xichun cheered, stepped forward to hold her arm, and said with a smile: "Great." Sister Lin, I haven't finished reading the book I read with you the day before yesterday, and I want to finish reading it again. But yesterday I went to look for you, but you weren't there, and the girl in your room didn't dare to call the shots, so I had to wait another day. You don't know, this day, because of the book I didn't finish, my heart scratched and scratched, I didn't eat raw, and I didn't sleep well. ”
Hearing this, Tanchun interjected and asked, "What good book makes you so fascinated?" ”
Xichun was afraid that Tanchun would find out, so he robbed her, made a grimace at her, and said, "I won't tell you." ”
Daiyu glanced at Yingchun who was slow on the side, and greeted: "Second sister, third sister, I also received some things from home, there are some relatively novel foods in them, you go over and try them." ”
Sitting in Daiyu's room, Yuou placed a dish containing four kinds of dried fruits from abroad, charcoal-roasted cashew nuts, salt-baked almonds, plain pistachios, and creamy small walnuts. Zijuan followed behind, holding a ruffled tray and placing the tea in the porcelain bowl after the rain in front of the girls.
Tanchun reached out and took a small walnut in his hand, looked at it, and said, "What is this thing, it looks very similar to the fragrant nut?" ”
"Third girl, this is not a fragrant tree, it's just similar in appearance." After introducing the names of the four dried fruits, Yuou added: "These dried fruits are not from our country, but from overseas.
Cashew nuts and pistachios have a unique taste, and the almonds and this small walnut are named because the taste is similar to that of peaches and walnuts in our country. But the kernel of the almond is larger and thicker, and this small walnut has a thinner skin compared to the walnuts in our country, and it can be pinched open with a light pinch. ”
Yingchun and Tanchun tasted it with interest, and Xichun asked Daiyu for the book she hadn't finished reading the day before yesterday, and complained: "Sister Lin, you are too stingy, I promised you, absolutely what you will look like when you take it away, and what it will look like when you come back, there will be no stains and creases or anything like that, but you won't let go." ”
Daiyu ordered Yuou to bring the book, and explained: "It's not that I'm stingy, this book is not mine, it's my brother's." I borrowed it from my brother that day, but I was about to enter Beijing before I finished reading it, and I secretly brought the book with me without his permission. Later, my brother was so angry that he wrote a letter full of paper to complain to me, and repeatedly told me that I must return it to him as it was. So, if you want to see it, you can only watch it here, so that I don't have to make a mistake, and I can't explain it to my brother. ”
Lin Jin felt that the reason why Daiyu was weak and sickly was not only because her body was not good, but also because she was in a deep boudoir and was depressed, and she was worried and worried. Therefore, Daiyu has been taught to keep a broad state of mind, and not to linger in the joy of things.
But that's easier said than done. After all, it is not easy for everyone in this era to go out frequently, so she found some books from the library such as geographical maps, local customs, strange customs, jokes and Guanglin for Daiyu to see. She found these books from the library, cut them, and then copied them on the color printer in the library.
When Lin Jin took a book like Animal World through a photocopier for the first time and was about to show it to Daiyu, she was surprised and delighted to find that the ink consumed in the photocopier had recovered after twenty-four hours. Knowing that the ink in the photocopier was something that could be recovered after it was consumed, why did she bother to copy it? I was so tired that I didn't say anything, and it took a lot of time, so I was simply asking for my own guilt.
After knowing that ink is an item that will never be consumed, for a while, Lin Jin simply let go of herself, and put some miscellaneous things in the library, such as the introduction of world flowers, world animals, comics, and villain books、...... Relying on the restrictions of those books that did not fit this era, she couldn't take them out, so she copied a lot of books that she found interesting and could increase her knowledge, and would not reveal her identity and the secrets of the world in which she lived, and took them out to share with Daiyu.