"Okay, Xianggong." Zhang agreed gently, turned his head and smiled at Du Jinning, "Brother Ning, go quickly, your fourth uncle is waiting for you." ”

"Thank you, Aunt Four." Du Jinning politely responded and entered the gate of the West Chamber.

This west chamber is specially set aside for Du Yunchang to study, with a bookcase, a bookshelf, and calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. However, there are not many books on the shelves, but only a few dozen or so. Thinking about the high cost and scarcity of ancient books, Du Jinning understands.

She took out the two books from her arms and put them on the desk: "Fourth uncle, I have finished reading these two books and will return them to you." ”

Du Yunchang was stunned: "Just finished reading?" ”

Du Jinning nodded.

Du Yunchang subconsciously wanted to take the school exam Du Jinning, but thinking that the book was not the Four Books and Five Classics, it was just a pastime, and it also wrote some tricks between talented and beautiful people, and it was not suitable for children like Du Jinning to study more, so he gave up.

Du Jinning probed his brain into the bookshelf: "Fourth uncle, do you have any history books or other books here?" I'd like to borrow it. ”

Du Yunchang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why do you want to read this kind of book?" ”

Du Jinning scratched his head: "I just want to see it." ”

Du Yunchang really didn't understand what Du Jinning was thinking in his little brain. Children who have just become literate will read whatever books their husband gives, and at most they will only read some books. If he hadn't used this knowledge when writing articles, citing scriptures and classics, involving history, and examining policy theories, he would not have read such books related to history and current affairs.

Moreover, with Du Jinning's level, can he understand those history books? Although he wrote a very wonderful book, but the history book is not such a straightforward thing, the words are profound, there are too many allusions, just a joke is a big obstacle, without a certain foundation and Mr. teaching, where can I understand? It's Du Yunchang himself, and he is still confused.

He frowned: "I do have a copy of "Shijian" here, but I borrowed it from my classmate only two days ago, and promised to return it to him after copying it." I can't lend you this book. You have to look at it, and then read the manuscript when I have copied it. ”

At this time, Du Jinning had already seen the "Historical Book" on the shelf, looking like that, it was quite thick, and he couldn't finish copying it in ten days and half a month.

"You don't need it now, do you? I'll rummage through it here and don't take it. If I don't understand it, I won't read it. She pointed to the book and smiled.

Du Yunchang had no choice but to nod.

It's not that he's stingy, it's actually that the books are expensive, if the book is soiled and damaged by Du Jinning, it will be difficult for him to compensate others; And with this, it will be difficult for him to borrow books again in the future.

Du Jinning obviously knows this. She first showed Du Yunchang the palm of his hand: "My hands are very clean." With that, he picked up the book and sat down on a chair next to him.

Du Yunchang's book case is not big, there are four treasures of the study room and a book spread out on it, there is no extra space, Du Jinning didn't want to disturb Du Yunchang, so he didn't come over.

The chair was a little tall, and her short legs couldn't reach the ground, so she couldn't put the book on her knees. She simply took off her shoes, sat cross-legged on the chair, and laid the book flat and flipped through it.

Seeing Du Jinning's move, Du Yunchang raised his eyebrows, both novel and funny. However, seeing Du Jinning carefully flipping through the book and reading it intently, it was obvious that he was really reading the book, and he cherished the book very much, so Du Yunchang put his mind at ease, lowered his head and continued to do today's homework.

Du Jinning wanted to look at the table of contents, so that she could know the changes of the times and the replacement of history, but this was a manuscript, there was no table of contents on it, and as soon as she opened it, she went straight to the text, so she had to read it patiently.

Du Yunchang has a charcoal basin in this house, and the windows are also tightly covered, leaving only some gaps in the cotton curtain to breathe, which is very warm, much more comfortable than Du Jinning staying in the house over there. When she saw it, she was fascinated. When he heard Du Yinsheng's voice ringing in the courtyard, Du Jinning realized that it was already noon.

"I didn't expect it to be so late." Du Jinning hurriedly closed the book and wanted to get off the chair, but he didn't want to sit cross-legged for so long, his legs were numb and unconscious.

"Hiss......" The sour and numb feeling like ants crawling came up from the soles of her feet, and she suddenly gasped.

"Slow down, don't rush." Du Yunchang said busily, got up and came over to help her.

Du Yinsheng had already lifted the curtain and came in, and when he saw Du Jinning, he was surprised for a moment, and then smiled: "Brother Ning, why are you here?" ”

"I'll come over to ask the fourth uncle to borrow a book to read." The discomfort on Du Jinning's legs was much lighter, she moved her legs on the spot, and said to Du Yunchang, "Fourth uncle, I'm fine." ”

Du Yunchang put down his arm and explained to his father: "Brother Ning said that he wanted to read history books, and I happened to have a copy of "Shijian" borrowed the day before yesterday, and she read it here all morning. ”

"Oh?" Du Yinsheng was very surprised, put down the cloth bag and hand stove, walked over and took the book in Du Jinning's hand, turned two pages, looked up and asked Du Jinning, "Can you recite it?" ”

Du Jinning shook his head: "I just looked through it, and I didn't go out of my way to memorize it." And...... I don't know a lot of words, so I can't understand them. ”

In fact, she recalled that she basically remembered the content of the book, and it was not difficult to memorize it. It's just that she doesn't want to be too wicked, and the obscure words and esoteric words on it are not something that a newly literate ten-year-old like her can understand.

Du Yunchang raised his eyebrows.

This morning, he didn't pay much attention to reading, and he had to observe Du Jinning from time to time. He watched the child turn the page every once in a while, her eyes moving at a constant speed from top to bottom, right to left, and judging by the speed and concentration of the book, she had read the book.

After watching it so intently all morning, he didn't even know that his leg was numb, and he said that he couldn't understand it, and he deeply doubted it.

"Try, try." Du Yinsheng was very interested.

Du Jinning had no choice but to stumble and memorize it, and when she encountered a word that did not appear in "Three Hundred Thousand", she jumped over, and the jokes stopped. There are a lot of rare words on that "Historical Book", and when she read it like this, it was suddenly messy.

She memorized seven or eight sentences, then stopped, scratched her head, and said abruptly, "I can't remember." ”

"Amazing, amazing." Du Yinsheng didn't expect that she would be able to memorize it like this, her expression was very excited, she took the book and walked around the room a few times, and asked Du Jinning again, "Have you read the "Poem"?" ”

Du Jinning lowered his head with a little blush: "I read a few pages, but I didn't know a lot of words, and I didn't know what it meant, so I didn't read it." ”

Du Yinsheng's expectant expression froze, and he remembered the sixteen words of "Guan Ju" at the beginning of "Poems", five or six of which were not in "Three Hundred Thousand". He also didn't teach Du Jinning to read, and it was normal for Du Jinning not to know these words.

Moreover, these poems have profound meanings, how can Du Jinning understand them on his own? "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island. My Fair Lady, Good Gentleman", what is the dove, that is, Du Yinsheng himself does not know, only that Mr. told him that it is a bird with a crown feather; As for "My Fair Lady, Gentleman", can he expect a ten-year-old kid to understand?