Facing Li Tingxiu's surprised eyes, Shen Yichen knew what this master was thinking.

Indeed, according to the logic of ancient times, coupled with his own academic level, "University", which is only more than 2,000 words, can be said to be the only choice.

But the "University" is short, it does not mean that it is easy to understand, and those who have studied ancient texts in later generations know that they are not afraid that the ancients will say a long dialogue, but they are afraid that it will be reduced to just a few sentences, so that you can read and analyze, then you really don't know what these ancestors want to express.

The contrast between "Mencius" and "University" is like this, the content of "Mencius" is a story and article, even if there are one or two sentences in it that I don't understand, but combined with the context, you can guess the general meaning and understand the philosophical ideas that the sages want to express.

And Shen Yichen once took "Mencius" as his life reading, and used the thinking and views in the book to inspire himself, just like many people choose to read "The Art of War". Therefore, his familiarity with "Mencius" is far greater than that of the other three books, which is the source of self-confidence and courage!

"Okay, since you choose "Mencius", then I will take a passage from the chapter of King Hui of Liang, do you have any doubts?"

"No, sir."

Shen Yichen still calmly nodded and said yes.

Seeing that Shen Yichen was so determined, Li Tingxiu didn't say anything more, and said bluntly: "Back then, King Qi Xuan received Mencius in the Snow Palace, and he once asked the sage if he was also happy? How did Mencius answer? ”

"Those who are happy with the people, the people are also happy; Those who are worried about the people, the people are also worried. Happy to the world, worried about the world, but not the king, there is nothing. ”

Shen Yichen answered correctly, but Li Tingxiu didn't stop there, but asked, "Then how to annotate this passage?" ”

Do you want to add more?

In the face of Li Tingxiu's increasing difficulty, Shen Yichen vaguely realized that it might be that today's performance was too abnormal, which made this Mengshi begin to wonder and explore where the limit of his knowledge was.

But since the matter has come to this, Shen Yichen has no intention of hiding it, after all, he has educational resources like the Chengguo Mansion Family School, and as a result, he can't even pass the exam as a child at the age of sixteen, so the so-called low-key does not belong to pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but is the pig itself!

What Mencius is saying is that if the king is happy with the happiness of the people under heaven and sorrow with the sorrow of the people under heaven, then the people will also be the same for the king. Such a king has not been able to bring the world to its knees, for there has never been one. ”

"And what do you think of yourself?"

Li Tingxiu stared at Shen Yichen with a torch, this kind of literal translation could not really investigate the depth of knowledge, he wanted to see Shen Yichen's true level.

"Mr. Hui, in fact, Fan Wenzhenggong of the Song Dynasty has given the best answer, that is, the high temple is worried about its people, and the far away of the rivers and lakes is worried about its monarch, the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world!"

Shen Yichen did not say his own opinions, but quoted two sentences from Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" in the Song Dynasty, in fact, this is also the pinnacle of words, and it is almost impossible for future generations to surpass their opinions.

Sure enough, when Shen Yichen said this, the entire lecture hall was silent, and the schoolchildren were surprised that Shen Yichen was so like a changed person, and he was not asked by the old master and punished. And the shock in Li Tingxiu's heart was even worse, because he not only felt Shen Yichen's progress in knowledge, but also a change in temperament!

Just when the atmosphere seemed to freeze, a magnificent and majestic voice came from the corridor outside the door of the lecture hall.

"Very well spoken!"

This voice broke the silence of the lecture hall, and everyone subconsciously looked at the door, and Shen Yichen was naturally no exception.

I saw a red-faced, bearded, burly middle-aged man appear at the door of the lecture hall, standing at the door gives people a strong sense of oppression, and Li Tingxiu's scholarly temperament is equivalent to two extremes.

"Grandpa."

Before Shen Yichen could react, Li Tingxiu, who was standing on the podium, bowed to the middle-aged man.

At the same time, the students in the lecture hall also stood up and bowed, leaving only Shen Yichen still standing in place without any movement.

There is no doubt that there is only one person who can be called "Grandpa" in the Chengguo Mansion and get the salute from everyone, that is Zhu Yong, the second-generation Chengguo Gong, and Shen Yichen's father by blood!

You must know that although the Chengguo Mansion was built in Nanjing, Zhu Yong was in charge of the Beijing camp in Beijing, which can be regarded as the characteristic way of serving in the Ming Dynasty and the two Beijing systems. Therefore, Zhu Yong lives in Beijing all the year round, and rarely has the opportunity to return to his mansion in Nanjing, let alone inspect the school in the courtyard of the mansion.

Since Shen Yichen had an impression, he had only seen Cheng Guogong once in the outer courtyard school, and that was when Li Tingxiu came to serve as a teacher, and Zhu Yong entertained the "West Seat" as a guest and host, and appeared in the lecture hall to encourage the students a few words.

In addition, only two years ago, Zhu Ji, the second son of Fuzhong, participated in the Renxu Ke Township Test Zhu Yong returned to his home, when Shen Yichen glanced at it from a distance, and there has been no intersection since.

He didn't expect that Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong would suddenly appear here, and even praised himself.

Shen Yichen was surprised, and Zhu Yong was also surprised.

This time, Zhu Yong returned to the palace under the order of Zhu Qizhen, Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, and worked with the current Nanjing garrison Xiangcheng Bo Lilong to deal with some military affairs issues related to the Nanjing Chinese Military Governor's Office, and to prepare for next year's northern expedition to the Mongolian Wuliangha Department.

Zhu Yong himself did not have the idea of inspecting the family school in the outer courtyard, and as a national prince, it was already a great gift to let non-relatives disciples enter the family school to "attach to the school", how could he have spare time to pay attention to the learning of these schoolchildren?

Therefore, he passed by the corridor of the lecture hall purely by chance, and happened to hear Shen Yichen's recitation of the contents of "Primary School" and "Mencius".

In fact, Zhu Yong was not interested in the content of Mengxue's recitation, and the reason why he praised it was because he heard Shen Yichen's last opinion on "Mencius", which had an atmospheric pattern that was beyond that of schoolchildren, and did not have that kind of Confucian spirit, which was very in line with the appetite of the military generals and nobles of Chengguo Gong.

It's just that Zhu Yong never expected that this schoolboy who memorized textbooks would actually be his son!

After being stunned for a short time, Shen Yichen instantly felt that his mood was extremely complicated, with resentment, fear, unwillingness, and longing......

All kinds of emotions come to my heart and merge together, and it is simply a mixture.

Obviously, this can't be the feelings of "Shen Yichen" now, it can only be the emotions of the original body, it seems that Cheng Guogong, the father, has very complicated emotions in Shen Yichen's heart.

"Grandpa."

Shen Yichen suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, and his tone was as flat as everyone else, and he saluted towards Chengguo Gong.

It's just that when he raised his head again after saluting, he didn't dodge in fear and cowardice as before, but looked directly at the Duke of Daming in front of him, his father by blood!