In the evening, the seven students sat in the small lecture hall exclusive to the upper house, fighting at night, studying the three art problems arranged by Lin Yan during the day.

Wei Chen spread out a large piece of paper, copied down the title and the broken question in the model essay in an orderly manner, and silently wrote the front and back sentences of the source of the title next to the title, as well as Cheng Zhu's annotations.

The first question came from the examination 20 years ago, and the topic was "Zhou Gong and Yidi drove the beasts and the people were peaceful".

The author of the model essay is named He Shao, who was one of the leaders of the Five Classics of the Examination that year, and was a former lecturer of the Hanlin Academy.

He Shao only used two sentences to break the question: "On the saints of the ancients, remove the great harm of the world, and become the great merit of the world." ”

Wei Chen read the problem of this model essay several times, figured out the subtleties, and then began to hold back his own problem.

An hour later, Wei Chen found Lin Yan and said with a bitter face: "Sir, the problem solving in this model essay is really perfect, and the students feel that they can't surpass it no matter how they write, and they don't know how to write." ”

When Lin Yan heard Wei Chen's question, his face was extremely strange, and he seemed to be holding back a smile: "Idiot, if you can write a better solution than this model text, you will already be a Jinshi at this time!" ”

Wei Chen suddenly heard this, yes, this model essay is an article by He Shao, one of the leaders of the Five Classics who will take the exam that year, if he writes a random question, he will be better than He Shao, wouldn't he be able to take the Jinshi exam right away?

Looking at Wei Chen's embarrassed appearance covering his face, Lin Yan couldn't help but smile: "This way of making art is not urgent, and solving the problem is the same as poetry, relying on both his own understanding and the accumulation of weekdays. You are the youngest in the upper house, but you have the highest understanding, and you just need to work step by step, and you will eventually achieve something. ”

Wei Chen asked tentatively, "Sir, isn't there any quick fix?"

Lin Yan made a straight face when he heard this, what he hated most in his life was people who took shortcuts and opportunists.

At that moment, he wanted to reprimand Wei Chen a few words, telling him the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, but after thinking about it, others have said it ten times, it is better to experience it yourself, only by letting Wei Chen experience the pain, he will know that the shortcut is not so easy to take!

Lin Yan made up his mind, so he extinguished his mind to reprimand Wei Chen, and said lightly: "There is naturally a quick way, you come with me." ”

After speaking, Lin Yan led Wei Chen out of the lecture hall and came to the door of Yixue's newly built library pavilion.

The so-called three major events of the academy are one for lectures, the second for offerings, and the third for book collection.

The reason why Lin Yan asked Sheng Wei to build a library in Yixue was to slowly move Sheng's Yixue from the grass platform team to the right track, and gradually accumulate his own heritage.

At the beginning, Sheng Wei was only reluctant to repair the library because of Lin Yan's request, and he was not very willing to spend this unjust money, but after understanding Lin Yan's good intentions, Sheng Wei began to buy books and collect books with all his heart, and even went to the provincial capital to spend a lot of money to collect rare books.

Up to now, the collection of books in the Yixue Library has been small-scale, although it is not as large as those large academies with thousands of years of history, but it is also quite impressive.

Lin Yan led Wei Chen to the library pavilion, pointed to the bookcase on one wall and said: "Most of the books I have read before as a teacher are here, if you really want to find any quick fixes, it is also simple, just read these books thoroughly, I guarantee that you are at least a talent!" ”

When Wei Chen saw the bookcase that was stuffed to the brim, he also secretly admired it, Mr. Lin really deserved to be a tribute eunuch, he was really well-read!

Lin Yan saw Wei Chen's surprise, and was very satisfied, thinking that his beating on Wei Chen was still quite effective, presumably when he saw so many books, he would definitely retreat from the difficulties and give up the idea of taking shortcuts.

Just as Lin Yan was about to strike while the iron was hot and educate Wei Chen to be down-to-earth in reading, he suddenly heard Wei Chen ask innocently: "Sir, if I memorize all these books, will I be able to show off my talents?" ”

Lin Yan's face froze suddenly, and a nameless fire surged in his heart: This kid doesn't know what to do, and he has worked hard for his teacher in vain!

Lin Yan did not attack on the spot, but restrained his anger, took out a book from the bookcase, and handed it to Wei Chen.

Wei Chen took it and flipped through the page, his eyes widened suddenly.

It's not that there's anything shocking in this book, it's that it's all small characters, densely packed together, and you have to keep your eyes open to see it.

Wei Chen compared the thickness of the book with his hand, to say the least, there are two hundred pages, and any page has thousands of words, just this book, I am afraid it will be more than 200,000 words.

Lin Yan said coldly: "This is the "Four Books of Big Topics and Small Questions", all the big and small questions in the current texts are here, a total of fifty volumes!" ”

Lin Yan deliberately bit the words "fifty volumes", and almost gritted his teeth.

Sure enough, as Lin Yan had hoped, Wei Chen had a shocked look on his face.

Lin Yan sneered secretly: Now I know that it is amazing, so many words, even if you memorize it without sleep, you can't memorize it until the young man is white!

If the imperial examination is an open-book examination, the classics of the Four Books and Five Classics may not be brought, but this Wenfu must be a copy of each.

Lin Yan had heard that some old boys who had repeatedly failed to pass the imperial examination had relied on the Wenfu to pass the imperial examination.

But this is also a matter of great luck, many old children have memorized the text for a lifetime, and they can memorize a few volumes, and they still remember the back and forget the front, remember the front and forget the back, and memorize it until they die of old age, and they can't memorize the complete text.

What Lin Yan didn't know was that instead of retreating, Wei Chen had already begun to try to carry the book in his hand.

In fact, Wei Chen didn't think much about it before he memorized it, this was a completely habitual action for him, he memorized whatever book he got and it didn't take much effort anyway.

With this back, Wei Chen found a problem.

The speed of reading and endorsing books by myself is three points faster than before!

Is it because the content of the book is simpler?

Wei Chen thought about it, and only thought of such an explanation.

The same person, the speed of reading web novels, is definitely much faster than the speed of researching professional papers.

Wei Chen used to memorize the four books the most, followed by Cheng Zhu's four book annotations, and now the text he recalls is mostly eight-strand articles, the first two are obviously more condescending than the latter.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Wei Chen's speed of reading and endorsing books will accelerate again.

He roughly estimated that if he memorized it at the current speed, he was afraid that it would take more than a month to memorize the entire volume of "Four Books with Big Questions and Small Questions".

Thinking of this, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh.

It's more than a month, and it's really difficult......

However, it doesn't hurt to carry it on your back.

Wei Chen didn't really want to rely on the question to guess the question to get through the examination room, but planned to read this article carefully, and figure out the way of the famous master to solve the question, inherit the question, and start speaking.

Just like the tactics used in later generations to study, the purpose is to learn lessons from them, find out the rules, and then master the methods and ideas for solving problems.

Read the book a hundred times, and you will see its meaning.

Like ordinary people, endorsement is just a method to assist learning for Wei Chen, but this method is very simple and easy to produce results here in Wei Chen, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

After making up his mind, Wei Chen immediately took down the first few volumes of "Four Books with Big Questions and Small Titles" from the bookcase, and was going to take them back to read first, and then come back to pick up the next few volumes after reading them.

Wei Chen held the book and bowed to Lin Yan: "Mr. Xie instructed, the students will take this book back to read it first." ”

Lin Yan nodded woodenly, and when Wei Chen came out of the library pavilion, he still stood in place, his mind a little dazed.

"This kid, do you understand the intention of being a teacher?"