The next day, Shen Chen got up early in the morning.

There are not many people living on campus in Da Shan Academy, and the houses are big and empty, so they basically live alone.

And there was no one to accommodate and take care of him, and I heard that there was a new nine-year-old child, and the students were all curious, and no one wanted to come and contact him.

After all, at least the students who study here are in their teens or even twenties and thirties, and they are afraid of being thought of as naïve when they are with a child.

Shen Chen didn't care, after getting up and washing up briefly, he went to find Song Zhong, the dean of the academy, first.

Since it was summer, Song Zhong had been busy drying books during this time.

Previously, he studied the Five Classics together with Qi Wuhong, annotated the five Confucian classics of "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn", and wrote the "Five Classics and Verses".

So some time ago, he didn't have much time to teach, and after the summer, he had to take out the books to dry, but he had a little more free than usual.

Yesterday, he told Shen Chen to go directly to him the next day.

When I came to the middle hall, I happened to see Song Zhong and Wang Cang rummaging through the cabinets, pouring out a new stack of bamboo slips that were about to get dusty out of the boxes.

Wang Cang opened a large box, the dust poured up, waved his hand to disperse the dust, and took out a book from the inside, but before it was outside, the rope that tied the book broke first, and the bamboo pieces fell down with a clatter.

"Mr. Nakako, you haven't opened this box in a few years." Wang Cang said while picking up bamboo chips: "This "Liju" seems to have been gnawed by mice, and a few pieces have been broken. ”

Song Zhong said a little embarrassedly: "When I was young, I traveled to study and copied a lot of articles in various homes, because I copied too much, and there were many bamboo slips, there may be tens of thousands of volumes, and I didn't have so much time and energy to take them out to dry. ”

Shen Chen leaned over and saluted respectfully, "Two gentlemen." ”

"Shen Chen, you're just in time."

When Wang Cang saw him, his eyes lit up, and he said, "You tie up these bamboo slips, you should be able to do this little thing." ”

Shen Chen said in his heart that you are using child labor, but there was no child labor in the Han Dynasty, and ordinary people had to work in the fields with their parents when they were eight or nine years old, so they had to bite the bullet and say, "I can do it." ”

"Go to the backyard and get some rope."

"Yes."

"Remember to ask for string."

"Got it."

Shen Chen went back to the backyard and asked the servants of the academy for some rope to come back.

By the time he arrived, Song Zhong and Wang Cang had already emptied the box.

As a great Confucian at that time, when Song Zhong traveled around the world in his early years, he copied a large number of classics from various families.

It's a little distressing to say, he copied so many books, and the total number of books may add up to so many million words, and there are tens of thousands of bamboo slips.

At that time, these things were extremely valuable.

But in the future, a computer folder can hold all these things and be very rich.

Countless people in later generations disdained so many classics that they didn't even want to look at them.

This is not a sad thing.

But it is precisely because of the countless predecessors who have worked tirelessly to write so many books over the years that there has been a brilliant history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.

No matter how many things are in the computer folders, how can they compare to the weight and meaning that these books can carry?

Shen Chen walked over, and Wang Cang instructed him to let him clean up the scattered bamboo pieces in the box first.

Song Zhong dipped a linen towel in water and wiped a roll of bamboo slips.

The three of them were busy all morning, Song Zhong was responsible for cleaning, Wang Cang was responsible for setting up the books, and Shen Chen was responsible for restringing the bamboo pieces sorted out by Wang Cang in the order he arranged.

It took almost two hours to get a box, and what is desperate is that Song Zhong and other great Confucian celebrities, plus Liu Biao sent dozens of boxes of books, all kinds of Confucian classics and books from other families are innumerable.

Fortunately, Song Zhong and Wang Cang were not so frustrated to call a child like this, they arranged breakfast after an hour of busy work, and took advantage of their leisure time to teach him in person.

Two people kneeling face to face on the seat, there is a big tree in the yard, although the sun is hot, but the shade under the big tree is quite cool, plus the north and east of Da Hyeon Mountain face near the Han River, the south is the Jianghan Plain, the west is the Qinling Mountains, the mountain breeze comes slowly, it is very cool.

"I'll teach you a little seal today."

Song Zhong took out a book and said to Shen Chen: "This is the "History of the Chapter", which is the history of Zhou Xuan Wangtai, with more than 2,000 words, have you ever heard of it?" ”

Shen Chen scratched his head and said, "I will memorize this book when I am three years old." ”

In later generations, this book has been lost, but in the Han Dynasty, this book was a children's literacy book with the same name as the "Cangjie Chapter", and its status was the same as that of the later "Thousand Character Text" and "Three Character Classic".

When Song Zhong heard that he could memorize, he immediately became interested, stroked his beard and said, "Then listen to two sentences by reciting." ”

Shen Chen memorized a few words.

The classics brought by the clan are all books with a very small number of words, and these children's literacy books are naturally also brought, and when he was enlightened, he was taught by his grandfather himself.

Later, his grandfather died of illness and recommended him to his cousin Deng Mao, Deng Mao was very surprised that there were four-year-old children in the clan who could know so many words, so he took out other classics in the family and taught him, and when he was six years old, Deng Mao and Deng Hong were no longer able to teach him.

Hearing that Shen Chen really knew how to memorize, Song Zhong was also very surprised, and asked again: "Can you memorize "Cangjie Chapter"?" ”

"Yes."

Shen Chen replied, and recited a few more sentences of "Cangjie Chapter" as he spoke.

Wang Cang on the side praised: "Yes, I know so many words when I am only nine years old, it seems that it is easier to teach you the size of the seal." ”

Because he knows Lishu's "History Chapter", even if he doesn't know Xiao Seal, he knows what kind of word it is, even if Song Zhong doesn't teach him, he can figure it out by himself.

It's like you will memorize Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts", know the bright moonlight in front of the bed, and you will definitely read the bright moonlight in front of the bed in the small seal version, after all, the words are still those words, the form is different, but the number of words, sorting, and broken sentences are exactly the same, no matter how stupid you are, you should know which word is which word.

Song Zhong said happily: "That's a lot easier, come, I'll teach you the first word." ”

After that, he spread out the bamboo slips and began to teach Xiao Seal.

has the foundation of being able to memorize the book "History Chapter", Shen Chen's progress is really fast, and he quickly learned the first article.

Seeing his rapid progress, Song Zhong was also very satisfied, and his teaching speed also sped up a few points.

And in the next few days, Song Zhong was not stingy, and took Shen Chen to rummage through the cabinets and take out the books to dry every day, and at the same time began to teach him the big and small seal books, but after seven or eight days of hard work, Shen Chen had already learned the big and small seal books almost perfectly.

It's just that after learning the "History Chapter" and "Cangjie Chapter", Song Zhong did not teach him new articles, but asked him to walk around the courtyard every day and help him get the books that had been dried.

After another half a month, all kinds of large and small seal scripts have been ripe, and I also know which books Song Zhong put on the ground to dry, he can read and write, and his progress can be regarded as fast.

It was raining on this day, so I finally had some free time.

Unexpectedly, the servants in the academy came to him, saying that he had a guest and was now waiting for him in the hall of the atrium.

At first, he thought it was his uncle Deng Hong, but after arriving, Shen Chen was suddenly pleasantly surprised.

It was Zhuge Liang.

"Brother."

"Brother Xian."

As soon as the two met, they happily hugged each other.

After separating, Shen Chen looked up and down, and saw that Zhuge Liang was wearing a cyan silk robe and a Confucian scarf on his head, still looking rich and elegant.

"My brother hasn't seen me for a year, but he's grown taller."

Shen Chen gestured, and he only reached Zhuge Liang's neck, which was more than ten centimeters shorter.

Historical records record that Zhuge Liang is eight feet tall, nearly one meter nine, and is a standard Shandong Han. Although it is not yet eight feet, it is now more than seven feet, and he is only fourteen years old and taller than Wang Cang.

Zhuge Liang smiled: "You have also grown taller, and you are a little darker." ”

Shen Chen rolled his eyes and said, "Recently, the master has asked me to dry his books under the sun, and he will definitely get a tan." ”

The two of them sat down in the hall.

It was still raining outside, and Shen Chen asked, "Why did my brother come here suddenly?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "At the beginning of this year, Zhu Hao came to Yuzhang, and sure enough, as you expected, Yuan Shu did not come to the rescue, so my uncle had to take us to Jingzhou, I wanted to go to Nanyang to find you, but my uncle was in Liu Jingzhou and could not travel, so I had to give up." Some time ago, I heard that you came to Xiangyang, and I wanted to come to look for it, but I was afraid that you would be busy when you first entered the college, and it was raining today, so I came over. ”

Shen Chen saw that Zhuge Liang was wet in some places, and complained slightly: "Next time, don't come in the rain, in case you suffer from a cold, I'll go find suitable clothes for my brother to change into." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled: "It's okay, I'll go back later, and I'll come here to see you this time." ”

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "There are a lot of books in the Xianshan Academy, why doesn't my brother enroll in them?" Wouldn't it be nice for us to study the scriptures together every day? ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Uncle and some people in the academy do not agree. ”

"That's right."

Only then did Shen Chen understand that it was no wonder that there was no record in history that Zhuge Liang was studying at Xianshan Academy, only that after Zhuge Xuan's death, he farmed in Longzhong by himself, and was with Shi Tao, Xu Shu, Meng Jian and others every day, it turned out that this was the reason.

Zhuge Xuan has also been in Xiangyang for many years and has met a lot of connections, such as Zhuge Liang's two sisters who can marry the two big families of the Kuai family and the Pang family, they must have a close relationship with them.

But at the same time, it will offend some people, and it is normal to have friends and enemies. It was Zhuge Xuan who disagreed with some people in the academy that prevented Zhuge Liang from coming.

Zhuge Liang didn't want to talk to Shen Chen more about this issue, but changed the topic and said, "What has Brother Xian been doing lately?" ”

Shen Chen said: "I dry books every day, I am bored to death, and the old master does not teach me other classics." ”

"Don't you teach anything?"

"That's not true, teach me the small seal and the big seal."

"Isn't that taught?"

Zhuge Liang laughed: "Brother Xian, don't you know that the previous classics were all written by small seals and big seals, and the master taught you these to prepare to teach you classics in the future." ”

"Is that so?"

Shen Chen wondered: "But I don't seem to have learned any useful knowledge by posting books every day." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Taishi Gong said: Tao Li does not speak, and the next is its own. It seems that the virtuous brother didn't learn knowledge, but he found the direction of learning knowledge, entered the threshold, and learned the words in order to learn knowledge, isn't it? ”

Shen Chen pouted and said, "But I have already learned the big and small seals, and the master still hasn't taught me." ”

Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, "Maybe the master is sharpening your mind, and you have just learned the paperwork, how can you immediately come up to learn advanced knowledge?" ”

Chengmen Lixue, the Monkey King kneeling on the mountain?

I don't know why, Shen Chen remembered these two things.

Maybe Zhuge Liang was right, Song Zhong was testing him, and at the same time teaching him how to learn knowledge.

After learning the big seal and the small seal, won't it be much easier to learn knowledge in the future?

Thinking of this, Shen Chen suddenly realized: "I understand, the master must be testing me, I can't complain anymore in the future, I should listen to the master, one day he will teach me homework." ”

Zhuge Liang showed a teachable expression, smiled and nodded.