"Uncle Xu!"

Outside the second office, Li Kui was still wondering before, it seemed that Zhou Yuan's old servant seemed to have an opinion on him! Otherwise, how could he be made to wait so long outside the second office?

But when he saw Uncle Xu again, he couldn't figure it out in his heart. Why is this old man so happy?

Of course, he didn't dare to call Lao Xu like Zhou Yuan, so he could only call the other party an elder.

Lao Xu said: "After talking to my master, Lao Er will invite you to have a drink." ”

Li Kui hurriedly said: "How dare you let the elder break the bank, naturally the kid asked the elder to have a drink and guessed correctly." ”

I didn't spend any money I wanted, and Uncle Xu didn't care, what is this money? He was just very satisfied with Li Kui's reaction, these days, there are really not many polite kids. smiled: "Relax, the old man has spent decades of wasted spring and autumn, and he doesn't dare to say that he stands up to the sky, but he will definitely not be bad at looking at people." Don't worry, the old man won't make things difficult for you, if there is anything, the old man will help you. ”

This kind of enthusiasm seems to be as if Li Kui is already a disciple of Zhou Yuan, which makes Li Kui even more confused. The civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty love feathers, and the civil official system after the shame of Jingkang does not count. At that time, more than half of the literati had been broken by the Jin people's Jin Ge Iron Horse, but even so, there were still countless anti-war scribes, and even did not hesitate to step on the battlefield with scholarly spirit and sacrifice their lives.

It is inherently difficult to get an official who was born as a jinshi to accept apprentices.

Zhou Yuan is still the county magistrate of Yishui County, and he can even have the power to block Li Kui's imperial examination. Speaking closer, as long as he refutes Li Kui's mislearning, Li Kui is likely to be cut off from the imperial examination. Because no successor would risk letting Li Kui pass the exam even though his reputation was tarnished. The civil officials of the Song Dynasty were a recommendation system and a guarantee system, and once an official had a problem, the official who recommended him would be unlucky.

Facing Zhou Yuan, Li Kui's mood is complicated, because this person can decide the fate of his life.

Of course, if Li Kui really cuts off the road to the imperial examination, maybe he will ignore it, and from then on, it will be a different scene.

What he didn't expect was that Zhou Yuan's feelings in the face of him were even more complicated.

What's even more strange to him is that he has no friendship with Uncle Xu! Why would he suddenly help him? It doesn't make sense at all. Shaking off these distracting thoughts in his mind, taking a deep breath, Li Kui walked through the second hall and entered the official office.

It is really a bit difficult for the official office of the county order to be magnificent, at most it is just fresh and elegant.

"I've seen the county!"

Li Kui didn't bow either, just bowed slightly, this was not above the lobby, but in the back office, too flattering, but disliked. However, Zhou Yuan's eyes were not on Li Kui, to be precise, on the package that Li Kui was carrying.

Because a piece of tiger skin was exposed in the package, it made him feel complicated.

I originally thought that since there were tigers outside the village, the villagers in Baizhang Village were living in dire straits, but I never expected that in fact, it was not the villagers in the village whose lives were threatened, but the tigers.

Li Kui carried the tiger skin on his back and poured the back office of Yishui County, and the ownership of this tiger skin is obvious, it is himself. Zhou Yuan wants to get a look, he is a two-rank jinshi, what rare objects have he never seen?

But......

The tiger, he also saw it for the first time a few days ago, and as for the tiger skin, it was worn on the tiger's body at that time. If you count that time, he is the second time.

As a last resort, that's false. Zhou Yuan felt that Li Kui respected his teacher. The value of tiger skins is high enough, if you don't pick the location and the size of the house, a tiger skin can even change a small courtyard in the capital. This is the capital, and the price is much higher than other places, resulting in anything good can be encountered in the capital. In Yishui County, tiger skins are worth hundreds of yuan, which is already the top of the sky. But in the capital, it will be multiplied several times. That's sincerity. Of course, Zhou Yuan is also worried, what if Li Kui, this kid, bribes himself with this tiger skin and lets him open the net?

Wouldn't it be that you have forgotten the technique of cutting the rhyme of "Guangyun"?

After Zhou Yuan felt full of sincerity, his face softened, but with a hint of worry: "Li Kui, can you study with peace of mind recently?" ”

"I don't dare to waste my time, I'm afraid that the time will not be there, and I will study hard every day." Although Li Kui wants to be humble, but his personality dictates it, he won't!

Zhou Yuan really couldn't believe this, you said that you could study with peace of mind, why did you go to fight a tiger in the middle of the road?

The moment Zhou Yuan became a teacher, the momentum of the whole person seemed to change completely, and asked: "Have you ever learned the techniques of Li Kui's "Guangyun"? ”

Li Kui was a little stunned, didn't he delay for two days in the county government just to learn this technique?

He would have been more than half a month ago?

But Zhou Yuan's examination of him still started with the rhyme book "Guangyun", he wrote a few words on the paper that were not commonly used, and handed them to Li Kui: "Check it, what to read?" ”

The five words "Miao", "沆", "虺", "踽", and "旮".

Li Kui's face was so uncalm, he could read these words!

But if you read it yourself, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Zhou Yuan? Seeing Li Kui's face pale slightly, Zhou Yuan was mistaken, his heart was flustered, and he said, "You won't forget, right?" ”

"Guangyun" is a rhyme book, and for later generations, it is a dictionary.

The ability to look up the dictionary can only become more and more proficient, how can it become more and more rusty?

Li Kui is helpless, although he can read, he also has to hide it! The heart said, buddy also has a talent that needs to be hidden, and he can't be proud, but his face is extremely relaxed.

This scene, even the well-informed Zhou Yuan can't see through it, what the hell is this kid doing?

Soon, Li Kui wrote out the technique of cutting the rhyme of the five words, then handed it to Zhou Yuan with both hands, and read it again in a frustrated manner. He really wanted to tell Zhou Yuan that there was a song in the later generations, the song was called "Rare Words", and he didn't know what the lyricist thought, so he searched for lyrics in the horns, and he could read these words even if he didn't use "Guangyun".

However, if you think about it, forget it, in case Zhou Yuan treats him as crazy, what do you say, Zhou Yuan is also a Jinshi master, so he can't accept a crazy student, right?

Zhou Yuan was very satisfied, and felt that he didn't look away at Li Kui, this kid has a wise root, and he will get twice the result with half the effort when he studies in the future.

The next thing is to endorse, if he can't memorize "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text" for half a month, Li Kui will not have the face to come to the county government.

As for the "Book of Filial Piety", they are all excerpts from Confucius in the "Analects", basically Zengzi and other students ask questions, and Confucius answers. And the number of words is pitiful, there are only eighteen articles, most of which are one or two hundred word articles. Li Kui didn't dare to say that he had memorized the "Analects" backwards, but he had memorized it before, and the "Book of Filial Piety" naturally couldn't help him.

Only the "Gan Family Motto" is a little longer, with a full twenty articles. Some of them are thousands of words long and generally not very long, but they don't add up to a lot of fun.

Li Kui spent a lot of effort to memorize the entire "Yan's Family Motto".

For the ancient scholars, learning arithmetic, water conservancy, etc. were hereticals. The most important thing is the Thirteen Classics of Confucianism, although the "Yan's Family Motto" is not the category of the Thirteen Classics, but Linyi Yan's is too famous, since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Yan family has been talented for hundreds of years, and its family motto of governing the family has been respected by the literati.

This is also the ultimate that a feudal family can achieve to be able to thrive.

"Life is young, spiritual patent, after growing up, thinking is scattered, and it is necessary to teach early, and do not miss the opportunity. When I was seven years old, I recited "Lingguang Temple Fu", and to this day, I have never forgotten the principle of ten years. ”

This is the longest article in the "Yan's Family Motto", and it is an exhortation to learn.

Fortunately, the words in "Yan's Family Motto" are not profound, and they are also catchy to read, otherwise, Li Kuizhen would not be able to memorize them.

"Twenty years later, the books that were recited were put into disuse in a month, and they became desolate. However, people have difficulties, and if they are lost in their prime, they should study at night, and they should not give up. ”

……

Although it was winter, Li Kui was sweating all over his head, and he had also recited for more than an hour, and his mouth was already dry. But he still recited it clearly, and the sound shook the house.

I have to say that at this moment, Zhou Yuan was extremely satisfied with Li Kui, and saw him twisting the mustache on his chin, with a look of intoxication, if it weren't for Li Kui's voice was too loud, so that it ruined his intoxicated state of shaking his head. But I have to say that on the way to endorsement, Li Kui is definitely talented.

This is a gift from God, no one can envy it, and no one can take it away.

Finally, Li Kui memorized the last sentence: "You Cao Yi should be famous for his business, and he should not care about the decaying soil in order to be annihilated." Seeing that Zhou Yuan didn't react, he closed his eyes and looked complacent, and he was very uncomfortable.

Li Kui took a step further and bowed down and said, "The kid has finished reciting." ”

Only then did Zhou Yuan come to his senses, pretending to be a strict teacher, and said, "You can't be proud!" ”

Li Kui is suspicious, is he proud? How did you not know?

wanted to ask, but Zhou Yuan said to himself: ""Thousand Character Text" and "Hundred Family Names", all the schoolchildren of my Great Song Dynasty can recite it, and "Filial Piety" is also simple. Only "Yan's Family Motto" is long, I originally thought you couldn't memorize it in a month, but I didn't expect to be able to recite it in half a month. However, it is useless to just read books and memorize, Yan's ancestors said: life is young, spiritual patents, after growing up, thoughts are scattered, and early education must be carried out, and do not miss the opportunity. Langya Yan's family, inherited for thousands of years, and its descendants are sages, thanks to family training. ”

"Teacher, this "Yan's Family Motto" appeared in the Sui Dynasty, right? The face of the sage was made. Li Kui retorted.

Zhou Yuan's brain jumped, and he said with a tiger face: "Do you say or do you say?" ”

"Of course, you always say." Li Kui was short of breath.

Zhou Yuan recalled for a while before he said: "The Yan family has been inherited for thousands of years, and it has been more than 1,500 years since Yan Hui, the head of the seventy-two sages of Confucius. In Qingzhou, there are two families with such glory. ”

Li Kui didn't know that Langya Yan's origin was so big, and when he didn't read "Yan's Family Motto", he thought that Yan Zhenqing was the representative of the Yan family. After reading this book, I found that Yan Zhitui's ability to pass on the family is rare in the world. It turns out that they still have such powerful ancestors. In this regard, Li Kui was also secretly speechless.

"To you, you're thirteen years old, and you're about to be fourteen. I am a prodigy, and there are many people who are scholars in your age, but they have just begun to enter Mongolia, and they have a first glimpse of the vast avenue. When you were in the county office, you had the heart of a villain, and you need to be cautious. ”

"The sages of the ancients all said that the younger you are, the better your spirit, and when you are older, your thoughts are scattered, and you should know your shortcomings and strive to catch up. Don't try to take shortcuts, shortcuts can benefit you for a while, but if you taste the benefits of shortcuts, you will naturally become a fool and a gentleman. Remember! ”

"Do you understand?"

Although Zhou Yuan loves face, he doesn't mean to accept apprentices, as if he wants to restrain Li Kui, which makes people look down on him. But even if Li Kui stood a few meters away from Zhou Yuan, he could feel Zhou Yuan's pride, and he didn't understand what Zhou Yuan meant, so he bowed down and said, "Disciple Li Kui, please meet your teacher." ”

Zhou Yuan said with a smile: "This worship is accepted for the teacher, you have to remember what the teacher just said." ”

"Yes, the words of the teacher are like Hong Zhong Da Lu, Li Kui remembers it in his heart, and there is a saying: live to be old and learn from old age, this is the attitude of learning." Li Kui said respectfully.

Live and learn!

This sounds very profound, but the tone is quite unusual. Zhou Yuan began to struggle again, why didn't such philosophical words come from his own mouth?