Two days later, Xu He, Xie Liangcai, Ouyang Jun and others prepared the carriage early.

Today is the day of the opening of the lecture of the Guozijian.

Qiu Teng, the head of the Hanlin Academy, and the Beijing Guozi Liquor Tang Lianhui personally came to the scene to give lectures to all the young children of the people, tribute students, official students, grace students, meritorious students, example students, local officials, foreign students, meritorious ministers and noble foreign relatives.

This kind of lecture outside of the regular class of the Guozijian, you can not come if you have nothing to do, anyway, the Guozijian Siye and the supervisor of the Rope Yan Hall will not tell you, and the students and scholars of the Guozijian will hold the sign-in sheet and register the names of the people present one by one.

They won't tell you that if you don't participate, at the end of that year, in the collection book of the supervisors of the Rope Yan Hall, it will be recorded that on a certain day in a certain year, a certain bigwig, you kid will not give face, and your year-end grades will be lowered by one grade, and if it is serious, not only will scholarships and grants be withheld, but also rattan spanking.

It's really not mandatory for you to be there, give lectures, the academic atmosphere still needs to be better, the bigwigs give lectures, and everyone is willing to [squeeze their heads] to get in.

Isn't it just [squeezing your head] that you got in?

Look at Xu He and them, when they were still two streets away from Guozijian, they were forced to get out of the carriage, and all the way were serious and studious scholars.

It's just that it's still early, and the road is dark and sloppy.

The words that came out of the mouths of these hard-working scholars were extremely powerful, not to mention how excited.

After entering the Guozijian, the sky was dark and they couldn't see anything, so Xu He and the others could only follow the crowd and squeeze in.

Fortunately, Ding Ze was strong, like a bulldozer, squeezing all the weak chickens in front of him to the side.

"Hurry to reincarnate? Damn, you can still sleep in the back of the cage, and it's a mallet at first glance! ”

"Be quiet, I didn't see people wearing robes that were very uplifting, it was probably a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam, and people were in a hurry to show their faces in front of the bachelor!"

"Phew, the thunder killed him eight times, and they couldn't hit it!"

"Haha......"

Finally, when Xu He and the others arrived, they saw a huge square with a big locust tree in the north.

At this time, the torches under the tree were brightly illuminated, and more than a dozen people dressed as scholars were standing in the middle.

With the booklet in their hands, they stared at the group of readers.

Behind them were two small tables, which were supposed to be the positions of Qiu Teng and Tang Lian.

At this time, a fierce and vicious student shouted at the students, "What are you doing in the back? Stand ahead! ”

He finished speaking......

Sure enough, everyone shrank back again, for fear that they would be carried to the front.

Xu He They didn't understand the rules, so they still stood still.

Okay......

Everyone is taking a step back, and you Xu He, Xie Liangcai, and Ouyang Jun have suddenly become the leading figures.

Seeing this, the scholar directly pointed at Xu He and said, "You, yes, it's you, stand forward, stand in front of me!" ”

At this moment, there was a burst of schadenfreude snickering all around.

Anyway, they came to listen to the class, and they came on their own initiative, so naturally they didn't care where they were standing, and when they heard this, they walked towards the student officer together.

As soon as he arrived in front of the scholar, the scholar saw the robes on several people.

looked at Xu He's face again, so he rarely squeezed out a smile and said, "You guys aren't the people of the Guozijian, right?" Are you coming to Beijing to take the test? ”

Xu He hurriedly bowed down and said, "Exactly!" ”

The scholar sighed: "This supervisor knows it, and only you people know how to make progress." ”

At this time, one after another, people also stood in front.

Sure enough, most of these people are wearing robes and speaking official dialects with Tiannan Haibei accents.

At this moment, a drum sounded.

Behind Xu He, the scholars who were still talking just now suddenly shut up.

However, the people who were standing in front of them with Xu He didn't notice anything wrong, and a few of them were talking.

The prisoner who had just spoken frowned and said, "Silence, Master Qiu of the Hanlin Academy and Tang Sacrifice Wine have arrived!" ”

Those who spoke quickly shut their mouths.

Sure enough, someone came to the middle of the field with a torch.

They were followed by two scarlet-robed officials who were laughing.

Suddenly, there was a voice behind Xu He, "Greetings to the bachelor, the priest!" Voice.

It turned out that the two people in front of him were Qiu Teng, the head of the Hanlin Academy, and Tang Lian, the priest of the country.

Because he was close, Xu He vaguely heard a person: "Master Qiu, please take a seat!" ”

Looking at Mr. Qiu, Qiu Teng is estimated to be in his sixties this year, and he is thinner than Chen Hua, but his eyes look bright.

However, compared to Chen Hua, Qiu Teng was even more unsmiling, and he only nodded slightly to the politeness of Tang Lian beside him, and he didn't even have a politeness.

Tang Lian is a middle-aged man in his early fifties, slightly chubby, and wealthy, he doesn't look like a Guozi priest at all, and from the accent, he should be from Huguang.

Just sat down, and didn't even have an opening statement.

I saw Qiu Teng say directly: "Let's talk about university today." ”

[The so-called self-cultivation is in the right heart: if the body is angry, it cannot be corrected; If you are afraid, you will not be right.

If you have fun, you can't do it. If there is a problem, it will not be corrected.

Absent-minded, blind, hearing but not smelling, eating without knowing what it tastes like.

This is called self-cultivation in the right heart. 】

Xu He and the people around him listened very carefully.

This passage is from "University", which means that the so-called self-cultivation is in correcting the mind, how can this be explained?

When we are angry, when we are afraid, when we have preferences, when we are worried, our minds are not correct enough.

If one's mind is not focused, what one sees is the same as what one does not see, and what one hears is as if one did not hear.

I don't know what to taste when I eat.

This is called self-cultivation, the first thing is to correct the mind!

Qiu Teng naturally didn't say the above explanation, and everyone present could understand it by default.

It's not social studies here, and the basics are not taught.

Therefore, Qiu Teng finished reading the original text of "University" and started speaking directly.

Righteousness is the ladder of further study after sincerity.

Sincerity is sincerity in thought, not self-deception.

However, sincerity alone is not enough.

Because sincerity may be dominated by emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and fear, making you a slave to your feelings and lose control.

Therefore, after "sincerity", it is also necessary to "correct the heart", that is, to control the feelings and adjust with the correct mind (reason), so as to maintain a neutral and peaceful state of mind and concentrate on cultivating character.

What needs to be noted here is that reason and emotion, righteousness and sincerity are not absolutely opposites and incompatible with each other.

Zhu Shengren said: "Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness and fear are indispensable to the human heart, but once we cannot observe ourselves and let them control our actions, we will lose the integrity of our minds." ”

Therefore, righteous mind does not mean to completely abandon lust such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, nor absolute abstinence, but only to let reason restrain and control lust, so that the mind is not swayed by lust, so as to achieve rational and harmonious self-cultivation.

That is to say, self-cultivation in the right heart is nothing more than to have a correct mind, not half-hearted, not to be involved in love, "absent-minded, blind, hearing but not smelling, eating without knowing its taste".

"This sentence later became an idiom and a famous saying, used to describe the state of mind that does not belong and does not focus, do your teachers and gentlemen often say this about you when they give lectures?"

Hearing this, the people in the front row who listened to Qiu Teng's lecture for the first time laughed out loud.

Xu He also smiled, but he didn't expect this old gentleman's lecture to be quite interesting.