After the big girl sent Guo Dalu away, she took the girls to dig more earth dragons and get a few more earth beds - in the future, there will only be more and more chickens and ducks raised in the village, and this earth dragon is indispensable.

Er Niu muttered while packing up the bamboo tube for the earth dragon: "Brother Guo really knows everything, he even knows how to raise the earth dragon, and he still talks about it." Sister, I heard that Brother Hao and the stupid big man will go to Brother Guo's house every night to listen to his class, or let's go listen to it too?"

The girl also knew that Guo Dalu was in class, in fact, Guo Dalu did not have the intention to give lectures to Hao Geer and other children, but he inadvertently used simplified characters, punctuation, Arabic numerals, etc., which aroused the great curiosity of Hao Geer and others.

Especially after the advent of straw paper, Guo Dalu picked some good straw paper as paper, with charcoal as a pen, teach children to learn words, practice pinyin, children are the first time to contact such a novel and effective education method, and soon were fascinated, now in the Guo family's courtyard, there are more and more boys studying at night.

The eldest girl hesitated and said: "Those things are Brother Guo's unpassed skills, he teaches boys, that's because Brother Hao and others have recognized him as a teacher, Brother Hao and they can rely on the skills they have learned in the future to make contributions, but what do we girls learn to do? Like me, it is enough to recognize a few words and write a few notes." ”

The second girl was a little unconvinced: "The boys can learn, why can't we girls learn, am I not as stupid as a big man?"

The eldest girl persuaded: "Brother Guo is busy now, and his feet don't touch the ground every day, let's not bother him, Erniu, you really want to learn calligraphy, I'll teach you at home." ”

Erniu looked unhappy, but she also knew that Guo Dalu was really busy now, so she had to nod her head, but in private, she rolled her smart eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Guo Dalu came home, went into his room, pulled a stack of paper, this paper is he asked Zhou carpenter to make for himself, different from straw paper and rice paper, the raw materials are mostly made of wood pulp, thicker and harder, the color is as white as snow, as soon as this paper is made, Zhou carpenter gave a name, called "Xuelang paper", but he shook his head and sighed, saying that this paper can not be used, because such a thick and crisp paper is not suitable for writing with a brush.

Guo Dalu didn't know how to write on this snow wave paper with a brush, he spread out a piece of snow wave paper and took a pencil - yes, it was a pencil. Guo Dalu mixed the charcoal powder and yellow mud together, kneaded them into small sticks, and then dried them, and asked Zhou carpenters to cut off the short wood, repair it into a hexagonal shape, cut it in the middle, dig out a fine groove, stuff the sun-dried charcoal stick into it, and then glue the wooden stick with fish glue, which became a pencil.

Guo Dalu made a big box of such pencils, took the pencil at this time, sharpened the tip of the pen with a knife, and wrote it on the Xuelang paper one stroke at a time: "At the beginning of people, nature is good-"

What Guo Dalu wrote was the "Three Character Classic".

When Guo Dalu taught Brother Hao and other children to learn calligraphy, he once inquired about the characters they had learned before, and learned that in the Great Li Dynasty, there was no special reading book for children's enlightenment.

Guo Dalu immediately thought of compiling an enlightenment textbook for Hao Ge'er and other children, he didn't have to think about it, he directly used "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", he inquired clearly, such a text had never appeared in the Great Li Dynasty.

Among them, Guo Dalu is most familiar with the "Three Character Classic", because he crossed the Yongcheng City where he used to be, which is the birthplace of the "Three Character Classic", which was written by Wang Yinglin of the Song Dynasty.

This time, Guo Dalu was the first time to be a "copyist", inheriting the great plagiarism of many travelers, and the first book was copied to the head of the "Three Character Classic", in fact, he can also copy the "Hundred Family Names", but the problem is that he still doesn't know what the surname of the current emperor Lao'er is, if the first person of the "Hundred Family Names" does not put the surname of the emperor Lao'er on it, then he is really dead - "Hundred Family Names" was written in the Song Dynasty, so Zhao Guan'er's Zhao surname is ranked first, otherwise, it is really ranked by the source of Chinese surnames, and it will not be the turn of the Zhao family.

Guo Dalu took it seriously, wrote the "Three Character Classic" stroke by stroke, and used punctuation marks at the same time, and after writing, he marked pinyin on each word.

To be honest, whether to introduce pinyin into this crossing of the Great Li Dynasty, Guo Dalu hesitated for a long time.

Pinyin is a good thing, especially to help children learn characters for the first time, which is much better than ancient Chinese reverse cutting and other phonetic methods, but the problem is that the ancient sound is different from the modern sound, and the Chinese Mandarin in the 21st century is also different from the accent of the Great Li Dynasty that Guo Dalu is now crossing.

If the pronunciation of Mandarin is completely used to phonetize the text of the Great Li Dynasty, it will definitely become a blind match, and the chicken and duck will speak, and in the end it will be a mess, and no one can understand it, which is not conducive to the promotion of pinyin.

Therefore, Guo Dalu has another arduous task in addition to plagiarism, that is, to translate the words of the Great Li Dynasty into the modern pinyin alphabet and become the version of the Great Li Dynasty "Mandarin".

This job is not easy, Guo Dalu from time to time in his mind Mandarin and Da Li Chao fight with each other, so that he has a head three big, which also seriously slows down the progress of the "creation" of the "Three Character Classic", and when he is finally halfway written, Guo Dalu suddenly thinks of a very important question - is the dialect spoken by the villagers of Houlong Village the same as what the officials of the capital of the Da Li Dynasty say?

This is a very serious question, and it is also a very real question. Greater China has a vast territory and dialects everywhere, even in the 21st century, there are still a large number of dialects, and the difference between the northern and southern dialects is so great that it is almost possible to open a Chinese language expo.

Although the Great Li Dynasty has been established for more than 2,000 years, it is hard to believe that the whole country, regardless of the north and south, uses the same language.

Guo Dalu scratched his head and found Guo Jin, who was resting next door: "Dad, did you often go out when you used to have good health?"

Guo Jin closed his eyes and thought for a while: "I used to be a soldier, and I have traveled a lot of places in the north and south, although I can't say that I have traveled all over the Great Li Dynasty, but I can also be called well-informed. Do you want to know some foreign customs?"

Guo Dalu said: "I just want to ask, do people in all parts of our Great Li Dynasty speak the same language? Is there a dialect -- that is, words that only locals can understand." ”

Guo Jin said: "Do you speak local dialect? Of course there is, I have a desert in the north, a big river and a sea in the south, and the customs and customs are different everywhere I go, and the words I speak are also different. In fact, there is no need to go far, there are five or six native languages in more than ten townships in Yinxian County, and if you go to Xiangshan Township, where the native people speak, you will not understand what the local people say. But fortunately, the handwriting in our Da Li Dynasty is the same everywhere, I really can't understand it, and I can understand the handwriting. ”

Guo Dalu suddenly made a bitter face, and he had to give up halfway through his Chinese pinyin project.

Guo Jin couldn't see Guo Dalu's expression, and was still saying: "Not only is the local language different in various places, but even the words of the officials and the words of the ordinary people are not very different. ”

Guo Dalu was stunned, in this way, this Yuyin Zhengxun is the Mandarin and official dialect of the Great Li Dynasty, but it seems that the promotion of Mandarin in the Great Li Dynasty is not qualified, and after more than 2,000 years, it still has not let the Yuyin Zhengxun spread all over the world.

Guo Dalu asked: "Dad, then there are not many people in our Houlong Village who speak the local language, should they leave Yinxian, and people in other places will not understand it immediately, right?"

Guo Jin said: "Who said that the people of Houlong Village speak the local dialect? We are the real Yuyin Zhengxun! The villagers of Houlong Village were originally soldiers, and what the people in this army are all talking about is the Yuyin Zhengxun prescribed by Taizu, otherwise everyone will speak the local dialect of their hometown, how can this military order be issued, and there will be no need to fight!"

Guo Dalu opened his mouth and patted his head, yes, why didn't he expect that this army pays attention to strict discipline and gives orders from the top, if the language is not understood, ****** a mouthful of local dialect, and a fart fight. In this way, the Houlong Village dialect that he painstakingly learned is actually the "Mandarin" version of the Great Li Dynasty, so that his pinyin project can continue.

Guo Dalu clapped his hands happily: "Dad, I know, you are resting, I am going to be busy." ”

Guo Jin listened to Guo Dalu's footsteps and left his room, raised his head, looked towards the roof, and muttered to himself: "This kid, it's really careless, I don't know anything about these common senses, fortunately, it's me who asked, if it's someone else-well, I have to think of some way to let Dalu know more about the accident." ”

That night, Brother Hao and Silly Big Man and other dozen children crowded into Guo Dalu's room, squeezing the small room so that they couldn't stand still, and even the kang was full of people. ”