Chapter 11 Finishing University and Going to Elementary School <Part 2>
After hearing this news, he said everything, but it is not necessary to say that most of them have nothing good to say. If he is gentle, he only says that he is confused by his phlegm and doesn't know what kind of life he is. If he speaks badly, he directly says that the boy of the Tang family is disobedient and unfilial. The old man sold his house and land for him, even the family was defeated. This boy of the brutal boy still ran to leisure without hesitation... In short, the good impression that the villagers had accumulated about Tang Que in the past three months disappeared with this matter, and he became another representative of another idle and idle gangster in the village.
Tang Que didn't know these comments, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. At this time, he was putting the meat sticks and gift boxes in his hand on the table, and Wuyan saw that he was doing all this was an old man over 60 years old and gray-bearded.
The old man had a clean face and wore a clean and clean Confucian uniform in the summer. Every button was tightly buttoned. At first glance, Tang Que's heart was the four words "dignity of teachers".
This old Master Yan is the Xuezheng who was recommended by the village school, and Yan Qingchen, who retired and returned home from the position of Taoist Xuezhi in Jinzhou.
"Have you really never been to school before?" After Tang Que put down the things, Master Yan carefully looked him up and asked with deep doubts.
No wonder Mr. Yan was confused. The temperament of those who had been to school was very different from that of those who had never been to school. In front of him, no one could see the abnormality even in the state school. Such a person had never been to school in a day. Isn’t that strange?
"I grew up in the village since I was a child and I have never studied. Because I heard the playmates in the village school say that "I heard the truth in the morning and died in the evening," I became interested in learning and asked my master to include it."
Tang Que's response made Mr. Yan more and more surprised. Whether it was invisible to show his demeanor from his eyebrows and eyes, or the words in his mouth, the young man in front of him seemed gentle and gentle. He could have such a look when he had never been to school. That was the talent brought to his roots. Such a person was really rare.
After being surprised, Master Yan thought of Tang Que's age, but he couldn't help but shook his head in his heart and sighed, it was a pity that he had entered school too late and really failed to study. After the teaching was done for a long time, the most embarrassing thing was the current situation. When Master Yan thought of this, Master Yan was a little excited, but he still said: "The ancients were very proud of hearing about it and dying in the morning and evening, and your future was still good, and the great troubles of a person were not established. As long as you are willing to work hard and the way of heaven rewarded hard work, why should you be afraid of not being famous?"
Tang Que knew the source of Master Yan's words. It was said that this was a text he learned in junior high school in later years. It was about Zhou Chu, a famous minister of the Jin Dynasty. Zhou Chu was fierce and arrogant when he was young. He was regarded by the villagers as three major harms that were known as white-bred tigers in the mountains and dragons under the bridge. Later, Zhou Chu knew that he wanted to repent, so he went to the Eastern Wu to look for famous scholars Lu Ji and Lu Yun. At this time, Master Yan said almost exactly the same as what Lu Yun said to Zhou Chu that day, and it was very consistent with the current situation. The only difference was that Zhou Chu was because he had too many bad deeds before, while Tang Que himself was too old.
When Tang Que saw Master Yan saying this, he looked regretful, and knew that Master Yan was just talking, but he didn't care. After completing this routine precepts and exhortation procedure, Tang Que thanked Yan Xuezheng and walked out.
At this time, there were quite a lot of subjects in the education system. There were nearly ten types of subjects in the official school, including Jinshi, Mingjing, Dao, Law, Calculation, and Book. However, in this small village school, there are only two types of subjects in the Mingjing and Calculation. What is very different from the official school is that there are more students studying the calculation subject here than those in the Mingjing subject. The reason is that the villagers only think it is real.
After Tang Que said he wanted to study Mingjing, the elderly mates in the village led him to the backyard warehouse to obtain textbooks. The textbooks were divided into three categories. The "Five Classics Justice" edited and annotated by Kong Yingda, a great scholar of the Zhenguan Dynasty, was a textbook for the imperial examination and official school, and was also the main homework of the Mingjing Science students. In addition, there is a set of "Zhaoming Wenxuan", which has been compiled and established in the world, and has become one of the necessary textbooks for ancient scholars to study in the imperial examination. The entire set of textbooks was more than 2,000 pages, divided into three volumes, and the weight was quite considerable.
Apart from the above two sets, because Tang Que had never entered school, he also received one "Ruba Garden Book of the Mansion" and "Thousand Characters" each. "Thousand Characters" is not unfamiliar with "Ruba Garden Book of the Mansion". As for "Ruba Garden Book of the Mansion", also known as "Ruba Garden Book", it was originally an enlightenment textbook written by Li Yun, the King of Jiang in the Zhenguan Dynasty, and Du Sixian. Because this book was compiled in the Rabbit Garden in the King of Jiang, it gave such a strange name. This book, like the later "Meng Qiu" and "Young Learning Qionglin" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was the first book that students learned when they were literate.
Because these books were raised from wealthy businessmen in the county and did not charge a penny for students, the effect of both paper and woodblock printing was very poor, but I could barely read it.
The students in the village school came in a mess, so the rotation system was implemented, just like the students in poor mountainous areas in later generations, and they were one or two or three years old in a classroom. The time of the students in Tang Shi was quite similar to those in later generations. They were six or seven years old early, and only eight or nine years old at the latest. There were only ones like Tang Que who were in the first grade of elementary school in the first grade of sixteen or seventeen years. Seeing him carrying a bunch of books in his arms and being led by a servant, the little kids stared at him curiously, and then the students burst into laughter, and even the teacher who was teaching was shocked.
The class was no longer possible. The students in the room kept turning around and looking at Tang Que who was sitting at the end. Some were snickering and some were grimacing. Mr. Shi took the ruler and punished the four students in a row without any bullets.
This situation made Tang Que uncomfortable. He took advantage of the break from get out of class to find the teacher directly, with the purpose of asking him to tell him "Rabbit Garden Book House" separately, and then go home to study it by himself. The teacher only needs to check it once every five days.
The gentleman was also worried about this. Tang Que's proposal was just right. As for what the effect was after returning home? Anyway, a person who was only sixteen or seventeen years old would not have any prospects, and he would not delay others alone.
After the teacher assigned the other students homework, he took Tang Qudan to the simple study room and recited "Ruba Garden Book House". Where can I find the book that was originally published? Tang Que marked the sentence and marked the traditional Chinese characters he didn't know in the simplified Chinese that he learned in later generations. Even if the teacher's task was completed, he stood up and said goodbye without delay.
No matter how simple the "Rabbit Garden Book" is, at least it is mixed with some allusions. Although these allusions are familiar to scholars, the gentleman does not think that Tang Que, who had just been confused, can know it. He originally wanted to wait for the first time to explain these allusions in detail, but was blocked by Tang Que's words of farewell.
Watching Tang Que go away with a thick stack of books, the gentleman shook his head and sighed. He was completely hopeless.
After Tang Que left the village, he did not go home. Instead, he crawled into the forest behind and caught the mountain road and went straight to the village of the poisonous widow.
Although living in a village, many people in the village have rented her fields, since several families moved away, the village’s village’s village has been almost isolated from the village. Except for the rent of land every year, no one in the village is willing to come here. As for the village, except for the gossip that Poison Widow sometimes can’t help but go out to "seize" men, others are unwilling to go to the village to attract people to be looked down upon, so that Lan Jie'er has been here for three years and can’t recognize all the people in the village.
When Tang Que walked into the second yard, Sister Lan was carrying a wooden basin and pouring water. When she saw him holding a large stack of books, she quickly put down the wooden basin in her hand to help, "What are you doing? Why are you buying so many books?"
Upon hearing this, Tang Que smiled and said nothing. After entering the study room and put down the book, he didn't care about sweating all over his body, so he rushed to the bookshelf. After a while, he took out the two calligraphy works of "The Holy Teaching Xu" and "Preface to the Lanting Collection" with a smile on his face.
These two books are calligraphy by the saint of calligraphy Wang Xizhi. The "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is naturally famous, but its rules are not easy for beginners to master. Instead, the "Preface to the Holy Teaching" with strict structure, standardized brushwork and strong inclusiveness is more suitable for Tang Que, who is a beginner to write calligraphy.
Chapter completed!