It’s another beautiful spring season, and people and flowers are smiling together.
On the outskirts of Kyoto, on the grass adjacent to the official road, a group of official school students sat in rows on the ground.
At the front of the square formation, sitting opposite them was a gentleman wearing a crown and a gray beard.
At this moment, the sky is sunny, the clouds are light like fog, the breeze is gentle, and the fragrance of grass is assailed.
Occasionally, wild geese fly over and goshawks circle, seeming to echo the Master's singing-like recitation.
Suddenly, a group of carriages and horses passed by on the quiet official road, and the curtains of the richly decorated carriage in the middle quietly lifted a corner from the inside.
After seeing the group of students shaking their heads in the distance with childish faces, no more than eleven or twelve years old at most, the curtain swayed back to its original position.
After resting at the front, the guards outside the convoy inquired at the tea shop: "Seller, the academic style in Kyoto is so good? Even the students taking the martial arts examinations recite poems and rhymes?"
Hearing this, the tea shop owner asked the tea lady to make tea for the distinguished guests in the carriage. While serving refreshments, he smiled and said: "I'm afraid your distinguished guests haven't been to Beijing in five or six years? The academy uniforms of our Kyoto official school have long been changed. The uniforms of several major academies are so cool!"
Then he chatted with others about the changes in Jingcheng Academy.
After the team of carriages and horses left, the tea shop owner looked in the direction of the group of students and talked to his wife: "In the past two or three years, more and more people have come to Beijing. Even though Kyoto is so majestic and vast, it is impossible to pretend ah!"
The tea lady patted the hem of her skirt with a rag, and told him that he was too worried about it: "People from Kyoto come and go, even if they stay temporarily, how many villages are there outside the imperial city? How many villages are there in the east, west, north, and south? Even if they stay temporarily, .”
After saying that, she happily counted the money boxes: "I look forward to more foreign visitors coming to Kyoto, so that the reward money alone will be enough to save a sum, and several children in the family can be sent to social schools."
The tea shop owner's lips curled up when he heard this, but he still kept nagging: "Five girls can go to social school and learn to be the best."
The tea lady didn't like to hear this, so she locked the box carefully and hid the key between her hair. Then she rolled up her sleeves and tried to pinch his ears. Would you like to speak properly? !
Just when she grabbed her husband's ear, she saw another group of carriages and horses galloping up the official road. She was overjoyed and the tea lady said hello repeatedly and hurriedly pushed her husband to prepare to welcome the guests.
The tea shop here continues to be lively, and the students on the grass over there have also changed their teachers.
"Classmate Shengyuan, you come from a noble family. In that case, just recite the passage in Mencius that explains the title system."
After the teacher finished speaking, a lovely girl with round eyes stood up in the first row, her eyes were clear, and she said clearly: ""Mencius Wan Zhang" says: There is one emperor, one public, one marquis, one uncle. The sons and daughters are of the same person, so they are of the fifth grade.
There is one king, one minister, one doctor, one senior sergeant, one sergeant, one corporal, and so on.
Under the rule of the emperor, the place is thousands of miles away. The princes are all hundreds of miles away, the uncle is seventy miles away, the son is fifty miles away, and the fourth grade is all.
It cannot reach fifty miles, and it cannot reach the emperor. It is called a vassal if it is attached to the princes.
The emperor's ministers are regarded by the emperor as marquises, the officials are regarded by the emperor as uncles, and the scholars are regarded by the emperor as sons. "
Her voice was crisp and smooth, and her answers were coherent, winning the praise of many classmates.
The teacher smiled with a smile in his eyes, gently stroking his beard and nodding: "Not bad, not bad...Classmate Anyu."
Anyu, who was about to give Sheng Yuan a thumbs up, was excited when he heard the sound. While he was getting up from the ground, he asked Sheng Yuan: "Sister Yuan, help me!"
Lu Sheng shook his head when he heard this. Can't this guy be better on his own?
"Ying Shao of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in "Han Guan Yi": The emperor is a great person, and it is said that it is glorious and prosperous. The emperor's virtue is like the heaven and earth, and it is said that it can carry out the way of heaven and judge the meaning of actions. The father, heaven and mother earth are the masters of the world."
The teacher smiled and said: "Shang Shu also has such a statement, you can repeat it."
"Ah?!" Anyu's eyes darkened. Was this mentioned in "Shang Shu"? Why didn't he know? !
While scratching his head, he caught a glimpse of Sheng Yuan lip-syncing him, and immediately asked shamelessly: "Sir, can I sit down and recite it to you?"
"Is that so? Then why don't you just ask Shengyuan to help answer the question?"
The gentleman asked back with a smile, which immediately made the primary school students burst into laughter.
"Okay, you sit down and classmate Lu Sheng answers." The teacher waved his hand and looked at the young man he called, "Do you also need classmate Shengyuan's help in answering?"
""Shang Shu" says: The emperor has the title of heaven, and the king has the title of person. There are five emperors in heaven to establish the name, and there are three kings in human beings to correct the title. The emperor is also called the prince, and the emperor is also called the emperor." Lu Sheng shook his head and recited it directly.
The teacher nodded with satisfaction, said hello, and called classmate Chen He: "Emperor, the title of the Supreme. The Emperor calls himself me, and the ministers call him Your Majesty... This is discussed in detail in "Han Shu", Do you know?"
"Well, students know."
Chen He nodded, saw his husband's signal, and recited slowly: "The Book of Han said: The emperor of the Han Dynasty was called "Emperor", he called himself "I", and his subjects called him "Your Majesty".
Its words are called "Zhizhao", the historian's records are called "Shang", the carriages, horses, clothes and equipment are called "Chengyu", the places are called "walking in the place", and the places that are advanced are called "improving".
The first order is called "Policy Book", the second is called "Making Book", the third is called "Edict", and the fourth is called "Jie Book". "
"Very good! Very good!" The gentleman nodded with satisfaction.
This gentleman who specifically asked students to learn and memorize only asked three or five questions every day. Usually, if he said something complimentary, it would mean that there would be no more specific questions in the class.
Therefore, many students were relieved when they heard this.
Returning to the gate of the academy, the students from the first class of the Meng Xue class dispersed on their own, and carriages from various prefectures came to pick them up.
Anyu grabbed the edge of the Sheng family's carriage and laughed with Sheng Yuan:
"Tomorrow is the holiday, let's go horse racing?"
Sheng Yuan was moved at first, but thinking that her sister rarely came home on vacation, she could only shake her head.
"Okay! We'll have to talk about it next time! A while ago, my aunt bought me another village on the outskirts of the city, where I can go horse racing and shoot archery, and the servants can practice sword and gun training with me. I thought the three of us could go there and have fun!"
Seeing that he was clinging to someone else's carriage, Lu Sheng went over and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't give up so quickly! You still have me!"
"You?!" Anyu wrinkled his nose, "Just the two of us racing horses and shooting arrows there, are we stupid or not? The key is, I can't win yet! I won't go! I won't go!"
Seeing how shameless he was, Lu Sheng burst out laughing: "It's as if you can win if Sister Yuan participates!"
Anyu didn't get angry when he laughed at her. Instead, he nodded sincerely and said, "Although I'm always at the bottom, as long as Sister Yuan is here, I have you as my second child to accompany me!"
After he said this, he and Lu Sheng burst into laughter.
Sheng Yuan's head emerged from the carriage and laughed at them: "Can you stop laughing like the stupid sons of rich families?"
She said so, but the smile on her face was exactly the same as theirs.
Ouyang Ling watched from a distance, curled her lips, and muttered to Xia Shuangjun next to her: "I wonder how the three of them are so good and inseparable. It turns out that they even have the same stupidity!"
