Zhou Rushuang hid her emotions so well that Zhao Cheng thought it was just a small episode and forgot about it the next day.
Although Zheng Yucheng did not intend to accept a disciple, since he agreed to answer the questions, Zhao Cheng naturally did not want to miss this great opportunity.
The county's exams are often written by the state economics school, so if you ask more questions, you can always get some patterns.
In order not to keep Zheng Yucheng idle, Zhao Cheng prepared a thick book of exercises, which recorded common questions about the Five Classics, and they were the most common simple questions.
It's like a peerless master of swordsmanship promises to answer questions about swordsmanship, but the person who asks the question doesn't ask the key points, but uses a lot of low-end and simple questions to wear down the master's patience.
In Zhao Cheng's exercise book, every question avoids knowledge points just right, bypassing those exciting and key points. Zhao Cheng resolutely crosses out anything that is highly praised in the classics and only asks about side details.
No matter what attitude Zheng Yucheng adopts, he can grasp the general scope of the exam with this exercise book.
Early in the morning, on Huangyuji, Zheng Yucheng carried the fishing rod and fishing basket to the old place, placed the cattail balls, put on the bait, and threw out the fishhook.
Watching the fish hook sink into the water, Zheng Yucheng inexplicably thought of the question Zhao Cheng had asked, why not make a nest.
"Do you need to make a nest?" Zheng Yucheng smiled to himself and sat down on the cattail grass. He was not fishing for fish, but for comfort.
Since becoming an official, Zheng Yucheng has been free from busyness. In the past, when he was a Confucian scholar in Yanzhou, there were endless drinking parties, poetry gatherings, calligraphy and painting gatherings, and various greetings.
The porter receives more than a dozen greeting cards every day, all of which are tribute students from Yanzhou. As long as these tribute students pass the provincial examination and the final palace examination, they will embark on an official career and become an official in Dachen.
There is no doubt that as long as Zheng Yucheng opens his mouth, these officials will more or less provide him with some help.
However, after becoming official, not only were there no cocktail parties and poetry gatherings, but there were also no greetings. When I first returned to Qinghe County, there were one or two letters sent, but now, I have not received them for a long time. Letter.
Zheng Yucheng has become more and more accustomed to being alone. He teaches his five-year-old daughter how to learn calligraphy, occasionally practices calligraphy, and then comes to Huangyuji to fish.
It was often only when he was fishing that he could free his mind and reflect on something.
When Zhao Cheng came in with a thick collection of exercises, Zheng Yucheng had just caught a small fish about an inch long.
Zhao Cheng smiled when he saw this: "To avoid catching small miscellaneous fish, there are three major rules: fishing spots, fishing methods, and bait."
This is also one of Zhao Cheng's carefully prepared methods, called the method of throwing jade and bricks, which takes advantage of the weaknesses of human nature. First, he puts forward extremely profound views on a certain aspect, giving people the feeling of facing a master.
Then when talking about fields and topics that the other party is familiar with, the other party will involuntarily throw out more authoritative opinions to prove that their own strength is not bad.
Zhao Cheng happened to have some knowledge about fishing and was already prepared for this scene. He happened to see Zheng Yucheng catch a small miscellaneous fish, so he picked up the topic.
Zheng Yucheng is not an expert in fishing, and he is not just a hobby of fishing, he just uses it as a sustenance.
However, when people start to focus on something, they cannot avoid trying to understand more. The same is true for Zheng Yucheng. When fishing, it is most common to catch small miscellaneous fish, and big fish are rare. .
So when he heard that Zhao Cheng actually had skills in avoiding catching small miscellaneous fish, and he laid out the three rules as soon as he opened his mouth, he immediately became interested.
"Oh? Three rules? Haha, you might as well talk about it." Zheng Yucheng is not actually a withdrawn character. He just returned to his hometown after becoming an official and had to be withdrawn. If anyone interacts with him, he will find that he is actually a very talkative person.
Zhao Cheng said: "In terms of fishing spots, if you often catch small miscellaneous fish in a spot, it means there is a problem with the spot selection, so the solution is to change the spot. If the problem still cannot be solved, make fine adjustments and make a nest after , small miscellaneous fish will swarm in, and big fish are often outside the nest, so we only need to move a few steps away."
"Oh?" Zheng Yucheng thought for a while and felt that it was indeed possible, so he asked, "What about the fishing method?"
"Fishing method is to change the existing fishing rod usage."
Zheng Yucheng's fishing rod is nothing special. It is just an ordinary slender bamboo rod with a line tied to the top, a small gourd in the middle as a float, and the fishhook and bait below.
Compared with the various types of fishing tackle in later generations with numerous accessories, most of the fishing rods at this time were very simple.
While Zheng Yucheng was putting away an empty hook, Zhao Cheng pointed to a piece of fishing line above the fishhook and said, "Add a lead pendant here to let the fishhook sink to the bottom of the water. In this way, you can effectively avoid small miscellaneous fish. The swimming water layer reaches the activity range of big fish.”
Zhao Cheng went on to talk about bait: “Another way is to change the bait to something that small miscellaneous fish don’t like to eat or can’t eat. Choose smelly, hard, big, or light food, so that they will naturally avoid it. Saved the trouble of the little miscellaneous fish.”
Zhao Cheng talked eloquently, with clear logic and eloquence. He explained the three laws very clearly and clearly. Zheng Yucheng nodded repeatedly, feeling that although Zhao Cheng was talking about fishing skills, he was not someone obsessed with having fun. Ability to think clearly about the principles behind phenomena.
Such people must have raised extremely difficult questions about classics and meanings. Zheng Yucheng looked calm on the surface, but he was also slightly nervous in his heart. He was afraid that if he asked a question and answered it poorly, he would lose face as an expert.
Zhao Cheng chuckled and took out the exercise book: "Mr. Zheng promised that I could come and ask you some questions, so I was a little greedy and spent one night sorting out a lot of difficult questions. I hope you won't find it annoying."
Zheng Yucheng glanced at the thick exercise book and couldn't help but twitching at the corner of his eyes, but when the matter came to a close, he had no choice but to nod and say, "It doesn't matter, just ask."
Zhao Cheng nodded happily, turned over the first page, pointed to the top line and read: "There is a sentence in Yao's canon, to be wise and virtuous, to be close to the nine tribes. The boy doesn't quite understand why it is the nine tribes and not the ten tribes. ? Eight tribes and seven tribes, but nine?"
"And why is it that 'the nine tribes are in harmony and the common people are in harmony'? The emperor of the previous dynasty always had discord among the nine tribes and the common people were in harmony."
"This..." Zheng Yucheng didn't expect that Zhao Cheng's first problem would be this sentence. Is there anything difficult to understand about this?
