Summer night, an oil lamp.
The lights are like beans.
Guo Lin carefully pulled out a small piece of Zhang Yue's flower cake, put it into his mouth and tasted it carefully, then pushed it aside and said, "Junior brother Zhang, I'm full."
"Senior Brother Guo, you're being polite," Zhang Yue pushed the flower cake back, and then said as if talking to himself, "Why is this light a little dim?"
Guo Lin was stunned, and quickly took out the iron stick and turned the lamp brighter. Zhang Yue also moved his shirt table closer to Guo Lin's table so that he could do his homework tonight.
The two of them came closer. Guo Lin finished another half of the flower cake and was obviously full. Zhang Yue himself took a piece and said, "If you don't eat more, why are you so hungry at night?"
Guo Lin said: "It has been like this for so many years. If I am really hungry, I will hold a stone on my belly."
Zhang Yue almost laughed and spit out the flower cake in his mouth after hearing this. Is this already a 'kaiseki meal'?
Guo Lin didn't know why Zhang Yue was laughing, but he also smiled.
Zhang Yue continued to copy books, and the two of them chatted wordlessly.
Zhang Yue had copied half of the thousand-character article, and his eyelids were already shaking. I can't help it, I was disturbed by mosquitoes last night, and I urgently need to catch up on some sleep today.
You know, Zhang Yue is someone who doesn't get enough sleep for six hours on weekdays.
"No, no. I have to go to bed first." Zhang Yue put down his pen.
Guo Lin hesitated and asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, do you want me to call you tomorrow?"
"Call me?"
"Aren't you going to wake up tomorrow and have only copied half of this thousand-character article?"
"No, I slept soundly last night. I must sleep well tonight. Senior Brother Guo doesn't have to call me early in the morning tomorrow! I will explain it to your father."
Hearing this, Guo Lin felt that something was inappropriate, so he fulfilled his obligation as a senior brother and asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, why are you studying?"
Zhang Yuezheng took the pen to wash out the ink, raised his head and thought for a while, "Maybe he will become famous as an official!"
Guo Lin looked shocked when he heard this.
Zhang Yue put down his pen and covered the bed with a quilt and asked, "What's going on?"
"Will you tell the examiners the same thing when you take the exam in the future?"
Zhang Yue shook his head and said: "No one can speak big words in front of the examiner, but it is too tiring for us brothers and sisters to talk about their thoughts on weekdays. As the saying goes, 'The ape sings and the crane calls out with no intention, but I don't know if there are people walking down below.' "
The ape's chant and the crane's call were unintentional, and I didn't know there were people walking down there.
Guo Lin tasted Zhang Yue's words and said: "Junior brother is really from the city. He can quote scriptures in any sentence..."
When Guo Lin had some realization, he turned around and saw Zhang Yue lying on the bed.
Guo Lin was stunned and said nothing.
Zhang Yue closed his eyes. He knew that Guo Lin was reminding him with good intentions, but everyone has his or her own way of studying. He had heard many such principles in his previous life, but what really suited him was Very few.
Zhang Yue just thought for a moment, then his mind went blank and he instantly fell asleep.
Sleep in seconds!
Guo Xuexiu, who had finished teaching the boy the next morning, came to check Zhang Yue's homework yesterday.
Zhang Yue only finished half of his thousand-character essay last night when he was so sleepy that he went to bed. Today he slept until the sun was shining brightly.
Seeing that Zhang Yue had only written half of his homework, Guo Xuexue looked at it for a while.
"The word "jie" is wrongly written. It should be regarded as the word "絜"! Nu Mu Zhenji!" Guo Xuexuan took up the pen and corrected the text on Zhang Yue's behalf.
Zhang Yue originally thought that the other party would blame him, but he didn't expect it to be revealed like this.
After Guo Xuejun finished correcting, he encouraged Zhang Yue with a look of relief on his face: "Very good, very good, you really worked hard."
Is this okay? With such a low requirement, you're not here to extort my tuition fees, are you?
Zhang Yue felt a little bad.
However, Guo Xuexuan never criticized him, but explained the Thousand Character Essay to Zhang Yue from beginning to end. Guo Xuexuan explained it very patiently, even more seriously than what he taught by his teacher in elementary school.
Then Guo Xuexue taught Guo Lin's studies alone without allowing Zhang Yue to observe. But when Zhang Yue was studying, Guo Lin could be by his side. This is not because Guo is an academic and hides his secrets, but because Guo Lin has learned more deeply than Zhang, which means that senior students can listen to the lessons of lower students, but lower students cannot listen to the lessons of senior students.
Zhang Yue sat like this all morning, and when it was almost noon, the scholar's wife had prepared food and called the two of them to come and eat.
On weekdays, Guo Lin and Zhang Yue eat and study at the same table, which can save a lot of time.
But today there was good food, so we ate it at Guo Xuexue's house.
Zhang Yue had a huge bowl of rice. It was so exciting that it turned out to be dry rice! In addition to a piece of meat, the rice also contains meat fat. It must be steamed with bacon on the rice, and then the fat flows into the rice.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but drool.
On the side, Guo Xuexuan was holding a bamboo tube filled with wine, pouring and drinking. While drinking, he asked Zhang Yue if he had slept well these days. Are you used to living there?
Zhang Yue answered truthfully.
Guo Xuexuan was drinking and talking and laughing.
At this time, a villager brought some freshly picked wild vegetables from the mountains and eels caught in the stream. Regardless of his status as a scholar, Guo Xuexue invited them to sit down at the dinner table and have a glass of wine.
From the conversation, Zhang Yue heard that whose family had children, they abandoned them without raising them because they were too poor to bring them up. From these occasional sentences, Zhang Yue understood that his and Guo Xuexue's lives were already miserable, but there were more people who were not as good as them.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue glanced at the lame slave, but saw him squatting in the corner still drinking porridge, but the porridge was thicker than usual.
The guard dog, who was as thin as firewood, was also digging for food in the earthen basin.
Zhang Yue picked up the rice with satisfaction. In the hard years, there are always some days that are sweet.
Once you have eaten full at noon, you will easily feel sleepy, which is not the time to study. Zhang Yue immediately continued to take a nap, then took a nap happily, and slept until dark.
Zhang Yue opened his eyes and saw Guo Lin still copying books and studying hard.
Seeing that Zhang Yue was awake, Guo Lin put down his pen and said, "Dad said you can read the scriptures now. Start with the Classic of Filial Piety and then proceed step by step."
"Okay!" Zhang Yue was sincerely happy, it was great, he could finally read the Bible. After memorizing the sutra, you can leave this village school, leave this unreliable teacher, and find another way to learn something new.
Guo Lin said seriously: "Junior brother Zhang is ten times more talented than me. If he is willing to calm down and study hard, he will definitely be able to gain fame in the future."
Zhang Yue said: "Brother Guo, why should you be too modest? You are also very good at reading!"
Guo Lin smiled bitterly and said: "There are many people like me in the county. Apart from working harder than others, I don't know what to compare with others. I will be sixteen in two years and I can't do any farm work in the fields." , If you can no longer achieve anything by studying, then you won’t know what to do for a living in this life.”
Zhang Yue heard this and said, "That's okay. If you don't do farm work, you can also be a bookkeeper?"
Guo Lin asked curiously: "What is Mr. Accountant?"
As if he really didn't understand anything, Zhang Yue explained: "It's just... I'm an accountant. You just need to know how to do it. The best accountants in the county have four or five guan of money a month, and they don't have to worry about it."
"My father never taught me arithmetic."
"I'll teach you!" Zhang Yue patted his chest.
"You teach me?" Guo Lin was surprised.
"My family is engaged in business, so it's not difficult to learn math at all," Zhang Yue said with a smile: "But I have no foundation in Confucian classics, Brother Guo..."
Guo Lin smiled and said: "Don't be afraid if you have no foundation. As long as you are willing to work hard, I will pay more attention."
"Then Senior Brother Guo will have a heavier burden from now on."
They both laughed.
Zhang Yue said: "Since Mr. asked me to read the Classic of Filial Piety, where is the book?"
Guo Lin smiled slightly and said, "No need for a book, I'll just recite it to you and listen."
"What? No book?"
Guo Lin patiently explained: "In the morning, you also listened to the scholar telling the children about the Thousand-Character Classic, Hundreds of Family Surnames. He recited a sentence and the children recited it. He recited it a thousand times and remembered it in his mind. There was no book in front of him. I have a book in my heart.”
Zhang Yue thought to himself, I only know what it means to have a horse in your eyes but no horse in your heart.
Zhang Yue asked worriedly: "What if you make a mistake in memorizing it? Even if I don't learn it, you will make a mistake."
Guo Lin shook his head and said word for word: "Absolutely right."
Speaking of this, Guo Lin seemed to have some unpleasant memories.
"If I memorize one wrong word, I will have no food for one meal; if I memorize two wrong words, I will have no food for one day."
Zhang Yue was stunned for a while.
"Of course Junior Brother Zhang won't go hungry, but that's what reading is like. Not only the Classic of Filial Piety, but also other classics and meanings in the future. Some classics and meanings, my father has to travel far and wide to borrow them, and then return them after he has memorized them. , some were so anxious that they had to copy it overnight. Only private schools would have it on a regular basis, but even then, there was usually only one set for each chapter, and the classmates took turns using it."
Reading is really not easy, Zhang Yue sighed deeply.
"You have to recognize that word, right?" Zhang Yueyan said.
Guo Lin thought for a while and said, "Daddy has the Book of Xiao Jing. If you can memorize it proficiently, I will give the book to you. I borrow it on weekdays because I am afraid that it will be damaged if I don't take care of it. Or if I hold the book in my hand, I always think about tomorrow. If you read it again, you won’t even want to look at it.”
Zhang Yue thought to himself that in his last life, he bought a lot of books that he didn’t read. Didn’t you know that there is a word called window-dressing?
Guo Lin continued to explain: "If you have a book in your hand and want to return it, you will study hard day and night. When you memorize it proficiently, you will memorize the scriptures on the paper yourself. In this way, you will not only silently read it once, but also have the time to read it. You can use it to read whenever you want.”
It is true that "books cannot be read unless they are borrowed". It is better to borrow books to read than to buy them. It is said that there are even more ruthless methods, such as burning books if you memorize them, and burning books to force you to read.
Guo Lin's reading method of "no books in hands, books in mind" turned out to be an excellent learning method. It seems that the ancients have already mastered paperless teaching.
Guo Lin smiled and said, "Okay, I'll recite the Sutra of Filial Piety to you. At first, my husband recited one line, and I recited it. At first, I only recited it for three days, and my father still praised me."
Immediately, Guo Lin read: "Zhongni lived there, and Zeng Zi served as his attendant. The Master said: The former king had the most virtuous and important way to obey the world, and the people lived in harmony, and there was no resentment between superiors and inferiors. Do you know this?"
Zhang Yue read it again.
At that moment, Guo Lin recited one sentence and Zhang Yue read another sentence.
After reading Chapter 18, Zhang Yue estimated that it took more than an hour.
But Guo Lin smiled and said to Zhang Yue: "It's difficult, isn't it? This recitation is like reading. The first time you read it is a rough reading, and you have an overview of the whole text. Next, you read and recite it chapter by chapter."
"It took me three days to memorize it, and my father even praised me for being smart."
Guo Lin's implication is that I wonder how many days it will take you to memorize this Filial Piety Sutra?
Zhang Yue remembered that Ouyang Xiu once talked about his reading method. He recited three hundred words a day and accumulated it over time. In about three and a half years, he could memorize all the meanings of the sutra.
Reciting three hundred words a day is the standard for Chinese talents. As for half of the talents, it can be reduced to reciting one hundred and fifty words a day, which will eventually add up to a big one.
It seems that three hundred words a day is not a lot, but the Classic of Filial Piety is in classical Chinese, and the standard for reciting it is to get one word right. This is not a short-term memorization, that is, it must be memorized until it is fully understood.
Regarding the question of how many days it would take to memorize the Filial Piety Classic, Zhang Yue stretched out his hands and expressed that he had no pressure, even though he knew that in terms of his reading performance since childhood, he was only an average person.
The Filial Piety Classic has about 2,000 words. Guo Lin memorized it in three days. He should be regarded as a talented person.
After listening to Guo Lin's recitation, Zhang Yue went to bed early.
After sleep.
Zhang Yue returned to the scene during the day, listening to Guo Lin's reciting word for word, and then recited it himself.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh that this was not the same as reading during the day. No matter how much people read during the day, they would always be distracted and disturbed by people, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and hungry. Even if they didn't have these problems, they would still be energetic after reading for a long time. Or the body is tired but does not have these problems.
At the same time, Zhang Yue also discovered a great advantage of reading in his dreams, that is, no lamp oil is needed.
When Zhang Yue woke up the next day, he checked and found that he had memorized the entire Filial Piety Classic!
Guo Lin spent three days, but he only spent one night!
