Rotten wood cannot be carved, and summer insects cannot speak of ice.
The students who were talented and talented for miles around found a sense of superiority here in Zhu Pingan. They were all confident and felt like they were destined to win three yuan in a row this year. They smiled confidently, waved their sleeves, and embarked on the journey to the county seat.
Traveling around the mountains and rivers, reciting poems and composing poems, it was as if you could pull off an egg if you walked too fast. It was completely impossible to move at a turtle speed. No wonder it is said that it takes ten years for scholars to rebel.
Zhu Ping'an followed these people, his balls ached at the sight, and he recited the Four Books silently in his mind, trying to figure out the contents so as not to waste time like these students.
Eight-part essay is not easy. After studying in the Ming Dynasty for several years, Zhu Pingan felt that the difficulty was much more difficult than the modern college entrance examination essays and civil servant essays. Although the eight-legged essay questions are limited to four books: "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius", these four books have hundreds of thousands of words. Examiners can choose sentences from them as test questions, covering a wide range of topics. , it’s also very difficult. The topic can be a sentence, or even a word, or it can be a paragraph or a chapter, or a combination of half a sentence here and a half sentence there can be used as a topic, so it is very difficult and difficult to solve the problem. Eight-part essay questions are not only difficult to solve, but even harder to write. It has strict format requirements, and you cannot "make mistakes" or "make mistakes" when writing. For example, this sentence in the Analects of Confucius: A knowledgeable person will not be confused, a benevolent person will not worry, and a brave person will not be confused. fear. If the question of the eight-part essay is "The benevolent do not worry", when you think about it, you cannot think of "the wise do not be confused", and you will be guilty if you think of it; similarly, when you think of the question, you cannot think of "the brave man will not be afraid", if you think of it, you will make a mistake. Down.
Zhu Ping'an was thinking about the topic as he walked. His originally honest appearance became even more naive now.
The students who were traveling around the mountains and rivers occasionally looked back at Zhu Pingan, and when they saw this, they called him a fellow traveler, and there was laughter from time to time.
"Xie'er, we have a long way to go. You are young and frail. Please give your uncle the place where you put your valuables. He will take it to the county seat with you and return it to you. You can also be more relaxed." Uncle Zhu Shouren came quietly. When he came to Zhu Pingan's side, Ling Ran spoke righteously and stretched out his hand to pick up the small baggage that Zhu Pingan was carrying, very like an elder.
Zhu Ping'an was interrupted by his uncle Zhu Shouren's words. When he saw his uncle reaching out to untie his little bundle, he couldn't help but dodge slightly. He looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren and said loudly with a silly smile:
"Filial piety comes first among all good deeds, even for the elders. Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. How can you dare to trouble your uncle if you are safe?"
Zhu Pingan's words attracted the attention of the passers-by, and they all turned to look over. Uncle Zhu Shouren was rejected by Zhu Pingan. At this time, he looked like a celebrity, with an elegant smile on his face, looking like a generous elder, "It doesn't matter, since he is a pig." If you want to exercise, then so be it. If you are tired, just tell your uncle and he will share the luggage with you."
"Brother Zhu, you are truly a kind and kind elder."
"Brother Zhu, your love for licking a calf is truly a role model for me."
More than ten students all praised the uncle Zhu Shouren for his kindness, but the uncle also said modestly that he didn't dare to take it seriously, saying that it was only human nature and so on.
So, the uncle and more than ten students went out touring the mountains and rivers, reciting poems and writing lyrics, creating a great atmosphere of literature.
Zhu Ping'an looked at his uncle calmly from behind, the corners of his mouth curved. If you really want to help me carry things, why don't you use a heavy backpack? A small baggage weighs less than two kilograms in total. Why are you sharing it? You want to cover my travel expenses without even knowing it. Have it yourself. Before the trip, my father was forced to risk the wrath of Mr. Chen in front of his grandfather. He had already given the uncle five taels of silver without even mentioning the possibility of paying it back. The uncle was still dissatisfied.
The group of people walked for two or three hours, only seven or eight miles away, when someone suggested that they find a place sheltered from the wind, eat something and rest before leaving.
So, a group of people found an abandoned mountain temple, walked into it, and spread it with hay or blankets. Some wealthy students asked the accompanying book boys to place the meat, wine, etc. they carried on the ground, and invited everyone to drink together and compose poems. happy.
Of course, Zhu Ping'an, the person who came to the boy's test, was ignored. Even the uncle who "licked the calf deeply" had no intention of "licking the calf" at this moment. These people sat in a group and no one came to greet Zhu. Along with Ping An, there was no room left for Zhu Ping An. Zhu Ping'an only received the same treatment as those people's book boys, sitting aside and in a corner.
Zhu Ping'an didn't care at all. He walked to a corner of the temple and spread hay. He sat down and took out the egg flour pancakes that his mother, Chen, had made specially before leaving. The green cucumber was filled with water in the bamboo tube around my waist. I opened my cheeks and ate it with relish.
The melon crisp cake is fragrant and tastes great.
At this moment, a girl's weak and pitiful voice suddenly came from outside the mountain temple, calling for help:
"Help, help..."
The girl's voice is soft and pitiful, pitiful and frightened, frightened and trembling, trembling and helpless, helpless and a little crying... crying into your heart, anyone Whenever I hear this helpless voice, a sense of justice will burst out of my chest.
What's more, accompanying this weak, pitiful and helpless girl's cry for help came a disheveled and beautiful girl with innocent eyes that were red from crying, a weak appearance, and a temperament that makes me feel pity for others. .
The girl who was helpless and crying for help accidentally saw the students resting in the mountain temple while stumbling. A trace of sad hope appeared on her delicate and pitiful face, and she stumbled towards the mountain temple.
This helpless voice, this girl I feel pity for
As a result, more than a dozen students, filled with compassion and a sense of justice, shouted out a famous line that has been sung for thousands of years:
"In broad daylight, with everything clear, how dare these gangsters to rob a civilian girl!"
Zhu Ping'an, who was sitting in the corner eating pancakes and pickled cucumbers, almost spit out the pancakes in his mouth when he heard these words, and drank a sip of water to calm down his shock.
Zhu Ping'an just glanced at the girl calling for help outside the door, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but then did not move, and continued to eat his own egg pancake, chew his own cucumber, and drink his own water.
More than a dozen students, filled with compassion and a strong sense of justice, shouted out an eternal famous saying, and then filed out one by one and began their heroic journey to save the United States.
The eyes of the helpless girl with disheveled clothes were full of gratitude. She stumbled and ran behind more than a dozen students. She even grabbed the corner of a certain student's clothes behind her tremblingly and helplessly, shivering.
Chasing behind the girl were five gangsters with oily heads and pink faces, sinister eyebrows and sinister eyes. It was obvious at a glance that they were not good people.
"Hand over that girl, otherwise don't blame the brothers for being rude."
Five local ruffians stood not far away and paused. They seemed to be afraid of everyone, but they deliberately acted arrogantly to scare them away.
Hearing the words of these ruffians, the girl hiding behind a certain student trembled even more, with a vibrato in her voice:
"Benefactors, be careful, slave, I'm afraid..."
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