Zhang Xi also didn't expect that Zhang Fei, a black guy, was really jealous of Zhuge Liang.
The reason for jealousy is also very simple and straightforward - Liu Bei has been really good to Zhuge Liang since he came.
The history books say that "the love grows closer", and the novel says that it is "like a fish in water"... Anyway, it made Zhang Fei and Guan Yu very unhappy, and they had to be specially persuaded by Liu Bei to put down their grudges.
Now, from what Zhang Xi saw, it's no wonder Zhang Fei was angry.
Now Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang ride together when they go out, and they sleep on the same bed when they enter. Zhuge Liang had no place to live in Xinye for the time being, so Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang and his family to live in his General Zuo's mansion, where they could consult him day and night... No wonder Zhang Fei was jealous.
This kind of treatment will make you think twice, even if you are a little heartbroken.
But Zhang Xi thought it was normal. After all, they were Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, a model of the friendship between king and minister for thousands of years. What does this level of treatment mean? Later, Zhuge Liang risked his own life for Liu Bei's dream. On.
On Zhang Fei's side, there was also Zhang Xi who helped to persuade Zhang Fei so that Zhang Fei would not complain, but on Guan Yu's side... Guan Yu was a very arrogant person and had long disliked Zhuge Liang.
Although it was inconvenient to stay in Xinye because he had to guard Fancheng, Guan Yu returned to Fancheng without even attending Zhuge Liang's appointment.
But Guan Yu's letters never stopped coming every three to five days. According to Zhang Fei, they were all dissatisfaction and complaints against Liu Bei, saying that Liu Bei treated Zhuge Liang too well.
Well, the second master's temper... It will be better once we get along with him for a while.
The second master is easily dissatisfied with others, but once he is convinced, he is truly convinced and will never be discounted.
Hmm...it should be fine after Huarong Road.
In this way, after Zhuge Liang became the leader, Zhang Xi's workload was significantly reduced, and he finally had time to educate little Deng Ai.
The professor is still teaching "Book of Rites", but now he has taught the second chapter "Book of Rites".
Teaching children is always difficult at the beginning. Once the children gradually get used to the teaching pace, the next steps will become much easier.
In addition, the child Deng Ai is really smart. Although it took some time to recognize and decipher the characters at first, when he explained the meaning of the scriptures, his understanding speed suddenly increased. Moreover, this child is quite good at drawing inferences from one instance to another. Sometimes when asked questions about the meaning of the scriptures, Zhang Xi would be stunned for a while and unable to answer.
Zhang Xi had no choice but to secretly take the book and consult Xu Shu for the sake of his master's face... This also gave Xu Shu a headache.
There is no other reason. Zhang Xi and Xu Shu are both from poor families.
Although the two children from a humble family each have their own strengths and consider themselves to be no worse than the so-called disciples from aristocratic families in practice... But when it comes to the meaning of scriptures, they are really not very good at it.
Jingyi is a privilege belonging to aristocratic families in this day and age.
Books of this era are limited by their media. Each word is quite concise and there is no punctuation mark. Therefore, there are often different interpretations due to different sentence fragmentation or word usage.
At this time, some great scholars will stand up and interpret the ancient books based on their own understanding, and these interpretations will eventually become the meaning of the scriptures.
But these days, those who have the opportunity to read a lot of ancient books and have time to do this kind of annotation research are basically people from aristocratic families.
Therefore, in order to ensure the status of the aristocratic families and to control the right to interpret this knowledge, these scriptures and meanings will be hidden secretly by the aristocratic families and become something secret. Some books with annotations on the meanings of the scriptures are simply not accessible to poor families. The disciples saw it.
Let's use an inappropriate analogy - if a disciple from a poor family is exhausted, he or she will have completed nine years of compulsory education, and no one will teach you after that. But regardless of their qualifications, disciples from aristocratic families can at least finish high school, and those who are good can go on to graduate school.
Therefore, even a self-taught person like Xu Shu who took the "Adult Examination" route was not familiar with these scriptures. He had no choice but to ask Zhang Xi to consult Zhuge Liang, a descendant of a traditional family.
Zhuge Liang is the descendant of the Zhuge family in Langya. Although the Zhuge family in Langya has also fallen into decline in recent years, he has not been in decline for a long time. Unlike Zhang Xi and Xu Shu, who both started to fall into poverty in their grandfather's generation. But the central officials of the imperial court.
Zhuge Liang's understanding of the classics is obviously better than that of Xu Shu and Zhang Xi combined, so he can easily deal with the little Deng Ai.
But because of this, Zhuge Liang became a little interested in Zhang Xi's young apprentice, and casually asked a few questions about Deng Ai.
Zhang Xi did not expect that there would be such benefits. From the beginning, Zhang Xi planned to recommend Deng Ai to learn the art of war from Zhuge Liang, but when Zhuge Liang asked about it, he quickly praised his little apprentice as being unparalleled in the world. of.
"My disciple is very beautiful, but he wants to learn the art of war. Although Xi wants to teach him, he doesn't know the method. I really can't teach him... Oh, I'm so ashamed!"
Zhang Xi said in a pretentious manner, observing Zhuge Liang's reaction while talking.
In the end, Zhuge Liang just smiled and said nothing. After explaining the meaning of the scripture, he returned the book to Zhang Xi, and then sent the two people out in the name of official business.
Zhang Xi really wondered, isn't this Zhuge Liang too stingy? !
Isn't it the same as accepting a disciple? You have the intention to accept Ma Su, and you also have the intention to capture Jiang Wei and train him. Why don't you react at all to Deng Ai who comes to your door? !
Zhang Xi didn't understand, and Xu Shu happened to be around again. Zhang Xi complained to Xu Shu and asked for Xu Shu's opinion.
It turns out that Xu Shu understands things even more than Zhang Xi.
"Since you are a disciple of Yuan Chang, why should you let Kong Ming teach you?!" Xu Shu said in surprise, "If Xiao Ai'er becomes a disciple in the future, it would be okay for Yuan Chang to recommend him to Kong Ming, but now Xiao Ai'er has not yet learned a book of "Book of Rites" Quan, but Yuan Chang wants to recommend him to Kong Ming, isn't it inconsistent with etiquette?!"
Hmm...yeah!
Zhang Xi understood that the blame for this matter was all his fault.
The rules of education in this era are that after you have a teacher, you can only learn from this teacher. Until the teacher feels that he can't teach you, you can become a teacher. Only then will you be given a document to prove it. After that, should you find another famous teacher or should you It's OK to be an official.
But it is very taboo to learn skills from others during the period of apprenticeship.
If the two are good friends, or just a temporary tutor like Zhang Xi asked Xu Shu to do, this won't be a big problem.
But the relationship between Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi is not that of good friends, but colleagues. And what Zhang Xi meant was that he wanted Zhuge Liang to teach Deng Ai such important knowledge as the art of war... Zhuge Liang would not pay attention to Zhang Xi.
If you want to find students, you can find them yourself. There are many smart people in this world, so there is no need to co-teach a student with Zhang Xi.
Zhang Xi understood Zhuge Liang's thoughts and concerns, and knew that this matter could not be solved in a short time... At least he had to wait until he had finished teaching Deng Ai's "Book of Rites" before he had a reason to let Deng Ai become a teacher. Then recommend it to Zhuge Liang.
However, Zhang Xi is not helpless.
From this day on, every half month, Zhang Xi would take Xiao Ai'er to General Zuo's Mansion to meet Zhuge Liang under the guise of asking for advice on the scriptures.
We are not in a hurry to recommend it, but we can get familiar with it first.
Besides, with Xiao Aier's intelligence, if Zhuge Liang really likes her, he might be able to teach her in advance.
Just like this, Zhuge Liang was speechless.
Of course Zhuge Liang could see Zhang Xi's thoughts... But one thing is that although Zhuge Liang admired Deng Ai's intelligence, he didn't have much favorable impression of Deng Ai.
Zhuge Liang admitted that Deng Ai was a very smart child and could learn everything quickly. The most important thing was that he had a strong thirst for knowledge and was very good at drawing inferences from one example to other cases.
Zhuge Liang all admitted this and knew that Deng Ai was indeed a good student.
But Zhuge Liang didn't like the arrogance Deng Ai had hidden in his heart.
People can be proud, but they cannot be arrogant.
This is Zhuge Liang's understanding of how to behave in the world.
But little Deng Ai is different. He has lost his father since he was a child, and his mother has always raised him. As for the situation of the Deng family, it is impossible to say that Deng Ai doesn't know anything about it.
In addition, because of his stuttering, he was always laughed at. The more impatient Deng Ai was, the more awkward he became when speaking... As time went by, Deng Ai became somewhat anxious. While he looked down on his peers, he also wanted to prove himself.
Zhuge Liang didn't like people of this nature very much, so he never had the idea of teaching Deng Ai himself.
But for Zhang Xi's sake, Zhuge Liang couldn't say anything, so he had to mention it tactfully several times - Xu Shu is a very good teacher.
Although Xu Shu's temperament is very free and easy, there is also an inferiority complex in his bones, an inferiority complex stemming from a poor family background.
Xiao Deng Ai should be more suitable for Xu Shu's aesthetics, and Xu Shu's military level is not bad. At least he is ranked high in this troubled world. Why come to him? !
In fact, the teacher Zhuge Liang thinks is most suitable for little Deng Ai is not Xu Shu, just the big-faced one... Well, forget it, it's better not to teach little Deng Ai bad.
Zhang Xi did not hear Zhuge Liang's hint, and still insisted on taking little Deng Ai and ran to find Zhuge Liang.
But little Deng Ai's sensitive little heart couldn't stand it anymore.
One, he was keenly aware that Zhuge Liang didn't like him.
Although every time he asked for advice on the scriptures, Zhuge Liang answered him seriously and explained in detail what he didn't understand... But his attitude was completely different from the attitude of Master and Master Xu towards him.
On the other hand, little Deng Ai didn't want his master to always bring him to ask for help. This would make people think that his master's knowledge was not as good as Zhuge Liang's.
Although Zhang Xi thinks this is natural, he is just not as good as Zhuge Liang.
If you search all the history books, how many people can you find who are stronger than Zhuge Liang? !
But Deng Ai didn't think so. He didn't want his master to be inferior to others, especially because he, a student, came to ask for help.
Therefore, from then on, Deng Ai silently wrote down anything he didn't understand about the classics and meaning, and planned to ask others for advice after he became a teacher.
At that time, when others ask, you can also say that you were not paying attention when studying. The teacher told you that you did not remember... It is your own problem, not the teacher's level.
Then, Zhang Xi suddenly discovered that Xiao Deng Ai's learning progress was as fast as a rocket.
It took two months to study "The Book of Rites", but in the next half year, I completed the entire "Book of Rites".
Zhang Xi felt that Xiao Aier was fooling himself and pretending not to understand.
But with Zhang Xi's level of classics and meaning, he really couldn't tell whether Xiao Deng Ai was fooling himself.
I would like to ask Zhuge Liang to help me investigate, but Zhuge Liang has been very busy recently.
Not only Zhuge Liang was busy, Xu Shu was also busy, and Liu Bei was even busier.
After half a year passed, it was late autumn again. The grain harvest was finished and it was time to use troops.
On this day, there was indeed another movement in Wancheng, and this time the general of Wancheng was replaced by Xiahou Dun.
