Be a master through ancient times

August [-]th, early morning.

Guozijian students gathered on the playground in front of the "Shengxun Hall".Before Chu Ci came over, everyone stood casually, looking at each other's bookshelf next to each other.

"Why do you have so many?" Zhu Feng was very puzzled when he saw that the book basket beside Zhu Mingyue was full of used rice paper.

"Young master works hard and practice calligraphy day and night, is there any problem?" Zhu Mingyue looked unnatural.

"Then let me see, what is your post?" Zhu Feng said, and was about to reach out to get it.

"Don't look!" Zhu Mingyue lay down on the book basket, trying to cover the book basket with his huge body.

"Shiro, come quickly." Zhu Feng began to summon the beast.

"..." Jiang Xian glared at him, then walked over and pulled Zhu Mingyue up.

Zhu Feng grinningly turned out a piece of paper, and after just looking at it, he was stunned, and then burst out laughing. It turned out that the word "one" was all on the paper, and he picked up a few more, and they were all "one".Others came over and laughed after seeing it.

Yesterday, Chu Siye ordered them to put the calligraphy works he practiced this month in a book basket and take them to the font library tower for burning.Tomorrow is the birthday of Confucius, and today they have to offer sacrifices to the sages with waste paper manuscripts to show that future generations cherish calligraphy and paper.

In fact, since Chu Ci entered the Imperial College, at the end of each month, special personnel were sent to collect all the paper used by the students to practice calligraphy, and then transported them to the font library tower and burned them.

The students will have a set of copybooks every month, and the next set will be made after writing.This Zhu Mingyue must have been lazy again this month, did not practice calligraphy at all, and was afraid that Chu Siye would ask, so he wrote so many "ones" temporarily to make up the number.

Zhu Mingyue was ashamed and embarrassing, and wanted to snatch back the paper in his hand, but Zhu Feng was tall, and he couldn't snatch it back no matter what, so he scolded Zhu Feng for being dishonest.

"Hmm!" Gu Jiancheng came in from the outside and cleared his throat vigorously. The students heard it and immediately stood back to their positions, for fear of being caught by him and reprimanded.

It would be better if it is Chu Siye training people. After explaining clearly the mistakes you made, first let you promise not to make them again, and then give appropriate punishments, and then you will be fine.

But if he is caught by this Gu Jiancheng, he will not stop until he scolds for half an hour, and he also likes to drop the book bag, sometimes he listens for a long time and doesn't know what he is talking about, and the annoyance is also annoying to death.

Not long after Gu Jiancheng came in, other doctoral students also came one after another.Because of Gu Jiancheng's black face, everyone didn't speak, but quietly waited for Chu Ci's arrival.

However, this Chu Siye never puts on airs on weekdays, and he himself has always been the first to arrive at this kind of conference. Today, for some reason, he was left behind.

"Everyone has been waiting for a long time. Chu went to invite Wang Jijiu to preside over the ceremony, which delayed the time." Chu Ci's clear voice came from outside the courtyard, and everyone turned their heads, only to see Chu Ci and Wang Jijiu entering together courtyard.

When they saw Wang Jijiu, everyone couldn't help but feel as if they had passed away.They were almost used to Chuci handling the affairs of the Imperial College with full authority, and they even forgot that there was Wang Jijiu on his head who was the real authority here.

"Wang Jijiu, I haven't seen you for a few days. How are you?" The masters stepped forward to say hello, looking worried.

Wang Jijiu said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern. The old man is in good health recently. Chu Siye came to invite him personally. The old man is not feeling well, and he will come with a sick body. Haha, I'm just kidding. Don't be offended. "

Wang Jijiu secretly put eye drops on everyone. Unexpectedly, no one echoed his humorous words. Everyone pretended not to hear, even Gu Jiancheng, who had been targeting Chu Ci before.

Standing beside him, Chu Ci, who had been stabbed by a soft knife, laughed twice, and said, "Look, everyone, how dedicated our Wang Jijiu is to his duty. Waiting for ethics is worth learning for all of us, everyone said, isn't it?"

"Yes, Chu Siye is right! Wang Jijiu is really a role model for my generation, and it is worth learning from!"

"Yeah, Wang Jijiu has done a lot of hard work, it's really hard work."

"..." Wang Jijiu was praised, but he was not happy at all. From the attitudes of everyone, he felt even more the warmth and warmth of the Guozijian.It's only been a month since he left, so times have changed.

"Okay, everyone, don't gather around Wang Jijiu. It's getting late, let's invite Wang Jijiu to give a lecture, and then take the students to the Ziku Tower to burn the manuscripts." Chu Ci gave an order and surrounded Wang Jijiu The people around Jiu scattered instantly and lined up neatly in the queue.

"..." The angina pectoris is about to happen again!Wang Jijiu was almost skeptical that Chu Ci went over to invite him specially to show off his prestige in front of him!It's not that he is afraid of "a group of dragons without a leader", let him come over to preside over the overall situation!

"Wang Jijiu, please." Chu Ci didn't know why the old man suddenly became sad and angry, but as the Jijiu of the Imperial College, he should participate in such a big event tomorrow, and it should be a rehearsal today. .

After all, Wang Jijiu has been an official for so many years, he can control his emotions freely, and he is also very good at training.

While he was lecturing, Chu Ci went down to the playground and inspected the book baskets around the students.

The first few classes of each grade are almost full, and gradually decrease at the end.Chu Ci raised his eyebrows, picked out a few people's calligraphy, and after reading it, he felt that calligraphy practice should also be on the agenda, after all, calligraphy is like a person!Although all the imperial examinations were written in Guange style, these people obviously didn't even practice Guange style well.

"Oh, not bad, Xiao Zhu, you've been very diligent this month and deserve praise!" Chu Ci wandered to Zhu Mingyue's side, and suddenly found that his book basket was much fuller than the people in front and behind him, so he patted him on the shoulder in relief , and lowered his voice to praise, Zhu Ming listened more, and his face turned red when he coaxed him.

"Puchi! Hahaha!" Standing not far behind Zhu Mingyue, Zhu Feng couldn't help laughing out loud, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

"Congratulations! Feng! What's your opinion on what the old man said? How about you go up and tell me, and the old man go down and listen!" Wang Jijiu just gave an example of how hard he practiced calligraphy when he was young. He was talking about how hard he was at that time. Zhu Feng laughed wildly all of a sudden, his face darkened immediately.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Wang Jijiu, I was bitten by a bug all of a sudden, you continue to talk! I promise not to make any more noise!" Zhu Feng apologized immediately.

Wang Jijiu glanced at him unkindly, turned his head and continued, but the atmosphere he had just exaggerated had long since disappeared, so he had to hastily end his speech, and let everyone follow the class teachers to the Ziku Tower.

Chu Ci walked with the students with his hands behind his back. He deliberately slowed down, and after Zhu Feng followed, he asked, "Zhu Feng, what were you laughing at just now?"

Zhu Feng said mysteriously: "Do you know what Zhu Mingyue wrote in the book basket?"

"Isn't it a word?"

"It's a word! Haha, but there's only one word, and that's a word!" Zhu Feng remembered that Zhu Mingyue had spent a long time in the dormitory before returning to the dormitory the night before, and couldn't help laughing again, feeling that the kid was lying on the table It's neat and tidy!

"One word?" Chu Ci was puzzled at first, then shook his head and smiled after he figured it out.

The people around were also laughing, and Zhu Mingyue, who was always very arrogant, lowered his head like a little rooster who had been defeated in a fight. Seeing Chu Ci, he couldn't help feeling a little compassion.

When they arrived at the Font Tower, everyone took out their calligraphy works one after another and lined up to go to the Font Tower.Before they threw their works in, they had to say something like "So-and-so dedicated a set of "So-and-so Posts"."

When it was Zhu Mingyue's turn, he put in his manuscript and said in a low voice: "Student Zhu Mingyue respectfully contributes one hundred articles per word."

Although his voice was low, everyone could hear him clearly. The students burst into laughter, while the masters just shook their heads and said things like "ignorant", "disgraceful to the gentlemen".

Zhu Mingyue stood there, feeling very regretful in his heart, he shouldn't be lazy this month!But it's too late to say anything now, in the past, he wasn't afraid of being ridiculed by others at all.But now being laughed at like that, he actually felt quite uncomfortable.

"Everyone doesn't know. In fact, the knowledge of this word is not small. Zhu Mingyue, it is not written horizontally, but vertically." An arm wrapped around Zhu Mingyue, and a voice with a faint smile whispered in his ear sounded.Although the body he was leaning on was not tall, but at this moment, it was so trustworthy.

The students looked at Chu Ci curiously, even if it was a vertical stroke, what knowledge can this word have?

Chu Ci let go of Zhu Mingyue, looked left and right, then picked up a branch next to him, then lifted his robe and squatted down gracefully, and drew a vertical line on the ground.

"Look, everyone, what is this?"

"Isn't this just vertical?" Everyone gathered around, looking left and right, they didn't see anything unusual.

"Yes, this word is pronounced vertically." Chu Ci smiled, then drew a vertical line next to it, and asked, "Then what word is this?"

"It's still vertical!"

"No, this word is pronounced once, and it was used as a surname in ancient times." After Chu Ci explained, he drew a vertical line next to it and asked, "What does this word pronounce?"

"Vertical? One? I can't, is there another way to pronounce it?" The students looked at each other, but they didn't know what else they could recite for vertical.The masters around were also frowning and thinking hard.

"This word is read upwards like Xin, and the sound is the same as Xin." Chu Ci explained with a smile, and under the suddenly enlightened eyes of everyone, he made a vertical stroke on the side again, this time, it was stroked from bottom to top.

"Also? Chu Siye, how do you pronounce this word?" The interest of the students was aroused. It is obviously the same word, but there are so many ways to pronounce it, which is so interesting.

"This word, if you read it downwards, you will retreat."

"Chu Siye, is there any more?"

Chu Ci nodded in the anticipation of everyone, and made a vertical stroke next to it, "This word is pronounced as Dagon, which means that the upper and lower are connected..."

"It's a mystery, young people nowadays just like such flashy things." Wang Jijiu listened for a long time, and couldn't help but criticize.

Looking at the vertical lines on the ground, Gu Jiancheng couldn't help asking: "Wang Jijiu, you are a very knowledgeable old man, tell me, are these pronunciations true, or are they fabricated by Chuci?"

Wang Jijiu choked, he didn't dare to bluntly say that Chu Ci's words were made up, if he finds evidence to prove it, wouldn't he be ashamed on the spot?But he also didn't want to admit that Chu Ci did have some tricks.After he hesitated for a while, he said, "The old man doesn't even bother to argue with heresy." Then he left.

Someone has been paying attention to this side, and seeing Wang Jijiu leave in a hurry, he sneered.This person's problem, no matter how old he is, he can't change it.

……

On the way back from the Ziku Tower, Zhu Feng sincerely apologized to Zhu Mingyue. He just thought it was fun and didn't want to embarrass Zhu Mingyue at all.

Zhu Mingyue didn't blame him, because even if Zhu Feng was quiet before, he would be ashamed when he burned the paper.Fortunately, Chu Siye rescued him today, and he could not let down Chu Siye's good intentions.He swears that he must practice calligraphy well next month!