Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 23 Rubbing class

   Going up the hillside for more than ten meters to halfway up, the terrain is slightly flat, with a bamboo forest in front, and behind the bamboo forest is the school of Shanghe Village.

  Zhu Ping'an tied the cow to a tree, let the cow eat the tender grass leisurely, and continued to walk forward with his short legs.

A small path appeared in the bamboo forest, splitting the bamboo forest and spreading to the entrance of the school, Zhu Pingan walked along the winding and secluded path to the school, smelling the faint fragrance of bamboo leaves and grass in his breath, giving him The feeling of being in contact with nature makes people calm down without realizing it.

  Eight-year-old boy, studying in the teacher's school, sits on the mat after plastic surgery, and opens his mouth to recite aloud. As the poem sang, as soon as he left the bamboo forest, Zhu Pingan heard a burst of reading aloud.

   "Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, the celestial constellations are arranged, the cold comes and the summer goes, autumn harvests and winter storage"

This is a private school mainly made of wood and supplemented by bricks and stones. It has an ancient style and charm. There are half-person-high windows all around the school. The windows are rolled up with bamboo curtains to let the sun shine in. The whole private school is bright. Can be put down when necessary. There are about 20 children shaking their heads and reading aloud in the room. They are all about seven or eight years old. The two children share a table with stools, and there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the table.

  There is a portrait of Confucius hanging in the east of the house. Below it is a large table. Behind the table is a chair. In addition to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, there are also poetry and book teaching materials on the table, and a pot of strong tea.

   Sitting on the chair was a vigorous and vigorous old scholar in his fifties. He should be the old scholar Sun that my aunt once said.

  Zhu Pingan sat on the ground and listened for a long time avoiding the door.

  Scholar Sun talked about the Thousand-Character Classic, which can be said to be the best enlightenment textbook in ancient my country.

  Scholar Sun’s lectures are not as rigid as the ancient lectures that are considered in modern times. Instead of simply leading the children to recite over and over again, he also gave explanations, which should be commendable in ancient times.

   "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, this sentence comes from the "Book of Changes", it is wonderful. Xuanhuang does not just refer to color, it is mysterious and mysterious, and it is unfathomable. This is the lofty way of heaven and the deepness of the tunnel."

  Although Sun Lao Xiucai gave an explanation, but the words are old sayings and the Book of Changes. For children who have just started learning, it can be said to be mysterious and mysterious.

   Look, there are children falling asleep on the table.

  Uh, wait.

   Isn’t that brother Jun!

  Zhu Ping'an found that there were more than one child asleep in the private school, who happened to be at the same table, and one of them was his cousin Zhu Pingjun.

   Zhu Pingan can find out, and Sun Laoxiu can also find out.

  Sun Laoxiucai is a person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes. He took a ruler and walked up to Brother Jun and another child who were sleeping, and knocked on the table with the ruler, awakening the two children.

  The other child is a little fat man, just like Brother Jun, when he saw his husband turn pale with fright, he was timid.

   "Stretch out your hand." Old Xiucai Sun said expressionlessly.

  The two stretched out their hands timidly.

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   "Listen attentively, and never see Duke Zhou again."

  Elder Xiucai Sun didn't slap each of the two palms three times as a punishment.

   "Duke Zhou, who is Duke Zhou, I didn't know him?" Zhu Pingjun scratched his head, the monk who was as tall as Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, and Xiaosheng muttered.

  The children around laughed when they heard it. These children came a few days earlier than Zhu Pingjun. Some of them were taught by the master. Although they didn't understand what Duke Zhou meant, they also knew that they were talking about sleeping. Seeing that Zhu Pingjun didn't understand, they laughed one by one.

  Scholar Sun heard it, and he didn't blow his beard and stare angrily, saying that children can't be taught. Instead, he helplessly stopped the child's laughter and began to explain.

"The Duke of Zhou is also a sage of the Western Zhou Dynasty. He served as the regent of the king and made great contributions to the Zhou Dynasty. Later generations respected him as a sage. The sage Confucius admired the Duke of Zhou so much that he often dreamed of the Duke of Zhou. Later generations do not know when it started. Sleeping is also called Meet Zhou Gong. Do you understand that if you want to be a sage, you must keep your hands on the book and never disappoint your youth. Especially the two of you, if I catch you sleeping again, you will inevitably be punished."

  After Mr. Sun finished speaking, he began to teach these children how to read. Recognition is their first step, and only those who can read can read books.

   "Today I know the horoscope, the heaven and the earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is prehistoric. After class, I will check them one by one. Remember not to be lazy. Start with the first character, Tian, ​​the sky is the top of the human being"

  I am used to using simplified characters in modern times. Although I have learned ancient Chinese and know all traditional characters, there are still some problems when I really want to write it. I must subconsciously write simplified characters. These have to be revised slowly to develop the habit of traditional characters.

  Zhu Pingan was sitting outside the school, writing and drawing on the ground with a stick, and then erasing it with his feet.

Elder Sun also saw Zhu Pingan, but he thought it was a naughty boy playing on the hillside, especially when he saw Zhu Pingan scratching with a stick and stomping on the ground, he thought it was a naughty boy playing Ants and the like didn't really care.

  Literacy is easy, but it will be difficult when you read and recite the Four Books and Five Classics in the future. He could only recognize eight characters a day, which was not too simple for Zhu Pingan. After listening to it for a while, he saw that there was nothing new, so he turned around and went to herd cattle.

   I have to make a simple brush, um, and bring a black lacquered board, so I have to study hard to practice calligraphy.

  Through the bamboo forest, I came to the old scalper. The old scalper was still grazing leisurely, wagging its tail, not knowing that its tail had been targeted.

  The brush is the wisdom of the ancients. It is simple and easy to make. The tip of the brush can be made of wool, cow hair, and weasel hair. In fact, as long as it is longer hair of animals, it can be made of bamboo. It takes hundreds of processes to make a fine brush, but it can be done simply, just make the tip and barrel, and then insert the tip into the barrel to fix it. I can use simple ones. To make a pen tip, it seems that you need to put the hair in the pen holder in a water basin, and you can go back and get it slowly. Anyway, I don’t ask for much, as long as it is strong and usable.

   I don’t know what happened to that black-bellied little loli under the slope, she won’t really ask his brother to beat me up. Generally speaking, children, after being stimulated, generally will not go there again.

The cow has eaten grass for a long time, and it's time to drink water. Anyway, there is a clear stream at the bottom of the slope. Let's take the old cattle to drink a few sips of water, and then let the cow eat some water plants rich in salt. Loli is still there.

  It is said that in this era, people eat two meals, which makes me very uncomfortable. If you get hungry after noon, if you can, catch one or two small fish by the river and grill them.

   Untied the noose, and led the old scalper slowly down the slope.

  (end of this chapter)