Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 42 Goodbye Zhuge Liang

Shen Chen woke up early the next morning.

There are not many people living in Xianshan Academy, and the house is big and empty, basically living alone.

Moreover, there is no one to accommodate and take care of him. I heard that there is a new nine-year-old boy, and the students all looked at him curiously, and no one wanted to come over to get in touch with him.

After all, the students who study here are at least in their teens or even in their 30s and [-]s. If you are with a child, you are afraid of being considered childish.

Shen Chen didn't care. After getting up, he simply washed up and went to find the dean of the academy, Song Zhong.

Since it was summer, Song Zhong had been busy with publishing books during this time.

Before that, he and Qi Wukai studied the Five Classics, commented on five Confucian classics, namely "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn", and wrote "Five Classics Chapters and Sentences".

So some time ago, he didn't have much time to teach books. After summer, he had to take out the books to dry, but he was a little more free than usual.

Yesterday, he told Shen Chen to go directly to him the next day.

When they came to the middle hall, they happened to see Song Zhong and Wang Can rummaging through the boxes, taking out new stacks of bamboo slips that were almost covered in dust.

Wang Can opened a large box, and the dust rushed up. After waving the dust away with a wave of his hand, he took out a book from inside. The pieces fell down with a clatter.

"Mr. Zhongzi, you haven't opened this box for several years." Wang Can said while picking up bamboo slices, "This "Li Ma" seems to have been chewed by a mouse, and a few pieces were broken."

Song Zhong said with some embarrassment: "When I was young, I traveled to study and copied a lot of articles in various homes. Because I copied too many and bamboo slips, there may be tens of thousands of volumes. I don't have so much time and energy to show them. Recently, It was only because the sun was shining that I moved out."

Shen Chen leaned over and saluted respectfully, "You two gentlemen."

"Shen Chen, you came just in time."

Wang Can's eyes lit up when he saw him, and he said, "You can tie up these bamboo slips, it should be possible to do this little thing."

Shen Chen thought that you were using child labor, but there were no child laborers in the Han Dynasty. Ordinary people had to work in the fields with their parents when they were eight or nine years old, so they had to bite the bullet and say, "It can be done."

"Go get some rope from the backyard."

"Yes."

"Remember to ask for the string."

"understood."

Shen Chen went back to the backyard and asked the servants of the academy for some ropes.

When he came, Song Zhong and Wang Can had already emptied the box.

As a great Confucianist at that time, when Song Zhong traveled around in his early years, he copied a large number of classics from various schools.

It hurts to say it, but he has copied so many books, which may add up to millions of words, and the bamboo slips have tens of thousands of volumes.

These things were extremely valuable treasures at that time.

But in later generations, a computer folder can hold all these things and it is very rich.

Countless people in later generations dismissed so many classics, and even didn't want to take a look at them.

This is not a kind of sadness.

But it is also the countless generations of predecessors who have written so many books tirelessly for countless years, and have the splendid history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.

No matter how many things a computer folder holds, how can it compare to the weight and significance that these books can carry?
When Shen Chen walked over, Wang Can instructed him to clean up the scattered bamboo pieces in the box first.

Song Zhong wiped the scrolls of bamboo slips with a hemp towel dipped in water.

The three of them worked hard all morning, Song Zhong was in charge of cleaning, Wang Can was in charge of arranging the books, and Shen Chen was in charge of stringing together the bamboo pieces that Wang Can sorted out according to the order he arranged them.

It took almost two hours to get a box, and what is disappointing is that there are dozens of boxes of books sent by Song Zhong and other great Confucian scholars, plus Liu Biao, all kinds of Confucian classics and books from other schools are overwhelming. its number.

Fortunately, Song Zhong and Wang Can didn't manipulate a child in such a frenzied manner. After an hour of busy work, they arranged breakfast, and taking advantage of their spare time, Song Zhong taught him personally.

The two sat face to face on the mat. There was a big tree in the yard. Although the sun was hot, it was quite cool under the big tree. In addition, the north and east of Xianshan Mountain were close to the Han River, the south was the Jianghan Plain, and the west was the Qinling Mountains. In the remaining veins, the mountain breeze comes slowly, which is very cool.

"Today I will teach you Xiaozhuan."

Song Zhong took out a volume of books and said to Shen Chen: "This is "Historical Pian", written by Zhou Xuanwang Taishi, with more than [-] characters in it, have you ever heard of it?"

Shen Chen scratched his head and said, "I could memorize this book when I was three years old."

This book has been lost in later generations, but in the Han Dynasty, this book was a children's literacy book as famous as "Cang Jie Pian", and had the same status as the later "Thousand Characters" and "San Zi Jing".

When Song Zhong heard that he could recite, he immediately became interested, stroked his beard and said: "Then you recite a few sentences and listen."

Shen Chen recited a few words.

The classics brought by the clan are all books with a very small number of words, and these children's literacy books are naturally also brought. When he was enlightened, he was taught by his grandfather himself.

Later, my grandfather died of illness and recommended him to his cousin Deng Mao. Deng Mao was very surprised that a four-year-old child in the clan could know so many characters, so he took out other classics in the family and taught him. When he was six years old, Deng Mao, Deng Hong, etc. The elders have been unable to teach him.

Hearing that Shen Chen could really recite it, Song Zhong was also surprised, and asked again: "Can you recite "Cang Jie Pian"?"

"I will too."

Shen Chen replied, reciting a few lines of "Cang Jie Pian" as he spoke.

Wang Can on the side praised: "That's right, you know so many characters at the age of nine, it seems that it's easier to teach you big and small seal characters."

Because he knew the official script "Shi Zhou Pian", even if he didn't know Xiaozhuan, he knew what the character was. Even if Song Zhong didn't teach him, he could figure it out by himself.

It’s as if you can recite Li Bai’s "Thoughts at a Quiet Night" and know the moonlight before the bed, and you will definitely read the moonlight in front of the bed in Xiaozhuan version. After all, the words are still the same words, but the form is different, but the number of words, sorting, and sentence punctuation are exactly the same. No matter how stupid you are, you should know which word is which word.

Song Zhong said happily: "That would save a lot of trouble, come on, let me teach you the first word."

After finishing speaking, he spread out the bamboo slips and began to teach Xiaozhuan.

With the foundation of being able to recite official script "Shi Zhou Pian", Shen Chen really made rapid progress and learned the first part very quickly.

Seeing his rapid progress, Song Zhong was also very satisfied, and the teaching speed also accelerated a bit.

And in the next few days, Song Zhong was not stingy, and took Shen Chen to rummage through the books and put them out to dry every day. At the same time, he began to teach him the big and small seal scripts, but after seven or eight days of effort, Shen Chen had almost learned the big and small seal scripts.

It's just that Song Zhong didn't teach him new articles after he finished studying "Historical Pian" and "Cangjie Pian". Instead, he asked him to walk around the yard every day, fetching books that had been dried for him.

After another half a month, all kinds of large and small seal scripts have been familiarized, and they also know which books Song Zhong puts on the ground. He can read and write, and his progress can be regarded as rapid.

Because of the rain that day, I finally had some free time.

Unexpectedly, the servants in the academy came to him and said that he had a guest and was waiting for him in the hall of the atrium.

At first he thought it was his uncle Deng Hong, but when he arrived, Shen Chen was pleasantly surprised.

It turned out to be Zhuge Liang.

"Brother."

"Brother."

The two hugged happily as soon as they met.

After parting, Shen Chen looked up and down, and saw that Zhuge Liang was wearing a blue silk robe and a Confucian scarf on his head, still handsome and elegant.

"I haven't seen you for a year, my brother has grown taller."

Shen Chen gestured, and he reached Zhuge Liang's neck, and was more than ten centimeters shorter.

According to historical records, Zhuge Liang is eight feet tall, nearly 1.9 meters tall, and he is a standard Shandong man.Although it is not eight feet yet, it is more than seven feet now, and it is taller than Wang Can at only 14 years old.

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "You have also grown taller, and you are a little darker."

Shen Chen rolled his eyes and said, "Master has asked me to dry books for him in the sun for the past month, and he will definitely get tan."

The two sat on the mat in the hall.

It was still raining outside, Shen Chen asked, "Why did brother come here suddenly?"

Zhuge Liang said: "Zhu Hao came to Yuzhang at the beginning of this year. As you expected, Yuan Shu didn't come to save us, so my uncle had no choice but to bring us to Jingzhou. I wanted to go to Nanyang to find you, but my uncle was in Liu Jingzhou and couldn't travel, so I had to Let it go. I heard that you came to Xiangyang some time ago, and I wanted to look for it, but I was afraid that you were busy at the academy when you first entered, and it was raining today, so I came here."

Shen Chen saw that some parts of Zhuge Liang's body were wet, and complained slightly: "Next time, don't come here in the rain. It's okay if you get cold. I'll go and find some suitable clothes for my brother."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "It's okay, I'll go back later, this time I came to see you."

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "Xianshan Academy has a lot of books, why doesn't my brother enroll in it? Wouldn't it be wonderful for us to study scriptures together every day?"

Zhuge Liang said, "Uncle is at odds with some people in the Academy."

"That's it."

Only then did Shen Chen understand, no wonder there is no record in history that Zhuge Liang studied at Xianshan Academy, it is only recorded that after Zhuge Xuan died, he farmed in Longzhong by himself, spending time with Shi Tao, Xu Shu, Meng Jian and others every day Together, it turned out to be the reason.

Zhuge Xuan also stayed in Xiangyang for many years, and knew a lot of connections. For example, Zhuge Liang's two older sisters were able to marry people from two big families, the Kuai family and the Pang family, and they must have a close relationship with them.

But at the same time, some people will be offended. Where there are friends, there will be enemies. This is a very normal thing.It was because Zhuge Xuan didn't agree with some people in the academy that Zhuge Liang was not allowed to come.

Zhuge Liang didn't want to talk more with Shen Chen on this issue, but changed the subject and said, "What are you doing lately?"

Shen Chen said: "It's so boring to read books every day, and the old master doesn't teach me other classics."

"Teach nothing?"

"That's not true, teach me Xiaozhuan and Dazhuan."

"Isn't this taught?"

Zhuge Liang laughed: "My dear brother, don't you know that the previous classics were all written in small seal script and big seal script. The master taught you these in order to teach you the classics in the future."

"Is that right?"

Shen Chen wondered: "But it seems that I haven't learned any useful knowledge by posting books every day."

Zhuge Liang said: "Tai Shigong said: peaches and plums don't talk, and you will form your own way. It seems that the younger brother has not learned knowledge, but he has found the direction of learning knowledge, entered the threshold, and learned words. Only then can he learn, isn't it ?"

Shen Chen pursed his lips and said, "But I have already learned seal script, Master still hasn't taught me."

Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, "Perhaps the master is sharpening your mind. How can you come up to learn advanced knowledge immediately after you have just mastered the documents?"

Cheng Men Lixue, Monkey King kneeling on the mountain?
For some reason, Shen Chen remembered these two things.

Maybe Zhuge Liang is right, Song Zhong is testing him, but also teaching him how to learn knowledge.

After learning the big and small seal characters, wouldn't it be much easier to learn knowledge in the future?
Thinking of this, Shen Chen suddenly realized: "I understand, the master must be testing me, I can't complain anymore in the future, I should listen to the master, one day he will teach me homework."

Zhuge Liang smiled and nodded with a teachable expression.

(End of this chapter)