Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 5 Blame

After reading this, he stopped and motioned Du Jinning to recite it.

What he teaches is elementary school, and the content is only "San Zi Jing", "Hundred Surnames" and "Thousand Characters".The "Three Character Classic" that Du Jinning memorized just now may have been written down when listening to the child read it, so it doesn't count.But "University" was something he had never taught in school.This is the best way to test Du Jinning.

"The way of university lies in Ming Mingde..." Du Jinning recited it word for word.Du Yinsheng had some accent, she didn't dare to recite everything correctly, and deliberately mispronounced two words.

As she recited, Du Yinsheng's eyes became brighter and his face became more and more surprised.These contents were quite difficult to pronounce. He thought that even if Du Jinning had good aptitude, it would be good if he could memorize two or three sentences plausibly, but he didn't want such a long sentence, she could actually memorize it completely, and there were almost no mistakes.

If Du Jinning hadn't been watched by him growing up, and he was very clear about the child's situation, Du Chensheng's three grandchildren hadn't learned the Four Books and Five Classics, so he wondered if Du Jinning had memorized the content of "University" in advance.

In order to confirm his conjecture, he changed another book, and this time he read a sentence from "The Doctrine of the Mean": "First rule the country; Cultivate the body first. Those who want to cultivate the body must first rectify their minds; those who wish to rectify their minds must first be sincere in their minds; those who wish to be sincere in their minds must first develop their knowledge."

This time, without waiting for his signal, Du Jinning took the initiative to recite: "Those who in ancient times wanted to show their virtues to the world..." This time, she did not recite a single word wrong.

Du Yinsheng looked at her like looking at rare treasures.He solemnly said: "I'll go and tell your grandfather tonight and ask him to send you to study."

"But, grandpa knows and will punish me." Du Jinning shrank back in fear when he heard the word "grandfather", stammering.

Du Yinsheng sighed and patted her head: "Don't be afraid, everything depends on my uncle." He turned his head to look at the room, then lowered his head to look at Du Jinning, and said in an unusually warm voice, "Go home first. It's cold outside. , don’t be sick anymore. If you are sick, you can’t go to school.”

Du Jinning nodded, got up and walked slowly a few steps, then turned around, Du Yinsheng was still standing there.Seeing this, he smiled at her and waved his hand.

Du Jinning also laughed, raised his arms and danced vigorously towards Du Yinsheng, then raised his legs and ran towards the village.

After running to the entrance of the village, she turned her head again, but Du Yinsheng had disappeared.Du Jinning breathed a long sigh of relief, and raised his eyes to look at the sun hidden in the clouds. His heart, which had been oppressed by the dull atmosphere of Du's house for a few days, suddenly opened up a lot.

She turned around and walked towards the village step by step.But when she passed by Du's house, she didn't go in, but walked straight along that road until she visited the whole village before returning to Du's house.

This village is called Peach Blossom Village, so named because of a forest planted at the east end of the village.The village is not big, only about a hundred families with mixed surnames.Judging from the grade, newness and oldness of the houses, Du Chensheng's family seems to be relatively rich in the village.And Du Yinsheng's house next door is larger than Du Chensheng's, but the bricks on the outer wall look older, like an old house.Although this old house is old, it is more magnificent than Du Chensheng's house with carved beams and painted buildings.

Back near Du's house, Du Jinning saw a tall and thin figure standing at the door looking around, but it was Du Fangling.Du Fangling is only 13 years old today, but she has grown to 1.6 meters, a little taller than Du Fangfei. I don't know how she grew up under the serious lack of nutrition.

Du Jinning was puzzled, wondering why Du Fangling came back today.

Because Du Fanghui collects firewood, picks pigweed, and takes care of the vegetable garden, sometimes he will come back at noon.This was also what Mrs. Chen ordered. She was worried about leaving Du Jinning alone at home, so Du Fanghui came back to take a look and brought Du Jinning something to eat.

When Du Fangling saw Du Jinning, he turned and entered the courtyard without saying hello.It wasn't until Du Jinning followed her into the room that she said coldly, "You didn't listen to your mother, you just lay down at home, where did you go?"

Du Jinning frowned slightly, didn't speak, and climbed directly on the bed to lie down.

Since she woke up, among the people in the third room of the Du family, Chen Shi and Du Fangfei took her as their lifeblood, and Du Fanghui also treated her heart and soul, but this Du Fangling seemed to be in debt to her. Seeing her, he either made a mockery or treated her coldly.In front of Chen Shi and Du Fangfei, she was more restrained, and she was even more hostile towards Du Jinning when she carried them behind her back.

Du Jinning herself is not a good-tempered person, she will naturally reciprocate with sincerity if anyone treats her well;So she didn't bother to pay attention to the third sister who treated her badly.

"You..." Seeing that Du Jinning ignored her, Du Fangling was so angry that she pointed at Du Jinning and said, "Aside from playing with us, what else can you do? If you don't have the ability, what books are you going to touch? Now it's all right, for You, the eldest sister are going to marry a fool, but you are fine, as if nothing happened, you are still wandering around in the cold weather. I, I..." She said, walked over, raised her hand and wanted to slap her Du Jinning raised his slap for a long time, but he didn't drop it.She stomped her feet vigorously, turned around and was about to go out, but bumped into Du Fanghui who was about to enter the door.

"Sister San, why are you back?" Du Fanghui asked with a smile as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Du Fangling glanced at the bird eggs held in Du Fanghui's hands, and immediately stared: "You climbed the tree to dig out the eggs again? You don't remember what happened when you fell from the tree last year? What did you promise to your mother at that time? Do you remember?"

"Remember, remember." Du Fanghui nodded hastily, "This one was dug out from a very short tree, really." Then he explained, "My brother is not in good health, I will make up for him."

Du Fangling glanced back at Du Jinning, sneered, and asked: "Your fourth sister risked falling from a tall tree, and she was reluctant to eat any of it herself, so she brought it back to you eagerly. How can you repay her?"

Du Jinning looked at them silently, without saying a word.

Du Fanghui frowned when she saw it, and asked Du Fangling, "Are you scolding my younger brother again? Why did he provoke you? You have not been nice to him all day long."

"Where did he provoke me? He provoked everything, not only me, but also you, elder sister, mother, he provoked everyone." Du Fangling said, turned around and went out.

Du Fanghui hurried to the bed, handed the two eggs in his hand to Du Jinning, and comforted her with a smile: "Don't listen to Third Sister, she speaks fiercely to you, but actually loves you very much."

(End of this chapter)