Bachelor

Chapter 26
When Sun Jia heard Sun Dan's question about this matter, he raised his previously drooping eyelids, glanced at Sun Dan quickly, and then lowered them again.He explained that it turns out that this Mr. Li is still very good. At the age of 20, he won the imperial examination, and at the age of 28, he won the Jinshi.However, his ranking was not high in the examination, and he had some problems in dealing with people. He spent his whole life in the officialdom, and only learned the way in one government.

Although Mr. Li doesn't know how to be an official, he has a whole set of experience in dealing with exams, and he is especially good at typing questions, and he is accurate in every hit.The few students he taught basically passed the test in the past.

The Sun family was very powerful in the generation of Sun Zhunian and Sun Henian. The three brothers all won the imperial examinations at the same time, and the second and third brothers all won the Jinshi examination at the same time.

But the next generation is very disappointing. Except for Sun Yue, a young genius, the other children are all idiots and idiots.For ten years, not to mention the descendants of the direct descendants of the Sun family, not even the collateral descendants had produced a scholar, let alone Juren and Jinshi.

Originally, Sun Yue still hoped to win three yuan in a row.It's a pity that this child is a sick child, 360 days a year, [-] days in bed, and missed the exam due to illness last time.

There hasn't been a scholar in ten years, and the famous Huichang Hou Sun's family has lost face.Master Sun and Master Sun in the capital felt that it was not an option to go on like this. If they hired famous teachers to teach in Shandong step by step, with the qualifications of the children of the Sun family, there was no way to reverse the situation in the short term.

So, the two masters thought of Li Meiting, a strange man, and prepared generous gifts to invite Mr. Li to Shandong.I hope that through Mr. Li's expertise in guessing questions, the Sun family will produce several talents this year.

Mr. Li was tired of staying in Shaanxi, and he didn't have much to do with studying Taoism. After thinking about it, he came to Zouping.

Mr. Li came to Sun's house to prepare for the exams in the next few years, and he only had a few top students like Sun Yue in his eyes. As for the other students who had no hope of passing the boy's exam, he didn't take it seriously.Non-Sun family descendants and Enlightenment schoolchildren such as Sun Dan are naturally giving up.

Mr. Li Meiting came to the Sun family to achieve results and increase the rate of admission to higher education, but he has no intention of cultivating people for ten years.

After saying this, Sun Jia said in a low voice: "Sun Dan, I'm afraid that Mr. Li doesn't know about your entry into ethnology, and he doesn't want to know. Therefore, I'm afraid you have to be careful about the exam in the first year of junior high school. "

Sun Dan smiled wryly, and said to himself: The reason why the Sun family invited Mr. Li to teach ethnology is to prepare for the exam. It's a bit like the fast and slow class that the school held before the college entrance examination.Exam-oriented education really has a long history, even the ancients are not immune.

However, if Mr. Li is really good at guessing exam questions, you might as well get in touch with him in the future. If you can catch his eyes and get a few questions from him, you will be more confident in the future boy's exams.

Back at the residence, Mendun had already finished his day's work. In fact, it was freezing cold and there was not much work to do.The old man was sitting on the chair by the door, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze. He looked like a man with a story.

Seeing Sun Dan coming home, Mendun didn't speak, stood up and took the book in his hand, "I'm back, do your work first, I'll call you when dinner is ready."

Sun Dan hurriedly thanked him, and got into his hut to start self-study.Time waits for no one, the quiz is almost gone, the most important thing right now is to learn traditional Chinese characters first.

After entering the room to tidy up, arranged the books, and polished the ink in a leisurely manner, Sun Dan thought for a while, and then cut out hundreds of small pieces of paper with a knife.

After Mendun helped Sun Dan tidy up the room, he was not in a hurry to leave, and just sat on the edge of the bed, staring at Sun Dan dully.

Sun Dan didn't think about anything else, the old man was a nice person, he was probably used to being lonely, and suddenly there was another person in the yard, which made him a little uncomfortable.

It is not difficult for Sun Dan to learn this kind of thing, the key is to find a good method.From elementary school to university, and then to the civil service examination, he has experienced many battles, and he has never encountered any kind of difficulties.The most painful time in my memory was when I passed CET-[-]. In those few months, I passed the test in the future, and almost made Sun Dan lie down in the hospital from exhaustion.

Ever since he passed CET-[-], Sun Dan didn't feel any difficulty in other exams.

Speaking of which, there are many similarities between learning traditional Chinese characters and learning English, both rely on rote memorization, and also need to enter the language environment.

Just take another English placement test, it's no big deal, okay, just use that kind of study method.

While thinking about it, he grinds the ink, and when the ink is finished, Sun Dan has a plan.

He put the small piece of paper on the table, picked up a pen and wrote a large traditional Chinese character "Gai" on it, which is "Gai" in simplified Chinese.Although the character "gai" is not commonly used in daily life, it is the first character of the title in the stereotyped essay.In other words, as long as you write an article, you can't get around this word.

Sun Dan used to write a big character every day in modern times. After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he didn't write for several days, and his hands were itchy.When he was in school in the afternoon, he didn't dare to let go of writing.Now that I write down this one word, it's done in one go, it's really exciting, it's so refreshing.

Looking closely, it was Liu Rushi's big block letters that seemed to be elegant but implied iron bones.

"I have a silver hook on my wrist, and I once took away my traces." Slowly exhaled the turbid breath in my chest, the depression of the past few days seemed to be crushed by the word "cover", and then disappeared, I only felt that my body was also light Scored a point.

"Good word!" There was a sudden applause from the side.

Sun Dan turned his head to look, but saw that Mendun looked a little excited.

Sun Dan smiled and said, "Old man, are you also literate?"

"I'm blind with my eyes open, and I don't know a word." Mendun chuckled.

"Then what are you cheering for?" Sun Dan looked at Mendun with a smile: "I just learned this word in school today, can you see the benefits of it?"

Mendun sniffed: "I have been with the third master for so many years, and I also saw the third master write. Although I don't know each other, I can tell that the handwriting is good or bad. Your word..." He pondered slightly: "Although I don't know what to read, I think it is alive."

Sun Dan was greatly impressed and gave a thumbs up.

Mendun smiled: "Brother Sun, just write while I'm watching. I haven't seen anyone write for many years. Seeing you use a pen makes me happy, as if the third master is still in this world. I won't disturb you Bar?"

Sun Dan nodded: "Old Men, you can just look around."

He didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, and while flipping through the dictionary, he copied down all the commonly used Chinese characters and made a stack of cards.

This is also the method he used when he first learned English. At that time, he copied all the words he learned into cards and carried them with him.Whether it is walking, eating, or sleeping, as long as you think of it, you can take a look at it.After several months, I finally digested thousands of words raw.

Those days were really unbearable to look back on. Looking back now, I still feel extremely fearful in my heart.

The writing speed of the brush is really too slow. After writing more than 300 characters, my hands are a little numb.Sun Dan moved his wrist, looked up at the sky, the setting sun had dyed the sky red.At this time, he and Mendun remembered that it was time to eat, and each carried a small wooden basin to the kitchen to cook.

The meals of Huichang Housun's family are all standard. According to the different status of each person in the mansion, the style and amount of food are also different.Sun Dan and Mendun's food standard is naturally the lowest level. There is only a pot of brown rice, a portion of stewed radish in bone soup, and a portion of stir-fried radish tassels, which are either white or green.It's really one green and two white, clean and white.But the amount is enough, a full catty.

When he first entered the mansion, Sun Dan thought he had to cook by himself, but after asking Mendun, he realized that was not the case at all.Where is the Sun Mansion? The hundred-year-old house is all made of wood, so how could it be possible to allow the servants to start a fire by themselves.Otherwise, when it's meal time, more than a hundred people in the entire family will light a fire and cook by themselves.

That's fine, anyway, Sun Dan is used to eating in the cafeteria, so he doesn't know how to cook.Now cooking in Dazao every day, he found a bit of the feeling he had when he was in college.

Learning this kind of thing, the atmosphere is still very important.

Sun Dan was lucky today. The second room, Sun Yue, was sick in bed and could only eat liquid food. The kitchen cooked millet porridge, which was very sticky.After Sun Dan finished his share, he asked the aunt who cooked for some, then went back to the room, and pasted the new characters he copied earlier on the wall, on the door frame, on the table, and on the bedside.

Wherever you look, you must use traditional characters to occupy it.No dead ends, fatigue bombing.

Taking a deep breath, he sat cross-legged on the bed, cast his eyes on the small black characters, and gradually immersed himself in the unique beauty of Chinese characters.

In a daze, he seemed to see someone carving a mysterious pattern on the turtle shell with a knife, "Mountains, rivers, sun and moon, wind, rain, thunder and lightning...": He saw someone scraping the bamboo slips with a bamboo knife quickly, and a drop of bright red blood fell on it, " Look up at the high mountains, and stop at the scenery!"; Seeing the long caravan of camels walking on the vast desert with scriptures on their backs, and the towering cliffs of Mogao Grottoes in the distance, "I heard it like this, I heard it like this..."

Raising his hands, he saw that his hands were trembling slightly.

The shiny black words in front of his eyes spun rapidly above his head and around his body, turning into a vast river of stars.

Suddenly, an oil lamp was turned on, and Mendun's old figure was projected on the wall: "Brother Sun, it's getting dark. You've been sitting here for two hours, and I got you some lamp oil. Hey!" He sighed faintly : "Don't work too hard. When the third master was studying, he was just like you, but his body collapsed. I also persuaded him several times, but he always said, 'My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit.' Although I don't know what he's talking about, I also know that it's impossible for him to study like this, and people can't stand it. When I see you, I think of the third master..."

Tears flickered in Mendun's eyes.

"Thank you Lao Men, I don't have much time." Sun Dan smiled bitterly.

This night, he didn't sleep well. In his dream, the galaxy of words was still spinning, coming in and rushing away.

His nose was filled with the scent of ink from the ancient man's high crowned robe, and that scent seemed to melt into Sun Dan's blood, making him boil and burn.

(End of this chapter)