I have to go to bed early tonight. After two days and three nights of excitement, it’s fun, but actually I can’t stand it anymore.

So there is a saying that goes “early on the first day of the lunar month, early on the second day of the lunar month, and tired until full on the third day of the lunar month”.

But I couldn't sleep in vain, so I needed a reason to go to bed early, so there was the story of "a mouse marries a girl".

Tonight the mice are going to marry their daughters, so everyone should turn off the lights and go to bed early so as not to disturb the happy event of the mice marrying their daughters.

Hachigong also asked Shi Wei to sprinkle some rice grains or cake crumbs into the corner of the house as a gift for marrying his daughter, indicating that she and the mouse would share the harvest of the year.

This is a paradox. Although they are enemies, they still need to give gifts to their married women. It makes Su You inexplicably think of the relationship between the Khitan and the Song Dynasty.

I got up early on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year and went out early to greet him. Someone came to my door today.

Not long after, a group of people came on the stone path beside the village, including a tall mule, two donkeys, and two small sedan chairs.

The two people on the donkey are the children's elder and younger gentlemen, and the one on the mule is naturally the older gentleman.

Su You greeted him: "Young Su You, I have met cousin Mingyun."

Su Xun is forty-four years old this year. He is wearing a crimson blouse and a black gauze scarf. He has a slim appearance and is quite attractive.

The Su family is of Northern descent, and is taller than the average Shu native. I think this cousin was also a handsome man and a great husband when he was young, and he was able to catch Cheng Wenying's discernment.

Su You vaguely felt that Su Xun looked a bit like Mr. Lu Xun with his long, flowing beard.

Well, I don’t care whether you look like a dagger or a spear, the articles are very similar.

Su Xun got off his mule and patted Su You on the shoulder: "Writing that is neither pretentious nor unnecessary, sincere and can touch people's hearts is a good writing."

Su You didn't understand: "Ah? What do you mean?"

Su Shi laughed at the side and said: "Eight Gong sent your "Ancestor's Essay" to Meishan City overnight. Mingrun, Mingrun, with this poem and article, you can be considered to be on the right path of writing."

Su Xun's personality was similar to that of Su Che. He was serious in speech, but nodded slightly: "There is still a lot to think about, and the meaning of the text is too straightforward, but it is better than expressing one's feelings directly. In the articles I have read in the past year, the intention

It’s considered to be the best. Anything else, hehehe…”

Su You was greatly honored to receive the four-character comment "Great Writer, Excellent Publishing Concept" plus a word "hehehe". He bowed and saluted honestly: "Thank you very much, cousin Mingyun, for your review. I will ask my cousin for advice in the future, Su You..."

Very easy to learn.”

Su Xun couldn't help but smile, his face couldn't hold back, and he twitched the corners of his mouth twice: "There are many people who say good things about you, so I'll just listen to them. I'll see the details if I have a chance."

After saying that, he ignored him and went to meet Hachiko.

Only Su You dared to talk to Su Shi and Su Xun.

Su Shi raised the curtain of the sedan chair and brought out Mrs. Cheng and Banniang.

Mrs. Cheng smiled and said, "Xiaoyou, we meet again."

Su You bowed and cupped his hands: "Xiao You has met my sister-in-law."

Ba Niang smiled and said: "Xiaoyou, long time no see. I have made progress in my studies."

Su You quickly waved his hand: "Don't dare."

Mrs. Cheng smiled and said: "I have done my duty, so why should I say no? Xiaoyou's article only quoted Mencius and The Analects of Confucius, which is an introductory book to Confucianism. However, it is even more valuable. People who can memorize these two books

, I don’t know how many people there are in the Song Dynasty, but I don’t think there are many people who can understand ‘the benevolent love others’ and practice it.”

Banniang asked: "Mother, is this Master's original intention to compare one's feelings to one's own?"

Mrs. Cheng said with a smile: "I am old and I am as old as others, and I am as young as others are young. Regarding oneself as others, benevolence lies in it. Xiaoyou got it right. This is also his willful nature. It is really amazing that he has realized this truth.

.”

After speaking, he bent down and leaned close to Su You's ear: "Your cousin saw it yesterday and was inexplicably happy. He knew that there was someone in the Su family who could understand the way of a saint and move forward. He was more open-minded than Zizhan Ziyou at the same age.

.I packed up and set off early today just to see you."

"You are putting Zi Zhan and Zi You on par. What he said just now is because he is afraid that you will be proud and complacent. Xiaoyou, please don't take it to heart."

Su You bowed obediently and saluted: "Brother and sister-in-law have good intentions, and Su You will definitely remember them."

Su Shi ruined the solemn scene with one sentence: "Oh, my family, please stop being so polite. Where is my little aunt? Let her come out and see my dad!"

The group entered the main room and sat down. Su Xun asked Su You to memorize what he had learned every day, and then began to take the test.

Although the weather was still cold just after the New Year, Su You's vest was still sweating.

After taking the exam for half an hour, Su Xun closed his notes and nodded slightly: "The foundation is solid, and you have a temperamental personality. You are not as agitated as me, nor as relaxed as Zizhan, nor as depressed as Ziyou. You are doing learning.

His good temper."

"Nowadays, the Song Dynasty is undergoing great cultural changes. Inheriting the teachings of the exegesis of the Tang Dynasty, scholars in the Song Dynasty have begun to express the meaning of the saints, like wadding tangled with ropes, like ropes woven into a net, and the system is gradually formed."

After speaking, he shook his head slightly: "But there are different opinions, just like the mountains in the clouds and the forests under the mist, there will eventually be some turmoil. I thought that there was no such material among the scholars of the Su family, but now it seems..."

Su You was almost scared to death. I just want to be a Jinshi and show my skills. I want to correct the deviations in Neo-Confucianism. I have to fight with the second Cheng Zhu Zi?

He quickly waved his hand: "I'm not that material either..."

Su Xun chuckled: "I didn't say you were the one! But you are the most likely person in our Su family to be the one! Your sister-in-law said you are beautiful and talented, but I'm sorry, no good worker can see you.

Meiyu will let you go, just be prepared to endure hardship."

This was a promise to teach Su You personally. Su You quickly stood up and handed over his hand: "Thank you very much, cousin. Su You will definitely listen to the teachings and work hard."

Su Xun put the notes on the table and said to Su You: "I understand the classics clearly enough, but I am a bit fussy about rhymes. Just like the big house in Guangyu, if it is not decorated with pepper, red and jade, it is not called Huatang. It is called Huatang.

The prison is called an inn. When people come, they want to leave, and when they leave, they want to forget. Do you understand?"

Su You started to sweat: "I understand, I understand, my cousin hit the nail on the head."

Seeing that Su You had such a good temper, Su Xun slowed down his voice and said, "But your poems use objects to describe people and have no new ideas, so they are very appropriate."

After saying this, I couldn't help stroking my beard and smiling: "There were a lot of poems by child prodigies in the Song Dynasty, but most of them were written by scholar-bureaucrats to encourage the underachievers and praise them. If you want to take it seriously, you can't actually read many of them."

"That poem of yours is considered a poem. It can barely be called a real poem. It deserves praise."

Su You is about to cry. You are a great writer and it’s your turn to pull it off, but you can tell it with your own conscience. Is this a compliment?

Fortunately, Shi Wei came in at this time and presented cake to everyone.

A snow-white jade porcelain plate, a fan-shaped cake, white cream on top, and a piece of pink lace with a small brass fork inserted, very elegant.

Shi Wei lowered her head: "Brother and sister-in-law, eat cake."

Su Xun took it and said with a smile: "Is this the young lady of the Shi family? Thank you, brother, for returning the ritual vessel to my Su family ancestral hall."

Shi Wei said "Ah": "It's nothing. I have a lot of copperware..."

Everyone burst into laughter, and Su Xun laughed and said, "Hachi has found a good match for Mingrun. His wife's family is very wealthy."

Shi Wei didn't understand why everyone was laughing, but when she heard the "wife's family" jokes, she said "Oh" and ran away with a red face.

Su Shi ate the cake and praised it: "How did you make this? It's so soft and delicious."

Su You looked at Su Xun's face and said, "It's nothing, it's just eggs, flour, a little oil, salt and icing sugar."

Su Xun then calmed down and said, "You will never tire of fine food and fine cooking. That is the master's fable about the great righteousness of a saint. You have to figure out the subtleties. I don't really want you to scratch your mouth."

After saying that, I felt that this cake was really good: "But just like Mingrun's treatment of the blood and guts of the head, feet, turning evil into beauty, turning waste into usefulness, this is a different matter. This is ingenuity and elegance. If you know something

Whether it is good or bad, you can get it with just a raise of your hands, but you deliberately want to ruin it, that is selling your reputation, you are a hypocrite, and you are uglier than a villain!"
Chapter completed!