It wasn't until the old gentleman got separated from his friends that Li Xiucai slowly followed him. Before he had gone far, Li Xiucai pretended to have met by chance and went up to greet the old gentleman. The two introduced each other.
After that, the old man realized that this is Chengdu, the county seat of the province.
A relatively famous rising star, the two of them have heard of each other's reputation, but they have never met each other before. When they met like this, they felt as if they had met each other too late. It was the same for such people, and they exchanged greetings.
For a while, I felt that the other person was a teachable person.
In this way, under Li Xiucai's deliberate approach, the two quickly established a friendship that they had known for years. And Li Xiucai's diligent, studious and smart energy that he deliberately cultivated deeply moved the old gentleman, and he has been there ever since.
He has said many times that if he could have met him when he was young, he would have been his teacher in the morning of Liqiu. With such a student, he would have something to boast about in his life.
This old gentleman is quite miserable. After all, when he was young, he just wanted to make a name for himself in the imperial examination. So he didn’t pay much attention to other things. When he was in his forties, someone once persuaded him.
Isn't it almost time to retreat from the rapids and find someone to support your life by then?
At that time, the job that was most introduced to him was to be a teacher. Whether it was to teach a group of children in a private school, or to go to a large household to educate young men, it was a good choice, but that
At that time, the old gentleman was still immersed in the imperial examination, thinking that he could get ahead by relying on science and technology, and had not considered these issues at all.
Later, someone advised him that since he had good knowledge, why not educate a few good seedlings so that when they grow up, they can take the scientific examination and achieve his unfinished career, which would be considered a good thing.
But at that time, how could the old gentleman listen to such persuasion? In his opinion, nothing was as good as what he had. Instead of cultivating disciples so that they could pass the imperial examinations in the future, it would be better for him to work harder and strive for success.
He wants to stand out, and he doesn't think he can really educate a few powerful students and prove himself.
But as he got older, he finally lost confidence in the imperial examination. When he looked back at this time, he found that he had missed a lot, whether it was teaching others who wanted to be teachers.
Or if you want to teach your own disciples, it is already extremely difficult.
At that time, the impoverished old gentleman almost thought that he was in trouble. He regretted the decision he made when he still had a lot of time. He felt that he had simply failed.
Several old friends helped him plan, but in the end, he could only accept a job in the back house of a wealthy family to teach young ladies how to read and calligraphy.
However, there are not many families that can hire teachers like him to teach them. There are not many girls who can read and write. After all, they are a poor and sincere family. Naturally, they only use educated girls.
If the husband walks in the backyard like this, he will not easily cause other dirty things, and he will protect the girl's reputation to the greatest extent.
And how could a small family waste their efforts to hire a gentleman to teach the girls in their family? Therefore, the old gentleman's job is also done once and for all, and he teaches the girls to learn, which is useful in itself.
It won't take long, after all, most of the people who hire him to teach their children only require the girls to be able to read and write.
Being able to read on his own and write some simple words is amazing. In this situation, he is teaching him even if he meets a particularly stupid student. In the end, it will only take him a year or two to teach. After all, no matter how long it takes,
The boss was no longer willing, there was only so much to learn, and everyone knew that they couldn't keep him employed for too long.
And in this limited period of one or two years, among all the students the old gentleman met, the smartest was the young lady who later became Li Xiucai's wife. In her opinion, this girl was definitely her
The smartest child I have ever met. He learns very quickly and quickly masters the knowledge I taught him.
, and at the same time can draw inferences from one instance. She is indeed good at studying. It is a pity that she is a girl. She will not be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future. Studying so much is just a waste in the latter. This is what this old gentleman just taught that person.
After a few months, the young lady felt deep regret in her heart.
Three or four years have passed since this incident, so this old gentleman really didn't expect that in his eyes, he was a smart and intelligent young man, but the person who wanted to be his disciple was running after him.
The female disciple who was about to pass arrived.
When the relationship between the old gentleman and Li Xiucai became closer, Li Xiucai pretended to casually ask the old gentleman if he had ever met a smarter person like him before, and he also wanted to make more friends.
I like to make friends as much as they make enemies. This idea seems to be the deepest reflection of every scholar's heart. Therefore, the old gentleman really has no doubt at all about the doubt raised by Li Xiucai. In his opinion,
At this age, Li Xiucai happens to belong to
He is so active and likes to make friends of the same kind, or like to be surrounded by children of the same age and enjoy the feeling of being superior, but he does have such capital. After all, smart children like him are indeed very rare, not to mention that he
You can also restrain yourself in self-disciplined learning.
The more he looked at the young man in front of him, what gradually emerged in Mr. Wang's mind was the thin girl he once taught. That child was as eager to learn, as self-disciplined and as self-disciplined as the young man in front of him.
Diligence, the most important thing is that both of them are talented and smart beyond ordinary people.
Of course, for the old gentleman, appearance is a dispensable condition. In his opinion, whether the young man in front of him is handsome or not is simply not what he pays attention to. What's more, his eyesight is dim now, and he can't even look at a person.
He could barely recognize the appearance, but from a distance he probably wouldn't be able to tell who it was.
Who is it, so for him, what the skin looks like is dispensable, and there is no need to care about it at all. Therefore, what he values is the soul that is born, and the young man in front of him is different from the one in his mind.
That weak image was superimposed on each other, so what came out of his mouth was such a thoughtless sentence.