At this moment, Master Shen really didn't dare to act recklessly. Wang Yuan beat Yuan Zhi violently, which was like killing a chicken to show the monkey.
The hit on Yuan Er's body shocked the master's heart!
Shen Fucong honestly wrote the word "one" on the blackboard and asked, "Can you all count?"
"I can!" Classmate Liu Yaozu is indeed a good boy. He answered the questions very actively and proudly said, "My father is teaching me "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"."
"Well, not bad," Master Shen nodded in approval and asked, "Who else can't do it?"
No one answered, and the atmosphere in the class was a bit awkward.
"Ahem."
Master Shen coughed twice and continued: "That means you can count. What I want to teach today is the number 'one'. You must practice it by heart."
Fang Zheng said impatiently: "Sir, this word is too simple. Please teach me something more difficult."
Master Shen had no choice but to write "two" again and said: "This is the number 'two'."
The young master of the Fang family was actually able to draw inferences from one instance: "I know, I know, three definitely means three strokes, and four means four strokes."
Liu Yaozu immediately corrected: "No, four is not written like that."
"I said yes, that means you don't talk too much!" Master Fang's domineering attitude is no less domineering than that of Yuan Er.
Wang Yuan felt drowsy after hearing this kind of kindergarten classroom knowledge, and finally said: "Fang Zheng, do you also want to fight with me?"
Master Fang immediately gave up, and turned to lecture Liu Yaozu: "Sir, please don't make trouble during the lecture!" Fu smiled and said to Master Shen, "Sir, you can go ahead and I won't interrupt you."
Liu Yaozu was just a doormat. He was full of grievances but did not dare to refute.
Master Shen simply wrote out numbers one to ten, and used these ten numbers as examples to explain the horizontal and vertical strokes of Chinese characters. Then, he threw a lump of hydrated lime to each person and asked them to practice slowly on the ground.
Liu Yaozu had learned these things a long time ago, but he still practiced them very seriously, and he was still the most serious one.
Only then did Master Shen have time to teach Wang Yuan and said, "You said you have mastered the Three Character Classic. Now recite it."
"At the beginning of man's life, his nature is good..." Wang Yuan recited it very fluently.
"very good!"
Shen Fucong praised continuously and sincerely.
It was the turn of spring and summer, and the climate in the mountains was cool, but Master Shen felt hot all over.
Two days ago, he just wrote the "Three Character Classic" on the blackboard and read it casually a few times. Wang Yuan actually recited it, and his memory was amazing. At least this was the first time Master Shen encountered such a situation.
A conceited and talented scholar was exiled to a barbarian land in the southwest, and was about to live in poverty for the rest of his life.
Who would have thought that I would meet a child prodigy who could learn everything he was taught.
How can you not see the joy of hunting?
Shen Fucong carefully observed the child in front of him, wondering if his mood had changed. At this moment, he looked at Wang Yuan so well. The child was handsome, with relatively dark skin, and was taller than other ten-year-old children. But he looked thin due to malnutrition.
He seems to be a very ordinary child, but just standing there like that, he is exuding a heroic spirit - just half an hour ago, Master Shen had interpreted this as banditry.
A true unicorn!
It's a pity that the wildness has become a bit untamed, so it must be corrected slowly, at least not hitting the teacher. As for hitting classmates in front of the teacher, well... This kind of minor problem is barely acceptable. Top students always have special treatment.
Master Shen suddenly lost consciousness and murmured to himself: "Could it be that God has put me in trouble for half my life and let me live in a barbarian land just to teach an astonishing genius? Perhaps, the way out for the rest of my life, Shen Weitang, will be The fate has fallen on this boy, so we have to find a way to help him get the qualifications for the imperial examination."
The voice was too soft, and it was in Shaoxing dialect. Wang Yuan didn't understand: "What did you say, sir?"
Master Shen shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I didn't say anything, maybe I thought too much."
Wang Yuan saluted very politely and said: "Although the student can already memorize and write, there are still many contents of the Three Character Classic that I don't understand. Please explain it to me, sir."
Master Shen's attitude had changed drastically. He waved his feather fan and asked with a smile: "Is there anything you don't understand? Just tell me."
Wang Yuan asked: "Who is Dou Yanshan?"
Master Shen smiled and said, "I thought you wanted to ask Mother Meng first."
Wang Yuan said: "I have heard the story of Mencius' mother moving three times."
Master Shen patiently explained: "Dou Yanshan has a righteous way. He taught the five sons and became famous. It means that during the Five Dynasties, there was a man named Dou Yanshan. He helped the poor and was moral and righteous. His five sons followed him as an example, and they all became A good official who is famous all over the world. There is a poem that says: Dou Shilang of Yanshan has a righteous way to teach his children. There is an old lingchun tree and five branches of osmanthus. This "five branches of osmanthus and five branches of fragrant osmanthus" is the praise for the fifth son of the Dou family to succeed in the imperial examination. "
"I see."
Wang Yuan nodded and remembered, and then asked: "Xiang Jiuling, can warm the mat. Who is 'Xiang'?"
Master Shen changed into a comfortable position, sitting crookedly and leaning under the eaves: "Huang Xiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a minister. His mother died young. When Huang Xiang was nine years old, she knew how to fan her father's mat in the summer and give it to her father in the winter. Warm the quilt. The so-called 'fan pillow warm quilt' is the story in the Twenty-four Filial Piety. You must have never read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Huang Wan, who murdered Dong Zhuo with Wang Yun, is the great-grandson of Huang Xiang."
Wang Yuan didn't know the situation of the literati in the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know that he was making a lot of money.
Since the imperial examination only tests the Four Books and Five Classics, and only recognizes Zhu Xi's annotations, a large number of Confucian scholars are poor at reading the classics, but do not even read the history books after the Spring and Autumn Annals. By the late Ming Dynasty, many Confucian scholars did not even read the Five Classics, but only reviewed them. Information and reference materials.
Although Shen Fucong was "iron-clad" and "concerned with the world", he definitely had a lot of stuff in his heart. He could casually talk about the era Dou Yanshan and Huang Xiang lived in, as well as their poems and official positions. He was one of the best among the Ming Dynasty scholars. !
If it were replaced by an ordinary county school teaching decree, it would probably only give a rough explanation.
Of course, it was precisely because the reading was too complex that Shen Fucong kept failing in the scientific examinations and spent all his family's money to work as a guest.
After finishing the allusion to the Three Character Classic, Wang Yuan asked: "Sir, what should we learn next?"
This was what Master Shen was waiting for, and he suddenly became happy: "Now that I have finished studying the Three Character Classic, let's learn "Children's Talk" next!"
"Children's Talk" is one of the elementary school textbooks in the Ming Dynasty. As for the specific content, you can understand it as "Code for Primary School Students (Ming Dynasty Edition)".
Master Shen used "Children's Talk" as the opening book to teach Wang Yuan nothing more than to teach Wang Yuan to respect his teachers, be humble and calm, and not to point his bow and arrow at the teacher at all times - you little bastard, don't we, as teachers, have no face?
Master Shen seemed to have returned to his childhood. He picked up the chalk and started writing on the blackboard: "Every word or action must be calm. Ninety-nine mistakes are made just for panic. Stand calmly and speak calmly. Don't be frivolous or make others laugh or scold... "
Um, what's next?
Master Shen suddenly got stuck.
It's a pity that Master Shen is indeed knowledgeable and talented. But "Children's Talk" was something he learned forty years ago, and he didn't pay as much attention to it as the "Three Character Classic". He would be damned if he could memorize the entire text.
Wang Yuan asked: "Sir, why did you stop?"
"Ah...um..."
Master Shen was a little embarrassed and said in a confused way: "Children's Talk is too simple for you. I thought about it carefully. I don't need to learn "Hundred Family Surnames". Why don't we just learn "The Thousand-Character Essay" directly."
Obviously, he can't finish memorizing "Hundred Family Surnames". Who can remember that stuff? He should have given it back to his mentor!
Liu Yaozu, who was practicing 1, 2, 3, 4, suddenly asked: "Sir, can I follow you to learn "The Thousand Character Essay"?"
"Of course," Master Shen, who had a good impression of Liu Yaozu, asked, "What have you learned before?"
Liu Yaozu answered honestly: "Whatever my father has learned, I have learned. I can recite the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames and Children's Talk. But my father is not as good at speaking as my husband, so he doesn't know 'Xiangjiu'" Huang Xiang is nine years old, and he told me that 'Xiang Jiuling' is the name of an ancient person."
Master Shen's focus was obviously off track, and he said excitedly: "Have you ever learned "Children's Talk"? Hurry up and write it down silently, I want to teach Wang Yuan!"
Liu Yaozu said in confusion: "Sir, didn't you say that "Children's Talk" is too simple, and Wang Er doesn't need to learn it again?"
"Well," Mr. Shen straightened his sitting posture, suppressed his smile, looked serious, and said earnestly, "I have changed my mind as a teacher. Learning is like building a house. A hundred-foot-tall building rises from the ground. What can we do if the foundation is not solid? Xunzi As the saying goes: 'If you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become a river.' Even if "Children's Sayings" is simple, it should be studied seriously. We cannot aim too high. Do you know this truth? "
Liu Yaozu had never heard of such a great truth, and he was immediately in indescribable respect. He straightened his back and said, "Sir, what you said is really good. I will definitely take everything I learn seriously in the future!"
After listening to the conversation between the two, Wang Yuan couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Can't I see it?
You have obviously forgotten the content of "Children's Talk"!
So, under the trouble of Liu Yaozu, a good student, Wang Yuan began to study the Ming Dynasty version of the "Code for Primary School Students".
Student Wang Er really wanted to go back to the house, take out his bow and arrows, and urge the teacher to carefully revise the curriculum.
Alas, let's forget it after thinking about it. It's not easy to hire a teacher, and we can't force it too much.
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