On a summer night, an oil lamp.

The lights are like beans.

Guo Lin carefully pulled a small piece of Zhang Yue's flower cake, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, then pushed it to the side and said, "Junior Brother Zhang, I'm full."

"Senior Brother Guo, be polite," Zhang Yue pushed the flower cake back, and then said as if he was talking to himself, "Why is the light a little dim?"

Guo Lin was stunned and quickly took out the iron tag and turned the lights even brighter. Zhang Yue also brought his wooden table closer to Guo Lin's table so that he could do his homework tonight.

The two approached, and Guo Lin finished half a piece of flower cake and was obviously full. Zhang Yue also took a piece and said, "If you don't eat more, how can you be hungry at night?"

Guo Lin said: "It has been like this for so many years. I am so hungry that I just hold a stone on my stomach."

After hearing this, Zhang Yue almost smiled and sprayed out the flower cake in his mouth. Is this already a 'Kaiseki cuisine'?

Guo Lin didn't know why Zhang Yue laughed, but he also smiled.

Zhang Yue continued to copy books, and the two also had a chat without a word.

Zhang Yue copied half of the thousand-character text, but he had an eyelid fight. There was no way. He was furious by mosquitoes all night last night, and today he urgently needed to sleep.

You know, Zhang Yue is a person who can't sleep enough for six hours on weekdays.

"No, no. I have to go to bed first." Zhang Yue put his pen down.

Guo Lin hesitated and asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, do you want me to call you tomorrow?"

"Call me?"

"Didn't you start again tomorrow? Only half of this thousand-character text?"

"No, I slept well last night. I must sleep soundly tonight. Senior Brother Guo doesn't have to call me early in the morning tomorrow! I will explain your father."

Guo Lin felt it was inappropriate when he heard this, so he asked in accordance with his obligation to fulfill his senior brother's obligation: "Junior Brother Zhang, why are you studying?"

Zhang Yuezheng took a pen to wash the ink, raised his head and thought, "Maybe become famous for being an official!"

Guo Lin looked shocked when he heard this.

Zhang Yue put his pen on the bed and covered it with a cloth and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Will you say that to the examiner when you are in the future?"

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Who can't speak loudly in front of the examiner, but it's too tiring to be scheming between us brothers on weekdays. As the saying goes, "Ape chants and cranes to call me for no intention, and I don't know if there are people walking under me."

The ape chanted and called the crane without intention, and I didn’t know that there were people walking down there.

Guo Lin sang Zhang Yue's words and said, "Young brother really comes from the city. Any word can be cited by the classics..."

When Guo Lin had some understanding, he turned around and saw that Zhang Yue was already lying on the bed.

Guo Lin was stunned for a moment and stopped talking.

Zhang Yue closed his eyes and knew that Guo Lin was kind enough to remind himself that, but everyone had their own methods for studying and studying. He had heard a lot of such great principles in his previous life, but very few of them really fit him.

Zhang Yue just thought for a moment, and then his mind was empty and he fell asleep in an instant.

Sleep in seconds!

Guo Xuezhao, who had finished teaching the boy the next morning, came to check Zhang Yue’s homework yesterday.

Zhang Yue only wrote half of the thousand-word text last night, and he was so sleepy that he went to bed. Today, he slept until the sun was sunny and got up.

Seeing that Zhang Yue had only written half of his homework, Guo Xuezhao read it for a while.

"The word Jie is written incorrectly, and it is regarded as a word Zi! The girl Mu Zhen is a girl!" Guo Xuejue picked up the pen and changed it to Zhang Yue in the text.

Zhang Yue thought the other party would blame him, but he did not know that he had exposed it like this.

After Guo Xuejiao finished the correction, he encouraged Zhang Yue with a look of relief and said, "It's very good, it's really done."

This is OK? With such a low requirement, aren’t you here to compensate me for the tuition fee?

Zhang Yue felt something was wrong.

But Guo Xuezhao never said half a criticism to himself, but explained the Thousand Characters text to Zhang Yue from beginning to end. Guo Xuezhao explained it very patiently, even more serious than what Master Meng taught when he was in elementary school.

Then Guo Xuejiao taught Guo Lin's studies alone, and did not give Zhang Yue an audition. However, when Zhang Yue was studying, Guo Lin could be there. This was not Guo Xuejiao kept his own private affairs, but Guo Lin learned more and more than Zhang. It was equivalent to the seniors who could listen to lower grade classes, but the lower grades could not listen to higher grade classes.

Zhang Yue sat there all morning. It was almost noon. The scholarly family had already prepared the meal and called on the two of them to come for dinner.

On weekdays, Guo Lin and Zhang Yue always eat and study at a table, which can save a lot of time.

But today there are good dishes, so they are eaten in Guo Xuejue's house.

Zhang Yue had a big bowl of rice and rice, which was so exciting that it was dry! In addition to a piece of meat, the rice also had the fat of the meat. It must have been steamed with bacon on the rice, and then the fat flowed into the rice.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but drool.

Guo Xuezhao, who was holding a bamboo tube filled with wine, poured himself into his own drinks, and asked Zhang Yue if he had slept well in the past few days and was he used to living?

Zhang Yue answered truthfully.

Guo Xuejue drank and laughed while drinking.

At this time, a villager sent some wild vegetables in the mountains and eels caught in the stream. Guo Xueshou, regardless of his identity as a scholar, took them to sit down at the table and drink a glass of wine.

From the words and words, Zhang Yue heard that someone gave up the child because his family was poor and could not raise him. From these occasional sentences or two, Zhang Yue understood that his life with Guo Xuejiao was already hard, but there were more people who were not as good as them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue glanced at Lame Nu, but saw him squatting in the corner and still drinking porridge, but the porridge was thicker than usual.

The thin local dogs in the door were also digging for food in the earthen basin.

Zhang Yue stewed the rice with satisfaction. During the bitter years, there were always some days of sweetness.

Once you are full at noon, you will easily feel sleepy, not when you are studying. Zhang Yue immediately continued to sleep during the day and started taking a nap beautifully. It was dark when it slept.

Zhang Yue opened his eyes and saw that Guo Lin was still copying books and studying hard.

Seeing that Zhang Yue woke up, Guo Lin put down his pen and said, "Dad said you can read the scriptures now. First, start with the Book of Filial Piety, and then proceed step by step."

"Okay!" Zhang Yue was sincerely happy. It was so good that he could finally read the scriptures. After memorizing the scriptures, he could leave this village school and leave this unreliable teacher to find another skill.

Guo Lin said seriously: "Junior Brother Zhang is talented and ten times better than me. If he is willing to calm down and study and work hard, he will definitely be able to get a fame in the future."

Zhang Yue said: "Senior Brother Guo, why should you be too humble? You are also very good at reading!"

Guo Lin smiled bitterly and said, "I have more people in the county than me. I am a little harder than others, and I don't know what to compare with others. In two years, I will be sixteen, and I can't do anything in the farm work in the fields. If I have no future in my studies, I will not know what to do in this life."

Zhang Yue heard this and said, "That's okay. If you don't do farm work, you can also be a custodian?"

Guo Lin asked curiously: "What is Mr. Accountant?"

As expected, Zhang Yue didn't know anything, "It's just... it's just a calculation. You just need to know how to calculate. The good accountant in the county town has four or five jin of money a month, and it doesn't need to be exposed to the wind and sun."

"Mathematical learning, my dad hasn't taught me how to do it."

"I'll teach you!" Zhang Yue patted his chest.

"You teach me?" Guo Lin was surprised.

"My family is engaged in business, so it's not difficult to learn," Zhang Yue smiled and said, "But I have no foundation in classics, Senior Brother Guo..."

Guo Lin smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of having no foundation. As long as you are willing to work hard, I'll be more attentive."

"Then the burden on Senior Brother Guo will be heavy in the future."

The two of them laughed together.

Zhang Yue said: "Since the gentleman said he wanted me to read the Book of Filial Piety, then where is the book?"

Guo Lin smiled slightly and said, "No need for books, I just recite them to listen to them."

"What? No books?"

Guo Lin explained patiently: "In the morning, you also heard the scholars telling the boys a thousand-character text and a hundred families of names. He recites one sentence for the boys, recites one sentence for the boys, and recites it like this a thousand times, and remembers it like this, and then there will be no books in front of you and a book in your heart."

Zhang Yue smiled and thought, I only know what it means to have a horse in my eyes but not a horse in my heart.

Zhang Yue asked worriedly: "What if you memorize it wrong? I will be misled by you if I don't learn it."

Guo Lin shook his head and said word by word: "It's absolutely good."

Speaking of this, Guo Lin seemed to have some unpleasant memories.

"If I recite one word wrong, I will have no food to eat for one meal. If I recite two words wrong, I will have no food to eat for a day."

Zhang Yue was stunned for a while.

"Of course, Junior Brother Zhang won't be hungry, but this is true for studying. Not only the Book of Filial Piety, but other articles of scriptures will be average in the future. Some of the books of scriptures, my father needs to go out to collect and borrow them from the villages, memorize them before returning them. Some of them are anxious, so he has to copy them all night. Only private schools will always have a set of scriptures, but even so, there is always only one set of scriptures, and classmates take turns to use them."

It’s really not easy to read, Zhang Yue sighed deeply.

"You have to recognize that word, right?" Zhang Yueyan said.

Guo Lin thought for a while and said, "Dad who has the filial piety, if you memorize it well, you will give you the book. If you borrow it on weekdays, you will be afraid that it will be damaged. Or if you hold the book in your hand, you always want to read it tomorrow, so you will not be willing to read it."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, I bought a sea of ​​books I didn’t read in my last life. I wonder if there is a word called decorating the storefront?

Guo Lin continued to explain: "In this way, if you have a book in your hand and want to return it, you will study hard day and night. When you recite it in the future, you will silently recite the scriptures on the paper yourself. In this way, you can not only silently, but also read it in your spare time."

It turns out that "books cannot be read without borrowing them." It is better to borrow books than to buy books. It is said that there are even more ruthless things. They can burn them when they are memorized and use burning books to force them to read.

Guo Lin's reading method, which "no book in his hand and has book in his heart" has become an excellent learning method. It seems that the ancients have long written paperless teaching.
To be continued...