Prime Minister

Chapter 210 Talking
Guo Lin left for Nanjing Guozijian only three months after Zhang Yue left Beijing.

Guo Lin went on the road alone, but he experienced a lot of hardships.

After three glasses of wine, Zhang Yue knew that Guo Lin didn't drink anymore, but he made an exception when he met his junior whom he hadn't seen for so many years.Now his face was a little rosy, and he talked with Zhang Yue about his experience in Nanjing Guozijian.

For Guo Lin, it was a very complicated experience, which can be described as a deep blow.

In Pucheng County School, although Guo Lin is not among the top ones, he is still among the best among all disciplines.But it is different after being admitted to Nanjing Guozijian.

We must know that in the Song Dynasty, the southerners were more powerful in Jinshi, but the northerners were stronger in Zhuke Mingjing.Therefore, all subjects in the Guozijian are hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Later, the Department of Mingjing was added.

The Ming Jing Ke was born in a proper way and belonged to those with a background, so many people in the various subjects switched to the Ming Jing Ke.Therefore, students in Mingjing are better than students in other disciplines except Nine Classics.

After Guo Lin arrived in Nanjing, the first obstacle was that he could not understand his language. His accent was very strong, and he couldn't correct it for a while. Not only was it difficult to communicate with people, but he was also ridiculed for a time.

And the most frustrating thing is learning. After entering the Nanjing Guozijian, Guo Lin suddenly fell from the top to the bottom, and even the bottom.

This situation made Guo Lin very depressed for a while, and he couldn't understand it.

When Mingming was elected to Nanjing Guozijian by the state school, the county even sent people to commend him, sent Guo Lin a happy news, supported him with money, and exempted Guo Lin's family from taxes.

Guo Xuexue and his wife, Guo Lin's wife and Yue's family, as well as the villagers in the Wuxi countryside are also honorable. After all, there has finally been a remarkable figure in the village for hundreds of years.

In the eyes of the villagers, a character like Guo Lin has reached the heavens, and he can be regarded as a Wenqu star descending to the earth.

This is how Guo Lin went to Nanjing to study in the expectation of his parents and fellow villagers.

But after entering Yingtian Academy, which is also known as Nanjian, where Fan Zhongyan studied, Guo Lin suddenly fell from the peak to the bottom of the valley.

Speech and grades are one aspect, and the difference is even worse in terms of conversation and knowledge. Guo Lin has never even heard of the books that a group of classmates are reading.

As for Guo Lin, he only read the Nine Classics since he was a child, and Guo Xuexue borrowed it from other places and asked Guo Lin to copy the manuscript.

Since Guo Lin entered Nanjing Guozijian, he has also brought hand-copied manuscripts with him, but he has never had a real book in his hand. The most books he has seen in his life are when he and Zhang Yue copied books in the library. But when Guo Lin only focused on copying the book, he memorized all the contents of the book like Zhang Yue.

As for the classmates, not all of them are dressed in fine clothes, but they are all well-educated and well-educated.Even when they talked about learning, Guo Lin couldn't even get in a word, as if he was listening to a book from heaven.

Guo Lin was stunned for a moment. He thought that the gap between people was only due to his own hard work, but he didn't expect that there was a second-class gap that was born with him.

Because of family background and personal environment, the gap between people is so big, so Guo Lin's confidence was greatly hit.

Guo Lin has been hit by this blow until now, and he has not recovered from drinking with Zhang Yue, and has been holding back in his heart.

Zhang Yue didn't expect it when he heard Guo Lin's words.

After Guo Lin, who was a talent of a county, entered Nanjing Guozijian, he almost broke his wings and lost his wings in Nanjing Guozijian.

The most distressing thing in the world is this. I am not afraid of the gap on the surface, because sooner or later I will catch up, but I don't even know where the gap is and how to catch up.

Vision and conversation, how can this be easily compensated by studying hard.

In fact, such a phenomenon is not without, and it has always existed today.

How difficult it is for a child from a poor family to climb to a certain height.

Zhang Yue was also glad that he was not overwhelmed by the blow after entering the Imperial College.In addition to being hanged, the most important thing is to have the advantage of the traveler's vision.

Guo Lin's situation is not beyond Zhang Yue's imagination. Didn't later generations also call Guo Lin, a poor boy who can only read books but lacks knowledge background, "a small town as a questioner"?

But there is a saying that sometimes I find it difficult for others to understand, it is because we do not understand their environment.

Many things we take for granted are beyond our reach.

Hearing Guo Lin's words, Zhang Yue continued to pour wine for Guo Lin and said, "Leave him alone, brother, he walked all the way by himself, didn't he survive?"

Guo Lindao: "It's not considered to have survived, but when I was extremely bored these years, I recited Wen Zhenggong's "Yueyang Tower".

Zhang Yue laughed and said, "Exactly."

Guo Lin said with a smile: "If it wasn't for Wen Zhenggong, I would have been hard-pressed to survive. Sometimes I had such a hard time studying in the academy, I would think of Wen Zhenggong and I were studying in this academy together back then, so as to encourage myself. What's the meaning of 'If you are lazy at night, you often use water and fertile noodles; if you don't give food, you eat porridge and read.'”

"Sometimes I would go to the inscription monument and read the books written by Fan Wengong himself..."

Zhang Yue patted the table and read immediately: "Is that the sentence 'The scriptures are used to clarify the way, as if the sun governs Liuhe; , then I will swallow the nine rivers, and honor the hundred valleys; if the words are sharpened to the front, I will decide the floating clouds, and I will cut the good jade."

The two brothers and sisters clapped their hands and laughed as they read together.

Isn't this the "Nanjing Academy Title Notes" that Zhang Youzhi asked them to copy when they went to the Zhang Clan Academy to interview for copying positions?

When I read this, the past events came to my mind, and I just brought them to drink.

The two brothers and sisters read this not only with laughter, but also with tears in their laughter.

Tears dripped from Guo Lin's eyes into the wine cup and he sighed: "You and I are brothers and sisters, one went to Bianjing Taixue and the other went to Nanjing Guozijian. This matter can be said to be God's will in the dark."

"That's Fan Wenzheng's Spirit in Heaven guiding the senior brother to Yingtian Academy."

Listening to Zhang Yue making fun of Guo Lin, he couldn't help but smile, and then he said seriously: "In terms of talents, I can't compare with Wen Zhenggong, but I hope that I can be like Fan Wenzheng, who has little ambition. Every time I take the world as my own responsibility, I study hard. .As an official, he always speaks generously about the affairs of the world, and does not care about himself."

These words have reached Zhang Yue's heart.

"However, Junior Brother, you have been talking about me. How about you tell me about your study in Taixue? Tell me about you too!" Guo Lin asked Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue smiled embarrassedly: "Brother, I didn't do anything, I just wrote an article based on the experience of studying hard with my brother at the beginning and just showed it to the officials."

"What did you show the officials?" Guo Lin couldn't help being surprised.

Zhang Yuelian said: "Ashamed, ashamed. The official family gave me Tong San Chuan's background, but I resigned, but it's not very good to speak bluntly, so I have to speak in a reasonable way."

This time Guo Lin was so startled that his jaw dislocated and he said: "Junior brother, don't lie to me, senior brother, it's not good to talk nonsense about officials."

Zhang Yue said angrily: "Brother, you have known each other for so many years, am I that kind of person?"

Guo Lin hesitated for a while and said, "It's...it's hard for me to say after so many years."

Zhang Yue immediately said: "Brother, I will recite the article to you. Caomin was fond of learning when he was young. His family was poor and he couldn't write books to read, so he borrowed them from the book collection..."

After Zhang Yue finished reading this article, Guo Lin couldn't say a single word.

Zhang Yue felt that he was a little too much in front of his senior brother, was he a bit pretentious?

"This time I'm far behind my junior brother again." Guo Lin said with emotion on his face.

When Guo Lin was still working hard at the Nanjing Guozijian, he had been working hard for this time to come to Bianjing Guangwen Museum for an exam, but Zhang Yue had resigned from the Tong San Chuan.

Originally there was a bowl of fresh fish soup on the table, but Guo Lin was reluctant to eat such a delicious dish in the past, so he found an excuse to push it to Zhang Yue.So he finally put down his chopsticks.

"Senior brother has come to Bianjing, so he doesn't need to live in other places. Where can I go?"

Guo Lindao: "No, I have agreed with the teacher and my classmates, and it will be fine to live in the Guangwen Museum."

"Guangwen Museum?" Zhang Yue shook his head.

The Guangwen Museum is the place where the imperial court took in scholars living in the capital.

It's very pitiful, I only have two bowls of porridge in the morning and evening, and the place where I live is crowded.Although Taixue is not very good, but compared with Guangwen Museum, Taixue's fasting house and meals are ten times better.

So where do you let the seniors live?

Zhang Yue thought that if the Wu family gave him a house, the senior brother would definitely not live in it.

So Zhang Yue said: "I bought a house in Bianjing, and now I just rent it to a person who came to Bianjing to take an exam at the Guangwen Museum like you. I feel a little wronged, but at least I will take care of it when the time comes."

Guo Lin asked, "How much is the monthly rent, Junior Brother?"

Zhang Yue said: "Two pennies."

Guo Lindao: "Well, I will be half with him, what do you think, Junior Brother?"

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, don't you want to hurt me?"

Guo Lindao: "Brother, it's not that brother is being polite to you, it's really... When I left my hometown, your elder brother came to give my family five pennies. These years, there are gifts every year and festival."

"My father often said that he has taught so many students, and there is no second person who is as filial as the younger brother."

Zhang Yue knew that in his letters to his elder brother, he often said to take good care of Guo Xuexue's family for himself.This elder brother really didn't say anything about leaving this matter to himself, he will definitely do [-]% of the things for you.

He even went to Wuxi from the city to visit Guo Xuexue's family during the holidays.

Zhang Yue said: "What is this? It's not the saying that 'a teacher for one day, a father for life'. Brother, don't be polite to me."

"It's not being polite, it's just Saburo, if you don't allow me..."

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, just follow what the senior brother said."

Guo Lin laughed when he heard this.

The two brothers and sisters sat at the same table and talked until the night, talking about the farewell.

(End of this chapter)