I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 126 Abeci's Buddha Song

Man is iron and food is steel. If you skip a meal, you will feel hungry!
After hearing what the scholar said, the woman pointed at his nose and cursed: "You are almost 60 years old, but you are too poor to even have a child. How can you have a chance to have a child if you delay any longer? Your family is so poor, how can you raise the child after you have one? How old am I? How many years can I wait? Are you going to force me to divorce you and find another man to have a child?"

"You are going to have no descendants, do you know that?"

"If someone pursues responsibility in the future, the worst that can happen is that they will push all the responsibility onto me. I will never implicate you." The woman's voice was full of determination.

"Suzhen... I..." The middle-aged scholar sighed helplessly. Facing his wife with tears in her eyes, he finally tossed his sleeves helplessly and said, "Let you go."

Chen Sanliang was so ashamed by his wife's scolding that he finally walked into the house covered in dust, leaving Suzhen and Zhang Chen standing in the yard. Suzhen was crying silently at this time.

Zhang Chen was in a good mood at this time. He thought that the matter had reached a dead end. Chen Sanliang was so destitute but refused to break the rules of the aristocracy. But his wife spoke directly and gave Zhang Chen hope.

At this time, Suzhen wiped her tears, her eyes swollen like peaches, and turned to look at Zhang Chen: "If you just want to learn to read and write, and not to become a saint, I can teach you. If you don't mind, you can stay."

"Disciple greets Master." Zhang Chen was very happy to hear that. He lifted his robe and knelt down at Suzhen's knees.

"Absolutely not! In this world, men take in disciples, so how can a woman take in a disciple?" Upon hearing this, Suzhen hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhang Chen up.

"Master, what you said is wrong. Teaching and imparting knowledge to others does not distinguish between men and women. All things in the universe, yin and yang complement each other. Why can men accept disciples but women can't? Women can also hold up half the sky and are no weaker than men." Zhang Chen quickly opened his mouth to refute.

Han Suzhen was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Zhang Chen in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable."

She didn't expect that Zhang Chen, who had never been to school, was so wise. He could truly be considered a good talent.

"Please get up. I'm sorry to have been embarrassed by what happened today. You've seen the situation at Master's home. They're barely able to make ends meet." Han Suzhen's voice was full of emotion.

"Master's wife, what you said is wrong. Is there any couple in the world who doesn't quarrel?" Zhang Chen stepped forward and comforted her.

Han Suzhen lost interest after hearing this and waved her hand at Zhang Chen: "I will teach you knowledge, but if you leave this sect in the future, you cannot say that you are my disciple."

Han Suzhen was afraid that Zhang Chen would think too much about it, so she explained, "It's not that I look down on your background, but your master and I have many enemies in the north. Although they can't do anything to me, if they knew of your existence, they would definitely destroy you. And I think you are extraordinary. You will definitely make a career for yourself in the future. If you take a woman as your master, it will be ridiculed by the world."

Han Suzhen was an honest person. After tidying up the yard, she took out her writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone and said to Zhang Chen, "Come and sit down. I will teach you how to read and write."

Zhang Chen took out the scroll from Huang Liguan from his sleeve and said to Han Suzhen, "The reason why I want to become your disciple is that I want to recognize the words on it. I wonder if you can start with this book and teach me how to recognize all the words on it?"

The Huangting Sutra has long been popular among Taoist disciples. Every disciple in a Taoist temple has a copy, and even the followers under his command have it enshrined in their homes.

Han Suzhen reached out her hand to take the scroll, a hint of surprise in her eyes, and recognized the origin of the scroll at a glance: "Is this the scroll of Huang Tiandao? It seems to be a chapter of the great Dao passed down by Huang Tiandao."

"Master, do you know Huang Tiandao?" Zhang Chen asked.

Han Suzhen said: "They are just a bunch of people with ulterior motives. Are you a disciple of Huang Tiandao?"

Zhang Chen nodded, and did not hide it: "Under fate, I had no choice but to join the Huang Tian Dao."

"Get out of this as soon as possible. I've also heard about Huang Tiandao, and I always feel that there's something wrong with him." Han Suzhen waved her hand to signal Zhang Chen to come forward, opened the book and said, "Let's start learning to read today."

At this point, Han Suzhen said, "However, Huang Tiandao's Huangting Sutra is just a toy to fool the people. The teachings on cultivating immortals, seizing the creation of heaven and earth, and the mysteries of all things mentioned above are all lies. You must not indulge in it, lest you be cheated into bankruptcy by Huang Tiandao."

Zhang Chen immediately agreed upon hearing this.

Han Suzhen opened the scroll and pointed to the first character on it and said, "Let's start from the first character today. As for the progress of learning, it depends on how many characters you can memorize in a day."

Zhang Chen listened carefully and took out the pen and ink he had prepared. Han Suzhen pointed to the big words on the cover of the scripture and said: This word is pronounced Huang.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen quickly took out a fine brush, dipped it in ink, and then marked the pinyin on the yellow characters.

Learning to read is difficult, but once you have pinyin, as long as you mark the pinyin yourself, the next step is to study it carefully.

"What are you doing?" Han Suzhen asked in surprise when she saw the strange symbols marked by Zhang Chen.

"These are characters invented by my disciple. There are sixty-three in total. As long as we combine them together, we can recognize all the characters in the world." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

He didn't hide it, it's just pinyin, no big deal.

But Pinyin is definitely one of the greatest inventions in the world.

"The characters you created? As long as you master sixty-three of them, you can recognize all the characters in the world?" Han Suzhen was stunned when she heard this, her eyes full of disbelief.

How can we learn all the characters through sixty-three characters?

"How can such an incredible thing happen in the world? If you have such a skill, you will definitely be published in the future and become a saint." Han Suzhen's eyes were clearly filled with disbelief. How could an illiterate person have such a skill? It was as if someone had whispered in her ear that she had become an immortal. Zhang Chen smiled and said to Han Suzhen, "Master, how about you test me?"

"How to test the teachers?" Han Suzhen asked, and immediately became interested.

"This Huangting Sutra has about 10,000 words. It is impossible for me to memorize it by just studying it once. As long as my master helps me mark it once, I will be able to recognize all the characters." Zhang Chen said.

He also wanted to mark out all the words directly, and then go back to study them himself, trying to figure out the method of practicing Qi as soon as possible. If he waited for Han Suzhen to teach him how to recognize all the words, it would take many years.

Three years or five years?

He can't wait that long!
He also wanted to excavate the tomb of the emperor's daughter, and try to find a way out on the path of cultivating immortals.

Han Suzhen saw Zhang Chen's serious expression and immediately became interested: "To be honest, I don't think there are such magical things in the world. I want to see if it is as magical as you say."

Han Suzhen began to lead Zhang Chen in reading the Huangting Sutra. Looking at Zhang Chen's annotations word by word, she didn't seem to be joking, and the expression on her face became more and more serious.

Three hours later, thousands of words were marked. Han Suzhen stopped and looked at the document in her hand that had been marked with pinyin by Zhang Chen:
"I'm going to test you now to see if you have the ability to recognize all the characters with just these strange symbols."

Han Suzhen randomly pointed to a word, and Zhang Chen recognized it: "This word is pronounced '室'."

Han Suzhen looked surprised and continued to stretch out her hand to point at the words on the book, but she saw Zhang Chen glanced at it and recited them all aloud, without any mistake in pronunciation, and it was as pure as it could be.

Han Suzhen pointed out more than 20 words, and Zhang Chen read them out one by one. Han Suzhen was stunned on the spot, staring blankly at the boy with a childish face in front of her, her eyes full of disbelief: "I never believed in the so-called innate knowledge, let alone the natural seed of reading, but when you appeared in front of me, I realized how narrow my vision was. It turns out that saints are born, and there are really people in this world who are born with knowledge and are gifted."

"Thank you for the compliment, Master." Zhang Chen was not polite when he heard it. He accepted Han Suzhen's compliment. Looking at the light in Han Suzhen's eyes, he knew that she was interested in his Chinese Pinyin. He did not hide anything: "Master, if you are interested, I can tell you everything I know about Pinyin. I also want you to correct me."

"This secret is priceless. Whoever can master your pinyin can cultivate a large number of scholars, making reading no longer difficult and saving a lot of time. People don't have to waste time on learning characters. Why don't you keep it to yourself? Are you willing to pass it on?" Han Suzhen was a little bit unbelievable, her eyes full of surprise.

This is knowledge, and knowledge of inestimable value.

"Master, you are joking. The value of knowledge lies in its inheritance. Human beings have been passing it down for thousands of years. Even without Pinyin, wouldn't it have been passed down anyway? Pinyin is just the icing on the cake. It is not a precious thing. It can only help people save a little energy when studying." Zhang Chen did not think that Pinyin was precious. The value of Pinyin lies in that it can reduce the mechanical tutoring role during enlightenment, and those noble children have teachers around them who can repeat things over and over again. Of course, they will not have the embarrassing result of not knowing who to ask when they return home.

The value of Pinyin lies in that when private schools are established in the future, the teacher can teach a group of children to read and write like herding sheep. After mastering Pinyin, the children can review and consolidate their knowledge on their own when they return home.

After Zhang Chen analyzed more than sixty pinyins, Han Suzhen wrote down the pinyins and used text to reversely annotate them. This operation shocked Zhang Chen, as he did not expect that Han Suzhen could do this.

"Hahaha, my teacher was also a famous talented woman in the past, and she was quite intelligent." Han Suzhen proudly picked up the white paper and blew away the ink stains on it.

"A copy of Huangting Sutra has only more than 10,000 words. If I work hard overtime today, it will not be difficult to mark them all. You can come to me tomorrow to get the sutra. The most troublesome thing about reading and writing is the repeated recognition of words in the enlightenment stage. With this pinyin, you can review it by yourself when you go back. At that time, I only need to teach you how to practice writing and explain the meaning of the words. Of course, practicing writing is the most important thing. It is also a difficult problem to practice writing well. Every stroke counts, which shows real skills." Han Suzhen said.

"Isn't it too rushed to mark all the texts overnight? Will it make the master too tired?" Zhang Chen hesitated slightly.

"What's that? I was just excited to see something new. After gaining new knowledge, I wanted to master it immediately." Then Han Suzhen urged Zhang Chen to leave and not to disturb her while she was marking the pinyin.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.

Only after seeing Zhang Chen walking away did Han Suzhen close the door. Then she took Zhang Chen's gift box, looked at it, picked up a gold ingot and walked out of the house.

The reason why she urged Zhang Chen to leave was actually because she was so hungry that she couldn't bear it anymore. The family had been out of food for a day.

Han Suzhen bought some refined rice and started to cook. Soon a pot of yellow rice and stewed meat was ready and served on the table.

At this time, Chen Sanliang came to the table, looked at the rice, sat down silently, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started eating.

The couple did not mock at this time, but were calm. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Chen Sanliang put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked at Han Suzhen: "Are you really going to accept him as your disciple? You should know that knowledge is only circulated among nobles. It is an iron rule. Once it is leaked, it will cause big trouble."

"By the time those people come to trouble me, I'm afraid I'll have starved to death. Whether it's the Pingbian Palace or the scholars of the world, they have already forced us into a desperate situation and left us no chance to survive. In this case, how can I care so much? No matter how big the flood is, I will get through the current difficulties first." Han Suzhen said here, looking at Chen Sanliang with a pair of eyes: "You are too stubborn. Although the child's manners, temperament, and even words and deeds are not in line with the rules and interests of the nobles, he has his own temperament. He will definitely achieve great success in the future. He is definitely not a simple person. You did not accept him as your apprentice. This will be the decision you regret most in your life."

Chen Sanliang sneered upon hearing this: "He is just a child of a lowly person. I don't believe he is as mysterious as you say. And regarding the matter of recruiting disciples, I already have a suitable candidate in mind. His family background, character, and morality can all be called the best choice. I just don't know if my heart learning can bewitch him and recruit him as my disciple."

"Could it be the one from the Chai family?" Han Suzhen asked.

"Yes, it's Chai Chuanxin from the Chai family. He is now well-known in the world. I heard that he seems to have gone to the north to study. This is just my chance. If he can inherit my knowledge, with his family background, he will definitely be able to withstand the pressure and pass on my philosophy. As for the Zhang Chen you have your eyes on, he is no good! Not only did he start studying too late, but his bloodline is too low and he is not suitable for studying!"

Chen Sanliang said with a smile: "That child looks extraordinary, like an aristocrat, but you need to know that real aristocrats and fake aristocrats are two different things."

Han Suzhen didn't want to talk, she just knocked on the cooked rice. Chen Sanliang looked at the rice and immediately shut up.

After all, you are eating other people’s rice, right?
(End of this chapter)