[Liang Zhu] Yingtai took me to fly

The small courtyard where Ah Cheng brought Ma Wencai was very quiet, surrounded by interlaced pine trees and bamboo branches outside the courtyard wall. The wooden door in the southeast corner was slim and delicate in shape. There was only one layer of eaves on the gate tower, and a few auspicious clouds were simply carved on the gate post, refreshing and generous. .There is a small open space in front of the gate, and a path paved with pebbles connects the courtyard gate to the road.At the foot of the courtyard wall, there were clumps of plants, just emerging green, and the species could not be discerned.

Ma Wencai pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. When he looked up, he saw a shadow wall, and an oval brick carving in the center of the screen wall was engraved with pine trees.

The yard is well-equipped.There are three main rooms facing south, two wing rooms on the east and west sides, and three inverted rooms on the south side.The corners of the eaves of the rooms in the four directions are specially lengthened and connected, like a simple veranda.The doors and windows of each room are huge, although there are only vertical grains separated by wooden strips, they appear more orderly.There are only narrow cross paths in the open space in the center of the yard. If you feel monotonous, you can decorate as you wish.

Marvin fell in love with this yard at first sight.

He walked quickly to the main room.The middle one is a hall, and the two sides are living rooms.There are only a few desks in the hall, which is quite spacious.He went into the living room on the east side again, where there were beds, bookshelves, a long case, and small cabinets, complete with utensils.There is a small window on the east wall, and the outside is a corner of the yard.Several repair plans flashed through his mind.

Ma Wencai hurriedly asked Sanqi and Liuqu to choose a room.The two walked towards the inverted room consciously.Ma Wencai stopped him, and said, "We are the only ones living in this courtyard, why do you bother to live in such a room? You can choose these vacant rooms, but you are not allowed to live in an upside-down room."

The two looked at each other, thanked each other, and entered the West Wing.

Ah Cheng asked with a smile: "I don't know if this yard suits you?"

Marvin nodded naturally.

Ah Cheng took out a scroll and said: "The academy teaches every day from Maoshizheng to lunchtime at noon. Then it starts from the beginning of Weishi to the end of Shenshi. Every first, eleventh, and twenty-first day of every month, there is a break for bathing. Except for the week After class, the other teachers in the academy and the books they talked about are all recorded on this scroll. You can take it. If you don’t understand anything, you can go to the east wing outside the Yangsheng Gate to find me. There are food in the East and West Wings. Places and various shops. There are servants living in various courtyards, whoever sees a green scarf hanging under the eaves." After speaking, he arched his hands and walked out of the courtyard.

The courses taught in the academy are similar to those in Guozixue, including Mao Shi, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi, Chunqiu, Zhouguan, Gongyang, Guliang, Yili, and Analects of Confucius.But because metaphysics is prevalent nowadays, two volumes, Laozi and Zhuangzi, were added.Mainly by three gentlemen, respectively speaking about Confucianism, Taoism, and history.Gentlemen, according to the progress of the students, they are divided into two classes: elementary and advanced.

Three hours a day in the morning, the teacher will give lectures, and two hours in the afternoon, you can read books by yourself, or learn some miscellaneous things from those literati or gentlemen who live in the past.

After reading it, Ma Wen already had a rough plan in mind.

On the other side, Sanqi and Liuqu have already started packing the house and putting away their luggage.Where Ma Wen didn't intervene, he moved a bed and sat in the yard to bask in the sun.

Liuqu was silent when doing things, but Sanqi couldn't stop talking, chanting that Ah Cheng disrespected the young master, and asked: "Young master, what does Ah Cheng mean by 'broadly benefiting the public'?"

"That's called 'Giving Bounty to Help the Public'," Ma Wencai said. "From the Analects of Confucius, Yong Ye, "Give generously to the people and help the public."

Sanqi stared and blushed, nodded repeatedly.

Ma Wencai suddenly realized that because he himself had never studied hard before, the two children who were supposed to be book boys around him never had the opportunity to learn either.He felt a little guilty, and said: "Sanqi, Liuqu, I probably don't have anything for you to do in this academy. I will also teach you to read and write in the future. You will also study here when I am in class on weekdays."

Sanqi hurriedly said: "Young Master is busy with schoolwork, the villain would not dare to delay your studying." Liu Qu also nodded in agreement.

Ma Wen waved his hand impatiently, and said, "I'll do what I said. Otherwise, I wouldn't go out with two illiterate book boys in the future."

Sanqi blinked and wanted to say something, but Liuqu pulled him to kneel down.The two made a big gift on their own, and went back to work in a very obedient manner.

It's just that the excitement couldn't be hidden, Sanqi hummed an unknown country tune, and Liuqu rarely took the initiative to chat with Sanqi for a few words.

The two of them were quick with their hands and feet, and they didn't have many things. Within half a day, they cleaned and tidied up the house, and went down the mountain to buy what was missing.Several people also enthusiastically set up a kitchen in the inverted room.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was Youshi, the students were all out of school, and people's voices gradually rose in Juren Garden.Once the door of the small courtyard where Ma Wencai lived was closed, it became a small world of its own. If nothing happened, no one would notice that a new student had moved in here.He thought about it, he would not be able to get to know the more than 100 students in the academy for a while, so he decided not to take the initiative to go out and get acquainted with people.He just left the courtyard door open, and if the students living nearby saw it, they would come over to say hello to him.

Just as he expected, more than a dozen people came one after another from the afternoon to the evening.He gave each visitor a small piece of ink as a gift, and they all chatted happily.Someone invited him to drink with him, but he refused on the grounds that he was tired from the journey.

With only these dozen or so people, Ma Wencai also noticed that the academy was not clean.Most of the students seem to be dedicated to learning, and the rest of the minority, some are wearing the popular wide-sleeved clothes and wooden clogs, swinging the sleeves and the hem of the clothes as they walk, as if wishing there was a hair dryer in front of them There are also special effects of "automatic without wind"; there are also those who deliberately wear clothes that are out of shape and unkempt, probably thinking that they have reached the state that Zhuangzi called "the person who cultivates the will forgets his form"; He felt a little like a fairy, but he knew it must be the result of eating Hanshi powder.

Most of Ma Wencai's classmates in Guozixue were dressed very gorgeously, and quite a few of them were comfortable with cold food, which was considered the fashion among the gentry.He didn't expect that there were such people in private academies.

He deeply felt that this was all about chasing stars and misleading people. The romantic celebrities have their own elegant halo, no matter how exaggerated they are, they are romantic and unrestrained.But ordinary people deliberately imitate it. If it is elegant, it is an imitation. To put it bluntly, it is clearly a real Taobao buyer show.

Ma Wencai said that he would practice two big characters to suppress the shock.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to go to class.This day was February 28th, and Mr. Zhou was giving a lecture in Mingdaotang.

Ma Wencai got up early, used the porridge and noodles prepared by Sanqi and Liuqu for breakfast, and changed into a shirt of a common style.Although the clothes were considered roomy, at least they fit well so as not to affect the movements.

Sanqi didn't know if he saw those people who were on the cutting edge of fashion in the academy, who originally planned to let him wear the most gorgeous outfit, but Ma Wencai flatly refused.

When the time was almost up, Ma Wencai walked towards the lecture hall, and Sanqi followed behind with stationery and a water bottle, and she was carrying a curly mat on her back.

Along the way, many students rushed to Mingdao Hall like him, and most of the hall was occupied.Ma Wen just found a seat at the back, and Sanqi spread the wool mat on the original mat for him, and arranged the stationery and kettle before leaving in a hurry.

Ma Wencai looked up, and sure enough, he saw many people looking at him with different expressions.There are not many people who have book boys in the academy, and even fewer of them are so exaggerated.

He calmly greeted the students he had met two days ago, then bowed his hands to a few people sitting nearby, and then sat down.

Mr. Zhou's class is really good.He alone can combine ten books, from the classics to the history, from the history to the present, through the present to write poems and articles, and in the poems and articles, he also talks about Yi and Tao.There is not a single word in the whole article, and it is full of his decades of accumulated experience and insights.

Ma Wencai only hated that he was not used to using the brush, and that he didn't have time to write down many things.

This lecture lasts for two hours, and the next hour is to discuss or make a fuss based on the theme Mr. Zhou said.

Ma Wencai's hands ached and his arms were sore from taking notes. When he looked up, he saw many old gods sitting on the ground without moving, and some of them didn't even hold pens and paper.When they spoke, they didn't talk about the strategy of governing the country. Many people's words were dissatisfaction with the status quo of society, and some only focused on rhetoric.

It would be a lie to say that he is not disappointed, but Ma Wencai also understands the mentality of these students.What is the use of reading?No matter how many ambitions, no matter how profound thoughts, if there is no opportunity to display them, it will be nothing.However, what he didn't like even more was that they acted as if they hadn't learned enough yet.

Looking at Mr. Zhou again, although he did not serve as an official and failed to display his talents in managing the world, he stood in the troubled times in another way.No matter how superficial what the students said, he could always make sense out of it.Now he will not be an official anymore, so he secretly determined to at least learn something first.

There is half an hour at noon for them to eat and rest.Ma Wen just ate some in his own yard, and took the things he wrote down in the morning to Zhengyiyuan.He planned to sort out what Mr. Zhou said in the morning, and then go to a guest teacher who is good at calligraphy to learn calligraphy.

The rooms in the Orthodoxy are distinguished by hanging wooden signs. If a gentleman is giving lectures inside, he will hang a wooden sign with his name and content on the door.

Marvin found a room where no one was teaching, and there were already some students in it.He walked in gently, and was about to find a corner with few people to sit down, but he found that the room suddenly became quiet, and then there was a strange voice: "Isn't this Mr. Ma from the house of Ma Taishou in Kuaiji County? You are such a vulgar and humble person as Mr. Yu and Yu." Reading in the same room is really frightening."

Then, several voices echoed from the side, "I have seen you, young master." "The villain is terrified."

Liuqu, who was carrying something, frowned and looked at the few people who were speaking.At this moment, Ma Wencai was thinking, fortunately, he brought Liuqu in the afternoon, if it was Sanqi, he might not be able to resist cursing.

At the same time, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai have also started to pack their bags and prepare to go to Nishan Academy set up by Mr. Zhou Shizhang in Qiantang County to study.

Late spring is approaching.