Be a master through ancient times

"What a moist and silent thing!" Mrs. Wen sighed after thinking it over clearly, "Sure enough, you young people are active in thinking, and this matter of offering sacrifices to Confucius is spread among the common people, so that they can learn more about the words and deeds of the saints, so that they can learn something. Comprehension, so that its teachings can be remembered in the heart, yes, yes!"

"However, how do we count it as being promoted? With us alone, how can we persuade every household to offer sacrifices to Confucius?" Shanzhang Zhao questioned.

"Yes, and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Confucius is cumbersome and solemn. If those illiterate people make mistakes in the sacrifice, wouldn't it be a blasphemy to the saint?" Zhou Qihui, the head of Zhoushan Academy, was also a little worried.

Yang Tixue laughed and said: "Everyone, if we Chu Siye can figure out this matter, we must have a countermeasure. Why don't we ask Chu Siye to continue to talk about it? What should we do about it? I can start preparing."

Chu Ci shook his head, and said: "Thanks to Yang Tixue, but I really don't have a complete countermeasure in my mind, and it was just a flash of inspiration just now. If you think this method is feasible, then give it to Chu." In two days, after two days, I will definitely draw up a plan and discuss it with everyone."

"Okay, then, I will leave this matter to you, Chu Siye. If you need anything, just talk to Yang about it—"

"Wait a minute, Taifu. Let's wait for the next official's plan to come out. In case the next official is not thoughtful, everyone can mention it, so as not to make any jokes." Chu Ci hurriedly ignored the politeness. Interrupt Mrs. Wen's words.If it is settled now, if something goes wrong, he will be responsible for it alone.

"Well, that's right. Chu Siye acts rigorously, so everything will be decided two days later when you come up with...the plan."

"Thank you, Tai Tuo." Chu Ci thought, he had to think about it when he went back. It's not that he hadn't planned large-scale events, but there are many things to refer to in modern times, and the equipment is relatively complete. In ancient times, he had to study carefully.

"Let's come here today. If you have something to do in the academy, go first. The old man still has something to tell Chu Siye. Chu Siye, you can stay a little longer."

"Yes." Everyone left one after another, leaving only Mrs. Wen and Chu Ci sitting in the hall.

"Teacher, what advice do you have?" Chu Ci thought for a while, but he really couldn't think of anything else he and Master Taifu could discuss besides what he said today.

"Chu Siye, don't be nervous. The old man just wants to talk to you about Wen Ran as an elder." Mrs. Wen said.

"Wen Ran? He is quick-witted and studies hard. I think that next year, he will give it a try." Chu Ci said.

"Don't talk about business now, you don't have to call yourself an official. What I want to ask is not the child's studies. What I want to ask is his usual life in the Imperial College."

It's really pitiful to the hearts of the elders in the world, even Taifu Wen, one of the three princes, is not exempt.Chu Ci thought about it, and told Mrs. Wen everything he had learned about Wen Ran in detail.

Mrs. Wen listened very carefully, and couldn't help laughing when she heard Chu Ci Zhidou's little ghosts who wanted to climb over the wall.

"Hahaha, those little fellows secretly called me Old Fox, but the old man thought, since the day they met you, they probably knew what a fox is. But I didn't expect that Wen Ran would also climb over the wall. " Taifu Wen sighed, with a lot of emotion in his tone.

"Wen Ran was very introverted at the beginning and always stayed alone, but now he looks much more lively. I saw him playing volleyball with Zhu Feng and others on the playground the other day."

"volleyball?"

"Yes, it's a kind of ball that looks like Cuju and is hit with arms and elbows. Students like to use it to exercise." Chuci explained, and because there were too many people asking questions in the store, there were already people outside. It was sold, and it was more delicate and elastic than the one Zhang Hu made.

"I'll go to the Guozijian some other day and have a look." Mrs. Wen nodded, "I heard from Wen Ran's father that it was you who made Wen Ran change. In his words, he praised your parenting methods, little friend. The old man is very happy. Curious, you have just reached the crown, how can you be so good at educating children?"

Chu Ci smiled slightly and said: "I have a little nephew in my family, and I spend a lot of time with him. Later, when I re-entered the county school to study, I took my little nephew over to study in Mongolian school, so I have some thoughts about the child. , I still understand it better.”

"I see." Mrs. Wen nodded. He sized up Chu Ci for a while, and the more we chatted, the more he felt that this young man was very good. He suddenly asked, "My little friend is not married yet, right? Have you considered this matter?" ?”

"Uh... this..." Chu Ci was embarrassed, he had never been asked such a sensitive topic before.The people in this capital are indifferent, and the elders that Chu Ci met were generally not so kind, and even wanted to smear him. When he was asked this topic suddenly, he was a little incapable of accepting it for a while.

"Why, but what's the secret?" Mrs. Wen smiled. He left the capital for many days, and when he came back, the story of Chu Siye had already been widely spread.From the rumors, Mrs. Wen felt that this young man was knowledgeable and talented, and he was not surprised by favor or humiliation. Unexpectedly, in matters of marriage, he still looked like a kid.

"No!" As soon as Chu Ci heard this unspeakable secret, he immediately remembered the oolong incident last time, and immediately denied it. "The boy is not married, and he still puts his career first, so I don't have that kind of thinking for the time being."

"You're wrong. As the saying goes, start a family first and then start a career. Only with a good wife in the family can you start a career with peace of mind."

"Uh, boy... I haven't established a foothold in this capital yet, maybe I will be appointed as an official at some point. If I get married, wouldn't it implicate the young lady to follow me to live a hard life? And the parents' order, the matchmaker In other words, the boy was brought up by his widowed mother and brother-in-law, without their help, I dare not talk about marriage lightly." Chu Ci had no reason to reject this question, so he made excuses to evade it.He is still young!How can you marry a wife and have children so early?

"Little friend is a filial person. Since you don't intend to start a family at the moment, I won't say much. I wanted to drink a cup of matchmaker wine from you, Chu Xiaoyou." Mrs. Wen felt a little regretful. He heard that After Chu Ci's various deeds, he suddenly remembered that an old friend of his asked him to show his granddaughter a talent last time. Isn't this a talent in front of him?It's a pity that Luo Hua intends to be ruthless.

"Thank you Mrs. Wen for your concern for the boy. If the boy is moved in the future, I will ask Mrs. Wen to be a matchmaker for me." Chu Ci said with a smile. Although the time we got together was short, he felt that they were just like each other. It's normal to forget the year.

"Okay, okay, when the time comes, the old man will be your matchmaker, and I will ask Wen Ran to accompany you to pick up the bride hahaha." Mrs. Wen stroked his beard and smiled.

"This marriage needs to be done in pairs. Let the young master from last time come to make up the number." Chu Ci smiled, he remembered the child who didn't know the world last time.

Mrs. Wen was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed heartily: "If you can invite him to pick up the bride, that would be—hahaha."

Chu Ci was a little puzzled, isn't that child more autistic?It's not difficult to persuade him, is it?However, his marriage is still a matter of the year of the monkey. Maybe by the time he gets married, the two children will be born.

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After coming out of Tixuesi Yamen, it was getting late.When Chu Ci returned to the Guozijian, seeing that it was much colder than usual, he suddenly remembered that today is the [-]th, and tomorrow is another holiday.

It's miserable to say that the student can take a rest, but he has to get up in the middle of the night to go to court. It would be great if tomorrow's regular court was cancelled.

Chu Ci thought about it, and after wandering around the Siye Hall, he walked to the backyard.

Zhang Hu walked in front of him, his expression serious, his brows furrowed, as if he was being troubled by something.Only Chu Ci knew that this guy had been waiting for too long and was starving.

Fortunately, Kou Jing lived with them, and had already warmed the rice on the stove for them before, so when the two of them went back, they could use it immediately.

Kou Jing sat at the table, watched them eat, and helped Chu Ci pick up vegetables at the same time.Chu Ci was also a little hungry, waving a pair of chopsticks quickly, concentrating on eating what was delivered to the bowl.

Zhang Hu took a look at them, and the action of grilling the rice became faster. If he didn't eat any more, the good food would be sent into their master's bowl by Kou Qianhu.

After eating, Chu Ci wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, straightened his clothes, and looked handsome again.

"Guess what I did at the Tixue Division today?"

Kou Jing thought for a while and said, "It must be for the quarterly exam, right?"

"Very correct! And this time, Mrs. Wen came to say it in person, you know? I have met this Mrs. Wen before, at Wenxingfang." Chu Ci said excitedly, he thought The plot of meeting an incognito expert will not happen to him.

Kou Jing thought for a while, and said, "Is it Xiaoshitan, an old fisherman with a young man?"

Chu Ci was very surprised: "How do you know?"

Kou Jing smiled lightly and said, "Have you forgotten? When I first came to the capital, I shared a room with you. At that time, every night, you would tell me about the affairs of the capital one by one."

"Ah? Really?" Chu Ci laughed dryly, "Maybe I have said too much, and I have forgotten it myself."

"However, I remember every word Huai Jin said to me." Kou Jing looked at Chu Ci with deep eyes. When she spoke, the emotion in her eyes was inexplicable, and Chu Ci didn't dare to delve into it.

"By the way, besides the matter of Ji Kao, he must have told you something else, right?" Kou Jing saw his intention to dodge, sighed slightly in her heart, and changed the topic thoughtfully.

"Hmm!" Sure enough, Chu Ci got excited again, and basically said everything that Mrs. Wen said, except for Mrs. Wen's joking about being a matchmaker for him.He didn't know why, but he always felt that it would be better not to tell Kou Jing about this matter.

Kou Jing heard that he took over the sacrifice to Confucius and said that he has traveled to many places with the military camp over the years, and has also seen different customs of worshiping Confucius in various places, so he can tell Chu Ci at that time, so that he can have another idea .

Just as Chu Ci wanted to ask Kou Jing why he paid attention to offering sacrifices to Confucius when he was marching, he suddenly remembered that before joining the army, Kou Jing was a promising candidate.If it wasn't for someone slashing his face, Kou Jing must have been named on the gold list that year.He looked at the scar on Kou Jing's side face and felt very uncomfortable.

"Do you remember who those people who killed you were?" Chu Ci asked suddenly.

Kou Jing was a little surprised, but Chu Ci was willing to understand him, so naturally he would not hide anything. "They are a group of thieves who make a living by intercepting money from passers-by. It was also me who, relying on my own skills, resisted stubbornly, which aroused their ferocity."

"This group of people is too outrageous. Don't bandits have a rule that they don't steal scholars? Why are you stopped by them?" Chu Ci was very indignant. Do they know who they are harming?

Moreover, Chu Ci remembered that the Great Wei Dynasty had this rule.Because the roads were difficult and dangerous at that time, there were many bandits and reckless people, and many weak scholars died in other places when they were rushing to take the exam, resulting in a lack of talents for the imperial examination that year.Therefore, the imperial court issued a ruthless order to wipe out the thieves and bandits nationwide. Regardless of the size of the crime, they will be punished with the crime of beheading.After that, notices were posted all over the country, saying that if another student was killed on the way to the exam, the perpetrators would be of the same crime.

"Does Huaijin know that money touches people's hearts? My family is not bad. When I was rushing to take the exam that day, my father asked me to bring a lot of bank notes to Beijing, for fear that I would be short of money. Those thieves knew about this for some reason. Let it go, only me and the book boy are left. After I handed over some money, they didn't stop and wanted to search us. I am a handsome seven-foot man, and I am proud that I have learned some martial arts from the master, so I started to fight with them Let's start..." Kou Jing sighed, if he had handed over all the bank notes at that time, maybe that would not have happened.

Chu Ci also sighed, and said: "Sure enough, you still need to keep a low profile. You carry a lot of money and swagger through the market, no wonder they have attracted their attention."

Kou Jing laughed, and asked: "Huaijin, do you think I'm the kind of ostentatious person? I was also afraid of getting into trouble on the way, and the book boy and I deliberately dressed in rags, but they still found out."

"This is unreasonable. Unless someone informs you, why would they know that you are carrying a lot of money? Where did you suffer?" Chu Ci felt that something was wrong. Since he had already pretended, then according to Kou Jing Meticulous thinking shouldn't be found to be inappropriate. Why do those bandits seem to recognize him?

Kou Jing also felt that something was wrong when he said this: "I also took a boat from Wuchang Mansion to Haiping Mansion at that time, and then abandoned the boat and went on the road. When I was about to leave Haiping Mansion, I was stopped by them in an uninhabited area. .”

"Haiping Mansion is adjacent to the capital city. What kind of bandits are so bold and dare to make trouble here? And, to put it bluntly, since they have already hurt you, why don't they do both? You know, the bad guys have a bright future. It's tantamount to taking someone's life, so aren't they afraid that you will retaliate?"

Kou Jing's expression became more and more serious: "At that time, after I was injured, a group of Yamen came out from the forest, saying that they came to hunt down these bandits, and the leader was the Tongzhi of Haiping Prefecture. Seeing someone, I fled in all directions, but was still caught. But at that time, because I only had a wound on my face, and it was the birthday of the late queen, it was not appropriate to see blood, so they were only sentenced to exile."

Chu Ci frowned, the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.Maybe it's his conspiracy theory, why does he feel that these people are acting like they are acting?All in all, just using the word coincidence is a bit too far-fetched.

He looked up at Kou Jing, and found that Kou Jing also had a deep thought, as if he had discovered something wrong.

"Brother, didn't you suspect anything at that time?"

Kou Jing smiled wryly, and shook her head: "At that time, I was so worried about the destruction of my future, how could I have thought of so many things? Besides, I have just left home, and I have never had any grudges with anyone, so how could I have thought that someone would intentionally harm me What about it? However, my sister sent people to investigate for a long time, but they didn't find any clues, so they had to give up."

"Oh, you are deluded by the authorities. If you had asked them clearly at that time, you could have figured it out. By the way, I think your book boy is very suspicious. Where is he now?"

"Him? He is the son of our Kou family, so he should not harm me. And his sister is also my sister's dowry. At that time, I was in such a catastrophe. He only thought it was him. He went to a garden on the outskirts of Beijing to work as a steward, and that was the only way to put an end to his desire to seek death."

"Then, this time when Yu'er Fuling returns to Yuanshan County, can your sister's dowry accompany her?"

Kou Jing recalled it for a while, then shook her head and said, "I don't think I've seen her before. She must have been given the job in the house by her sister, so she can't get away."

Chu Ci thought about it for a while, and then said, "Brother, there is one thing I don't know if I should ask it or not?"

"But it doesn't matter."

"Why haven't I heard you mention your brother-in-law? When Yu'er was in the county school, she only talked about her mother and never mentioned his father."

Kou Jing's face turned cold, and she said sharply: "It's okay not to mention such a heartless person. If Yu'er didn't want to go back in the future, I would definitely sever ties with this person."

Chu Ci had never seen such a cold side of Kou Jing, and was a little dazed for a while.

Kou Jing came back to her senses, seeing that Chu Ci didn't say a word, she said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Huaijin, did I scare you just now?"

"It's okay." Chu Ci shook his head, "I'm just curious, what did this man do to make you all hate him so much? It's okay if it's not convenient for you to tell me."

Kou Jing closed her eyes and opened them again, her expression seemed to hide a little pain.

"Do you still remember "Biography of Xiu Niang"?"

"Of course I remember." Chu Ci nodded, this was his first pot of gold.

"The "Biography of Xiu Niang" alludes to my sister, but the person who wrote the book deliberately distorted and slandered, and wrote my sister as a person who does not obey women's morals and gives and receives privately. Moreover, the person who robs others The daughter of the husband-in-law's county head, the writing is extremely beautiful. The scholar with a small heart is even more affectionate and righteous! Back then..." Kou Jing repeated the matter in an indifferent tone, but he showed a trace of hatred from time to time. , but exposed his emotions.

"What... what?! The truth is like this?" Chu Ci was shocked, "No wonder Butler Xu acted when he saw the portrait, and no wonder Yu'er was always playing with those paintings. I thought it was just a coincidence , his mother is somewhat similar to the person in the painting, but I didn't expect that she really is."

It was the first time he had heard of this hidden affair, no wonder Yu'er was so close to him, probably because he heard that his mother's portrait was from him.

"Yeah, when I saw the portrait, I thought my sister had come back to life. It was also at that time that I was curious about Ci... Huaijin." Kou Jing said.

Chu Ci nodded, no wonder!He always felt that a person like Kou Jing would not easily talk to others, and since he first met him, he treated him differently, so it was because of this reason?