Next, Lin Yanchao said goodbye to Lin Liao, and went out to Lin Mansion.

Along the way, he didn't know what scripture teacher Lin Shisheng had arranged for him, and it stands to reason that he had helped him so much, so he wouldn't come to pit himself.

According to the agreed time, Lin Yanchao came to the Lin Mansion.

Say to the porter, the last time I came to the door of the Lin Mansion, there were no guests, but this time several sedan chairs fell at the door, and there were a lot of people sitting in the porter of the sedan hall, and the sedan chair man was sitting there drinking tea and eating cakes.

"Dare to ask if it's Lin Gongzi of Lianjiang Academy?"

"Yes."

"The second young master said that he can't be here today if he has something to do, so let the old servant show you the way!"

"I'm tired of leading the way."

Lin Yanchao took out some copper coins and gave it to him, and the other party smiled and led Lin Yanchao at the moment, not the side house when Lin Chengyi came last time, this time he walked from the sedan hall.

Bypassing the corridor, Lin Yanchao followed the servant along the road, and after turning around, he came to a courtyard where the word Longqing was printed on the well next to the patio.

The curtains around him hung low, and I heard someone in the distance adjusting the palace businessman, singing in a low voice.

The old servant smiled and said, "Today's guest is here, and it is the singer in the house who is singing." ”

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "It's very good." ”

The old servant smiled and said, "Childe is really interesting. ”

At that moment, the servant led Lin Yanchao to a study and said: "Behind the courtyard is the embroidery building, and the son is waiting in the study!" ”

"Okay."

The room was very simple, with pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk, and nothing but an oil lamp covered by a veil, and nothing but a few wire-bound books.

Lin Yanchao waited for half an hour before he heard footsteps, and a man in a green shirt paced over, his hair was pulled up with a wooden hairpin, and his eyebrows were like knives, but Lin Yanchao felt a little depressed from the other party.

But it's clear to think about it, most of the people who have been teaching Xixi in these years are scholars who have a bad career and no hope for the imperial examination, Lin Chengyi and the old master are not the same? But hopefully his level is not too bad.

Lin Yanchao had been reading the book for a while, and he confessed immediately. The man in green shirt asked, "Are you Lin Yanchao?" ”

"Yes, the student meets the teacher."

"Okay, you sit down first."

Lin Yanchao sat down as he said, and asked at the moment, "I don't know the teacher's name?" ”

The man in the green shirt was silent for a while and said: "I taught you Shangshu just to be entrusted by others, in fact, I haven't wanted to accept disciples, but today is not only you and I meet, but also fate, I call myself Fuzhang layman, and if someone asks this question in the future, you can answer it like this." ”

At that time, literati liked to give themselves titles, some people took Zhai as the name, some people took the layman as the name, and some people took the mountain people as the name. For example, Li Bai called himself Qinglian Layman. Those who choose laymen as their names are generally relatively high, and most of them are literati who would rather live at home than go out of office. Presumably he was discouraged in the imperial examination, and then complained about the heavens and others, angrily scolding about how the imperial examination was shady and the like, and then he didn't take the exam again.

It's normal for people in their early twenties to think so, but people in your thirties think the same way, so it's too infuriating.

When the other party said this, it sounded like he didn't want to teach his disciples, but he was just entrusted by others. Lin Yanchao is now thinking again, I damn it, you are a scholar, and you still look down on people.

Lin Yanchao got up and said, "Is there anything difficult about Mr.?" If you teach the students reluctantly, the students are fine, but they are miserable. ”

The other party didn't move when he heard this, but just smiled faintly and said: "It's not because of you, it's because I'm a little frustrated, I'm just afraid that I won't do my best." ”

Lin Yanchao said in his heart, what kind of excuse is this, it seems that Lin Shisheng really coped with himself, and found a teacher who taught Shangshu casually, no, if the teaching is not good, I will definitely find this Lin family's second young theory.

At that moment, Lin Yanchao said: "Sir, just teach, if the student feels that Mr. is not good at teaching, he will explain it to the second young master of the Lin family." ”

At that moment, the corner of Fuzhang's mouth twitched, and he smiled: "Could it be that the son of the Lin family, I didn't mention to you who I am before?" ”

"Didn't you say that you called yourself a monk of Fuzhang? That's all, students don't know anything else, but does it matter? ”

"Okay, okay, of course it doesn't matter." The other party smiled slightly, he was a little happy, and his face was not as pale as when he first came in.

Fu Zhang lay priest said: "You will come once a day on the afternoon of five days in the future, and teach you for two hours, if you think I can't teach, just go, I won't say anything." ”

Lin Yanchao was also a little embarrassed at the moment, and said in his heart that if someone really taught well, he hurriedly said: "Don't dare, if Mr. thinks the student is stupid, just reprimand him." ”

The other party frowned, thinking to himself that the student did not learn well, isn't it natural for Mr. to reprimand? Listening to what he said, it seems to have become a face-selling business.

"Whatever you want, but I don't pay attention to qualifications and understanding, so it's nothing to be stupid, and I won't reprimand you for being stupid."

Lin Yanchao sneered, I said modestly, but I became stupid, you really take it seriously, see how I slap my face when the time comes. At that moment, Lin Yanchao asked, "What is the most important student of Mr.?" ”

Fuzhang layman said: "As a teacher, the most important disciple is in the diligent word, the person I admire most in my life is Su Dongpo, Dongpo layman has a saying, the book is too late to read in this life." The gist of it is that even if we were able to read from the time we were infants, it was already too late. So you say you should study diligently? ”

It's too late to read the book in this life, this statement is so mysterious.

Lin Yanchao immediately raised the bar and said, "Sir, I don't think so. ”

"Oh, aren't you questioning the words of the Dongpo layman?"

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Why?" The other party's face sank a little.

"Because Mr. Dongpo's father said it? There is no saying in the three-character scripture, Su Laoquan, twenty-seven, began to be angry, read books. What is said is that Su Laoquan only began to study angrily at twenty-seven, and he was not included in one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, so it can be seen that as long as you are willing to work hard and study hard, it is not too late to be late, it mainly depends on whether you have the determination to work hard! ”

Su Laoquan is Su Xun, Su Shi's father, this is using the father to slap his son's face, it is really a crisp sound!

The other party was also stunned, it was not Lin Yanchao's words that made him speechless, but it touched his mind and made him think of the affairs of the court.

It's good to be young, it's never too late.

Fuzhang Jushi smiled lightly, looked at Lin Yanchao and said, "Is it interesting to have the ability to speak your tongue?" I've heard that you are very eloquent, and you saved the life of Mr. Wangzhai's grandson, but you can't make a fuss about it, and you have to have a thousand words to do it. ”

"Whether I write well or not depends on how well my husband teaches?" Lin Yanchao successfully threw the pot away.

The other party shook his head, and now the two sat opposite each other in front of the bookcase, and the other party opened the book and said, "Some days, I haven't read the book, you let me think about it." ”

Lin Yanchao almost vomited blood, what does it mean that he hasn't read it for some days? That's too disrespectful, isn't it?

But when he saw that the other party opened the Shangshu page by page, he began to turn it a little slowly, and then he turned it very fast. In the end, he nodded and said, "Is it the way you learn from me, you want to apply what you have learned, or the way to take the exam?" ”

"What is the way to do it? What is the way to take the test? ”

The other party shook his head and said: "The learning of application is to read the scriptures, and I will talk about it casually." ”

"The way to take the examination is to speak specifically for the imperial examination, of course, it will also say exegesis, scriptures, but it will not diverge, and such as the song of the five sons, Tang oath, Pan Geng, Weizi, Xibo Kanli, Jin Teng, Gu Ming, King Kang Zhihao, Wenhou Zhizhi These articles, I will not talk about them."

"Why is that?"

The layman sighed and said: "You really don't know at all, the song of the five sons, mourning the loss of the country, Tang oath, reprimanding the king for no way, Pan Geng, talking about moving the capital, Weizi, the minister who said that he ran away, and the rest of the articles are also inappropriate, if the examiner uses this question, it is a crime." ”

Lin Yanchao was overjoyed when he heard this, Shangshu was originally the least number of words in the Five Classics, and this time there were a few fewer articles, isn't it easier.

Lin Yanchao thought for a while and said, "Then please Mr. teach me the way to take the exam first, and then apply it?" ”

"Why is that?"

"Of course, reading is based on application, but everything also has the right to pass, at present, the first student is to pass the exam in the dormitory, enter the dormitory, but such as the song of the five sons and several other articles, although they also want to learn, but the manpower will eventually run out, so please Mr. first teach me the way to take the exam."

"After a month, when the students have time to spare, my husband will teach me from beginning to end."

The layman nodded slightly and said, "It makes sense, it's not a dead reader." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "Can Mr. start teaching students?" ”

The layman said: "Don't worry, I'll give you a pinch first, the current scholar's annotations on the book used by the scholar are taken from the "Five Classics and Four Books" compiled by Yongle, and the "Five Classics and Four Books" is based on the Zhuzi disciple Cai's book "Book Collection Biography", but there are quite mistakes and omissions in the book collection, and the descendants have written "Shangshu Cai Biography Error", "Shangshu Cai's Biography is Correct and Wrong", "Cai Chuan Doubts" and other books are difficult to cross-examine, I am eight years old to govern the book, the teacher instructs, and after the elder and learn from the group, to the famous family to seek advice, finally have some private opinions. These are quite different from those in the "Book Collection", and I will juxtapose the number of scriptures and say that they are ......"

Speaking of which, Lin Yanchao felt that the other party seemed to be very high, and he no longer had a sense of contempt.

Then the man in the green shirt said slowly, Lin Yanchao listened carefully, and picked up the pen again and again to record.

Lin Yanchao listened to it for more than an hour, and he had already gone from the previous suspicion to the back of the five-body cast, and said in his heart that this gentleman taught really well, he should be based on the classics, and he came casually, how do he feel that his knowledge is much stronger than Lin Liao. If I could have studied under this person two years earlier, I would have no problem passing the county exam.