Chapter 046 The first monthly review!
Lu Zheng's first day of academy life began like this.
Guanshan Academy is divided into three numbers according to the different levels of students' talent and learning. There are 28 people in the A font size, one teacher, one Master, and one Wife. There are 42 people in the B font size, one teacher, and one wife. There are the largest number of people in the B font size, sixty or seventy people. There are no Master, only teachers.
The difference between the teaching and the Master is mainly different. The teacher is responsible for the interpretation of classics. The Master is only responsible for the text of time. Lu Zheng was divided into the B-shaped character, and the teacher is Deng Shengming. The Master's name is Luo Guancai. He was a juren in the twelve years of Xinde and is quite famous in Yangzhou.
The morning is a classic interpretation. Deng Shengming's face was always gloomy, but he did not target Lu Zheng anymore. Lu Zheng's 20 taels of silver shrouds were still very intimidating.
Many students around him didn't dare to get too close to Lu Zheng, and everyone was obviously hostile to him, and Lu Zheng didn't care much about it.
After walking through many rapids and dangerous shoals, how could he be afraid of a few young scholars?
At noon, Liu Song came to find Lu Zheng again. He was in Bingzi. Students of Bingzi mainly studied classics and calculations. They didn’t learn much classics, and they didn’t have any time texts.
Liu Song was surrounded by a group of people, most of whom were classmates in the C-type academy. In modern terms, these people were all poor students.
Lu Zheng is not likable in the B-type font, but these people don’t mind Lu Zheng at all. Zhang Haoran is arrogant in the academy and has almost no interaction with them.
Besides, Zhang Haoran is self-reliant and is usually very arrogant. When he sees the students in Class C, he looks at the sky and disdains at all. Therefore, Lu Zheng and Zhang Haoran are not dealing with each other, but they feel kind.
After some introductions and greetings, Lu Zheng suddenly discovered that there were many acquaintances among the group, including Chen Xian, son of Chen Changwen, son of Tong Zhanggui of Fuyun Restaurant, and Wei Xiaochun, son of the boss of Tingyu Pavilion.
Liu Song was so angry that he pointed at Lu Zheng and said, "This is Brother Zheng. Do you know "Journey to the West"? That story was told by him. Is it awesome?"
"Ah..." Chen Xian and others exclaimed.
Liu Song has been boasting about Zheng Ge'er in front of them, but they don't believe it at all. "Journey to the West" is now popular in Yangzhou. How could the author of this book be an ordinary person? How could Liu Song, a fool, know such a person?
But Liu Song could "spoiler" them every time. Before the second book of "Journey to the West" was released, Liu Song told them the story. When Chen Changwen's bookstore released the book, the story was indeed like what Liu Song said.
Everyone has no doubts about Liu Song knowing the author of "Journey to the West", but he regards Lu Zheng as a talented man in his heart, and at least he has to teach at the same level as the academy!
However, now, Lu Zheng is just a student of the T-font size, and he is only slightly better than them. For a moment, everyone felt a little awkward.
But soon the awkwardness disappeared because after everyone had lunch together, Lu Zheng immediately told a new story:
"The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, the waves wash away the heroes, the right and wrong, success and failure turn into nothing, the green mountains are still there, the sunset is red several times..."
As soon as Lu Zheng's story began, it was extremely impressive and immediately attracted several people.
Then there is "When talking about the general trend of the world, long-term separation will lead to unity and long-term separation will lead to separation..." The story of "Three Kingdoms" kicked off.
After training in "Journey to the West", Lu Zheng's storytelling level has improved significantly. Although he is not as good as those real storytellers, he is better because his story is novel and the plot is compact, and he knows how to tell it to highlight the character's character's style.
"Who is this man's origin? When Liu Xuande saw that this man was nine feet long, his beard was two feet long, his face was like a heavy date, his lips were as polished as a paint, his eyes were red phoenixes, his eyes were lying in silkworm eyebrows, his appearance was dignified and majestic. Do you know who this man is?"
Lu Zheng looked at Chen Xian and others.
The mouths of several people were in a state of openness, and Wei Xiaochun was drooling when he heard this. Seeing the little boy growing up in the brothel, Lu Zheng couldn't help but think of the protagonist in a later novel.
Wei Xiaochun also seems to like to listen to stories the most, admire heroes the most, and young people are all very passionate.
Lu Zheng clapped his hands and said, "This person's surname is Guan Yu, and his courtesy name is Yun Changyi!"
"Wow, Guan Yu? I know this person. I heard Mr. Storyteller say it!" Wei Xiaochun said.
"Yes, Qiang Wenbo Ji, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Liu Xuande, these three went to the village to discuss matters..."
Lu Zheng's story was told in a casual manner. Some people around him couldn't help but be curious and quietly surrounded him and listened. Most of them were people with the C-shaped font. At first, they were just curious and came over to see what Lu Zheng was saying.
But when they gathered around, they could no longer move. Lu Zheng had an hour of stoking, and there were as many as 10 or 20 people around him.
Lu Zheng told these pickled goods, and he was not afraid that they would copy them when they went back. The students of Bingzi were not at this level.
Through this exchange, Lu Zheng recognized a lot of people, including the Zhang family's branches, such as Zhang Qing, Zhang Hua, etc., as well as the Liu family, Xu family and other nephews in their later generations. There were two students in the B-type font, one was Ding Cong and the other was Chen Lin, but they were also polite to each other and became familiar with each other.
Ding Cong is almost the same age as Lu Zheng. He is slightly fat, his eyes are pretty small, and he looks unique in his humor.
He said: "Lu Zheng, it is indeed difficult to commit suicide by punishing Zhang Haoran in the academy. In the afternoon, Master Luo taught Shiwen, you have to be careful!"
Lu Zheng shook his head gently and said, "I have never written Shiwen before, this time I entered the school for Shiwen. I will ask Brother Ding and Brother Chen for advice!"
Ding Cong and Chen Lin were both very happy. Ding Cong said, "Lu Zheng, don't worry too much. Others are afraid of Zhang Haoran, but Chen Lin and I are not afraid of him very much. It's just because in the academy, talent and learning are the most important. Zhang Haoran is indeed talented and knowledgeable, and we must not refuse to accept it!"
Lu Zheng nodded and said, "It's okay, my mind is simple, I just turn a blind eye to the things outside the window and only read the books of sages."
After noon, the academy class began in the afternoon. Master Luo Guancai came in without saying a word, and wrote six words in front of the rice paper: "The promising one can protect the world", so he didn't say a word and began to sit on the chair and take a nap.
The students below were all nervous, grinding ink and laying paper, and starting to prepare for composition.
Lu Zheng was also stunned. It took him a while to come back to his senses and realized that this sentence came from "Mencius", which is the title of the eight-legged essay!
"Brother Zheng, hurry up and write an essay. This is a monthly review. You must deal with it well. Otherwise, you will have to be downgraded!" Ding Cong sat next to Lu Zheng, and he lowered his voice to warn Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng frowned slightly, and with a change of thought in his mind, he could understand the whole story.
Zhang Haoran is indeed influential. Today, Lu Zheng met Yue Ping on the first day of his arrival. This was obviously for him!
Lu Zheng's Shiwen has always been weak and is in the stage of self-study, and can only be considered an introductory level at most.
The world article is an eight-part essay. The eight-part essay requires composition in the tone of a saint. The article has strict format requirements. An article is divided into eight parts, and the format is: breaking the topic, following the topic, starting the lecture, starting the stock, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and connecting stock. The titles of the eight-part essay are all from the original text of the Four Books and Five Classics.
From the four parts after starting the stock, each part requires two parallel sentences, including eight parallel sentences, which are a total of eight parallel sentences. This is the origin of the so-called eight parallel sentences.
Undoubtedly, writing eight-legged essays means dancing in shackles. Later generations have criticized the eight-legged essays for the eight-legged essays, believing that eight-legged essays have clamped down on people's thoughts and made eight-legged essays worthless.
In fact, the eight-legged essay picking scholars is precisely the most fair and just way. It has many advantages. It is a way to win scholars that have been tested by countless dynasties. It was the most reasonable way to assess at that time.
Lu Zheng doesn't like eight-legged essays, but he doesn't criticize eight-legged essays. He understands very well that any world has a set of rules. With his personal ability, he doesn't think about changing the rules. Therefore, the only thing he can do is learn the rules well and then be an excellent person in the rules.
Lu Zheng's heart sank and began to carefully study how to solve the problem.
It is not difficult to solve the problem on this question. Lu Zheng thought for a while and wrote on the paper: "What exists is from nature, what is protected is from nothingness, and this is the kindness of the human being." The question was successfully solved.
Next is a sentence that Lu Zheng also wrote. Starting from the lecture, it is easy to get started.
When he started to take stocks, Lu Zheng was a little confused. He was not good at ancient Chinese, so he had to compare and match each stock, which was too difficult for him.
According to the requirements, the first four gusts should talk about "Lotte". Lu Zheng thought hard and thought of a gust: "If you should do what you should do, not do what you should do, and if you should do what you should do, you will be forced. If you should do what you should do, you will be gentle..."
After writing these two strands, Lu Zheng had almost spent time.
This is the first time that someone else has asked a question and his composition has been written. His foundation is too poor and he has insufficient experience, which has exposed various problems.
The most difficult part of the eight-legged essay is that first of all, the tone must be in the tone of a saint, and every sentence must be imitated by the words of the saints of the Four Books and Five Classics. Secondly, the eight-legged essays must be paralleled and concise, and they must be expressed in meaning. This was quite difficult for the ancients, let alone Lu Zheng?
"Clang, clang, clang!"
Master Luo knocked the ruler on the table three times and said, "The time has come, sign it!"
Lu Zheng sighed softly, wrote his name on rice paper, and then everyone handed over the text one after another.
When everyone finished handing over the article, Lu Zheng saw that the sun was about to set outside.
Lu Zheng let out a long sigh and just held up such an article, and only half of it was written, it took more than an hour.
The day of study was over, and Lu Zheng was in a bad mood. He felt that he had not yet learned the time, and there was not much time left for him. Lu Zheng suddenly felt very tight, and there were many mundane things he had to deal with. It was really difficult!
The Bingzi number has already finished school. The old Cangtou Fu Uncle Fu's carriage was parked at the entrance of the academy. Lu Zheng got on the carriage. Fu Uncle Fu turned his head and said:
Chapter completed!