Zhou Zhoulang originally wanted to keep Sanya at home for a few years, and send her to school after she has learned both books like her sister Erya, so that she can go home after two years of study.
But Sanya knew early in the morning that Sitou had to go to school, and there were only her and five and six children left at home, and she turned to look at her two cousins. But when I sat still, when I looked up at people, I couldn't help but open my mouth, and then my saliva started to flow...
Sanya hated it so much that she hugged her father's arm and twisted it for a while, making a fuss about going to school.
Zhou Zhoulang got a headache from being entangled, and Ertou was mischievous, so he agreed.
He always felt that Ertou was not very smart, and his intelligence was all on Erya and Sanya's head, so he turned his head to look at Yaomei again, and he gritted his teeth and agreed.
Man Bao had copied one "Thousand Characters" and one "The Analects" for them before, but now they are still missing six copies of each, which is not a lot at all.
Because they have learned both books, when Mr. Zhuang wants to teach, they don't know how to teach, what if they use both books
So both books still had to be transcribed.
Man Bao finished grinding the ink, first looked up sadly at the sky, and found that what he saw was the roof instead of the blue sky, so he turned his head outside to take a look, and he had to look sadly at the blue before he began to bow his head to write.
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang have practiced handwriting a lot, but this is the first time they have to copy books so neatly. Although Man Bao no longer requires neatness, they still always make some typos when they write.
After less than half an hour of copying, Bai Erlang dropped his pen angrily and said, "I won't copy anymore, I won't make any money, you guys can play by yourself."
After that, he ran away.
Bai Shanbao didn't want to play anymore, he frowned and wanted to put down the pen, so he met Man Bao's bright eyes, he paused, then put the wrongly written paper aside, and sighed: " I also think this is not fun, let's play something else."
"No, if you don't play it, forget it, I will copy it myself."
Bai Shanbao felt that she was wronged and couldn't put down the pen, so he could only mutter a few words, resigned to accompany her to copy books in our study.
The two of them rested for a while and played for a while, but they resumed copying books as soon as they returned to the study.
The whole study room became quiet, as if there were only the two of them in the whole yard.
Daji sat in a corner of the study with a brazier, and occasionally raised his head to look at them.
Bai Shanbao felt that he had never written so many words in one day, so when he was waiting for dinner, his hands felt stiff.
Liu couldn't help but glanced at him several times, and Bai Shanbao said aggrievedly: "Grandmother, let Daji go and tell Manbao tomorrow that I'm not at home and went out to pay New Year's greetings, okay?"
"Your cousin's family is the only relative in our family. Where can we go to pay New Year's greetings? What's wrong with you?"
Bai Shanbao then told about the fact that Man Bao hired them to copy books, saying: "Copying books is not fun at all, and it's not just one copy, it's all those contents, I can almost recite them backwards."
"Since you can memorize it backwards, why do you need to copy it from the book? And why are there typos? It is obvious that you have not memorized it backwards." Liu said: "It is the most basic thing to copy a book without typos, although Manbao does not require your handwriting Neat and tidy on paper, but you should pay attention to it."
"Originally, I thought that I would try to copy books when you were older, because it would be very useful for your future imperial examinations," Liu said, "You have the same temperament as your father, and you are a little irritable. Well, the examiner attaches great importance to the cleanliness of the paper. If you have good handwriting, you will be ahead of others. If your handwriting is neat, you will be one step ahead. But if you have wrong words, you will not only lose. "
Mrs. Zheng nodded repeatedly, and whispered: "Your father said that he used to copy books for two or three years for the imperial examination."
"Exactly. I wanted to wait until you were older to see the situation. Now that you have accepted Man Bao's business, you have agreed to him. Now that you have agreed to him, how can you not keep your promise?"
Bai Shanbao widened his eyes and said, "Do all those who take part in the imperial examination have to copy their books?"
Liu said with a smile: "I don't know what other people are like, but your father wants to copy it, because he can't calm down, he writes impatiently, he doesn't read well, and he always makes typos."
Mrs. Liu looked at her grandson and smiled slightly.
What she didn't say was that Bai Shanbao was actually more naughty than his father, but the strange thing was that he was not as impatient as his father, and his handwriting was actually pretty good.
But it's still not quiet enough, is it
This temperament needs to be honed again, seeing how naughty Man Bao was before, but now that he is older, he is not as naughty as before.
Mrs. Liu smiled slightly, insisting that her grandson keep his promise and help Man Bao finish copying the book together.
Seeing that his grandmother didn't stand by him, Bai Shanbao could only resign himself to his fate with a sigh.
After three days of copying, Bai Shanbao found that there were fewer and fewer typos, and the handwriting became more and more fair.
Originally, he had studied these two books for several years, but he could still memorize them, so they were somewhat unfamiliar to him, but after copying them down now, he slowly remembered them all.
After the second and third times of copying, he didn't compare the textbook much, and just calmed down while reciting silently while writing down, and the speed was actually much faster.
Liu looked at it and nodded, quietly left from the study window, and then led his daughter-in-law to the next door to find Mrs. Bai's daily gatherings and gossip.
As soon as she went out, she saw Bai Erlang leading a group of children running past her, rushing towards a mountain not far away.
Bai Erlang's servants ran after him, and Liu listened carefully to hear that someone had caught bamboo rats on the mountain, and they wanted to go up the mountain to catch bamboo rats.
Mrs. Liu shook her head and smiled, and when she went to Bai's house, she stopped by Master Bai and told about Shanbao and Manbao's copying books.
She laughed and said: "In the past, Ziqi copied the books for the bookstore for two years to keep the pages clean and free of typos. I didn't expect Shanbao to be better than his father. I guess it was because the books they copied were simple. , and have learned them all. I read "Thousand Characters" and "The Analects of Confucius" are not difficult, I heard from Shanbao that Erlang also copied them together, why didn't I see him come to the door today?"
Upon hearing this, Master Bai immediately ordered his servants to bring Bai Erlang back.
When Bai Erlang was caught back from the mountain, he was as angry as a hedgehog. If he could breathe fire, he might be able to spit out a flame with just one mouth.
But as soon as he saw his father, Bai Erlang withered.
Master Bai asked him, "I heard that Shanbao and Manbao are copying books, and you promised to copy them together, why didn't you go today?"
Bai Erlang muttered, "Copying books is no fun."
"Bullshit, copying books... can it be fun? If it's not fun, you have to copy it!" Master Bai felt that his youngest son was too much like him in this respect. In order to prevent him from repeating his mistakes, Master Bai decided to go over and stare at him personally. with him.