Master Bai personally escorted the dejected Bai Erlang to copy books. Along the way, he told his son earnestly: "I know copying books is very boring. If you write too much, your hands are not only tired, but you are also irritable. If you are irritable, you will easily make mistakes. The handwriting will also become scribbled..."
"But you are going to take part in the imperial examination in the future. Every time you take the imperial examination, you have to write a lot of words. After typing the draft, you will copy it to the paper. If you write slowly, there is not enough time, and the writing speed is slow, then Isn't it killing people?"
Bai Erlang was stunned when he heard this, and it was the first time he knew that he had such a grand goal, so he asked in a daze: "Father, why do I still have to go to the imperial examination, isn't it my brother?"
Master Bai looked at him with hatred and said: "You are too unambitious, your elder brother is going, can't you go?"
Then he talked about his elder brother's hardships, "You see, your elder brother didn't leave the study room when he came back for the New Year. Can't you expect your elder brother to know everything? If you can also pass the imperial examination, it will not only honor your ancestors, but also help you in the officialdom Your big brother."
Bai Erlang couldn't help muttering, "It's as if my elder brother and I will definitely pass the exam, Dad, I think you might as well treat Shanbao and Manbao better, let them go to the examiner, and then help each other with elder brother. "
Master Bai couldn't help but pat him on the head: "You are too unambitious, no, just start copying books, you can copy as many books as Shanbao and the others copy, believe what father says, you will know this when you copy it down It's good."
He sighed, "Father just couldn't copy it down..."
Bai Erlang couldn't help jumping his feet, "Father, you can't even do it and let me do it!"
Master Bai glanced at him and said: "That's right, when I cried and cried back then, your grandmother wouldn't let me copy it. Now your son and your father regret it very much, and even blame your grandmother for spoiling me too much, so In order for you not to blame me in the future, I decided to be stricter with you."
Shirajiro: ...
When he reached the door of the study, Bai Erlang finally managed to organize his words in grief and anger, and shouted: "I will blame you too, because you are too strict with me!"
Master Bai reached out to slap him on the head, but Man Bao happened to look up and saw it, and said, "Master Bai, hitting the head will make you stupid."
Master Bai paused, and changed to stroking. He squinted his eyes and smiled at Bai Erlang, "If you want to complain, you will only be able to complain when you grow up. Now you don't care."
Shirajiro: ...
Master Bai dragged Bai Erlang into the study, and smiled at Man Bao: "Man Bao, uncle is not going to beat him, but uncle is teaching him, by the way, how are you copying books now?"
The two generously showed him the manuscript they had copied.
Master Bai looked at it, nodded again and again, then smiled and looked down at his angry son with pouty lips, and said softly: "Erlang, you are bigger than Shanbao and Manbao, "Thousand Characters" and "The Analects of Confucius" are both You have already learned the simplest ones, so you must be able to copy them well, right?"
Bai Erlang still missed the bamboo rat that he didn't catch on the mountain, but after his father rolled up his sleeves, he replied aggrievedly: "Yes."
"Okay," Master Bai waved his hands proudly, "Go and write, Dad is watching you in the study."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened, he looked at Bai Shanbao, then at Man Bao, and finally went to his small table and sat down slowly.
Master Bai walked around the study room with his hands behind his back. He suddenly remembered that he might not have read a book for a long time, so he casually took a book from the shelf to read.
The three children winked behind the desk.
They don't like adults in the study very much, they feel like there is a stick horizontally on the back of their buttocks.
The three of them winked, Master Bai came out from behind the bookshelf, and the three of them immediately calmed down again, lowering their heads to grind the ink, spread the paper...
Master Bai glanced at them, and was about to find a place to sit down and read a book, when he saw Daji sitting motionless in the corner, which shocked him a lot.
Master Bai stroked his chest, took the book and walked across to Daji, touched a ponytail and sat down, sharing the brazier with him.
He opened the book, glanced at Daji, and asked, "Isn't it boring to sit like this all day?"
Daji bowed slightly to Master Bai and said with a smile: "It's not boring, but when the young master and the others don't stop for a while, I feel tired watching it."
Master Bai nodded and said with a smile: "That's how studying is, just wait until they pass the exam."
Daji smiled slightly, this is just an adult lying to a child, when he really grows up and gets an official exam, that is the time when he is really busy.
Daji looked up at the three children who were copying books with pens, and secretly thought it was a pity, but the three children did not know this.
I'm afraid this is the time for real happiness and relaxation.
Children are indeed relaxed. Although they have to copy books, they don't have to copy books all day long.
When I am tired of copying, I have to go out to play, and when I am tired of playing, I still have to read my good-looking books, eat delicious snacks, and continue to copy books when I feel that I have nothing to do.
But even so, the speed of the three children is getting faster and faster, especially Man Bao and Bai Shanbao. In the end, they no longer need to read the book and copy it. They just copy the whole book silently, and compare it again to make sure there are no typos. Then put it together.
Afterwards, Man Bao will take it home and bind it for his sisters-in-law. This is a book.
And after two or three days like this, Bai Erlang didn't need Master Bai to stare at him anymore, and he had indeed discovered the benefits of copying books.
Although I still hate copying books, it is not as annoying as before.
Before the Lantern Festival, the three children only copied ten books. Man Bao was not in a hurry at all. She planned to give them her old books, and then she would just copy two more books by herself.
When Mr. Zhuang came back from the county town for the New Year, he couldn't help but be surprised to see the old head Zhou leading a group of children to the school, even though he had already known about it from his apprentices.
Mr. Zhuang was just surprised, while the villagers of Qili Village were stunned.
In the past, when the school started, the villagers would not come to watch, because in their opinion, this was a very disrespectful behavior, which might make Mr. Zhuang unhappy.
But at this moment, they couldn't help it anymore, and they all gathered not far from the school to watch the excitement, feeling overwhelmed with surprise.
"This old Zhou's family picked up gold? Why did you send all the children to school?"
"Is it because Mr. Zhuang doesn't accept their Shuxiu?"
"Why? Because of Man Bao?"
"It's good to have a smart girl."
"What do you know, the books that the children of the old Zhou's family study are all copied by Man Bao. Oh, I went to see them yesterday, and they are just like the real ones."
"...there are fake books?"
"I mean it's the same as the ones sold in bookstores in the county town. The old Zhou's family didn't pick up gold, but a gold bump."