Chapter 10： Little Lang Jun who loves to read

From the west gate of Zhangjia, it is the Yangzhou Xincheng River Embankment. Walk along the Xincheng River embankment to the end and you will reach the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou.

In the early morning, with light rain, Lu Zheng wore a straight white robe, his hair was pulled up and fixed with a purple gold crown. After more than half a month of recuperation, his body has been thoroughly hospitable, and his demeanor is calm. The past was very different.

Qi Biao was burly and burly, Ying'er was holding a paper umbrella next to him, the little girl raised her body carefully, her eyebrows were trimmed, and she was agile and forgot about customs. Walking along the way, the pedestrians on the road looked sideways.

Lu Zheng just walked forward in this ordinary way, and forced aura to deter pedestrians.

Hengwu Academy is a place where Lu Zheng must go every day. Everything is inferior. The only way to learn is that Lu Zheng is now starting from the simplest "Bai Jia Xing". He still doesn't understand the Four Books and Five Classics. The ancient books have no punctuation, and they are all in traditional characters, and they read unclear sentences. How can he understand them?

On the earth, he is not a genius, and he is not afraid of people making jokes. When "Hundred Family Names" encounters those infrequent surnames such as "庹" and "厍", he really doesn't know him, so he can only use reference books.

He also couldn't memorize the "Three Characters Classic" completely, and he also didn't know the rare words of the "Thousand Characters".

He can only learn from the basics now. Fortunately, these three books are basically thorough, memorized, and can be written without errors in half a month. Today, he can read "Sound and Enlightenment".

The books of the Dakang Dynasty were really expensive. A complete set of four books and five classics cost more than forty taels of silver. Even a book like "Hundred Family Names" requires two to three taels of silver.

Although Lu Zheng had one or two hundred taels of silver on hand, he had to pay a reward every day, and the consumption was amazing. He was not sure that he would get the little silver that he got from the Zhang family every month. The four treasures of the study had already been spent. After a few tens of taels of silver, he went out, so he was really struggling to spend money on books.

Therefore, he came to the bookstore every day to read, but for any unrecognized characters, he checked the "Xinde Dictionary" in the bookstore, and then forcibly memorized the book he had read, and then came back to write it silently, and then took it back for comparison the next day. This method can not only make rapid progress, but also save money.

Of course, he can't buy nothing, otherwise, where will the bookstore let him go every day? No matter how high he is, the patience of others is limited, so he will buy a book every few times. Naturally, the book he bought can only be popular reading materials such as "The Story of the West Chamber" and "Peach Blossom Fan".

He really couldn't read classical Chinese, and a four-book and five classics would cost more than 40 taels of silver, and a twenty-four history would cost more than 100 taels. He could only buy a set of books for all his worth! There is also a complete "Xinde Dictionary" that requires more than a hundred taels of silver. He can't even think about his current financial resources.

"There are a lot of characters to check today, and it takes a lot of effort!" Lu Zheng couldn't help muttering.

"If you didn't study well back then, it's the end now. If the classical Chinese literature was good back then, would you be so embarrassed? Would you even use a dictionary?"

As a modern person, Lu Zheng is very difficult to learn ancient Chinese. Just a Xinde dictionary has made him suffer. A set of "Xinde Dictionary" has twelve thick books, which are marked according to the twelve earthly branches.

Moreover, the method of looking up characters is completely different from the "Xinhua Dictionary". The phonetic transcription of the characters is not pinyin, but the phonetic transcription is used. All of these need to be understood by Lu Zheng himself. Lu Zheng used the "Xinde Dictionary" for the first time, and only two words were found for most of the day.

Ying'er walked quietly beside Lu Zheng, holding the umbrella for him, his face increasingly contemptuous.

"Oh my god, "Xinde Dictionary" can't even be used. How unlearned and skillless this is!" Ying'er kept shaking his head in her heart.

Countless times, she couldn't help but want to say something, but when she thought about her current situation, she closed her mouth again because of the excessive words.

Lu Zheng may not be good at reading, but he is cunning and treacherous. What if he falls into this guy's trap again?

"There must be a trick to using a dictionary! It's a pity that without a teacher's advice, it's really hard for me to find out by myself!" Lu Zheng murmured again.

He looked at Ying'er suddenly and said, "Ying'er? Do you have any opinions?"

"Ah..." Ying'er exclaimed, his face turned flushed with "swish", and said: "I...I don't..."

Lu Zheng frowned slightly and said, "In fact, girls are the best to read. You read "The Story of the West Chamber" and I think it's pretty good. You read more on weekdays and your temperament is naturally elegant and noble, don't you think?"

"what?"

Ying'er's face turned red, and a heart jumped "Puff!" and "Puff!"

She has a kind of embarrassment and embarrassment of being caught stealing things. She is really a big idler in the West Point Courtyard. Normally, Lu Zheng has three girls and two old women taking care of her diet and daily life. She does not need her to do things inside and outside. a little bit.

She is also a person who likes to read. When she was with the ancestors, she played with the Baoyi girl and the others every day, or read, or guessed puzzles, or composed poems, and her life was pleasant and moist. After arriving at the West Point Courtyard, she seemed to be in jail.

At the beginning, she was worried that Lu Zheng would have unruly thoughts about her. She also thought that in case of failure, she would try her best. After a few days, her guard on this aspect gradually weakened, and the rest was boring.

That day, she was just taking the advantage of Lu Zheng to take a bath and read "The Story of the West Chamber" secretly for a while, but, where did she get her hands on this reading? Every day I stared at the book from afar, wishing to turn into a little bookworm and get into the book.

With the first time, there will be a second time, and with the second time, there will be a third time. The first few times she could do it without Lu Zheng noticing it, but how could she be perfect every time?

Now that this matter was explained by Lu Zheng, she was really embarrassed and ashamed, and she wished to find a hole to drill down.

In a panic, she suddenly thought of Lu Zheng's question just now, and she changed the subject and said:

"San Ye, his practical "Xin De Dictionary" has a verse:'Finding in one or two sons, three paintings to ask Chouyin, four in Maochensi, five noon six no application, seven you eight or nine xu, and the rest of the Hai Department is kept.' If you live in this song and index by the radical, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and it will be very smooth to use!"

"Ah!" Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, silently recite Ying'er's verse, remembering it firmly, and then high-five in praise: "Okay, Ying'er didn't realize that you are such a talented woman. Just this one sentence. Solved the problem that bothered me for half a month!

With you as a talented woman in the future, I will have no worries when I want to study! "

Lu Zheng's remarks are quite sincere, but has Ying'er ever heard such remarks? Although she is talented and intelligent, the things she learned are superficial after all. What's more, limited to her identity, even if she is unique, she still has to hide some, definitely can't compare Hao Er to Miss Bao Yi?

Therefore, she has never been praised as a talented woman. Besides, she just said a song from "Xinde Dictionary" that Mengtong understands. She was called a "talented girl". She really couldn't bear it.

It's like Lu Zheng reading "Hundred Family Names" every day, and a few casual girls like Siqi flatter him as a scholar every day, and it sounds absurd and funny.

But Lu Zheng’s next sentence, Ying'er was really happy, and Lu Zheng said: "Ying'er, since you live in Xijiaoyuan, you can read it freely if you want to read. You can watch "The Western Chamber" and "Peach Blossom Fan". "Peony Pavilion" can also be watched!

Don't believe those corrupt scholars who say these books are obscene books, you can read more, I won't tell, if you don't tell, who can know? "

Ying'er's dislike for Lu Zheng diminished a lot in an instant. She thought that she had come to the West Point Hospital, and maybe her life would not be long. Now it seems that it is not like that. Although Lu Jiazheng is not learned and skillful, his temperament seems to be inferior. Oh bad!

"Also, you can go out if you want to go out on weekdays. We will come out to Hengwu Bookstore in the morning and you can go out in the afternoon. Go to Guanjingshan in the morning and you don’t need to accompany you. When I look back, I just call Siqi. That's it!" Lu Zheng said again.

He is in a very good mood. Yinger has indeed read books and received the ancient orthodox private school education. He has a foundation in the four books and sentence reading exegesis. Lu Zheng knows that Zhang's family wants to get a chance to enroll, and he does not know that he has to wait until the year of the monkey. He has to hurry up now. Every opportunity to learn, there is such a shadow that can help him, how can he not make him happy with the girl?

The relationship between the two eased, and they said this all the way to the door of a quaint building on the top of the double eaves Xieshan. Looking at the building, it looks like a hall at first, but looking at the huge plaque at the door, it says four words: "heng "Wu Shufang", here is the prosperous place in Yangzhou.

On the Xincheng River opposite the bookstore, the gorgeous paintings are extremely magnificent. Looking at these luxurious paintings, you can probably imagine how prosperous it is at night.

Strictly speaking, this is the second largest red-light district in Yangzhou, but in the morning, it seemed quiet, and the music was all night long. At this time, the pretty ladies on the boats were still lying on the bed!

Lu Zheng stopped and walked to the embankment, looking at the verdant river in the new city, admiring the luxury and magnificence of the painted boats, everything in front of him is so harmonious and peaceful, in a thousand years, where will the banks of the new city river be? Is there such a situation?

"Oh, is the handsome young man stunned again? Are you thinking about drinking a pot of sisters' footwashing water?" The window of a golden painted boat with vermillion lacquered beams was suddenly opened, and a head came out from inside. Come.

Guazi face, cheeks are lingering, and her looks are pretty good. It's that hotness that makes her less temperamental. She is about twenty-eight years old, and she is yelling at Luzheng!

"Hi!" Lu Zheng waved at her.

"Puff! Little boy, the hair doesn't grow all the same, so he learns the characteristics of the old man, and only has footwashing water for you to drink!" After that, the girl put her head back, "Puff" a basin of water from Spilled out the window.

Lu Zheng didn't feel annoyed, and smiled: "Just say hello, girl don't think too much about it, I'm inferior in everything, I only need to study well!" After Lu Zheng finished speaking, he turned and walked towards Hengwu Bookstore.