There are not many people in elementary school, and there are more than 30 students, plus two bachelor's and two school students, which add up to less than 40 people. There are little kids under the age of ten here. Li Yan, who is already fourteen years old, really stands out among them. The little guys around him also looked at this "big classmate" curiously. A few naughty people came over to ask if Li Yan had gone to the wrong place? It made Li Yan so depressed that he wanted to hit the wall.

The classroom in the primary school is very wide. When you enter the door, you will see rows of separate short desks. Students have to kneel behind the desk when studying. Li Yan found a desk in the corner and sat down and tried it. He found that it felt okay. After all, this body had already adapted to this kind of kneeling.

"Sixth brother, didn't expect you to be quite early? I haven't had time to thank you for your mother's affairs!" Just as Li Yan wanted to pick up the book on the table and read it, a **-year-old boy ran to him and sat down and said. Li Yan saw it and met him. He had just met yesterday. This little guy was his ninth brother, who was later Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi.

"Oh, Zhinu, my mother is our mother, what are our brothers saying about thanks?" Li Yan patted his shoulder and said righteously. Zhinu is Li Zhi's nickname. Regardless of whether Li Zhi will ascend the throne in the future, it is necessary to establish a good relationship now.

"Hehe, Brother Six is ​​right, then I won't give this piece of osmanthus cake to Brother Six." A small head stretched out from behind Li Zhi and said, with a round, big, eyes full of laughter.

"You... why did you bring the squid too?" Li Yan pointed at Li Zhi in shock and said. The three-year-old squid came out behind Li Zhi, who was only three years old, and was now gnawing on the last piece of osmanthus cake in his hand with a dim sum face.

Seeing the little Snow Zi's naughty look, Li Zhi couldn't help but say with a bitter face: "Sixth brother, you can't blame me. Since my mother got sick, Snow Zi has no one to take care of. I usually play with her, but I can't bring her here when I come to study. Yesterday, my father asked you to come here for study, and Snow Zi was making a fuss to come, but my father couldn't persuade her, so he had to agree."

I was dizzy! When Li Yan heard that Wei Zi came here because of him, he immediately had a headache. Although the Tang Dynasty was open, the upper class still valued the great defense of men and women. Women could not study with men. Princesses were generally educated by their mothers or special palace maids. But now, his emperor father actually agreed to let Wei Zi come here to go to school. Is this really too fond of this little princess?

"I want to sit with Brother Six. Brother Jiu, sit in front of me!" After eating the osmanthus cake, Yizi wiped Li Zhi with both hands and said. It was obvious that Li Zhi pampered her sister very much, so she pinched her little face and gave the seat to Yizi.

"Brother Six, has your injury healed?"

"Brother Six, are you really not aware of words?"

"Brother Six, can you take me to play? I'm suffocated in the palace?"

"Sixth Brother..."

The little girl never stopped sitting down, and one question after another came out of her little mouth, making Li Yan tired of dealing with it. Fortunately, the master came in at this time. Although the little girl was naughty, she knew very etiquette and finally closed her chattering little mouth.

Li Yan had already inquired about it. The old master who taught above was Kong and named Kong Yingxue. He was from the Kong family in Qufu, Shandong. He was also a cousin with Kong Yingda, one of the eighteen bachelors. Although he was not as famous as Kong Yingda, he was also a knowledgeable old scholar.

The courses in elementary school are very simple. You can study in the morning and practice calligraphy in the afternoon. If you just start studying, you start with the Thousand Characters text, and then learn Sima Xiangru's "Fan Jiang Pian", Cai Yong's "Encouraging Learning", etc. Until you graduate at the age of ten, you will then transfer to Chongwenguan or Hongwenguan for secondary and higher education.

In this era, schools or private schools were not divided into classes. All students were together and each student had a different learning progress, which resulted in a limited number of students taught by a teacher. This was the case with Li Yan and the others.

Confucius first learned about the students' academic progress one by one, and then counted the content to be learned today, so that they could familiarize themselves with it first. After a while, he would explain it one by one. Finally, when he saw Yizi and Li Yan, the old master frowned. His Majesty Taizong had notified these two "special" students before, and now he was having a headache about how to teach them.

"You two high men are already literate, right?" Confucius walked to Li Yan and Yizi with a ring ruler in his hand and asked. The ring ruler in his hand was not a good example. Although the people sitting here were all princes and nobles, if anyone made a mistake and did not misunderstand the lawsuit, there would be no place to sue the complaint.

"Learn literacy, read! Weizi already knows it..." The little girl calculated with her fingers, and found that her fingers were not enough, so she simply said with a crisp voice, "Lizi knows so many words, even her father praised Weizi for being smart!" The little girl looked proud. The mother took the children of the royal nobles to recognize words before going to school. When they were sent to the elementary school, they could almost read and write. However, Li Yan was only three years old, and Li Yan also claimed to have amnesia, so Confucius asked them whether they could read or not.

"Ahem~ Master, you know that I have abstinence. Now I don't know most of the words, so..." Li Yan said with a blushing face. Even a three-year-old child recognizes more words than him, and even the thicker the skin can't stand it!

"Well, both Your Highnesses have some basics, so let's start with the Thousand Characters text, learn while reading. Now follow me to read a sentence, you can read it." Confucius thought for a while, then made up his mind and said.

The Thousand Character Classic is a sentence of four characters, and it is very rhyme and catchy. It is combined with the Hundred Family Names that appeared in later generations, and the Three Character Classic is called "Three, Hundred, Thousand". It is a standard enlightenment reading for ancient children.

Maybe he was afraid that Li Yan and Yizi would not remember it. Confucius taught a total of four sixteen sentences and 16 words, and told them to copy them several times after they had read it well. As for the literal meaning, he would not force it, and he would explain it later if he had time. This made Li Yan very speechless. It seemed that this old master really taught him as a three-year-old child.

Li Yan dare not say anything else, but he was a thousand-character essay, hundred-character surname, and three-character classics that he had studied since childhood. It may be a bit exaggerated to memorize Ruliu, but there is absolutely no problem in memorizing Ruliu. All of these are thanks to his grandfather in his previous life. Li Yan's ancestors were from landlords in his previous life. I heard that an ancestor also passed the Jinshi exam. Li Yan's grandfather received authentic feudal private school education when he was a child.

The old man usually lives in the countryside. Once, Li Yan's father took him to see the old man. At that time, Li Yan had just entered elementary school. The old man was very happy to see his eldest son and grandson. He asked him if he had learned anything after going to school. As a result, when the old man heard that Li Yan had not learned three, hundreds, and thousands of times, he was immediately furious. In the old man's thoughts, how could a child not learn from the three hundred and thousands of left by his ancestors in school? This is the most authentic enlightenment education, and he criticized Li Yan's father for this.

The old man made a decision: Since your school does not teach, I will teach myself. The old man ignored his old body and searched through boxes and cabinets to find a few broken books, and started teaching from the Three Character Classic. As a result, Li Yan spent almost all the winter and summer vacations in elementary school at his grandfather's house in the countryside. Unfortunately, the old man had just finished teaching the thousand-character text, and before leaving, he had to recite the thousand-character text that he had just finished teaching. The old man went like this with the sound of his grandson's recitation. Whenever he thought of this, Li Yan felt his nose sore.

After the old man passed away, Li Yan's academic pressure began to increase, so he wasted his study of ancient Chinese. He did not forget the three books of Thousand Characters, Hundred Characters, and Three Character Classics. Whenever he thought of the old man, he would memorize a few paragraphs. Every Qingming Festival every year, he would memorize the old man and recite it in front of his grave. This is also a little filial piety for being a grandson.

It would be great if he could learn calligraphy from the old man, even if it was to lay a foundation? Li Yan couldn't help but sigh. At that time, the old man was afraid of delaying Li Yan's normal studies. Except for asking him to recite and understand the content and meaning of the book, he did not teach him anything else. He could not have either traditional Chinese or calligraphy. If he could learn a little back then, he would not be so embarrassed now.

After the old master left, Li Yan flipped through the book. Although the traditional Chinese characters on it were very unfamiliar, he had long been memorized, so he could guess what the characters it was. The Thousand Characters were written by Zhou Xingsi of the Southern Dynasty. There was no repetition of a thousand words in the whole book. However, later I heard that someone found duplicate characters, and Li Yan was not very clear about this.

Li Yan read a few words boredly and gave up. He secretly looked at Xiao Yizi and found that the little girl was memorizing very seriously, shaking her head and shaking her head very much. This made Li Yan think of the flowers of the motherland crawling forward under the heavy examination-oriented education in the future. At such a young age, it was time to play. Isn’t it a waste to read every day?

Thinking of this, Li Yan had an idea. Seeing that the old master didn't pay attention, he picked up the paper on the table and folded it. Soon a beautiful paper crane appeared in his hand and then threw it gently to the little girl.

The little girl who was reading seriously was stunned at first. When she saw the exquisite paper crane, her little face immediately became happy. She picked it up and looked left and right, and she couldn't put it down. As for the book, she had long thrown away. Li Yan was playing, and paper frogs, paper rings, paper lilies and other small things emerged one after another. He folded six or seven kinds of paper planes, but unfortunately he couldn't test flights now.

Little Shizi was attracted by the various origamis in Li Yan's hand. Li Yan was immediately snatched away by the little girl as soon as he folded it. Every one was looked left and right and couldn't bear to put it down. Li Zhi also noticed the movement behind him. When he saw the exquisite origamis in Li Zi's hand, he was also curious. He wanted it but didn't dare to ask for it, so he could only look at it with his eyes.
Chapter completed!