"No...sir...I..."

When Li Da heard that Li Tingxiu had agreed, he immediately stood up and stammered in an attempt to defend himself.

As a result, the more anxious I felt, the less I couldn't express it, and I could only say nothing but a complete sentence.

"Okay, don't say much, take out the book and prepare to follow."

Li Tingxiu had no intention of listening to Li Da's explanation at all, because he was hiding behind and laughing. In fact, he had been seen for a long time. He agreed to Chen Yichen's request but just followed the trend.

Looking at Li Da's frustrated look, Chen Yichen felt much better in an instant. As expected, he was worthy of being a brother who was suffering from 20 feet of trouble. The two of them had the same dark side of their psychology, and they couldn't stand each other well...

"The destiny of heaven is called nature; the destiny of nature is called Tao; the practice of Tao is called teaching and thought!"

As Li Tingxiu's lead reading sounded, the school children's attention shifted to the "Doctus of the Mean" in their hands and began to recite it with the teacher.

The sound of reading aloud comes one after another. The Doctrine of the Mean, which has more than 3,000 words, is not used for a long time. When the last sentence is "The poem says: Virtue is like hair, and hair is still ethical. The carriage of heaven is silent and odorless, it is here." After reading, the students quickly put their pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and quickly devoted themselves to the process of dictation.

Thousands of words are written in Chen Yichen's current memory, but it is basically not difficult. He seized the time to finish writing and put more energy into the eight-legged essay arranged by Li Tingxiu.

"Who will be better or not?"

Chen Yichen looked at the questions written on the paper, and to be honest, no matter how you should write them, this test question alone is extremely difficult for modern people to read.

However, at least it has two lifetimes of memory and ancient Chinese foundation. Chen Yichen still knows that this topic is taken from a conversation between Confucius and Zigong in the Analects of Confucius.

It probably translated that Confucius said to Zigong: "Who is better than Yan Hui?"

This old saying seems fine, and the meaning is easy to understand when translated, but just one sentence requires you to write an article of hundreds of words and write it out under the fixed format. It seems like it is difficult to see it.

No wonder the eight-legged essay was eliminated by the times. This really doesn’t give people a way out...

Chen Yichen couldn't help but complain in his heart, but no matter how much he complained, if you can't write a good eight-legged essay in this era, it means that there is no hope of the imperial examination. If you extend it a little, it means that your future will be almost ruined.

So Chen Yichen could only calm down and bring himself into the thinking of the ancients, thinking about how to make a fuss.

The reason why the eight-part essay is called the eight-part essay is because the style has a fixed format, consisting of eight parts: breaking the topic, following the topic, starting the lecture, starting the stock, starting the stock, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and binding stock.

In addition, the writing requires that the last four parts, each part has two parallel and parallel texts, paying attention to the parallelism and confrontation, and a total of eight essays are combined.

The first thing Chen Yichen needs to do is naturally to solve the problem and express it in a modern way, which means to summarize the general idea of ​​the topic at the beginning. If you don’t even know what the topic wants to be written, then there is no need to write it later.

The college entrance examination essay is off topic, and I can still give you a friendly score of more than ten or twenty. If I put it in the imperial examination, I will be off topic. I will go home and prepare to come back next time. The examiner is too lazy to read it down.

Li Tingxiu had a deep meaning in setting up such a topic. Why did Confucius suddenly ask Zigong who is better than Yan Hui?

It is said that Zigong and Yan Hui were both Confucius students. As teachers and sages, they would not encourage this kind of comparison between students, so they must have other meanings!

Following this idea, Chen Yichen began to think hard, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he remembered that Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty had an answer to this sentence in a certain book "The Doctrine of the Mean".

The general meaning is not to let the two students compare with each other, but Confucius, as a teacher, knew Zigong's strengths and weaknesses, and used this sentence to let Zigong examine his shortcomings and then reflect on himself.

The topic was broken, Chen Yichen breathed a sigh of relief. Who would have thought of such a seemingly simple dialogue, but the philosophy is far beyond self-reflection. His knowledge is a little worse, and I guess he would never have thought of it in this life.

At the same time, Chen Yichen also understood the profound meaning of Li Ting's question. It seemed that he felt that he had heard the dictation before, and he felt that it was simple and he was too proud. So the teacher reminded himself not to compare with his classmates, and to learn to reflect on his shortcomings.

Since the question was successfully solved, the next step was to write it. According to the format of solving the question in the eight-legged essay, Chen Yichen wrote on the manuscript "Who is more asking the wise man, I want him to reflect on himself."

This sentence directly points out the main topic. The translation means: who is better than who is to ask you (Zigong), which is to teach you to reflect on yourself.

With the problem being solved at the beginning, the subsequent problem being solved is relatively less difficult, but this is still a lot of difficulties for Chen Yichen.

In addition to finding the corresponding "saint's words" to express, we also need to consider parallelism. Instead of memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, we basically don't want to write a good eight-legged essay.

So Chen Yichen kept writing until the end of morning reading. When other school children went to the private school cafeteria for lunch, Chen Yichen was alone at the desk, racking his brains to write this eight-legged essay.

Li Tingxiu looked at Chen Yichen's serious look, and did not urge or disturb him, but asked him to think slowly alone.

To be honest, Li Tingxiu was very happy to see Chen Yichen's state. Not only did the schoolchildren such as Zhao Hongjie know about what happened at the family banquet of Duke Chengguo yesterday, but Li Tingxiu naturally heard about it as a tutor of Duke Chengguo's Mansion.

"Linjiangxian" is indeed a masterpiece, and Li Tingxiu could not have imagined that Chen Yichen could write such good lyrics. However, he was even more worried that with the spread of people, Chen Yichen would not be able to grasp himself and be lost in this kind of flattery.

No literati didn't know about the story of Zhongyong. With Chen Yichen's knowledge foundation, he might not be as good as Fang Zhongyong of the Northern Song Dynasty. So before morning reading, standing outside the lecture hall and listening to the discussions of the students, Li Tingxiu had already considered how to give him some warning.

Now Shen Yichen can calm down and do so seriously, which means that he has not been affected by yesterday's family dinner, so Li Tingxiu is naturally relieved.

Before he knew it, time passed by minute by minute. When Chen Yichen put the last stroke down and looked around, he found that there was no one in the entire lecture hall except Li Tingxiu.

What's going on, what about people?

"Are you finished writing?"

Chen Yichen was still a little confused, Li Tingxiu asked.

"Sir, I'm done."

After saying that, Chen Yichen stood up and handed the manuscript with the eight-legged essay written in Li Tingxiu.

After taking this article, Li Tingxiu's first impression was to solve the problem, and his eyes lit up immediately!

His question is not particularly unpopular and tricky, but it is definitely very difficult for a school child who cannot even pass the exam for a child.

Chen Yichen has been writing for so long as Li Tingxiu expected, and he is even mentally prepared. Chen Yichen will go off topic for thousands of miles, or he may not be able to write it out at all.
Chapter completed!