Zhao Rong recalled in his mind yesterday's clumsiness when Qingjun stood on tiptoes to kiss him in the depths of the Nuanxi Bamboo Garden, and the tenderness of her lowered head.
And on the way to Duyou City, she spent countless nights sleeping in his arms, either dreaming or waking up, confused or happily shouting "Zhao Lang, Zhao Lang, I have Zhao Lang!"
Zhao Rong pursed his lips tightly.
Qingjun and the little affection are enough for him to pay back for a lifetime.
By the way, there is Qian'er. In fact, Zhao Rong didn't think too much about Qian'er before, but Qingjun suddenly mentioned it - she must have considered letting him accept Qian'er for a long time - Zhao Rong this
I was a little confused, oh, strictly speaking, Qian'er was considered the maid of the common house. Although he was the adopted son-in-law, Qing Jun made arrangements so that Zhao Rong could move into the house as he wished.
only.
Although Qingjun is not as feudal and rigid as some women from the dynasty below the mountain, she is still limited by this world and has conservative ideas.
Although Zhao Rong believed that he was domineering and greedy like a man, he could not accept treating living women like maids and slaves as goods.
He let out a breath and shook his head. It was better to wait until Qian'er came back. The most important thing was to respect her wishes.
Apart from Qingjun, Xiaoxiao and Qianer, as for "giving other women a home"...
Zhao Rong laughed in his heart and cursed him as a scumbag.
If this is the case, then keep some distance from other women and observe etiquette when interacting with them, so as not to get entangled too deeply in the end, fall into it, and cannot bear to "want it all" again...
beside.
Yan Jidao glanced at Zhao Rong and saw that he was holding tightly the sleeve with the paper stuffed into it with one hand, his eyes closed and slightly lost in thought, shaking his head from time to time.
"Tzuyu, is there something wrong with this couple?"
"Ah, no, Mr. Yan, there is no problem. The first couplet of this couplet was left by the student before. Mr. Zhu probably saw it. When he came to Yaxing, he filled it in for the student. It was very neat. Mr. Zhu now
He is a wonderful person."
Yan Jidao heard the words and nodded gently. Seeing that Zhao Ronggang's expression did not seem like the possibility that he was worried about, he stopped thinking about it and said in a deep voice: "There is one more thing."
Yan Jidao took out a small stack of paper manuscripts, along with several annotations on the Confucian Classics that Zhao Rong had not seen before, and handed them to Zhao Rong.
"Jinshu helped you correct your homework manuscripts these days, and the corrections were generally good. I took a closer look."
He stared at Zhao Rong.
"Tzuyu, your writing is indeed better than that of some of your senior brothers. It seems that you listened carefully to the lessons I taught in Taiqing Mansion and gained a lot of insights. You even made novel interpretations of some saints' words, but...
"
Zhao Rong listened to Yan Jidao's compliments at first, and he nodded. However, the more he heard it, the more Zhao Rong guessed that there was a twist. At this moment, seeing Mr. Yan staring at him and paused in speaking, Zhao Rong shook his sleeves and bowed.
"Student is ignorant, please teach me sir."
Yan Ji stroked his beard with a serious expression and did not help Zhao Rong, "But it's not enough. For you, this is far from enough!"
He pointed at the manuscript in Zhao Rong's hand.
"It must be because you have outstanding talent in poetry and poetry. You can write boring classics and articles with fluent flow, write fireworks, and read catchy. But these are just the icing on the cake. Your understanding of some Confucian classics is still too shallow.
The two major arts of Confucianism are poetry and classics, the former will not be mentioned for the time being.
When researching and studying the classics, you should calm down and be meticulous and careful. Tzu-yu, these classic articles of yours have quoted a lot of classics. I picked them up by hand. I expected that you would like to read books and have a wide range of knowledge, and even know a lot about many things.
The knowledge of Zibai has been studied, but these are vague and unrefined. This is your current problem, Ziyu."
"Tzuyu, although you are still young now, it is precisely because of this that you must correct your shortcomings of general and empty knowledge and not repeat the mistakes of your predecessors."
Zhao Rongsurong listened and remained silent.
In fact, he was vaguely aware of this problem.
Before Zhao Rong awakened his past life memory, his memory was extremely outstanding, but unfortunately his comprehension was a bit poor. In the words of Mr. Fang, he was just not enlightened before, and he was dull in reading and did not know how to think flexibly.
Later, Zhao Rong awakened the memory of his past life, merged his personality, and began to think quickly and think outside the box, making up for his shortcomings. Coupled with his habit of reading poems and his outstanding memory, he was extremely talented in reading.
This is exactly the opposite of Zhao Rong's talent in cultivation.
When discussing knowledge with Lin Wenruo in Zhongnan Kingdom before, Lin Wenruo praised him more than once for being a rare scholar.
However, a genius is just a genius after all, and cannot become a saint in an instant without any accumulation.
Among hundreds of schools in the world, no matter how good your talent is, you must accumulate it with great concentration, study knowledge, and lay a solid foundation in order to have a chance to achieve something.
Moreover, Zhao Rong was not an old scholar in his previous life, but a young graduate studying ancient literature in the Department of Humanities. Therefore, even with the fusion of memories from the two lives, he could not compare with Yan Jidao in many aspects of Confucian learning.
The latter was a great scholar in the Jindan realm who was proficient in classics, principles, Confucianism and Taoism. He had been studying the knowledge he was good at for an unknown number of years. He was probably longer than the two generations of Zhao Rong combined.
However, according to Zhao Rong's understanding of the current Confucian system in Xuanhuang Realm, Mr. Yan is still a scholar, or most of the gentlemen in the 72 Confucian academies, including Linlu Academy, are like this.
This does not mean that they are too weak and do not have solid knowledge - almost all of them are great Confucian scholars. If placed in a country under the mountain, they would all be at least gentle masters in the literary world, let alone Confucianism and Taoism - but because the title of gentleman is too
It is difficult to obtain, and Zhongzhou Confucian Temple has extremely strict conditions for granting it.
It does not depend on your Confucianism or Taoism, nor does it depend on your proficiency in Confucianism.
It depends on whether your knowledge has expanded and innovated on the path of your predecessors, or... blazed a new path, created a new knowledge within the school, and carved out a brand new path for future generations.
The way.
However, the latter situation is almost impossible. There is still some chance of digging a "small path", but there is almost no chance of digging a "big road". This is the way of a saint.
Whoever does it is sanctified.
Among the hundreds of schools of thought in the Xuanhuang Realm, this situation has been extinct for thousands of years. Within the hundreds of schools of thought, there are almost no saints who can master it. This is still the case with Confucianism, Taoism, and Mohism. As for a certain
In these small families, except for the founder of the sect, no one has set up another mountain to become a saint.
Of course, obtaining the title of gentleman certainly does not require such exaggerated knowledge.
For Confucian scholars, they only need to accumulate certain new knowledge on one of the six arts of the gentleman.
In this way, Zhongzhou Confucian Temple can grant titles as appropriate.
And if we can go one step further, and a new theory is born in the world where hundreds of schools of thought are fighting, then we can get the title of "sage" which is even rarer than "gentleman".
The "One Source Theory of Body and Function" proposed by Zhao Rong before in the debate between Confucianism and Taoism in the Zhongnan Kingdom can be roughly classified into this category. Although it has not yet reached the standards to obtain the title of "gentleman" or "sage" in Confucianism, it is enough for Yan Jidao.
I was amazed when I found out.
Zhao Rong also discovered that the system of hundreds of schools of thought in the Xuanhuang world was somewhat similar to the academic circle in his previous life.
Yan Jidao and other academy gentlemen are like those professors at the university where Zhao Rong lived in his previous life, who were profound in knowledge but had not yet published a top journal.
Zhao Rong also saw his own prophetic advantages from his previous life.
There are also shortcomings.
Zhao Rong was fond of ancient literature in his previous life. He read through official and unofficial history, and also liked to read miscellaneous books. He even dabbled in remote knowledge such as ancient business names and ancient herbal prescriptions. However, he knew more about his major.
When Zhao Rong's memory of his previous life was interrupted and he stayed up late to write his graduation thesis, he still remembered that he had painstakingly prepared this article for more than half a year, which was called "Small Commentary on the Pre-Qin Scholars".
To this end, Zhao Rong read through all the information on the various schools of thought in the Pre-Qin Dynasty that he could find, and had an understanding of many of the ideas they advocated.
Nowadays, thanks to his good memory, Zhao Rong still remembers a lot of the theories of these hundreds of schools of thought.
After regaining his memory, Zhao Rong often read miscellaneous books and dabbled in some books written by hundreds of schools of thought in the Xuanhuang world. He also understood the differences between this world and the history of his previous life.
Indeed, he discovered many "forgotten treasures".
However, as Yan Jidao said, Zhao Rong was unable to dig these treasure chests because he had a vague understanding of this knowledge but was not refined.
It's like having inspiration but not being able to realize it yourself. It's like guarding a treasure chest without a key to open it.
The situation is exactly the opposite of that of Yan Jidao and other academy gentlemen who were knowledgeable but lacked a ray of inspiration.
And this is one of the reasons why Zhao Rong entered Linlu Academy.
Here, he felt he could get the growth he needed...
With this thought in mind, Zhao Rong looked serious, saluted Mr. Yan who had been staring at him and said, "Sir, teach me."
Yan Jidao was speechless, suddenly turned around, took the sharpening knife and walked towards the leafy maple tree again, "Come here and give me a hand."
Zhao Rongwei was stunned for a while, then walked forward, took a sharpening knife from the stone table, and went to the tree.
However, Zhao Rong was not familiar with this type of farming and was a little afraid of hurting the maple tree, so he stood aside and observed Yan Jidao for a while.
I saw that his movements were skillful and orderly, and the originally lush leaves were cut into pieces by him.
Yan Jidao turned his back to Zhao Rong and suddenly said: "Ziyu, do you know why the maple leaves of this tree are not red in autumn?"
Zhao Rong took a look and found that the maple tree was indeed a bit strange. He casually said: "Is it a lack of fertilizer?"
Yan Jidao shook his head, "The land where the four palaces of Taiqing are located is the blessed land of the Immortal Family. The land is fertile. Where is the lack of fertility here?"
Zhao Rong thought for a while. He originally wanted to say it was because there was not enough sunlight, but he looked at the maple tree with less red leaves and found that the courtyard was open and there were no buildings to block the sunlight.
Zhao Rong pondered, "Is it because of the lack of water? I heard that red maple has a high demand for clean water."
Yan Jidao shook his head again, stretched out his hand, and pointed to the well in the corner of the courtyard, "There is a water source underground, and the red maple has deep roots. Why is there a lack of water?"
Zhao Rong frowned slightly and raised his head to look at this red maple, which was obviously in a very good environment, but its leaves were not red.
Yan Jidao also looked up with him.
The two of them were silent for a while.
Zhao Rong frowned and was speechless.
Yan Jidao looked calm.
at some point.
Yan Jidao said softly: "This red maple is just because it has great fertility and no shortage of water and sunlight, so it grows without restraint and becomes as lush as it is now."
He withdrew his gaze and glanced at Zhao Rong.
"It looks healthy and strong, but because of the disorderly growth of the branches and leaves, most of the leaves cannot get sunlight, and the inside is not well ventilated. How do you think these maple leaves can turn red?"
Yan Jida said in a deep voice: "The maple trees are supposed to be the most beautiful in autumn, but now the maples are not red. They are not as good as each year. They even forget about autumn."
Yan Jidao stretched out his hand and waved, "Look at this huge Taiqing four mansions, whether they are trees or people, there are many, many, are they all like this?"
He stood with his hands behind his back, looked up at the red maples of Forget Autumn, and whispered to himself.
"If it were planted in our Linlu Academy, it would never be like this, never."
Zhao Rong remained silent, turned around and saluted with his fists clasped.