Chen Jianchen stretched out his hand to support Zhuge Wolong and said with a smile: "Sir, be careful where you step!"
But Zhuge Wolong didn't care and said: "I have fallen countless times in my life, and I don't care anymore."
Chen Jianchen said: "Even so, wrestling is never a good thing."
Zhuge Wolong laughed, barely stood firm, and said: "You are quite interesting, baby. Why don't you go in and have a drink with me?"
Chen Jianchen bowed and said: "It is better to obey orders than to be respectful."
At that moment, Zhuge Wolong pulled Chen Jianchen into the house, followed closely by Wang Fu.
Entering inside, the smell of alcohol was overwhelming. The surroundings were empty, but there was a bed, a table and two chairs. The layout was very simple. Zhuge Wolong and Chen Jianchen each sat on one of the two chairs, and Wang Fu had to stand.
I was very busy moving and pouring wine under the command.
Normally, Wang Fu would never do this kind of heavy work, but now in order to please his husband and read the manuscript of "Stone Dreams", he had no choice but to compromise.
Chen Jianchen was a weak drinker, so Mr. Zhuge would often take a long sip before he took a sip to express his feelings.
Mr. Zhuge didn't care at all. As he drank, he started to get mad. He slapped the table and cursed loudly. He didn't look like an old man in his seventies at all:
"My whole life, I have been upright and upright. I have never owed anything to anyone, let alone ghosts and gods. How come this thief, God, can't get along with me? It's either wind or rain, and I can't live in peace for even a moment. From what I see, how can there be gods in the sky? Why, God?
There is an eye everywhere..."
After cursing God, he stood up, sighed sadly, clapped his hands and chanted: "Literacy has become a worry in life, and the corners of my head have become dull and wasted; I have written thousands of words horizontally and vertically, but there is not much ink and many tears... I have no hope of taking the imperial examination, so I turn to
If you want to make a statement, but it is too small to say the least, there are several volumes of books that say that you cannot eat when you are hungry, and you cannot clothe yourself when you are cold, so you must pretend to be weird, but it is just sensationalism, which is really sad and deplorable!"
As he spoke, tears flowed down his face.
When Chen Jianchen heard this, he felt sad and deeply sympathized with the old man's plight - in the Tiantong Dynasty, there were many scholars and scholars who studied the books of sages and sages, and only a very small number of them could win the exam. Similar to Zhuge Wolong.
There are countless down-and-out scholars who have read all the poems and books and failed to pass the imperial examinations all their lives. It’s just that they don’t have Zhuge Wolong’s talent and can write many magnificent novels, so they all silently turn into the dust of history.
Taking the Eight-part Examination is by no means easy.
Memorizing the four books by heart is just an entry-level basic skill; from breaking the topic to completing the article, long-term writing practice is the process of getting started; and in the last step, it is also extremely important to grasp the structure of the word count and figure out the examiner's meaning.
Articles in the world are all about benevolence and wisdom. There is no standard answer at all. No matter how you write a flower, if it does not meet the examiner's intention and is not in tune, it will be easily dismissed in the end and there will be no hope of passing the exam.
It is said that "Confucianism is respected only", but Confucianism is not monolithic. After thousands of years of development, it has already differentiated and derived many schools, Shantou.
The ideological differences between these schools are often very different. In the imperial court, there were also many schools of thought that competed with each other, thus competing for the power to preside over various government affairs.
In this way, candidates need to master the "degree" when facing questions and assess the situation. The same question can often express different central ideas to cater to the examiner's taste.
Such a speed is very difficult to master, so there are countless talented people in history who have great talents but have never been able to succeed. Many people have been dealing with the books of sages all their lives, and their thinking has long been rigid. How can they turn around this corner?
Listening to Mr. Zhuge's complaints, Wang Fu became a little impatient. He came here to read pornographic books, not to listen to complaints. Then he caught an opportunity and interrupted and asked: "Sir, I heard that you are currently visiting
He wrote a unique book called "Dreams from the Stone", can I let my students take a look at it?"
Zhuge Wolong suddenly became furious: "If you don't lend it, you won't give it to me!"
He picked up the drink and poured it on Wang Fu.
He suddenly turned his face, faster than flipping through a book. Wang Fu was startled and couldn't run away in time. A large piece of his clothes had been soaked.
This robe was worth a lot of money, but wine had been poured on it and a large piece of it was stained. Wang Fu felt sorry for it and was quite angry, but he couldn't get angry, so he had to turn around and run out to find water to clean it.
After he went out, Zhuge Wolong suddenly smiled and said to Chen Jianchen: "You are different, this kid is a bit interesting. Well, since you are willing to drink with me, I will give you this book. After you think about it, you will definitely have some ideas."
benefit."
As he said this, he took out a blue-covered book from under the mat. The title on the cover was clear: "Stone Dreams".
Chen Jianchen was surprised. He took it and opened it to see what kind of ghost fox erotic book it was. It was clearly a notebook, and each chapter in it was very clearly recorded. They were all Zhuge Wolong's imperial examinations in his life.
The summed up summary of the experience is clearly written in regular regular script, and the analysis is incisive and clear at a glance.
It is simply a model work for learning Eight-part Pattern.
There is a sentence written in elegant fonts on the title page of the book: To win a scholar with stereotypes is like farting; but if you don’t fart, you don’t know the stench!
Chen Jianchen smiled hoarsely, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, as if lightning was flying across the sky. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have entered a misunderstanding before.
——In other words, because of his outsider status, when his own concepts fundamentally conflicted with the concepts of different time and space, he subconsciously closed the door of his heart and shut out everything he did not agree with.
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In this way, although the purity of the original heart can be kept, at the same time, the original heart also loses a great opportunity to be tempered.
Just like being autistic!
After figuring out this key point, Chen Jianchen suddenly understood and finally understood the source of the difficulties and annoyance he had been feeling recently - in the process of conflict of ideas, following the crowd is considered inferior, working behind closed doors is considered average, but using doctrine is the only way.
The best way.
By blindly rejecting someone, you unknowingly lock yourself into a cage and become an outsider-like existence, isolated from the world.
Confucius said: At ten, I am determined to learn; at thirty, I am established; at forty, I am not confused; at fifty, I know the destiny; at sixty, my ears are attuned; at seventy, I follow my heart's desires without exceeding the rules...
It is a process of continuous learning and continuous improvement of understanding. There is no end to learning. If you are satisfied with the status quo and resist blindly, how can you learn new things?
The Taoist sect emphasizes being carefree and inactive, but they will still be born in the world, experience the mortal world, and sharpen their Taoist heart; the Buddhists say that the four elements are empty, but they will also travel for alms and taste the various ways of human beings... It is the same truth.
If the eight-gut pattern is like a big dyeing vat or a pair of shackles, only by jumping in and rushing out, putting it on and breaking it can it be truly complete.
Seeing a mountain is a mountain, seeing a mountain is not a mountain, seeing a mountain is still a mountain.
Experiencing change is actually just a thought.
At that moment, Chen Jianchen regained his clarity and suddenly realized that it was not that the dust on the glass had been wiped away or wiped clean, but that the entire glass had disappeared, and such an obstacle no longer existed.
Chi chi chi, light sprouted from the "Sanli Zhenzhang", and a full five characters were lit up in an instant. One row down, it was the ten righteousness that had been stimulated.
Chen Jianchen put away "Dreams from the Stone" and bowed respectfully to Zhuge Wolong: "Thank you, Mr. Sir, for the gift of this book!"