Chapter 249: Learning falls into the human world, Young Master Lord Wo Yun!

【"The gentleman is not a vessel, harmonious but not sycophantic."】

【"Among three people walking, there must be my teacher!"】

【Hua An looked at several sentences, all from "Holy Words," which was not surprising, and people in Great Qi were quite familiar with them.】

【Except for the first sentence, he had indeed never heard it.】

【"The sound of wind, the sound of rain, the sound of reading, every sound enters the ear. Family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, every affair is concerned."】

【Even a person like Hua An who practiced medicine couldn't help but admire it. The words were loud and catchy, like a subtle couplet, and the deep meaning contained within was even more memorable.】

【Hua An didn't think this was done by the young man, mostly just copied.】

【It was just that the ink handwriting above was particularly prominent.】

【Hua An picked up the book, except for the black characters printed with oil ink.】

【The handwriting of the annotations on the side was fair and rigorous, exactly the same as the printed characters.】

【He was surprised in his heart and turned the pages forward. At first, the handwriting was crooked and not in shape, like a child learning for the first time.】

【However, after a few pages, the handwriting became upright, exactly the same as the printed characters.】

【Hua An was surprised and asked: "Is this handwriting written by the young master?"】

【You nodded faintly.】

【Hua An doubted: "Looking at the young master's appearance, it seems that no one has taught you to practice calligraphy, right?"】

【You laughed: "Not yet, I haven't taken off the eye cloth during the day, I just imitated the characters on the book by moonlight at night."】

【Hua An couldn't believe it. He had seen the handwriting of many young masters and young ladies in the Xie mansion. Although there was no lack of outstanding works, they were all guided by someone early.】

【But Xie Guan had no copybook to compare, and was written by a young man with eye disease, yet it could be so upright.】

【As the saying goes, the handwriting is the person.】

【Xie Hong, the second master of the Xie family, was famous for his calligraphy. It is said that the water in the pool where he washed his brushes and inkstones was dyed black, which was cited as a beautiful story.】

【Hua An could often come to the small courtyard, besides the fact that this place did not make him uncomfortable like other Xie mansion courtyards, although he was an official doctor of the Xie family, he was actually a slave of the Xie family.】

【The master and the slave were in the same room, and he always felt like sitting on pins and needles.】

【But in this small courtyard, although Xie Guan was also a descendant of the Xie family, he had no airs, making Hua An feel no pressure, which was the first.】

【The second was, perhaps because this Guan Young Master, although young, had a calmness like an adult.】

【The young man handled things appropriately, was filial, and exuded an indescribable temperament, making Hua An feel close.】

【Unfortunately, Xie Guan's status was quite awkward, and I am afraid it would be difficult to stand out in the Xie mansion.】

【Hua An asked: "I heard that Lady Yuan hired a tutor for Young Master Guan. The lunar month of winter is almost over, why haven't I seen him come yet?"】

【Sister Wu Tong said indignantly: "The maid of the big courtyard said that the two teachers, one recently caught a cold, I am afraid it will have to wait until next year."】

【"The other one came six days ago, but only left two books "Four Kingdoms Zuo Zuo Zhuan" and "Doctrine of the Mean" for the young master, as well as his literary selection and annotations of the two books, saying that he must memorize them before coming again."】

【"But these two books add up to more than 70,000 words, plus annotations, almost 400,000 words."】

【"This is clearly not wanting to teach, deliberately making things difficult for people."】

【Your face did not show anger.】

【Hua An suddenly remembered someone and said: "Could this person be Scholar Dong of Changning Street?"】

【Sister Wu Tong said helplessly: "It is exactly this Dong Shao, Scholar Dong."】

【Hua An laughed: "He is like this, although he has knowledge, he is quite stubborn and pedantic. He became a scholar in his teens, but unexpectedly wasted thirty years, and is still just a scholar."】

【There is a saying in Great Qi: "Thirty old Mingjing, fifty young Metropolitan Graduate."】

【This shows the difficulty of the imperial examination. Besides his own talent, he also needs someone to promote him. When Emperor Zhang of Qi was on the throne, it had been four hundred years, and at that time the imperial examination "did not cover names," and the candidate's name, native place, address, and even the ancestors' officials and teachers all had to be written down.】

【Therefore, for a time, those who took the scholars were mostly people from high-ranking families. It was not until later that the Master reformed this measure, the examination implemented the name-covering system, and the questioners were all teachers of the academy, and this situation improved.】

【The Master of Great Qi is not only the head of the academy, but also the person with the highest knowledge of the generation, inherited by the Master of the previous generation after his death.】

【Since the founding of Great Qi, it has gone through forty generations of emperors, moved the capital twice, experienced prosperity and decline, and had Emperor Wen restore the country, and has been passed down for more than 1,200 years.】

【At the beginning of the founding of the country, the academy was founded, and so far there have only been two Masters.】

【The first Master returned to the human world two hundred years after ascending to heaven, established the academy and accepted disciples, and finally died in the academy, leaving the academic orthodoxy in Great Qi.】

【Learning fell into the human world!】

【The second Master has lived until now, went to the East Sea to seek immortals two hundred years ago, and has not returned yet.】

【In the south, there is Buddha establishing a sect, the Buddha's son was born with lotus flowers blooming overnight, and the east wall of the Buddha temple collapsed.】

【In the north, there are Tatars who believe in the Eternal Heaven, the Heavenly Mandate Hero of the Nur family, and the Red Emperor descending to earth recorded in the Tantric sect.】

【In the west, there is also the Sui Dynasty that rose within four hundred years, and the Emperor Cheng of Sui who accidentally entered the fairyland when he was young, stirring up the world's wind and clouds.】

【In the Jianghu, there is a swordsman who watched the tide for twenty years, cut the river with one sword, and flew down three thousand feet; there is a fisherman scholar, the dragon girl came out of the sea to hold the book; there is a half-demon boy, gathered demons and monsters, made waves in the Ze Lake, and built the Dragon Palace.】

【However, the world changes, strong people emerge, the academy Master should be the first, and in this 1,200 years, there has been no dispute in the world.】

【The academy has no name, only the two words "Academy," established in Above Bianjing City, not only a holy place for children of noble families to study, but also the highest place for the whole world to study Confucianism.】

【Today, the Master only has four disciples, and each disciple is a great figure of the time.】

【In Great Qi, if you become a Metropolitan Graduate, you can cultivate with the national fortune of Great Qi, also called Tai Xueshi, and the strong can fight six hundred armored soldiers.】

【The status of a scholar in Great Qi is also not low, serving as an enlightenment teacher, naturally more than enough.】

【Hua An laughed: "Although Scholar Dong has a stubborn personality, his heart is still good. If it weren't for this, with his knowledge, how could he be so desolate in the Xie mansion."】

【"The young masters and young ladies of the Xie mansion all feel disgusted with him, he only reads dead books, and does not understand the ways of the world. These golden branches and jade leaves, the treasures in the hands of the mistresses in the courtyard."】

【"He can be slightly dissatisfied, he will punish them with hand boards, or even drive them out of the classroom."】

【"The mistresses in the courtyard went to plead, but Scholar Dong did not retreat at all, and finally had to remove him from the position of teacher in the Xie family academy."】

【Sister Wu Tong was surprised after hearing this.】

【She didn't expect that the old man with white beard and hair and wearing a Confucian shirt a few days ago was such a person of temper.】

【She originally thought that the old man deliberately made things difficult for their master and servant who were not in power, but now it seems there is another hidden story.】

【Hua An laughed: "Guan Young Master, what do you think of Master Dong?"】

【He also wanted to hear what this young but quite mature "young master" thought.】

【You laughed: "Not as good as Doctor Hua!"】

【Hua An stroked his beard and laughed after hearing this.】

【Sister Wu Tong looked at her young master strangely.】

【The tea water boiling on the stove "gurgled," pushing the lid.】

【The sky outside was drifting with goose-feather snow, a silver-clad world.】

【Sister Wu Tong added firewood, and the room was quite hot.】

【Hua An told some interesting things recently, and Sister Wu Tong listened most seriously.】

【By now, the Xie mansion should have been divided long ago, but after that palace coup in which the Xie family participated, the eldest of the Xie family "fell into trouble," leaving only Xie Ling and Xie Hong.】

【Xie Ling and Xie Hong therefore had a rift, and their relationship was no longer harmonious.】

【The Xie old matriarch was worried that a greater change would occur in the future, so she decided not to divide the family for the time being, but only divided the two courtyards in the Xie mansion.】

【The Great Courtyard is managed by Lady Yuan, the legal wife of Xie Ling. She is also the legitimate mother of the Xie family and is responsible for the management of the inner courtyard's household affairs.】

【The Second Courtyard is managed by Lady Zhao, the legal wife of Xie Hong; the two courtyards also have private disputes.】

【Among the two branches of the Xie family, the big mansion branch was destined to inherit the Marquis title.】

【Although the second courtyard did not have it, the current Xie Hong was friends with the great officials in the court today. Xie Hong was very bitter when he studied when he was young, was filial and polite, and was intelligent, almost becoming the fifth disciple of the Master.】

【Regarding this Xie Hong who has not returned for several years, Lady Yuan actually still harbors some fear in her heart.】

【Plus the Xie old matriarch was here today, and there were no disputes between the two courtyards on the surface.】

【However, the "jealousy" in private was on the cultivation of the next generation.】

【Otherwise, Xie Yu's progress in studies this year would be rewarded to each courtyard, making such a big move.】

【Sister Wu Tong talked and laughed with the maids of each courtyard, and did not know the storms in the Xie family like Hua An, who had been the official doctor of the Xie family for generations, and was very curious for a while, listening intently.】

【You suddenly interrupted: "Sister Wu Tong, there seems to be a visitor outside the courtyard!"】

【Sister Wu Tong was surprised, but knew that since the young master could not see, his hearing had become quite sharp.】

【Often able to hear the movement outside the courtyard.】

【Sister Wu Tong was curious, who would come to the small courtyard in such cold weather.】

【She opened the room door and looked at eight or nine people surrounding a young master stepping on thick snow, walking one deep and one shallow in the wind and snow.】

【Sister Wu Tong frowned and looked back: "It's Young Master Yuan from the big courtyard, bringing a theater troupe, I don't know why he came here."】

【Once Hua An heard it was the Young Master Yuan from the Great Courtyard, he hurriedly rose from the brick bed.】

【Xie Yuan, thirteen years old this year, big mansion branch, born to Xie Ling's second wife, his mother was also one of the Nine Major Surnames, the Empress Zhuge family, and the current Empress Dowager was surnamed Empress Zhuge.】

【Lady Empress Zhuge and Xie Ling were childhood sweethearts. If it weren't for Lady Yuan's intervention, she would have been the legal wife; Xie Ling feels indebted to her.】

【Xie Yuan is the fifth in this generation of the Great Courtyard and is deeply loved by his father. He is the second son of Lady Empress Zhuge; the first son unfortunately died young, so he dotes on this only young son extremely.】

【Xie Yuan had developed an arrogant and extravagant personality since childhood.】

【On the streets of Above Bianjing, if he saw someone flying a kite and thought it was fun, he would buy thousands of kites at will and fly them wantonly in Above Bianjing City.】

【After the kites were blown away by the wind, he would even dispatch the palace guards to search for them, and if they were picked up by the children of the people, he would not be angry, but would redeem the kites with a hundred gold.】

【If he encountered an object he liked in the market, and the price reported by the shopkeeper was too low, he would be unhappy instead, and would insist on raising the price for that object himself, only then would he be satisfied to include it in his collection.】

【As for reading and studies, for Xie Yuan, it was no different from hard work, he longed more for the Jianghu of a promise worth a thousand gold and happy enmity.】

【Now thirteen years old, he had long been tired of the boredom and constraints of the classroom, and was addicted to martial arts practice all day, ignoring book matters.】

【Lady Empress Zhuge, as his mother, seems to have little restraint regarding this.】

【Gradually, Xie Yuan even gave himself a Jianghu nickname "Lord Wo Yun Young Master," requiring everyone in the mansion, whether servants or maids, to call him by this name, and if there was any mistake, it would be a stick disaster, making the maids and maids in the big mansion "hear the wind and be afraid," staying away from him.】

【What is even more staggering is that Xie Yuan often gave the beautiful maids in the mansion to the beggars on the street at will.】

【Sister Wu Tong felt a little uneasy, she had heard the little sisters talk about this Young Master Yuan, knowing that he was the most fickle, so she naturally walked to your side.】

【You hadn't had time to get up to greet him, and Xie Yuan had already walked into the room with big strides.】

【Hua An saluted: "Seen Lord Wo Yun Young Master!"】

【You were covered with white gauze, used to not using your eyes to see, only heard the messy footsteps and sneering laughter, and the scent that hit people, it should be the group of people Xie Yuan brought in.】

【Sister Wu Tong looked at the group behind Xie Yuan, they were all fourteen or fifteen-year-old handsome boys, each dressed brightly and spirited.】

【They were all sound artists from the theater, good at blowing, pulling, playing, and singing, each with their own strengths. In Great Qi, famous scholars often had the custom of pressing prostitutes, and those who liked male color were also not in the minority, especially among scholars, this phenomenon was more common.】

【Families often kept white-lipped and red-toothed book boys to prevent ruining the family style.】

【Xie Yuan loved listening to books, so there was always a group of sound artists around him to enjoy at any time.】

【Sister Wu Tong was seeing this Lord Wo Yun Young Master for the first time.】

【He wore a fox fur, had a slender figure, tied with a silver belt at his waist, hung with a slingshot, a sword inlaid with jade on the left, a perfume bag on the right, a high crown on his head, handsome features, and extremely thin lips.】

【A pair of sleeping silkworm eyes, indescribably romantic.】

【It is said that Xie Yuan's appearance is extremely like his father Xie Ling when he was young, so he is also deeply loved by the Xie old matriarch.】

【Xie Yuan looked at Hua An and smiled: "Doctor Hua, you are here too, it seems I didn't run this trip in vain."】

【Hua An heard this, his heart couldn't help but tighten. He had previously been assessed by Xie Yuan for medical skills, requiring him to take the pulse of a woman, guess whether the child in her belly had hands and feet, and then cut open the woman's belly to verify, scaring the woman to kneel and beg for mercy.】

【That experience still makes Hua An have lingering fears.】

【Therefore, facing Xie Yuan's inquiry, Hua An just barely squeezed out a smile, but didn't dare to reply easily.】

【He was afraid that if he said something wrong, he would attract Xie Yuan's difficulty again.】

【Xie Yuan came to Guan Young Master here this time, I am afraid it is not good.】

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