Rebel

The next day at school, Gu Shi sent Gu Ao to the gate of Mrs. Tian's yard early, and Tian Rong came out soon, and the old lady who followed Tian Rong said to Gu Shi: "Your child didn't talk to the third young master yesterday. When I came back with the school bag, my wife asked."

Tian Rong knew that he couldn't tolerate Tian Song and Tian Bai, so he relied on Gu Ao, now seeing what the old lady said, he softly agreed: "Rongrong is old, Rongrong can carry it by himself."

Gu Shi was taken aback, and hurriedly said to Gu Ao: "You left school yesterday, why didn't you carry your school bag for the young master?"

Gu Ao didn't dare to say that Master Jian looked down on his background and added extra subjects for himself, so he could only say: "I borrowed books from Master yesterday, it was too late."

Tian Rong immediately said, "I couldn't wait, so I left first."

The old lady is Mrs. Tian's old servant, relying on her ability to speak in front of Mrs. Tian, ​​she said: "How can there be a reason why the young master waits to accompany you?"

Gu Ao said: "I was wrong, I will remember next time."

Only then did the old lady let Gu Ao and Gu Shi go, and sent the two of them to the family school in the east wing.After the old lady left, Gu Ao said: "Put the bookbag on the table today, and send it to the madam's yard when I go back."

Tian Rong observed Gu Ao's face, but he couldn't see any emotion. He was afraid that he would get angry because of this matter, and the next time Tian Song and Tian Bai bullied him, there would be no one to help him, so he said, "Rongrong is waiting for you." .”

Hearing this, Gu Ao couldn't help but glance at Tian Rong.Seeing Gu Ao looking at him, Tian Rong smiled flatteringly at Gu Ao as if to flatter Mrs. Tian, ​​Gu Ao was a little uncomfortable being laughed at, thinking: "He is obviously a boy, but he has dimples when he smiles. , and a round face, like a girl." Although Gu Ao thought so, he also knew that Tian Rong was protecting him, so he couldn't help but get close to Tian Rong.

Early this morning, Master Jian asked the Tian brothers and Gu Ao to silently write down the words they learned yesterday.It's nothing more than "the heaven and the earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric", a total of eight characters; in the end, Gu Ao has to recite "Initial Chapter" alone.Tian Song and Tian Bai looked at the densely packed bamboo slips full of talismans that Gu Ao handed to Mrs. Jian, and they were waiting to read a joke. Tian Rong also lowered his eyes worriedly.

Jian Pu watched this scene with great interest, and the moods of the four were varied... Children are not good at hiding their emotions, but within two days, their temper has already been touched by him.Seeing Gu Ao standing in the hall, not avoiding anyone, Lang Lang memorized the "Initial Chapter" verbatim.Jian Pu controlled his approving gaze, pretending to be stern and said: "Shang Ke, I will recite the second chapter tomorrow, so I can't relax."

Tian Songtian and Baiben were waiting to see the joke, and seeing that Mrs. Jian let go of Gu Ao, they were a little disappointed. Only Tian Rong didn't miss the flash of affirmation in Mrs. Jian's eyes. ...Although he didn't understand what was going on, Tian Rong kept the matter of "It seems that the master is not all bad to Gu Ao" in his heart.

As usual, Jian Pu opened the book to give lectures, dismantled and studied "the sun and moon are full and flat, and the celestial constellations are listed". From the three emperors and five emperors to establish the moon decree, divide the solar terms, set the leap month, talk about the division of the year, month and day, the cold and summer climate, and talk about the directions of the stars and constellations. , Cangjie’s creation of characters, etc. Seeing Gu Ao’s pensive look, he thought he was impatient to listen to the class, and his mind was wandering away, so Jian Pu asked: “In class, what are you thinking about?”

Gu Aoguo was really out of his mind, he had already thought of the time when his father took him to see the stars when he was a child, when Master Jian asked him, he said: "Master, why do all the stars move, but Ziwei star does not?"

When Jian Pu heard this, he was stunned.In fact, the question asked by Gu Ao is extremely simple, that is, the meaning of the question itself.But to Jian Pu's ears, it's not the same.Ziweixing, also known as Beichen, said in the Analects, "...Beichen lives in its place and all the stars arch over it." It compares the North Star to the kingly way. Then moved the weakest part of his heart, Jian Pu said excitedly: "That's because Ziwei star lives in the clouds, but it is different from other changing stars, it is like an emperor who hangs down and rules."

As he said that, Jian Pu's chatterbox opened up. From the decline of the kingly way, the people's hearts are not ancient, to how to revive the benevolent government, the Tian brothers were speechless and almost didn't understand what it meant, but Gu Ao suddenly thought of his father returning to Zhuangzi The words he said on the road, followed the meaning that Jian Pu just explained, and blurted out: "The so-called fools are easy to hide, unworthy people are easy to fear, greedy people are easy to seduce, if they are governed, the world will be for me. .”

Jian Pu was stunned there when he heard the words, and couldn't help but stop, stopped his big talk, and looked at Gu Ao in disbelief.

But this time Jian Pu really wronged Gu Ao this time.As the old saying goes, when a child speaks philosophical words, his life is beyond the philosophical words.The old man speaks philosophical words, and his life is within the philosophical words.When Gu Ben said this sentence back then, it was a profound understanding from his personal experience; but when Gu Ao said this sentence, it was just a quotation plus inference.

But Jian Pu didn't see it that way, his eyes were already shining. At this moment, in his eyes, Gu Ao could almost directly compete with the prodigy disciple of his senior brother who was "born to be able to speak".

Jian Pu realized his gaffe, and immediately put away his partial eyes. Tian Song and Tian Bai were still confused, but Tian Rong could see clearly.In fact, he has completely inherited the cunning of his biological mother, but he almost instinctively found that Mrs. Tian didn't like him who was too clever, so he turned on the road of being obedient and never returned.Although Tian Rong didn't understand what was going on, he finally knew—Master actually liked Gu Ao.

This day's class can be described as turbulent, but it's a pity that only Jian Pu knew about such a big wave in his heart, Tian Rong was aware of it, but Tian Song, Tian Bai and Gu Ao knew nothing about it.As usual, Gu Ao was kept after class, but Jian Pu gave him the second volume of Bing Lue and taught him to read it five times, so he lent him the bamboo slips.

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Gu Shi is very worried now, his son does not eat well every day, and runs away after eating a few mouthfuls. He mutters to Gu Ben all day long, so he said to Gu Ben, "Ao'er used to eat two bowls of food every meal, and also ate a lot of meat and melons and fruits." , now I only eat one bowl, and I don’t eat much meat, and I don’t eat melons and fruits anymore.”

Gu Ben thought to himself: "Master Jian is too anxious, why did you force my son like this."

He followed the voice and walked behind Gu Ao, and patted Gu Ao. Gu Ao was startled, and he didn't dare to stop, so he ran away and shouted: "I'm afraid I'll forget, don't you?" You want to tease me!" After finishing speaking, he continued to read the bamboo slips.Gu Ben was a little distressed, and felt that Gu Ao still had to eat rice, so he said: "Go and eat a melon, eat the meat on the plate, add another bowl of rice, and then carry it."

Gu Ao was getting better and better, but was annoyed by Gu Ben's interruption, so he said: "I don't!"

Gu Ben said leisurely: "You have been reading for so long, I will recite it. Hurry up and eat the melon. If there are words that you can't forget after eating, I will remember them."

Gu Ao was taken aback, thinking: "I've read it so many times, how good is Dad, I can recite it long ago, not as useless as me, now it's okay to eat a melon." Then he happily said When he went to eat melons, his mother, Gushi hurriedly served him another bowl of rice and put it beside him.Gu Ao ate so much that he cleaned up a plate of meat, and his belly swelled up.Gu Shi said to Gu Ben: "Look at this child who is tired from reading and has finished eating all the meat."

Gu Ben nodded, and said to Gu Ao, "Go to sleep for a while, when I get up, I will recite it to you."

Gu Ao was convinced, and fell asleep on the bed.

In less than an hour, Gu Ao got up and rinsed his mouth, Gu Ben recited the article for Gu Ao, Gu Ao held the bamboo slips and looked at it, understood everything, and went to recite the text again.

In this way, Master Jian has been talking about "the predicate is helpful", the Tian brothers have already been able to read and write a thousand characters, and Gu Ao has also written the entire Bing Lue, Liu Tao, and Guiguzi's predecessors. I have finished memorizing the three chapters, although I can't explain the meaning, but because of the memorization, I have learned a lot of words, and now I don't have to work so hard to memorize others.Now that Jian Pu gave Gu Ao a scroll, Gu Ao can see many of the words in the scroll with his eyes, and remember what to read, so he no longer needs the help of his father Gu Ben.

Tian Song and Tian Bai have always regarded Gu Ao's memorization and hard study as Master Jian's punishment for him. Every time he saw him studying, he made things difficult and mocked: "The noble is self-respecting, and the lowly is self-deprecating. What the master taught you is low Even if you study the Fa well, you are still a lowly person, I think you should get out of the way before it's too late!"

Tian Rong was also on the side at this time. Hearing Tian Bai's words, he was a little angry, and said smartly: "Nonsense, Master likes him very much!"

Tian Song usually did not participate in Tian Bai's crusade against Gu Ao, but now he heard Tian Rong's words, but he couldn't help laughing: "He is admonished by the master every day like a slave. It must be that the master hates him, but you say Like, like the word, where does it come from?"

After learning so many characters, Tian Rong felt that he had grown up, so he snorted triumphantly: "You have never seen Master look into his eyes!"

Tian Song and Tian Bai were taken aback when they heard that, they felt that Mrs. Jian looked at Gu Ao with severe eyes.But these words fell into Gu Ao's ears, but his heart was moved.After such a long time, he did find that Mrs. Jian paid more attention to him than the three Tian brothers.In class, I often ask him; after school, I often teach him.

Although he had realized in his heart that Mrs. Jian was extraordinary to him, the word 'like' still made Gu Ao's hairs stand on end.So he said: "The master doesn't like me, the master is grinding me!"

Seeing Gu Ao's retort, Tian Rong couldn't help curling her lips, feeling extremely wronged.I thought, I am talking for you!

Tian Song and Tian Bai also snorted when they heard the words.

The four children didn't know that what the word "sharpening" contained was the liking of liking, the appreciation of appreciation.