Chapter 18 Borrowing Books
Author: Tao Gepo
After school.
"Brother Xun, do you have any books? Let me read them."
"Yes, you come back with me and I will get it for you."
Runtu decided to read more books.
He had to make good use of the hundred times flow rate of space.
Diligence can make up for weakness. As long as you are in space, you will have dozens or hundreds of times more time than others. With this extra time, you must be better than others no matter what.
At this time, Runtu had no money, otherwise he could go to the bookstore to buy it.
Since I can't buy it for the time being, I'll borrow it.
Follow Brother Xun to the Zhou family compound.
After knowing that the two were now classmates, the housekeeper of the Zhou family stopped trying to stop Runtu.
Soon we arrived at Brother Xun’s study.
The Zhou family is now a large family in the county, but the situation will gradually become much worse in the future.
Runtu didn't dare to change Brother Xun's situation casually. If without these experiences, the world-famous writer would have some butterfly effect, which would be a very big loss.
There are many books in the study room.
Brother Xun took a copy and said, "Brother Runtu, here, this is my favorite book. I saved up money for a long time and asked A Chang's mother to buy it."
It is his most precious book.
Runtu took it and looked at the name of the book on it, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which was a bit interesting.
There are some weird and bizarre things depicted in it.
After looking at this book, there are signs of frequent flipping, but it is very well preserved.
Brother Xun loves books very much and likes to copy books. When he reads, he always wipes the table clean to see if his fingers are dirty. Books will not be placed on a dirty table. Dirty
My hands can't even turn the pages of books.
What he dislikes the most is his habit of scratching the pages with his fingers to make the corners of the book curl up, and then pinching him to turn the pages.
I also specially prepared a box to hold the books, and put moth balls in it to prevent mosquitoes from biting me.
Although he had so many habits, Brother Xun didn't say anything. He just said to Runtu, "Brother Runtu, this is my favorite book. Please return it to me after you finish reading it."
"Thank you. Brother Xun, are there any other books? I want to read a few more at once."
He was stunned for a moment, maybe he didn't like the book, "Yes, I'll get it for you again."
Two more books were quickly brought over.
Runtu took the book and read it, good fellow, a Journey to the West and a Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
No wonder Brother Xun, who is very smart, had a rough road to becoming a scholar.
In this day and age, reading a book like this is tantamount to playing with things and losing one's ambition.
But perhaps it was precisely because of reading such books that my mind became more open-minded, and that led to the creation of the greatest writers and thinkers in the future.
The book is a good book, but it is not what Runtu needs urgently now. He now reads books with a purpose, and said: "Brother Xun, are there any others? For example, "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius"
Kind of."
"Yes, please wait."
He was stunned. He had never thought that Brother Xun wanted a book like this. It was a bit surprising to him.
He also read these books, but they were far less interesting than "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Journey to the West", and "The Romance of the Gods".
I can go three days and three nights without eating when reading The Classics of Mountains and Seas, but this is not the case with books like The Analects of Confucius. Reading for a long time will make me sleepy.
He quickly brought a few more books over and said, "Brother Runtu, take a look at these. They are the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, and the "Historical Records" and "Zuo Zhuan" you want."
Runtu's eyes lit up when he saw them.
These books still have many connections with the imperial examination.
"Very good."
Runtu brought over five books, the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Shi Ji, Zuo Zhuan, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Prepare to read these five books first.
As soon as I returned to the inn, I entered the space and read a book.
There is more time in space.
The key is that once you arrive in space, you won’t know the feeling of tiredness.
Although there are five books.
But the word count is relatively small.
The Historical Records has more words, but there is only one volume of it.
Not much.
At the beginning, Runtu only took a rough look.
Take a look at the general content.
Although they are all in Traditional Chinese.
I still know most of the words.
There are also some unknown words.
I recorded everything and wrote it on rice paper.
The proportion of unknown words is still very small.
Time is unknown in space.
Soon, Runtu had read all five books with hundreds of thousands of words.
After reading it for the first time, start reading it intensively and try to understand it.
If you want to memorize it, it will take much more time.
You don’t need to memorize anything else for the time being, but the Analects of Confucius and Mencius must be memorized in full.
There are not many words.
After arriving in the space, Runtu's consciousness became clear and his memory felt much stronger.
You can remember it roughly after reading it once.
After reading it five times, I felt that all the content in the book was in my mind.
Thinking of this, Runtu was a little excited.
Although I am a bit older.
But according to the progress of this study, Jinshi dare not say that those are rare, and there may not be one in a county.
If it comes to raising people, Runtu feels that he can give it a try.
Now it still belongs to the era of the Qing Dynasty. It was still a time when everything was low-class and only high-level students could study well. If you had an official position, your life would be more comfortable. Counting the time, the Qing Dynasty still had more than ten years left.
Time is completely unknown in space.
It just feels like a long, long time has passed.
The Analects of Confucius made me recite the entire text.
Being able to memorize a book in one day is already very fast.
Runtu was quite satisfied, and his consciousness retreated from the space.
Open the window of the room and look at the street. It is still daytime at this time, and it seems that only one or two hours have passed in real life.
That means that I have been in space for nearly two hundred hours.
It looks like it's still early.
I have no money again.
Runtu went to the medicine shop again.
The shopkeeper of the medicine shop still has some impressions of Runtu.
"Boss, I still have some garden ginseng here, would you like to take it?"
"Of course I'll charge it, little brother, it's still the same price as last time."
"no problem."
This time I got more money.
Because this time the garden ginseng has been in space for a longer time and has a longer vintage.
Two of them were sold for eighty taels of silver.
With this money, a full eight taels of silver, I can now live a very comfortable life in the county town.
I was thinking that when the school is on vacation, I would go back home and give my family some money.
After leaving the drug store, I went to the bookstore.
I just spent five taels of silver and bought a few books and a lot of paper.
I used up most of it at once, which made Runtu lament that this study was really a waste of money.
It is very difficult for ordinary people to study.
Better students copy more books, and the paper they use is not that good, so the expenses will be much smaller.
Chapter completed!