"Jinyun!"
Lin Banjian was playing with a toy dog that barked when its tail was pulled. When he saw the person coming, he excitedly jumped off the chair and pounced into Mu Jinyun's arms.
Mu Jinyun gave it a big hug.
"Your outfit suits you perfectly today! My Hanmi looks so pretty!"
Lin Banjian excitedly spun around to show him his new clothes.
The dress was light yellow, a color she had never worn before. When Duan Yao asked her whether she wanted to wear the pink one or the light yellow one, she initially wanted to wear the pink one, but then she thought of "half-sunflower" as a vibrant color, and since light yellow was very similar to half-sunflower, she chose the light yellow one without hesitation.
Hui Shi specially braided two braids for her and pinned them with small silver butterflies. The butterflies would flutter their wings as she moved, so Lin Banjian started hopping around from the morning.
"Have you had breakfast yet?" Mu Jinyun asked her.
"I've already eaten! The custard buns are so delicious!" Lin Banjian gestured with her little hands, saying that the custard buns were especially delicious and that she had eaten several herself.
Mu Jinyun laughed, "Eat more, Banjian, so you can grow tall!"
"Okay! I want to grow tall, so tall that I can reach the sky!"
Mu Jinyun picked her up and weighed her in his arms. "Looks like Banjian really ate a lot!" Then he carried her outside.
Seeing them leave the courtyard, Lin Ban asked, "Jinyun, where are we going?"
"Go to my study, I'll teach Banjian to read."
read!
Lin Banjian was very happy. After all, studying was a good thing. Her brother was praised by everyone because he studied well, and the neighbors envied her parents because of him.
"I love reading!" she exclaimed.
"Really? That's wonderful!" Mu Jinyun was truly surprised that she enjoyed reading. "Then let's go!"
Mu Jinyun's study was large and spacious, with all kinds of books neatly organized and stored away.
Mu Jinyun placed her in his usual seat and then pulled out a copy of "Youxue Qionglin" from the bookshelf.
"Has Hanjian read this book?"
Lin Banjian stared at the cover for a full minute, but of the four words, she only recognized the last one.
Since she hadn't spoken for a long time, Mu Jinyun assumed she had read it, after all, it was considered an introductory book and a required reading for lower grades in Da Ye.
He thought he'd start with a simple book, and if she could read it, he'd consider increasing the difficulty.
"Half-sighted, come here, read this, and I'll explain to you where you don't understand." Mu Jinyun turned to the first page.
Lin Banjian forced herself to look at the words in the book, but unfortunately, she only recognized one of the eight characters in the first sentence.
"……open……"
"What? Can you speak louder, Banjian? I didn't hear you." Mu Jinyun deliberately lowered his head, but Lin Banjian only said this one word before shutting up.
She simply couldn't continue reading.
She bit her lower lip tightly, clutched her sleeve, lowered her head, and tears welled up in her eyes.
How embarrassing...
She never cared when others mocked her before, and even thought she could completely ignore it. But she never expected that in front of him, the hard shell she had built up would be completely shattered, and her inferiority complex would overflow.
For some reason, she felt that she could lose face in front of everyone else, but not in front of him.
Mu Jinyun heard the girl sobbing softly.
"What's wrong? Are your eyes bothering you?" He thought something had happened to her, so he carefully cupped her face, wiped away her tears, and examined her eyes closely, but found nothing wrong.
"Are you feeling unwell anywhere?" he asked softly.
Lin Banjian just shook her head; she couldn't say, "I don't recognize these words."
Mu Jinyun seemed to understand something. "Banjian, look at my hand. Whichever word I point to, you say it, okay? If you don't recognize it, just shake your head."
Lin Banjian hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.
then……
The first word: shake your head.
The second word: shake your head.
The third word: Still shaking my head.
Mu Jinyun and Lin Banjian: ...
Both of them were a little embarrassed.
Finally, we reached the fourth character.
"open……"
Finally, I've found someone I know!
Mu Jinyun actually felt a sense of relief.
That's great, he's not illiterate...
"Don't be discouraged if you only get halfway through; you've already done a great job!"
Lin Banjian was unaware that the servants' children in the Mu household could recite it by heart as early as four or five years old.
"Next, please read along with me, okay?"
"good."
Mu Jinyun patted her head.
"Let's begin!"
"In the beginning of chaos, heaven and earth were established. The light and pure air rose to become heaven, while the heavy and turbid air condensed to become earth..."
Lin Banjian followed his finger and read out each word carefully, "In the beginning of chaos, heaven and earth were established..."
The morning passed just like that, and the two of them ate lunch in the study.
After lunch, Lin Banjian kept pestering him to teach her to read, but Mu Jinyun, mindful of her young age, urged her to take a nap.
So Lin Banjian slept on the bed in the inner room where he usually rested, while he took out a few other books to read.
Does Jinyun usually sleep on this bed?
She rested her head on the pillow, sniffing carefully, but could only smell a pleasant incense.
She was enveloped in the fragrance and fell into a deep sleep.
In the afternoon, I no longer just read, but wrote.
Lin Banjian could barely write; aside from very simple characters, the only thing she could write was her own name.
So he simply had her sit on his lap, wrapped her little hands in his big hands, and taught her stroke by stroke, starting from the beginning.
After learning several characters, she was clearly very happy and asked him, "Jinyun, how do you write your name?"
"My name? Since you're so eager to learn, I'll teach you!"
So he took her hand and wrote his name down.
"The surname of Jinyun is so complicated!" This was completely unexpected for her.
"Just practice a few more times! Banjian is so smart, he'll definitely learn it quickly!"
"Hmm!" His words clearly gave her a lot of encouragement, and she wrote it down several more times from memory.
Back in his courtyard that evening, Lin Banjian resumed his studies.
Duan Yao and the others stood to one side, serving ink and brushes, and preparing tea and food.
"Miss is truly diligent." Duan Yao gave her another sheet of paper.
"I want to learn more!" She never put down her pen.
Back when she lived with the Lin family, although early childhood education was mandatory, she did all sorts of housework every day, so tired that she would fall asleep in class. Sometimes, her parents would even ask her to take leave so she could help out, so she didn't learn anything at all.
But now that she has such a good learning environment, she can't let everyone down.
It was very late when, after much coaxing, Lin Banjian was finally coaxed into bed. She even asked for a book to put under her pillow, saying that the knowledge in the book would enter her brain when she went to sleep at night.
Everyone agreed with her. Duan Yao carefully compared the books and finally chose a thin one, but Lin Banjian said no, "I don't want a thin one, I want a thick one!"
Duan Yao was worried that her neck would hurt when she slept at night, so she coaxed her, "Miss, you've only just started learning. Reading is like eating; you can't become fat overnight. Let's choose this book for today, and when you understand more and more, we can switch to a thicker one, okay?"
Lin Banjian thought about it and found it made a lot of sense. He carefully placed the book under his pillow, looking forward to waking up the next morning as a great scholar, speaking eloquently and fluently.
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