"Hello, Master Qin."
The old man nodded slightly, his eyes passed from Bei Yutang to little Zimo, "Do you want to study?"
"think."
"Do you like reading?" the old man asked again.
"like."
"What books have you read?"
Little Zimo answered them one by one seriously: "Three Character Classic, Thousand Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames."
The old man was in a good mood and wanted to test him, "Can you recite a passage from the Three Character Classic?"
Xiao Zimo nodded.
"Man is born good..."
Little Zimo memorized the entire Three Character Classic in one breath without missing a single word.
"Then do you know the meaning of this?" the old master continued to ask, and his eyes became brighter as he looked at Xiao Zimo.
"When people are born, their nature is good." This means that when people are born, they are inherently good and their innate natures are similar. It is only because of the different environments they live in and the different education they receive that their habits become so different.
It's like a newborn baby, a piece of white paper. If you put the white paper in a black dye vat, it will become black. If you put it in a red dye vat, it will become red.
The old man kept stroking his long beard, and he looked at him with increasing fondness.
The old woman looked at her husband and knew that his old illness had come back again.
"My husband is like this. He asks a lot of questions to every child who comes to study. Some children are even asked to tears by him." The old woman said with a smile.
The old woman looked at Xiao Zimo with fondness in her eyes, "You have taught your child very well."
"Ma'am, you're too kind. I rarely teach him. I just give him a few simple instructions, and he learns the rest on his own. He only asks me questions when he doesn't understand something."
“When did your child start learning?”
Seeing that the little guy can recite it so fluently and even explain the meaning of it, I think it has been a while.
"About a month ago."
When the old woman heard this, her eyes widened and she looked at her in disbelief.
While the two of them were talking, the old teacher had also finished the test. From the way he looked at Xiao Zimo, it was clear that he was very satisfied with this student.
When he asked about the duration of his studies, he reacted like the old woman, filled with shock when he heard it was only a month. Immediately, he looked at Xiao Zimo with a different look in his eyes.
"A good seedling, a good student." Master Qin was very excited.
"Come, follow me to the school."
Xiao Zimo couldn't help but look at Bei Yutang. When he saw his mother nodding at him, he followed the old teacher.
The old woman watched her husband being taken away and shook her head.
"Mrs. Mu, please don't be offended. My husband is like this. When he sees a good seedling, he doesn't care about anything else." The old woman said apologetically.
"It's a blessing for my son that the Master values him so much. How could I care less? I'm overjoyed. I wonder how much this gift is?"
"Five taels of silver."
Without saying a word, Bei Yutang took out five taels of silver from his pocket and presented the six gifts and the four treasures of the study.
When the old woman saw that she had brought such a generous gift, she immediately declined it, saying, "It's not necessary to have so much."
In the countryside, unlike in the city, gifts were mostly made from home products. This was the first time she had seen someone prepare so many things in such a comprehensive manner.
When the old woman looked at Bei Yutang, she felt that she was not an ordinary peasant woman.
From my conversation with her today, I could tell that she was very well-mannered, like a woman from a wealthy family.
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