Crossing the Homeland

Chapter 237

After all, he is a young man, but he is still a little impatient.Mrs. Chen twirled his beard and asked knowingly, "Master Xia, do you feel that you have been wronged?"

Xia Junyan was a bachelor to the end, and nodded decisively: "I have a friendship with my wife, and my wife likes my cooking, so she said a few more words to me. I don't know who listened to it and made up such ugly words. The sage once said that gentlemen are harmonious but different, and villains are united but not harmonious. It must be that the villain does not see other people's good, and spreads rumors because he wants to make trouble."

Mrs. Chen thinks that the shopkeeper Xia reads the Analects very well.Ordinary women also read some women's rules when they study, but she can speak the words of a saint when she opens her mouth.Unless her wife set up a calligraphy class for her alone, she really doesn't need to come to the women's school to study.

Then Xia Junyan invited Mrs. Chen to visit her study, and Mrs. Chen became interested when she heard it.The study room is not big, there are only a row of bookshelves against the wall, a desk and an armchair under the window.

The most eye-catching one is the Ten Classics of Arithmetic!

Seeing is better than hearing a hundred things, until now, Master Chen completely let go of the contempt in his heart.And on the desk is actually a book of current regulations!Xia Junyan hurriedly said: "I asked for this book from the yamen."

Master Chen was born as an official, so he was naturally more interested in the law than ordinary scholars.After obtaining Xia Junyan's consent, she flipped through a few pages casually, and after a brief look, there was a small ink dot in the middle of every few words.At first Master Chen didn't take it seriously, but after reading a few more sentences, he realized that those little dots were all sentence breaks.Look again, each ink dot is still slightly different.

"What's the meaning of this?" Master Chen suddenly became curious and asked, pointing to a certain place in the book.

Xia Junyan said: "This is a comma."

"What about this?"

"period."

"reconciliation?"

Xia Junyan was quite embarrassed: "Because I read very slowly, I made some marks so that I can read faster. The comma means a short sentence, and the period is to remind myself that the sentence is over." There are also cases of quotations in the law, so Xia Junyan explained to Master Chen the various usages of colons and quotation marks in turn, and put an exclamation point when it came to excitement.

Mrs. Chen listened very enthusiastically, and turned a few more pages, and found that Xia Junyan only marked the law about selling people and plundering others. He felt itchy for a while, so he took a pen, and followed the rules Xia Junyan said, to do it himself marked up.

Xia Junyan watched from the side with her mouth shut in shock.Because there were no punctuation marks in ancient times, it was very difficult to read, and because she was not proficient in classical Chinese, she was as slow as a turtle every time she marked.Now Mrs. Chen picked up the brush and brushed, and marked three pages without any mistakes.As expected of the head of the academy, Xia Junyan admired her greatly!
The more you mark, the more Master Chen discovers the beauty of these small symbols.Although some students in the academy also mark some sentences for the convenience of reading, they are not as clear as Xia Junyan's!If all books are marked with these small symbols, then reading will be many times smoother than it is now. Although there are only a few small symbols, it will benefit all scholars in the world.

Xia Junyan looked at Chen Fuzi's bid with great joy, so she stood silently by the side, not daring to disturb her.Suddenly Master Chen suddenly raised his head, the unstoppable excitement in his eyes startled her.

"What's wrong with this book?" Xia Junyan asked carefully.

(End of this chapter)