Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 85: Three Kingdoms

The tide is flat, and both sides are broad, and the wind is hanging.

Su Che's boat drifted downstream and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Su Yun stood on the shore, looking confused and uncertain.

surprise?

What is a surprise?

Azhe, can you translate for me what surprise means?

Please don't do anything weird to me. Your brother Su Shi has already caused me a huge trouble. Now I'm still trying to make up for it. I don't even know if I can make up for it. If you cause me another huge trouble, what shall I do then?

"Ayun, go back."

Su Shi called out.

Su Yun sighed, turned around and followed behind, his mind distracted the entire way.

Su Shi noticed Su Yun's expression and asked with concern: "Ayun, what's wrong? What did Ziyou say to you?"

Su Yun looked at Su Shi and said, "My uncle told me that he wanted to give me a surprise. I guess you knew about that, right?"

Su Shi laughed and said, "How would I know about Ziyou's affairs? But Ziyou has always been reliable. Don't worry. If I say it's a surprise, then it must be a surprise."

Su Yun laughed and said, "If it's a happy thing, it's fine, but I'm afraid it will be a big disaster if it's a surprise."

Su Shi laughed, listened attentively, and said with a sigh: "Your aunt is calling me, I will go to see her immediately."

After saying that, he ran away.

Well, judging from the situation, the two brothers must have conspired together.

Su Yun became even more worried. With Su Shi involved, the matter might become complicated again.

But Su Yun immediately put the matter behind him. He had other important things to do.

There will be storms ahead, and he needs to build his ship bigger and stronger so that it can withstand them.

Fame is tiring, but having great fame is like a talisman.

So, let the fame become bigger!

The current reputation is far from enough!
Su Yun followed Su Shi back home and asked Su Shi, "Uncle, do you have the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

Su Shi was surprised and asked, "Chen Shou's version of the Three Kingdoms?"

Su Yun nodded and said, "Yes, that's the one."

Su Shi nodded and said, "Yes, I have, but have you finished copying the Book of Han? Why are you reading the Records of the Three Kingdoms now?"

Su Yun said: "I haven't finished copying it, but I have finished reading it. I am very interested in the strength of the Han Dynasty, so I want to see how this powerful Han Dynasty fell and learn some experience from it."

Su Shi was delighted when he heard this and said, "Great! It is a good thing to know the reasons for the rise of a dynasty and the lessons of its fall.

However, the historical materials on which the Records of the Three Kingdoms relied were insufficient, and thus the records were rather sketchy, especially the "Records of Shu", which seemed too thin in content.

Although Chen Shou took great pains to pay attention to even the fragmentary texts, the book still reflects the dilemma of a good cook having no rice to cook. So more than a hundred years later, Emperor Wen of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Yilong, ordered Pei Songzhi to annotate it. In view of the shortcomings of Chen Shou's book, which was "lacking in brevity and sometimes missing", Pei's annotations were different from the previous historical annotations that focused on explaining the meaning of the text, and focused on supplementing historical facts.

I suggest you watch this version if you want to. Although it still has some flaws, it is enough to give you a general understanding.

I happen to have a copy here, you can take a look at it, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions or don’t understand anything.”

Then Su Shi took Su Yun into his study, and then Su Shi casually pointed to a bookshelf and said, "Well, this is the row."

Su Yun looked at the dozen or so books that took up an entire row of the bookshelf. He was stunned and asked, "So many?"

Su Shi laughed and said, "Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms only has about 300,000 words, but Pei Songzhi's annotations are three times more than Chen Shou's original work, so there are more than a million words. That's how much."

Su Yun exclaimed: "Incredible, incredible."

Su Shi smiled and said, "Then are you still watching?"

Su Yun gritted his teeth and said, "Look, you must look!"

Su Shi nodded with satisfaction. He admired Su Yun for this. Although Su Yun did not want to take the imperial examination to become an official, he never slacked off in his studies, whether he was learning poetry, copying Han Dynasty books, or learning official documents. He and Su Zhe studied Mencius and never slacked off. He was a very studious person.

But think about it, it should be so. The intelligence and talent that Su Yun displays on a daily basis is not the kind of cleverness that comes without reading. On the contrary, he has the demeanor of a calm and composed scholar, which I think is the result of some accumulation.

Su Shi thought so, but he didn't expect that Su Yun was particularly obsessed with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Since he got the book, he changed his usual habit and stayed at home.

Even when his good friend Zhou Zhan came to urge him to move to the small courtyard, Su Yun kicked him out. He didn't go out for several days in a row, and even meals had to be brought in by Ah Hui.

Su Shi was also curious: Is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms really that interesting?
So Su Shi took advantage of a meal, called Ah Hui, took the food and brought it in, and saw that Su Yun was already immersed in the sea of ​​books.

There were more than a dozen thick volumes of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms filling the desk, and stacks of bound papers piled up to form a tall mountain of books, while Su Yun was concentrating on writing quickly.

Su Shi put the food on a chair, then picked up the bound booklet, opened it, and was immediately surprised.

The booklets were filled with densely packed notes, including chronologies, biographies of characters, etc. The biographies of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan alone occupied three booklets. In addition, there were biographies of hundreds of Three Kingdoms characters, records of various battles, and so on.

Su Shi couldn't help but be even more surprised. If Su Yun took notes like this, wouldn't the notes have over a million words when they were finished?

Why is he doing this?
"Ayun, it's time to eat." Su Shi called in a gentle voice.

Su Yun looked up and saw that it was Su Shi. He smiled and said, "Uncle, why are you the one delivering the meal?"

Su Shi saw that Su Yun's eyes were bloodshot, and said with some concern: "You can read books, but you should also pay attention to rest. Have you not slept much these days?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "That's not possible. I need to sleep for an hour or two every day."

Su Shi was a little worried when he heard this, "I only slept for an hour or two, how can that be enough? There is still a long time to come, just read the book slowly, I won't take it back from you."

Su Yun had already sat on the ground, eating the food on the chair with relish. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Time is tight and the task is heavy, so we have to do this."

Su Shi was stunned and asked, "What mission?"

Su Yun smiled in his heart, if you hadn't made things worse, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Now I don't know what your brother is going to do, shouldn't I prepare quickly?

Su Yun smiled and said, "I want to write something fun. The history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty is so exciting. I took a lot of notes. I just want to interpret it and record it completely. Maybe it can become an interesting entertainment book."

　There is another chapter that will be written and posted in the afternoon
　　
　
(End of this chapter)