Xiu Erdai's daily essays

04644- seems suddenly old

Even though it has only been more than three years since I chatted with Duan Yanzhou every day, his language ability has grown a lot. The role of time in children is really obvious. Huashen, who is used to taking a hundred years as a unit of time Do I feel the same way in the Mahayana period?There are often big changes, often bringing freshness?There is simply a vicissitudes of life and death.

Feeling as if I've suddenly aged.

Although the appearance is still youthful and tender, but calculating the actual age, I am almost 50 years old.Half a hundred... a subtle age, if it is a mortal, although it is still middle-aged, it seems that the trajectory of life is a foregone conclusion, and there will be no big surprises.

Duan Yanzhou: "Did the second son think of something? I feel that your spiritual power seems to be fluctuating."

Me: "Thinking of birth, old age, sickness and death. I have never experienced old age, so when I think of 'old', it is mostly fantasy, unrealistic, and I scare myself. Maybe after experiencing it, I will find that old age is nothing. Just like in my previous life when I was ten When I was next year, I felt that people after the age of 30 were already very old, but when I actually entered the age of 30, I found that my thinking was still so childish and frivolous. Old? What doesn’t exist, is always young.”

Duan Yanzhou finally showed an expression of not understanding, but this time he continued to answer: "Maybe I have to wait until I actually reach that age to understand the meaning of that age."

Me: "Build the foundation after the body has grown up."

Duan Yanzhou: "Are you going to be an adult? Don't most of the top ten foundation-building periods look like teenagers?"

Me: "That's why you are so nonsense. It is easier for you to live in the field when you are older in appearance. Zhu Jin Danqi still looks at the face, and when the cultivation level is similar, it is easier for the mature appearance to get the right to speak. "

Duan Yanzhou: "The premise is that the cultivation base is similar."

Me: "Come on."

Duan Yanzhou: "Yes, I will work hard. Thank you, Second Young Master."

It is impossible to allow external communication under normal circumstances during the exam, so although Yan Gui and Duan Zhe sent Duan Yanzhou to the Zhong Sumen exam room, they could only stay outside the exam room and asked me blankly how their son fell in love with Zhong Su and more dazedly waiting for the test results.

During the period, some disciples of Zhongsumen who knew them thought they had something to ask someone in Zhongsumen, and asked them friendly if they wanted to register and go directly to Zhongsumen to find them.

Ai Yiqi, a disciple of Zhong Sumen: "Although it is the period of the selection meeting, if you don't go to the place related to the examination room and you have something urgent, you can accommodate it."

Duan Zhe: "No, we sent our son to take the exam."

Ai Qizaki: "...what?"

Duan Zhe: "Yan Gui and I's son, Duan Yanzhou, has taken a fancy to Zhong Sumen and has already entered the examination room."

04645-submit an application

Confucianism cultivator Ai Qiqi: "I haven't heard you mention that Xiao Zhou still has this interest... What is his target occupation?"

Duan Zhe: "Before yesterday, I thought he was a swordsman. His foundation of swordsmanship is still decent."

Ai Yiqi: "It's okay, let's talk about it after the exam is over. Before the foundation is established, it is easy to change the occupation."

Yan Gui, who was just telling me about her mother's troubles with a communicator, raised her head and said to Ai Yiqi: "Is your entrance exam difficult? Will Xiao Zhou suffer too much?"

Ai Qiqi: "Is it difficult... This question is really difficult to answer. It is easy for those who are suitable, but it is difficult for those who are not suitable. If you are really worried, you can still submit an application to see if you can be approved to enter Observe the exam. As long as you don’t interfere with the exam process, it should be approved. Jindan Qi monks from other sects came to Zhong Sumen to watch their son’s entrance exam, which sounds very interesting.”

Yan Gui, whose brain cells were already disconnected by his son, asked me: "Second son, should we go in?"

Me: "From my point of view, I want you to go in and apply for a place for me by the way. I want to watch the whole process of Zhong Sumen's exam through the communicator."

Although Yan Gui's communicator was not released to the public, her voice on the communicator was not blocked, so Ai Yiqi already knew her communication partner from Yan Gui's address.Ai Yiqi said: "Mr. Pei? If Mr. Pei is interested in watching Xiao Zhou's exam, you can also submit an application, and the chance of being approved is also very high. You two are bigger than Yan Gui, much older, and almost no application is accepted. possibility of refusal."

Duan Zhe: "Why?"

Ai Yiqi: "Because the third son Pei has been with Xiao Zhou for a long time. If Xiao Zhou hadn't been a child at that time, the length of time together would have made many people imagine like a demon."

Even considering Duan Yanzhou's age, some people would make up their minds and say that I am a child lover and want to play and grow up.After all, there are too few children whose parents are monks, and it is even rarer to see children from the same sect, so as long as there is no deliberate discredit, everyone will understand the behavior of getting along with children as 'curiosity' and 'joining in the fun'.When I was born, the big brother frequently ran to Peifeng, and with his number of hackers and lack of fans to help him speak, almost no one guessed that he had bad intentions for me.

——Of course, not guessing that way is also because it is impossible for a person with a long IQ to ignore the existence of Elder Pei.Any bad guesses will be defeated by one sentence: "Jiang Weixiao ran to the peak of Elder Pei Ji and hurt Elder Pei Ji's own son while Elder Pei Ji was staying at home?"

04646-It's useless to see

Yan Gui: "Can you or someone else from Zhong Sumen live broadcast the exam scene for Second Young Master?"

Ai Yizaki: "Aren't you going in?"

Yan Gui: "I don't know, I'm a little scared."

Duan Zhe: "Maybe we still have to go in, otherwise Xiao Zhou failed the exam and we don't know where to comfort him."

After a pause, Duan Zhe said again: "If you pass the exam, we also need to know the exam process so that we can give more targeted compliments and congratulations, instead of being so dazed like we are now."

Yan Gui: "You're right. Maybe it's because we were too dazed that Xiao Zhou didn't discuss with us about Zhong Sumen's test in advance, because he knew that even if he asked us, we couldn't give him advice, we would only be surprised, Let him still have to take the time to explain to us."

The two monks who were parents for the first time—and probably the last time— fell into self-criticism mode, and they had no time to care about others. Ai Yiqi simply sent a text message to me and asked me: "Do you want to visit now, Fellow Daoist Pei? Or as Yan Gui said, live broadcast for you?"

I thought for a while: "I'll come to Zhong Sumen right away, so I'll see from a wider perspective." In addition to Duan Yanzhou, let's look at the situation of other candidates and compare it with Duan Yanzhou's.It’s not easy for fellow Taoist Zhong Sumen to listen to my instructions and change the live broadcast angle frequently, and even if Yan Gui and Duan Zhe go to watch the exam, they probably don’t have time to pay attention to the scene without Duan Yanzhou.

Zhong Sumen's exam this time is very friendly to the audience, because there is no phantom array, so the audience can also see the scene that the examinees saw.

But it's useless to see.

Duan Zhe: "Read the introductory textbook from beginning to end three times? What kind of thing is this? Can't you pass the Zhongsumen exam if you don't know how to read?"

Ai Yiqi, who accompanied us to submit the application and acted as our tour guide by the way: "The youngest candidate in this group is six years old, and should have started to read. There are no rare words in the introductory textbook, and it is allowed to look up the dictionary."

Yan Gui: "I'm only six years old, maybe I haven't learned how to look up a dictionary yet?"

Ai Qizaki: "It is also allowed to ask the staff how to use the dictionary."

Duan Zhe: "Can't you learn it in a while?"

Ai Yiqi: "There are three days in the exam. If you read the textbook aloud once, if you are fluent, it will only take less than three hours. It is also allowed to spend two days learning how to use the dictionary and another day to read the textbook three times. Requirements Just read it three times in three days, and the specific time arrangement is up to the examinees themselves.”

Yan Gui and Duan Zhe were even more at a loss.

04647-guess

If Duan Yanzhou hadn't taken the exam, the two swordsmen would have laughed at Zhong Sumen's exam method at most, saying "boring" and "just want to doze off", but when their son is in the exam room, these two I have to understand the connotation of this boring exam...

But can't understand.

Compared with most sword cultivators, Confucianism cultivators are basically creatures from outer space.

The parents were so worried that they almost cried.

I chatted with Ai Yizaki: "I heard that Yinxiu's entrance exam is often read to the manuscript."

Ai Qiqi: "Yes. Yinxiu's manuscript has a special sense of rhythm, and sometimes the text will be simpler, making it easier for children to understand."

Me: "However, sometimes it is not a sentence, it is the accumulation of individual words, the full text has no meaning, only the sound."

Ai Yiqi: "In order to avoid repetition, the exam questions sometimes have some blunt parts. Serious tone repair textbooks usually take into account both sound and meaning."

Me: "The textbooks you use as exam questions don't really consider repeating questions? Although they are a little more hidden than the introductory textbooks scattered all over the world, they are also contents that can be found in many places. For example, Yunxiazong Book Collection It’s in the pavilion. It’s also in the textbooks you sell. Although it’s a little expensive, it’s still within the reach of ordinary mortal families. Children who are interested in taking the Zhongsumen exam are likely to have bought or read it. "

Ai Yiqi: "I don't know the specific thoughts of the question maker, but I guess, it may be because we don't need candidates to be unfamiliar with the words they are reading this time, but rather need them to have a certain degree of familiarity with it, so we chose You will be asked to read it three times from beginning to end. Even if you haven’t read it before, you will be familiar with it by the third time.”

Me: "Especially, although it is only required to 'read' three times, there is no limit to the number of times to 'read'. It is possible for them to read it dozens of times in the past three days. As an introductory textbook, this one is a bit long, but read it once Afterwards, the second, third, and dozens of times you watch it will only get faster and faster."

Yan Gui: "I still don't understand, how to judge the pass or fail of this kind of test? There is no written standard, is it all subjective by the examiner?"

Ai Yiqi: "No, there are written standards, but I won't tell you now, in case you tip off the candidates."

Me: "It's spiritual fluctuations."

Aizaki looked at me.

Me: "I guess."

Duan Zhe: "Second Young Master, can you explain in detail?"

Me: "Do you really want to tip off the news?"

Duan Zhe: "No way, with our cultivation base, we can't break through the defense of Zhong Sumen's examination room."

Me: "Even if you can make a breakthrough, I suggest that you do not tip off the news, because my guess may be wrong, and if you further understand it based on my guess, you may be wrong and wrong, and then forward it to Xiao Zhou. He may be misled and let what could have been He who is qualified becomes unqualified. Even if he passes by cheating like this, he may not have actually reached the entrance requirements of Zhong Sumen, and then he will have a difficult time in the outer gate. A better situation is to be eliminated and start from scratch in another place. Start; if it's bad, you'll spend your whole life in a place that doesn't suit you."