Chapter 5: Teacher
The structure of Ji Mansion is a typical ancient courtyard building. When you walk into the door of the house, you enter the front yard of the mansion. There is a crossroad in the middle, and peach trees are planted on the side of the road. However, this season is not the season when peach blossoms bloom, so it seems a bit depressing. Behind you are a room, where the servants of Ji Mansion live!
Walking straight forward through the front yard, there is also a door, which is a hanging flower door. It was very particular in ancient times. It was a very particular door in the courtyard. It is the dividing line and only passage between the inner house and the outer house or the front yard and the back yard!
The front yard is separated from the inner yard by a hanging flower door and a courtyard wall. In the front yard, outsiders can lead to the reception room of the south room, while the inner yard is the place where their family lives. Outsiders are generally not allowed to enter and exit casually. In the past, people often said, "Do not go out, and the two doors do not step in", and "Two doors" refer to this hanging flower door!
This is not the first time Ning Caichen has been here. He has integrated the memory of the original owner, making him know this place well in his memory. On the way, he just took a few more glances at the strict courtyard buildings of ancient times. After all, it is a soul from the 21st century. It is one thing to integrate memory, and another thing to see with his own eyes!
After staying in front of the Chuhua Gate for more than ten seconds, Ning Caichen walked past the Chuhua Gate and entered the inner courtyard. Compared with the rockery in the outer courtyard, the inner courtyard was much simpler. There was a large open space in the middle, with the wing rooms on both sides and the main hall in the middle. Walking through the corridor of the east wing, bypassing the main hall, behind the main hall, usually the place where the maids or daughters of the mansion live. The owner of the Ji Mansion is Ji Yuan, so there is no daughter. Usually, the two maids of the Ji Mansion live there, but there is also a garden-like garden, full of flowers, plants and trees, and a small pond inside. There is a small rockery in the pond, and the living water stays from the middle of the rockery. There is a small pavilion next to the pond, and there is a round table and a few stone benches surrounded by the round table in the middle!
At this time, in the pavilion, an old man in a 60-year-old dressed in a blue Confucian shirt stood. The old man's hair was half white, his face showed wrinkles of time, but his body was standing straight, his eyes were embarrassed and enchanting, giving people a feeling of wisdom and wisdom. He was holding a brush in his hand and gestured on a piece of white paper on the round table in front of him. He seemed to be preparing to write something, but he had not started writing for a long time!
Ning Caichen walked over on foot, but his steps were very light. He walked into the pavilion, bent down and bowed to the old man, then stood beside him, without saying a word, just watching the old man's movements!
The old man seemed not to notice Ning Caichen. His eyes were just staring at the white paper on the stone table in front of him. The tip of the brush in his hand was hanging on the white paper. The tip of the pen was less than one centimeter away from the white paper, but he refused to fall down for a long time!
Ning Caichen stood quietly beside him without making any sound, and still maintained respect in his attitude, because the person in front of him was Ji Yuan, the mentor of his original owner, a person who is very rigorous in people and things. In this world, people pay great attention to etiquette and humility, especially respecting teachers and education, adhering to the concept of being a teacher for one day and being a father for life. If you disrespect your teacher, you will be a traitor!
When you come to a new world, if you want to survive in this world, the first thing you have to do is to integrate into this world, human feelings, worldly etiquette and law! What's more, the old man in front of you is not only his mentor, but may also be related to his future. Ning Caichen does not care about Ji Yuan's specific identity. In Chen County, Ji Yuan is just a teacher, but the county magistrate respects Ji Yuan and will call him respectfully when he meets him. In addition, this mansion shows that Ji Yuan's identity cannot be just an ordinary teacher!
I am a newcomer to this world, and now I have such a seemingly awesome mentor, so I naturally have to seize it!
Standing respectfully, but this stop lasted for nearly half an hour!
"well!"
Finally, Ji Yuan sighed a long sigh. The pen in his hand did not fall, but placed it on the inkstone next to him, turning his body on the stone bench behind him, and sighed with helplessness!
"teacher!"
Seeing Ji Yuan sitting on the stone bench, Ning Caichen bowed again and bowed sincerely, calling out to the teacher!
"Caichen is here, let's sit down!"
"Thank you, teacher!" Ning Caichen said, and sat down on the stone bench opposite Ji Yuan's table!
"Stand for a long time!"
"Nothing happens!"
Ning Caichen said, Ji Yuan didn't say much. He raised his eyelids and looked at Ning Caichen, nodded lightly, then turned his head to look at the rockery outside. He was in a daze, and there seemed to be no meaning of the following. Ning Caichen couldn't sit still at this moment. For the past half hour, I just saw that you were focused and didn't bother me, but I couldn't do this now!
However, looking at Ji Yuan's appearance today, he obviously has something to do, and he is usually a person who doesn't speak much. It's probably impossible to expect Ji Yuan to take the initiative to talk to him. Maybe when is it going to be? If he has something to do, Ji Yuan can sit, but he may not be able to sit. However, what should I say, it also requires skills. When my eyes turn, Ning Caichen said—
"I just saw the teacher picking up the pen and concentrating, but I couldn't finish it for a long time. I seemed to have something to worry about! The student is not talented, and I don't know if he can help!"
"Yes!" Hearing Ning Caichen's words, Ji Yuan raised his eyelids, turned his head to look at his favorite disciple, and looked at Ning Caichen carefully, but did not speak!
Seeing this scene, Ning Caichen was not anxious. He looked at Ji Yuan's face secretly and said again-
"The teacher has something to think about, but he can't get started, so he doesn't know where to start!"
This time, Ji Yuan raised his entire eyes and looked at Ning Caichen with a burning look. Although he was over 60 years old, his eyes were clear and deep, and flashing with light, as if he could see through people's hearts!
"You know!" He narrowed his eyes and said to Kihara!
"I have said a lot. Although I don't know why the teacher sighed, I have one word!" Ning Caichen said without being humble and saying nothing, "I don't know what the teacher thinks of Buddhism and Taoism!"
"Tell me!"
Ji Yuan's face was calm, and he looked at Ning Caichen with his eyes. He found that today's disciple was slightly different from his past. Although Ning Caichen was excellent in the past, he was very restrained in front of him. However, Ning Caichen today had a little more calm and generous attitude than before, and Ning Caichen's words made him interested!
"Buddhism emphasizes cause and effect, sowing causes and harvesting results. Everything emphasizes the destiny of opportunities. If the opportunity does not exist, it is impossible to force it. If the opportunity comes, you will naturally gain something!"
"What about Taoism!" Ji Yuan asked for the first time. He had already understood what Ning Caichen was going to say, and most importantly, this aroused his interest!
"Taoism, as one of the hundreds of schools of thought, has a long history and also has the saying that Tao follows nature, and emphasizes adapting to nature!"
"Although Buddhism and Taoism are very different, at these two points, they aim to adapt to nature. When time comes, opportunity comes, and nature comes naturally!"
After Ning Caichen finished speaking, he looked at Ji Yuan in front of him and felt a little nervous!
"The Tao follows nature, and causes and conditions are destined!"
Ji Yuan's whispers and Ning Caichen's words made him fall into deep thought. As a literati, he naturally had some understanding of Buddhism and Taoism. Although Buddhism has fled from Shenzhou since the Zhou Dynasty, it has now shown signs of returning to Shenzhou. From time to time, Buddhist children are active in Shenzhou. Taoism is one of the hundreds of schools that emerged during the Chen Chunqiu and the Warring States Period, and one of the most powerful schools, namely Confucianism, Yin and Yang schools, etc., which can be compared with it!
"What is nature, what is cause and condition? Is everything really destined?"
After pondering for a while, Ji Yuan raised his head again and looked at Fang Ming with a burning gaze. Fang Ming was also nervous. He knew that this was a critical moment. If this question was not answered properly, he would have to pretend to be unsuccessful. Maybe Ji Yuan's impression in his heart would be greatly reduced, so he could not be careful!
Facing Ji Yuan's burning gaze, Ning Caichen couldn't hold it anymore, his mind flew around, and finally looked at the sky outside the pavilion!
Chapter completed!