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Chapter 5 Do not dream vaguely (2)

The scholar in white was called Ma Liang, and the scholar in blue was called Ma Su. They were brothers. When Ma Liang saw his younger brother Ma Su woke up, he felt relieved.

The Ma Liang family lives not close to it, it is the Majia River in Xiangyang, thousands of miles away.

As the name suggests, the entire river channel that is dozens of miles long and the fertile land on both sides belong to the Ma family. There are thousands of members of the Ma family. They are famous local families with a profound heritage and wealth.

Even if there are hundreds of young people among the Ma family, there are no more than ten people studying. The two of the Ma Liang brothers can study at the same time because they are of good qualifications and are famous children prodigy in the local area.

If you have a slightly inferior academic qualification, the more the direct descendants of a big family, the less likely you are to let you study, because the competition among the big family is fierce and there is never a shortage of talents to study!

Therefore, those aristocratic families with profound backgrounds pay more attention to teaching students according to their aptitude, which is also the fundamental reason why these prominent families can maintain prosperity and development for a long time.

Only those nouveau riche and families with poor population will not hesitate to make money and make great efforts to cultivate offspring who are not suitable for studying.

This method of cultivating talents with a gambling nature is not very successful, but many people enjoy it and waste the money they earn from hard work.

Because most of these nouveau riche earned from business, their social status is quite low, they are particularly eager to improve the status of their families through their children's study. There are also people who are engaged in so-called "low-minded careers" such as gambling and pornography. No matter how much money they have, their children's descendants cannot study or become officials.

The mighty man was called Shamoke, and the village he was located in was called Shajiazhai.

Shamoko is also a person who has read books, and he is also a talent cultivated at all costs. He can barely be considered a scholar. But his biggest gain in studying is not knowledge, but his deep respect for knowledge!

Shamoke's family is not a nouveau riche. He is also a person with great identities. He is the young chief of the Zhongxiongxi tribe of the barbarians in Wulinglin. He is also the only heir to the chief.

Therefore, he had a reason to have to read! Because of the difficulty of studying, Shamoko respected scholars very much, especially those scholars who were full of knowledge.

Although Shamoke failed to study, he still had eyesight. He found that Ma Liang happened to be such a scholar.

On the first day after the Ma Liang brothers lived in Sha’s house, because they knew that Ma Su could not wake up for a while, Shamoke did not disturb him at will except instructing his servants to deliver food on time.

He could naturally see that Ma Liang had a deep brotherly relationship. Now when he went to him, Ma Liang was not in the mood to talk to him in depth, which would cause him to be unhappy!

In Wuling Mountain, there are many snakes and insects. The barbarian tribes are very familiar with the habits of snakes and insects. Some tribes even breed poisons such as snakes to defend against enemies.

Although there are no snakes and insects in Shajiazhai, they often deal with these poisons. Shamoke guessed that Ma Su was about to wake up, so he went to the guest room to check it out.

Shamoke came to Ma Liang's guest room, and Ma Liang happened to introduce Ma Su to what happened during his coma.

After Shamoke came in, Ma Su, who was half lying on the bed, dared not neglect the savior, so he struggled to get up and thank him, but Shamoke took the lead and held it down.

After the greetings, Shamoke had nothing else to say, so he wanted to arrange a guest room for Ma Liang on the grounds that Ma Liang needed to rest and Ma Su needed to rest.

Ma Liang had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting in a bad mood. In fact, he wanted to have a good sleep, but he was worried about his younger brother Ma Su, so he tried his best to refuse the arrangement of rest in another room.

In order to take more time to have a deep conversation with Ma Liang, Shamoke naturally needs to arrange another residence for him.

He also understood Ma Liang's feelings for his younger brother Ma Su. He arranged a servant to serve Ma Su outside this room and could be there any time he called. Ma Liang then left with Shamoke and went to another room to rest.

There was only Ma Su in the room, but he couldn't calm down for a long time. He tried his best to record what he learned in his dream, leaving him helpless and confused, falling asleep again!

After waking up, Ma Su's first thought was to record what he learned in his dream, because he had a lot of memory and needed to plan and focus on recording the content.

In fact, Ma Su was also skeptical about his dream memory, but because he vaguely remembered a story about "killing Ma Su with tears", which said that he was beheaded by Zhuge Liang at some point in the future for violating military orders.

This made him restless because Zhuge Liang was a real brother whom he respected very much and was very talented.

The memory in his dreams was vaguely remembered that Liu Bei seemed to start his career in Xinye and finally established Shu Han. This attracted his attention because Ma Su knew that Liu Bei had been fighting against Cao Ren in Xinye after retreating in Runan.

Ma Su tried hard to recall the vague memories in his dream, wanting to reject these absurd stories! What surprised him was that he slept for these two hours. The originally vague memories in his dream had begun to fade, and there were several important points that were a little blurred. It seemed that the record was urgent!

It was really hard for Ma Su. Although papermaking was already in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, paper was not mass-produced or popularized.

Although the materials for papermaking are cheap, the process is complicated, and the productivity level at that time was low, the papermakers were all self-refined, so the output of paper was very small.

The advantage of those aristocratic families who are capable of making paper on a large scale is that they "learn well and become officials". They do not want books to be widely circulated in their hearts. Therefore, the price of paper is still high, and it is not much cheaper than ordinary coarse cloth.

When writing with a brush, the fonts are very large, and the amount of writing materials required is quite large. For ordinary families, they mainly use books recorded in bamboo slips. Some wealthy families also use silk books to record them.

Although the Ma family is a prominent family in the local area and is not short of money, the family does not promote the use of paper. The family's books are only a few precious silk books, most of which are incomplete bamboo slips.

At that time, the reason why it was difficult to study was mainly related to the lack of textbooks. Knowledge was mainly passed down through word of mouth between teachers and students. Without a good memory, it was impossible to remember at all. Therefore, the qualification for reading was very important!

If Ma Su used bamboo slips to record the content he learned in his dream, although it was not as exaggerated as "there are so many bamboo slips", the number of bamboo slips he used must be a large number.

If you use silk books, with so many memory content, the expensive silk books will be quite expensive, and the price is still very high. Ma Su, a scholar who has not yet grown up, cannot afford it.
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