"Teacher!"
"These are the documents you asked me to copy..."
Liu Yuan carefully set the many documents before Zhong Hui, then stepped aside.
Zhong Hui smiled as he picked up the documents, looked them over for a moment, then tossed them aside.
This was how Zhong Hui taught his disciple: he had him copy important documents. His elder brother had trained him this way back then, making him familiarize himself with the many documents of the imperial court. Now he was applying that same method directly to Liu Yuan.
Zhong Hui looked at Liu Yuan, his eyes full of displeasure.
"What did I teach you?"
At these words, Liu Yuan hurriedly straightened his back and raised his head, assuming an arrogant air.
Seeing his insolent manner, Zhong Hui nodded approvingly. "Good. You're finally making some progress. Now you look a little like someone who studies the classics!"
Liu Yuan was young and did not quite understand the reasoning behind this.
In the past, he had studied under Wang Su. Though it was called studying under him, he had really just read books at Wang Su's home. Every day was the same, an endless succession of books. Although Liu Yuan himself did not resist it, that kind of learning had indeed been dull and tedious.
Since coming to Zhong Hui, he was still studying the classics, but the approach was somewhat different.
Zhong Hui never had him read books. Every day, he made him copy documents and such, occasionally calling him in to teach him the classics.
But what Zhong Hui called the classics seemed more like correcting his posture... Zhong Hui explained in detail what someone versed in the classics ought to look like, teaching Liu Yuan the correct postures for sitting, standing, eating, and reading.
Sometimes he even taught