Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 44

Why not publish a collection of couplets?

To be honest, after copying the couplets to Xie Qianhu, he had intended to print and publish the book. But later, when he wanted to sell the Diamond Sutra, he compared the two and felt that it was not easy to add pictures to the book, and the market was not as mature and easy to promote as the scriptures, so he postponed the plan of printing the book.

But Guo Yong looked at him as sternly as Mr. Lin, as if he would be punished to copy a book if he said a wrong word. He did not dare to tell the truth, but lowered his eyes slightly and answered carefully: "I am still young and my knowledge is shallow. How can I be qualified to compile a book? Moreover, these are words and sentences from the saints' books..."

Guo Yong shook his head and said firmly: "It is because they are young that they are doing it. A 15-year-old boy who can write couplets from the Four Books can be called a child prodigy; if we do it at our age, it is just a game for bored scholars to pick out sentences from chapters!"

He was the youngest among this group of scholars, only in his early twenties. Saying such things would simply break the hearts of those students in their thirties.