The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 240 IX: Pen Opening Ceremony
The Shengxue Hall of Jiujiang Academy sounds like a study room, but it is actually a square courtyard.

There is a portrait of Confucius in the main hall of the courtyard, and there are six rooms in each row of the courtyard. It is a school for new students.

There is a half-moon-shaped pool in the middle of the yard. The bottom of the pool is clearly visible, and the word "Panchi" is engraved on the bottom of the pool.

There is a slightly smaller white jade stone bridge on the pool. This arched stone bridge is small but delicate. When the sun is shining, the water in the pool and the reflection of the stone bridge complement each other.

This promotion hall only opens once a year, and each time it only entertains new children.

In other words, Shengxuetang is only used for students to enter Panli and open their pens.

Sheng Yuan came to the courtyard with the current.

Because there were 90 Mongolian children enrolled this time, if all of them came in, the Sheng Xue Hall would not be able to entertain them, so the academy divided them into six groups, and each group had a group of teachers in charge.

Sheng Yuan and his team are the third group to enter the Sheng Xue Tang.

She was standing in the middle of the team at the moment, with An Yu in front and Lu Sheng behind.

As for the familiar Ouyang Ling and Xia Shuangjun, they stood behind Lu Sheng in turn.

However, even though they were surrounded by friends and acquaintances, the few children still calmed down rarely, obediently followed the procedures, and did not dare to make unnecessary movements.

Different from the rigidity of his friends and classmates, Sheng Yuan Gulu looked at him with big eyes, without any nervousness.The reason why she kept silent was that she didn't want to make her friend scold her at this critical moment.

But she doesn't talk to her friends, and her eyes are not idle, either looking here or there, feeling strange everywhere.

Of course, she soon gave up looking around.

Because, the opening ceremony begins!

The first step in the opening ceremony is to dress properly.

The master in charge of their group stood in front, probably out of symmetry, the master stood right in front of Sheng Yuan.

The moment their eyes met, Sheng Yuan blinked twice quickly.

Xin said, this master is a bit too young.

She promises that she will be at most two or three years older than her brother!
The old-fashioned master with a straight face: "..."

I was a little flustered when I took the students for the first time.

Shouldn't children be nervous when they meet their teacher?Why is this kid more comfortable than him? !

Forcing himself not to look at Sheng Yuan's master, he cleared his throat and raised his voice and said: "The "Book of Rites" says that the beginning of etiquette and righteousness lies in correct appearance, uniform color, and obedient speech. Therefore, the beginning of enlightenment should start with correct clothing. As the saying goes, first straighten your clothes, and then understand the truth. I will straighten your clothes one by one, thinking that enlightenment begins."

When he had finished speaking, he went to the first person on the right and adjusted the hats, smoothed the collars, and straightened the belts of each schoolboy one by one.

This process may sound slow, but it was actually very fast. Fifteen schoolchildren from the beginning to the end took only a quarter of an hour.

"Correct clothes are finished! Next, you and I will take Shengyuan students as the center, the left is the front, the right is the back, and the rows will be changed. Follow me across the stone bridge and Panchi, and enter the main hall to pay homage to the teacher."

After he said that, the team changed immediately.

Because a special teacher told them how the formation changed before they came in, so there was noise but not loud when the formation changed.

Sheng Yuan stood still, watching her friends and classmates changing positions with delight, especially seeing them standing in the wrong place and hurriedly looking for a place, she was overjoyed.Sure enough, standing still is the most delicious.

[You can be lazy! 】The system watched the live broadcast the whole time, and couldn't help sighing when it saw the happy look of its host.

Sheng Yuan had already followed the team up to the stone bridge, not caring about arguing with the system.

It's only a dozen or so steps for these elementary school children to cross the bridge. It can be seen that the stone bridge is really small.

Walking past Panchi and entering the main hall, Sheng Yuan found that the head of the academy was already standing next to the portrait of Confucius, smiling and stroking his beard.

It seems that the teacher they want to worship is the head of the mountain.

As soon as Sheng Yuan came up with this idea, the master who led the team had already arranged for them to salute to the most holy teacher Confucius.

Then, it was the ceremony of paying homage to the teacher with the head of the mountain.

After saluting, it's time to finish the practice.

Sheng Yuan followed the students to take off the box that they were carrying, and took out the Shuxiu that they had prepared at home.

[Sister Yuan, haven't you all taught tuition fees?Two taels of silver in January! 】

"Now this Shuxiu is just going through the motions, and it's just taken out once at the initiation ceremony."

Sheng Yuan was talking to the system in his heart, and his hands were not idle, so he took out the Shu Xiu he had prepared earlier.

There are six kinds of Shuxiu prepared, which are celery, lotus seeds, red beans, red dates, longan and ten pieces of dried meat.

[Really interesting! 】The system looked fun, and couldn’t help but comment, 【The celery here should be to encourage students to be diligent and studious;

As for Lianzi, it is not only to thank the teacher for his painstaking teaching, but also to let the teacher cherish and cherish the students.

The third red bean is to wish the students a bright star and good luck, right?

Hey, there are also red dates, red dates...does it mean that the students will get promoted early in high school?
Hmm... Longan, longan should mean that the academy, teachers, and students should do their best to achieve their own success?
Hey, there is also dried meat.This should follow the rules of Confucian discipline, to express the students' respect for the teacher... right? 】

"All right!" Sheng Yuan gave the system a thumbs-up in his heart.

At this time, the head of the mountain had already accepted Shu Xiu from the students, and began to return the gift.

Thus, a full set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones was placed in the box that had just been emptied in Sheng Yuan.

After giving gifts to each other, the master asked the students to bow to each other, which means that the students respect, love, help, help, humble, give in and make progress together.

A few people in this etiquette garden are very happy.

When saluting with people they don't know, they still look very polite and decent.

But when they turn their heads to salute their friends, they are dishonest.

Either you winked at me, or I secretly smiled at you, looking so lively.

After a slightly messy salute, the former team leader showed a sense of presence.

He did not know when he brought fifteen copper basins filled with clean water and a roll of clean towels.

"Students, this water is for you to clean your hands. It means to let you clean your hands and mind to remove distracting thoughts. It is the teacher's hope that you will go all out to read and write without distractions."

The head of the mountain stroked his beard with a smile, and nodded after saying that.

When Sheng Yuan and the others saw it, they immediately stood on the small stools in front of them, and carefully washed their little hands with the copper basin in the hands of the academy boy.

Sheng Yuan still remembered the steps of washing hands taught by the kindergarten teacher in her previous life. She started her performance when the students next to her were rubbing the backs and palms of their hands.

[One rubbing, palms and palms rubbing and rubbing; second rubbing, backs of hands and hands rubbing and rubbing; third rubbing, palms and backs of hands helping each other; fourth rubbing, fingers not letting go one by one; fifth rubbing, fingers bending and rubbing each other; six rubbings, Rubbing, put your nails in the palm of your hand; don't miss the seven rubbing, and your wrist. ] The system did not forget to accompany her in its mind.

After this movement, she sighed comfortably and picked up the towel; but she stared dumbfounded at the master, the head of the mountain and the boy in front of her.

It turns out that washing hands can be so complicated!
The master only felt that he had learned a lot, and thought that it was no wonder that the teacher refused to let him continue to take the exam after he passed the exam, and insisted on letting him work in the college for a while.

He didn't think so at first, but he didn't want to. He could learn a lot from the students of the academy. No wonder Confucius said that three people must have my teacher!
At this moment, Master felt that his cognition had been sublimated, and his heart that wanted to throb finally calmed down.

Little Shengyuan, who didn't know that he had unintentionally helped a wandering young man, was eagerly looking at the writing brush dipped in cinnabar in the hand of the head of the academy.