Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 479 Playing stupid?

Du Jinning lowered his head, looked at the ground, and looked very embarrassed: "Grandpa Qi and Mr. Yuan told me to study honestly and not to play such fake things. They worried that I would be too young and too prominent, just like that Qi Siyu , if you don’t study in a down-to-earth way, you just want to gain fame.”

"..."

Lu Jiuyuan's words got stuck in his throat when his stomach was full.

They also imagined various situations before they came.What I thought about the most was Du Jinning ecstatically agreeing.Because he is only a scholar like him, and at such a young age, to be able to enter their school and become a member of the school, and he is also one of the four people. This is an honor that many new Jinshi do not have.Once their theory can be established and arouses certain repercussions among scholars, it will be recorded in the annals of history.

As for making Du Jinning the leader of the four, they never thought about it.Are you kidding me, they are all Jinshi students, they have been studying for many years, and they are also very famous scholars in the north.Du Jinning is a small scholar, if those two articles hadn't attracted their attention, it would be impossible to worship them as teachers.Now they can let Du Jinning join the school and become an equal to them, that is already their value for Du Jinning.But no matter what, it's impossible to let a half-baby kid be their leader, right?Isn't that a joke?
It's not that they have selfish intentions and want to invade Du Jinning's academic theories, but that their qualifications are there.Just like a monarch and minister, no matter how capable you are, you are only a minister. It is impossible to be a monarch, because you are not qualified.

As for Du Jinning's rejection of them, they also considered this possibility, but they only thought that Du Jinning was afraid of their invitation because of his lack of qualifications, and felt that he was not qualified, so he refused.For this, they have already prepared their rhetoric.

They never expected that Du Jinning would reject them with such a reason.

Peng Shicheng frowned and said, "We are doing learning, why are we trying to gain fame? Can this be the same as Qi Siyu?"

But Du Jinning kept shaking his head: "I have no father since I was a child. My teacher, Grandpa Qi, and Mr. Yuan are just like my elders. It can be said that without them, I would not be where I am today. So I want what they said Listen. They asked me to study honestly, so I will study honestly and strive to be admitted to Juren and Jinshi as soon as possible, so as to live up to their expectations of me."

"Since that's the case, why did you choose those courses again? Isn't that contradictory?" Peng Shicheng asked.

"Those courses are for me to settle down, and have nothing to do with my studies." Du Jinning opened a pair of clear eyes and said puzzledly, "It's not that I don't study, every day I read books for half a day in the library. My teacher said that I don’t read too many books now, and my horizons are not wide enough. If I blindly delve into the Four Books and Five Classics, I will easily get stuck. The exam may be enough, but the whole person is like a needle Yes, it’s easy to poke yourself out of a hole. So now I read books in the Library Pavilion every day, hoping to gain more knowledge.”

"..."

Du Jinning kept saying "my husband" and "my grandpa Qi, Mr. Yuan", with a face full of ignorance, and the reason he said was so powerful that people didn't know what to say.

"In fact, it doesn't take much time to study knowledge, such as "Mencius". We will give you a topic every three to five days, and then guide your article. It doesn't take much energy. You can get the support of our three gentlemen. Advice, it will make a lot of progress. In addition to writing an article, you still have a lot of time to read books you are interested in, what do you think?" Lu Jiuyuan tried his best to persuade.

Du Jinning shook his head: "I still don't want it. If I don't listen to my husband and the others, they will be unhappy."

"Don't rush to refuse, you can go to your Grandpa Qi and Mr. Yuan to discuss it."

This time Du Jinning did not refuse: "Okay."

The purpose of this trip was not achieved, and Lu Jiuyuan and the others looked unhappy when they left.

After leaving the gate of Nanlu Academy and getting into the carriage, Shi Xiu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Do you think Du Jinning is pretending to be stupid? He doesn't want to study with us at all?"

"No way?" Peng Shicheng said puzzledly, "Such a good thing, no matter how many people ask for it, he can't ask for it, and he still pushes it out?"

"A good thing? Not necessarily." Shi Xiu shook his head, "His theory is clearer and more thorough than ours."

Peng Shicheng wanted to understand the meaning of Shi Xiu's words, and asked in surprise: "You don't mean that he doesn't want to be our follower, but wants to be our leader? How is this possible?"

"Even if he doesn't think so himself, his elders inevitably don't think so."

"Then they are too greedy, and they don't know what to do anymore." Peng Shicheng said angrily.

Lu Jiuyuan frowned and said, "You mean, Du Jinning was pretending to be stupid just now to prevaricate us?"

Shi Xiu nodded: "Very likely."

Peng Shicheng raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them again, his brows furrowed tightly.

There was silence in the carriage.

It is ridiculously ridiculous for them to recognize a 12-year-old kid as an intellectual leader.Not only do they find it absurd, I am afraid that the entire Song Dynasty scholars will find it absurd, right?In the end, their psychology will become a joke.

But this 12-year-old kid really wrote articles that moved their hearts.Otherwise, they would not have come from the north to the south, and chased from Fu Xue to Nanlu Academy.

After a long while, Peng Shicheng said with difficulty: "It would be great if... those articles were written by Guan Shanchang. No matter how bad it is, Mr. Yuan can do it, or Mr. Qi can do it too." He raised his eyes, "You say, Shall we go talk to Mr. Qi and Mr. Yuan?"

Lu Jiuyuan glanced at him: "Even if Mr. Qi and Mr. Yuan use the convenience of Du Jinning's elders to use his theory, are we willing to worship such a person as our leader?"

Peng Shicheng's expression froze.There was another silence in the carriage.

After a long time, Shi Xiuchang sighed: "I don't think we need to worry, just calm down for a while. Whether it's for your own knowledge or for cooperating with Du Jinning, don't be in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, you will easily go wrong."

Peng Shicheng nodded, and said in agreement: "Du Jinning's elders are thinking like this, so it has something to do with our being too eager? It's not a business to chase people. Let's just calm down for a while. Anyway, learning, We are not in a hurry, we are here to study it with great concentration, maybe we can slowly build up the theory without others mentioning it."

Lu Jiuyuan made a final decision: "Just do it like this."

　The insomnia has been severe for the past two days, and the cervical spine is also painful.The state is not good, and the things written are very unsatisfactory.Write and delete, delete and write.In fact, I really want to stop, rest and adjust, but as a web writer, this is almost impossible.Thinking that this article is still far away from the final article, I feel desperate.When can I rest?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)