Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Qinghe Village Village School is also at the end of the village, not far from Zhou Xiucai's residence.

Just like across an alley, one can hear the sound of reading before even reaching the school gate.

Gu Wenxuan had no intention of lying, the village was very familiar to him.

The concierge is also guarding here.

This man was the son of the old servant of Zhou Xiucai's family.

Even the concierge is always there.

His mother was the school cook who prepared lunch for students from other villages.

Enter the courtyard gate.

Go through the arch.

There is a row of side rooms on the east side without partitions, and there are rows of tables and chairs all the way to the bottom. The little beans sitting in them, shaking their heads and reading, are the elementary school students.

The entrance class in the west wing, which is equally long opposite, is divided into two small classes based on whether they have read and recited the "Four Books and One Classic" well. Currently, there are thirty-five students in total.

Once the Four Books have been read and memorized, and passed the assessment, students can be directly promoted from Class A-2 to Class A-1, which has a relatively small number of students.

He was in Class A-2 the year he dropped out of school. He heard that it would take at least three to five years to get into Class A-1. It was so hard and intimidating. This was one of the reasons why he dropped out of school.

Class A is similar to a review class for preparing for the county examination, government examination and college examination. It focuses on studying business, that is, learning to write and write, which is called craftsmanship.

Craftsmanship is a big problem in the imperial examination, and it is a long process. Unless the examination is abandoned midway, it will continue until the imperial examination is passed.

In fact, the road to the imperial examination is not one that everyone goes to the end of the road. Often, it is remarkable that half of the twenty or thirty people in a class insist on taking it.

Basically, on the way to school, the vast majority of students will get stuck at the threshold of being a child. There are very few who can become a scholar, and it is only one in a million.

Therefore, Class A, which mainly accepts students from the village, today actually has seven people who have passed the prefectural examination and are trying to maintain their position as scholars in the college examination. It is really not easy.

If Zhou Tongsheng is also included, Class A, which has a total of sixteen students, accounts for half of the children. What's more, five of the remaining eight have passed the county examination, and only three have not yet finished.

Among the three, there was Dajiang who had just been promoted to Class A at the beginning of the year. He was the youngest, but his foundation was quite solid. This shows that Zhou Xiucai is still very capable.

Confucius is enshrined in the main hall.

On the left is the study room prepared by Zhou Xiucai for his old classmate and brother-in-law Bai Juren, and on the left is the study room of Zhou Xiucai and the scholars from neighboring villages whom he taught.

For example, Li Xiucai, whom he taught, often came here to stay for a few days because he could not take the provincial examination because he had observed filial piety for three years and was not allowed to leave the county school to study.

In order to lure Bai Juren to come to the school from time to time to give guidance to the students, Zhou Xiucai not only decorated the study room with the two bedrooms quite elegantly, but also transplanted bamboos.

The problem is, Qinghe Village is really not suitable for growing bamboo.

Many bamboos were destroyed due to the incompatibility of water and soil. The surviving bamboos finally thrived, but when the wind blew at night, the sound and shadows could scare the most naughty half-year-old child in the village to the point of peeing.

However, no one can say that he is not careful as a master.

Shu Xiu accepted far less than half of the students in the town's school, and all he paid inside and outside came from his own pocket.

It was cold, so the windows were not opened, and a cotton curtain was hung at the door.

Gu Wenxuan didn't pay much attention to the rooms on both sides, but there were uneven sounds of reading, which showed that it was not yet the Master's class time.

As he expected, Zhou Xiucai was in the study at this time.

In addition to Zhou Xiucai, there are also Zhou Xiucai's only son Zhou Tongsheng, and Zhou Changan who is over thirty years old.

Seeing Gu Wenxuan come in and bow, Zhou Tongsheng knew that his father still had something to ask, so he returned the gift with a smile, took the lesson plan and exited the study.

Gu Wenxuan soon understood that Zhou Xiucai had changed his previous test on whether he had read and recited the Four Books and One Classic to a question about the meaning of the Four Books. Want him to answer the scripture meaning of the question?

difficult.

There was nothing to hide. Questions came one after another. Gu Wenxuan answered truthfully. If he was not impressed, he gave the answer according to his own understanding.

As for the effect?

It can be seen with the naked eye that some of his answers made Zhou Xiucai nod frequently, while others made Zhou Xiucai frown slightly. He had no choice but to continue working hard.

"I can tell you have really worked hard in the past few years." Zhou Xiucai secretly laughed, "But some of them are still half-understood and need to be studied hard."

Gu Wenxuan feels the same way.

To say he had only a little knowledge was putting it mildly, but his speculative attitude towards exam-taking was different from that of Da Jiang who had studied systematically for six or seven years.

There is much to learn.

In addition to knowing a little about the meaning of the scriptures, you also need to seize the time to learn how to solve problems and craft techniques, not to mention how to write an article that is eye-catching.

Fortunately, my memory is not bad, I have a lot of study materials, and I have a teacher to guide me. If I work harder, I should be able to do it.

He was also very lucky. He didn't have to accompany the little kids to re-enlighten themselves, let alone stay in Class A and Class 2 for a while. He could go directly to Class A to listen to the class.

Zhou Xiucai stroked his beard and hesitated for a moment. Forget it, he still didn't mention why he didn't ask him if he didn't understand something. It was rare that he could make up his mind to continue studying. Don't be scared away. It would be better to go to class first.

After listening to the class, do you still dare to come to the school tomorrow?

Without his wife's attention, that kid Sanya wouldn't tolerate this bastard to back down!

Zhou Yujiang was almost frightened to death when he saw Gu Wenxuan coming in behind Zhou Xiucai. He was about to ask what happened at home?

Zhou Xiucai spoke.

What?

The third brother-in-law has become a classmate?

There are sixteen tables and chairs in four rows and four columns. Dajiang is sitting in the front row, second from the left, and he is a young boy among a small group of adults. He is particularly conspicuous.

Gu Wenxuan glanced around carefully and caught a glimpse of the lively expression on his brother-in-law's face. He signaled with his eyes to wait until after class and went to sit in the empty seat at the back.

As Zhou Xiucai said, there is no one he doesn't know among the fifteen people here, but to say how familiar they are, most of them are just acquaintances.

It's not that I rarely interact with them, they are either uncle or brother. Except for a few people from other villages, I don't see each other with my head down, and there are always friendships.

The key is that the old man and Gu Dalang's grandson and grandson have attracted too much hatred, and they act as if he, Gu Dalang, is the only scholar in the whole village.

Unfortunately, he is not even a child, and some of his words were released early, which made people angry.

Not to mention him, even his great-grandfather Gu Wenyu was innocently affected.

Class.

Zhou Xiucai first checked the homework assigned yesterday and gave corrections one by one.

Let everyone take out the Analects of Confucius, select a few sentences from it, and explain it in a simple and profound way.

Then let everyone ask questions that they don’t understand, and then answer them one by one, and give examples to lead to other questions.

After a fifteen-minute break, the class revolved around a debate among classmates. After listening, Zhou Xiucai made corrections and continued his lecture until the end of school.

Just as Gu Wenxuan imagined, relatively speaking, the classroom in Class A is much more relaxed and free, but the progress is slow. I wonder if it is due to concern for the new students.

There were so many people that it was difficult for Gu Wenxuan to ask Dajiang, and Gu Wenyu was waiting.

After finally answering Gu Wenyu's 100,000 whys, Xiaohe came running to call his brother-in-law.

The little guy had a big surprise on his face. (End of chapter)