Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 441: Ruthless Gu Wenxuan

The teaching staff of the county school is quite strong. Not only are there several experienced veteran scholars, but there is also a county instructor who is a seventh-rank Jinshi.

He is also a Jinshi, and is of the seventh rank, which is the same level as Lord Fuzun.

Generally speaking, county teachers are all successful candidates in the imperial examinations, belonging to the eighth rank, and do not hold teaching positions. But this county teacher is different.

Now this man, Teacher Cheng, who is also Master Cheng’s uncle and is within the same degree of mourning, is a genius like Master Lin.

After studying hard for many years, even if he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, he still had a promising future with his uncle who was the principal of Jingshan Academy and the connections of his classmates.

Miraculously, this Teacher Cheng only served as a county magistrate for one term. After his term expired, he performed well and actually returned to the county town on Yue's side with his wife to serve as the county teacher.

Those who don't know the truth may think that he was ostracized by his colleagues or that there was discord within the Cheng family, but these problems did not exist at all. He just liked teaching.

Moreover, he did not return to teach at Jingshan Academy where his children and grandchildren studied. At least Uncle Lin returned to his alma mater in order to take care of his elderly father-in-law more conveniently.

Anyone who could pass the imperial examination, even if it was only a joint imperial examination, must have profound knowledge. After all, being able to make it to the palace examination was enough to prove that he was an excellent person, not to mention that he had served as a county magistrate.

In addition, he is loyal and righteous, upright and patient, and does not get involved in power struggles. Therefore, he has a good reputation and is very popular in the academic circle.

Whenever he appeared in the county school, the students would be like chickens with their blood pumped up, and would not miss any free time in or after class to ask him for advice actively.

Therefore, for the first class in the afternoon, even though Gu Wenxuan and Dajiang knew that the class would be taught by the county teacher, they could imagine that there would definitely be a lot of auditors.

However, even Gu Wenxuan did not expect that it would be the same as in later generations. Several elderly teachers who had appeared on the podium before were sitting in the back row listening to the class.

Maybe the class he is in now is similar to the key classes in later generations. Don’t worry, the atmosphere in class is getting hot, and there is no time to relax after class.

During the break, Gu Wenxuan didn't know whether Teacher Cheng would feel the urge to pee as he was surrounded and unable to leave, but he really couldn't stand being watched and tested.

There is still a long time to go, why are they all in a hurry to exchange knowledge with him? As long as it is not poetry or essay, believe it or not, he will be so anxious that he will not care about the friendship between classmates!
Before coming here, Gu Wenxuan knew that scholars looked down on each other, and as a small-time scholar, he would attract a lot of attention.

Although the students who can pass the imperial examination will not be stupid enough to find fault with him openly, there must be students who want to step on him secretly so as to gain literary talent not inferior to him, who passed the imperial examination.

After all, the "key class" is not open to just a handful of new students on government stipend this year, there are also many old students, including Cheng Qian, the student on government stipend who had guaranteed him before.

Before he came to the county school, this person was one of the top students in the county school. In addition to this person, there were two others. These three were called the Three Talents of Qingyang.

Now, Cheng Qian is still an okay person. He was invited by Mr. Zhou to help act as a guarantor, so his character must be decent. But the other two may not be convinced from the bottom of their hearts.

Moreover, his arrival broke the balance. The reputation of the Three Talents of Qingyang was suppressed by him, the Little Third Prize. Now they did not fight for Teacher Cheng, but surrounded him instead.

He knew that he couldn't go home today. If he didn't convince them, he would be surrounded by them and couldn't leave even after school, making up all kinds of excuses.

The ruthless Gu Wenxuan finally put his mind at ease and went out of town to go home and hug his wife after school this afternoon. After a good "communication" about academic issues for the whole afternoon, he took action.

County school library.

After school, they went into the library as invited, and Gu Wenxuan began to flip through the books, one by one, from one bookshelf to another.

Finally, in full view of everyone, he took every book he flipped through, from beginning to end, back to his "dormitory" without borrowing any. Then, the highlight came.

There were too many books that could be taken away, but the amount was fixed, so Dajiang gave him the remaining amount, and the two of them each left with a stack of books that had been borrowed and registered.

That night.

The large window was not closed.

As long as anyone pays attention to the room opposite, diagonally opposite, or at the side door, they can see how hard the brother-in-law and brother-in-law work.

Among them, including Cheng Qian, he was also quite curious. While studying and reviewing, he observed the reading habits of the two people in the opposite room.

Soon, he discovered that Gu Wenxuan's speed of reading and flipping through books was a little slower than when he was in the library, but still much faster than Zhou Yujiang.

But this man and his uncle were very quiet. Since they sat down to study and flip through the books, apart from occasionally writing and taking notes, they hardly made any noise to disturb others.

A classmate who shared the room with him had a very bad habit. He would read aloud at night. When he got excited, he would slam the table and stand up, which was very frightening.

Seeing that Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Yujiang opposite him were studying attentively, Cheng Qian also put away his distracting thoughts and began to concentrate on reviewing.

Of course, he didn't know that Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Yujiang would not speak out to influence others. This "others" was just him. More importantly, "others" were affected by the "silence" of Gu Wenxuan and his uncle that night.

When Cheng Qian woke up in the morning, he was pulled to the window by his roommate. He felt that the other party was acting rashly again on a whim. There was nothing that could not be discussed after he washed up.

However, when he looked in the direction of the other person's finger and heard the other person's gentle reminder, Cheng Qian was immediately stunned. This time he had wrongly blamed his classmate and roommate.

The room opposite.

The left side of the desk where Gu Wenxuan sat last night was piled with books, while the right side was empty.

He discovered last night that this young friend and his uncle had a common habit with him - they liked to put the books they had read on their left hand side.

Before going to bed, he paid attention to how high the books on the right hands of the other two people were, but at this time there were only about two or three books on Zhou Yujiang's right hand side.

He read so many books in one night?

Read ten lines at a glance?
Cheng Qian looked back with doubt in his heart, glanced around, and asked curiously: "Where are they?"

"They disappeared before the 5 o'clock drum. I heard that these two were worried about disturbing everyone's rest, so they took their school bags and went outside for morning exercises and reading before dawn.

The lights were turned off last night, and they were told to return to their rooms at 5:30 pm. If you want to find them, you have to wait a little longer. They won’t be back before breakfast time.”

The time for closing the city gates is different in different places and seasons, but in Qingyang County, the gates are opened at 5 a.m. and locked at 1:35 a.m., without any delay of a quarter of an hour.

It was exactly 6:03 when the class started. After a little thought, Cheng Qian realized that Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Yujiang had arranged their time more reasonably than him.

Even if you are in a slightly remote area of ​​the county school and cannot hear the bells from the kitchen or the academy, you can still follow the drum beats without anyone reminding you.