Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Soon it was noon, and the Hu family packed a lunch. The food was good, and the meat could be seen.

Lao Li said that the clerk at Hu's warehouse can eat one meal of meat in three days, and Su Mu was lucky to meet him.

Traveling to the Ming Dynasty, and finally seeing You Xing, Su Mu was so used that he couldn't hold on, so he gave up.

After lunch, without delay, he walked straight to the school in the backyard.

Compared with the crowded and busy front hall, the side courtyard where the school is located looks very clean. There is a large courtyard with a rockery in the middle, and two wooden bungalows beside it, one big and one small.The small one is Mr. Shao's lounge, and the big one is the school, where a dozen or so students of various ages are sitting, all writing.The young one looked about six or seven years old, and the big one was a bit outrageous, especially the guy sitting in the last row. He was tall and long, and his body was as wide as a door panel.

This guy picked up the pen as if he was wielding a knife and a gun. His movements were great, but his black face was covered with sweat.

But Su Mu knew this person, he was Hu Baihu's soldier, a big man.

It turns out that he is a relative of Hu Baihu!

Su Mu didn't see Shao Tai, so he called out the window: "Big man."

The big man turned his head and saw that it was Su Mu, he hurriedly dropped the pen in his hand and stood up.Probably because she was too tall, her head almost hit the window lattice: "So it's aunt...it's you...what are you doing here?" As he spoke, he laughed and stretched out his hand to grab his head.

Seeing that his hands were covered with scars, Su Mu's heart moved: "Hu Jinxue, is Mr. Shao here?"

"Ah, how do you know my name is Hu Jinxue?" The big man stared at the bull's eye and asked in surprise, his voice was so loud that the dozen or so students in the room turned their heads at the same time.

Su Mu smiled: "Don't you, you, you, you can call me Su Mu, or you can call me Ziqiao. I heard you screaming here earlier, it was really deafening, and the noise was unbearable. I felt sympathetic, so I asked the accountant. Mr. Li, what have you committed? Only now do you know your name, and you are studying in the school again."

Hu Jinxue called out miserably: "Zi Qiao, although I have the word "Jinxue" in my name, I have only learned how to beat strength, use knives and sticks since I was a child, and I have never been to school for a day. This time the master let me enter the school. , Isn’t this called Zhang Fei Embroidery? I’m so depressed. I’d rather fight to the death with a dozen gangsters than come here to read and write. Ah... sir!”

When Su Mu heard Hu Jinxue call Mr., he turned around and saw Shao Tai standing behind him with a frosty face: "Hu Jinxue, everything is low-grade, only reading is good. Hu Baihu sent you to study, that is to let you study." You are motivated. A fool who can’t even recite a sentence of learning and practice, you will be fined to copy it a hundred times, go!”

Hu Jinxue was reprimanded by his husband, and his face became even whiter. He immediately sat down or sat down, and did not dare to look up again.

"Students have met their mentors."

"Teacher, I don't have a student like you." Shao Tai was furious, and shouted sharply: "Su Mu, I told you earlier that I'm teaching here today, and asked you to come here earlier, why did you delay until now?"

Su Mu hurriedly apologized.

Mr. Shao reprimanded a few more words before calming down and waving his hand: "Forget it, most of the students in this school are young boys who have just started their education. As a teacher, I only taught an "Analects of Confucius" in the morning and asked them to copy it, and only explained the meaning of the scriptures in the afternoon. , you just in time, go in!"

Su Mu hurriedly said: "Sir, please tell me, students are not allowed to attend classes in the school."

"what happened?"

Su Mu reported that he came to Hu's house to be the accountant, and said: "Firstly, the boy's family is poor, and he can't do it for rice beams. Moreover, this is also the order of the elders in the clan, so I dare not violate it."

Mr. Shao said angrily: "What is it for Daoliang? Aren't you the son of Su's family? A few days ago, you sent [-] mu of land to the county school. How can you have no livelihood?"

Su Mu lowered his voice and explained his family affairs clearly to Mr. Shao: "Teacher, as the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized. Since your old man asked, in order to avoid misunderstanding, students can only tell the truth."

Shao Tai didn't expect that Sumu would be so difficult, and there would be such twists and turns in the [-] mu of land.I was taken aback, and wanted to say something, but this was someone else's housework, and I couldn't comment on it myself, so I could only sigh: "I see, I misunderstood you. Go to the school, and I will talk to Hu Baihu." Yes. At worst, you can work for him while studying. Hu Baihu is also a reasonable person, and he will give the old man a little noodle at least."

Su Mu really didn't want to study, but things had come to this, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to school.

He was the oldest among the students and could only sit in the last row by the window, which happened to be the same table as Hu Jinxue.

"This incident made it...unexpectedly, I am an excellent university lecturer, but now I have to study with a group of elementary school students." Looking at the room full of eleven or twelve-year-old children, Su Mu was so depressed that he died.

This afternoon, Mr. Shao did not give lectures, but did self-study, and also left homework, most of which were red tracing and reciting texts.

The only Hu Jinxue who is the same age as himself was punished by Shao Tai today, and he had to copy the phrase "Learn and learn from time to time" a hundred times. Although this guy's fingers are as thick as carrots, his hands shake badly when he writes.After one afternoon, I was covered in hot sweat, so I didn't have time to talk to Su Mu.

As for Su Mu, Mr. Shao didn't let it go, and asked him to use "All things grow together without harming each other, and Tao runs without conflict." In "The Doctrine of the Mean", he made a stereotyped sentence.

God, writing in classical Chinese is the most painful thing for Su Mu. He spent a whole afternoon in class and finally wrote [-] characters.

When the hall was over, his face turned blue.

When school was over, Hu Jinxue hadn't finished copying the one hundred times "Learning while learning, it's a joy to learn", and his right hand was already so weak that it couldn't stop shaking.

Mr. Shao came back, collected his homework, and naturally scolded Hu Jinxue.

Then he told Su Mu that Hu Baihu had agreed to let Su Mu start working in the account room in the morning and come to study in the school in the afternoon starting from tomorrow, with the same salary.

While talking, Mr. Shao looked at Su Mu's article, frowned, and said: "It is indeed right to ask you to come here to study. The meaning and format of your article are correct, but the writing is not enough, there is nothing wrong with it." Don’t worry if you can’t pass the years of hard work. I’ll correct it for you, and you’ll have to think about it after you get down.”

"The teacher taught you well." Su Mu followed the trend: "The students are going to buy a few collections of contemporary essays in the Lin family bookstore later to figure it out, but they don't know if the owner of the bookstore is familiar with the teacher, can they give some discounts?"

"What do you do with the collection of essays? If you want to, just go to the county school to borrow them. You are poor, what are you doing with that money?" Mr. Shao snorted, and said the name of the owner of the Lin family bookstore, "If you really If you want to buy it, just say I sent you over."

It turned out that the owner of the Lin Family Bookstore was named Lin Shen, and he was originally a scholar, but unfortunately, since he got the fame, he has no intention of official career, and started a business. Now he has a net worth of tens of thousands of taels, and he is also well-known in Baoding Mansion. rich man.