As soon as Patriarch Xia saw it, he immediately asked his son to lead the young and strong members of the clan to help. After two weeks, they really participated in the poetry meeting and literary meeting again, and they were said to be very popular, even the gentlemen who taught Wulang and Qilang to read. Praise them for their knowledge.
Patriarch Xia only wanted to end this matter as soon as possible so that there would be no more troubles.
The three Bai Shans who returned to the inn were not as energetic as Patriarch Xia thought. Instead, they went back to their respective rooms after returning to the inn, and lay down on the bed without moving.
It's so tiring!
Participating in essays to do essays, but also to deal with the challenges of various people essays, discuss...
Participating in poetry clubs also makes poems, and sometimes fights essays...
Usually just entertaining themselves, the three of them bickering with each other suddenly felt the amount of knowledge beyond others. Of course, if they were one-on-one, they would not be afraid.
But they are a group of three pairs.
That large group included not only the students of the prefectural school, but also the doctoral officers of the prefectural school, and it was not limited to the students and literati who came here from various counties to participate in the literary fair...
The ghost knows what books they read in private. There are so many questions, and there are always three or four out of ten that they can't answer, and they are ashamed to death.
In order not to be too embarrassing, the three of them could only write down the questions they couldn't answer and take them back to the inn. They first asked the husband, who told them what he knew, and asked them to find out what they didn't know. Most of them just had a general impression.
Where can the three of them find it
Of course it was a bookshop.
But there were very few books in the bookstore, so in the end they went to the county magistrate Zhai to borrow books. They had been running around here for the past two days, and they didn't remember Xia Yi's move at all.
They don't remember, but they do remember the old Zhou, they have been quietly staring at Songhua Lane for the past two days.
Man Bao lay on the bed motionless, with no expression on his face. When Qian Shi opened the door and came in, he shook his head, put the basin on the shelf, and patted her, "Get up and wash your face." Heshou, mother has poured you all the hot water."
Man Bao said blankly: "I don't want to wash in hot water, I want to wash in cold water. Ice water is the best."
"Girls don't get cold," Qian patted her out of bed, and said, "Wash up first, Mother has something to tell you."
Man Bao then got up to wash, Qian Shi sat by the bed and folded her clothes, saying: "Today Xia Yi's family started to move things, your eldest brother and fifth brother went to see it quietly, and it will be almost the same after moving for another day tomorrow. What your father and I mean is that they will definitely move everything in it."
She sighed: "They have used those things for more than ten years, and I don't really want to keep them, so I have to buy more beds, tables, chairs and benches..."
Man Bao raised his wet face from the tub, and asked in a daze, "Do we still need to decorate this house?"
Qian gave her a sideways look and said: "Of course it has to be furnished, not only to be furnished, but also to be guarded, otherwise the house will be rented out, and the house will become dilapidated."
She said: "In the future, every year and festival, especially Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, you will always come back to worship your ancestors. Both your grandparents and great-grandparents need you to sacrifice. Although your father and I will not let you change your surname, but You still have to do the filial piety you should do."
Man Bao scratched his head and complied obediently.
Seeing her tired face, Mrs. Qian asked with concern: "In the past two days, you always leave early and return late. Why, the students in Shangzhou are better than those in Beijing?"
Man Bao lowered his head and said: "That's not true, it's just that when we were in the capital, everyone discussed with each other. When we participated in the literary meeting, because we were young, few people would make things difficult for us, but in Shangzhou, we have high status. , and they all came from the Chongwen Museum, and Bai Shan and Bai Erlang stayed in the Imperial College, so not only the students, but even the academic officials and doctors like to ask questions to test us."
The main reason is that everyone wants to know the level of the Guozijian and Chongwenguan in the capital. With the same number of people, Zhou Man and the others are of course not afraid, but they can't do it now.
Qian frowned and said, "Are they embarrassing you?"
Man Bao shook his head and sighed, "Sir, they said it was because they liked and respected us."
So in order to be worthy of this love and admiration, they can only think all night to find the answer.
Man Bao wanted to cry.
In the words of Mr. Zhuang, "You have been living with praise for so many years, you should also know that there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond the people."
So, the three of them discovered that it really was someone other than others. Where did they read so many books and know so many questions
At this time, the county magistrate Zhai was holding the bowl and chopsticks and looking at the eldest son who was eating opposite him in a daze.
Mrs. Zhai picked up a chopstick of meat for him, and couldn't help asking: "Why is the master staring at Da Lang?"
County magistrate Zhai regained his senses, looked down at the food in the bowl, shook his head and said, "Let me see, what's wrong with my son."
Mrs. Zhai: "... Did you see it?"
Zhai County Magistrate nodded, "It can't be seen from the outside, so I guess it's because the brain is a little weaker, otherwise they all study in the same way, why is he so much worse?"
Zhai Dalang couldn't take it anymore, he raised his head from the bowl and said, "Father, are you going to praise Baishan and the others again? My ears are almost ringing in the past two days."
Magistrate Zhai shook his head, "I praised what they did, and I already know that you are far inferior to them."
Zhai Dalang was a little unconvinced.
Zhai County Magistrate said: "You borrowed two books from me yesterday afternoon and went back to read them, and you returned them early the next morning. You just changed your clothes and took your servants with you when you went to the Wenhui with a lot of things, have you read a single page of the book this day?"
Zhai County Magistrate shook his head and said, "I can't compare, I can't compare. I made the comparison wrong at the beginning."
Zhai Dalang froze and couldn't speak.
Madam Zhai poked him on the head with her hand, and said: "You get up early to study tomorrow, and it sounds like something calls you to wake you up every day, can you work harder?"
Zhai Erlang and Zhai Xiaomei who were sitting on the side immediately lowered their heads to have a quick meal, wanting to leave the battlefield quickly.
Zhai Dalang promised very well, but he still couldn't get up early the next day. When he was finally dug up from the bed, Bai Shan and the others had already come to borrow books. The exam papers for the 2019 exam, someone posed yesterday was the exam questions from two years ago, they were stumped.
When Zhai Dalang heard people saying that everyone was copying papers in the study room, he immediately couldn't help lying down on the bed, wrinkled the clothes he just wore, and said angrily, "Don't they all need to sleep?"
He said angrily: "No wonder they are so short, how can they grow taller if they don't get enough sleep?"
Servant: ... Eldest young master, you are a year or two older than them.
While redressing Zhai Dalang, the servant persuaded: "Young master, you are about to get engaged, so you should work harder these few days."