Zhang Shou pretended not to see the two little guys who snuck in, even though they did not go to the empty tables and chairs at the back. Instead, they stood directly beside Lu Sanlang's seat, one on the left and one on the right. They ignored Lu Sanlang's helpless expression and kept glancing at the textbooks with their little eyes.
He knew that perhaps the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince could hold on on the first day and the second day, but it would be difficult for them to last long.
Because the people gathered in the class were adults with excellent basics who were selected through three basic math and logic questions. Jiuzhangtang is an adult world. After the introductory math textbook, there is a lot of content that is not very friendly to children.
So, when he found out that the students who chose to take other subjects in Banshan Hall, except for the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince, Zhang Wu, Zhang Lu and three other children of noble families who had stayed in Cuiyun Room, actually came secretly and sat in the back to listen, he could not help laughing.
Especially when Ge Yong, Qi Jingshan and Chu Ying had quietly left with a group of academic officials after listening for a while, but a few people were still standing there, his smile deepened.
Even if the purpose of learning is utilitarian and not pure, it is at least a very interesting phenomenon.
Therefore, in the first class, he casually picked up the first question used for Jiuzhangtang's enrollment, and casually threw out several basic laws of simple calculations. He also used the example of the addition of consecutive numbers that Lu Sanlang used to test Yan Fang that day.
When he finished speaking, many of the students in the audience felt as if the clouds had cleared and the moon had appeared. Even the Third and Fourth Princes could not help but whisper to each other.
When the class on simple calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division was over, Zhang Shou was just announcing the break when the fourth prince suddenly came up and said, "Teacher, can my third brother and I come to sit in every afternoon from now on?"
Zhang Shou saw that the Third Prince had an expression that he wanted to ask but didn't dare to, and Zhang Wu, Zhang Lu and others clearly had the same request, so he said to everyone very reasonably: "If you are interested in the future, you can also come to Jiuzhang Hall to audit the class anytime in the afternoon, just like Lu Sanlang went to Banshan Hall. Of course, the prerequisite is that your teachers of the elective courses will approve your leave."
Although physical education and music are important, if someone is willing to skip these two subjects to study mathematics, almost no teachers in the future will have any objection, and he has no objection now either.
The third and fourth princes looked at each other, and the fourth prince immediately came up to Zhang Shou with a happy expression and asked for books. Zhang Shou shook his head and said, "You came a little late, so you probably didn't hear what I said before. Even Lu Sanlang's textbooks were borrowed from the bookstore. If you are interested, you can buy them, but I don't have any extra ones."
After saying this, he irresponsibly repeated the Huang Sheng borrowing book talk to the two little guys who were not even as big as him. Sure enough, the third and fourth princes, who were still learning the basics of classical Chinese, had stars in their eyes and only understood one thing: if they wanted books, they could either go to the bookstore to buy them themselves or borrow them from the bookstore like everyone else.
Such a small amount of money for buying books, let alone the third and fourth princes, even Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, who were not of high status in the family, did not take it seriously. However, the fourth prince decided without thinking and borrowed it to read like everyone else. Because he didn't understand the other words of Zhang Shou's long speech just now, but he understood these words: books cannot be read without borrowing.