Even though Chief Hong had made such a fuss, his daughter, Hong, was now considered by outsiders to be the best candidate for the eldest prince's consort. Unless they were insane, most people who were eligible for marriage to the royal family would never be willing to let their daughters jump into this fire pit. However, the Queen Mother, as the eldest prince's grandmother, was about to summon Hong, and after the news spread, it still caused quite a bit of controversy.
Zhang Shou was sure that if people knew that the Queen Mother had actually chosen him and Zhu Ying to accompany the meeting with Hong, then public opinion would probably be even more outraged. For such an occasion, Princess Yongping was definitely more suitable than Zhu Ying, and children like the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince were far more suitable than him. Why did the Queen Mother insist on bringing him along
Well, excluding the unrealistic reason that the Queen Mother looked at him differently, is this normal? Now it seems that his life experience should not be exposed, but the Queen Mother seems to treat Zhu Ying better than her own granddaughter. Could it be that Zhu Ying's life experience is a melodrama
Although he thought that what would happen tomorrow was ridiculous and illogical, Zhang Shou argued with the Queen Mother in Qingning Palace and failed to shirk his responsibility. This matter was set in stone. So, after leaving the palace at noon, he taught a full afternoon class to a group of freshly-trained students after missing a whole morning of classes, and then...
Since there would be no classes tomorrow morning, he assigned the students enough exercises to last them the whole morning!
If it were in later generations, Zhang Shou would probably become the most hated devil teacher. However, now, as in the past, his behavior not only did not cause the students to hate him, but was praised by everyone after the class that day. Of course, the third prince, who confidently used the excuse that Zhang Shou had to go to the palace for something in the morning and insisted on staying to listen to the lecture in the afternoon, was Zhang Shou's most die-hard supporter.
"The teacher didn't forget about us even when he had something important to do. He is really dedicated... When I return to the palace, I will definitely tell my father that I won't be going back tomorrow afternoon. Who told him to always summon the teacher to the palace when he has nothing to do!"
Third Prince, if our young teacher didn't come to the palace often and hardly had to attend court, wouldn't he have no influence at all? Besides, if you weren't so outstanding in front of the emperor, how could you become his student
Ji Jiu, the head monk, was Zhang Shou's biggest flatterer. As he was not as talented as Lu Sanlang, he could only surpass him in this aspect. At this moment, he criticized the Third Prince's childishness, and immediately followed up on the Third Prince's words and started to flatter him.
"To come up with so many questions, the teacher must have spent a lot of effort! In the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, there are only one or two questions of each type, but we can do a lot of questions to consolidate what we have learned after learning a little. We are so lucky..."
When Zhang Shou left Jiuzhang Hall and went home that day, he learned about the flattery of a group of students led by Ji Jiu and the Third Prince because Ah Liu had been watching silently. He felt very complicated. The question-sea tactics were actually praised one day. What kind of world is this? This is probably something that students in later generations would never imagine.
But it is also true that the ability that scholars value most these days is rote memorization. The "Great Learning" with less than 2,000 words, I memorized it! The "Doctrine of the Mean" with only 3,000 words, I was determined to master it! The "Analects" with more than 13,000 words... If you work hard, you can grind an iron rod into a needle! The "Mencius" with more than 34,000 words is a bit difficult, but if you want to take the imperial examination, you must know it by heart!