Fang Yun smiled. Now Nunu was getting closer and closer to him.
"Nu Nu, why did you jump into my car that day instead of someone else's? There were several cars behind me." Fang Yun asked.
Nunu stretched out his little paw and pointed at a book called "Book of Rites" on the bookshelf.
Fang Yun took a look and said, "Yes, I was reading the Book of Rites in the car at that time. Did you rush over because you heard me reading and thought I was a good person?"
Nunu nodded and looked at Fang Yun with a smile.
"It seems like we are destined to be together." Fang Yun reached out and gently scratched Nunu's neck.
Nunu immediately narrowed his eyes and enjoyed it comfortably.
After lunch, the butler of the Fang Mansion came with seven people, saying that they were all selected by Madam Fang herself and were all from the Dayuan Mansion with clean backgrounds. They asked Fang Yun to choose two of them to be his permanent attendants.
The seven men were in the yard, their faces solemn and their bodies straight. There seemed to be a knife hidden in each of their eyes. Yang Yuhuan didn't dare to get close at all.
Fang Yun stood in front of the seven people and walked back and forth twice. Some of these people had only one arm left, some were blind in one eye, and some had minor injuries. It seemed that they were all student soldiers who had to retire after being injured.
The bodies of Tongsheng are much stronger than those of ordinary people. Once they practice martial arts, they will quickly become masters. If they are attacked at close range, even Juren may be killed. But this is not the case if they meet Jinshi. A verbal sparring can kill them in an instant.
Fang Yun said: "Since you were selected by your aunt, you should know most of them. If you form a team and choose a captain, who would you choose?"
The other six people looked at the middle-aged man with the broken arm. The man was not strong and even looked a little honest, but his eyes were calmer than those of the other six people.
Fang Yun asked the man, "What is your name and what position did you hold in the army?"
"Tan Yu has served as sergeant, squad leader and captain. Later, he served as General Fang's personal soldier. He retired due to injury three years ago and has been working for the Fang family ever since." Tan Yu spoke slowly and his pronunciation was clear.
Fang Yun nodded.
In Jing State, five people form a group, three groups form a ten, and fifty people form a team.
Most captains were scholars, and it was extremely rare for a student to become a captain. The next level above the captain was the ninth-rank deputy lieutenant, a real official, but generally only scholars could hold the position, and only a very small number of students could become lieutenants.
Fang Yun knew clearly that what he needed was not just strong soldiers, but someone with experience, brains and knowledge.
Fang Yun looked at Butler Fang and said, "Mr. Fang, I would choose Brother Tan Yu first."
"The young master really has good vision. One Tan Yu is worth four veterans." Butler Fang showed a look of praise.
Fang Yun then asked the remaining six people: "Who among you six is the best fighter?"
"Me!" The strongest man stepped forward, and the others did not object.
Fang Yun saw that there was nothing wrong with his health and asked: "Why did you retire from the army?"
"We have to fight sea monsters in Yuhai City, but if I stay in contact with sea water for a long time, I will get a rash and the pain is unbearable." said the sturdy man.
Fang Yun asked: "As my long-term attendant, what do you think is the most important thing?"
"Protect Master Fang!"
"Okay, what's your name?" Fang Yun asked.
"Nie Shi."
Fang Yun nodded and asked Tan Yu: "If Nie Shi wants to protect me, what weapon is suitable for him?"
Tan Yu said, "If you want to kill the enemy, my sharp sword is enough. The stone will protect you, and it is best to be a shield sword soldier. But you need a good demon turtle shield, which is very rare among the people. If you use an ordinary shield, it will be worse."
Butler Fang said, "The young master and the old master have collected a lot of sea monster items, no less than twenty monster turtle shells, you can come with me to pick one. Tan Yu, your knife is just ordinary iron, you can choose a monster item in the mansion to make a weapon, monster bull horns, monster shark teeth, etc."
Fang Yun smiled and said, "Thank you, Lord Fang. Thank my uncle and uncle for me too."
"I've long felt that the father and son have too many things. Rather than leaving them to mold, it's better to take them out and use them. Madam has already agreed. You go and pick first, and I'll report to the master after you've picked." Butler Fang looked indifferent.
Fang Yun had been in Dayuan Mansion for a long time and had a better understanding of the Fang family. This housekeeper Fang was a playmate of Old Master Fang since childhood. They fought together in battle, saved Old Master Fang's life, and spanked Fang Shouye when he was a child. Fang Shouye and his wife respected him very much. If Old Master Fang got angry, he was the only one who could calm him down.
"Okay, let's choose Tan Yu and Nie Shi." Fang Yun said.
Butler Fang said, "I will have the weapons made before the tenth day. When you report to the Palace Academy, you must bring Tan Yu and Nie Shi with you. You must subdue Liu Zicheng on the tenth day and not give him the opportunity to humiliate you. This way, he will be more restrained in the future. Tan Yu and Nie Shi both fought in the military. If they fight to the death, the Liu family's servants will not be able to fight."
Fang Yun said seriously: "Junior will keep this in mind."
"Okay, let's go back first. Starting tomorrow, Tan Yu and Nie Shi will be your attendants."
After seeing off Butler Fang, Fang Yun stood in the yard thinking. Even Butler Fang could see that Liu Zicheng was going to cause trouble on the tenth day. It looked like that day would not go smoothly.
"Even if you, Liu Zicheng, have the protection of the Left Prime Minister, you dare not take action in the city. You can only do something to damage my reputation. Now you can only passively counterattack. Once you become a scholar, you can take the initiative to attack! The only problem is Wei Yuanjun of the Fu Wenyuan. If he tears his face, he will be much more troublesome than Liu Zicheng. After all, he is a sixth-rank official."
Fang Yun was thinking about how to deal with Wei Yuanjun and walked into the house.
After lunch, Fang Yun continued to read, while Fang Daniu kept receiving various invitations and visiting cards, and kept telling the visitors that Fang Yun was sick.
By the evening, Fang Daniu had received a total of forty-three invitations and visiting cards, and placed all of them on Fang Yun's desk.
Some of them invited Fang Yun to dinner to make friends with him, some invited Fang Yun to attend private literary gatherings, and some wanted Fang Yun to teach his children.
Fang Yun kept flipping through the pages and finally saw a strange letter from a student.
The student criticized Fang Yun's poems and said they were worthless, saying that his own poems were the best in Mingzhou and that others were blind. The student also said in the letter that if Fang Yun did not visit him at home to seek advice, he would post letters in teahouses, literary gatherings and academies to criticize Fang Yun and let others know that Fang Yun's poems and writings were terrible.
Fang Yun shook his head and thought, "Literati look down on each other and are narrow-minded. However, the more he looks down on other people's poetry and prose, the happier I am. The path to literary status is to compete with countless literati. The more such people there are, the less competitive pressure I will have. I should thank him for taking the initiative to make way for us."
You don't have to reply to a visiting card, but you have to reply to an invitation. Fang Yun wrote some polite replies and asked Fang Daniu to deliver them one by one.
For the next two days, Fang Yun pretended to be sick and stayed at home, reading and practicing calligraphy.
The next night, Fang Yun secretly went to the new house, chose his own bedroom and study, and quietly returned under the cover of night.
On the third day, Fang Yun took the little fox to the Fang clan school to teach, and the Fang family sent people to Fang Yun's house to help move.
When they arrived at the clan school's teaching room, He Yutang told Fang Yun that the class had moved to a larger classroom and had added twenty new students, ten of whom had passed the exam and would definitely be admitted as Tongsheng in the future. The other ten students were not bad either, but each had a big background and had to pay a full 1,000 taels of silver a year.
One of the children was even recommended by a royal family member, so he should be a relative of a prince.
Fang Yun did not care about these things, and even hoped to have time to teach more people, because he knew one thing very well. If people who grew up studying "Three Character Classic", "Fox Rhymes" and "The Pillow Book" entered the political arena one after another, then even if the Left Prime Minister became a great scholar, he would be no match for him.
However, Fang Yun did not have enough time after all. Becoming a scholar was his main goal now, and teaching a class of students was his limit.
Fang Yun did not teach "Fox Rhymes" today, but continued to teach "Three Character Classic".
No matter how deep their backgrounds were, the twenty new students were all well behaved because their families had given them many instructions and warnings before they came, and some parents even threatened them with family rules.
Fang Yun studied hard for three consecutive days and felt that his thinking was a little blocked. In the process of explaining "Three Character Classic" to students, he gradually felt that what he had learned was straightened out by an invisible force.
After teaching a class, Fang Yun felt refreshed.
"No wonder ancient saints gave lectures to their disciples. Inheritance is one thing, and teaching is another kind of learning. If you can't express in words the truth that you think you understand and that you think is correct, and can't teach it to others, it means that you either understand it wrongly or don't understand it deeply enough. There are also places that you only vaguely understand, but after teaching, it becomes clearer."
"Similarly, communicating with other scholars is equally important. No wonder there are various private literary societies in the Ten Kingdoms. When I become a scholar, I must join an excellent literary society. Listening, expressing, and debating can all help me improve."
Although Fang Yun did not teach "Fox Rhymes" this time, the little fox still listened to the class attentively like an obedient student, even more attentively than all the other children.
After class, Fang Yun walked towards the teaching room holding the little fox and asked, "Did you understand my lesson?"
Nunu immediately nodded vigorously and proudly three times, but each time she nodded more hesitantly than the last. After the third nod, she shook her head slightly unwillingly.
“Some of you understand, and some of you don’t?”
Nunu nodded, a little frustrated.
"It doesn't matter. You'll understand after listening to it more. After a while, you'll be a Tongsheng slave."
"Oh! Oh!" Nunu was so happy to hear this name that she almost went crazy, and she snuggled into Fang Yun's arms to show her affection.
After leaving the clan school, Fang Yun officially moved into the new house.
This house has three large courtyards and fifteen houses, which is much more comfortable than before.
In the next few days, Fang Yun went nowhere but traveled back and forth between the clan school and Fang's home. When he passed by a bookstore, he bought some books, put some of them in the study, and put some of them into the World of Strange Books.
Before we knew it, it was the tenth day of April, the time when the Fuwen Academy accepts outstanding students to report for admission every year.
Dayuan Prefecture has one prefectural capital and nine county towns. The top student in each county and the top five students in the prefectural capital, a total of fourteen people, can enter the prefectural academy and study for three years.
Early in the morning, everyone in the Fang family compound got up early and prepared everything for Fang Yun. At half past six, a horse-drawn carriage carried Fang Yun to the Fuwen Academy.
Fang Daniu was driving the cart, with Tan Yu and Nie Shi on his left and right, one wearing a sword and the other holding a shield, very conspicuous.
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