After all, they are students of his academy. He doesn't want these students to go astray, but to be down-to-earth.

Master Guo said, "Let me take a look."

The two children handed over their articles respectfully.

Mr. Guo read Dabao's article first. At first, his brows were furrowed, but then gradually they relaxed...

When he read the end, he could only say that it was a miracle that a six or seven-year-old could write such an article! His article was limited by his knowledge, but it also had a rare spirituality. If he had studied the Four Books and Five Classics and had sufficient knowledge, one could imagine how excellent his article would be.

Mr. Guo immediately picked up another article and read it. After reading it this time, he was left with shock.

The arrangement is clear and full of quotations from classics, as if it was made by a student of classics!

Master Guo looked at the two children in front of him and asked excitedly: "Did you two write these two articles?"

The two men replied respectfully, "Yes, Master."

"Okay, then I'll ask you a few more questions."

Mr. Guo's questions were also divided into different levels. He tested Xu Jue with questions about classics and tested Dabao with questions about elementary education. After all these tests, he found that these two children did have a talent for reading!

Master Guo became even more excited. Such a good seedling is so rare!

"Xu Jue, you've already read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of seven. You must be from a scholarly family. Who is your father?"

"Qinzhou, Xu Wangshan." Xu Jue said respectfully.

"Xu Wangshan?! It turns out to be Brother Wangshan!" Master Guo was a little excited.

"Do you know my father?" Xu Jue asked with a bow.

"When I went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, your father and I were both candidates, and we were friends regardless of age difference. It's just that we were far away from each other, so it's inconvenient to contact each other. How is your father now?" asked Master Guo.

"My father...he passed away."

Master Guo was stunned for a moment, feeling a little sad. After a long while, he sighed softly, "What a pity, what a pity."

He looked at the two children and said, "Xu Jue, Wei Dabao, are you two willing to learn from me?"

There are three teachers in the academy. Master Zhao is in charge of elementary education, Master Gou is in charge of classics, and Master Guo has extremely strict requirements for accepting students. He only accepts those with outstanding talents and teaches them personally.

It is very rare to receive personal instruction from Master Guo in this academy!

Xu Jue and Dabao's eyes lit up immediately, and they said in unison, "The students are willing!"

As they walked out of the room, they smiled at each other.

This was actually the purpose of the two men. They realized that Master Zhao was targeting them and they would definitely not be able to learn anything from him, so they set their sights on Master Guo.

Master Guo was an upright person. He only accepted talented students. He would not accept untalented students no matter how much money they offered.

By following Master Guo, you will definitely learn a lot and also be able to get rid of Master Zhao's targeting.

But the two of them didn’t expect it to be so smooth, and Dabao was so happy that he almost jumped for joy!

The next day, Master Zhao finished his work and rushed back to the academy, where he was told that Master Guo had accepted Xu Jue and Wei Dabao as his students.

Master Zhao was a little anxious: "Mr. Guo, that Wei Dabao is lazy every day and doesn't study hard. If you have a student like him around, he will disturb other students' studies."

"Shuwen, I have lived twenty years longer than you, so naturally I am better at judging people than you. Wei Dabao is a talented and hardworking child. He is a good kid." There was some displeasure in Master Guo's voice.

Wei Dabao was his student. Master Guo was very protective of his students and did not like others talking about his students in this way.

Master Zhao has always been liked by Master Guo, but he lost his composure just now because his abacus was about to fall short.

He reacted and quickly made amends: "Mr. Guo is right. I shouldn't judge a student so arbitrarily."

He returned to the school and found three empty seats, belonging to Chen Yu, Xu Jue and Wei Dabao.

He asked for leave actually to go see Chen Yu. After all, the Chen family had given him a lot of money. Now that something like this had happened, he was afraid that the Chen family would make trouble and expose the fact that he had accepted the money, so he hurried to appease them.

He was really unlucky. Chen Yu, whom he had been protecting, was now lying at home with a high fever due to fear, and the two children who were eager to commit crimes were somehow noticed by Mr. Guo and accepted as his students.

Master Zhao felt uncomfortable in the academy, so he returned to the house he rented next to the academy, where the charming and coquettish young woman was waiting for him.

Master Zhao wanted to vent his anger, so he hugged the young woman and wanted to kiss her, but Chen Xiaocui refused.

"You promised me to kick those two Tangli kids out of the academy. How's that going?"

Master Zhao tried to get things done quickly and was about to pull Chen Xiaocui's clothes, but Chen Xiaocui insisted on asking him what was going on.

Master Zhao suddenly became impatient: "They are both Mr. Guo's students now, what can I do?"

"They both became Mr. Guo's students?" Chen Xiaocui was almost furious when she heard this.

Her younger brother Chen Yang was studying Confucian classics in the academy. After she married Mr. Bai Sanye, she wanted to use Mr. Bai Sanye's relationship to ask Master Guo to accept Chen Yang as his student. However, Master Guo did not give her any face at all and directly refused, being very stubborn.

Now this stubborn old man actually took in these two babies.

What is Tangli’s fate?

She was so jealous that she was about to be deformed!

Chen Xiaocui was so angry that she pushed Master Zhao away and said, "What's the use of you? I can handle this myself."

She twisted her waist seductively, stepped over the threshold and went out.

…

Tangli has been busy with the medicine sachet factory this month.

Apart from the time spent going to town to purchase raw materials, she processed the medicinal materials with Dr. Su and learned some medicine from him.

It is always good to learn more things.

In one month, the medicine sac factory produced a total of 315 medicine sacs, with a total payment of 915 taels of silver. After deducting the commission of 284 taels given to Doctor Su and his wife, and the raw materials and labor costs, Tang Li received more than 400 taels!

How much is more than four hundred taels? A strong man may not earn forty taels in a year, but she earns what he earns in ten years in just one month!

Tang Li bought ten pounds of pork, clothes, lard, salt, preserved fruits, candies, paper, pens, ink, and pen washers, a large pile of things, which he sent to Wei Qing and the two kids in the academy respectively. Then he returned home and cooked a delicious meal for the two kids at home.

Tangli also bought Sanbao a piece of clothing with pockets, so he could put preserved fruits in the pockets and eat them right away. Sanbao liked it very much and hugged Tangli's neck to act coquettishly.

She spoke in a baby voice and rubbed Tangli's face with her chubby face, which made Tangli so cute.

No wonder everyone likes to have daughters. Baby girls are really sweet little cotton-padded jackets, warm and cute!

At night, Tangli took Sanbao and fell asleep with four hundred taels of silver as a pillow.

However, she did not sleep well that night.

She had a dream. In the dream, Dabao's article was recognized by the dean of the academy and he was accepted as a student. However, the good times did not last long. He was wrongly accused of stealing something...

It was Chen Xiaocui's brother Chen Yang who deliberately wrongly accused Dabao. Chen Yang had a habit of stealing things, so he deliberately placed the things he had stolen under Dabao's bed and then told everyone that he saw Dabao stealing things...

Dabao was caught red-handed and expelled from the academy. Chen Yang and Chen Xiaocui were gloating over their crimes. Chen Yang later secured a job thanks to Mr. Bai Sanye's connections and prospered in Yaoshui Town. However, after being expelled, Dabao lost his spirit and never wanted to study again, continuing his mediocre life.