Chapter 1929: The Young Are Formidable (March Monthly Ticket Plus 4)
Zhai Dalang had a bitter face and said nothing. He didn't want to get married because he would have to get up even earlier.
At this time, Bai Erlang was also yawning. He threw down his pen in frustration and said, "There are too few books here. There's nothing here, nothing there. It's not even close to what you'd find at Chongwenguan. I can't even find the book I'm looking for. Why does the teacher give us so much homework?"
Bai Shan stuffed the book he had quickly flipped through into the bookshelf, looked at the title, pulled out another one, and flipped through it. He said, "Otherwise, why is it called experience? Stop complaining and copy quickly. I've found a solution to one problem."
Manbao was looking at the test papers that Magistrate Zhai had collected for his son. "I took a look. The papers from Shangzhou Prefecture School two and three years ago were both very difficult."
Bai Shan raised his head and thought for a moment before saying, "It seems that the Imperial College's examination was also very difficult at that time. Their examination papers should have changed according to the difficulty of the Imperial College's examination."
Upon hearing this, Bai Erlang immediately asked, "If you didn't get in through patronage, but took the exam on your own, do you think you could get into the Imperial College?"
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "Even if I didn't pass the exam that year, I could still pass it the second and third year. You are different."
Shirojiro:......
He snorted indignantly, turned his head and continued copying, saying, "That's not necessarily true. Maybe I'm luckier than you, and the examiner just likes my writing more?"
Bai Shan thought about it seriously and felt that this was possible. After all, luck was also a kind of strength.
When the time for the meeting came, Bai Shan still couldn't find everything he wanted from the pile of books. In the end, he could only take the things written on two pieces of paper and get in the car with Manbao and others to go to the restaurant for the banquet.
To gain more time, they didn't ride horses for three days.
Bai Shan reviewed his copy and passed it to Man Bao. He took Bai Erlang's copy and said, "It's really difficult. I've been thinking about it for a long time and still can't figure out how to solve this problem. So the exams in the counties surrounding the capital are all this difficult?"
Man Bao looked at it and nodded, saying, "No wonder the number of students from Jiannan Road who are admitted to the capital for the examination is always lower than that of these states. It turns out that it is because the questions they start with in training are much more difficult than ours."
Bai Erlang's eyes ached, and he leaned against the car window, shaking his head and saying, "There's always someone better than you. Hey, Manbao, I saw your uncle."
Manbao also went to the window to look, and saw Xia Yi driving a loaded ox cart coming out from another road. She immediately pulled Bai Erlang into the cart, lowered the curtains, and whispered, "Don't let him see us."
Bai Jilang teased her, "Are you still afraid of meeting him?"
"What do you know? I'm being polite and yielding. Otherwise, if we bump into each other on the street, he'll be embarrassed and start a scene. He'll be embarrassed, but won't I be embarrassed?"
Bai Shan nodded and said, "That's called being respectful. You should learn from this. In the future, if you can give others respect, then do so. Arguing with others will only bring you a momentary pleasure and bring you nothing but a ton of disadvantages."
Manbao nodded repeatedly.
Bai Erlang said, "Now both of you can be teachers."
Manbao reached out and patted his shoulder, saying with a smile, "You are our junior fellow apprentice, so shouldn't I teach you something?"
After the carriage passed the intersection and they were sure that Xia Yi would not look back and see them, Manbao and the others rolled up the curtains again.
Bai Shan glanced back and then withdrew his gaze, saying to Man Bao, "I'm afraid the resentment in his heart will be hard to let go."
Manbao said, "My eldest brother and fifth brother went to Songhua Lane these past two days to inquire about some things that happened in the past. Xia Bogong also mentioned what happened back then. Even if I hadn't taken back the house, his relationship with my family would not have been good."
Manbao said, "He took over my grandparents' house, but I haven't seen him visit them during the Qingming Festival. So, what's the big deal if I offend him?"
Bai Shan nodded, agreeing with her words, but said, "But we can't let him remember you forever. I asked Daji to find out who the Xia clan leader plans to let give the land to Xia Yi. How many families did the half piece of land get distributed to back then? Then when we go to Hongtian Village, we will know each other well."
Bai Erlang asked, "Are you trying to sow discord again?"
Bai Shan said, "What do you mean by sowing discord? This is called a tactic of alienation. Could you use a better name?"
"Aren't they all the same?"
"Of course they're different. One sounds like a gossip, while the other is a military strategy. How are they different?"
Daji said outside the car: "Master, Miss Man, Master Tang, we have arrived at the restaurant."
The three of them screamed, no longer caring about the quarrel, "I haven't finished watching it yet."
Manbao: "I just started looking at the test paper."
Bai Erlang had not had time to look at the information collected by Bai Shan and Manbao, except for the test paper he copied himself.
The three of them started blaming each other, "It's all your fault!"
"It was you who started it..."
"If you hadn't given me the lead, would I have started the conversation?"
Man Bao had already jumped out of the car in frustration and yelled at the two of them, "Stop arguing! If you keep arguing, I'll have the master expel you two from the sect. It's all your fault! You've been rambling on about irrelevant things all the way here."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were not convinced, "It was obviously you..."
Mr. Zhuang, who was upstairs, heard the voices of his three disciples and pushed open the window of his private room with a headache. He looked down at the three people arguing at the entrance of the restaurant and said, "Since you're here, why don't you come up quickly?"
The three of them immediately put their hands down and went in obediently, went upstairs, and then bowed and greeted.
Mr. Zhuang was sitting with several adults. They hadn't seen the two Manbaos in the past two days, so they couldn't help but take a quick look at them.
Mr. Zhuang introduced them, "This is Lord Lu, the Governor of Shangzhou, and this is Lord Zhen, the Chief Secretary of Shangzhou. Why don't you come and greet them?"
Manbao then brought his two junior brothers forward to pay their respects. Lord Lu and Lord Zhen accepted the greetings from Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, but returned a half-greet to Zhou Man, then said with a smile, "Lord Zhou, please take a seat."
Manbao glanced at the teacher secretly and decided to be a good boy today, so he politely declined Mr. Lu's kindness.
Seeing that she was still so afraid of her master, Lord Lu couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are you used to returning to Shangzhou, Lord Zhou?"
The word "return" was used very cleverly. Mr. Zhuang and Bai Shan Zhouman knew as soon as they heard it that Lord Lu had been paying attention to her return home.
Manbao smiled and said, "When I came back, I always felt that this place was familiar, especially when I ate Shangzhou's cold noodles and sour soup dumplings, it was like I had come back in a dream."
Upon hearing this, Lord Lu couldn't help but burst into laughter. He said to Mr. Zhuang and the doctors of the prefectural academy who were sitting beside him, "It seems that Lord Zhou was born into Shangzhou. Besides these two things, our Shangzhou stew is also delicious. I will ask Lord Zhou to taste it later."
Manbao smiled and thanked him.
From now on, if it’s too late, just go to bed first and don’t stay up late. It will be a very happy thing to see the update the next morning.
Okay, good night everyone.
(End of this chapter)
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