Chapter 647 Disobedient
Bai Shan and Wei Chen went into the building and opened the window for them. Manbao and Bai Erlang went in through the window as if they were familiar with the place.
Zhou Silang peeked inside and saw only rows and rows of tall bookshelves. His vision was limited, so he couldn't see the top. He couldn't help but gasp in amazement and said to Daji, who was silent beside him, "This provincial school is really rich. How much did all these books cost?"
Daji said, "Most of the books for official schools are provided by bookstores."
"Huh?" Zhou Silang didn't understand.
Daji explained, "A bookshop is a place where books are printed. Generally, in government schools like prefectural and county schools, most of the books collected are printed by bookshops."
"Isn't that the same collection as in the prefectural and county schools?"
"In addition, there are books left over from past official schools, books donated by students, and books purchased by official schools themselves. There will always be differences."
Zhou Silang listened but didn't understand. He simply waved his hand and said, "Who cares where it came from? There are a lot of books in here. They are very precious and valuable."
The Zhou family has a unanimous understanding that the most valuable things in the house, besides the house and the cows, are the books in Manbao's house.
Even Old Zhou, who had been to a bookstore in the county town, vaguely ranked books above cattle.
A book is certainly not as valuable as a cow, but what about a bookshelf of books?
Zhou Silang saw that his sister had successfully blended in with the money, so he closed the window and pulled Daji to get him a ladder. "I'll be leaving first. You guys get busy. By the way, is it okay to leave the carriage outside like this? Do you want me to go find a shop outside to store it?"
Daji lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "I'll go out with you."
The reason why he followed in yesterday was because he was worried, but there was no need to do so in the future. Anyway, they had found a solution to the most dangerous problem of climbing the wall. How could the young master be in any danger among a bunch of scholars in the government school?
Daji and Zhou Silang walked to the bottom of the wall, and without even moving a ladder, he just picked them up and flew out.
Zhou Silang was very dissatisfied with this and grumbled, "Look at you, you could have easily sent them in, but you made me go through all this trouble. Not only did it waste energy, but it also cost money. Do you know how expensive ladders are in Yizhou City?"
"I don't know," Daji said, "and I don't want to know."
Zhou Silang choked.
Daji jumped onto the carriage road and said, "I want to go around. Do you want to take a shortcut back by yourself, or let me give you a ride?"
Zhou Silang glanced at the long alley ahead, turned around and walked away, "Forget it, the prefectural school is not far from our home. By the time you get out, I can walk back home."
Zhou Silang turned away and left.
Daji drove the car to the front gate of the provincial school and waited for them there.
Manbao and the other three were wandering in the ocean of books. Bai Erlang took the list of books given by the teacher yesterday and found the first miscellaneous book. Then he whispered with Wei Chen and found a place with good lighting to sit down and read.
Bai Shan is particularly happy today, even happier than yesterday.
After all, it was just a try yesterday, but today it can be confirmed. Next time he comes to the library after school, he will have company.
He doesn't have to come to the library alone every time. He feels that reading here is worse than going home after school to read with his friends.
Bai Shan glanced at Manbao who was copying seriously, and also slipped into the bookshelf to look for a book.
He already had a target in mind, so he found it right away.
He sat next to Manbao and whispered, "Read this book."
Manbao took a look and couldn't help but put down his pen and took it, "Hey, there's actually a second volume here."
Bai Shan smiled and nodded, "You didn't expect that there are quite a lot of travel notes in the library. Basically, we will add all the travel notes that are available in the bookstores outside."
He whispered, "Every year the bookstore sends a batch of new books."
Some books need to be copied down and read repeatedly for study, but some books are just for fun, like the miscellany in Bai Shan's hand.
But interesting miscellanies are sometimes more attractive than other books.
Especially for someone as young as Manbao, Manbao put down his pen and sat with Baishan to look through the miscellaneous book in his hand.
This is a storybook, said to be a travelogue, but Manbao feels that it is more like a fabricated unofficial history, telling stories that the author heard while traveling in the north. Most of those stories are related to historical figures and include various types.
So Manbao said it was a storybook disguised as a travelogue.
The two of them read together like this, oh no, it wasted an entire hour, until the closing bell rang, and then they remembered that they had not read any of the books on the list that the teacher had made for them.
Not only did they not read it, they couldn't even find the book.
The two of them looked at each other guiltily, quickly put away the things on the table, and returned the books with the other students in the building.
Then Manbao and Bai Erlang slipped out through the back window, while Bai Shan closed the window and went out through the door.
On the way back, Bai Erlang said to the two of them enthusiastically: "The miscellaneous books that the teacher recommended are also very interesting."
Manbao said, "The teacher introduced you to more than just miscellaneous books."
"Don't worry," Bai Shan knew that she was feeling guilty and anxious at the moment, so he comforted her, "There's a long way to go. Mr. may not ask today. We can just wait and see tomorrow."
Bai Erlang turned his head to look at the two of them and said, "Oh—" "I see. You guys didn't study seriously today, did you?"
"We weren't distracted."
"I know. I mean you haven't read the serious books."
"Only people can distinguish between the serious and the serious..." The three of them returned home noisily. Mr. Zhuang was waiting for them. When they entered the study, he asked, "What books did you read today? Did you gain anything?"
Bai Erlang waited for his senior sisters and brothers to speak first, but when he saw that they didn't, he stepped forward with great interest to report to them first.
Mr. Zhuang has always been relatively lenient with Bai Erlang. For things like his reading experience, if he talked about it in detail, he would listen in detail. Basically, as long as he read books, read good books, and could remember some important content in his mind, it would be enough. He never asked him to memorize everything or remember a certain amount of things.
Not to mention how brilliant his summary is.
Seeing how excited he was, they knew he had been reading seriously this afternoon, and it was worth their efforts.
After Bai Erlang finished speaking, Mr. Zhuang turned his attention to his two favorite disciples.
As soon as they came in, Mr. Zhuang guessed that these two had either gone out to play or had not read any serious books in the afternoon, otherwise they would not be so guilty.
Mr. Zhuang nodded at the table and asked, "Can you two tell me what books you read this afternoon?"
Manbao looked at Baishan quietly, and Baishan also looked at her quietly. When they looked at each other, they couldn't help but look up and look at the gentleman quietly.
As soon as I looked up, I met the gentleman's half-smile in his eyes, and then we both lowered our heads and became scared.
(End of this chapter)
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