Chapter 470 Extra 10 (3)
Sima Zhao: He doesn’t, he doesn’t have it!
Damn it! How could anyone think that Cao Pi and Cai Zhaoji made progress in political theory because of Cai Yong's guidance, and even chose Cai Yong's courses because of this, hoping to find some relevant connections?
He swore that his choice of this course had nothing to do with what his deskmate said.
This was exactly what happened after Sima Yi made some assessment of the talents of his eldest and second sons and chose to send them to Leping Academy one after another. He also asked his second son to keep a low profile and simply turn to the direction of literature, which is why he took this course.
After all, Sima Yi could not be sure whether Qiao Yan's denunciation of Cao Ang was because Cao Ang, Cao Pi, and even Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi, and Cao Chong were all talented people, and he did not want to see one person dominate, or whether it was really the reason Cao Ang said to the outside world -
This is simply because he did little to serve Your Majesty during his years as the prefect of Hanzhong. Instead, having read a lot of books, he felt that he was more suited to being a teacher and educating people.
But no matter what, in the current situation where many aristocratic families are suppressed, it is always a good idea for him to choose to let his second son keep a low profile and focus on letting his eldest son come to the fore.
Sima Shi, who was three years older than Sima Zhao, was indeed smarter than him. When it came to handling matters properly, he was the leader among the next generation.
Even if Your Majesty really feels that there is something wrong with this promotion and suppression, Sima Yi can perfectly explain the choice.
Sima Zhao also felt that this would make him feel relieved.
But how could someone suddenly make such a crazy misinterpretation?
Sima Zhao was still young, but because of his father's advice, he was particularly sensitive to this matter. He immediately realized that no matter whether Cai Yong really had such ability of "if he couldn't do it, his disciple could", he must not let Qiao Huan's statement spread and bring him great trouble.
He quickly whispered back: "What nonsense are you talking about! Cai Bojie is a great scholar in the world. It is the greatest fortune in the world to be able to study literature with him and appreciate the handwritten inscriptions of the Five Classics in the past. How dare I hope to gain something else!"
"Why are you so nervous?" Qiao Huan tilted her head, as if she didn't realize it at all. Just because of her words, her deskmate felt like they were facing a formidable enemy. "I didn't say that Cai Bojie's literary attainments were fake. Cao Zihuan and Cai Zhaoji, one was an important minister, but his poems were also circulated, and the other controlled the world's literary throat, which is probably related to Cai Bojie."
"Even if I can't get a glimpse of the mysterious and wonderful things from it, it's always good to be influenced by it and cultivate my character, right?"
Sima Zhao decided to pretend to be dead.
Anyway, his father said that as long as he had his brother to support him, it didn't matter if he acted a little stupid.
Sima Zhao began to think about whether he should choose to drop out of this course. He waited anxiously until the get out of class was over, and then went straight to his brother.
But what made him feel even more desperate was the advice his brother gave him:
Build a good relationship with Mu Huan.
According to Sima Shi, since they could not find out the identity and background of Mu Huan and could not uncover his origins, there was no guarantee that he was not sent by His Majesty to Leping Academy to monitor the movements of all parties.
Although it is somewhat absurd to let a child of only seven years old do this, this is an age when children can get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. A seven-year-old child is already able to receive the influence of the positions and trends of his elders, so how can he not serve as a medium of insight?
If understood in this way, her dispute with Sun Luban and her escape from Cao Ang, Cai Qiong and others would be much more subtle than what had been seen before.
Oh, no, under your majesty's special decree, the marriage age for men and women has been changed from no restrictions to over eighteen years old.
"So...you suddenly got a follower for no apparent reason?" Jiang Wei asked helplessly.
Apart from the basic required courses they took together, the only courses that Qiao Huan and he took were Go and literature appreciation.
As a result, the former led to a Zhang Changpu following her, and the latter led to a Sima Zhao following her.
This doesn't look right no matter how you look at it, does it?
Is she a little too popular?
Moreover, if it can be clearly seen that Zhang Changpu and Qiao Huan were getting along as friends, then it was very clear that Sima Zhao had other purposes.
"You can't say it's unclear..." Qiao Huan replied while looking at the chess record in her hand. The feeling of reading a divine book made her realize that she still had a long way to go before she could show the demeanor of a master through playing chess. She couldn't help but sigh.
But Jiang Wei obviously misunderstood the sigh, and he said, "If we want to solve this problem, maybe we can help out together."
"Oh no," Qiao Huan put down the chess record, glanced in Sima Zhao's direction, and replied, "My mother once told me that smart people like to think too much. I didn't quite understand what she meant, but today I know."
"It's true that smart people - it's easy to overthink."
Especially smart people who are too young.
Alas, it would be a waste if we don’t use the extra labor.
Jiang Wei: “…”
Although he didn't know what happened between Qiao Huan and Sima Zhao, it didn't seem like he needed to worry about his partner.
Instead of worrying about Qiao Huan being plotted against by the two brothers of the Sima family, it would be better to worry about Sima Zhao who becomes a bag-carrying brother in order to test Qiao Huan's strength, right?
You should know that Leping Academy has a fine tradition that started more than ten years ago, which is to cultivate the patience of students in the academy, that is, planting yam.
In the earliest days, this activity was set up by Qiao Yan in order to wear down the hostility of the Black Mountain Bandits and the White Wave Bandits so that they could be better used by her.
At present, these people have long become obedient citizens or capable soldiers under His Majesty's command, and Dayong no longer needs this batch of yams as a supplement to its food source. The activity of planting yams has become a life experience for students.
Because yam, like sweet potatoes, consumes soil fertility and requires crop rotation, Sima Zhao, who entered Leping Academy a year earlier than Qiao Huan, will also start this special course this year.
So Jiang Wei was not surprised to see that the scope of farming that Sima Zhao was responsible for seemed to be slightly larger than what he was originally responsible for?
Obviously, someone had assigned him a task that was not his responsibility.
And the one who saw this scene was not only Jiang Wei, but also a guy who had fought with Qiao Huan before.
Qiao Huan did not mention the fight to Qiao Yan when he returned to Luoyang during the Chinese New Year, and Sun Luban did not tell Sun Quan either.
The arrogant Sun Dahu was thinking about getting back at his old self with his own abilities, but he ended up being one step behind Qiao Huan in the few courses that overlapped with her. Now that he had finally caught her, he rushed over.
"How can you do things like this, treating your classmates like servants?" Sun Luban asked angrily, "How can you get credits for this shoddy homework?"
"How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?" Qiao Huan stared at her with a pair of beautiful and innocent eyes. "I did everything myself on my own land. Sima Zishang was allergic to calamus, so I took on some of the responsibility for her. This was approved by the teacher."
"You have the heart to help your classmates, so you should be praised. How can you call you a servant?"
Sun Luban: "..."
Oops, I was careless.
How could she have forgotten that "Mu Huan" could even describe the fight in front of Cao Ang as a rehearsal for Dian Wei's fight with the tiger? How could she really think that she would leave such an obvious handle!
Now she is in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat.
Before she could figure out how to respond to Qiao Huan's words, she heard Qiao Huan speak first, "Well, it's not your fault that you have such a misunderstanding. After all, we were acquainted before. But last time you were the first to cause trouble for me, and this time you were the first to accuse me of not being friendly to my classmates. If I just swallow this anger, I won't be able to stay in this academy in the future."
Although since most of the upper-class students came from the families of officials under Qiao Yan, there would not be any mutual oppression, at most there would be some unspoken rules that would not be put on the table, just like Sima Zhao followed Qiao Huan at the instruction of Sima Shi, but Sun Luban, who had wanted to be the leader of the class before, did not think there was anything wrong when he heard Qiao Huan say that.
She asked, "So what do you say we should do?"
Qiao Huan pointed to the yam field in front of him and said, "Each student needs to take care of half an acre of land. The yam yield is 1,000 kilograms per acre, and the college requires 400 kilograms to be handed in. If there is any extra, I want you to give it to me as a gift."
Sun Luban frowned, "Can't I just send him off?"
Don’t think that half of the yield of 1,000 jin per mu is 500 jin, and that 400 jin is an easy task to achieve.
Even though yam has undergone some optimization over the years due to being changed from being planted in mountains and forests to being planted in fields, it is still not that easy.
Sun Luban asked her father about it and also heard from Sun Quan that he had looked down on this when he came to Leping to study, but was soon severely beaten by society.
It is not so easy to achieve high yield of the things that Qiao Yan can use to temper the bandits' mentality. He also has to ensure that there will be no reduction in production this year due to the influence of weather or insect pests, and that the lessons in the academy will not be delayed because of it!
This would mean that she would have to devote all her time tending to the yam field to full concentration and not slack off for even a moment.
Qiao Huan obviously didn't intend to give her room for bargaining. She asked slowly, "What if I had encouraged you to go and complain to the teacher directly?"
Sun Luban: "..."
Because she was still young and too naive, she only knew that she had to strive to be the best, but she didn't understand where to put her efforts, let alone those unscrupulous methods. So when Qiao Huan said this hypothesis, she actually felt that she seemed to owe him a little.
If that's the case, giving the extra yam she produced to Qiao Huan, whether he wanted to use it to make up for his deficit or use it as food, was a compromise.
"Then...then let's do as you say."
But when she walked back, she realized——
That's not right. Even if she had wronged her classmates, the worst that could happen was that she would have to apologize in public or even write a few more self-criticisms. Why would she give herself a hard task that would last for half a year?
It’s only March or April now, and the earliest time to harvest yam is after August!
Sun Luban only felt a darkness before his eyes.
But her temper was clearly known to Qiao Huan during their several interactions.
How could Qiao Huan not see that this guy was very strong.
Last time, she was able to choose the explanation of "Dian Wei fighting the tiger" because of the sentence "We'll decide who's better next time".
This time, she could also keep her promise because she had promised Qiao Huan.
"The Queen Mother is truly amazing," Qiao Huan said in a voice that only he could hear, "The means used to feed the people of Bingzhou back then can actually be used again today."
"No wonder she is the only one who can end the chaos of the late Han Dynasty and become the ruler of the world."
Jiang Wei heard her mumbling and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Qiao Huan replied seriously, "I'm saying that we are a very lucky generation. The famine during the Jian'an years never affected us, and the locust plagues during the Guangxi and Zhongping years before that have long passed. We didn't have to go through the terrible situation of pinning our hopes of survival on yam. No wonder the academy wants us to always remember the bitterness and think of the sweetness."
This kind of training of recalling the past and cherishing the present is not limited to the extracurricular planting of yam.
Sun Luban refused to admit defeat and weeded the fields after class. She wanted to find Qiao Huan to show him off, but she found that he was not in the field that she was supposed to be responsible for. Even Sima Zhao, who was once mistaken by Sun Luban as Qiao Huan's thug, was not there.
"…What is going on here?"
She asked around and found out that Cai Yong used the poem Wu Yi in the Book of Songs as an example to talk about war songs, and then moved on to frontier poems.
Among them, we have to mention "Song of the Heavenly Horse" written by Emperor Wu of Han and "Battle in the South of the City" from the "Eighteen Songs of Clang" of the Han Dynasty.
The former is relatively easy to understand. Emperor Wu of Han obtained a batch of Ferghana horses from the Western Regions and completed the conquest of foreign countries, so naturally he revealed a sense of pride in his poems.
But the latter... is far beyond the understanding of people of Qiao Huan's age.
At most, when they read "The water roars, the cattails and reeds rustle. The brave riders die in battle, the slow horses wander and neigh.", they intuitively feel that this is not a hearty fight, but a tragic war.
But no matter how smart Qiao Huan was, she had never had the chance to actually see a battle because the world was at peace when she was born.
And she is not the only one in this situation.
Cai Yong has been a stickler for details for a long time, and he had high expectations for the course he was going to teach from the beginning of this academic year. He even hoped that it would be passed down after his death and become a course that would be taken over by someone at Leping Academy, so he simply made a decision.
He wanted to take this group of students who were taking this course on a trip to the outside of the Great Wall.
Only by experiencing the scenery outside the Great Wall in person can one truly understand the heroism in frontier poems.
So now Cai Yong brought this group of students to Yanmen Pass and then went out of the pass to travel.
"..." Sun Luban was silent for a long while before asking, "Who said before that Cai Bojie's class was boring, and that he didn't call the roll, and that it was too easy, and that it would sooner or later breed a bunch of idlers?"
Now, with someone special to ensure the normal growth of their yam fields, these idle people have all gone to travel outside the Great Wall.
What made Sun Luban feel even more annoyed was that because Cai Bojie's physical condition could not withstand the bumps, and in order to prevent these students from getting into accidents, His Majesty first transferred a batch of carriages with rubber tire covers to Bingzhou, and ordered Lu Bu, who was stationed in Baidaochuan, to serve as the protector of this trip.
If anything could go wrong in this situation, it would be a huge joke!
So this traveling team originally planned to walk a hundred miles outside the Great Wall, see the scenery north of Yinshan Mountain and then return, but finally decided before leaving Yanmen Pass that they would go directly to Sayinshanda.
Lu Bu would not refuse this suggestion anyway.
Look, this team includes Cai Yong and his disciples. Given Cai Yong’s pragmatic and realistic teaching principle, when he saw the stone inscription commemorating the achievements of Saynshand, didn’t he have to explain the events of that time to others?
Although given Cai Yong's temper, he might start talking about Your Majesty's attainments in calligraphy halfway through his speech, but no matter how Lu Bu thought about it, he felt that he had made a great profit.
Besides, there is also the interesting young prince Qiao Huaixu in this team.
Lu Bu could also take this opportunity to discuss with her whether some of the plots could be written more excitingly.
"Come to think of it, why has that guy been looking at you?" Lu Bu, who was much more perceptive than others in sensing danger, immediately noticed Sima Zhao's unusual behavior.
Qiao Huan shook his head helplessly, "I can't help it. I inherited my mother's wisdom and intelligence, so of course I have to get more attention."
Lu Bu: “…”
If she had said this when she was tall enough to ride a horse, it might have been a little more convincing.
But anyway, Qiao Huan didn't feel that he was lying.
Look, she was indeed given a warm welcome after returning from outside the Great Wall.
From Sun Luban.
The job of planting yam really makes her seem more patient, but when this patience is used to say "You didn't die outside" when she comes back and then turns around and leaves, it is recommended to plant a few more days.
Although the trip outside the Great Wall did not involve any fighting, it was also extremely exhausting for a kid of Qiao Huan's age.
When she returned to the dormitory and fell asleep, she felt as if she had finally felt some real touch from the record of her mother leading the people to the north to attack the Xianbei at the end of the Han Dynasty.
Soon she had to continue to catch up on the classes she had missed for a month, and had no time to take care of Sun Luban's situation.
During this period, she made another friend, Kong Yu, the daughter of Kong Rong, who had been studying at Leping Academy for several years and was just over ten years old this year. Because of his outstanding talents in arithmetic and spatial association, although Kong Rong was not valued by Qiao Yan, Kong Yu still became Lu Ji's disciple.
As a result, when Qiao Huan saw Sun Luban again, it was already the autumn harvest time of the year.
The extra harvest that the other party brought over actually weighed as much as 150 kilograms.
Sun Luban raised her chin and said, "This is what I promised you. I didn't break my promise."
"Of course not," Qiao Huan said with a smile, "Let me treat you to a meal, and let's just call it even on the two previous matters."
When yam was first served on the table in Leping, it was yam pork ribs soup. But at today's meal, probably because the yam was grown by her herself, Sun Luban felt that the yam chicken soup in this bowl was much more delicious than any dish she had ever eaten before.
Even the chicken is so tender it melts in your mouth.
As expected...
Wait, chicken soup?
Sun Luban was shocked, "Where did you get the chicken?"
The college is an independent area, and students rarely have the opportunity to communicate with the outside world. Roasting yams is fine, but where can they get a chicken?
If she remembered correctly, in the academy, only Cai Yong raised a group of local chickens specifically for cooking!
This, this, this...
Qiao Huan nodded, confirming Sun Luban's guess.
Yes, this chicken belongs to Cai Yong.
"I left the money for buying chickens there, I didn't steal it." Qiao Huan replied frankly.
Sun Luban: "..."
How could she know that Qiao Huan could take the chicken away? Of course, he had told Cai Yong clearly. She only knew that -
Cai Yong is highly respected here, and I have never heard of anyone daring to force anything on him!
This guy is really courageous! !
Thinking of this, Sun Luban said angrily: "Are you crazy? Aren't you afraid of being fired by Cai Yong?"
But halfway through her words, she suddenly realized that she also had a share of the chicken, and the yam used as a side dish... was something she grew herself.
"We now have a common secret, so be nicer." Qiao Huan patted Sun Luban on the shoulder, "It's only right for friends to keep secrets from each other."
Sun Luban immediately jumped up and said, "Who is your friend?"
Qiao Huan pointed at the chicken bones on the ground and blinked.
We even had meals together, but we’re still not friends?
The author has something to say:
Cai Yong: The schoolchildren in Leping bully me because I am old and weak, and use my native chicken to make soup.
Qiao Huaixu: Don't make such a clear deal sound so miserable, Mr. Bojie!
The poetry competition has ended. I selected the six most relevant ones and submitted them. I have already made up the Jinjiang coins given to the last five people to the same as the first prize. Then I will submit them to participate in the Jinjiang final selection. I hope everyone will win. Thank you for participating (heart~)
Here is the last line of my favorite song:
The peak of Lanxiu stands tall and majestic. The wild geese fly in the sky, and the jujube escapes from its cage. A daughter should be like Qiao Bingzhou.
I didn't expect that someone could bring in Qiao Lan, Qiao Ting, Ren Hong and Xiao Lu.
I am really touched.
The whole article is——
He went to the enemy camp alone and devised a strategy to defeat the Yellow Turbans. Wearing plain clothes, he killed the enemy and offered sacrifice to his parents.
He was awarded a title of nobility for his twelve military achievements and appointed governor of a province. The army marched out of the border like a tiger, their martial arts were unrivaled in the world, and the Huns were in awe at the sight of them. Farmers are encouraged to work hard, and the millet and sorghum harvest is as shown in the picture.
The peak of Lanxiu stands tall and majestic. The wild geese fly in the sky, and the jujube escapes from its cage. A daughter should be like Qiao Bingzhou.
See you tomorrow morning at 9:30.
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