“As a student, why do you need to carry a cell phone?”
Ji Nianqin was studying when she suddenly thought of the text message on her phone. When she was about to read it, the male teacher walked up to her and said, "Hand it over."
"What?"
"Of course it's the phone. Are you playing dumb with me?"
"Teacher, I'm looking up on my phone what the martial arts exam is about."
"Don't you know it's already the next class? I've been observing you for a long time. Other students don't take out their phones even if they have them, but you keep challenging my boundaries. I think you need to copy everything I said today 20 times."
"Teacher, please don't take my phone. I've just arrived at this school and I've been studying very hard. I just found out that phones are not allowed. I'll just put it away and take it out to read after class."
"No, you're not allowed to look at it even after class. Let me give you a chance. You can choose to recite something in front of the whole class. It could be something I taught yesterday, or today's. Don't even mention reciting it backwards. If you can do it word for word, I'll reward you by letting you bring your phone. Also, everyone, listen up! If anyone can do it, raise your hand and I'll apologize and let you bring your phone every day from now on."
"But teacher, you're not the principal. How can you just break the school rules? Are you kidding us?"
"You are not joking."
"Teacher, let me try to tell you what happened yesterday, but first, if I don't get everything right, you won't punish me, right?"
The male teacher shook his head slightly and looked at him with a smirk.
"The military imperial examinations were established later than the civil ones. Over 100 years after Yang Guang launched them, Empress Wu Zetian first instituted them in 702 AD, presided over by the Ministry of War. The military examinations, which had lasted for over 1,200 years, were not abolished until 1901 during the Qing Dynasty, almost simultaneously with the civil examinations."
The male teacher was stunned for a moment, then walked to the boy's position with a blackboard brush, and stared at him with a smug look on his face with his head tilted.
"Finished?"
"Teacher, just ask me if I can recite this paragraph completely, the one-word tribe? I recite it every day, and I didn't expect it to come in handy. It seems that studying hard is really the right thing to do. Books have their own tablets and mobile phones."
While the male student was speaking, the male teacher snatched the phone he was looking at.
"I haven't made any judgment on you yet. Whether it counts or not is up to me. I'll confiscate your phone and return it to you after school. If you dare to resist, I will report it to the principal immediately. If you don't believe me, you can go to the principal's office and take a look. There are plenty of phones in there."
"So, what exactly is the martial arts exam about? What about the other topics from yesterday's class?"
The male student cleared his throat and blinked his eyes. It seemed that he had only memorized a general background and was going to use it to show off.
"That depends on the specific dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty is negligible, as there were no imperial examinations during most of that period."
"Very good, what are the details?"
"Teacher, didn't you say there would be no punishment? If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have answered. I think it was a trap."
Afterwards, in order to prove his unique authority as the head teacher in the class, the male teacher was ready to call on the students in the row next to him and ask them to recite one by one.
"This is the recitation homework I assigned yesterday. Don't you remember what you've memorized even though you handed it to me on paper? Since the boys can't remember it, and the girls are more attentive and have better memories, start with the first one and each recite a paragraph. Let's begin now..."
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