After the teaching, the students returned to their rooms to study with high morale.

Zhao Hao went back to the inner room and sat on the kang with the county lord's brother and sister to talk.

While he was making Kung Fu tea for the brother and sister, he asked with a smile: "How is this coal lotus root? Is it okay?"

"It's absolutely amazing!" Li Chengen gave a thumbs up and said, "This thing can even surpass anthracite. It's almost as good as charcoal."

"It's still not as good as good charcoal." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "At least I like the smell and sound of silver charcoal."

"Yeah, I like it too." Today was the first time Li Mingyue saw Zhao Hao teaching students. She was almost mesmerized by Brother Zhao's wisdom and elegance. "It's just that sometimes sparks fly."

"Haha, that's true." Zhao Hao laughed.

Li Chengen was now in high spirits, rubbing his hands eagerly and asking, "So what are you going to do..."

As he said this, he saw his sister standing beside him, giving him a reprimanding smile.

He quickly changed the topic and said, "Then may I ask, brother, how much do you want to sell this coal lotus root for?"

"The price of the kindling coal is a little bit higher, but the price of the ordinary coal is just like the price of the same weight of anthracite."

Zhao Hao had already conducted detailed research and demonstration, so he was naturally familiar with it at this time: "One hundred kilograms of high-quality anthracite can be sold for 170 or 180 wen... Let's make it cheaper, 160 wen per kilogram."

"Where are those coal lotus roots?" the young county lady immediately raised her hand.

"One coal lotus root weighs about two and a half kilograms." Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"That means four cents for a coal lotus root!" Li Mingyue figured it out immediately.

Zhao Hao smiled and nodded, then made her a cup of tea.

"So cheap?" The young master was immediately deflated. How could a few cents for a thing be pleasing to him?

"Brother, you are wrong to say that," the young county lady held the teacup, took a deep breath, and then taught her brother: "Our goal is to give the victims jobs, not to make money."

Zhao Hao was planning to talk to Li Chengen about what it meant to have a large amount of miracles, but when he heard Li Mingyue say this, he stopped talking and said:

"That's right. It doesn't matter whether we make money or not. It's a good deed to be able to solve the livelihood of the refugees."

The young county lady held the peach-colored Ding kiln teacup in her hand and couldn't help but say with great joy, "Brother Zhao is indeed Brother Zhao. He always puts righteousness first..."

The young master was just an apprentice, how could he make decisions? He could only agree reluctantly.

~~

In the west room, the brothers’ pleasant study session came to an end and it was time to rest.

Yu Shenxing couldn't help but ask Wang Wuyang in a low voice: "Big Brother, do you take Master's words seriously?"

"What do you mean by that?" Wang Wuyang glared at him and said, "How dare you question Master? Are you itching for trouble?"

"No, no, what I mean is that there is only one top scholar, but we have four..." Yu Shenxing looked serious.

"Hahaha, it all depends on your ability." Hua Shuyang was about to take a nap, but when he heard this, he was no longer sleepy. "I didn't pass my senior last year, so I'm going to make up for it this year."

"Dream on." Although Wang Dingjue usually respected his senior brother, he would not recognize his relatives when he wanted to force himself. "I will definitely get the top prize this time!"

"Third Brother, Master always taught us not to eat too much and not to talk too much..." Yu Shenxing muttered softly, "Maybe I got lucky."

"Tsk, you think of me as just a decoration, don't you? I have to win three prizes in a row this time..."

"You can't have bad luck twice..."

The four of them started arguing with each other, as if the top scholar would definitely come from one of them.

This made the fifth apprentice brother sitting in the corner suddenly feel that the room was not so warm, and the chair was not so comfortable...

As the only student among the five people, he felt that he was not worthy of staying in this room.

So he quietly got up and went out to relax.

When the four had enough of arguing and were ready to get back to their happy studies, they discovered that there was one person missing in the room.

"Where's Lieyang?"

"Maybe he went to the bathroom..."

"oh."

The four of them continued to study hard.

~~

Yu Shensi stayed outside the house for a long time, but no one came out to call him back, so he became more and more self-pitying and sad.

I don’t know what kind of mental journey he went through, but such a big man actually started sobbing and shedding tears facing the wall.

At this time, Zhao Hao was just seeing the county lord and his sister off.

The three saw him squatting there, his shoulders twitching and making a hissing sound.

Li Chengen couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why is this guy crying?"

"Don't talk nonsense, he's eating noodles." Li Mingyue didn't want to embarrass Zhao Hao, so she quickly got through and left with Li Chengen, who was eager to create chaos.

After Zhao Hao sent the two away, he looked at Yu Shensi's crying back and coughed with a stern face.

Only then did Yu Shensi stop sobbing and turned back.

A three-inch long snot also came out...

Zhao Hao was quite angry at first, but when he saw his eight-foot-tall man crying like a snotty boy, he couldn't help but chuckle.

Yu Shensi scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled. With a breath, the snot miraculously disappeared.

"Come in."

Zhao Hao put on a stern face again, walked into the inner room with his hands behind his back, took off his shoes and got on the kang skillfully.

Yu Shensi also followed in and stood in front of the kang with his head down.

Zhao Hao had to look up at him, and said in a muffled voice:

"Kneel down."

Yu Shensi knelt down obediently. Well, it looked much more comfortable now.

"Tell me." Zhao Hao leaned back on the quilt, resisting the urge to put his hands in his hands.

"Nothing..." Yu Shensi tilted his head and looked at the melon seed shells on the ground.

"What is the third principle of scientific spirit?" Zhao Hao frowned.

"Respect the evidence." Yu Shensi blurted out subconsciously.

"My disciples are all emotionless scientists, not sour literati who are sad about autumn and spring." Then Zhao Hao said coldly:

"If you still consider yourself my disciple, then put away your useless emotions and examine yourself with a scientific method."

"Yes, Master..." How could Yu Shensi not hear that the teacher's words were extremely serious? He was so frightened that he no longer cared about feeling sorry for himself, and hurriedly analyzed himself seriously:

"The root of my student problems probably came from the day I became his apprentice. My younger brother became his senior brother, and I felt uncomfortable. Then, my master ignored me, which made me feel that my master looked down on me and only accepted me because of my younger brother. Today, my senior brothers were discussing who would be the top scorer in the imperial examination. I felt sad when I heard them, so I came out... I thought, at least my fourth senior brother could come out to comfort me, but I waited and waited, but no one showed up. I thought that even my own brother looked down on me, so I couldn't help crying..."

"Okay, we've found the problem. What's the next step?" Zhao Hao nodded.

"We need to find out the non-essential aspects of the problem and eliminate them." Yu Shensi answered, and then continued his self-analysis: "I became a disciple to learn science, and everything else is non-essential. So, my younger brother being my senior brother is non-essential; my master being indifferent to me is non-essential; who is the top scholar and who is the top scholar has nothing to do with me; as for my fourth senior brother not coming out to comfort me, it's even more ridiculous... I'm not a child."

After he finished speaking, the clouds on his face disappeared, and he suddenly said, "Master accepted me and selflessly allowed me to study science with my fellow brothers. This is the essence of it."

"..." Zhao Hao nodded slightly, still with a straight face, "I taught you the scientific method, why don't you use it? You are just a child who has not grown up!"

"Yes, Master, I was wrong. I really know I was wrong!" Yu Shensi nodded vigorously and slapped himself twice.

"That's enough. It's New Year's Day." Zhao Hao kicked him and said, "Get on the bed."

"Hey, Master..." Yu Shensi suddenly felt relieved. He patted the dirt off his knees and climbed onto the kang nimbly.

~~

In the main room, four brothers stood in a row, looking in through the cracks in the door curtain.

Seeing this, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief and went back to study happily.

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