Chapter 229: Key Class Enrollment Expansion

Three personal trainers were waiting trembling by the side. It was tiring enough for one person to take care of one child all day and all night, so who would take care of this next child?

Pan Hongzhi was the first to panic: "Madam, I can't have any more children. With Jincheng, a troublemaker, around, my gray hair is about to grow out. I really don't have the energy to take care of Shen Yibai."

Cheng Zhidong quickly followed up: "Yes, Madam, He Zheng here is also a little playboy, but he has evil ideas about studying every day, which makes me very annoyed. I have to find time to make study plans for the children, which is really too much."

Zhao Yin: “…”

After you guys said this, I'm the only one left. Wenxiu, the one I brought with me, is the most well-behaved and obedient, and he doesn't have anything else to do.

As expected, after Pan and Cheng finished their speeches, they took a step back, leaving Zhao Yin standing prominently in front.

Zhao Yin: “???”

You guys!! Stop being such a dog!!!

Xu Wan couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't be nervous, the three teachers. I plan to hire another teacher."

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, especially Zhao Yin, whose cold sweat stopped.

Xu Wan continued, "Do any of you three know each other as classmates who were also presenters in the previous year?"

The three of them looked at each other. Zhao Yin shook his head. Cheng Zhidong said that his cousin had asked about it and was interested. Pan Hongzhi said that he had two classmates who wanted to come after hearing that the Marquis's house was really generous in giving money.

However, Xu Wan had not mentioned the expansion before, and they naturally didn't want such a good job to be replaced by someone else.

Xu Wan nodded and said, "Then ask Master Lao to contact them for me and invite them to come to the mansion tomorrow for detailed discussions. After the final candidate is confirmed, Master Zhao will take him to familiarize himself with the environment."

Zhao Yin responded: "No problem."

This is much easier than just bringing a little dude along.

the other side.

Shen Yibai has learned a way to make money on his own: copying books by hand.

"It only costs 35...wen to copy a book?" Shen Yibai was also puzzled by this unit of money. "Are you sure it's not 35 taels? I feel like it will take several days to copy it."

In fact, he felt that 35 taels was too little, as it could be eaten in just a few meals.

The little devil rolled his eyes at him and said, "You charge 35 taels to copy a book. How much money will they sell it for after printing and binding it? Is it possible without thinking about it?"

Shen Yibai curled his lips and said, "This job is hard and unprofitable. It's too difficult."

"Then do you have any other options?" the little devil asked, "If you don't rely on your father or your family, what can you do to make money as a ten-year-old child?"

Shen Yibai was silent after being asked: "Don't worry, wait a minute, I'll think about it...hiss..."

Xu Wan did not urge him, but said to the others: "You all go study, let Yi Bai think alone."

The three kids got into the swing of things quickly. Each of them had a personal trainer sitting next to them, giving them instructions based on their different progress. But the common point was that they were all very focused.

Even Zong Jincheng, who had been fiddling with his hands and the table and making small movements all the time, kept his eyes fixed on the book. From time to time, he would discuss a certain point with Pan Hongzhi, and a lot of nonsense would come out of his mouth.

Shen Yibai's face was full of question marks.

Brother, aren’t you the leader of the four little dandies?

Are all the dudes working so hard nowadays?

But no matter how rich his inner drama was, none of the three students who were studying hard paid any attention to him. Shen Yibai even felt like he was being isolated, but it didn't matter because it wasn't him who was studying.

He lay beside the table, looking around at this large study room which was more than three times larger than a normal room. It was filled with books everywhere. The tall bookcases were filled with books. The strong scent of books and ink was more suffocating the more he smelled it.

Help... How could anyone want to stay in a place like this?

How terrible!

This feeling of fear continued until the evening. They were about to go to dinner. Hearing that the chef in Marquis Yuanyang's Mansion was very skilled, Shen Yibai ran out following Zong Jincheng.

If you are not active in eating, there is something wrong with your brain.

He ate a meal without much fanfare, and only after he was done did he notice that someone was not present: "Hey, Jin Cheng, why isn't He Zheng here?"

The little devil was still drinking soup and said casually, "He thinks the dining area is too far away, so he eats meat buns and reads in the study every night."

"Ah?" Shen Yibai was confused. "He doesn't even eat such a delicious meal. What's the point of just eating meat buns?"

The little devil said, "Study hard. My brother and I have both passed the exam to become a Tongzilang. He Zheng is anxious because he wants to pass the exam next year as well. Besides, the official provincial examination will be held in August in the second half of next year. He is under much more pressure than me."

Shen Yibai didn't understand these, but as brothers, he knew that He Zheng had a habit of studying. He was very puzzled and said, "I really don't understand He Zheng. It would be great if he could learn martial arts from his brothers, but he had to mess around and got beaten a lot since he was a child."

The little devil put down the spoon, rolled his eyes at him and said, "This is called the courage to pursue dreams. You should respect him instead of laughing at him."

Shen Yibai disagreed: "You used to laugh at him with us, and at most you helped him climb over the wall while laughing at him."

The little devil's fist hardened again.

Talking to a playboy is really infuriating.

The little devil said proudly: "I have grown up now. I am now a famous virgin in the capital, oh no, I am famous in the whole country. Of course, I am different from before."

Shen Yibai couldn't understand.

But soon, he understood.

At night, because the new teacher had not yet taken office, Xu Wan arranged for him to squeeze in with Zong Jincheng first. The two children shared a bed, and Pan Hongzhi slept in the next bed.

So that night, Shen Yibai listened to the little devil chasing Pan Hongzhi to discuss some nonsense in the Book of Rites after the lights were turned off. He was so angry that he covered himself with the quilt... but he could still hear it.

Shen Yibai screamed frantically in his heart: Help!

What a horrible place this is!

Are all my dude brothers possessed by ghosts!!!

The next day, Shen Yibai looked at him with panda eyes and went to the study room to listen to other people studying. Before the new private teacher was in place, he didn't want to study, and Xu Wan didn't force him. But in this environment, he felt uncomfortable and on pins and needles even when he was just playing with the pen and drawing randomly.

lobby.

Xu Wan watched three applicants being taken by Cui Liu to write their resumes. Cui Zhi came over and said that one of them was a Jinshi from the previous year, named Jiang Yan, from the North Court of Hanlin Academy.

He could have been an official steadily, but he failed to take the civil service examination because he offended someone, and missed the chance to become an official. Jiang Yan was deeply shocked and disdained to take the examination again, but this was all he knew after studying all his life, so he opened a small school to teach.

Scholars are good for nothing. Apart from being an official, teaching is not a lucrative profession. Many of the students Jiang Yan recruited came from poor families, and he couldn't bear to charge them more money, so life became harder and harder. Finally, Pan Hongzhi couldn't stand it anymore, and when there was an opportunity to expand the key class, he quickly pulled him in for a try.