Chapter 56 Hiring a Tutor with a Large Amount of Money

"Yes."

Xu Wan raised her thumbs up: "Great medical skills!"

Zong Jincheng slept until dark.

He got up from the bed, stretched his waist, closed his eyes and shouted: "Shunzi, I'm hungry!"

"Here comes the young master, the food will be served right away!"

Zong Jincheng yawned and asked, "What time is it now?"

"Just now at midnight, all the lights in Madam's courtyard went out."

"Oh, she goes to bed so early." Zong Jincheng was helped by Buyan to wash and eat. He grabbed the buns and ate two of them.

When I felt less hungry, I suddenly thought of another question, "Is Zong Wenxiu asleep?"

Shunzi said, "No, Master Xiu never goes to bed until after midnight."

"Ah?" Zong Jincheng frowned and said, "Sleeping so late and getting up so early, isn't he uncomfortable? He's still reading?"

Shunzi replied, "Yes, Master Xiu has been following this schedule every day since he returned to the Marquis' Mansion."

My little son has been studying with Master Xiu for three months, but he just remembered to ask him what time he goes to bed. He really doesn't care about other people's lives at all.

For example, Shunzi likes to listen to other people's gossip. There is no secret or important matter in the whole mansion that he doesn't know.

After hearing this, Zong Jincheng recalled the scene he saw outside the Qin Mansion wall in the early morning.

Is Qin Ye also studying late into the night like Zong Wenxiu at this moment?

When he thought of this, Zong Jincheng felt uncomfortable all over, but he couldn't tell where he felt uncomfortable.

If Xu Wan knew, she would definitely tell him accurately: "Congratulations, kid, you're involved."

The third bun in his hand began to taste less fragrant, so Zong Jincheng picked up a bowl of chicken soup and drank it all in one gulp, then grabbed a handful of peeled lychees and ran out.

The candle in Zong Wenxiu's room was almost burned out, and the servant who was serving him came over and replaced it with a new one, and the dim room became bright again.

The little devil just stood outside his window eating lychees and didn't go in.

The windows in the room were closed, and outside the window one could only see the flickering shadow of the candle and Zong Wenxiu's movements as he flipped through books and wrote.

The little devil spat out lychee seeds while watching, and soon they were all over the ground. Anyway, someone cleaned the yard every day, so Shunzi didn't care about it.

Zong Jincheng asked curiously, "Shunzi, how long do you think it will take for him to catch up with Qin Ye's progress?"

Shunzi was asked.

This question is difficult for him to answer.

Seeing this, Zong Jincheng immediately said with a straight face: "Just tell the truth."

Shunzi wanted to tell the truth, but the truth was really unpleasant to hear, "I think it will take Master Xiu a long time to catch up with Qin Ye's progress..."

"What did you say?!" Zong Jincheng was immediately annoyed and kicked him on the leg. "Why are you here to boost others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige? Who are you from anyway?"

Shunzi covered his legs and cried out, but was threatened by the little devil's eyes and whispered in a low voice, "You told me to tell the truth..."

Zong Jincheng wanted to kick him again, but when he saw Shunzi hugging his legs subconsciously, he stopped and asked, "How come you can't catch up? Zong Wenxiu is two years older than Qin Ye!"

Shunzi sighed and said, "Studying has nothing to do with age. Some people can pass the imperial examination at the age of teens, and some people are still tongsheng at the age of eighty."

"What is a Tongsheng?"

"It is a title that is two levels lower than that of a scholar, and it is also the lowest level in the imperial examination."

"Oh...so Zong Wenxiu couldn't surpass Qin Ye even though he worked so hard?"

Shunzi reminded: "Mr. Qin Ye also works very hard."

Zong Jincheng was deeply puzzled: "Zong Wenxiu studied so that he could have many options in the future, but why did Qin Ye do that? Isn't he the legitimate son of the family? His father is still young, and his current fifth-rank official position is not too low."

Shunzi thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he wants to follow in his father's footsteps. When Qin Ye was two years old, his father passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar. I believe he often saw his father studying hard when he was young."

"The son follows in his father's footsteps..." Zong Jincheng murmured, "My father passed the imperial examinations at the age of fifteen and became the top scorer in both civil and military examinations. He is much more capable than Qin Ye's father."

Shunzi nodded.

Zong Jincheng raised his head to the sky and said, "It seems that I am the only one who can compete with Qin Ye for the position of the top scholar."

Shunzi: “?”

Zong Jincheng continued, "This family cannot exist without me."

Shunzi: “???”

Zong Jincheng turned around and said, "Let's go and work hard for the birth of the next generation of top scholar!"

Shunzi: “???”

Are you okay? Are you sleepwalking? I...

Shunzi chased after him in shock, but before he could take two steps, he seemed to step on something slippery and slipped off instantly, with his butt kissing the ground intimately.

"Lychees...lychee seeds..." Shunzi never made it to the next day's cleaning.

The world kisses me with pain, but I repay it with song.

Shunzi sang a sad story in the doctor's room.

Zong Jincheng did not go back to his room directly, but went to the large study room. He had not been there for two days, but after all he had studied there for three months, so he knew exactly where each book was.

So he picked up a book at random and started reading. Buyan was helping him grind the ink. The little devil was concentrating on writing and didn't notice that Shunzi had gone to see the local doctor to have his butt checked.

The next morning.

Xu Wan stood at the door of the study, looking at the books scattered all over the room. There were ink stains on the floor, which showed the impatient nature of the reader. How could he get so angry while studying?

Without saying anything, "The young master felt sleepy after studying until midnight, so he slept on the small couch in the inner room of the study."

Xu Wan went forward and picked up the book on the ground and flipped through the contents. They were some rather difficult books, and there were no homophone annotations made by her in advance. Judging from the little devil's vocabulary, there were probably a lot of words he didn't recognize.

No wonder the more I learn, the more frustrated I become.

She turned to Cuizhi and said, "Go and ask someone to mark the homophones in all the books in this room. Also, translate the translated versions and bring them to the study. Write serial numbers on the pages of the original books and the translated versions so that Jincheng can find them easily."

"All of them? These are the young marquis's books..." Cuizhi reminded weakly, "The young marquis's things are never allowed to be touched by others."

Xu Wan said nonchalantly, "It's just a note. If he minds, I'll buy him a new book later."

The main reason is that the books in the large study are of many types and complete, so it is a bit difficult to set up a whole room for the little devil in the same way in a short period of time.

Cuizhi: “…”That’s…okay.

After all, the lady is now the head of the Marquis's Mansion, and we have to listen to her.

Xu Wan arranged again: "Invite two of this year's tutors to come to the mansion to assist Jin Cheng in his studies."

"A tutor?" Cuizhi asked, "That's a qualification for being an official. Even the best Hanlin Academy can't hire many tutors. You want two... and they have to be from this year?"

Xu Wan smiled and said, "Of course, ordinary people can't invite them, but we can."

"ah?"

"Throwing silver."