Chen Cui had a strange look on her face, and Zhou felt more and more that she was not cut out for this job. She was feeling embarrassed and was about to get up and say goodbye.
Shen Cui opened her mouth and explained to her: "What you wrote is different from what I wrote, but it's not that it's wrong, it's that I wrote it ugly."
As she spoke, Shen Cui took the calligraphy copybook from the table and told Zhou what the character was. "There is also a stroke order on it. You don't need to look at me. Just follow this and practice."
Since she has talent, there is no need to force her to practice at her own pace.
When Zhou continued to practice, Shen Cui watched her for a while. Seeing that she was writing more and more like a real writer, she couldn't help but complain to the system: [What's wrong with my hand? How could the influence of the original body still be so great? Haven't I already completed another part of the main task? Shouldn't I have broken free from one more layer of shackles? 】
[Host, you didn’t ask before, and I didn’t have the heart to tell you. Do you think there is a possibility... This has nothing to do with the original body, it's just that the original you doesn't have the talent for writing calligraphy. 】
Chen Cui was choked. Thinking back carefully, it seemed that when she wrote calligraphy with a hard pen in her previous life, her handwriting was not beautiful at all. After graduation, I relied more on electronic work, and at most I used a pen to sign documents.
Observing that her concentration value was also decreasing, Shen Cui stopped chatting - what to do if she had no talent? Just practice! Even if you can't write good handwriting, you can't always travel around the world with this skill of scribbles.
Before he knew it, half the night had passed and Mu Erpang began to rub his eyes constantly, and his concentration level dropped. As for Wei Xi, he did not attend classes at night and usually studied on his own. However, after studying for twice as long, his physical fitness also dropped by 2 points.
Shen Cui immediately turned off the time gain and urged everyone to rest early.
But the two children refused. They looked at the clock in the house and said it was still early. They studied for another half an hour before they were willing to rest.
Chen Cui thought about putting some fatigue-eliminating system pills in the food later, so that their health would not be affected by studying twice as long every day without knowing it.
There was one more expense, and Chen Cui did not slack off during that half hour, and practiced calligraphy even more seriously.
From that day on, Zhou still did her own work during the day, but every night she stopped doing needlework and followed Chen Cui to learn and practice calligraphy. Chen Cui didn't assign her many tasks every day, just taught her to recognize twenty commonly used characters a day.
A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was Qingzhu Academy's ten-day break, and Wei Shu was coming over.
As an outsider of the academy, he would destroy the benefit as soon as he came. At this time, the academy was already fully staffed. Even if Shen Cui replaced him as the odd job, Zhou would be an outsider again. She would come to deliver meals and practice calligraphy at night... She could still take care of the beginning but not the end.
But Wei Shu is a serious investor in the academy, and Mu Erpang said earlier that he secretly gave some advice during the competition, so it is impossible for Shen Cui not to let him come to see Wei Xi.
The system 'kindly' gave her advice again, [The host's academy has been built for more than half a year, so it's a good time to upgrade it. After it is upgraded to level 2, there will be an extra position for a replaceable training object, which is just right for Wei Shu. She won't have to worry about him coming over at any time. Moreover, after the academy is upgraded, the daily rewards will be more generous. 】
The academy needs to be upgraded manually by Shen Cui. It is very simple to upgrade from level 1 to level 2. You just need to recruit a principal, a famous teacher, two training targets and one handyman. However, the upgrade requires 1,000 shopping points.
Shen Cuicai had suffered heavy losses in the academy competition, and did not have enough points, so she had to give up for the time being.
Anyway, Wei Shu usually comes in the evening, stays overnight, and leaves the next morning.
If you calculate it this way, they only lose one night's time gain, which is just enough time for Lao Buyu and the two children to take a break.
Thinking of this, Shen Cui felt inexplicably guilty. Why did she have the air of a capitalist? The normal flow of time is counted as everyone's rest time.
Wei Shu came again in the evening of the day before the holiday. From him, everyone also learned the final result of the college competition -
Because Lao Buyu felt that it was impossible for his team to pass the re-examination, he did not tell everyone the details of the subsequent schedule. At this time, Wei Shu explained to everyone in detail that the first and second tests of the examination were about the six arts of a gentleman, while the latter test was different, namely the Four Books and Five Classics and eight-part parallel essays in the imperial examination. After all, the faction like the old headmaster that advocates teaching without discrimination is still a minority, and most academies in the world are aimed at cultivating talents for the imperial examinations.
Therefore, the competitions that can really make students famous in the future will still test those same things, and at most there will be one more competition for writing poetry and lyrics.
But the irony is that those more utilitarian academies were not only inferior to Hongle Academy in the six arts of a gentleman, but they were still inferior to it later.
Hongle Academy only lost the first place once, in the year when Mu Yunchuan failed to hide his talent. This time, they will definitely take the first place.
As for Qingzhu Academy, because they did not have Mu Yunchuan, the human plug-in, their performance was also mediocre and they were eliminated in the semi-finals.
It has to be said that Lao Buyu's previous decision was correct. If they continue on this path, Cuiwei Academy will definitely be in disgrace. Moreover, Zhang Sheng only knew one subject, mathematics. Not only could he not earn a chance to become famous, he would probably make a fool of himself in front of others. Those who looked down on him and were jealous of him being appreciated by the old headmaster would make up countless derogatory remarks about him.
Hearing that Hongle Academy had the best results, everyone was happy for the old principal.
After relaying the result, Wei Shu hesitated a little unnaturally and handed over a bundle.
He would bring some things from time to time in the past, which were all daily necessities for Wei Xi. Today, Wei Xi naturally reached out to take it, but he heard him say, "It's not for you, it's for your senior brother."
"For me?" Mu Erpang took the bag in surprise.
When I opened it, I saw a small bow, a few blunt arrows, and a small target. The material of the thing is quite common and not precious, but the small bow is only half the size of a normal bow and arrow and is very delicate.
"This bowstring can be replaced," Wei Shu explained to him. "The current tension is less than half a stone. Once you get used to it and your strength increases, you can replace it. But this bow can only hold one stone at most. If you pull it harder, the bow will crack. Then you can use the bows and arrows used by adults."
As Wei Shu said this, he urged him to try to pull it. Mu Erpang tried it as he was told, and he actually managed to pull it!
Bows and arrows are not household items and are hard to buy in a small town, otherwise Qingzhu Academy would not have replaced the shooting competition with pot-tossing.
This bow and arrow suitable for teenagers needs to be specially customized.
Long before the competition, Wei Shu taught Mu Erpang the game of pitching pots and found that he had quite a talent for it. Later, when his servants went to the city to buy supplies as usual, he had someone make a small bow and arrow to order as well.
Unfortunately, it took much longer than he thought to customize such a small bow, and he only got it after the academy competition was over.
Wei Shu demonstrated to him the standard bow-drawing movements and the secret of exerting force, and began to prepare his thoughts again - he had always been generous, and in the past when he gave gifts to others he would give whatever he thought of. But later he met Mu Yunchuan. Their family backgrounds were too different, and he was rejected several times when trying to send gifts. Only then did he realize that giving gifts to others is also very particular and one has to take into account the other person's self-esteem.
So he added: "It's not a valuable thing, and it didn't take much effort, so..."
While he was weaving, Mu Erpang was already looking at Shen Cui with shining eyes. Seeing that he really liked it, Shen Cui nodded and said that she would accept it.
Mu Erpang immediately thanked Wei Shu, "Thank you, Brother Wei, I really like it, I like it very much! I will practice hard!"
Wei Shu didn't have to bother making up an excuse. Seeing Mu Erpang's smiling face full of sincere gratitude, he, the one giving the gift, felt much better. "Although the imperial examination doesn't test those things, practicing this can improve one's concentration. You can always ask me if you encounter something you don't understand in the future."
It is impolite not to reciprocate. Mu Erpang now knows this very well. Seeing that there is still some time before dinner, Mu Erpang took out his bag of peach cakes and asked Wei Shu to eat some to fill his stomach.
In Shen Cui's eyes, buying snacks would make her feel bad, but in Wei Shu's eyes, they were the most homely things.
He opened it without hesitation, picked up the peach cake and started eating.
Although Mu Erpang was itching to play with the little bow and arrow, he still sat back at his desk obediently and continued to complete his homework.
"You...eat less." Wei Xi suddenly whispered to him.
Wei Shu just ate the second piece and raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "No way, I gave you a gift, and I have to be looked down upon by you for eating two pieces of peach cake?"
Wei Xi shook his head, and then explained to him that each of them had a pack of peach cakes. He and Lao Buyu had finished their packs in the past few days, but Mu Erpang had not been willing to open his pack. He said that there was no need to worry about this thing going bad, and he thought of eating it with his mother during the next holiday. In fact, when Shen Cui bought the peach cakes and shared them with them, Mu Erpang had already said that he wanted to share them with Shen Cui. Chen Cui said that she didn't like to eat those, so he thought about sharing them during the holidays, and then his mother would definitely not refuse.
After explaining the whole story, Wei Shu felt too embarrassed to eat someone else's treasured things. At this moment, he even felt that the small bow and arrow that had been customized was far less precious than this peach cake!
But he had already taken a bite of the second piece, so he definitely couldn't put it back. He could only ask tentatively: "Then should I buy him a pack next time?"
The two brothers were talking when Mu Erpang came over after finishing his homework. He said with a deliberately stern face, "How can that be? This bag of peach cakes is my return gift. Even if Big Brother Wei can't finish it, you have to take it away."
He couldn't help laughing and said, "Just eat. We are family. I won't be polite to you and you shouldn't be polite to me. Besides, if you hadn't reminded me during the retest, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to hit the target at all."
His natural smile was very contagious, so Wei Shu and Wei Xi started to smile too, no longer worrying about the bag of peach cakes.
As for Chen Cui, the peaches can be considered as Erpang’s return gift, and as a parent, she cannot remain silent.
The only thing she could show off was that the system said to list Wei Shu as the No. 3 training target. This way, there is no need to worry about Wei Shu coming over from time to time and making the academy's time gain ineffective, and he can also enjoy the benefits during that one and a half days.
It seems that upgrading the academy must be put on the agenda.
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