Lao Buyu went to the utility room and talked to Wei Shu alone.
After the conversation, Lao Buyu did not tell Chen Cui what they had talked about. The next day, he went to Qingzhu Academy in a mysterious manner.
I was out for the whole morning, and when I came back at noon and saw Chen Cuiying coming out, I heard him say it was done!
Shen Cui asked what happened?
This was a serious matter, not a joke, and the fact that it was solved so easily made her worried.
Shen Cui urged him to speak faster.
Lao Buyu then told her what had happened.
Yesterday, Shen Cui tried to propose transferring to another college. Actually, this kind of thing is not easy to do. Even if Cuiwei and Qingzhu both agree, it will damage Wei Shu's reputation if it gets out. Who would suddenly change academies right after taking a county exam? With a little bit of fabrication, it became like Wei Shu became arrogant and looked down on others after becoming successful.
What he talked about with Wei Shu yesterday was not this, but asking him if he didn't want to go back to Qingzhu in the short term.
After receiving a positive answer, he went to look for his senior brother today.
Ling Qingming seemed to have known that he would be unable to sit still and look for him, and was waiting for him to go there. The monk at the door led him directly over.
There was no outsider around, so Lao Buyu entered the room and closed the door.
Normally, there would be tension between the two when they met. But today, Ling Qingming did not look at him coldly. Instead, he was making tea in a contented manner, with no trace of the anger he had on his face after being contradicted by Wei Shu the day before.
Ling Qingming didn't take his eyes off the teacup and asked him directly, "Are you here for Wei Shu?"
Lao Buyu didn't bother to be polite with him. He found a seat and sat down. He said yes, and then asked directly: "Are you going to give up Wei Shu?"
Then Ling Qingming picked up the teacup and sipped the tea slowly. He left Lao Buyu alone for a while before saying, "Although Wei Shu's performance in the academy is not outstanding, he is also my serious student. Now he just asked to change the place to review his lessons. How can I give up on him? Junior brother, you should also understand that a gentleman does not take away what others like."
Lao Buyu asked directly, "If you really treat him well and value him, would I make this trip?"
"So what do you mean? Do you want me to let him go and let him become your disciple? I don't care. Just wait and see what others say about him."
He sounded as if he didn't care about what he said, but the two of them grew up together, and Lao Buyu understood Ling Qingming's personality, so he knew that these words should be interpreted in the opposite way.
Ling Qingming didn't want to let him go, even though Wei Shu's second place in the county exam was due to his exceptional performance, his actual level was far inferior to that of Song Yao.
But extraordinary performance is still performance. Last year, a small top three winner was produced, and this year Qingzhu took the first and second place in the county examination, which is also a great honor.
Wei Shu was just one step away from achieving fame and success. How stupid a person would be to expel him from their own academy at this time?
"That's not what I meant. I want Wei Shu to stay in Cuiwei for the time being, and come back when he wants to."
"So that's how it is. Thank you for making this trip, Junior Brother." Ling Qingming smiled meaningfully.
"But I have a condition..."
Ling Qingming pretended to be puzzled. "While Wei Shu was away from Qingzhu, he went to your place to review his studies. I'm naturally relieved, but if you want to negotiate terms, shouldn't you talk to Wei Shu himself?"
Lao Buyu also became angry and said, "Stop it!"
"You do like Song Yao more, but Song Yao is too jealous. You can't afford to lose face for Song Yao at this time. You don't have time to instruct Wei Shu. If Wei Shu continues to stay here, the two of them might really become enemies. So you go with the flow and agree to Wei Shu's resignation. Isn't it because you knew he would most likely go to Cuiwei?"
At this point, Ling Qingming simply opened up and spoke frankly, "It's not that I knew it long ago, but a student told me that Wei Shu and your Cuiwei were getting closer and closer. During the academy competition, he even gave advice to the people in your academy. Before the county exam, someone even happened to see your academy sending him things every day... But you came here right away today, which proves that what I thought was right."
"So I have to make a condition." Lao Buyu gritted his teeth and said, "From now on, I will teach Wei Shu carefully and never hide anything. If he doesn't do well in the exam, blame me for being incompetent and teaching him bad things. I will be punished by the cane left by my master. But there is one condition. When others ask about Wei Shu's origins in the future, you are still his real teacher, but you must also mention that he also stayed in our academy for a while. You Qingzhu is in front, and we Cuiwei is behind... After he passes the prefectural exam, if he wants to come back, you can't blame him for this matter, and don't look at him differently because he is close to us Cuiwei. Similarly, I won't tell him about this matter, which will affect your image in his mind, and I will even help you to make up for it."
The two are brothers from the same master. When the elder brother is unable to teach, Lao Buyu, the younger brother, lends a hand. If this news gets out, people won't be surprised. People will just think of it as their master-disciple friendship, which is also a good story.
Ling Qingming agreed very readily.
After the discussion, Lao Buyu did not stay any longer. He just stopped when he reached the door and could not help asking, "Brother, what if you calculated it wrong? What if Wei Shu did not go to our place and just found a random place to review his studies? Aren't you afraid that it will affect his future exams?"
Without Ling Qingming's reply, Lao Buyu continued, "You probably think that if there is no better choice, he will definitely come back. If he doesn't come back, it means that he is not good at judging the situation and is not useful, right? I said you want to give up on him, but you said no, doesn't that count as abandoning him?"
After saying that, he left Qingzhu Academy and returned to his own academy.
The explanation was complete, but after listening to it, Chen Cui felt her mind was getting more and more confused, and began to sort it out, "So, Shanzhang Qingzhu didn't want to drive Wei Shu away from the beginning. He had heard that he was close to our academy, so he took the opportunity to test him. And Song Yao really made him unable to point fingers at Wei Shu, and then there happened to be that conflict, so he took advantage of the situation and appeased Song Yao, the first in the county case, and killed two birds with one stone by sending Wei Shu, the second place, here for you to help point fingers at? He also took the opportunity to test how close Wei Shu was to our academy."
Lao Buyu nodded, so Chen Cui continued, "Then you go to find him, not to arrange for Wei Shu to transfer to another hospital, but to promise to guide Wei Shu carefully in the future. But the requirement is that when Wei Shu passes the exam and brings honor to the family, you must also put our academy on the map and let it share in the glory?"
Lao Buyu nodded.
"Then there's only one thing I don't understand. Why does he use this method?"
Although Wei Shu would not stop regarding him as his teacher because of this small conflict, how uncomfortable must he feel? After he came here yesterday, Mu Erpang and Wei Xi both spoke to help him adjust his mood. His mood value did slowly increase a little, but it was just above the passing line!
When he first entered Qingzhu Academy, it was because of his admiration for Ling Qingming. How could he feel good when he found out that the headmaster he respected was so biased?
"I think if someone asked him about it, he would probably say, 'When you become an official, when you enter the government, where is there so much fairness and justice? If you can't stand even a small setback, how can you face the rest in the future?'"
This really sounds like something Ling Qingming would say, and seems to make a lot of sense. Not to mention other students in Qingzhu, even if Wei Shu heard it himself, he would probably think that maybe the teacher was working so hard to train him?
But even if Ling Qingming could come up with some high-sounding principles to cover up the matter later. But the psychological damage suffered by Wei Shu is a fact. No matter what, Shen Cui felt that Ling Qingming was wrong in this matter.
Chen Cui disagreed and said, "There are already many injustices in the world, so as teachers, we should do our best to maintain this hard-earned fairness and justice, right?"
Lao Buyu nodded seriously. To outsiders, both of them seem a little unreliable in daily life. One is reckless and the other does whatever he wants. However, they have very similar teaching philosophies.
So it was no wonder that Lao Buyu asked her not to ask about it for the time being. This matter was far more complicated than Chen Cui thought. The roundabout way scholars think is really hard for ordinary people to understand.
Seeing Chen Cui's unhappy expression, Lao Buyu said, "Don't be angry about this, Shanzhang. He agreed readily! After all, Wei Shu has been in Qingzhu for several years and has only just come to our academy. If he becomes successful in the future, we will benefit from him. It's not a loss!"
Chen Cui looked at him with amusement, "Don't treat me like a child. He agreed readily, which has proved that Wei Shu is very close to us. Even if he doesn't allow it, won't Wei Shu speak well of us in front of others in the future? It's just going with the flow."
Therefore, in the end, Ling Qingming appeased Song Yao, his direct descendant, and could focus all his energy on Song Yao. At the same time, he did not lose sight of Wei Shu, who was "devious", and Qingzhu Academy still benefited the most.
Yu Lao remained silent. He had to devote more of his energy to guiding Wei Shu. If Wei Shu did not do well in the exam, he would even be beaten with a cane.
"What about the Master? Why did you just accept it? What did you want? When you were talking to me yesterday, you had already guessed his plan."
In this matter, Lao Buyu is actually the one who suffers the most. Studying is hard, so isn’t teaching hard too?
When she met him earlier, Chen Cui saw him shaking the dice in front of people. Although he didn't look arrogant, he was full of energy and spirit.
After becoming a teacher, Lao Buyu suffered from cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis. His voice was usually a little hoarse. He didn't know how much tea he had to drink every day to moisten his throat. It was thanks to the system's output and daily morning exercises that he didn't get sick.
Now with the addition of Wei Shu, it’s easy to imagine that Lao Buyu will have to spend a lot more energy in the future.
"This... I did it if I wanted to. It's nothing." Lao Buyu scratched his head without any image. "We can't really leave Wei Shu alone, right? He is indeed a good person."
He also muttered in frustration, "Today, my senior brother was definitely the better one. He had me figured out perfectly. I lost!"
As he said this, he also laughed and waved his hands, saying, "No problem, no problem. My senior brother and I are from the same family. I cheated him earlier, so now I'll just pay him back!"
The two had been talking for a long time, and the three teenagers in the room were actually a little curious.
Lao Buyu turned around and walked into the main room. He raised his chin towards Wei Shu and said that everything was resolved!
"My senior brother did something really dishonest. I went to give him a good scolding. What did he say? Too much will overflow, too much will break. Wei Shu is about to take the imperial examination and become an official. If I don't change his stubborn character now, will I have to watch him suffer in the future?"
Wei Shu raised his head suddenly and asked hesitantly, "Did the headmaster really say that?"
"Why would I lie to you?" Lao Buyu said with a beaming face, "I'll scold him and tell him how could he do that at a time like this? Aren't you afraid of ruining a good person?"
Wei Shu's mood was in turmoil. Thinking about what happened yesterday, he felt that what happened before was inconsistent with the headmaster's past style, as if there was some hidden meaning behind it.
After all, the previous headmaster valued Mu Yunchuan so much and didn't treat him differently.
"I didn't understand the mountain master's painstaking efforts."
"Oh, what's the point! I think he is just... Never mind, I won't scold him in front of you. Anyway, he likes to say half of the things and hide the other half, letting people figure it out on their own." Lao Buyu said with a smile, "I have already made an agreement with him. His teaching method is too bad and it pissed you off. For now, you just stay here and see if you want to go back or stay here after you pass the prefectural exam. It's up to you. He probably knows he did something wrong and feels guilty, so it's going so smoothly."
"Thank you, Master." Wei Shu bowed respectfully and finally got rid of his negative emotions. He devoted himself to reviewing and preparing for the exam.
Chen Cui watched from the side. Although she didn't say much, she only thought in her heart that Lao Buyu said he lost, but she felt that it was not because Ling Qingming was one step better in chess, but because Lao Buyu really had a heart to teach and educate people and be a teacher.
He was too soft-hearted and didn't want his students to get hurt, even though the student's teacher was not him.
Moreover, Shen Cui didn't believe that a teacher like Ling Qingming, who treated students as counting tools, could really win over Lao Buyu, who was sincere to his students. The mountains are high and the waters are long, so just wait and see.
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