By the time Zhou knew hundreds of common characters, it was already late September.
After nearly a month of hard work, Shen Cui finally saved up thousands of shopping points.
During this month, the system was quite generous and the daily routine of the academy no longer included cooking for the headmaster, so Chen Cui did not suffer any loss.
But when her shopping points exceeded a thousand and she upgraded the academy to level 2, there was an extra vacancy for a training target.
The cooking task came again before noon that day.
Chen Cui was already very familiar with making vegetable pancakes, but now she couldn't leave the academy easily, so she cooked in the academy's kitchen.
After the "baptism" of stinky tofu and dumpling soup, now that he knows she has to cook, not to mention the two children, Lao Buyu has become indifferent and will not let such things affect his mood and delay his own work.
The only difficult thing is probably that it is not easy to eliminate Zhou now. Have to ask her to eat with you.
Fortunately, Zhou was not particular about food and drink, not to mention that Shen Cui was now teaching her to read and write every day, and was half her teacher. When the hot vegetable pancakes were ready, Shen Cui gave them to her and she ate them without showing any disgust.
After fooling around with the daily academy tasks that earned her points, Chen Cui waited for the system to calculate the rewards - the system had said that after the academy was upgraded, in addition to having more spots available for activities, the daily rewards would also become more generous.
The system never lies, the rewards have indeed changed - [Get reward: 60 shopping points. 】
This made Chen Cui laugh again. From then on, it was like cooking a meal. The loss went from 30 points to 20 points.
But you can't say that the system is deceiving, Shen Cui can only comfort herself that no matter how small a mosquito leg is, it's still meat!
A few days later, before the ten-day holiday of Qingzhu Academy, Wei Shu came early.
Fortunately, the door of the academy was closed at that time. He knocked on the door, and before Shen Cui opened the door and let him in, she added him to the system, so the time gain for that day was not invalidated.
This time he did not come to visit Wei Xi, but to deliver a letter home.
After Mu Yunchuan passed the imperial examination, he became a first-class student on government scholarship and entered the provincial school, from where he never returned.
A few days ago, the Wei family's servants went to the city to buy things again. Wei Shu calculated that he should have settled down by now, so he sent someone to the city school to look for him, to see if he was doing well and whether he needed anything.
Mu Yunchuan took the two letters and asked the Wei family's servants to pass them on.
One was addressed to the headmaster, and the other was a family letter personally written by Shen Cui.
The family letter was delivered. Shen Cui knew the plot of the original book - he had the aura of the male protagonist, and things would only get better and better, without anyone having to worry about him at all. But since the other party still adhered to filial piety and specially wrote on the letter that it was written by her personally, of course she had to open it in front of others.
The letter was only two pages long. On the first page, he said that he did not feel uncomfortable living in the provincial capital. The teachers and classmates in the provincial school were kind, and everyone took good care of him.
The second page is shorter. It first greets Shen Cui, and then reminds Mu Erpang to study hard, respect teachers, be friendly to classmates, and be filial to his mother on his behalf. Finally, he asked Zhou a few questions and told her to take care of her body and not to worry about him anymore.
Finally, three taels of silver were placed in the envelope. It was the silver money distributed by the court to the students on government stipends, a total of four taels. Mu Yunchuan said that the court also distributed six dou of government stipend rice every month, which was enough for him to eat and use. He had little place to spend the money in the provincial school, so he only kept one tael for himself and sent the rest back.
Mu Erpang read the letter aloud, and Zhou's eyes became red as she listened. "It's not easy to be away from home. How can a place like the capital city have no place to spend money?"
As soon as she said this, Zhou immediately pursed her lips again. Since the family letter was written personally by Shen Cui, the head of the family, she should be the one to decide on the return of the silver. Zhou, as the daughter-in-law, had no right to comment.
Although Chen Cui didn't have enough money at the moment, she didn't want Mu Yunchuan's money either. She put the silver ingot in her hand and said, "You are right. Going out will definitely cost more than ours. But it doesn't matter. Next month, when the Wei family goes to the capital to buy things, you can write a letter back and send the money back."
"I, I'll write it?" Zhou didn't care about being sad anymore, her cheeks turned red.
There was nothing wrong with learning to write in private, but writing a letter to Mu Yunchuan, who was full of knowledge, made her feel ashamed as brandishing a sword in front of Guan Gong.
"Practice slowly, there is still a month left." Shen Cui continued to encourage her, "Besides, your writing is much better than mine. I am not afraid of being embarrassed. I practice here every day. What are you afraid of?"
Since Chen Cui had used herself as a negative example, Zhou did not back down. She nodded, immediately found a corner, and started practicing calligraphy in advance.
After this, the break between classes passed, and Shen Cui observed everyone's concentration and urged them to study their own.
Wei Shu was manually added by Shen Cui as student No. 3 in the academy system, and his various data could be seen.
Let’s not talk about the qualifications for now, he is outstanding in all aspects.
But on this day, his mood and concentration values were not high?
Although he was not a training target assigned by the system, but only a temporary substitute, the system would not make mistakes.
Wei Shu was indeed feeling unhappy.
He was concerned about Mu Yunchuan's situation, so he asked his servants to go to the government school to look for him.
But Mu Yunchuan only asked his servants to bring him a verbal message and had not prepared a letter for him in advance.
It’s not that Mu Yunchuan was wrong, because both of his letters were addressed to his elders, and even his brother Mu Erpang and his wife Zhou only received a few words from him.
The servant of the Wei family also said to him: "The rules of the government school are very strict. I went there at an unlucky time, and it was not the rest time. I went through a lot of procedures and waited for a long time. Mr. Mu also came in a hurry, gave me two letters, and asked me to pass on a few words to you, and then he was called away again."
Intellectually, Wei Shu knew that Mu Yunchuan was right. The distances between the provincial capital, the county town and the village were far, making communication difficult. If he asked a traveling merchant to deliver a message, it would cost one or two taels of silver for each letter. He only had four taels of silver on him, and he couldn't predict that the Wei family would come looking for him. I think the original plan was to spend two taels of silver to hire someone to deliver a message, send one tael of silver in the envelope to his family, and keep one tael of silver for himself.
But emotionally, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
If this happened in the past, he would definitely not take it seriously. As a man, why would he bother about such a small matter?
But that's human nature. Once you have doubts at the beginning, it's easy to make assumptions and get hung up on trivial matters.
Wei Shu's reason and emotions were fighting each other. On the one hand, he felt uncomfortable, and on the other hand, he despised himself for being narrow-minded.
Although the relationship between Chen Cui and him had improved greatly, it was not good enough for them to be close friends.
But his concentration value kept dropping, and the benefits gained from the academy were about to become ineffective!
"It was hot last week, so you didn't come here often and missed two monthly exams. I left you a test paper. Since you came here early today, why don't you take advantage of the good weather and do a test paper to pass it around."
As Shen Cui spoke, she took out the test paper from the system, placed it in Mu Erpang's desk drawer, then opened the drawer and took out the test paper.
Wei Shu had no intention of working hard at the moment, but since Chen Cui meant well, he did not refuse.
"There are too many people in the main room. Don't write here. Go to the mock exam room to take the exam."
It's been a while since I got the [Simulated Room] rewarded by the system, but recently everyone in the academy has been studying for double time, and it's not the next monthly exam yet, so Shen Cui hasn't used it yet.
Of course, what the system gives is not a real house. Otherwise, it would be scary enough if a room appeared in the academy in the blink of an eye.
Instead, the headmaster Shen Cui designated a space and set it as a room, so this is it!
The original Mu family's old house also had a storage room, a small and cramped room.
The Shen family members in front helped clean up and repair the room, and tidied up this room as well.
The dining table where everyone eats is placed here every day and is carried out together every time we eat.
So although the room was relatively clean, there was an old round table in the middle and sundries such as brooms, mops, and buckets in the corners. It was very simple and not much better than the conditions in a real cell.
Wei Shu was now able to joke with Chen Cui, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Shanzhang is right, this 'mock examination room' is very 'simulated'."
Shen Cui put the test paper and the pen and ink on the table, "Use your imagination. If you imagine this, then this is it."
Seeing that Wei Shu's concentration value was about to fall below the passing line, Shen Cui said nothing more and went out immediately.
When Wei Shu was the only one left in the room, he smiled and shook his head while starting to grind the ink. "Okay, imagination, I guess."
However, somehow, the next moment, Wei Shu felt that the atmosphere in the room had changed -
There seemed to be a heavy, corrupt and damp smell in the air.
That's because the examination rooms are only opened once in a long time, and the well in the examination room is only opened once a year or three years, so the combined smell is very unpleasant.
The atmosphere around him suddenly changed from the quietness with the occasional barking of dogs to the silence so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The only sound he could vaguely hear was the sound of a brush writing next to him.
Wei Shu was in a daze for a moment. What was he doing?
Yes, he went to take the science exam!
At that moment, Wei Shu no longer had time to think about anything else and began to read the test paper word by word with full concentration.
Chen Cui looked at the academy interface with satisfaction, and the concentration value of the Q version of Wei Shu jumped from the passing line to the maximum.
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