Because he was staying at someone else's house, Lin Zhao didn't sleep well that night, and when it was not full dawn early in the morning, he got up from the bed, put on clothes, and came to the yard to move his muscles and bones.

Although they are all Lin families, the Lin family in the city is very different from the Lin family in Donghu Town, there are scholarly families, official eunuch families, pavilions and pavilions, although it is a wing room where guests live, the environment is much better than the Lin family in Donghu Town, and it is much better than the small courtyard where Lin Zhao lives.

Not long after Lin Zhao got up, a subordinate who looked fifteen or sixteen years old walked over in small steps, bowed his head to Lin Zhao and saluted: "The young master got up so early, do you want the villain to bring you breakfast?" ”

Although this young man is a subordinate of the Lin Mansion, his clothes are quite clean, and the clothes on his body are also brand new, compared to this, the cloth clothes on Lin Zhao's body are much shabby.

He only had three coats in total, and the remaining two were patched, and the one he was wearing was the only one that could be worn out of the house.

However, Lin Zhao didn't feel embarrassed, he nodded slightly at this subordinate, and said, "I'm tired." ”

The servant nodded respectfully, turned around and left, and it didn't take long to send a few white-flour steamed buns, a bowl of white porridge and two small plates of pickles.

There is nothing about porridge and pickles, but the white flour steamed buns make Lin Zhao a little greedy, although the Lin family in Donghu Town is not poor, but only the eldest mother can eat coarse grains every day, and he and his mother eat sorghum noodles mostly.

In front of the subordinates, Lin Zhao was not easy to gobble, and after pretending to eat, he was taken by the subordinates to the courtyard where the Lin family's family school was.

Yuezhou Lin family has family rules, as long as the family is over six years old, every day must go to the home school to study, in addition to the morning hours, how many words to memorize and write every day, are extremely strict, a little exceeded, will be in accordance with the family rules heavy punishment.

This is the reason why the Lin family can produce more than a dozen jinshi, and the scholarly family can flourish for several generations or even ten generations.

The more prestigious the family, the stricter the treatment of their children, so as to ensure that there will be one or two talents in each generation, and there will be no lack of succession and withering.

After breakfast, Lin Zhao followed this descendant of the Lin family to the Lin family's school together.

The gate is big, the mansion is generally a yard set yard, the Lin family's school is in the west courtyard, Lin Zhao followed this person to walk the tea time, only to walk, although it has just arrived at this time, but the Lin family's school has already heard the sound of reading aloud, Lin Zhao glanced at the school, only to see more than a dozen children sitting scattered in the school, about the same age as himself, some are younger, only seven or eight years old.

All of them were boys, not a single woman.

The gentleman in the Lin family school is surnamed Qin, and he was selected as a talent in his early twenties, but after more than ten years of repeated attempts, he has not been able to win the promotion, and he has no way to settle down to the Lin family to teach, and has been Mr. Xixi in the Lin family for three years.

The subordinate took Lin Zhao and stepped forward, and said to Mr. Qin: "Sir, a distant young master in the family came to study with you, and the eldest master said that he brought it over to give you the school examination, if it is suitable, I will worship you as a teacher in the future and study here." ”

The family of the scholarly family, even if it is a subordinate, has great respect for the scholar, and coupled with the fame of this Mr. Qin, the subordinate of the Lin family is naturally respectful, and the tone is very humble.

Lin Zhao also stepped forward and bowed to Mr. Qin.

"Junior Lin Zhao, I've seen Mr."

Mr. Qin is close to forty years old this year, his skin is fair, there are already a lot of wrinkles on his face, the whole person is quite thin, with a whisker under his chin, he is holding a new book to read, Wen Yan raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Zhao, only to see that the young man in front of him has beautiful eyebrows, quite pleasing to the eye, so he nodded and said: "Since you are a child of the Lin family, I will test you a few questions." ”

He shook his head and said, "Therefore, the courtesy is the way of the will." ”

This is an article of "Rites", Lin Zhao has been able to memorize it under his mother's training over the years, and he said without hesitation: "Happiness is to be harmonious, politics is to do its own thing, and punishment is to prevent rape." ”

Mr. Qin nodded, and a smile appeared on his face: "Have you memorized all the rites?" ”

Lin Zhao nodded and said, "Mr. Hui's words, the four books and five classics have been memorized. ”

"You memorize a few paragraphs and listen to me."

Lin Zhao took a deep breath and memorized a few paragraphs of the content of the book, and Mr. Qin nodded with satisfaction: "Your foundation is very good, and you have surpassed most people in the school." ”

He sat on the chair the whole time without moving, and immediately looked up at the Lin family's subordinate, and said, "You go and talk to the eldest master, just say that this student, Qin accepted it." ”

He looked at Lin Zhao with a smile: "You can come to me early tomorrow morning to study." ”

Hearing this, Lin Zhao was quite happy in his heart.

Although he didn't have much interest in taking the entrance examination, his mother Lin Erniang was obsessed with letting him seek fame, and he could get rid of the current poor life through fame, and he could enter the master's house to study, and his mother should be very happy to know it.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhao took two steps back and looked at Mr. Qin deeply: "Thank you, sir." ”

According to the rules, it is more appropriate to kneel down at this time, but this Mr. Qin is a gentleman from the Lin family, and he is not just teaching Lin Zhao alone, and he will not officially apprentice until tomorrow, so Lin Zhao is also in line with the rules.

Mr. Qin stood up from his chair and patted Lin Zhao's shoulder with a smile.

"At your age, your mind is jumping, few people concentrate on learning, you can memorize the four books and the five classics, it is quite rare, you can study here for more than half a year, and you can ask someone to guarantee you to try to take the Xiucai exam next year."

Mr. Qin shook his head and said: "Of course, fame is hard to find, I don't expect you to get it at one time, but it's always good to accumulate some experience, you are still young, and you can get the test two or three times if you want to." ”

When a scholar sees a smart child, he generally has a heart of love for talent, Mr. Qin's mind is quite pure, he himself did not go well in the scientific examination, but he did not have too much resentment in his heart, and he also taught very carefully in the Lin family.

Lin Zhao nodded and said respectfully, "Thank you, Mr. for mentioning it." ”

He said a few polite words to Mr. Qin, and then left the school with his subordinates, before leaving, Lin Zhao looked back at the furnishings in the school, as well as the dozen or so children who were reading, and felt a little emotional.

This school looks unremarkable, but it is one of the few steps to advance in this era.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it has been more than 200 years, and all strata have long been solidified to a certain point, like Lin Zhao, an ordinary child from a poor family, it is unlikely that he will be a martial artist in the army, and secondly, he will not be able to enter the army, and if he wants to jump out from the bottom, reading and studying is basically the only way, but even this last road, the threshold is not low.

First of all, it is necessary to have spare money at home to support a scholar.

Although it is said that it is poor and rich, it is not cheap to really raise a scholar, and every month pen, ink, paper and inkstone is a lot of expenses, and more importantly, there must be a "tuition" for reading.

Just the last one, more than eighty percent of the children in the world have been turned away from the school.

Lin Zhao was lucky, this inconspicuous school in the Lin family's compound gave him the opportunity not to go back to Donghu Town to herd cattle.

After coming out of the school, Lin Zhao went to thank the eldest lord again, but the eldest master of the Lin family was busy, this time Lin Zhao couldn't see him, the eldest lord said hello to the next person, and arranged a side room for Lin Zhao to live, after Lin Zhao was taken to the residence by the next person, he first briefly familiarized himself with the environment, and then took out the copper coin given to him by his mother from the baggage, counted forty or fifty in his hand, and then he left the Lin Mansion under the guidance of the next person.

After all, from today onwards, he will live in the city, although the Lin family is in charge of food and housing, but he still has to buy some daily necessities, especially some blank paper and other things, for future study.

Under the guidance of his subordinates, he came from the Lin Mansion to the market of Yuezhou Mansion, because he didn't have much money, he could only buy some rough straw paper, which was barely usable.

He went out near noon, and walked around the relatively prosperous Yuezhou Mansion along the way, and when he bought his things and walked back to the Lin family's mansion, it was already afternoon.

Lin Zhao sorted out his things and prepared to walk back to his residence in the Lin family, he was smart since he was a child, and he had only walked the Lin family's road once, and he already remembered it clearly.

When he came to the door of the room, Lin Zhao pushed the door and walked in, and was about to put down the things he had bought, when he looked up and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old man standing in his room.

"Childe is back."

The one who led Lin Zhao to see Mr. Qin in the morning, at this time, he no longer had the humble demeanor he had at that time, but raised his head slightly at Lin Zhao, and there was something different in his eyes.

Lin Zhao frowned slightly, and after putting the things on the table in the room, he asked softly, "Is there something wrong?" ”

He didn't come back, and the Lin family's subordinates were waiting in their rooms, something must have happened.

This time the person glanced at Lin Zhao, and then said without being salty.

"Childe, you can't study in my Lin family's school."

At this time, the person glanced at Lin Zhao, with some disdain on his face.