Zhao Gou changed the topic with a sneer, "We will win the championship next year, and we will never be able to sit together again, what are your plans?" ”

Wang Ye'er seemed to be very worried about this matter, she turned around and sat on the threshold, holding her head and pouting, with a look of lovelessness, "My second uncle wants me to go to Beijing to take the exam and be a waitress, but my mother and my second mother want me to stay in Ji to go to school, I don't know what to do now." ”

"What about your father, what did your father tell you to do?"

"My father? My father listened to my second uncle. ”

Zhao Goutong's mind is full of black lines, the relationship between Wang Ye'er's family is indeed too chaotic, her mother and Erniang are the oldest in the family, her second uncle and her father are the youngest, and her father only listens to her second uncle, unless her mother adds her fists and feet, otherwise her father always stands with her second uncle.

It is estimated that this is a matter of her daughter's future, and her mother gave her father some rights to express his free opinion......

"Then what do you want to do yourself, stay in Ji to go to school or enter Beijing to take the exam?"

Wang Ye'er shook her head, she stood up and put on an awkward fist, "I don't want to, I want to fight the sword rivers and lakes, take a wonderful road to the rivers and lakes, if I can worship under which hero, I may also become a generation of heroines!" ”

Zhao Goutong nodded, although if you enter the rivers and lakes, these studies may be in vain, but everyone has their own ambitions, and it is not good to say anything, and ...... With Wang Ye'er's mother here, Wang Ye'er wants to break out of the house first.

Zhao Goutong looked at Chen Pingyu with a sluggish face again, "What about you, what do you want to do next year and after the crown?" ”

Chen Pingyu raised his eyelids and thought about it, "I want to stay in Ji Academy, there is still a lot of knowledge to learn here, as the so-called life to learn all the time, knowledge is not finished." ”

"Come on, you."

Zhao Goutong rolled his eyes, "I don't know you yet?" The book "The Official Record of the Great Zhou" under your bedside has been turned white by you. ”

When Chen Pingyu heard this, he was a little angry, he stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Goutong's collar and scolded: "You peek at my things? ”

Zhao Goutong patted the back of his hand and said, "Didn't you ask me to dry the quilt for you while there was sun, why did you cross the river and tear down the bridge in a blink of an eye?" ”

Chen Pingyu was stunned again, as if there was really such a thing, he let go of Zhao Goutong's collar and gave the latter a look, "I'm sorry Brother Zhao, it's Pingyu who is rude." ”

"Okay, okay, who doesn't know your virtue, to be honest, do you want to be an official?"

Chen Pingyu breathed a long sigh of relief and nodded.

"That's right, I just want to go to the capital to catch the exam, get an official and a half-job and slowly climb forward, first benefit a town and then a state, and then a country."

Zhao Goutong's ideal is very Hongdae, which is also what he has been thinking about for a long time, it is better to seek one person than to seek a country, and to build the Great Zhou into a rich and strong country, then there will be no war in various places, and Gongsun will not have to work hard all day long.

Unexpectedly, Chen Pingyu shook his head, "I want to ask Mr. Sun to arrange a knife and pen official for me in Dongzhou, and then go to Mobei as an official, experience the difference between rich and barren, and see the big from the small." ”

"But I heard that there are a lot of horse bandits in Mobei, isn't it too dangerous?"

Wang Ye'er said worriedly.

Gongsun Jian pursed his lips and said: "What's the danger, can he be an official in Dongzhou, Xuefu Wuche may not be able to do a good job." ”

Chen Pingyu raised his eyebrows, "What do you say?" ”

Zhao Goutong also sat next to Wang Ye'er, he patted the few remaining positions next to him, Chen Pingyu sat down, and the bodies of the three of them blocked the door of the dormitory, and a trace of cold wind could not pass through.

Zhao Goutong said slowly: "An elder of mine surnamed Qi once said that a rich man who is full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, and learning is not necessarily a good person, and opening his mouth to collect the fat and ointment of the people is not necessarily a bad person. For a person in power, if the former is extremely mediocre, it is better not to use it, and the latter is a corrupt official, but a capable official can also pinch his nose and reuse. ”

He looked up at the sky, "Those who have no talent and no virtue do not use it, those who have talent and no virtue are of little use, those who have no virtue and ability are used lightly, and those who are talented and virtuous are good at using it." ”

"So how is it useful?"

Zhao Goutong's thoughts seemed to return to the time when he was hungry and cold, he and Gongsun Jian and a group of playmates who were eating and waiting for death, sitting beside the big locust tree without any purpose every day, listening to the chatter of the middle-aged man with a strange figure.

Guangling Road, Huai'an County, Huainan County, the three most fertile places, most of the roadside are planted with locust trees, since the locust tree is easy to grow and cheap, and the second is that this locust tree also has a lot of meaning.

Especially in the three richest places, the locust tree metaphor is extremely rich, and silver is no longer a luxury for the people, they have money, they want power.

Huai is also an official.

Huai and the official are mutually commensurate, the dignitaries and high-ranking officials of the court are called Huaiyue, and there are titles like Huai Ding, Huai Wei, Huai Yan, and Huai Qing, which refers to the positions of the three princes, prime ministers, and imperial historians, and sometimes all the ruling ministers. Among them, Huaiwang is the title of the famous minister, and the seal of the three princes is also called Huai Conferred, and the most incomprehensible thing is that the place where the three princes and nine kings live is called Huaifu.

The palace where the emperor lives is called Huaichen, and Huaiye is talking about the palace.

In addition to representing the top power of high-ranking officials, since Emperor Wen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all those who entered Beijing to catch the examination or the palace examination and other things related to the fame, fortune, glory and wealth of scholars can take advantage of this ladder to go up and win the position of the three princes, which is their highest ideal. Therefore, Huai is also commonly used to refer to the official examination, and even the year of the examination is called Huaiqiu, and the literati rush to take the examination is called Tahuai, and the month of the examination is called Huaihuang.

The locust tree symbolizes the position of the three princes, and the "Huai" and "Kui" are similar, hoping that future generations will be blessed by the Kui Star God and enter the department.

Sometimes Zhao Goutong thinks that Gongsun Jian's parents are a university scholar, and a rural person would never think of the word "Gongsun".

After Gongsun Jian heard Qi Dehuang's arguments about the locust tree, he also liked to take a warm nap next to the locust tree more and more.

That is, after Mr. Qi lectured on the locust tree, he used the acacia as a guide to talk about officialdom, and then used the official as a guide to talk about how to be an official.

Chen Pingyu's mentality can also cause some waves because of the matter of being an official, he saw Zhao Goutong's sudden stunnedness, which hung everyone's appetite, and he couldn't help shaking Zhao Goutong and said eagerly: "What kind of talent is useful, say it quickly." ”

Zhao Goutong was shaken back to his scattered thoughts, he rolled his eyes and opened Chen Pingyu's slender palm, "Senior brother, I didn't see you so sassy when we first met, how did you learn to be coquettish as a little girl?" ”

Wang Ye'er is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, "Senior Brother Chen's shaking technique is more skilled than that of girls. ”

The nerd who had been hanging a bookbag all day was speechless, and he sat down again, staring at the young man next to him who had whetted the appetite of others.

Seeing this, Zhao Goutong couldn't bear to engage in Senior Brother Chen's mentality like this again, "This is a big user......"

"What are you doing sitting here? Didn't you come back and finish your schoolwork? ”

Chen Pingyu was listening with an expectant look, but Zhao Goutong was interrupted by this stern and slightly trembling voice.

The three of them looked up, and Mr. Sun, who was covered in mud and his hair was still wet, was standing in front of them, embarrassed.

The three of them didn't dare to ask more, and said in unison: "Today's homework is done." ”

"Didn't I teach your grandson to know the new."

The slightly stern voice came again, Zhao Goutong and Wang Ye'er were active, and they were scattered in an instant, Chen Pingyu had a bitter face, and it was really difficult to listen to the way of being an official.

Sun Siyu looked at the person who was still sitting, "Pingyu, do you still want to copy books?" ”

The next moment, there was no one on the threshold.

Sun Siyu shook the lake water in his hair, shivered coldly, and turned around and walked towards the courtyard next to the dormitory.

Although the male and female students live in the dormitory, it is clearly divided, male students live in a room for every six people in the north, and female students live in a room for every four people in the south, and in the middle is a large open space for morning classes, and the head of a Dongzhou city guard comes every three days to take the students to practice, in the words of Sun Daru, the things in the brain are important, but the body is more important, and the brain is not enough if the body is weak and sick.

In the past, those literati were all emaciated, as if the wind blew and disappeared, and the body of the scribe was so weak that it was not even as strong as the northern women, and after the implementation of such similar military drills, the bodies of the male and female students of the Ji school became better and better, and there was no longer such a delicate posture.

There were deep wells at each end of the clearing, and the school did not care about anything other than the food, housing, and transportation of the students, and the students had to clean their own houses every day, but also wash their own clothes, except for the children of the family who came with slaves, of course.

Just in time for the New Year, Ji went to school for a big vacation, for a whole ten days, most of the students went home to visit relatives, only a few homeless students in the dormitory are still here, Zhao Goutong and Chen Pingyu are two of them, Wang Yeer's house is at the foot of Bailu Cave Mountain, and they can go home on weekdays.

There is also an unwritten rule in the school that if you don't go home to visit your family, Sun Siyu and other gentlemen and teachers will issue some homework that is not as lifeless as in the books, such as sending some couplets to the people of Bailu Cave, or helping them clean up the yard and other miscellaneous items, so that these boring students have something to do, so that they will not run around looking for trouble.

Zhao Goutong and Chen Pingyu don't live in the same house, after this nerd ran away last, in line with the attitude of "studious but not diligent asking, not really a good scholar", he came straight to Zhao Goutong's door, he gently knocked on the door, "Goutong, you come out, you haven't finished talking yet." ”

"I knew you would get to the bottom of it."

"You've got to tell me what a useful person is, right?"

Zhao Goutong was also helpless, "Is it so important, in my opinion, people who are of great use don't need it." ”

"How?"

Zhao Goutong didn't open the door, lay on the bed and shouted loudly: "Only talented people who can but have no virtue can be useful!" ”

Chen Pingyu rubbed his ears, he was really afraid that he had heard it wrong, there were talented people without virtue...... Only talented and capable, but without moral character, can they be entrusted with important tasks?

"I agree, I understand the first few 'uses', what does this mean."

Zhao Goutong's lazy voice sounded again, "You still want to be an official like this?" Let's think about it. ”

"Agree! Agree! ”

Zhao Gou Tongquan didn't hear it, and muttered in a low voice: "What is a talented person who can be virtuous?" You ask me? I've never been an official, so how do I know? ”

Chen Pingyu saw that the person in the room no longer replied, so he sat down on the spot, thought about it seriously, and muttered, "No virtue...... No virtue ......"

Wang Ye'er walked out of a row of rooms opposite at this time, and she shouted from afar, "I saw Mr. Sun again just now, he asked me to tell you, after the New Year, the envoy of the Northern Xinjiang Provincial Economic Strategy may be a guest to go to school, that is Mr. Sun's old friend, when the time comes, the three of us will follow Mr. to entertain guests together, don't slack off, senior brother, I will go home first, and you will also tell Gou Tong." ”

"If you really find it boring, you can go down the mountain and play with me, my house is at the bottom of the mountain."

Chen Pingyu sat under the eaves and didn't raise his head, and he didn't know whether he heard or not, but just waved his hand.

Wang Ye'er wrapped her mink hat and walked down the mountain.

People who do not have a lot of money for their children to go to school will also spend less money to let their children go to private schools to learn the basic 300,000.

First read the three-character scripture to learn to see and hear, read the surnames of hundreds of families for daily use, read the thousand-character text to clarify the righteousness, this is the reading material that children begin to learn, Gongsun Jian held one of them and read it with great pleasure.