Three days later, Fang's father took Fang Zhongyong to Professor Liu's house to apprentice.

The apprenticeship ceremony is carefully selected, including: a basket of celery, which means that it is diligent and studious, and the industry is good at diligence; A basket of lotus seeds, meaning painstaking education; A basket of red beans means that the red luck shines high; A basket of dates, meaning early and high school; A basket of longan, meaning the completion of the achievement; Fifty pounds of bacon. There are also a number of tea and pork. It was a cart full of ox carts.

The sample number is good, but it is really appropriate to make it look like a wholesale shipment? Fang Zhongyong refused, but failed.

When he arrived at Mr. Liu's house, Fang Zhongyong was still embarrassed. Seeing that he was embarrassed, Mr. Liu smiled and said, "Zhongyong, this is your parents hope that you can learn to manage Zhong Yikuang (basket) the world!" Fang's father was afraid that his son's face would be tender, so he hurriedly explained: "It's all my Hun family, and he said that since it's all food, it's better to bring more." And it's almost the New Year, I'm afraid that there are many guests at Mr.'s house, and the dosage should be larger. Mr. Jean smiled. Liu Mingxuan said: "It's okay! Pity the hearts of parents all over the world! When I was a child, my family was poor, and my parents had to go through hardships to study. Zhongyong, you should remember! Fang Zhongyong said: "Yes! The teachings of the gentleman must be engraved in the heart! Mr. Liu smiled at his father again: "In this case, the old man is ashamed." It just so happens that there is a villain who is good at fighting the autumn wind today, and your father and son can solve my urgent need! ”

Before the words fell, only one person laughed and scolded: "Okay, you Liu Bida, because when I was studying in the past, I used to ridicule your font size as 'answer to questions', and you went around saying that I was a wicked guest!" ”

"You're embarrassed to say, who gave me the nickname 'Youwen'?"

"My real name is Wu Renli, which guy called me 'no one cares'?"

Watching a pair of lost friends attacking each other, Fang's father and son had black lines on their faces. When the "no one cares" enters the house, when he sees Fang Zhongyong, he starts to get angry again: "You Liu Youqing, you deliberately damaged my face in front of the juniors." I'm going to break up with you! said that he had broken off his friendship, but he went straight to a chair and shouted "wine, food, and tea", as if he had returned to his own home.

Mrs. Liu didn't think it was strange for a long time, and after seeing the ceremony, she arranged for the servants to serve tea, and explained: "It has been arranged." First invite Brother Wu to taste tea, this tea is still quite wild. Wu Renli said with a grin: "My younger brother and sister still know etiquette, not like some people." What about professors? Are you not afraid of misleading people's children? Mr. Liu said angrily: "Call Mrs. Sister-in-law!" Wu Renli ignored him and took a sip of tea: "Huh? This tea tastes acceptable, and it has a unique flavor when you drink it clearly. You sent it? Fang Zhongyong knew that he was asking himself, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yes." Recently, Mr. Meng Liu did not give up, and he was listed on the door wall. I came to send some local products and talk about my heart. Wu Renli continued to speak venomously: "Then Liu Youqian has what qualifications he has to teach others?" If you send me two carts of tea, I will teach you, and you will definitely be named on the gold list. Fang Zhongyong didn't dare to accept this, but fortunately, Mr. Liu attacked poison with poison: "Two carts of tea, what about you feed the cows?" Vulgar, vulgar! He also shook his head, as if "the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient".

Mr. Liu didn't entangle with him much: "Why are you here today?" ”

"Nothing. I only heard that someone is going to take a prodigy as an apprentice today, so I came to see the excitement. If someone's level is really not good, I will reluctantly do it for them. After all, I am also a child prodigy, and I have a successful experience! ”

"You still don't want to nod your face, did you teach your nephew Wang Anshi? Not all of them have a family history and are well taught. Relying on you to teach two crooked poems, you can become a prodigy? ”

Fang Zhongyong was shocked when he heard this: Good guy, this is Wang Anshi's uncle! So, the next script should be to meet at his uncle's house, and then he was despised, and then "Hurt Zhongyong", which hurt himself so badly, is not far from coming out?

Sure enough, the general trend of history is vast and unchangeable.

I only heard Wu Renli say: "Whoever teaches well, can't rely on his mouth." Tomorrow my nephew will come to visit me. You will bring your prodigy disciples to my house and let them debate face to face. Of course, if you're afraid of embarrassment, it's okay not to go! Mr. Liu couldn't be provoked and agreed. hated that Wu Renli's goal was achieved, and he didn't eat anymore, laughed, and walked away.

Fang Zhongyong was dumbfounded and looked at the unreliable two people, and decided his fate unreliably. Would it be better to ask the parties for their opinions and then make a decision?

Mr. Liu saw that Fang Zhongyong's face was embarrassed, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed: "Are you afraid of that Wang Anshi?" ”

Afraid, who can not be afraid?

But Fang Zhongyong was also afraid that he would be expelled from the door wall in less than half a day after entering, so he had to say: "It's not that I'm afraid." It's just that the king and the Wu family have been officials for several generations, and the kid is inevitably a little apprehensive. ”

Mr. Liu laughed: "But you despise that Wu Ziyu (Wu Renli Ziyu)." After he was promoted in the middle of the year, he let go of a county magistrate. It was only because he offended the local tyrants that he was ostracized by others that he resigned angrily. Although he has no talent to learn, he still has a heart, how can he be the one who bullies others? I have been friends with him for many years, and I will not be embarrassed with you. ”

Fang Zhong Yongxin said: Wu Renli will not embarrass me, his nephew has embarrassed me a lot, and he has been embarrassed for more than a thousand years!

I didn't say anything more at the moment, and I was a little depressed and ate with Mr. and Mrs. Liu and Fang's father, and even ate only half a bowl of the braised pork that I loved. Mr. Liu only thought that Zhongyong was afraid of the other party's family background, and he didn't care.

After the meal, Fang's father said goodbye and left, and Mr. Liu led Fang Zhongyong to the county school. I found a teaching assistant to register, nothing more than my place of origin, name, physical signs, etc., and went back to the county order office to report, and the admission process was completed.

said that it was a county school, but in fact it was just a half-official and half-civilian academy. It was not until the fourth year of Song Renzong's Qingli (1044), that is, the year when Fan Zhongyan wrote "The Story of Yueyang Tower", that there would be an official county school. It is also because Jiangxi has always attached importance to scientific research in order to build a county school in this not very rich Jinxi County. The magistrate of Jinxi invited Mr. Liu Mingxuan to be a professor, but in fact, he did not have an official status, and the so-called temporary workers were also.

Originally, there were fifty or sixty students in the county school. Now that the year is approaching, the farther ones have taken leave to go home, and the more than ten students left behind are all close to and willing to study hard, and the county school is extremely deserted for a while.

Mr. Liu was also quite helpless about this. He could only dig out the shining point, and the other party Zhongyong said: "These students are not from very good families, and they study extremely weekdays. You should emulate it. Fang Zhongyong bowed his head and was taught.

Mr. Liu continued to lead Fang Zhongyong to visit the county school. In fact, there are not much to see, two rows of bungalows, one for classrooms, one for poor students' dormitories, and then two teachers' offices, a smell of remote rural primary schools. Mr. Liu asked, "Our school can provide dormitories for poor students, but they do not include food. I don't think you want to live in a dormitory. There is still a spare room in the teacher's house, and it will be clean when you clean it up, so you can live there. First, I will be taken care of by your teacher, and secondly, I will be able to teach you from time to time, and I will not teach you to be weaker than the prodigy of the Wang family. ”

At that time, most of them followed the old system of the Tang Dynasty, and there was still a certain market for talent selection methods such as intervention and recommendation, and they did not rely entirely on the imperial examination. Even if you take the route of the imperial examination, you don't have to go through the customs and fight monsters one by one like the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are two sources of candidates for the most popular regular course, one is a student and the other is a xianggong. Born from the Jingshi and the state and county schools, and sent to Shangshu Province, the subjects are called apprentices; Those who do not pass the state and county examinations by the school hall first, and then send them to Shangshu Province after the middle school are called Xianggong. In terms of the process of taking the driver's license test in later generations, the former is a driving school training student, and the latter is a social application.

It seems to be fair, a bit of a "eclectic talent", but Xianggong can not go through the test of Xiucai, but just a Xiucai does not know how many people are embarrassed. Of course, the tribute is not so easy to be. First of all, you have to have a good father - a good grandfather is fine, and then after a series of "star-making movements" to become a "star celebrity", you can skip the college entrance examination gorgeously, and directly graduate from a social university to take the master's admissions exam. When you are still fighting for the single-plank bridge that thousands of troops have fought for, they have already been escorted. Where to reason!

It's a pity that our protagonist doesn't have a good father.,Although he was called a "prodigy", he didn't have an egg. It is the emperor's prerogative to directly excel as a prodigy, who can help you to give the imperial army, uh no, the emperor has a message? Not really. Therefore, everything is for the exam, and the exam is for the sake of having everything is the true face of the current "test-oriented education".

It is precisely because his identity as a "little prodigy in Jinxi" is not very reliable that Fang Zhongyong has a divine operation to attract Mr. Liu's attention, and he can be regarded as a "national formal training institution".

In the afternoon of the same day, Fang's father said goodbye to Mr. Liu and placed Fang Zhongyong in Mr. Liu's house. Although he is reluctant in his heart, the man, "doing nothing is going astray, and the children are stained with a towel", and he left without looking back.

In the early morning of the next day, after Fang Zhongyong greeted his master and wife, he had a simple breakfast and went to the county school. On the first day of school, I was a little excited to think about it!

When he arrived at the county school, Fang Zhongyong found that his excitement was really a little redundant. There were more than a dozen students yesterday, and today there are only three or two kittens left. But no, it's the nineteenth day of the lunar month, and if you don't leave, you won't be able to go home for the New Year. To be honest, if it weren't for the sake of making a good impression in front of Mr. Liu, Fang Zhongyong would have run home. The three kittens left behind lived in Jinxi County, so they were able to endure and not skip school. Mr. Liu didn't care, and after introducing Fang Zhongyong to several classmates, he began to teach.

Nowadays, there is still a Tang style afterglow in scientific research, although it is not like the Tang Dynasty where a poem can be done well to be an official, but it also attaches more importance to the word endowment, and it is not at all like the Ming and Qing dynasties to denounce poetry as heresy.

Today, there are few people, and Mr. Liu does not talk about the meaning of the scriptures, so he came up with two poetry titles, limited the rhyme, and ordered several people to compose poems. Fang Zhongyong did it according to his level, rhyme, and intention, but the more he looked at it, the more dissatisfied he became.

After Mr. Liu pointed out one by one, seeing that Fang Zhongyong was a little lost, he explained: "The way of writing the test-taking poems is different from your usual poetry. It is extremely restrictive, and it is not intended to test one's talents, but more like a crossword puzzle. Your poems were originally good, but they were tied up all of a sudden, and they didn't write as well as those hands and feet. If you look at Cheng Wen of the calendar (the article of the former scientific expedition winner), there are a few that can be called every word. It's just a decent rule, otherwise you will be deposed. Look at the poems of Ouyang Yongshu in the eighth year of the Heavenly Saint (1030), he is talented. Just because he was so talented, he made a good three-yuan and the first to become the fourteenth. If you want to pass the imperial examination with poetry, you still need to sharpen a lot. ”

While he was talking, it was already noon. This was originally when Fang Zhongyong was pushed out of the noon gate and beheaded, uh no, when he went to Wu Renli's house to "go to the banquet". Could it be that Mr. Liu trained his students and forgot?

Seeing that Fang Zhongyong wanted to speak and stopped, Mr. Liu didn't understand anything. He smiled and said with disdain: "He Wu Ziyu said that today is today?" How old is he? ”

Fang Zhongyong said: "No-show, isn't it good?" ”

"It doesn't matter! I just sent someone to inform him. ”