Taixue's results in this imperial examination are good, with the popularity of the method of the sea of questions, although there is an advantage in guessing the question, but the number of students in the Taixue examination is still decreasing.

Guo Qian was a little anxious about this, but he couldn't do it.

How to improve?

He discussed with Chen Ben and others for a long time, but there was no result.

Someone said that he was going to consult Shen An, but as soon as the words came out, he slapped himself.

Shen An is now in charge of Bishan Academy and Sect Academy, as if he is the first educator in the Great Song Dynasty.

So where does Guo Qian still have the face to manage too much?

So the deliberations broke up unhappily.

Guo Qian was very depressed, so he found an excuse to go out for a walk.

Out of the gate of Taixue, he looked to the left, there was the Bishan Academy, and then there was the Zongshu Academy, and the three academies were in an alley, which was also magnificent.

On the left, Guo Qian didn't want to go, for fear of blocking his heart.

He walked slowly along the right, looking at the market scenery all the way, and his mood gradually improved.

"If you want to read, you can read well, don't write poems, don't do articles, why do you do this?"

There was a quarrel in a shop on the right that made brooms and other miscellaneous items, Guo Qian walked over, looked at the father and son inside, and waited for the result with interest.

The young man looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was a little cunning, but his father was five or three rough and looked angry.

If this kid doesn't get it right, he'll be beaten up.

Guo Qian was inexplicably a little happy in his heart, and a mentality of seeing the bear child to be taught a lesson made him very comfortable.

The young man glanced at Guo Qian and said, "Daddy, the child can't get into the Jinshi." ”

"Then you have to read, too." The man said angrily: "Isn't it just to let you study just to make you study?" Reading is reasonable, and being a father has suffered the loss of not reading all his life, and he was ignorant in the first half of his life, which is considered to be in vain. These fathers refused to let you eat anymore, so they gritted their teeth and squeezed out money and food for you to study, but you actually said that you don't want to read......"

The man picked up a broom, apparently ready to do it.

All right! Let's fight, if the bear child doesn't fight, he can't be motivated.

As an old guy who has been in charge of Taixue for many years, Guo Qian likes to see this scene the most.

The young man took a step back, obviously a hero who did not suffer the immediate loss, and then said: "Daddy, you work hard, so the child will not read, come back and help you work together......"

What a good boy!

Guo Qian regretted it again and felt that he shouldn't have been beaten.

When the man heard this, he threw away the broom, walked over and took the young man's hand, looked at the blood blisters in his palm, and said bitterly: "This hand should have been holding a pen, but now it is going to make a broom...... As a father, I didn't have any money, and I couldn't let you go to Taixue......"

The man crouched on the ground, hugged his head and cried.

The young man also burst into tears, squatted on the opposite side and said, "Daddy, our family can have enough food and clothes to wear, these are all things you earned in exchange, ...... You are the best daddy in the world......"

The man looked up, and both father and son began to cry.

Ay!

Guo Qian felt that his eyes were a little hot, so he rubbed them.

"Go and study, for the Father can feed you."

The man wiped away his tears with some embarrassment, and then urged his son to go to school.

The boy said: "Daddy, the child's articles and poems are all bad, and he also said that the child studies hard, but this poetry article should talk about talent, without this talent, no matter how hard you work, it is useless, it is a waste of money and food, the child thinks ......"

"Is that so?"

The man was in pain again, "For the father...... It's not good for a father's seed! hurt his own children. ”

Ay!

Guo Qian also sighed, feeling that there was really no way to do this kind of thing.

"Daddy, don't talk about any talent in miscellaneous studies!"

"What miscellaneous?"

"It's Shen County's miscellaneous school."

"Shen County's father knows that it is the one who is both civil and military, and he beat Yelu Hongji half to death and robbed his daughter-in-law?"

Guo Qian's face was black, thinking that Shen An had robbed Xiao Guanyin?

"That's right, it's that Shen County Gong."

"But miscellaneous studies can't be examined......"

"The child can't pass the imperial examination!"

The young man said proudly: "Daddy, you don't know, miscellaneous learning is a real skill, if you learn it, you can support the family by finding something to do......"

"So good?"

The man clearly didn't believe it.

The young man said, "Daddy, do you know about the Bishan Academy and the Sect Academy? ”

"Bishan Academy knows." The man said a little tangled: "That Bishan was my father who helped people drive there once, hey, there are graves on it, and the name of the academy is used as Bishan, and the Shen County Gong is afraid that they are all ghosts." ”

"Sect Academy, isn't that a place for nobles to study?"

"yes!" The young man's eyes lit up suddenly, as if he had found his own way, and there was no doubt, "Daddy, the professors of Bishan Academy and Sect Academy are mainly miscellaneous studies!" ”

"What? Miscellaneous studies taught by the Clan Academy? ”

"Yes." The young man said excitedly: "Daddy, those clans are all nobles, people we couldn't see when we looked up in the past, and now they are all begging Shen Xiangong to teach them miscellaneous studies, do you say miscellaneous studies are good?" ”

"Okay, it's just ......," the man was a little confused, "what have they learned to do?" ”

"It's all golden branches and jade leaves, why do they have to learn miscellaneous studies?" The man's question was plain, but straightforward.

The young man obviously had already prepared the answer, "Daddy, the court has already said that the clan after the five suits will not care, and the court will no longer send money and food." Think about it! Those golden branches and jade leaves can't be picked on their shoulders and their hands can't be lifted, where can they feed their families? ”

The man nodded, "One year, when my father met a clan, when he was at the ferry, he disliked the smell of sweat on his father and others, so he asked someone to put up a cloth curtain, and he and the maid teased and drank in it for fun. There is a curtain separating it, and it looks vague from the outside, like a fairy, and now this fairy is also going down to earth? ”

"They're not immortals!" The young man was very excited and said: "Daddy, the child has read a few miscellaneous books, and they are really all skills, you see, the child also got this ......."

He took out something, Guo Qian probed in and took a look, but it was a small box.

"These two knife edges stand here, and you can see that they can be widened and narrowed on the side, so that no matter how big or small, can come in......"

The boy took a bamboo branch and passed it upside down through the mouth of the box, stepped on the box with his foot, and then pulled it with his hand.

"Look, they're gone." The young man said proudly: "Daddy, in the past, you had to use a knife to scrape slowly, but now you don't need it, just pull it directly, you say it's okay?" ”

"Good, good!" After trying a few times, the man happily touched the top of his son's head, "You are really smart, and you are happy for your father's heart...... How did you get it? ”

"Daddy, this is what is in the miscellaneous school!"

The man looked up, "Is this miscellaneous?" ”

"yes, Daddy." The boy said excitedly: "The child thinks this miscellaneous study is good, so he saved some money and bought a few books...... I learned from the above. ”

Just self-taught?

Guo Qian only felt a buzz in his head, as if he had been beaten.

"What are you going to buy?"

The man turned around and saw him, and walked over.

"No ......"

Guo Qian wanted to say that he didn't buy anything, but he was a little weak-hearted.

Eavesdropping on people is immoral.

For Guo Qian, who has always prided himself on being a moral expert, the eavesdropping just now made him feel ashamed.

So he said like a ghost, "Buy, buy a broom." ”

"Isn't this Guo sacrificial wine?"

The man recognized the neighbor and said happily: "Guo Saijiu, Taixue wants some brooms, but they were all bought from other families before, and that one is not as good as my family, and it is not as durable as mine, but you are here to buy a broom?" ”

Guo Qian glanced at the young man who was playing the box, and felt a little weak in his heart, "Yes! It's to come to your house to buy a broom. ”

I remember that there were a lot of new brooms piled up in the utility room...... The old man doesn't want to buy it!

"It's too much of a big student, and you have to get rid of a lot of brooms every month, you wait, that's good."

The man called the boy to the back, and the father and son dragged dozens of brooms out together.

The man said happily, "Do you think these are enough?" ”

"Enough, enough." Guo Qian gave the money very entangledly, and then refused the man's kindness to send him to the academy, so he asked him to tie the broom together, and then prepared to drag it back.

"That miscellaneous study is so easy to use...... Let's go and learn, it's okay for my father's broom business, you see that now it has become Taixue's business, and Taixue will buy a lot of brooms from our house every month in the future, and you can earn a lot of money, you just go to study, don't worry about the family. ”

“……”

Guo Qian dragged the broom back like this, and the people he met along the way were a little surprised.

"Guo Saijiu, what are you doing here?"

Who has ever seen a dignified priest sweeping the streets with a broom?

"Are you sweeping the streets? Want to help? ”

Guo Qian shook his head tangledly, thinking that the old man was not sweeping the street, but there were too many brooms and he couldn't carry them!

When he arrived at Taixue, Menzi saw it and said, "What are you...... We still have some brooms, it's too early to buy them now, and then you just tell me to do it, so why don't you buy them! ”

"Get in!"

Guo Qian only felt sore, so he sat at the door to rest.

Chen Ben came out, and when he saw this, he said, "You are ......"

"Buy a broom."

Guo Qian suddenly felt very sad and choked up.

Chen Ben was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly asked; "What's going on?"

Guo Qian shook his head, and after his emotions calmed down, he said, "The Sect Academy has opened. ”

"He opened his, let's learn ours, it's irrelevant." Chen Ben felt that Guo Qian was a little strange today, and he was afraid that he was not sick.

"Yes...... The clans all learn miscellaneous studies, what will people in the world think? ”

Chen Ben only felt that his head was knocked out, "Yes! What will the world think? The clans all learn miscellaneous studies, will those people learn them? I'm afraid it will. ”

He slapped his thigh, "Shen An...... This clan reform is selfish with him. ”

Guo Qian smiled bitterly: "Everyone thinks he is bold and dares to touch the sect, but now the old man knows that he also used the clan academy, and then pushed out the miscellaneous studies." This method, the old man felt a chill down his spine when he thought about it. When he was in Taixue, fortunately he didn't attack the old man, otherwise the old man would not be able to stop him! ”

If Shen An had attacked Guo Qian at the beginning, he would have been able to stay in Taixue for a long time, and if he didn't make it, he would be able to become the future Guozi Priest Wine.

But Shen An didn't attack him, but chose to leave and start over.

The Sect Academy's such a good advertising board was unexpectedly labeled as a miscellaneous school by Shen An, and this advertisement can be played for as long as this academy is open.

Or free advertising!

Guo Qian and Chen Ben looked at each other, only feeling that they had become fools.

"Now his miscellaneous studies are going to be famous all over the world......

Guo Qian said bitterly: "A clan reform was turned into an opportunity for miscellaneous studies to be carried out by him, this person ...... Is he a snake? And he came up along the pole. We...... He also got our Taixue ...... The old man lived in vain for dozens of years, and compared with him Shen An, he lived in vain. ”

"That's it, that's it, we can't control this."

Chen Ben sighed, feeling that the future of Taixue would be even more difficult.

Guo Qian got up and said, "The old man wants to take a day off, so I can think about these things, that ...... In the future, the broom will be bought separately, and I will go to the one that the old man just bought, not far, go out and turn right, less than 100 steps. ”

He remembered the father and son who were crying relatively closely, and their longing......

Confucianism or miscellaneous?

The people will choose for themselves.