Chapter 31: The Secret of the Ballot
For Wen, this kind of festival is no different from a normal day. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info so three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is the day when Wenhua Academy will announce the admission list.
Early in the morning, the streets outside the gate of Wenhua Academy were already full of people.
Wen was shouted early by the stone, yawned in his mouth, finished washing, and did a few chest expansion exercises by the way, shook his neck, and made a burst of clicking sounds. Wen complained in his heart that he was really miserable, and his family lived in a group of model students, and he would never see the sun when he got up in the morning.
Since coming to this ancient time when there were no clocks, the rooster crow has become an alarm clock to wake up. I haven't been able to live a comfortable life in the sun for so long, especially after living with Xiaohua, I am even more detached from the good life of low-level fun.
Holding back the resentment in his heart, he walked towards the outer courtyard with the stone, pushed open the gate of the courtyard, and saw that Old Man Mei was leading a large group of minions, maintaining order, and the leader of Zheng Zhu, who followed next to him, led a group of foxes and fake tigers who were working hard.
"Hey, Mr. Mei, you came so early, but our academy doesn't accept older students." Hearing that Old Man Mei was angry with Zheng Zhufa, he hurriedly went up to play a round.
Old man Mei glared fiercely: "You just want to accept it, and I don't dare to come." Tell me, what have you been doing lately, little bastard? God can't see it, send drought and thunder to cut you every night, and you will definitely be unlucky if you get close. ”
This damn old man Mei slandered himself when he opened his mouth. Isn't it just that I did a few blasting tests and put a few firecrackers, as for such a fuss.
Wen wondered: "I give the students food and clothing, teach knowledge for free, what can I do." ”
Old man Mei hated iron and said: "You kid doesn't know how powerful, you know how to die." Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been more revolts than you eat. This time, you only selected 100 students from more than 1,000 students, if you don't get angry and cause a civil uprising, it depends on how you end. ”
Hearing this, I was moved, no matter how this old man Mei buried himself, he was still thinking about himself. Early in the morning, he came with a large group of minions to escort himself.
Old man Mei ignored Hu who was moved there and continued: "The list will be announced later, in case something happens." You resist, let my granddaughter Yiqi withdraw first, if you hurt my granddaughter, I will not finish with you. ”
When he heard this, he immediately had the urge to slap Old Man Mei to death. After a long time of feelings, Old Man Mei came here to help, purely for Mei Yiqi.
"Old man Mei, you don't have to be nervous, there will definitely be no civil upheaval." Wen really couldn't see the appearance of Old Man Mei as if he was facing a great enemy, so he said with relief.
Old man Mei asked suspiciously, "Are you so sure?" ”
"Of course I'm sure, there are some things, Mr. Mei, you don't know, I secretly told you that the ballots I sent a few days ago are the pieces of paper. It's not just a piece of paper, it's a real thing of value. Wen approached the old man Mei and said mysteriously.
Old man Mei looked at Wen who was close to him with a look of disgust and said, "To be clear." ”
Zheng Zhu, who was eavesdropping with his ears pricked up on the side, quickly took over the conversation and said, "Mr. Mei, you don't go out much all day long, you don't know." San Lang, the piece of paper that was sent, many people have always collected money. ”
Old man Mei is not a stupid person and understands as soon as he hears it: "Spending ten times to collect ten tickets can basically be sure to enter Wenhua Academy, right, but this has to be a solid family to enter the academy, what can those poor people do?" ”
Wen said helplessly: "There is no way, but this is a consensual deal, so there will be no civil uprising or anything like that." The poor families can get the same money for free, and the richer families can come to the academy to study, and we are all happy to be free from worries. ”
Old man Mei asked with a dark face, "Whose idea is this?" ”
"Of course it's the people's idea, Old Man Mei, you must know that the wisdom of the people is infinite." Wen said with admiration with his thumb.
"Fart, the people of my Yanshen County have lived uprightly for hundreds of years, and they have never experienced such a thing as balloting, how can they figure out this kind of joint in a short period of time, you fool the ghost?" Old man Mei directly burst into foul language.
Wen licked his lips and said, "Let me think about it, maybe, maybe, probably I drank a little wine a few days ago and accidentally revealed this great idea to the stone." This damn stone is good for everything, but there is one thing that is not good, it is a quick mouth. ”
Old man Mei held his forehead and sighed: "My poor Yanshen people! ”
Wen asked strangely: "Old man Mei, what you said is not right." My academy is free of charge for students. The most pitiful thing about this hard work should be me, what is there to pity the people of Yanshen. ”
Old man Mei stared at Wen with his sparkling old eyes, as if he had seen a plague: "Since you little bastard came to Yanshen County, the simple folk customs that have been passed down for thousands of years in Yanshen County have begun to look up to the businessmen of the philistine. Nowadays, even the opportunity to study and learn can be bought with money, and a hundred years have fallen, where is my simple and simple folk customs? ”
Old Man Mei's tone was a little lonely, and after speaking, he ignored Wen and the others who were stunned, and turned to leave. Hearing that Old Man Mei was a little hunchbacked, his sad back gradually faded away, and a heart-piercing pain suddenly rose in his heart.
Wen didn't know how when the order of Shinong industry and commerce became businessmen, workers and peasants, and everything could be measured by money, that kind of cool scene between people used to be everywhere in Wen's life.
Shouting the stone and pasting the list on the shadow wall, he smelled a person and entered the inner courtyard.