Chapter 10: Getting down to business
"Okay, let's get down to business......" Just when Lu Yu thought of an excuse and was about to get rid of the green snake banquet at noon, Zhou Fang suddenly spoke, "Shuwen, you will be thirteen years old this year, and you can be regarded as a little adult, you have to think about the future path......"
"Brother Zhou, what do you mean ......" After probably hearing that Zhou Fang wanted to point out a "clear road" for himself, Lu Yu asked Zhou Fang back "pretending to be stupid", wanting to hear what he wanted to do first, so as not to guess his intentions wrong and make a joke.
"I regard Hanxiang as my own sister, and you are my brother-in-law, so I only came to talk to you about these things today," After raising his arm and patting Lu Yu's shoulder across the small coffee table, Zhou Fang said to Lu Yu seriously: "You have to plan for the future now, and time will not wait for you!" ”
"Then what good advice does Big Brother Zhou have?" After listening to Zhou Fang's touching words, Lu Yu, who had lived two lives, had quite rich experience, and was not so easily moved, still did not express his position, but asked Zhou Fang again tentatively.
"Do you want to study literature or martial arts?" Zhou Fang, who was stunned for a moment by Lu Yu's indifferent attitude, continued his topic after pausing for three or four seconds.
At that moment just now, Zhou Fang thought that his touching words could arouse his brother-in-law's emotions, but who knows, his words just made his sister Mu Hanxiang emotional, but Lu Yu was ......
"Learn Wen, I will go to the county to take the Xiucai test in the spring of next year, go to Guozhou City in the autumn to take the exam, and then, in the spring of the next year, I will go to Zizhou Mansion to take the Jinshi exam, I know the process very well, and I am also ready......" After listening to Zhou Fang's question, Lu Yu replied to him "shamelessly".
Lu Yu's relaxed tone when he replied seemed to indicate that he regarded the difficulty of getting into the Qingtian imperial examination as child's play.
"Hahaha......" After listening to Lu Yu's slightly childish answer, Zhou Fang raised his head and laughed, the corners of his eyes burst into tears, and before he finished laughing, he raised his hand and took a sip of herbal tea, because he drank it too violently, the tea was poured directly into his trachea, and he coughed "cough, cough, cough ......".
Seeing that Zhou Fang was about to be choked to death, Lu Yu hurriedly got up and slapped Zhou Fang's back to help him calm down, and after a long time of "bang, ......bang, bang", Zhou Fang relieved himself.
However, after being choked violently, Zhou Fang's whole face was red from suffocation, his eyes were bloodshot, and the whites of his eyes were covered with net-like bloodshots, looking like he hadn't slept for several nights.
"Big brother, drink slowly!" Mu Hanxiang, who was subject to the creed of "men and women are not close", although she was very worried about Zhou Fang, but she didn't help him pat him on the back, so she could only complain, but when she complained, her eyes were full of tears, and she almost cried.
"I'm sorry, it's my fault!" Zhou Fang, whose face was like a boiled pig's head, first apologized to Mu Hanxiang with a smirk, and then turned his head and sprayed Lu Yu and said, "I said brother-in-law, Shuwen!" You are too underestimating the imperial examination, even if it is a prodigy that we have rarely seen in Shudi for a hundred years, it took ten years to get from Xiucai to Jinshi, do you think you are better than me? ”
"I can't say that, although I admit that you are indeed a rare god in our Shu land for a hundred years, in terms of reading, you are alone in the world, I am not as good as you, but what, in the matter of taking the imperial examination, it is not that you will be able to be admitted if you read well, in most cases, luck is more important than strength, besides, now is the Chonghe period, our emperor is no longer Renzong and Zhenzong, the two Ming monarchs, but Huizong, his old man, this year can buy an official, even if I can't pass the exam, I spend some money, buy a county to do, It's okay...... "Lu Yu, who has historical knowledge as the backing, is much wider and wider than Zhou Fang, who "doesn't know the true face of Lushan", from the perspective of looking at the problem.
"Well......" Zhou Fang, who wanted to say something more, shut up directly after listening to Lu Yu's "opinion", and snorted, and after squinting and frowning and shaking his head for thirty or forty seconds, he said to Lu Yu again: "Yes, Shuwen, you are right, today is no longer the world of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Zhenzong, hey...... Although I am fifteen years older than you, you can see this more clearly than I do......"
"But ......" fiercely, after sighing Zhou Fang, pulled the topic back again, and persuaded Lu Yu in a serious voice: "A little more knowledgeable, it will be more helpful for your career in the future, so I guarantee that you and Ji Wen will enter the county to study, your age, it is time to establish contacts with our Shudi scholars, it is not okay to study stupidly at home, even if you are higher than the sky, if no one knows, it is just a brocade night walk, no one can see it......"
"What about the old master?" After listening to Zhou Fang's words, Lu Yu asked Zhou Fang with a little worry.
The old master Zhang mentioned in Lu Yu's mouth is the teacher that his father Lu Long invited from Zizhou City, and his full name is Zhang Quanzhi, the word Bowen.
This old master was also a prodigy when he was a child, and he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of ten, however, in the fifty years from the age of ten to sixty, the old master participated in dozens of county exams, but he was not admitted to the juren, so he was disheartened, completely gave up taking the exam, and devoted all his mind to writing books and sayings, and in less than ten years, he also became a great Confucian, but in terms of fame, he was still just a showman.
This year, Mr. Zhang is eighty-two years old, which is in the Song Dynasty, where the average age is only in his early thirties, it is simply longevity and heaven, and what is even more fierce is that Mr. Zhang is at this age, his eyes are not dazzled, his legs are not weak, his thinking is quick, and he speaks clearly.
"I also recommend Mr. Zhang to enter the county to learn to be a lecturer, and his old man also agreed, Shuwen, you also know that Mr. Zhang is very knowledgeable, but it is a bit of a waste to only be your Lu family's private school teacher......" Although the words are very righteous and righteous, Zhou Fang dug the corner of the wall to poach the teacher of the Lu family's private school, after all, what he did was a bit unauthentic, so Zhou Fang said half of what he said, and then shut up.
"Oh, Brother Zhou, it's good that you have some arrangements for the old master, but after all, the county school is in the mountains, and it is not close to our Taiping Town, I went to the county school, what should I do at home?" Lu Yu asked Zhou Fang with a little worry.
Because the county school is on a mountain called Wuyafeng in the north of Taiping Town, although it is not too far from Taiping Town, it is very time-consuming to go over the mountains and mountains, and in addition, the county school only allows one day off every ten days, so Lu Yu must have ten days to return home, and he has a family at home, and he has a family member in the past ten days, and he has been back and forth every ten days, and his family is ......
Although with the temperament of her daughter-in-law's chaste and fierce daughter, she will not go "out of the wall", but if others use force, it is difficult to say, for example, her own perverted second brother Lu Wu......
"Don't worry, I've arranged everything......" Zhou Fang, who saw what Lu Yu was worried about, comforted Lu Yu and said, "I'm ......"