"Yan Qing, have you finished reading Lord Fang's book? I have some questions that I would like to discuss with you. Chen Zhi passed by the courtyard and saw Xie Yanqing, who was sitting on the stone table reading, and suddenly stopped.

The college exam was coming soon, and he was always a little nervous in his heart, so he had been looking for someone to study Master Fang's books with him recently, hoping to find Lord Fang's bias in it, so that he could speculate on the first and second college exam questions.

"I'm sorry, Brother Chen, the junior brother hasn't bought Lord Fang's book, so I shouldn't be able to discuss the problem with you." Xie Yanqing smiled bitterly.

After listening to Xie Yanqing's words, Chen Zhi was stunned, as a candidate who was about to take the college exam, he didn't even read the book written by Master Fang?

It's no wonder that Chen Zhi was too surprised, because in late May, I don't know where a news came out that half of the questions in their college exam were from Master Fang Yuxuan Fang. Therefore, the students went crazy in an instant, and everyone bought the books produced by Master Fang Yuxuan, wanting to understand Lord Fang's preferences through the books written by Lord Fang Yuxuan, so as to spy on the direction of the test questions, which also led to the fact that it is difficult to find a book written by Lord Fang Yuxuan in the provincial capital now.

Of course, there is no Xie Yanqing among these crazy students, it's not that Xie Yanqing is too rational, but since the news came out, the price of the books written by Master Fang Yuxuan has doubled, and they are often bought out. Although Xie Yanqing had the heart to buy a few books to read, but the price of books was so expensive and so rare, Xie Yanqing, who had neither the financial resources nor the ability, could only sigh with hope.

Fang Yuxuan is a fourth-grade official, and he is currently the secretary of the Guozijian Division, and he is a very famous Confucian, but he has written very few books, only a few, so this half a month is enough time for candidates to carefully study the book written by Master Fang Yuxuan, and now the students almost discuss Lord Fang's book.

It took a long time for Chen Zhi to react, the Xie family was just an ordinary Zhuang family, and the family should not have any savings, and now that Lord Fang's books are sold at such an expensive price, Xie Yanqing should not be able to afford them.

The children of poor families are in charge of the family early, and Xie Yanqing should have been studying hard because of his poor family background, so he was able to pass the government examination at the age of ten. Thinking of this, Chen Zhi instantly felt a trace of pity for Xie Yanqing, although his family background was not rich and expensive, but he had never been wronged in terms of using money since he was a child, and he never seemed to have the experience of wanting things but not being able to buy them.

"Yan Qing, Lord Fang's book is worth a look, you shouldn't miss it. Well, I'll lend you the books I bought, and I'm basically done with them anyway, but you have to hurry up. Chen Zhi thought for a while and said to Xie Yanqing. It's easy to put the icing on the cake, it's hard to send charcoal in the snow, this time I'll give Xie Yanqing a favor, Xie Yanqing is still worth making friends.

"Brother Chen, that's so thankful." Xie Yanqing was very surprised, he was not too familiar with Chen Zhi, he didn't expect Chen Zhi to lend him the book so generously.

As for saying that they have lived in the same courtyard for half a month, why is their friendship not deep? Because although they live in the same courtyard, almost everyone shuts themselves in the house all day to study, except for meal time, and rarely goes out of the house. So Xie Yanqing and Chen Zhi really haven't been in contact a few times since they came to the provincial capital, and their friendship is just a few words on the way to the provincial capital.

Chen Zhi's approach made Xie Yanqing very grateful, you must know that in ancient times, it was very troublesome to borrow books between classmates, let alone a friendship like theirs. Because every book in ancient times was precious, many people were reluctant to lend the books they bought at a large price to others for free.

Xie Yanqing couldn't wait to read the book after he got it, but then he couldn't help but wail in his heart. This Master Fang is not the kind of old-fashioned Confucian master, who only pays attention to the aspects of strategy, poetry, and articles, but is also very interested in arithmetic, and does not reject this kind of arithmetic that is regarded by most literati as a small way at all.

It seems that this college exam should be very difficult for him, Xie Yanqing couldn't help but think about it. However, Xie Yanqing is not discouraged, he has been studying books on arithmetic recently, and now he feels that arithmetic has made great progress, and he believes that he will definitely become a talent this time.