Chapter 5 [Apprenticeship]

It was nearly noon, Yao Zheng naturally asked people to clean up the real bream sent by the scalper, and when he went to the dining room to eat, the scalper's aunt and two aunts also came out to accompany him, as for the bream steamed with ginger shreds, Yao Zheng politely sandwiched a piece of the scalper, and he made the rest of the whole food alone.

After eating, the aunt took a tape measure to measure the scalper's body, and then worked with the two aunts to handle the needle and thread, and changed a few sets of Yao Zheng's old clothes to him and him. Yao Zheng himself also took out a piece of jade pendant and a piece of Zhaowen bag and said to the scalper: "When I was on duty yesterday, my uncle went to the Zhang Jiahong Literature Museum and walked for a while, Zhang Fuzi sold a few thin noodles, and today I will go with me to recognize the teacher!" ”

The scalper was surprised and delighted to hear it, Zhangjia's Hongwen Museum is the number one Mengxue in Huangzhou City, and there are nearly 100 children and teenagers studying in the house, and they are all children of wealthy families in the city, and the scalper never dared to imagine that he could go to school in the Hongwen Museum.

Yao Zheng saw that the scalper was surprised and happy, so he was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "If you go to recognize the teacher today, you will naturally have to take the school exam, but you have to fight for your uncle!" ”

"Don't dare to let my uncle lose face!" The scalper immediately suppressed the excitement in his heart, shook his sleeves and saluted and replied.

The aunts and aunts are not slow to do their work, but they change a cyan Confucian shirt to the scalper in a moment, which is actually because the scalper is strong and tall, and the twelve or thirteen-year-old child is already close to five feet tall, much shorter than the uncle, and the clothes are naturally changed quickly.

Then the aunt personally retied the scalper's hair, tied a headscarf, tied the jade pendant and the Zhaowen bag given by Yao Zheng to her waist, looked left and right, and said with a smile: "Hey! What a sturdy reader! ”

The scalper was embarrassed by what he said, but he also knew that his maternal uncle was not making fun of him, and that he was indeed stronger than others, so he replied: "Uncle, my father said that it is my old Huang family's good seed!" ”

When my aunt and two aunts heard this, they all covered their mouths and laughed, and hurriedly said that this was also a reason. The ancestor of the old Huang family is said to be from Guanlong, with a bit of Hu blood, and his physique is naturally different from that of the Han people in the south.

Then Yao Zheng led the scalper to the Hongwen Museum.

Hongwen Museum is located in the north of Huangzhou City, adjacent to the Huangzhou Mansion, which was first donated by the Zhang family who was the governor of Huangzhou during the time of Song Taizu, and then passed down to the present. In the school hall, it is said that there are 12 Mr. Master, all of whom are well-known Mongolian masters near Huangzhou, and in addition to the reputation of the Hongwen Museum, there is a faint reputation of folk official learning, and the starting price of Mr. Shu's bundle is naturally expensive, so this place has never been a place where poor students have the courage to peep.

Today is a holiday, the school is also a holiday, Yao Zhengzhi is familiar with the way to lead the scalper into the school, straight to a flower hall, after the next person passed on, soon there was a gray-haired, gray-bearded old master came.

Yao Zheng saw it, led the scalper to get up to greet him, and after a brief greeting, Yao Zheng said: "Huang Jie, I haven't seen Zhang Sizhi yet, Old Master Zhang." ”

The scalper immediately bowed down and bowed down, claiming that he had seen the Master.

"Get up! Get up! You can teach! Old Master Zhang got up to help, but he stroked his beard and smiled: "Huang Jie, good name!" ”

After the master and Yao Zheng sat down again, Old Master Zhang looked at the scalper standing in the hall and said, "I heard that Uncle Ling said that you have practiced in the Taoist Gate, do you dare to let the old man take the school entrance examination?" ”

The scalper immediately crossed his hands and saluted: "Please also ask the master to ask the question!" ”

Mr. Zhang was not polite, and immediately followed the shape of the scriptures, according to the four books and five classics, he gave the scalper a lot of fill-in-the-blank questions, and the scalper naturally answered like a stream, and after the examination, Mr. Zhang also nodded again and again, and finally asked: "Not bad!" But I don't know if I have ever studied arithmetic in the Daomen? ”

"Practiced!" The scalper answered nearly 30 questions just now, without any mistakes or omissions, and replied with a smug face.

Old Master Zhang asked: "Okay! There is a cage with chickens and rabbits in it, with fifty-two heads on it and one hundred and thirty-six feet under it. ”

After speaking, Old Master Zhang stretched out his hand to stroke his beard, and secretly began to count, who knew that he had only counted to three, and the scalper opened his mouth and replied: "Thirty-six chickens, sixteen rabbits." ”

Not to mention that Old Master Zhang was petrified on the spot, even Yao Zheng was stunned, because he hadn't even figured out this problem. Old Master Zhang's hand shook, and he actually tore off a few long beards, but he asked urgently: "How to solve it?" ”

The ox replied: "Tie the feet of the chicken and rabbit with a rope, and fifty-two heads are one hundred and four legs, and the remaining thirty-two feet are tied to it, and you will get sixteen rabbits." ”

This kind of solution, Master Zhang naturally knew, although he was surprised that the scalper calculated so quickly, but he did not give up and said: "I have 14 quintals of salt, 6 quintals of pepper, and 15 quintals of wheat, and I will exchange them for rice in seven ox carts." One quintal of salt can be exchanged for 16 quintals of rice, one quintal of pepper can be exchanged for 27 quintals of rice, and one quintal of wheat can be exchanged for three quintals of rice. ”

The scalper didn't wait for Old Master Zhang to time, so he replied: "Fourteen quintals of salt can be exchanged for two hundred and twenty-four quintals of rice, six quintals of pepper can be exchanged for one hundred and sixty-two quintals of rice, fifteen quintals of wheat can be exchanged for forty-five quintals of rice, and a total of thirty-five quintals of salt, pepper, and wheat are seven quintals, and each cart can carry five quintals." A total of 431 quintals of rice were exchanged, and more than 1 quintal of 86 cartloads had to be transported. ”

At this moment, Old Master Zhang and Yao Zheng were speechless. Especially the old master Zhang, this second question is completely made up, and he hasn't calculated it yet, but he doesn't want to directly let the scalper open his mouth to solve it, and he was immediately surprised, and couldn't help but wonder: "Huang Jie, can you tell the old man the name of your master?" ”

Hearing this, the scalper thought for a while, crossed his hands and saluted: "Don't dare to deceive the master, the master has explained, I have not officially entered the cultivation, so I can't tell the name of the master to others." ”

"So, it makes sense!" Old Master Zhang immediately looked clear, thinking about his question, he has been a master for almost 30 years, and there are many children who can answer the first question in the same cage, but the scalper is the fastest. As for the second question, it was deliberately embarrassing, but the scalper was quickly solved, and the Taoist master who thought of this scalper must be a strange man.

Immediately, Old Master Zhang high-fived and smiled: "Okay! Such a good apprentice, how can he be turned away, the old man just lacks a closed disciple, it is really a godsend for me! ”

Yao Zheng was also overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said to the scalper: "Jie'er, I haven't thanked the master yet!" ”

This disciple and the closed disciple are naturally two concepts and two treatments, I heard that Old Master Zhang actually wanted to accept himself as a closed disciple directly, and the scalper was also overjoyed, and immediately bowed down.

Old Master Zhang stroked his beard and laughed, but looked at Yao Zheng and said, "On the sixth day of the next lunar month, how is Mingxiu Building?" ”

Yao Zheng hurriedly got up and said, "Dare not obey your fate!" ”

This acceptance of closed disciples is naturally different from accepting ordinary disciples, ordinary disciples enter the school, as long as they pass the exam, they will be sent to the bundle, but the closed disciples are to set up a banquet, so the meaning of Old Master Zhang's words just now is to give the day and the place of the banquet.

Immediately, the old master Zhang exchanged for the subordinate, and after explaining a few words, the subordinate took out a bookcase, opened it and saw that it was a set of stereotyped printed four books and five classics, as well as a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, this is the official meeting gift given by the old master Zhang.

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