At noon in the middle of summer in the fifth year of Yuanyou, Li Ji was about to go back to the office for dinner after answering students' questions after taking a formal logic class in the morning, when he suddenly saw an old farmer squatting on the steps up and down the stairs to nibble on steamed buns. "Old man, are you here to find your son? You can look for it in the dormitory, and the cafeteria can provide free meals to students' families. ”

"You're a teacher, aren't you? The old man is from Zhengqing Village, Shaanzhou, and he came to find my Erlang. Not long after he was admitted to this academy, something happened to his family. We couldn't make up our minds, so we came to the classroom to find him. When I entered the door, the guard at the gate said that I could go to this Mingzhe building to find him, I knew his schoolwork and brand, but I didn't see him come out of the building after waiting all morning. I wonder if Mr. Li can help? (Note 1)"

"Okay, what's your Erlang's name? What specialty? ”

"His name is Wang Qingyu, and he is a first-year freshman majoring in metaphysics." "I know, he's a student I teach, I asked a few students to help find him, and I saw him in the classroom in the morning. Don't know what's going on in your home? Running to him in such a hurry? "My family was originally a tenant, since Erlang was admitted to the academy, the third uncle of the family transferred fifty acres of land under his name to his name, and now he has to go to the county yamen to transfer the ownership and draw the mortgage." This is the most important thing, but I don't know where others have gone, and I am really anxious. ”

"That's right! Is your third uncle named Wang Yannian, who lives in Anrenfang, the county seat of Shaanxi County? "How does Professor Li know? The tuition fee of my family's Erlang is from the third uncle of the family. Fifty copper coins are enough for my family of eight to eat for 1 year. This bun is still brought by the family to eat, and what can't be discredited to Erlang. It's hard for the family to have a hope, if his classmates look down on him and bully him, I won't have the face to see him. ”

"Daddy Wang, don't worry, we've been out of class for a long time, and I'm going to have lunch too, anyway, I can always find Erlang today, you can go to eat with me first, and when I'm done, will you find Erlang Cheng together?"

"I'm sorry, I'm delaying Professor Li's meal, damn it, or I'll go to his dormitory and wait, I won't bother the professor."

"No, don't bother, I still have some things I want to ask Daddy Wang. Come with me to dinner! The private room where I rested was right in front. ”

"Then listen to the professor." Wang Laohan thought to himself that his family had paid a lot of money for tuition, and there should be no problem with eating one or two meals.

Li Ji returned to the rest room on the side of the office, and the food in the cafeteria had just been delivered, the standard of four dishes and one soup. However, the dishes are all high-end dishes specially made in the cafeteria. The soup is seaweed and egg soup, the meat is Dongpo meat, the sweet and sour loin, the dish is vegetarian braised tofu and shredded potatoes, and the fragrant tea and rice are delicious and the gods do not change. Li Ji served a good meal to Daddy Wang and began to eat.

"You're welcome, these are commonplace, I can't finish it every day, if you come today, if it's not enough, I'll go downstairs to buy a few steamed buns."

"This meal is so fragrant, the teacher invites me first, I'm not too hungry after eating steamed buns."

"Then I'll start eating!" Li Ji was unpretentious, picked up a piece of Dongpo meat, and put it in his mouth to chew. The fragrant tea and rice made Daddy Wang, who was used to eating pasta and coarse grains, feel his Adam's apple surge. Chopsticks waved over and the plate was empty.

"Daddy Wang, it tastes good."

"It's the most delicious meal I've ever had, it's so delicious, I wonder if this meal is from a celebrity chef."

"No, no, it's just a light meal that my cook has prepared and sent over. However, if this meal is eaten in Yushan Restaurant, it may cost five yuan. ”

"What? Just these four dishes and one soup will take five times? Is the chef of Yushan Restaurant making imperial meals? I know that this pork is a good dish invented by Su Xianggong, but it won't be sold so expensive? ”

"You don't know that my chef is the daughter of the proprietor of Dongping Shangshanfang, and she was specially sent to my house to cook, and she can learn a lot of cooking skills from me, a foodie. The Yushan Restaurant outside the academy was opened by his second brother. The Bianjing Food Square opened by the third child of their family has food boxes sent to the palace every month, which is half an imperial kitchen. It's hard to find my meal outside! ”

"How is this good? I can't afford to eat this expensive meal. ”

"It's okay, I've eaten everything. Didn't I invite you to eat? You Erlang is still my student, why are you so polite. Li Ji looked at the wall clock on the wall of the lounge, "Secretary Cao, is Secretary Cao here?" You go and inform the dormitory manager of Building No. 3 and ask him to inform Wang Qingyu to come to the office. ”

"Come, Daddy Wang will come to my office next door to talk, I have a few things I want to ask you."

Li Ji opened the side door and asked Daddy Wang to go to the office to talk.

"Professor Li, what is this?" Father Wang asked, pointing to the sofa.

"It's a sofa to sit on, you can sit down and try it. The surface is deerskin, and the inside is a wooden shelf and sponge" Daddy Wang was conquered by the comfort as soon as he sat down on the sofa, and he didn't feel hot on a hot day, the space of the entire teaching building was huge, each exterior wall was half a meter thick, and the internal space was warm in winter and cool in summer. Secretary Cao brought the soaked Biluochun and said, "Please use it slowly, Ling Lang is on his way here." Li Ji looked at the teacup, "Secretary Cao, you go to the archives and bring last year's Shaanzhou prospecting report." ”

"I don't know what Professor Li is going to ask? I know everything. "Are you a middle-class household?" How many sons and daughters do you have? ”

"It can only be regarded as a fourth-class household, with three sons and a little daughter."

"Has Da Lang married a wife?"

"No, it's still dragging, and the dowry hasn't been collected yet."

"Although Erlang can't get the Jinshi, he still has the ability to get a person to lift and release a magistrate. Presumably, the family is still thinking about making a living after three years! Da Lang inherits the family property, Erlang can become an official, and San Lang can also come to my academy to learn the art of making a living if he has spare energy! Don't worry. Li Ji thought to himself that the second child had passed the IQ test, and the IQ was as high as 125, and the brothers and sisters should be no less than ready to be recruited into the academy together to supplement the manpower gap.

"I know that Erlang's tuition in the academy is paid by Wang Yannian, the third uncle of his family, but this money is nothing to his family. He found a rich mine on the land he bought with this academy, I see, it is a small coal mine, and the coal and stone produced are all underwritten, he is very rich! It's not a big deal to sponsor a few children and nephews for their up-and-coming students. Ling Lang's studies are considered to be upstream, and he can be awarded a scholarship next month, which is enough for eight yuan. Coupled with the allowance for honors students and research projects, if you save money, you will have no problem supporting your family. ”

"Can my Erlang really get so much money? Reading has always been given money to teachers by students' families, so how can there be a reason for teachers to give money to students? ”

"Xuetian, isn't it just the offerings given by the imperial court to all over the world? As long as you are willing to study, it is the same as being admitted to a promising academy and a county school. Honor students always have preferential treatment, and this money is not given in vain, they have to contribute to the money, and they have to do many tasks, such as sorting out literature, writing articles, drawing drawings, doing a lot of projects, translating foreign books, and so on. We also encourage students to earn money that can only be obtained by using their brains. After Li Ji finished speaking, he asked about the situation of the Wang family, and after learning about it, he also felt that he was really lucky. Although not all of your family rents land, only 30 acres of 70 acres of land in your family are rented, but your family owes a lot of money, just last year's arrears of seeds and rations have more than three times, the old accounts of the early years have not been paid off, if there is a disaster year, it is not to sell land to pay off the debt? ”

"Yes, otherwise I would be in a hurry to come to the academy to find Erlang! If it goes well this time, my family will be able to live a good life. In a few years, when our son gets married, we can breathe a sigh of relief. ”

"You said that Wang Yannian, the third uncle of the family, sent Erlang fifty acres of land, and asked him to return to his hometown to transfer his ownership, what is the plan?"

"Their family is the most brilliant of the Wang family. When the old lady was still there, he didn't have much property, just the year before last, he suddenly developed, I don't know where to make money, I went back to my hometown to sell land and buy property, and bought more than 400 acres of fertile land and more than 1,500 acres of mountainous dry land in one go. Several of our relatives have been stained with a lot of light, and even the daughter-in-law is easy to speak. Many of the descendants of his sons and nephews have entered the mining business of Wang Yannian and Wang Daguanren, and the experience of going south and north can be regarded as promising. The family originally planned to send Erlang to his family's shop as an apprentice for a few years, so that he could save money to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. Unexpectedly, Erlang was angry and was admitted to the academy. ”

"I mean, how long did Erlang work in Wang Yannian's shop before he came in? He's only fourteen years old this year, so he's not in a hurry to marry a daughter-in-law, right? ”

"You've been doing it for three months, haven't you? I wanted to try it after reading the enrollment notices issued by the college to various places. I didn't expect that the test was not the content of the Thirteen Classics, and when he went back, he said that the test was simple arithmetic and what reasoning? ”

Note 1: Teachers, students and staff of each college were issued with a badge with their name and affiliation. The numbers indicate the time of enrollment and the corresponding number of the major to which you belong. The students have wooden plaques, and the instructors have metal plaques. The positions of university teachers opened by Chenji Group are divided into 13 levels. Professorships are divided into grades 1 to 7 and are senior titles, and gold badges are issued. Among them, the full professor positions include levels 1 to 4, and the associate professor positions include levels 5 to 7; Intermediate posts are issued with silver badges, which are divided into 3 levels, i.e. 8 to 10; There are 3 levels of copper distribution for junior posts, i.e. 11 to 13. According to the regulations, first-level professors can basically only meet the relevant evaluation standards by academicians, and academicians can only be evaluated with the consent of all members of the Academy of Sciences. The overall control goal of the national overall control goal is that the ratio between second, third and fourth level posts is 1:3:6; The ratio between the fifth, sixth and seventh levels is 2:4:4, the ratio between the eighth, ninth and tenth levels is 3:4:3, and the ratio between the eleventh and twelfth levels is 5:5.