Who is this Mr. Hunchback? He is the chief teacher of the academy, Wang Luqi, who has been teaching and studying in the academy for decades, and there are many people who have served as officials in the court.

On weekdays, the officials in Shuzhou City treated him politely when they saw him, but today they were ridiculed by Xu Mingyuan in front of the students, and they were naturally angry in their hearts.

Originally, he wanted to humiliate Xu Mingyuan for coming to Ying Zeng Kuan, but he didn't want to be pecked in the eyes by Xu Mingyuan, a shabby-looking little Taoist priest who had not been to the academy for a day.

But after all, it was an old fox, just taking a few deep breaths, Wang Luqi regained his calm, and said to Xu Mingyuan with a calm face: "The academy does not have this rule, but it is the tradition of the academy for students to wear college uniforms, and I will not punish you if you first arrived today." But you remember, the academy is not your own backyard, yellow-mouthed children, sharp teeth, if you don't have some real talent and real learning, you can't pass the monthly class of the academy, and then you will inevitably be dismissed. ”

"This old fox's qi cultivation kung fu is not bad, but compared to the master, it is still different from the mud, it seems that you have to beware of him stumbling in the future." Xu Mingyuan thought so in his heart, but said with a sincere face: "Carefully follow Mr.'s teachings, students will definitely study hard and dare not live up to Mr.'s high expectations." ”

"Go down and sit." Wang Luqi waved his hand.

Xu Mingyuan saluted again, the big and small foxes glanced at each other, Wang Luqi's eyes were full of disdain, and Xu Mingyuan's eyes were as calm as water. Xu Mingyuan directly ignored Zeng Qingyi's various eyes and walked straight to the back row.

After the lecture hall was quiet because of Xu Mingyuan's sharpness, it was a little noisy because of Wang Luqi's words.

"Sir, won't he be soft, won't he admit that what Xu Mingyuan said before is right?" A horse-faced disciple whispered, looking incredulous.

The sturdy student next to him said with some disdain: "What do you know, Mr. is just giving face to the dean, that kid is just articulate, and when the time comes, he can't meet the monthly class, just wait to see him removed from the academy." ”

"Oh, isn't what he said exactly what Mr. used to teach, so a fool can't hear it." At this time, a student sitting behind them with an ebony hairpin on his head and a grim face sneered.

The faces of the two of them changed before speaking, and the sturdy student's face turned even redder, but when he turned his head to see that cold face, he was deflated, looked down at the book on the table, clenched his fists and didn't dare to say a word.

Xu Mingyuan happened to walk beside the three of them, and when he heard the words of the cold-faced scholar, he immediately became a confidant. Looking at the sound, the person's face was like a crown of jade, with sharp edges and corners, although he was also wearing a blue and white hospital uniform, he showed a dusty temperament. It's just that his face is a little cold, and he rejects people thousands of miles away.

Xu Mingyuan is not an ordinary person, if it weren't for the old fox behind him still staring, he would have to sit down and talk about life and ideals with the cold-faced scholar.

Xu Mingyuan showed a big smile at the cold-faced scholar, and squeezed his eyebrows, as if he had seen a friend he had known for a long time.

The cold-faced scholar was stunned for a moment, obviously a little uncomfortable with Xu Mingyuan's actions, he barely pulled up the corners of his mouth, and smiled back a little stiffly. However, the students sitting next to him saw that the corners of Yang's mouth were slightly raised, and their faces were a little strange, and looking at Xu Mingyuan's gaze was even more complicated.

"Bai Molou, what you said is a little too much." At this moment, the handsome scholar with a white hosta inserted in his hair on the right side of the cold-faced scholar spoke, his voice slightly soft.

"Passed? Wang Ziqi, they are stupid, and you are stupid too? Could it be that there are still sequelae of being rejected by a woman? The cold-faced scholar Bai Molou sneered at the corner of his mouth, squinted at the handsome scholar and said.

"You!" Huo Ran, a handsome scholar known as Wang Ziqi, got up, and his slightly feminine face turned red.

"Okay, give me all the silence!" At this moment, the ring ruler in Wang Luqi's hand slapped it on the table and said in a deep voice.

The ring ruler in Wang Luqi's hand was never merciless, and the lecture hall immediately quieted down, and Wang Ziqi also sat down angrily, his eyes swept coldly over Xu Mingyuan and Bai Molou.

Xu Mingyuan, who had already stopped to watch a good show, couldn't help but be a little disappointed, he glanced at Wang Ziqi with some pity, and then at the white ink building, feeling that this cold-faced scholar really had an appetite for himself. A cold face with a poisonous tongue is simply not too funny.

The lecture hall quieted down, Xu Mingyuan also hurriedly walked towards the back row, and a fat man sitting in the last row raised his hand at him excitedly.

Xu Mingyuan also recognized that this fat man was the fat man he had seen before, and now he was sitting in the last row, but no one sat on his left and right sides and in front of him, which made him even more huge and abrupt.

"It seems that this fat man is either excluded by others, otherwise it is not simple, looking at the jade pendant on his waist should be worth a lot of silver, he should be a master who is not short of money." Xu Mingyuan thought to himself in his heart, he had a good impression of this fat man, so he smiled and sat down on his left hand side.

This fat man is quite big, it looks like he is more than two hundred pounds, he sits with his legs open like a mountain of meat, and there is a simple smile on his round face, which makes Xu Mingyuan think of the white fat cat that was raised in the temple back then.

Wang Luqi just let everyone be quiet, and the two of them didn't dare to touch this moldy head immediately, so after looking at each other and smiling, they sat upright and showed that they were listening carefully.

After everyone quieted down, Wang Luqi also began to lecture. The subject of "Rites" is the most important subject in the College, and it can be said that the words and deeds of the students of the College are all run through it with the word "Rites". Therefore, Wang Luqi, who is in charge of this subject, is only under the dean Zeng Kuan in the college, and he is full of prestige among the students, and there are many protégés.

Xu Mingyuan raised his head and listened for a while before yawning, and the fat man sitting next to him was already confused, swaying back and forth, making him a little worried about whether this mountain of meat would suddenly collapse.

Today's talk is about Zhou Li, Xu Mingyuan has never listened to a class in the academy, but he really can't afford to have much desire to absorb knowledge, and he has long been familiar with the Confucian classics such as poetry, books, rites, and Spring and Autumn Period. Although his master is lazy, he likes to take him everywhere, and he met many strange old men along the way, and he taught him a lot more vivid and interesting than Wang Luqi.

As for etiquette, as Xu Mingyuan said before, he believes that it is more important to the heart, and it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions. You must know that in addition to the scholars, those peddlers and pawns, and a few ordinary people can really dress properly at all times, and the delicate and pretentious method cannot be exchanged for food in the market.

Wang Luqi is worthy of being an old gentleman with decades of teaching experience, and the simple explanation quickly made the students understand the meaning, and after a short pause, it was for the students to ask their own questions, and then he came to answer the questions.

Soon a small student raised suspicions, seeing that he was estimated to be less than fifteen years old, his eyebrows and eyes had not yet grown, and he was a little immature, he should be the youngest in the hall, but from the eyes of everyone looking at him, it could be seen that this young man should not be simple. Xu Mingyuan listened to his question, and immediately looked at him with admiration, he asked whether to take etiquette or righteousness when propriety and righteousness are opposed?

This question was asked by the nine-year-old Xu Mingyuan on a mountain in the south of the Yangtze River with a white-eyed old man, the old man took his little hand and talked all night with the oil lamp, and Xu Mingyuan was not happy to fall asleep, and the next day he asked Xu Mingyuan with an expectant look on his face Did he understand, but fortunately Xu Mingyuan saw that his eyes were good, and he nodded again and again, and the old man let them go down the mountain.

When Wang Luqi heard this question, he sat up a little straighter, frowned slightly, and muttered for a while before he began to explain. Xu Mingyuan listened to it for a while, but he was just reading from the script, and he felt that it was really not interesting, and it was much more boring than what the white-eyed old Taoist said back then.

He turned his head and saw that the fat man next to him was about to fall backwards, so he quickly reached out to help him on the back, patted him on the shoulder by the way, and woke him up.

"Huh? Dinner so soon? The fat man opened his eyes and said in a daze, sucking the saliva that had already flowed to the corners of his mouth, and smacking his lips, probably dreaming of something delicious in his dream.

"No, it's still early." Xu Mingyuan was afraid that he would get up and go to dinner, so he hurriedly pulled the corner of his clothes and said softly.

The fat man glanced at Wang Luqi, who was talking about it in front of him, and the students who were listening carefully and nodding frequently, and they also reacted, turned his head and smiled at Xu Mingyuan honestly, and said in a suppressed voice: "Brother Yuan, I thought you asked me to eat." ”

Xu Mingyuan glanced at Wang Luqi, who didn't have time to pay attention to their corner at all, so he leaned his head over a little and said with a smile: "I don't know what you call it yet?" This Brother Yuan made Xu Mingyuan very useful.

"My name is Zhou Binjie, of course, Brother Yuan, it's good if you call me Xiaobai." The fat man laughed.

"Xiaobai?" Xu Mingyuan's eyes widened, swallowed his saliva, and said seriously: "I'll still call you Chubby, it's quite kind, what do you say?" ”

"Everyone else calls me a smiling tiger, why did you and the female devil change their ......" Zhou Binjie muttered softly.

But before he could continue muttering, Xu Mingyuan had already waved his hand to interrupt him and continue to complain, pointing to the young man who asked the question before and asking, "Little Fatty, who is that young man?" has a little bit of a brother's demeanor, look at his age. ”

"He, he is Zheng Zhi, a genius boy from our academy, who is fourteen years old this year, I heard that he is going to participate in this year's Autumn Festival, if he can be on the list, he will really become famous in one fell swoop. His poetry is praised by the dean as full of aura, and he is quite famous in the academy, and is known as a prodigy. Zhou Binjie looked at Xu Mingyuan's hand, said with some envy, turned his head and saw Xu Mingyuan's slightly frowning brows, and hurriedly said with some flattery: "Of course, compared with Brother Yuan, it is nothing." ”

Xu Mingyuan smiled and nodded to accept Zhou Binjie's sycophancy, and laughed: "Really straight? Our dean's name is Zeng Kuan, and the two of them should cherish each other. ”

It's not that Xu Mingyuan can't see the good of others, in fact, he is thinking about which category he should belong to, if this Zheng Zhi can be called a genius prodigy, then what should he be Xu Mingyuan suddenly felt a little worried.