Zhou Zhaoxia didn't believe that the newcomer Confucian boy Zhang Yuan dared to call him "surnamed Zhou", pulled Li Zhu's ear, and shouted: "Dare to talk nonsense, stretch out your hand, ten precepts." "If you touch the bamboo ring ruler on the bookcase with your backhand, you will beat Li Zhu.

Li Zhu burst into tears: "He really said it, said that your surname is Zhou, and you sleep a lot during the day, woo woo-"

Zhou Zhaoxia slowly turned his head, stared at Zhang Yuan, and asked, "Did you really say it?" ”

Zhang Yuan stood there and replied, "Seriously." ”

Zhou Zhaoxia didn't expect Zhang Yuan to answer like this, he thought that Zhang Yuan would deny or quibble, so he didn't react for a while, and was stunned for a while, and then like a firecracker, he jumped three feet high, roaring like thunder: "You dare, you really dare, you don't respect the teacher, the teacher will teach you a good lesson for your parents today." He rushed up with a wave of the ring ruler.

"Zhou Zhaoxia!" Zhang Yuan reached out and grabbed the bench, raised it above his head, and shouted, "You dare to beat me and try it." ”

Zhou Zhaoxia was stunned, and the dozen or so Confucian children in the school were all stupid, he had seen naughty students, but he had never seen someone as arrogant as Zhang Yuan, calling Mengshi's name, and daring to hold a bench to fight with Mengshi!

It seemed that this person really dared to smash it, Zhou Zhaoxia didn't dare to rush over, seven or eight steps away from Zhang Yuan, and pointed at Zhang Yuan's head with a ring ruler and said: "Okay, great, unprecedented, it's really unprecedented to have such a student, you scum who has no teacher, you must be a rebel at home, and a chaotic minister in the court." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a look of disdain: "What kind of person I am I don't need to be evaluated by you, and it is not your turn to evaluate, you are not my teacher, give me back the gift, are you worthy of being a teacher, playing horses and hanging at night, listless in vain, sleeping in the school, you are not mistaken What is the child!" If you dare to hit me, you try it when you come close, and I promise to go down the bench and make your head bloom. ”

Zhou Zhaoxia's white face turned the color of pig liver, and he sneered: "Why didn't I teach you, didn't I let you read the "Three Character Classic", you are still reading the "beginning of the people" You have a good face, I am embarrassed to teach you, so let you ask your classmates if you don't understand, do you want the teacher to teach you to read and write!" ”

It is not interesting to theorize with this kind of person at all, Zhang Yuan said: "Return the gift to me, you are not my teacher." ”

Zhou Zhaoxia said: "Okay, I don't have a student like you. Walked to the adjacent room and threw the basket containing vegetables, meat and rice cakes sent by Zhang Yuan to Zhang Yuan's feet, "bang" and "pop" twice, the basket fell to the ground, the wine jug was broken, and the fragrance of wine overflowed in the high and open school.

Zhang Yuan kicked the basket that rolled to his feet, and said: "You broke my wine jug and basket, and the vegetables were also broken, you have to compensate, I spent two dollars of silver for these gifts in the morning, and I will never give up with you if you don't compensate me for two dollars of silver." ”

It's not that it's a matter of care, but that such unscrupulous teachers must be punished.

Zhou Zhaoxia understood that he had met a rogue student today, and said repeatedly: "Okay, I'll compensate you." He fumbled for a small piece of broken silver at the bottom of his sleeve, put it on the bookcase, and said: "I will complain to the county lord about your behavior of deceiving the teacher and destroying the ceremony, and you will not want to read any social studies in the future." ”

Zhang Yuan suddenly laughed, thinking to himself what kind of anger he was fighting with such a mediocre person, we are Sven people, how can we fight on the bench, put down the bench, sat down and said: "Don't talk about the teacher, the teacher, you can't be my teacher, so let's do it, I have a history to ask questions, if you can distinguish me, I will follow you to the Hou County Order to be beaten and punished, if you can't distinguish me, it is better to hurry up and don't mislead people here." ”

Zhou Zhaoxia sneered: "I don't even know how many people are in the Ming Dynasty, and they dare to test me!" Then he said, "Okay, you ask, all the four books and five classics, just ask." "If you can be admitted to Xiucai, these books are always familiar.

Zhang Yuandao: "Listen to it - the "Book of Filial Piety" cloud 'stand up and do the way, make a name for yourself in the future generations, in order to show your parents, and the end of filial piety', what kind of way is this standing and doing the way? ”

Zhou Zhaoxia was taken aback, Zhang Yuan, this kid can ask this question, it doesn't seem like a person who can't even read the "Three Character Classic", and replied: "What's so difficult about this, of course this is the way of the master." ”

"What is the way of the Master?"

"It's the way of the king."

"What is the way of the ancestors?"

"That is, it is courtesy, righteousness and shame."

Zhang Yuan smiled: "Do you also know shame? I tell you, the "Book of Filial Piety" is the way of the university, the university is close to the people, stop at the best, no matter what the way, first from the standing, the so-called body of the husband, will be affiliated with the country and the world and then become one, such as filial piety, then will be the old and the old people, the world is filial piety and filial piety, such as the words, then will be long and the length of the people, the world is the beginning of the world, my body, and all things in the world are one, take care of their own place, is to take care of all things in the world, so stand up and do the way, the first thing is to use the usual, you are a social science teacher, Lazy and irritable, he doesn't teach all students to learn but falls asleep, and he also orders all students to read silently, and reading aloud will make you dream of spring and autumn, right? ”

Suddenly, he heard someone laughing "hehe" outside the door of the school, Zhang Yuan immediately heard who the person was, and he would not forget the voice he had heard it once now.

With the sound of boots, the man walked into the academy with two attendants behind him.

When Zhou Zhaoxia saw this person, his face immediately turned red, and he stammered: "The waiter has seen the county lord." ”

It was Hou Zhihan of Shanyin County who came, today it is Xiu Mu said, do not sit in the hall, remember that the teacher of social science here Zeng Youyuan has returned to his hometown, the newly hired student Zhou Zhaoxia does not know how to teach, so he came to see, just walked to the porch and heard someone in the school arguing about the way to stand up, so he stopped to listen, and heard that one person was the teacher Zhou Zhaoxia, and the voice of another young man was very familiar, at first I didn't recognize who it was, and then I remembered that it was Zhang Yuan's voice-

Hou Zhihan couldn't help laughing, at the night banquet of the county office before, Zhang Yuan was gentle and elegant, witty and funny, but he didn't expect to be so aggressive today, and Zhou Zhaoxia was too unorthodox to sleep by himself when he was teaching!

Zhang Yuan bowed down and said, "The student meets the county lord." ”

Hou Zhihan nodded to Zhang Yuan and praised: "Zhang Yuan, the way of standing up in the Book of Filial Piety that you just said is very good, and it should be like this, if the county wants to reward you, it will exempt you from three years of servitude." ”

Only Xiucai students can be exempted from taxes and forced labor, Hou Zhihan This is equivalent to giving Zhang Yuan Xiucai the privilege, in Hou Zhihan's view, with Zhang Yuan's talent, it is a matter of time before he is a student, and he is the first to show his grace.

After rewarding Zhang Yuan, Hou Zhihan looked coldly at Zhou Zhaoxia who was sweating on his forehead, and then looked at the sparse Confucian children in the school, frowned and asked, "Why are there only so many students, where have all the people gone?" ”

Zhou Zhaoxia said: "Yu County, because of the hot weather, some Confucian children take leave to study at home. ”

"It's hot?" Hou Zhihan sneered: "When is this, it's almost August, I don't think it's because of the hot weather, but because you have abandoned teaching, so that the studious Confucian children don't come, only some naughty children and foolish ones are left, and I just like you to sleep and ignore them." ”

Zhou Zhaoxia wiped a handful of sweat with his sleeve, and argued weakly: "Lord County, please listen to the waiter's defense-"

Hou Zhihan didn't want to listen to his defense, looked at the fragments of the wine pot and the bamboo basket on the ground, and the vegetables and meat in the basket turned out, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Zhou Zhaoxia seemed to have caught life-saving grass from drowning, and hurriedly said: "The county respects the waiter, this Zhang Yuanmu has no teacher, and he actually picks up the bench to smash the waiter-"

Hou Zhihan looked at Zhang Yuan standing on the side, his temperament was calm and elegant, and he was not in a hurry to listen to Zhou Zhaoxia's accusation in person, does this seem to be a person who moves rough on the bench?

Hou Zhihan smiled and asked Zhou Zhaoxia: "Are you sleeping in the day?" ”

Zhou Zhaoxia hadn't even worn a headscarf yet, and he knew that he couldn't hide his sleep, so he lowered his head and said, "The waiter read until late at night last night, and he occasionally felt sleepy, so he wanted to take a nap——"

"Okay, okay, don't talk so much." Hou Zhihan's face showed disgust, and he interrupted: "Who knocked over this bamboo basket, where is the wine jug, what's the matter?" ”

Zhou Zhaoxia didn't know how to answer.

Hou Zhihan snorted coldly: "Zhou Zhaoxia, if this county doesn't come to inspect today, this social science will be abolished by you, you can't do it, and your life will be lowered." ”

The students are also divided into grades, the first class is the students, who are not only exempted from forced labor, but also have money and food every month, and the second class is the expansion of students, who have no money and food.

Zhou Zhaoxia's face was as gray as death.