On the first day of August, it is advisable to go to school and avoid seeking medical treatment and traveling.

Two donkey carts drove on the official road of Qingjiao Town one after the other, and the donkey carts were mainly used to pull goods, but today the boards of these two donkey carts were full of boys, eight were on the donkey cart in front, and seven were on the back cart, plus two middle-aged men driving a donkey cart, a group of seventeen people came all the way from Qixia Village and rushed to the Qingjiao Academy in the town, and Bai Meiqi was sitting on the donkey cart in front.

The two middle-aged men driving the car are the sons of the village chief of Qixia Village, and the donkey cart is also theirs, and there are a total of fifteen boys sitting in the car, the youngest is seven years old, and the oldest is eleven years old, among which three boys are freshmen who signed up for Qingjiao Academy like Bai Meiqi, but Bai Meiqi is one year older than the three of them, and the other boys are all students of Qingjiao Academy, with different grades.

There are very few girls in Qixia Village who go to Qingjiao Academy, most of them just study in the private school in the village for two years, just know a few words, in fact, the civilian cloth clothes are almost the same, only women from large families will go to this kind of formal college.

The distance from Qixia Village to Qingjiao Town is almost sixty miles, and the donkey cart is not fast, and it has been an hour's road since the start of Chenshi. The eldest son of the village chief was driving on the donkey cart in front, and then I heard him shout loudly: "Children, look, Qingjiao Town is about to arrive!"

The children were drowsy with their luggage, and the joy and laughter of a bunch of little boys huddled on the donkey cart had long been lost by the bumps along the way.

Bai Mei Qichang is so big or the first time to go out, it is inevitable to feel excited, although he is also tired of the bumps, but when he heard that it is almost there, he still hurriedly cheered up and looked sideways, and saw a tall three-room gatehouse, looking at the red pillars and green tiles, the eaves and beasts from a distance, which looked very magnificent.

Bai Meiqi knew that this was the gatehouse at the entrance of Qingjiao Town, and there was also a single gatehouse at the entrance of Qixia Village, which could not be compared with it.

Bai Meiqi is only an eight-year-old child in the end, the first time to see the gatehouse of such a building, it is difficult to hide his excitement, he pointed to the gatehouse from a distance with one hand, and tightly grasped the burden in his hand with the other, and shouted loudly: "Look at it! The gatehouse of Qingjiao Town is so big and beautiful!"

"There's something to see, it's not like I haven't seen it. A little fat man in the same car with Bai Meiqi muttered disdainfully, not even opening his eyes. This little fat man's name is Zhou Zhou, ten years old this year, a third-year student of Qingjiao Academy, how many times have he been in and out of the gatehouse of Qingjiao Town, of course, he can't be interested, and this donkey cart is too bumpy.

Bai Meiqi turned his head to look at the people in the car, and saw a little boy with an excited face, his little face was flushed, and he was turning his head to look at him and his small mouth moved, obviously because he was more excited to look at the gatehouse of Qingjiao Town, and he was about to discuss it with him when he heard Bai Meiqi shout, but he happened to be "poured a basin of cold water" on the little fat man Zhou Zhou in the same car, so he immediately stopped his mouth.

Boys want to save face, especially when their peers are disdainful, how can they be enthusiastic? And the other people in the car are just as disdainful as Zhou Zhou, they are also students of Qingjiao Academy.

Of course, this excited little boy Bai Meiqi knew, his name was Liu Nanfei, and he was the second son of Liu Orion's younger brother's family. Bai Meiqi smiled at him and said, "Really?" Liu Nanfei nodded in affirmation, his eyes flashing with joy.

After entering Qingjiao Town, there is still a long way to reach Qingjiao Academy, although the streets in the town are much wider and smoother than the official roads outside the town, but there are also a lot more people, and the donkey cart is much slower here. The lively street made Bai Meiqi, who was on the street for the first time, very happy, and all kinds of small vendors, facades, cars, horses, pedestrians, etc., were so busy that he and Liu Nanfei were dizzying.

The road was smooth, the bumps in the donkey cart were much better, the other children on the board were not groggy, and the donkey cart was "chirping" lively.

After driving for another half an hour, I finally arrived at Qingjiao Academy, and it was almost noon.

Qingjiao Academy is a quiet and elegant college, mainly composed of four rows of eight green bricks and blue tiles, cornices and corners of the building complex and a large playground. The tall courtyard wall on the periphery has white walls and green eaves, and the four big characters of "Qingjiao Academy" are written above the vermilion lacquer gate that opens to the east, and the font is thin and elegant.

Entering through the vermilion lacquer gate of the cave is a straight and open, long and hundred-foot bluestone passage, and the neat and lush trees on both sides are lush and green, which looks quiet and deep. At the end of the passage is an open field with a horizontal direction of 100 zhang and a vertical direction of 50 zhang, which is the large playground of the college.

This passage leading to the playground is the main road of the whole college, and there are eight branch roads leading to the north and south of the college, leading to the four rows of eight buildings on both sides, the four rows of four buildings on the left side of the passage are the south area of the college, and the four rows of four buildings on the right are the north area of the college.

After saying goodbye to the adults at the gate of the academy, the children and adults of Qixia Village entered together. Bai Meiqi and Liu Nanfei and the three freshmen went to the freshman registration office of the college under the guidance of Zhou Zhou and other older children, while Zhou Zhou and the others went to the classrooms where they were upgraded to one level respectively.

The new students of Qingjiao College are registered in the first building in the south area of the college, and the main building of the college has a total of 24 rooms in four rows and eight buildings, each of which is composed of a main house facing north and south and two wing rooms facing east and west.

Bai Meiqi and others walked on the bluestone in the quiet forest, followed the first branch road on the left side of the main road into the courtyard to the south, walked about forty zhang, and at the end was a long corridor running east-west, entered by a four-step small step. This promenade with blue columns and red eaves connects the four buildings in the southern district, as well as the construction specifications of the northern area of the college.

The new student registration office is located in the hall in the middle of the main room, the main room has a total of three, the main hall is also much larger than the rooms on both sides, this main room is usually the main office meeting place of the college teachers, and the east and west wings of this building are divided into four rooms are the dormitories of the teachers.

There is a large plaque hanging above the hall, on which the book "for the teacher table", the four characters are dignified and majestic, and below is a long offering table, which is used to worship the literati and sages. On the left and right sides of the hall are placed a row of rosewood chairs, neatly lined up.

At this time, there were not many new students in the hall, and even the four of Bai Meiqi and his party were only seven people together, and everyone was standing in line in front of a slender old gentleman in his fifties. The old gentleman was holding a folding fan in his hand, sitting on a chair near the bottom of the plaque, squinting his eyes and shaking his head slightly, listening intently to the reading of a new student in front of him, who was reading the book that the old gentleman had given him for the assessment.

There is no difficulty in the freshman assessment, and you can basically pass it, but it is a bit time-consuming. After Bai Meiqi successfully passed, he went to the next room to sign up under the instructions of this old gentleman, that is, to pay the money. Bai Meiqi came to the next room, where there were two teachers, each sitting at a table and chair, on the table pen, ink, paper and inkstone were used to register new students, and each had a vermilion wooden box to collect money.

The teaching fee of Qingjiao Academy is three silver coins each year, the accommodation fee is one silver and thirty copper coins, and the food fee is two silver and eighty bronze coins, and the total tuition fee is seven silver and ten copper. Qingjiao Town belongs to the border sea town, the cost of the college is quite cheap, if according to the number of days in the hospital, the accommodation fee is only five small dollars per person per day, that is, half a copper coin, and the food fee is only a copper coin a day, although the accommodation conditions are average.

Bai Meiqi stood in front of a teacher's desk, grabbed the burden in his hand tightly, and whispered a little shyly: "First ...... Sir, can I take care of my own food?" he has already registered, and he only needs to pay the fee to officially become a student here.

Of course, Bai Meiqi had already figured out the cost with his grandfather in the village when he came to school, and he also knew that Qingjiao Academy could choose to take care of his own education, and he was not the only child from a poor family. Self-care is not the standard configuration of the canteen, and buy the cheapest food to wrap your stomach.

"Of course, then your tuition fee is four silver and thirty bronze. The teacher smiled slightly and said kindly.

Bai Meiqi opened the baggage on the table, in addition to the clothes there was a small package, and when he opened the package, there were four silver coins and a bunch of copper coins and small coins, which added up to less than five silver. When he set off from home in the morning, his grandfather asked him to bring a little more, but he didn't take it, and the family's money was counted even in a stack of ten piles of small money, only six silver and forty-six copper, and finally four more small coins.

After paying the tuition, Bai Meiqi continued to wrap the remaining fifty-eight copper coins and thirty small coins in cloth, and carried them on his shoulders in his baggage. Bai Meiqi and Liu Nanfei said goodbye to the teacher together and went to the dormitory of the freshmen according to the teacher's instructions.

Grandpa Bai Tiao'er believed every word he thought the fairy in his dream said, but Bai Meiqi was skeptical, although he believed that his grandfather would never lie to him.

Bai Meiqi thought that he had to buy a futon with the pitiful money on his body, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and said secretly: "What a bullshit royal family! Dream fairy, you should have at least left something valuable! You can't just leave a token of gold, making it so difficult for you to even go to an ordinary academy, and even making your grandfather so hard! Hehe, if you really have some important royal bloodline, you will definitely be the poorest and most ridiculous royal family in history." ”

Extra-book

Bai Meiqi: Do I have to be so poor?

Thirty Thousand Miles in the Desert (nodding frantically): Hmm......

White Charm (Contemptuous Eye): ......