Chapter 198: Beaten in vain
Wei Changan has no permanence, Wei Yining casually interrupted him, and fooled him over.
The Feng family brothers have been closed for a while, he has been there a few times, and he heard that Feng Yuduo was beaten by Zhong Ye, but he didn't know that it was because of Wei Yining.
Today he is going to Taixue, and this dynasty calls Guozijian Taixue, or follows the name of the previous dynasty.
Mrs. Xiao will come to Taixue once a month from the second half of this year to give a lecture, and many people almost didn't break their heads in order to be able to hang their names under him.
The so-called teacher for one day and a teacher for life, although Wei Changan does not have a head to do learning at all, he likes to sell his reputation the most.
As soon as I thought that I would be able to show off to others in the future that I was Taifu's protΓ©gΓ©, I felt that it was worth spending as much money as I wanted.
Because of the cold weather, Wei Changan did not ride a horse, but took a carriage.
This is the most luxurious carriage in the Zhiyong Mansion, which was specially customized for him by the Bao family.
Wei An Hua Che arrived in Taixue in a gorgeous suit, and many children of the family had already arrived.
Inevitably, they will praise each other, there is not much real knowledge, and the dress is more glamorous than the other.
These gentlemen like to work this.
Because it was the first time for Wei Changan to enter Taixue, he specially prepared a gift for Mrs. Xiao, which was held in a brocade box and held it respectfully with both hands.
The lecture place is a large hall called "School Palace", and the seat in the center is for the lecturer, and the three circles of tables and chairs around it are the seats for the disciples who listen to the lecture.
Wei Changan deliberately chose a seat facing the lecture at the front, although he dozed off every time he couldn't listen to a few words.
The main seat of the lecture was curtained, and Wei Changan heard the person next to him say that this was Mrs. Xiao giving a lecture after Dong Zhongshu back then.
Wei Changan looked into the tent, and there was an old man sitting inside, his face unclear. I can only see the body is thin and thin, like a piece of dead wood every day.
The people here are not very familiar with Mrs. Xiao, he has always been unsociable, and he lives in a simple house all the year round, Wei Changan and others have only seen him once or twice from afar, and he only remembers that he is very thin.
The school palace was full of whispers, and there was a cough in the tent, and everyone hurriedly straightened up and stopped talking.
Wei Changan remembered that his gift had not been given yet, so he bowed down and stood up, holding the box and putting it outside Mrs. Xiao's tent.
"What?" The voice coming from inside the tent was old and hoarse, very stern.
Wei Chang'an trembled in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The disciple listened to the teachings for the first time, and expressed a little heart. β
"Who are you?" Mrs. Xiao asked again.
"The chief of the Zhiyong Mansion," Wei Chang'an replied respectfully, "The surname is Wei Chang'an." β
"Geometry learned?" Mrs. Xiao's voice was hard and cold, and Wei Changan only felt very uncomfortable in his heart.
What's more, he has never learned and has no skills, and this question belongs to which pot is not opened.
He would have liked to say a few nonsense, but he was afraid that the old pedant would ask him more profound questions on the basis of this, and then it would be only a fool's errand.
He was confident that he could fool Wei Yining, but he knew that he couldn't fool Mrs. Xiao at all.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Mrs. Xiao snorted coldly, raised her voice a little more, and asked the people present, "What have you all learned?" β
The crowd was silent for a moment, and then they spoke,
Some people say they have studied four books, some people say they have learned the Five Classics, some say they have learned the Six Arts, and so on.
"Hmph, it's all useless!" Mrs. Xiao shouted: "I don't even know what I should learn!" A bunch of idiots! β
Everyone was confused by his scolding, but no one dared to be angry, you must know that this is Taifu Xiao, a great Confucian and an emperor, they can't afford to provoke it.
"Do you know what you should learn best?!" Mrs. Xiao loudly questioned Wei Chang'an, who was closest to him.
Where does Wei Changan know how to answer? simply asked Mrs. Xiao: "The disciple is dull, please ask Mrs. Xiao to make it clear." β
"Come on, give me three hundred heavy blame for this idiot!" Mrs. Xiao yelled: "If you don't hit something, you can't open it!" β
There are also punishments in the school palace, and they are generally beaten with a ring ruler on the palms, but fifty strokes up is a spanking.
There is no special punishment, either the teacher does it himself, or other children punish on his behalf.
Now that Mrs. Xiao said so, several people not far from Wei Chang'an looked at each other, and finally two came out, saying "offended", and pushed Wei Chang'an down, crackling and fighting.
Wei Changan grinned in pain, and couldn't beg for mercy.
is afraid that once he begs for mercy, Mrs. Xiao will remove him from his name and not allow him to enter Taixue again.
"Do you know what to learn this time?" Halfway through the fight, Mrs. Xiao asked again.
"Learn from the classics of the sages," Wei Chang'an responded indiscriminately: "Either it is the way to govern the country." β
"Keep fighting!" Mrs. Xiao seemed to be even more annoyed: "Something stupid! β
At this time, not to mention Wei Chang'an, the other disciples were also full of doubts in their hearts, for fear that if they asked themselves next, they would end up like this if they didn't answer correctly.
Wei Changan was beaten three hundred times, and he was in pain and ashamed, lying on the ground and pretending to be dead.
"Please also ask Taifu to make it clear, what should I learn?" Someone plucked up the courage to ask.
"The most important thing you should learn is to run away," Mrs. Xiao said sharply, "Don't you usually learn?" β
Everyone was completely stunned, they tried their best to enter Taixue, they wanted to worship famous teachers, do learning, and gain fame, and they never heard that they wanted to learn to escape.
"You fools, the world has been troubled by your fathers, and the thieves will come to your houses to burn and loot sooner or later.
If you learn to escape, you can save a dog's life, or you will die without a place to bury! β
"Boom-" There was a mess in the school palace immediately, and these words stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, making all the official children present panic.
"Isn't that too rebellious?" Someone shuddered and asked, "Is Mrs. Xiao crazy?" β
This is clearly to say that the ministers of the current dynasty are in a vegetarian position, which brings disaster to the country and the people, and the society is uneasy, and there are even signs of the destruction of the country.
If this word gets out......
But no one dares to act rashly, this topic is too sensitive, and if you don't pay attention to it, you may be punished.
When everyone was panicking, the Taixue Yan people walked in, and when they saw this scene, they were also stunned, and asked the people in the tent loudly: "Which one are you?!" β
"Isn't he Mrs. Xiao?" Someone asked,
"Taifu went to the palace today, and he just sent an entourage to inform him that everyone had dispersed, why are there still people lecturing inside?" The gatekeeper said.
Only then did everyone know that the person inside was not Mrs. Xiao at all, so they couldn't help but be furious, and rushed up to pull the person out of the tent.
He was a scrawny old man, dressed in shabby clothes, but his expression was extremely solemn.
"Gentle! It's you. The gatekeeper recognized this person as Wen Gong who was in charge of miscellaneous work in Taixue, he was an old boy who had tried and failed, because he was a fellow villager with the Guozi priest wine, and he was arranged to work in Taixue for more than ten years.
I don't know what kind of madness he is doing today, he dares to pretend to be a master to give a lecture in the school palace.
Wei Changan was almost not angry to death, and he was really wronged by today's beating.
But the matter has come to this, after all, you can't be rude in Taixue, otherwise you will be reported afterwards, and you won't want to come in again in this life.
In the end, everyone simply pretended that nothing had happened, after all, today's remarks are really not suitable for leaking.