Zhongli looked at Zhao Zijian's somewhat distorted expression, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

It's not that she deliberately made them dress like this, it's really that they only have cloth tickets, and many people choose to make their own clothes in order to save some money, one has two, and I don't know when this kind of atmosphere became popular in the academy.

"Why can't we be students? Is it just because we know how to be craftsmen? But it's also just a means for us to earn money for ourselves. ”

Someone stood up unconvinced, although he didn't know who Zhao Zijian was, but the people who could let so many big people accompany him must not have a low status, but the more this time, the more they show their integrity.

Cost of living?

Zhao Zijian was a little dazed, but he seemed to know a little in his heart, but he still looked at Zhongli next to him.

Zhongli curled the corners of his lips towards Zhao Zijian, chuckling and shaking his head.

"The Four Princes don't really think that they are all ...... Ahem, is it the king of Qingyang who is raising it with local taxes? To tell the truth, listening to the eldest brother, it is a bit difficult to support the soldiers here just by paying taxes in the border city, let alone them? Otherwise, the eldest brother would not have cut the soldiers again and again recently, really, I can't afford to raise them! ”

When Zhao Yiyan heard this, he immediately knew what Zhongli was going to do, and couldn't help nodding towards Zhao Zijian.

"That's right."

Concise.

Zhao Zijian couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, but his heart was sour.

It's just a brother of the opposite sex, how can Zhao Yiyan be able to make Zhongli endorse him like this? Even at the cost of every opportunity?

Envy, jealousy!

"It was right to say that the rich businessmen were helping. But there are very few things they can provide, for example, when people in the dining room come to my village to buy vegetables, I will also charge 50%, and that's it. So more things have to be made by themselves, and they make money with their skills, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. And in the Border City Academy, if you can't support yourself, it will be the most humiliating. ”

Old Mr. Wei looked at Zhao Yiyan's expression of disbelief and couldn't help but shake his head gently.

Who's to say it isn't? I also said before that if this continued, it would delay their time to study, but I was stopped by Zhongli.

He told himself a story about a rich family eating eggs, and an egg could be sold for five taels of silver, which is considered a high price! But those wealthy families, those big officials didn't even know.

One is because they have never been exposed to these seemingly trivial things, and the other is because they are detached from the people.

Therefore, even if they can enter the government and become a member of the imperial court in the future, how will they govern the place if they can't even support themselves?

In addition, Zhongli suddenly reminded him of the scene when Zhongli took the children in the family to work in the field in Zhuangzi, so as to educate them, who knows the story of the hard work of Chinese food, so that although they can reach out for food to open their mouths, they can still understand the hard work of the people, which is the most important thing.

That is, conduct!

"Only when you suffer hardship can you become a superior person. Besides, I don't think they have any hardship like this, they don't have a lot of skills, even if they don't get admitted to the show in the end, they still have a skill, and they can still live well. ”

As soon as Zhongli finished speaking, he saw several people in the distance walking towards this side, still holding shovels in their hands.

Zhao Zijian couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and looked around blankly for a week before speaking.

"Could it be, they're going to grow crops?"

Zhongli shrugged and spread his hands.

"Why not? Isn't it delicious to grow what you grow? If they can't eat all the food and food, they will sell it to the people under the mountain, and when the time comes, they will also use it for the seowon after taking the money. And they can get hard money in exchange for what they need in life if they work so hard every day. ”

Zhao Zijian was impressed in his heart, and involuntarily turned his head to give Zhongli a thumbs up.

He didn't have any opinions about the people who farmed the land, after all, when he was in Zhongli's house, he had seen Zhongli also work in the fields.

After taking a turn around, he had a general idea of this strange academy, and then when he heard that the previous test had begun, he suggested going over and have a look.

After all, he didn't believe that such a strange academy would admit students like other colleges.

He passed over in high spirits, and Zhongli really didn't disappoint him.

In one room, students were sitting on chairs and concentrating on writing their answers, while in another room, someone was already beginning to defend their answers.

Zhao Zijian couldn't help but turn his head to look at them.

"That's how all the students are recruited here...... Is it casual? You know, there's a good chance that there will be a leak. ”

Mr. Guo, who had been standing next to him, shook his head.

"No, it won't. There are two copies of these questions, and they change every day, so they get different ones. Only those who have gone through the first round will have a second round of interviews. Moreover, these topics are all brainstormed by previous students, and they decide who they need or who they don't want. ”

I'll go!

Even if Zhao Zijian was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but scold his mother in his heart.

His fingers trembled as he pointed to the person inside who was assessing the students.

"Well, you're not telling me that the guy standing in front of me isn't actually a gentleman, are you?"

Zhongli bent the corners of his lips, this is a bit like a counselor in the university in his previous life, helping his husband deal with some daily chores, although these chores are a bit tedious, but they can exercise their various organizational skills and so on.

Before anyone could speak, I heard an exclamation from the room where the interview was taking place.

"No, how can you ask such a question? You're going too far, I'm going to go to the mountain chief, how can this be a problem? ”

Zhao Zijian took the lead and walked over there, and Zhongli reluctantly followed.

As soon as I got closer, I heard the flat voice of "sir" above.

"What's too much? Why can't you bring it up? When the enemy army is coming, you can't answer the multiple-choice question of whether you want to commit suicide or be a prisoner, why should the academy accept you? ”

"This, this is not the content of the assessment at all."

The student's face changed again and again, and he was still defending himself.

And the two people standing next to the "invigilator" also shook their heads.

"Although your written test score is the best in the past few days, it still fails. This is a border city, anything can happen, and in the face of such a problem of choosing one or two, I can't fight and I want to go to the mountain chief, and I don't know how to solve the problem but I want to retreat, and I am not qualified. ”

Two people had already expressed their opinions, and the third person didn't say a word, and made a "please leave" gesture directly to the student.

The student saw that they were real, and his face turned red and then nodded quickly.

"I'd rather die than be a prisoner, I choose suicide, I choose suicide."

As a result, he originally thought that he had kept the integrity of a literati, but he might as well have just asked him to leave with a sneer, looking at his eyes full of mockery and ridicule.

"Humph! Suicide! Your parents are so old that your father and mother raised you, and you only thought of suicide? It's stupid. ”

The student was looked at by the three people with contempt and ridicule, where could he stand?

He blushed and argued with them.

"Why not? Haven't you heard of it? It is better to die than to be humiliated by them. ”

"Dead? What about the parents who are born when they die, you raise you, and look forward to your success? What about your ambition to serve the Apocalypse after so many years? It's just stupid! Haven't you heard of the truth of lying on the pay? Are you ......?"

The "examiner" who spoke at the beginning snorted coldly and scolded people angrily unceremoniously.

The student went from panic at the beginning to toughness at the beginning to strength at the end, and finally his eyes were dark, and a mouthful of blood spurted out directly, and he fainted to the ground.

"Hey, bad luck, bad luck! How can a person who can't stand the slightest anger like this do great things? Don't you know that the big husband can bend and stretch? Call the doctor to come over and get the person away quickly, it's not an eyesore! ”

Zhao Zijian, who was standing outside watching everything, had a fine light flashing in his eyes, but his eyes were looking at the three people inside.

He couldn't help but walk inside.

The others tried to enter, but he turned around and frowned and stopped them in place.

Zhongli shrugged his shoulders, there was no burden in his heart, after all, it was not bad to make Zhao Zijian suffer.

She knows these three people, but the people in the academy can faint just by relying on those three-inch incorruptible tongues, and the power can be imagined.

"Who are you? This is the exam room, where is the place where you can enter? ”

The "chief examiner" looked at Zhao Zijian who suddenly broke in, couldn't help frowning, and spoke a little politely.

Zhao Zijian smiled and arched his hand towards them.

"I listened to the test questions of the three of you just now, and I have some thoughts in my heart."

The examiner frowned and looked at Zhao Zijian, but suddenly thought that someone in the academy today seemed to say that the emperor's fourth prince would visit the academy today. Could it be ......

There was a glint in his eyes, but he shook his head at Zhao Zijian without revealing it.

"Who doesn't have an idea? But this is the examination room, please go out quickly, don't delay the exam of other candidates. ”

But Zhao Zijian shook his head with a smile, raised his chin high and smiled.

"There's no rush. I'm just curious to know, if you were the candidate you just had, would you choose to surrender or choose to be a prisoner? ”

The three of them, you look at me, I look at you, after glancing at each other, the corners of several people's lips brought a smile that Zhao Zijian couldn't understand.

Only then, he understood!

"The enemy hasn't come yet, so why choose? If they really attack us, if the situation on the battlefield has turned to the place, of course, they will be prisoners, if they are evenly matched, or if their own situation is relatively good, they will definitely rush forward and kill one by one, as for suicide, if they want to do something unfavorable to the apocalypse after being captured, and if they can't pass on information, they will naturally commit suicide. ”