As soon as Mrs. Guo went, she didn't hear back for two or three days.

Ping An originally still had hope in his heart, and day by day, he stood at the door and looked in the direction of Liushutun, seeing that the Zhao family did not reply, thinking that he was not satisfied with the bride price of the Xie family.

Xie Wang's family saw that his son was sullen in his heart, and couldn't help but explain him with some words: "His Zhao family wants his daughter to marry a rich man!" If you don't come to propose at any time, you will propose when our family buys Zhuangzi, which is not clear about our family's money! Is our money blown by the wind? We can't afford to marry his daughter's daughter! Besides, it's hard to find a three-legged toad in this world, and it's not easy to find a two-legged girl? ”

"Mother...... I didn't say anything......" Ping'an pulled his head and said, his tone sullen.

Xie Wangshi knocked him on the head angrily: "Something that is not expected!" What else do you need to say? It's all written on the face! You have a thin knowledge, you haven't seen a beautiful girl, and you haven't said a word to anyone before you let people take away your soul? Standing at the door all day long, looking at the willow tree like the door god, and hanging animal skins in the hall - it really doesn't look like a word (painting)! Silly son, don't you see it? Are people deliberately fishing for you? Then Mrs. Guo didn't know why she didn't know that the bride price that the Zhao family wanted was high, and when she looked at each other, the second sister Zhao was dressed up with a demonic spirit, Qiao looked like Qiao, and the underworld was drawn on the white paper - it was obvious that it lured you to the bait? Why did you ask for such a high bride price later? You elm pimple, why don't you open your mind! ”

"Where is the demonic spirit, I can look at it......" Ping An unconsciously distinguished two sentences, and when he saw his mother's dark-faced elder, he didn't dare to speak again.

"When you grow up, you dare to talk back, and you don't want to listen to your mother's sincere words? If you are willing to marry Second Sister Zhao, it depends on whether she is willing to marry you! 'The phoenix is not real', if you want to marry her, it's simple, and you want to make that gold and silver, if you don't go to her, she will come to you! Xie Wang's family hit his son, and when he saw that Ping An was depressed, he was always more distressed, so he slowly comforted him: "People fight for a breath, Buddha fights for a stick of incense, my good son, whether you marry the second sister Zhao or not, you have to fight for breath, don't let people look down on you!" ”

was reprimanded twice by Xie Wang's family, and Ping An slowly cooled down his hot heart, and just went to work in the vegetable shed every day.

Just after the Double Ninth Festival, the school run by Shenjia Zhuangzi in Liushutun opened.

On the first day of school, Xie Qingshan and Xie Pingtian personally drove a mule cart to send Zhiyuan Zhicheng to the school, and Xie Xuan followed to see what the school in the Ming Dynasty looked like.

It turns out that this school is on a Zhuangzi half a mile away from Liushutun Village, which was originally the Zhuangzi of the Shen family, with two courtyards, all of which are blue brick and large tile houses.

There are two schools in the school, which are "Elementary School" and "University".

"Primary school" is mainly for children around the age of six to enlighten, learning Mengqiu, three-character classics, hundred family names, thousands of characters, thousands of poems, simple mathematics, generally takes two to three years.

At the end of the year, Mr. will conduct an assessment, and after the assessment, he will begin to enter the "university", learn the Book of Filial Piety and the Four Books: University, Zhongyong, Analects, Mencius, and then the Five Classics: Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhou Yi, Spring and Autumn. After learning these things, you can go to the children's exam.

The children's examination includes three items, the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination are all passed, in order to obtain the qualification of the student, that is, the qualification of the show, and the whole process takes about ten years from the beginning of literacy to the qualification of the show.

Of course, most people can't get into Xiucai, and some people in later generations have made statistics that the probability of showing talent in the Ming Dynasty is 1 in 10,000, which means that about one person in 10,000 people can pass the test. It is not uncommon for someone to read a book with all gray hair and still be a child.

What are the people who can't pass the Xiucai exam doing?

In ancient times, learning to read, even if you did not obtain the qualification of Xiucai, the way out was much more advanced than that of those who were illiterate. It is also a good place to be a shopkeeper, a bookkeeper, a dentist, a doctor, a feng shui reader, a letter writer, a painter, and a rent collector.

Xie Xuan followed behind Xie Qingshan, and saw that the teacher was indeed the old gentleman he saw in the bookstore that day, Xie Qingshan hurriedly asked Zhiyuan Zhicheng to come forward and kowtow. It turned out that this gentleman's surname was Zhang Dan and a Yu, the word Changsheng, more than 50 years old, a person from the county, with the Hun family to teach in Linzhang County, with a son and a daughter under his knees, and his son was also a showman, studying in the county; His daughter and the Hun family all lived with him in the backyard of the school.

The layout of the school is that the primary school is located in the west wing, and the university is located in the east wing, and the hall is the place where the gentleman entertains and rests. One of the inverted rooms is a large kitchen, because the students in several nearby villages go to school here, and some students are far away from home, so the school invited a cook from a nearby village to help Mr. Zhang's family cook lunch for the students. The students pay an extra 200 yuan per month, and the school takes care of lunch and tea.

Xie Xuan looked around and saw that there were more people in the primary school hall, about 30 people, and there were fewer people in the university hall, only about 20.

It seems that after a few years of primary schooling, parents and teachers have gone through a round of screening, and those who really have no talent for learning go home.

Although Xie Xuan couldn't tell how this gentleman taught, he couldn't help but nod secretly when he saw that the room in this school was clean and orderly, and it was a serious school.

This school is also divided into good and bad, you don't see that kind of school, Mr. Teaching is only for making a living and not for educating people, teaching is just casually fooling, earning two silver dollars to live, regardless of whether the student is good at learning or bad. As Yuan Mei said in the Qing Dynasty: half of the black thatched firewood house, the pig's nest and the cowpen bath are connected. The shepherd boy sat vertically and horizontally, and the heaven and earth shouted for a year.

Although there are quite a lot of parents who come to see off the students today, in this Confucius and Mencius hall and teaching place, people still dare not make loud noises, and they only greet each other in small voices.

Seeing that Zhiyuan Zhicheng kowtowed, Mr. recognized that it was the child who had been mentioned in the Japanese bookstore, so he said a few more words, and Xie Qingshan Heitang couldn't stop smiling with joy on his face.

Because this day is the beginning of school, there are a lot of people who come to see off the students, and everyone wants to come forward to give gifts to Mr. Pan, so that Mr. can take care of their children, and finally Mr. is so annoyed that he will find a reason to go to class and drive the adults out.

On the way back, Xie Qingshan said to his eldest son Hirata: "I think this Master Zhang is a good teacher!" The school is a school, the students see the master and the rules are good, I also saw the monkey of the Sun family in Gangxia Village this spring, the naughty is not good, and now in front of Master Zhang, it is also behaved......"

Xie Pingtian's always peaceful face also showed a happy look, "This gentleman has taught two Xiucai miles under his hands, I heard someone gossiping on the side, saying that his son is also a Xiucai, and now he is studying in the county school, and he must be a cultivator and an heirloom, such a teacher, we can rest assured that the child will be handed over to him!" ”

Xie Xuan listened and couldn't help but sigh that the education of children throughout the ages, even if it has been five or six hundred years, the feelings and expectations are the same.