Du Jinning lowered his head, looked at the ground with his eyes, and looked very embarrassed: "Grandpa Qi and Mr. Yuan told me to study honestly, don't make those false things." They are worried that I am too young and too showy, just like Qi Siyu, who is not practical in learning, and wants to sell my reputation and reputation. ”

“……”

Lu Jiuyuan's stomach was full of words, and he was stuck in his throat.

They had imagined all sorts of scenarios before they came. What I thought about the most was that Du Jinning happily agreed. Because he is just a showman, and at such a young age, he can enter these schools and become a member of these schools, and he is also one of the four people, which is an honor that many new jinshi have not had. Once their doctrine can be established and cause a certain amount of backlash among scholars, it will go down in history, which is something that many scholars can encounter but cannot seek.

As for making Du Jinning the leader of the four, they didn't think about it at all. What are you kidding, they are all from Jinshi, how many years of learning, and they are also very famous university scholars in the north. Du Jinning is a little talent, if it weren't for those two articles that attracted their attention, it would be impossible to worship them as teachers. Now that they can let Du Jinning join the school and become an equal to them, that is already their value for Du Jinning. But no matter what, it's impossible to let a stinking half-grown boy be their leader, right? Isn't that a joke?

It's not that they have selfish intentions and want to encroach on Du Jinning's academic theories, but that their qualifications are there. Just like a monarch, no matter how capable you are, you are only a minister, and you can't be a monarch, because you don't have that qualification.

As for Du Jinning refusing them, they also considered this possibility, but they only thought that Du Jinning was afraid of their invitation because his qualifications were too shallow, and he felt that he was not qualified, so he refused. For this, they have already prepared their rhetoric.

They didn't expect Du Jinning to reject them for such a reason.

Peng Shicheng frowned and said: "We are doing learning, how can we sell our reputation?" Can this be the same as Qi Siyu? ”

Du Jinning shook his head vigorously: "I didn't have a father when I was a child, my teacher, Grandpa Qi, and Mr. Yuan are just like my elders." It can be said that without them, I would not be where I am today. So I'm going to listen to what they say. They asked me to study honestly, and I studied honestly, and tried to be admitted to the Juren and Jinshi as soon as possible, so as to live up to their expectations of me. ”

"So, how do you choose those classes? Isn't that a contradiction? Peng Shicheng asked.

"Choosing those classes is for me to precipitate, and it has nothing to do with my studies." Du Jinning opened a pair of clear big eyes and said incomprehensibly, "It's not that I don't learn, every day I will read books in the library for half a day." My teacher said that I still read too few books, and my horizons are not broad enough, and if I blindly delve into the Four Books and Five Classics, it is easy to get out of the horns. The entrance examination may be enough, but the whole person is like the needle, and it is easy to prick yourself out of the hole. So I now read books in the library every day, hoping to gain more knowledge. ”

“……”

Du Jinning kept saying "my husband" and "my grandfather Mr. Yuan", with an ignorant young man's face, and the reason he said was so powerful that people didn't know what to say.

"In fact, studying knowledge, such as Mencius, doesn't take much of your time. We will give you a topic every three or five days, and then guide your essay, it doesn't take much energy, you can get the guidance of our three gentlemen, I think it will be a lot of progress. In addition to writing an article, you also have a lot of time to read books that you feel interested, what do you think? Lu Jiuyuan tried his best to persuade.

Du Jinning shook his head: "I still don't want it." I don't listen to them, sir, they will be upset. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, you can go to your Grandpa Qi and Mr. Yuan to discuss."

This time, Du Jinning did not refuse: "Okay." ”

The purpose of this trip was not achieved, and Lu Jiuyuan's face was not very good-looking when they left.

After leaving the gate of Nanlu Academy and getting into the carriage, Shi Xiu, who had not made a sound, suddenly spoke: "Do you think Du Jinning is pretending to be stupid, he doesn't want to study with us at all?" ”

"Won't it?" Peng Shicheng said puzzledly, "Such a good thing, no matter how many people ask for it, he still pushes it out?" ”

"A good thing? Not necessarily. Shi Xiu shook his head, "His theory is clearer and more thorough than ours. ”

Peng Shicheng wanted to understand the meaning of Shi Xiu's words, and asked in surprise: "You don't mean that he doesn't want to be our follower, but wants to be our leader, right?" How is this possible? ”

"Even if he doesn't think so, his elders inevitably don't."

"Then they are too greedy to know what to do anymore." Peng Shicheng said angrily.

Lu Jiuyuan frowned and said, "You mean to say that Du Jinning was pretending to be stupid and prevaricating us just now?" ”

Shi Xiu nodded: "Very likely." ”

Peng Shicheng raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, and his brows furrowed tightly.

There was silence in the carriage.

It's ridiculous to ask them to think of a twelve-year-old kid as a leader in learning. Not only do they think it's ridiculous, but I'm afraid the entire Great Song Dynasty readers will find it ridiculous, right? Eventually, their mindset will become a joke.

But this twelve-year-old child did write an article that moved their hearts. Otherwise, they would not have come from the north to the south, and chased from the Fuxue to the Nanlu Academy.

After a long time, Peng Shicheng said with difficulty: "What if...... It's good that those articles were written by Guan Shanchang. No matter how bad it is, Mr. Yuan can do it, or Master Qi can do it. He raised his eyes, "You say, do we want to talk to Lord Qi and Mr. Yuan?" ”

Lu Jiuyuan glanced at him: "Even if Lord Qi and Mr. Yuan use the convenience of being Du Jinning's elders to use his doctrine, are we willing to worship such people as leaders?" ”

Peng Shicheng's face froze. There was silence again in the carriage.

After a long time, Shi Xiu sighed: "I don't think we need to be in a hurry, let's be quiet first." Whether it is for his own knowledge or to cooperate with Du Jinning, he can't be in a hurry, and it is easy to go wrong if he is in a hurry. ”

Peng Shicheng nodded, and said approvingly: "Du Jinning's elders have such thoughts, so doesn't it have something to do with us being too eager?" Those who catch up are not buying and selling. Let's be quiet. Anyway, we are not in a hurry to do learning, we are here to concentrate on studying, maybe we don't need others to mention something, we can slowly establish the theory. ”

Lu Jiuyuan clapped: "That's it." ”