The two followed the path that Aunt Zhang told them before to the private school opened by Wu Xiucai, the door was closed, and the private school had already started, and standing outside the door, they could faintly hear the sound of reading.

After standing in front of the door and listening for a while, she came up and knocked on the door, and after knocking three or four times, an old voice came from inside, and then a grandmother who looked to be in her fifties opened the door and asked, "Who?" "Grandma's head is covered with black and gray hair, and her face bears the signs of old age. Grandma looked at them with a puzzled expression, but after seeing Li Bokang next to her, she had some understanding. She hurriedly spoke: "This grandma, may I ask if this is Mr. Wu Xiucai's house?" "Yes, you want to come to the book, right?" Although it is a question, it also carries a little affirmation. "Yes, Grandma, I want to send my younger brother to school, I heard that Mr. Wu taught well, so let's take a look." She didn't say she had to study here, she just said to come and see. Listening to her words, Grandma put her eyes on Li Bokang, and after looking at it for a while, she said, "Mr. Wu is in class now, why don't you come and sit down first, and I will go to him after Mr. Wu is out of class in a while." "Yes, thank you Grandma." After that, Grandma let them in.

After coming in, the grandmother took them to a room similar to a side hall, and then poured them two glasses of water and went out, probably going out to do something, anyway, in the end, only the two of them were left to wait inside. After waiting for almost a stick of incense, Grandma brought a man in his teens and twenties, and then said to them: "This is Mr. Wu, if you have something, tell Mr. Wu." After saying that, he went out, and of course he didn't close the door.

They looked at the person who came to be slightly thin, his hair was tied up with a hairband, he was wearing a robe, a Confucian shirt with a scholarly atmosphere, and then looked at his face, although he was not a beautiful man, but he was still very handsome, and his age was just right, so it was still very eye-catching. Mr. Wu also looked at them a little, a girl in blue who was in her prime and a child who was twelve or thirteen years old, judging from the clothes they were wearing, their family background was not particularly good, but they were still passable, especially the boy seemed to be very studious. Mr. Wu only glanced at Yang Xue roughly, and most of them looked at Li Bokang again.

Mr. Wu lifted his feet, found a stool and sat down, and then asked, "I just heard from Grandma Wang that you want to send your children to study with me, right?" "Hello Mr. Wu, yes, I want to send my younger brother to study, I don't want to take any imperial examinations, I just hope that he can find some easy work after learning more knowledge, this is my brother's name is Li Bokang." She then opened her mouth and continued while introducing Li Bokang to Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu first glanced at her and then looked at Li Bokang, and then asked Li Bokang: "Have you read a book before?" Do you know words? Li Bokang replied: "Mr. Hui, the student has read for two years before and knows some basic words. Mr. Wu was a little surprised, and then said as if he was interested: "In this case, I will test you, how about it?" "Sir, please, but the student has only learned some simple ones." "Okay, I know."

The next time was basically Mr. Wu and Li Bokang talking, she just said a few words at the beginning and didn't speak again, she also knew that the reader was particularly important for men and women, so she didn't interject, just watched the two of them talk.

After some conversation, Mr. Wu said to her: "Brother Ling's knowledge is good at his age, and after reading carefully, he may be able to take the imperial examination, and he can study with me again, but I am also afraid that Brother Ling will be buried." "Thank you sir for watching it, I also see that he is still young and doesn't want him to be too tired at home, so let it be fate." Then he looked at Li Bokang and asked him with his eyes what he thought of Mr. Wu and whether he wanted to study here. Li Bokang nodded at her invisibly, and then she began to discuss with Mr. Wu about the restraint and eating and lodging during class time.

She asked Mr. Wu, "Excuse me, sir, how much is your monthly bundle here?" And is there room and board available here? Our family lives far away, and it is inconvenient to go back and forth every day. "Miss Li is like this, I have three dollars a month here, you can have a meal here, of course, you can bring it yourself or send it to your family, as for the accommodation, it is not provided." "Can you be accommodating, Mr. Wu, our home is too far away, and it takes three or four hours to go back and forth every day, so if you go back and forth every day, I'm afraid that my brother won't be able to stand it, and he won't have time to study, so I'm reluctant." I think Mr. is quite wide here, can we pay a little more money, Mr. let my brother live here, if you eat, we can do it ourselves, please sir. "But we don't have that rule here." "Otherwise, even if the gentleman rents us a room, it won't be a bad rule." When she heard Mr. Wu talk about the rules, she said.

Mr. Wu was silent for a long time before saying, "In that case, it's okay, but Bokang can live with me, just forget about the money." If you want to eat, you can do it yourself or let Grandma Wang do it, anyway, Grandma has to do it every day, but if you let Grandma do it, you still have to give her some money. "Then thank you Mr. Wu, but we can rent Mr. Wu's room anyway, and the money still has to be given, so let Grandma Wang do it if you eat." She said to Mr. Wu gratefully. Hearing her words, Mr. Wu didn't say anything more, but Li Bokang had something to say. "Sister, if I want to cook and eat by myself, I don't have to trouble Grandma Wang anymore." "But...... Okay," she wanted to refuse, but looking at Li Bokang with a resolute look, she finally agreed.

In the end, Li Bokang lived in Mr. Wu's house, and then gave a total of four coins of silver every month for rent and bundles. As for cooking, because Li Bokang insisted on making it himself, he still used Mr. Wu's kitchen. The rest of the school is three days a month, that is, the fifth and twenty-fifth days of the first month of the month, the class starts in the morning and ends in the afternoon, leaving half an hour to eat in the middle. Today is the third year of junior high school, and the two of them said goodbye to Mr. Wu after going to school two days later, and when she left, she also said to Mr. Wu: "By the way, Mr. Wu, my surname is Yang, not Li." After looking at Mr. Wu's slightly embarrassed expression, she turned around and smiled secretly, which can be regarded as a little prank of hers.

After that, the two went around the town again and bought some things that Li Bokang would use for school later. In fact, he didn't buy anything, he basically had it at home, even the paper family still had some, but in the end he still bought a knife of paper. Buy something and go home.