Chapter 174: Meeting with the Dean (1)
Chu Xingyun glanced at the bottom of the chain bridge!
There is endless green below, and the trees are no longer visible in the high!
Looking at this chain bridge with no safety guarantee, Chu Xingyun thought to himself that the bottom of this chain bridge was at least one or two thousand meters high!
He couldn't help but ask Situ Ran in front:
"Brother Situ, this shortcut doesn't seem to be easy to take! Do the students of Taoyuan Academy pass here every day? ”
"There are three more ropeways like this, and this is the closest one to us!
Children in Taoyuan Town have been learning light skills since they were young, so children around the age of 10 on this kind of rope bridge can walk like flying!
The younger students usually live on the mountain after going up the mountain...
Brother Xian doesn't have to worry too much, I hold the iron cable in front, Brother Xian only needs to follow behind me to pass, remember not to look down after the bridge, this bridge is more than 1,800 meters high from the ground! ”
"Hmm..."
Chu Xingyun, who had already followed Situ Ran to the chain bridge, replied softly, but his eyes were already involuntarily staring at the abyss under his feet!
Chu Xingyun, who was not afraid of heights, looked at the height of the drop of several thousand meters under his feet, and couldn't help but sweat for himself in his heart...
But fortunately, Situ Ran helped him open the way in front and grabbed the chain, so as not to let the two sides of the chain shake, so that Chu Xingyun could walk more smoothly!
In normal times, Situ Ran didn't need to walk on the chain bridge so slowly, just by jumping over, and with a few clicks of the chain on the bridge in the middle, he could fly across the rope bridge to the opposite side with light power!
This chain bridge was almost hundreds of meters away from the opposite side, and Chu Xingyun slowly followed Situ Ran on it, and the fear in his heart became lighter and lighter as the distance followed...
After a while, the two of them came to Broken Sword Peak!
On this Broken Sword Peak is a vast flat land of almost hundreds of acres!
In the middle of the flat land is a tall and quaint academy, and there are several different types of courtyards around the academy!
There are also several large and small five- or six-storey concrete dormitory buildings around the college...
The entire Taoyuan Academy occupies almost all the hills, and all kinds of colleges are built on it!
For example, the largest college in the middle is called "Ruyi Pavilion", and the entire framework is made of wood, which is full of quaint atmosphere...
And around this Confucian and Taoist college, there are several slightly smaller teaching buildings, but with different architectural styles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThey are not built high, except for the Confucian Pavilion, which has six floors, the other teaching buildings are only three stories high, but the style is very different and dazzling...
Chu Xingyun heard Situ Ran say that Taoyuan Academy was built on top of a mountain peak, and he originally thought that Taoyuan Academy would not be very big, and there would not be many people!
Now it seems that I was wrong!
The area here is not much different from that of a typical university!
There are a lot of people!
Today, before the official start of school, there are already many students carrying luggage into the college, there are still many teenagers around the college cleaning and cleaning, and some young people are practicing martial arts in the form of people on the school field...
They were all dressed in white coats, and some of them looked very old...
Just Chu Xingyun casually looked at it, there were almost hundreds of people...
"Brother Situ, how many students are there in Taoyuan Academy?"
"There are about more than 2,000 students alone, and the young people aged seven to twenty-five in the entire Taoyuan Town have to enter the academy to study, and there are some older students who are willing to stay and continue their studies after completing their studies, although there is no imperial examination here, and there can be no official position after completing their studies!
And everyone learns by hobbies, but the profound Confucianism and martial arts techniques, as well as many whimsical ideas left by their ancestors, also make many people willing to continue to stay and explore!
I heard that there were people who stayed here to study for most of their lives, and then became a knowledgeable saint in Taoyuan Town! ”
Situ Ran slowly said what he knew...
Chu Xingyun was silent, he received education in the new era from childhood to adulthood, and he felt that learning for more than ten years was already a very great thing, if he studied for a lifetime, how could he live!
But he didn't know that the ancient traditional teaching paid attention to educating people, focusing on cultivating people's character, and learning was all based on personal hobbies, and there were not many rules for how long he wanted to learn...
Just as the two were chatting outside the academy, a polite young man saw Situ Ran and strode over, bowed to Situ Ran and said:
"Brother Situ, don't come unharmed if you haven't seen you for many years!"
"Brother Zhuge , I didn't expect to meet you here! Are you still in the academy? ”
"Well, I'm not good at martial arts, and I don't usually have any hobbies, I just love to read and study, so this place is more suitable for me...
This must be the son of Chu, right? ”
The young man surnamed Zhuge also bowed to Chu Xingyun and asked!
"It's down there!" Chu Xingyun replied while saluting!
"That's good! The mayor of the town asked me to wait here for Master Chu, and he is waiting for you with the dean! Please come with me! ”
"Good!"
Saying that, the young man introduced the two of them to the Confucian Pavilion!
Chu Xingyun: "Brother Situ, who is the dean of this college?" Didn't you say that Mayor Dugu was the dean? ”
Situ Ran: "Hehe, the virtuous brother doesn't know, the mayor is only the honorary dean, and the real manager of Taoyuan Academy is another dean, and he is also the former patriarch of the Zhuge family - Zhuge Ru, he is a knowledgeable and highly respected Confucian!" ”
Chu Xingyun: "Oh, I see! ”
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There are six floors in this Confucian Pavilion, the first three floors, and each floor is divided into four classrooms for learning Confucian scholarship!
The fourth floor is a place for students to discuss academics with each other or give speeches at conferences, and the entire fourth floor is a large lecture hall!
The fifth floor is where the dean and several Confucian scholars usually rest!
The sixth floor is the Library Pavilion, which houses a large number of untampered classical books and Confucian classics!
There are many books in it, and many books have escaped the Qing Dynasty's literary prison and become precious and unique books that have not been tampered with!
The young man took Chu Xingyun and Situ Ran to the dean's room on the fifth floor, and saw that the mayor of Dugu Zhan was drinking tea and chatting with the dean Zhuge Ru!
When Chu Xingyun entered the door, he saw Dugu Zhan's back, as well as an old man holding a feather fan in front of him!
The old man's temples were gray, and his face was covered with many wrinkles, but his deep eyes were full of wisdom!
Chu Xingyun stepped forward and saluted the two of them one by one and said!
"Senior Dugu, Senior Zhuge , I'm here!"
"Good! Just in time! I'm talking to Dean Zhuge about you! Come! Let's come over first! You two go down first..."
Dugu Zhan turned around and glanced at Chu Xingyun and said, and asked Situ Ran and the young man who led the way to go down first!
Situ Ran and the young man, who hadn't seen each other for many years, went down to find a place to drink and chat together...