When Shen Yichen's answer came out, the entire lecture hall was in an uproar, and everyone didn't expect that he would make such a choice.

Crazy?

Even if he went to the inner courtyard in the name of attached school, it was still fundamentally different from the outer courtyard after all, not to mention that it was personally rewarded by Grandpa Guo. If you miss this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to meet a second chance like this in your life.

On the other hand, when he heard the choice given by his "son", Cheng Guogong's eyes became more and more fierce, and he stared straight at Shen Yichen, as if he wanted to see through the true thoughts of the other party's heart.

Indeed, as Shen Yichen thought, at first, Zhu Yong regarded his rhetorical question as an impatient ambition and greed, planning to take advantage of the situation to obtain the status and wealth and glory of the lord's son.

This can be regarded as a kind of inertial thinking of Zhu Yong after getting used to all kinds of speculative ambitions in officialdom.

But Shen Yichen's final refusal is equivalent to overturning the previous assumption, and Zhu Yong also found one thing, that is, this servant son who never dared to look directly at him in the past seems to have been looking at himself all the time, and he didn't even dodge his eyes a little.

Zhu Yong has been in charge of the army all the year round, and as a superior, he knows very well that he has the momentum of not being angry and arrogant, and many times even the officials and subordinates are afraid to dodge themselves, can a young man like Shen Yichen be stronger than them?

"Alright, you can continue to study in the outer courtyard."

Zhu Yong didn't see through what Shen Yichen wanted, but it didn't matter, in terms of Cheng Guogong's status, he didn't care what Shen Yichen thought at all, what happened today was just a little episode for Zhu Yong.

After leaving this sentence, Zhu Yong nodded at Li Tingxiu, flicked his sleeves and walked away.

"You can go back to your seat and go to class."

Watching Cheng Guogong leave, Li Tingxiu gave Shen Yichen an order, and then began to teach as usual. It's just that this time Li Tingxiu looked at Shen Yichen's back as he walked to his seat, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Returning to his seat, Shen Yichen had just sat down, and a somewhat thin teenager at the same table immediately leaned over and muttered with an expression of disbelief.

"Shen Yichen, you actually refused the opportunity to study in the inner courtyard just now, was your brain confused or did you not wake up in the morning?"

Faced with this thin young man's question, Shen Yichen's first thought was not how to answer, but the identity of the other party.

But soon, the name "Zhao Hongjie" came to mind, and Jingwei commanded the son of Zhao Yong. Although the family school in the outer courtyard of the Chengguo Mansion allows the children of his cronies to study together, not just any cat or dog can come in.

Take Zhao Hongjie as an example, his father, the commander of the Jingwei Guard, was a third-rank official, and he was considered a high-ranking official before the military attache status collapsed in the early and middle Ming Dynasty. But in the second-generation group of family school officials in the outer courtyard of the Guogong Mansion, the official rank from the third grade is very ordinary.

On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, emphasized martial arts and light literature, and set the rank of military attachés too high, resulting in many "high-ranking officials" as many generals as dogs. On the other hand, Zhao Hongjie is not a wife and son-in-law, so like Shen Yi, he used to be the target of bullying in the outer court.

is the so-called sympathy for the same disease, the two of them huddle together for warmth, and their grades are at the bottom of the home school, which is even more of a "revolutionary" friendship like a brother!

But having said that, although there are many objective factors, in Shen Yichen's memory, Zhao Hongjie is his only friend in the outer courtyard school. At least he won't be angry with his identity, and he won't seek an inexplicable sense of superiority in himself.

"Neither."

"Why, exactly?"

Zhao Hongjie couldn't understand that as Shen Yichen's friend, he knew very well how eager the other party was to recognize his ancestors and get rid of his identity as an illegitimate child.

Not to mention that you will definitely be able to enter the genealogy when you go to study in the inner courtyard, but at least there is a way to enter the threshold, and this path was given by Grandpa Guo himself, so he gave it up like this?

"There's no reason, I just think the outer courtyard is pretty good. Besides, if I go to study in the inner courtyard, you will be the only one left at the bottom of the outer courtyard in the future, and I am afraid that life will not be easy. ”

Shen Yichen didn't want to explain too much, because the emotions at that moment just now were too complicated, and even he couldn't straighten it out for a while, so he could only move the topic elsewhere.

"It's okay, I can be admitted to Xiucai, and then go to the inner courtyard with you to study."

Zhao Hongjie's answer blocked Shen Yichen and didn't know what to say, he was also a scumbag who couldn't even pass the exam for several years.

"Heh, Zhao Hongjie also wants to take the Xiucai exam for your knowledge, and if you can be admitted to a child in this life, it can be regarded as your ancestor accumulating virtue."

Shen Yichen didn't speak, but the whispering of the two of them was heard by a tall schoolboy at the back table. When Shen Yichen was reprimanded by Li Tingxiu for being late, he was also talking cool things offstage, and now he is even sarcastic about Zhao Hongjie.

Hearing this, Zhao Hongjie's face became a little ugly, he glanced back at the other party and wanted to say something, but in the end he turned his head back.

Shen Yichen also took the opportunity to look back, and remembered that this high school boy was named Li Da, and his father was Li Zheng, the governor of the Left Army's Governor's Office, with the rank of second-rank official, and he was considered to be the henchman of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, in Jingwei.

The students in the Outer Courtyard School are all children of the military attache system, and they naturally prefer the atmosphere of "respecting martial arts". Li Da is tall and has a great advantage, coupled with his son-in-law status and father's status, he vaguely has a "boss" flavor in the school.

On weekdays, Shen Yichen doesn't have a good relationship with him, because even if he is a servant, he is still the blood of Chengguogong, and it is impossible to be someone else's younger brother in Guogong's house.

On the other hand, Li Da also felt that Shen Yichen was pretending to be a calf, and the other schoolchildren were respectful in front of him, so they made a score for this kid. is just an illegitimate child, and he has never had the opportunity to go to the genealogy of the grandfather of the country in this life, and he really regards himself as a little grandfather?

But no matter what, Li Da still didn't dare to make a move on Shen Yichen, at most, it was the yin and yang behind him. But when he treats Zhao Hongjie, he is not so polite, it is common to ridicule in person, and Zhao Hongjie can't compare with him in all aspects, so he can only swallow his anger.

This is the case with those who were born in a family of lords and eunuchs, even if it is only in the Mengxue lecture hall, there is already a class concept of dignity and inferiority.

"Then it seems that your ancestors are quite lacking in virtue, otherwise why wouldn't you be able to pass the Tongsheng exam?"

With a playful smile on his face, Shen Yichen replied to Li Da at the back table.

In the past, in the face of this kind of ridicule, although Shen Yichen was very unhappy to listen to it, he could only endure it as if he hadn't heard it. After all, if you really make a move, except for your fists, you can't suppress people if you don't have the identity of an illegitimate child.

Now it is different from the past, at least Shen Yichen is not as weak and cowardly as before, to the point that he doesn't even dare to reply.

"What did you say!"

This sentence stabbed Li Da's sore spot, and his voice instantly became louder.

Because this guy's academic performance is the same as Shen Yichen and Zhao Hongjie, he is at the level of half a catty and eight taels, and he has not even been admitted to the school for several years.

Maybe this is also related to the inheritance of the military general's family, and most of the students in the outer courtyard school have poor grades. And this is not the point, the point is that the second generation of these officials seems to lack a little bit of compulsion in their own cognition.

You yourself are a smart Wolong, and you deserve to laugh at the phoenix?