Wang Jin's words aggravated Xie Xiuwen's desire to apprentice.

He is right, Xu Shanchang pays more attention to people with both ability and political integrity, which is why he has only accepted a few people as his personal disciples for so many years.

Of course, in fact, Xie Xiuwen felt that even if Xu Shanchang had a talent he valued, he didn't dare to put it under his name, after all, he was already very respectful of the name of an emperor, and if he accepted more students, I was afraid that some people would think about it.

Xu Shanchang will not come back until next month, and now that Xie Xiuwen has learned the news, he naturally has to make comprehensive preparations.

Xie Xiuwen's next days became extremely busy.

There is a library building in the college, and each student can also enter the building to read or copy with his identity card.

If you want to say that the reputation of Mingshan Academy is great, this library building is also one of the reasons.

Some students from poor families will come here to copy books, and there are special people in the library to arrange such work, so as to reduce some of the burden.

When Xie Xiuwen was studying here before, he didn't copy a lot of books.

On this day, Xie Xiuwen read an article, and he only felt that it was very exciting, so he wanted to copy it down and take it back to study it carefully.

Not all books in the collection can be taken out, for example, the volume that Xie Xiuwen is reading now cannot be taken out of the library, so he had to ask the steward for pen and ink to copy.

It was also a coincidence that Fan Xing and a few others also came to the library to borrow books, and when they saw Xie Xiuwen writing hard at the table, they naturally had the intention of mocking again.

"Yo, isn't this Xie Zicheng! I heard that your family has made a good income this year, why did you start copying books again? Since you have money to spare, why do you have to grab food from those poor scholars? ”

"That's it, Xie Zicheng, aren't you rich? Now you are still copying books here, so that those really poor students can deal with themselves? ”

"Hehe, I don't know if it's really a good family, or if it's deliberately arrogant to raise my worth!"

Xie Xiuwen didn't pay attention to their cynicism, but several students not far from him turned their heads to look.

These are the poor students who came here to receive the job of copying books.

The reason why they pay attention to Xie Xiuwen is nothing more than because they know that this Xie Xiucai's handwriting is excellent, and several gentlemen in the academy have praised him for his good handwriting.

Xie Xiuwen was attentive throughout the whole process, and he didn't seem to be affected by these people, whether it was mocking words or suspicious and scruples, he turned a blind eye to them all and only focused on copying books.

Fan Xing saw that he didn't pay attention to it at all, and this anger naturally rose.

When he was about to be embarrassed, he was stopped by his classmates.

At this time, Fan Xing realized where he was.

Although he acted arrogantly, this was the library building of Mingshan Academy, and he knew that it was not a place to go wild, so someone happened to hand him the steps, so he brushed his sleeves away, and his face was gloomy.

The people who find fault are gone, there is no excitement to see, and the students will naturally disperse.

After Xie Xiuwen copied this article, he carefully put it in his arms, and put the original book back in its place, and everyone knew that he must have seen a wonderful article, or he was inspired to suddenly have an understanding, and he was not really here to copy the book to subsidize it.

No one noticed that the middle-aged man in a white robe in the corner was stroking his beard while looking at Xie Xiuwen's back with a light smile.

The clerk in charge of the registration of the library came over and handed it over: "Xu Zhangshi, I don't know if you came here in person, but what are your orders?" ”

"Who is the one who was embarrassed just to copy the book?"

The little clerk introduced the few people present carefully in a few words, and did not forget to remind him at the end.

"That Fan Xiucai is the son of the Fan family in Fucheng, and he is in Class A with Xie Xiucai."

Xu Zhangshi frowned: "We are a academy here, not a market, and the atmosphere of the academy still needs to be maintained." ”

"Yes."

When Xie Xiuwen returned to the dormitory, he couldn't wait to take out the article he had copied and pondered it again, but he didn't even know that the beans brought him water.

For a few days, Xie Xiuwen was free every day, so he went to the library to study, often forgetting even tea and dinner.

What Xie Xiuwen is now reading in the library is not some of the exam questions of the township examination or the general examination of the past dynasties, let alone the wonderful works of those students, but the more remote geographical chronicles and some more practical books.

This kind of book is not popular in the library, and it can be said that it has been lying there with ashes.

The geographical records collected here are not drawn by the government, but mainly tell about some customs or geographical features, there are no maps, only words.

In addition, Xie Xiuwen also read a large number of official documents and newspapers that could be made public.

Of course, most of the Kumon were more than a decade ago, or even decades ago.

And Di Bao has the most recent one about ten days ago, which shows the great ability of this Mingshan Academy.

Xie Xiuwen flipped through a lot of these, or because he suddenly remembered that Ganbao had reminded him before, saying that since the imperial examination was for the selection of officials for the imperial court, how could these students know nothing about the major affairs of the imperial court?

Xie Xiuwen didn't react at the time, he only felt that Ganbao didn't know what it was: he didn't hear what was going on outside the window, and he only read the books of sages.

However, when he heard Wang Jin say that Xu Shanchang wanted to accept disciples, he suddenly realized that even if Xu Shanchang's disciples were not the top people in the imperial examination, they were all people who were really capable and could be trusted by the imperial court.

Therefore, if you have no talent to learn, but you don't care about the major affairs of the court, how can you really be a blockbuster?

Xie Xiuwen slapped his head immediately, and secretly rejoiced: "Sure enough, it's my good treasure who reminded me right!" I was careless. ”

In a blink of an eye, it's the monthly exam again.

Mingshan Academy is divided into four classes, A, B, C, and D, and the number of students in each class is not the same, but Class A has the smallest number of students, while Class D has the largest number of students, and it is taught in a large way.

According to the rules of the college, if you are the last in the monthly examination for three consecutive times, you will be downgraded.

Although Xie Xiuwen has been hiding clumsy, every exam belongs to the middle and upper level of Class A, so it is not his turn to be demoted.

It's just that now that he learned that Xu Shanchang was coming back, Xie Xiuwen was still hesitating whether to take a look?

Although it may not be a good thing for Mu Xiu to be in the forest, if it is mediocre, Xu Shanchang may not be able to look down on it!

In this way, Xie Xiuwen performed steadily and excellently in this monthly examination, and the final result was that Xie Xiuwen ranked third, which was the best result he achieved after entering the academy this time.

Fan Xing looked at his ranking and was depressed, and when he saw Xie Xiuwen so beautiful, his eyes were red with anger.

"Xie Xiuwen, dare to use tricks under my nose, I can't spare you!"