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He took a hundred taels of silver, his father Jia She's name card, and a boy who was rewarded by Jia She. He didn't know his name before, but since he followed him, Jia Shan casually named him one.

New name, Xiaoqiang.

"Xiaoqiang, how far is it from the academy? Do you often walk this road?"

Xiaoqiang drove the carriage skillfully: "Third Master, we are just ahead. My home is nearby. I can walk this road with my eyes closed!"

"No, just keep your eyes open..."

"The third master is joking. The younger one is just talking. How can he really dare to close his eyes."

While the two were talking, they had reached the foot of the mountain, and Dongshan Academy was actually built halfway up the mountain!

Fortunately, it was not very high. Jia Shan took the name card and climbed a hundred steps, and the gate of the academy was already in front of her.

It must have been during school hours. Although the door was open, the front door was empty. There were only two old men sitting in the pavilion behind the door playing chess.

Jia Shan looked around for a while and saw no one else. Could it be that these two old men playing chess were just gatekeepers?

Jia Shan was immediately in awe of Dongshan Academy! It is indeed the first academy in Kyoto, and even the person looking at the gate has such a good temperament, he looks like a scholar who has read poetry and books.

"Young man, you are looking around, what are you looking at?"

One of the old men in white seemed to have the upper hand. He would have a cup of tea from time to time while playing chess. Now he looked at Jia Shan and asked.

"Old sir, I've invited you to ask the principal of your academy."

"Our mountain chief..." The old man in white smiled and looked at the old man in gray who was still thinking hard in front of him and said with a smile: "Shall we ask Mr. Li from the academy? What's the matter?"

The old man in gray also stopped and raised his head to look at Jia Shan.

"Study!"

Jia Shan’s answer was very straightforward. Of course she came to the academy to study.

"Haha, you know how to study at a young age. It's good. I'll test you first. If you pass my test, I believe it won't be difficult for Mr. Li Shan." The old man in white seemed to be bored playing chess and had no time.

Time to have some fun.

"I'm afraid that it will delay Mr.'s chess game..." He came through the back door, okay, where is the exam?

"It's okay, don't delay, have you read all of "The Analects of Confucius"?"

Jia Shan thought to herself: It would be a good idea to test the waters with the old man guarding the gate of Dongshan Academy first to see if Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is really in the academy. So she said with a very humble face: "I read it a few times..."<

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The old man in white held his beard and said with a smile: "Young man, you are very courageous. You dare to come to Dongshan Academy to see Principal Li after reading the Analects a few times? You want me to tell you that there is a private school at the foot of the mountain that specializes in teaching enlightened children like you.

, you’d better go there and have a look.”

Jia Shan shook her head and said with a smile: "What the old man said is wrong. If whoever reads the most books can get the first prize, why does the imperial court need to take the imperial examination? Isn't it just a matter of directly comparing who reads faster? I would say even if you read the book a thousand times , I don’t understand that Confucius’ slight words of great righteousness are in vain.”

The old man in white was stunned. How many years have passed? Who dares to talk to him? A young child!?

The old man in gray clothes stopped playing chess at this time. He seemed to have discovered something extremely interesting. He laughed and said: "Boy, I am very optimistic about you!" He is the first person who dares to speak arrogantly in front of his teacher in so many years. See you next time.

It’s true that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

The old man in white was in an extraordinary state of mind. Of course he would not be annoyed by Jia Shan's words. Instead, he smiled and said: "Okay, very good. I would like to ask my little brother, what is the 'small words and great meaning' in the Analects of Confucius?"

The more knowledgeable a person is, the more he will find that the knowledge in the world is endless. Although he is the teacher of today's saints, he is not arrogant enough to think that he can understand the principles of all things. It is just that if the child in front of him can learn in the "Analects of Confucius" He found a problem that stumped him, but he didn’t believe it!

The story recorded in Liezi that "Confucius was stumped by two children arguing about the sun" is just a legend!

Jia Shan secretly laughed in her heart: He is indeed a stupid person who is stupid at studying. He fell into the trap so easily. Originally he was testing himself, but now he is testing him, so why are you so polite?

"Mr. Do you know how many disciples of Confucius there are?"

The old man in white clothes smiled without thinking: "There are three thousand disciples of Confucius, and there are seventy-two masters!" Sure enough, he is just a kid, asking such a simple question.

The old man in gray clothes was also a little disappointed, that's all? He thought there would be some surprise,

Jia Shan smiled and said: "Sure enough, the old gentleman has read a lot and remembers clearly, but I don't know how many of the seventy-two people are senior and how many are young?"

"This..." the old man in white said in astonishment: "The Analects of Confucius does not mention it, and there is no record in the scriptures..."

The old man in gray also had a confused look on his face. This question was really tricky. Even though he had read a lot of books, it was difficult for him to find an answer for a while.

Jia Shan smiled softly: "So I said, although the old gentleman has read a lot of books, he can only read the gate here. Why? Learning without thinking is useless! Like the old gentleman, if you read "The Analects" a thousand times, I can only look at the gate here."

"Me? Do I look at the gate?" The old man in white looked around and said to the old man in gray: "Did I look at the gate?"

The old man in gray coughed slightly and said to Jia Shan: "Don't talk nonsense, this is..."

"It doesn't matter." The old man in white waved his hand and said with a smile: "I would like to ask this little brother who has read the Analects twice. There are seventy-two masters. How many are at the top? How many are young?"

With the identity and status of the old man in white, asking a child for advice in person may seem a bit unbelievable to many people, including the old man in gray beside him. Only the old man in white himself did not feel that there was anything embarrassing about it. Confucius said: There must be something wrong when three people are walking together. My teacher, Confucius did everything to ask children for advice, let alone him.

Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, this is knowing!

Jia Shan understood that the two people in front of her were most likely college teachers, lowering themselves to experience life at the gate, but were they ordinary people?

Even though he dresses low-key and behaves in a low-key manner, his father is a "hereditary first-class general"! Even the headmaster of Dongshan Academy has to be a little bit shy to open the back door for him. Two teachers who pretend to be low-key behave like this in front of him,

Hehe, later he shows his father's name card of "First Class General", but he doesn't know what his expression will be?

Jia Shan opened the folding fan, shook it gently and said with a smile: "'There are five or six crowns and six or seven boys.' Old sir, right?"

The old man in white was silent for a moment and suddenly stood up and laughed: "Hahaha, yes, yes, today's trip is not in vain, you accept him as your student!"

After saying this, the person has already drifted away.

The old man in gray hurriedly bowed to the distance and said: "Yes, teacher."

Seeing that these two people had secretly accepted him as a student, Jia Shan felt that she could no longer pretend, so she took out her father's name card, a hereditary first-class general, and said with a smile: "Hey, sir, actually I really came to the academy."

Li Shan is long, I don’t know..."

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Rongguo Mansion.

"Is the second sister here..."

"Sister Lin is here, please take a seat." Yingchun smiled and stood up to greet her.

Daiyu entered the room and sat on the kang, smiling and saying: "Second sister, I was just going to pay my respects to my eldest aunt, shall we go there together?"

Yingchun had already gone over to greet Mrs.

For a moment, the two entered the east courtyard of Rongguo Mansion from the side door. Daiyu had already discovered when she first entered that this courtyard was separated from the Rongguo Mansion Garden. It was full of birds singing, flowers fragrant, trees, rocks, small bridges and flowing water.

The main courtyard is so majestic and majestic, but it is also more compact and unique.

When passing by the courtyard, Daiyu turned her head slightly and looked at it for a few times. A graceful girl with a delicate appearance stood under the door.

"Second Miss, Miss Lin..." Ping'er smiled and walked out of the yard to say hello.

Yingchun stepped forward and said with a smile: "Ping'er, has your third brother gone to school?"

Although the news about Jia Shan being kicked out of the school spread among the servants, it could not reach the ears of Er Mu in such a short time, and certainly not the ears of Dai Yu.

Ping'er didn't understand Jia Shan's meaning yet, so he could only smile and said: "No, I haven't been there for the past two days. I went out of the house today.

Daiyu's eyes narrowed slightly, she hadn't gone in the past two days, which means Jia Shan didn't go to school at home yesterday...

Yingchun did not doubt his presence and said with a smile: "Third brother can't rest for a few days all year round. It's good to rest at home... By the way, we have to go to the eldest lady to say hello. Is the eldest lady at home?"

Ping'er nodded and smiled: "You should be at home, I'll take you there."
Chapter completed!