Chapter 26 Undercurrents

Qin Haiming stood beside him and carefully observed Zhang Bojin's face. As the son of a businessman, checking the face seemed to be his instinct.

"Mr. Zhang, I've only learned a lot, and this monthly exam is ranked first." Qin Haiming first praised Zhang Bojin with a little words, and saw a red light on Zhang Bojin's face, and then said, "I don't know if Mr. Zhang has free time. I have two folding fans to ask Mr. Zhang to write poems and paintings. I'll give it to someone when I return home at the end of the year. This thing is the most elegant gift."

Zhang Bojin's face became gentle. He wrote a poem on a fan or painted a few strokes. Qin Haiming gave five taels of gold. Two ten taels of silver is enough to spend until the end of the year. However, when I am soaring to the sky in the future, these treasures will not only be worth five taels of silver, but they will be cheaper.

Qin Haiming sneered secretly, if it weren't for the book surnamed Zhang, how could he spend a lot of money on him? Thinking about it, I had studied hard and visited a wise master, but I was not lucky enough to fail in the provincial examinations in succession. I accidentally learned from Zhang Bojin that he had a book called "Like Ji Sheng Yun", so I had a good idea and wanted to see the secret book to change my destiny.

Someone in the crowd said sarcastically: "A new scholar, who is less than 20 years old and has been studying for a few years, can actually overwhelm so many seniors. I'm afraid there is something wrong with it."

The anger was suddenly ignited, and the crowd was in a hurry. The more I spoke, the more angry I became. I don’t know who shouted “Let me argue with you”, and the flow of people rushed back to Juxiantang.

Zhang Bojin smiled slightly and greeted Qin Haiming, "Brother Qin, it's not too late to draw the fan at night. Let's go and see the fun together."

Along the way, more and more people gathered, and there were nearly a hundred people coming to Juxian Hall.

All the teachers in Juxian Hall were there, and Shi Ningzhong held the monthly exam results in his hand and said with a smile: "This Jiang Anyi is amazing. He is a young man. He has been ranked first in Chongzhi Hall in the next three months. I am afraid that it is easy to break the situation. It is better to act low-key and be ready to go."

"I don't agree with Mr. Shi's words," Ling Xu retorted: "The young man is as excited as everything is just beginning to come. Just as he is working hard to move forward and achieve something, how can he keep his low profile and keep his own sharpness?"

Shi Ningzhong shook his head and smiled silently.

There was a loud noise outside the door, and Shao Renfu frowned and said, "Why is it so noisy?"

Ling Xu stood up and smiled and said, "I'll go and have a look. I'll have any questions and have an appointment. Let's ask the sir."

Ling Xu came outside the door and saw that the black heads were covered with people in front of the door. A group of people were speechless and were excited. Ling Xu was startled and asked, "What happened?"

After finally hearing the reason clearly, Ling Xu's face was pale, his eyes widened, and he shouted angrily: "It's outrageous. Do you think Ling is unfair and engage in corruption?"

At this time, the people in the hall also walked out. Seeing Ling Xu's anger, Su Ziming quickly shouted, "What are you going to do? Is this how you respect the teacher?"

Ji Yanqing and others persuaded Ling Xu to find out what happened. When they heard the sentient beings questioning Ling Xu's fraud, they were all furious. Although the test paper was published by Ling Xu, everyone had discussed it in advance, and the correction and evaluation were participated by several lecturers. The question of Ling Xu was a question of all the gentlemen.

Shao Renfu walked forward with his stomach straight, coughed twice, and shouted: "You haven't retreated yet, and you're going to cause trouble again. Write down your name and expel it from the academy."

A voice came out of nowhere in the crowd and said quietly: "Sir, I'm afraid everyone will be unable to convince you when you act like this."

Ling Xu had calmed down and sneered at everyone, "Okay, okay. Let's convince you today. Brother Su, please bring Jiang Anyi's monthly exam papers."

After taking the test paper, Ling Xu glanced at the crowd. Qin Haiming was a tall man. Ling Xu saw him at first sight and called out: "Qin Haiming, come and read it to everyone to see if the gentlemen are dizzy."

Qin Haiming was very hurt. So many people started to make fun of me. I was just watching the fun. Why just clicking my name? I was wrong. But the gentleman dared not disobey the name. Qin Haiming had to hold the test paper with a bitter face and recite it one by one. Everyone listened quietly, but his conscience was not ignorant. Jiang Anyi's classics analyzed thoroughly, and obviously he had made hard work, which was better than what he answered. The policy theory was written with rigorous words, insightful insights, and powerful words, which was the best theory.

Seeing that everyone was speechless, Ling Xu sarcastically said, "Everyone doesn't study hard, but puts their minds into finding people's mistakes. Since they feel that they are embarrassed by their juniors, then go back and work hard. The year-end exam is approaching, don't let the newcomers laugh and be incompetent."

The disgusting voice floated out again, "Will Mr. Ling accidentally tell Jiang Anyi the question during the daily class?"

A hint of joy flashed in Shao Renfu's eyes, but he cursed with a tense face: "Who is talking nonsense? Can you still believe Mr. Ling's character?"

The eyes were like arrows, and the crowd was left and right, avoiding Shao Renfu's gaze, and no one stood up.

"There are no timid people, there are such students in the academy. Ling is deeply ashamed of." Ling Xu stamped his feet and beat his chest, and was so angry that he couldn't calm down.

Zhao Xingfeng said coldly from the side: "Since someone is questioning, you might as well ask Jiang Anyi to come here for daily classes and check it on the spot to show his innocence."

"It's so good." Shao Renfu hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhao might as well ask you to take a trip and bring Jiang Anyi's daily classes. Under everyone's eyes, it's not clear whether the authenticity is true or false."

Then, Shao Renfu smiled and said to Deng Haonan, who had not spoken in front of the door, as if he had just remembered it, saying, "Captain, what do you think?"

Deng Haonan said silently and nodded. Zhao Xingfeng called out the two students and rushed to find Jiang Anyi.

Su Ziming stood beside Deng Shanzhu and lowered his voice to remind him: "Master Mountainzhu, why did you let Shao Renfu do this? Once you really find one or two test questions from Jiang Anyi's daily class, wouldn't Ling Xu be unable to step down? Jiang Anyi can no longer gain a foothold in the academy."

Su Ziming and Ling Xu are good friends. He knew that Ling Xu was very considerate of Jiang Anyi's daily classes and corrected them in detail, for fear that Ling Xu would accidentally leak the questions in the daily classes. After all, Jiang Anyi's progress was too rapid, and even he felt a little suspicious.

"It's okay, I can trust Jiang Anyi, and even more so Ling Xu." Deng Shanchang said lightly.

Soon, Zhao Xingfeng came back, and Jiang Anyi followed behind with a thick stack of things in his hand. He passed through the wall and felt everyone's eyes focused on him. Jiang Anyi was a little nervous. He wondered what happened to Zhao Xingfeng asking him to bring the daily class?

Putting down the daily class in his hand, Jiang Anyi saluted all the gentlemen, and Deng Shan said, "Whoever you have any doubts may as well come and check it out."

After pushing for a while, five people stepped forward and started to look through Jiang Anyi's daily class. Jiang Anyi recognized one of them as Lin Yizhen. It seemed that Zhuo Wangfeng had offended him invisibly on "Singing the Jujube".

Ling Xu whispered to Jiang Anyi about the whole story, angry, aggrieved, and sad. Jiang Anyi couldn't tell the taste. He looked up at the people in the yard, and his faces were written with jealousy, suspicion, ridicule, hostility, and of course there was sympathy and regret. Standing among the crowd, Jiang Anyi felt very lonely. Is this what Senior Liu said that we should be used to standing in front of everyone and greeting others' picky gazes?

Ling Xu saw Jiang Anyi's anger, sighed lightly, and advised: "Mr. Shi just said that you are a young man with a strong ambition, and you are afraid that you will be easily broken. Anyi, I think that although it is easy to break even if it is very strong, it is also very refined. Mencius said, 'God will give great responsibilities to this man', you should remember it."

A warm feeling rose in Jiang Anyi's heart, and he said softly.

Pointing at the people below the steps, Ling Xu shouted: "You have doubts about Jiang Anyi, only seeing his progress but not the efforts he has put in. This daily class that is nearly a foot thick is Jiang Anyi's hard work for the past three and a half months. Do you ask yourself if you have so many daily classes written in one year?"

Hearing Mr. Ling’s shouting, Lin Yizhen stood up and opened his fingers and said: “The poem says: The original celestial body is calm, the spring flows are clear, Zhao Bo is successful, and the king’s heart is peaceful, how can I explain it?”

"There are two theories in this poem, one is about stoking King You and the other is about Meizhao Duke Mu..."

"The Master said: A gentleman is committed to the foundation, and the foundation is established and the Tao is born. I wonder if this sentence is related to the poem "Millet Seedling"?"

"Of course, it's related, what the Master said..."

Asking questions were like a storm that was about to flood Jiang Anyi. Jiang Anyi gradually let go of his nervousness and answered calmly, as if he had returned to the hut thatched hut a few years ago and asked questions and answers with his father. Although there were wind and rain outside the house, the house was warm and peaceful.

The question gradually faded and it was never heard of.

Lin Yizhen carefully stacked Jiang Anyi's daily classes neatly, came to Ling Xu and Jiang Anyi calmly, bowed deeply, and said, "Lin Yizhen, a villain, is also a villain, misunderstood Master Ling and Junior Jiang. Lin apologizes deeply, please forgive me."

Ling Xu sighed: "It's a big deal to know your mistakes. Lin Yizhen, you are not a villain, you are a gentleman, I don't blame you, I don't think An Yi will blame you either."

Lin Yizhen could let go of her pride and apologize in public. Jiang Anyi didn't expect that, and nodded repeatedly to agree with Ling Xu's statement.

Deng Shanchang stepped forward from behind, facing the disciples in the hall, and said in a calm voice: "I have a worry and a joy in what I have done today. What is sorrowful is that you are fascinated by jealousy, unable to make clear the right and wrong, and have lost the way of teachers and friends. This is the reason why you cannot study at home. Everyone went back to copy the Master's "Principle of Government", "Liren", and "Zi Zhang" several times, carefully pondered it, and truly read the book into your heart."

Deng Haonan's eyes slowly swept across the face of everyone and continued: "No one can be without mistakes, but a gentleman's fault is like the eclipse of the sun and the moon. If there is any, it will be corrected; if there is no, it will be encouraged. I saw the openness of a gentleman from Lin Yizhen, and the generousness of a gentleman from Jiang Anyi. You also have these qualities. This is the foundation of our academy's education for three hundred years. You should take it as a warning for today's affairs, recommend yourself to others, and use more tempering to achieve great wise men."

Everyone in the hall agreed in unison.
Chapter completed!