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Chapter 52: Shepherd's Flute

 Guo Xuezhao went to the city to find Xuexuezheng in the county again. This is the only relationship he can rely on. It is said that Xuezheng is also a good wine, and the two of them can say a lot in this regard.

So the village school was handed over to Guo Lin and Zhang Yue.

The village school in Wuxi is still in a mess.

Some boys want to play but don’t care about their homework. Some want to learn but are led by others.

Guo Lin is a soft-hearted person and is often interrupted by the village children when he teaches the students below.

When Zhang Yue saw this, he couldn't stand it and said to Guo Lin: "There are some of these village children who want to learn, and some don't want to learn. If they let the influence of not wanting to learn, then no one can read a book."

"What about that?"

Zhang Yue said: "There is no way. At this time, I can only adjust one or two, arrange all the boys I want to learn to sit in the front row, and sit in the back row if I don't want to learn to sit in the back row."

Guo Lin heard this and said, "This is not good, isn't this favoritism?"

Zhang Yue said: "What's the solution? Keep letting them make trouble. They don't even take their husbands seriously on weekdays, let alone you. It's useful to those who really don't want to learn?"

Guo Lin nodded and said, "I will follow my junior brother."

After so many days, the order of the village school has really improved a lot.

Guo Lin secretly admired Zhang Yue. A few days later, he saw Zhang Yue borrowing an old hunting bow from the hunter and practicing arrows at a haystack in the backyard.

Guo Lin was already familiar with Zhang Yue's thoughts about it.

It was still a bit cold on the day, but Zhang Yue was wearing only a short shirt and practicing arrows in the backyard.

Guo Lin hurriedly said, "Junior brother, what are you doing? The sky is still cold, be careful, how can you take the exam if you are sick?"

Zhang Yue said: "Sci is one of the six arts of a gentleman. I think that the county school record exam may not only take the transcript, but it will be useful if you take the craftsmanship exam."

"Who said that only those who can learn to shoot by taking martial arts exams? Chen Kangsu, the top scholar of this dynasty, was good at shooting, and Ouyang also wrote an article for him "The Oil Selling Man."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue made another move of riding a horse, shooting archery and pulling the bowstrings with pride, and said proudly: "There is nothing else, but you are familiar with it."

The two brothers laughed loudly.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue suddenly said seriously: "Since our dynasty respecting literature and martial arts, the style of scholars' martial arts has gradually faded. This is not like the Han and Tang Dynasties. Most of the famous officials and generals during the Han and Tang Dynasties were both civil and military. Now that spring is in full bloom, it is just right to practice."

After saying this, Zhang Yue continued to shoot arrows.

Guo Lin thought to himself that he almost forgot that his junior brother's ancestors were from a military governor, and practicing martial arts and archery was also a family tradition. He remembered Zhang Heng's continuous pearl arrow in Nanfengyuan.

Seeing this scene, Guo Lin admired Zhang Yue even more.

"Junior brother, practicing martial arts is a good thing, but if you are so empty, you won't have the energy to study at night."

Zhang Yue thought to himself when he heard this, he almost forgot this.

It is really hard to make a living without eating enough food, or even eat meat, but I have to eat clear soup all day long. It is really a poor and rich man. It is not that easy to be both civil and military.

In the evening, Li was personally sending a letter of protection to Guo Lin.

The county school entrance examination must be conducted by local children, and they cannot be misconducted. They follow the test of filial piety, fraternity, harmony, madness, responsibility, compassion, loyalty, and harmony. Otherwise, if they pass the imperial examination in the future, their basic situation will be revealed, and the court will ask the following crimes.

The village was about to guarantee Guo Lin that he did not commit any crime, but Zhang Yue was also going home to ask Cao Baozheng to get the bail letter.

"Thank you, Li Zheng." Guo Lin smiled when he got the letter of guarantee.

Li was smiling at Zhang Yue, and Guo Lin said, "You are all good children, but you hope to have a happy couple, and you will join the county school. If you say this, your husband will have a bright face!"

Even though the words were polite, Zhang Yue and Guo Lin knew that it would be difficult for one person to be hired by the county school, let alone the two of them.

But at this moment, both of them forgot about this incident: "Thank you, Ri Zheng!"

Li Zheng smiled and said, "When you go to the exam, you say to me, I'll hire a car to take you to the county town."

“How does this make?”

Li Zheng insisted: "You two are promising, and the hundreds of families in our village will benefit from it with you. What's the point of hiring a car? That's what it means."

Just as he left, Guo Lin sighed and said to Zhang Yue: "Junior brother, but I hope we can still talk about the friendship between classmates again."

Zhang Yue nodded and said, "That's simple, we can't pass the exam... Senior brother, I'm joking, don't be angry. Put down the basin quickly and say something well!"

Guo Lin put down the basin at the head of the bed and raised his face and said, "We can go to the county school to recruit, and we can get one. I will do my best. Junior brother, you will fail the exam then, don't cry in front of me and my husband! Do you know?"

"Senior brother is serious, I can't joke."

Guo Lin said: "Knowing? Do you know how many county magistrates have studied hard for decades and have achieved nothing yet. They are laughed at as poor as being so poor that even three-foot-foot-year-old children look down on them."

"From the first day of my study, I know how difficult it is to be successful. My father once told me that I can't bear the ten years of hard work, so I don't deserve to be a scholar. I know this and I still fear and dare not slack off for a day. Even if I fail this year, I will still take the exam again next year. What about you, junior brother? What about your future?"

"A few days ago, you told me that the stream can still be like the west, why is life no longer a young man? I was moved by it, but today you are studying? What is the difference between your words and the village boy who is fighting and unwilling to learn from? If you are reading as a joke, then the book will also play with you!"

Guo Lin made a long speech, and Zhang Yue couldn't help but complain, Senior brother, you can talk to Miao Sanniang, what reason to tell me here?

Zhang Yue still said on the face: "What my senior brother said is very true."

Guo Lin continued to say, "Recently, you can reach nine out of ten paths, but in the county examination, you will be out of ten paths."

"You can only make one or two mistakes in the county examination at most. It is even more difficult to learn from the state. You must understand everything before you can get it. You can't make one mistake."

Zhang Yue asked, "Senior Brother, are you just one or two wrong with a hundred ways?"

Guo Lin said: "If you don't leave the commission, you may be sure, but when you have been wasting your money for two or three months, you have forgotten a lot. Now I don't know how many of them are left. Junior brother, you are not familiar with the scriptures, and you have many mistakes these days. If you want to get it, you must read the scriptures thoroughly and memorize them well... Junior brother, are you listening carefully?"

"It's the old tune again!"

Zhang Yue used to listen to Guo Lin's nagging, thinking that his senior brother was really a mother-in-law. He sat on the bed and unfolded the tent and looked out the window, but saw the bright moon leaping over the pine trees, and the breeze was blowing without any rush or restlessly. The pine trees were ringing up and down, and the echoes were long.

How leisurely the scene is now!

The urgency that the senior brother said is still in the long and long future. No matter what future is uncertain, it is nothing more than anxiety. Life is just living in such a calm state. He believes that the future will be better!

Zhang Yue put his hands on the back of his head, took a broken grass from the straw mat and held it in his mouth, looked at the starlight outside the tent, and slowly closed his eyes.

By early March, it rained heavily for several days and Qingxi was soaring.

At first, the rain was not heavy, the bridge was flooded in the water, and the stream water had been flowing through the ponds, but the children no longer dared to catch stream fish in the shallows.

Later, it caused mountain torrents, and the mountain streams that were usually rising into rivers. The water washed down from the mountains and washed down several ancient dams, scraping the rocks and woods in the beach and accumulated streams, and many fishing boats and boats downstream were destroyed.

It is the time when the earth regains its spring, but the sternness of March is comparable to the severe winter.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin were going to leave for the county town to take the exam, but the heavy rain was postponed for several days.

When the sky cleared, the two of them embarked on the exam.

Many villagers came to see them off, which made Zhang Yue feel a little more belonging to this small mountain village.

The teacher's wife nagged to the two of them: "The dry food in the car is enough for you to eat for three days. Don't go to the city to eat it, as it will easily cause your stomach to get damaged. It's so big, Guo Lin, you are traveling far away for the first time."

"I know my mother, please rest assured, I will take care of myself." Guo Linmo cried.

Zhang Yue said: "Don't worry, Master's wife, when I get to the city, I will take care of my senior brother and ensure that he will not suffer any grievances."

The master's wife said, "Don't worry if you are here. You are more like a senior brother than Guo Lin."

While tying the car for the two of them, Lin Ming said, "This donkey was borrowed from Han Tao's house. Although he didn't come to send it to you, he didn't bother to ask him when borrowing the donkey. Although he didn't come, he came. Look how full this donkey is."

Listening to Li Zheng's words, Zhang Yue remembered that Han Tao was the eldest brother who had not passed the county school entrance examination.

Guo Lin said depressedly: "It would be great if Senior Brother Han could come to see us off. I haven't heard him play the flute for a long time."

The person driving in the middle said, "I will tell you that you don't have to urge this donkey too much along the way. This donkey has not yet reached the age of 19. It is strong and powerful, but if you force him to force him, you must follow his temperament. If the road goes in a skewer, he will know that this thing is very clever."

After hearing this, Guo Lin finally suddenly said, "No wonder he is kind, this donkey has a very similar temper to his junior brother!"

Zhang Yue was dumbfounded, and his senior brother learned to be vicious as he went on.

But when Zhang Yue turned around, he saw Guo Lin without any intention of complaining. He seemed to feel so much more angry.

"Mom, Li Zheng, we're leaving!" Guo Lin and Zhang Yue waved together.

Sitting on the shaking donkey cart, Zhang Yue and Guo Lin watched the master's wife who was waving to them, and was getting farther and farther away from the villagers. Guo Lin couldn't help but turn around and wipe his tears.

Zhang Yue said: "Is there such a thing? It's just a trip to the county town, not a long trip."

"My junior brother also said to me, you also cried when you came to Wuxi on the first day."

"That's right," Zhang Yue nodded, "But senior brother, don't wipe my nose with my clothes."

"Sorry, I forgot for a moment."

The wheels of the car were crushed on the gravel road, the donkey cart shook and left Wuxi. Zhang Yue looked back at the green mountain and blue stream, remembering that he had been studying here for more than half a year. At this moment, it seemed like a different world. Suddenly, the sound of clear flute sounded behind the car.

Zhang Yue looked at Guo Lin, and Guo Lin nodded to him: "Senior Brother Han is here to see us."

"Senior Brother Han has learned flute?"

"He let the cow go."

"No wonder this is the case." Zhang Yue nodded. Although the artistic conception was much worse, the atmosphere was right.

Zhang Yue poked out of the tent from behind the car and shouted loudly to the sound of the flute: "Goodbye Brother Han!"

"Li Zheng, Master's wife, goodbye!"
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