Bai Chongyan looked at the table: "I will bring the money for this writing brush tomorrow, and the deed for selling the land will also be sent to me."

"No rush." ​​Zhu Ming was really not in a hurry. He had already fooled this guy anyway.

Bai Chongyan added: "Brother Yu has a good friend who is the husband of the Prime Minister of Yangzhou. We have made an appointment to go to the mountains together tomorrow. I wonder if I would like to go with him?"

The son of the state magistrate?

Of course I want to go!

Ju Ming looked calm and upright, showing no envy for the powerful: "I'm more than happy to do it."

Bai Sanlang left with his family children, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sent him out with gifts. After they returned to the house, they treated the Zhu family father and son with even more respect.

What a talented man, if you can always be Brother Qi’s teacher...

Bai Chongyan held an umbrella and returned to his home. He was inexplicably excited all the way, not only the pleasure of buying a good pen, but also the pleasure of seeking new knowledge.

As for the scandal about his classmate's widow, Bai Chongyan no longer believes it.

The road was slippery on a rainy day, and I accidentally fell half of my body in the mud.

He went straight to his father's study without changing into clean clothes.

Officer Lao Bai was reading a book with the light on, and glanced at the muddy water on his son's body: "You're back?"

"It's done." Bai Chongyan said.

Old Bai said: "It can be done tonight. It seems that the father and son are very capable and convinced you."

Bai Chongyan roughly recounted the story and said: "Father, the Zhu family and his son must not be bad people. Even if they are bad people, with their talents and knowledge, there is no need to deceive villagers and women. Especially the young scholar Zhu, although he only asked for advice

These two sentences have already impressed the child."

Old Bai Yuan worked as a county clerk, but his knowledge was too much for him to pass the examination. He asked: "Is he really that talented and learned?"

"More than just being talented and knowledgeable," Bai Chongyan highly praised it. "When I went to Yangzhou from Xixiang County to study, I met more than one or two Confucian scholars. Even the famous Confucians in Yangzhou also interpreted the Analects of Confucius according to He Pingshu's words.

》. One or two, they can explain it like a lotus flower, and they are clear and logical, but who can say the word 'public and private'?"

Lao Bai said: "These two words are not difficult at all. I know their meaning as soon as I hear them."

Bai Chongyan said: "It's one thing to understand it, but it's another thing to speak it out. If you don't study "The Analects" to perfection, how can you say this? The simpler the words, the more wonderful they are.

, as the saying goes, the most important thing is simplicity."

Old Bai understood clearly: "You mean, all the Confucian teachers in Yangzhou are not as knowledgeable as this young man?"

"It's not necessarily true. The word 'public and private' may have come to him by chance," Bai Chongyan said.

"Does he want to take the imperial examination and become an official?" Lao Bai asked again.

Bai Chongyan said: "This is indeed the intention, and I asked my child to help guarantee it."

Old Bai Yuanwai pondered: "In this case, why not give him some mountainous land? If he can't pass the imperial examination, it will only be a few acres of poor land. It will not cause any loss to us. When Erlang (Bai Ergongzi) comes back, we will give it to him.

He helped create the household registration. For your grandmother’s birthday banquet, please invite the Zhu family and his son to sit inside and not mix with ordinary people."

"My father is wise." Bai Chongyan also admired his father's arrangements.

Old Bai Yuanwai warned: "Regardless of the fact that my family is very powerful in the countryside, what does it matter if we leave Xixiang County? You should be kind to others, and don't argue and enmity with others. That gangster downstream is not stingy, and he calls himself a novice Bai Yuanwai.

If you make enemies with your neighbors, collude with bandits, and sell salt and tea privately, sooner or later you will have to break up your family and run away!"

When he was young, he was also a ruthless character. More than ten years ago, he finally resigned from his position as bookkeeper and returned to the countryside in despair.

From then on, he cultivated his moral character and treated his neighbors with kindness, and gradually gained a good reputation.

"Father is right," Bai Chongyan said.

Member Lao Bai added: "I forgot to ask you yesterday, is Zhong Xiucai willing to come to my house to teach?"

Bai Chongyan said: "My child has been invited, and Zhong Xiucai is willing to come, but the requirements are more stringent. The monthly salary is four guan, and another one has to be paid every year."

"He must be so poor!" Old Bai was furious.

Bai Chongyan said: "Our place is too remote. I have asked several gentlemen. Anyone who has some skills is either unwilling to come or the price is too high. With the remuneration given by my father, I can also hire a teacher, but what about his knowledge?

But I don’t like it.”

Lao Bai said: "It's okay to be less knowledgeable. After all, I'm just teaching Meng Tong. Liang Xuejun in my family is too old and is so dazzled and deaf that he can't even hear the quarrels in class. We must find a new teacher this year."

Bai Chongyan hesitated again and again and couldn't help but said: "My child thinks that the private school should be changed into a village school, so that all children in the village who are interested in learning can come to study."

"You still need to build a village school, do you really think I am a good person?" Old Bai said sneered.

Bai Chongyan said: "Father, there is no village school, so my family can only be considered a wealthy family. Only by establishing a village school and educating the countryside can we be called a gentry family."

"The gentry's home, the gentry's home..."

Old Bai was moved by this title. After pondering over and over again, he nodded in agreement and said, "Indeed, there is no village school in the village, and you will lose face when traveling abroad. With fifty guan, you should be able to set up a village school, right?"

Bai Chongyan said: "It's more than enough."

Lao Bai immediately made the decision: "After your grandmother's birthday, we will build a few thatched houses and let the children in the village come to study. For the time being, let Xuexue Liang continue to teach."

Bai Chongyan suggested: "Since the great man of the Zhu family can compile the "Three Character Classic", he must have great experience in teaching Meng children. He also said that his Meng studies were taught by his father, Xianggong Zhu. Wait until the children are tested for their knowledge.

Maybe we can hire Mr. Zhu as a village scholar."
Chapter completed!