Chapter 398: De Ge'er is innocently caught in the crossfire
The year passed quickly, and both local and out-of-town students returned to the college one after another.
Sun Shan had already listened to the lectures on the Four Books and Five Classics once, and now he needed to listen to them again.
I arrived at the academy late, and the teacher of the Four Books and Five Classics had already started teaching, so I had to start all over again from the beginning to catch up on what I had not heard before.
The Four Books and Five Classics are basic courses, accounting for the largest proportion of marks. The understanding of the classics can reflect a student’s most basic talent.
Apart from poetry and prose, Sun Shan's weakest points were classics.
Perhaps the Hong School and Zhangzhou Prefecture School were short of resources and had weak teaching staff, so the basic courses at the beginning were not solid.
Neither Hong Xiucai nor the teacher of the provincial school had an accurate or unique understanding of the classics, so Sun Shan, as a student, was more or less delayed.
When I came to Yuelu Academy to study and listened to the teachers' explanations, I realized that there were so many allusions and implications hidden in every word and sentence.
Sun Shan benefited a lot.
The Four Books and Five Classics is Sun Shan’s main project for the upcoming academic year, and the academy library is his secondary goal.
There are not only a variety of rare books here, but also various tabloids covering current affairs.
From the imperial court to the local level, everyone here will receive the news first.
Of course, no matter how fast it is, it won’t be faster than internal speed, and the information obtained here will definitely be delayed.
In addition to reading rare books, Sun Shan also liked reading the morning newspaper.
Newspapers generally report on major court affairs, such as the appointment and dismissal of officials, interpretation of various parties' policies, etc.
At first Sun Shan couldn't understand it, but after reading it more, he gradually understood it.
Sun Shan read several issues of the imperial journal and vaguely realized that the current emperor might not be in good health.
The above reports would occasionally mention that the emperor was absent from court.
For an ordinary emperor, not attending court was no big deal, but for Emperor Taiqi it was a serious accident.
You have to know that this emperor was the founding emperor. Before and after he ascended the throne, he was always conscientious and wished he could attend court 360 days a year.
If you miss the morning session, it can only be due to physical reasons.
Judging from the contents of the palace reports, Emperor Taiqi had frequently missed court in the past year.
Sun Shan felt vaguely uneasy.
However, this uneasiness soon disappeared. He was just a scholar now, and it was none of his business whether the emperor could attend court or not.
After reading the official bulletin, Sun Shan looked at the tabloids.
Tabloids are about some local gossip, such as lawsuits between gentry and common people, patrol performances by famous actors, etc. It is full of the flavor of the market and quite interesting to read.
You can also get a glimpse into the lives of local people in Changsha Prefecture.
Of course, Sun Shan was more directly involved in the local life of Changsha Prefecture.
Sun Shan still keeps the habit of writing a diary, recording the people he meets and the things he experiences during the day, and even listing out a price list.
Perhaps hundreds of years later, future generations will dig out his precious diary and get a glimpse into the study life of a scholar named Sun Shan hundreds of years ago.
After reading the newspaper, Sun Shan went to the library to read and copy books.
There is a place for copying books here, but you need to bring your own pens, ink, paper and inkstone as the academy does not provide them.
Sun Shan also saw some students working and studying in the library.
Helping to manage books, copying books, etc. I heard that working here can support one's study life.
Yuelu Academy recruits the best students in the province, and the students will receive subsidies from the academy. However, there are always some students from poor families who not only have to study but also have to support their families, so applying for work-study programs can kill two birds with one stone.
I can stay in the academy to study and support my family at the same time.
As for the boarding students like Sun Shan, it is sad to find that Sun Shan is the one with the poorest family so far.
The other students were either from official families or from merchant families. Sun Shan was the only small landlord like him who came from a remote mountain village and owned less than a hundred acres of land.
Fortunately, Sun Shan has a beautiful and capable cousin, so everyone is very polite to him.
There is no phenomenon of buying high and selling low.
Or perhaps the students who can come to Yuelu Academy to study, at least have the status of a scholar and are not too old, so don’t look down on the young and poor, and everyone will wisely leave a way out for themselves.
Sun Shan has been in the academy for so long, and he has seen intrigues, but he has never seen a life-and-death struggle. Everyone is a gentleman, and they still need to maintain politeness on the surface.
What's more, friendship between classmates is very important. Apart from relatives and teachers, classmates are the only ones who help each other.
If you can maintain a relationship, you will definitely maintain it.
Like "Ice Cube" Yu Nanwang, he is the only one who doesn't socialize at all, but he is also considered an internet celebrity in the academy.
When they returned to the dormitory, Gui Ge'er came up to him quickly, helped him take off his coat, and turned on the fire so that Sun Shan could warm himself up.
Sun Shan drank the hot tea and felt much warmer.
Gui Ge'er took out a bag of things from the box and said happily: "Brother Shan, I received it from the escort agency today. I took a look and saw that it was sent from home."
Sun Shan quickly took the package handed over by Brother Gui and found a letter from it. The handwriting was from Brother Yong, so it must be a letter from Sunjia Village.
Sun Shan opened it and saw that the date was before the New Year. After careful calculation, he found that it took half a year for the package to arrive, which was quite a long time.
In the letter, Sun Bomin first introduced the situation at home, saying that everything was fine, and his grandmother Huang was in good health and would probably live to 99 years old.
Then introduce your relatives and friends.
After Yong'er got married, Uncle Sun and Aunt Sun focused their attention on De'er and arranged blind dates for him all day long. However, De'er didn't want to and hid in the county school and didn't go home.
He also said that the third sister Xiaoman had not been pregnant after giving birth to three daughters, and his words revealed the worries of Sun Boming and Su.
Later he mentioned that Sun Shan's classmate Yang Qingbei was getting married, and invited the Sun family to attend the wedding.
Sun Shan was stunned when he read this. Qingbei is one year younger than him and is only 16 years old this year, which means that Qingbei got married at the age of 15.
Is this too early? Why get married so early?
Sun Shan has a hundred thousand questions in his mind!
Sun Bomin wrote a letter pointing out that Yang Qingbei's marriage was just a side issue, mainly to introduce Sun Shan's marriage.
Sun Bomin, Su, and even Huang made it very clear in the letter: Sun Shan is 17 years old this year and has reached the age to get married. His classmates are younger than him and got married earlier than him. In any case, Sun Shan should consider getting married.
Sun Bomin, Su, and Huang planned to look for one in the next year or two, and when they had found the right one, Sun Shan also returned from studying.
After returning, Sun Shan took part in the provincial examination. Regardless of whether he passed or not, he had to marry and have children.
In their letters, Sun Boming and Su mentioned which of their peers had already become grandparents, and which daughter-in-law had given birth to two children in three years.
The central idea can be summed up in six words: Sun Shan, get married, and have children!
Sun Shan read the thick stack of letters from beginning to end.
Three quarters of the content revolves around Sun Shan getting married and having children.
A large number of positive and negative examples are listed.
In the end, De Ge'er was innocently implicated and became the most unfilial descendant in the eyes of Sun Bomin, Su and Huang, who warned Sun Shan not to learn from him.
Sun Shan broke out in a sweat after reading the letter. Fortunately, he was far away from home and communication was difficult, so he avoided Tang Seng's urging to get married.
Oh, it seems that it was really the wisest decision for him to come to Yuelu Academy to study.