Horse-drawn carriages are not allowed on the road of the academy, and Qi Shiqin only saw the plaque of the academy after walking for half an hour.

As early as when he entered the school, he heard someone shouting: "Master is here."

As soon as Qi Shiqin entered the door, he saw the students sitting upright. He smiled slightly, held the scroll in his hand and gently raised it upwards, and said: "Old Master Li is getting old and has some physical inconveniences. Please resign and go back to your hometown. From now on, I will teach you this course."

His age is not much older than everyone present, but no one has the slightest doubt about him.

"The county exam will be up soon. Everyone should be reviewing carefully. In order not to interrupt your progress, I will not teach new courses for now. I will give you a general overview of this year's exams."

Just like there are examination papers from various places in modern times, it is not easy to collect test questions from recent years in this era, especially since most of the academies are children of commoner families.After the county examination, there are government examinations and hospital examinations. The number of places in each place is limited. For example, the county where he lives only has nine places at one time. It is not easy to be admitted to the scholar.

For most students, reading is divided into three stages. When children aged six or seven go to school, they just read books without any specific purpose.After reading one or two scriptures in their teens, the teacher began to explain the meaning of them to them, and he did not start teaching them until they were fourteen or fifteen years old.

Now most of the children in the school are around ten years old, and it is time for them to start their own imperial examinations.

It was not until the bell rang that Qi Shiqin stopped explaining. He distributed some test papers he had brought along and said: "You guys do these papers first, and hand them over to me in the next class. If you have any other questions, class is over. You can come find me anytime later.”

Cheng Peng packed these things like treasures. Because his family was poor, he was determined to win the imperial examination and valued all opportunities.

All the way to the backyard, Dean Shen asked: "How do you feel this time?"

Qi Shiqin: "It's pretty good. The exam is coming soon, and I didn't teach any new content. It's mainly for the exam. But these things can't be rushed. It depends on the usual accumulation."

Dean Shen smiled, and changed the subject: "Xiang'er is getting old, and it's time to get married, what do you think of Lin Zhu? Xiang'er likes him very much, if he can pass the examination of scholar this time , I think let them get married."

Chen Xiang is a few years younger than Qi Shiqin, she is seventeen this year, it is indeed time to get married.In fact, girls can get married when they are fourteen, but in some noble and wealthy families, their children will not worry about getting married, so this age is just right.

After hearing this, Qi Shiqin lost his voice: "Lin Zhu?"

Dean Shen's expression became serious, and he asked, "Is there something wrong with Lin Zhu?"

Qi Shiqin said: "Master, can't you see that Lin Zhu is a woman? She just came to our academy disguised as a man."

Dean Shen didn't know how to react for a while: "Lin Zhu, what happened to him, no one in such a big living academy can see it, thanks to the fact that our family spends a lot of time with her."

Qi Shiqin said with some guilt: "It's all my fault, Xiang'er is often with Lin Zhu, I should have reminded her earlier."

"It's none of your business!" Dean Shen patted the young man who was raised as a son. He is too old to be indifferent to this matter. He blamed the younger generation and said: "Who can I expected to have today, but now I really have to tell Xiang'er, fortunately my news hasn't leaked out, otherwise it will be bad for Xiang'er's reputation."

"I'll go and talk to Xiang'er about this." Qi Shiqin took on the task at once. He and Chen Xiang grew up together and have a deep relationship.

"That's good, you young people can communicate better, and I, an old man, will make her lose face if I talk about it."

After Qi Shiqin agreed, he immediately went to find Chen Xiang. Seeing him enter the room, Chen Xiang smiled and called out: "Brother Qi is here, come and see how this purse is? I specially embroidered it for you."

Since childhood, most of her various embroideries were contributed to Qi Shiqin and her father. Before Qi Shiqin got married, Chen Xiang also prepared some of his clothes for him.

Qi Shiqin took it over and took a look. The purse was exquisitely crafted, with patterns of mandarin ducks playing in the water embroidered on it.Chen Xiang said: "Brother Qi is also married now, this can be regarded as my blessing to you."

Then she said narrowly: "Besides, brother Qi's whole body was prepared by your husband from head to toe. I'm afraid it will be rare for you to carry my purse a few times."

Qi Shiqin didn't have much reaction to this joke, tied his purse around his waist, and then sat by the chair, he didn't know how to be euphemistic, and asked directly: "Master, Master seems to be worried about your marriage. "

If the parents asked this sentence, Chen Xiang would probably stamp her feet shyly, and then ran out.

But when she saw Qi Shiqin's casual posture, she always felt that she would be hypocritical if she did that, she said: "I have reached this point at my age."

"Yeah." Qi Shiqin nodded, and turned to ask: "Do you know that there is actually a student in our academy who disguised himself as a man?"

Chen Xiang slightly opened his eyes wide: "Who?" There is such courage.

"Lin Zhu." Qi Shiqin spoke decisively without dragging his feet.

There was no sound in the room for a while, Chen Xiang sat down on the chair, and after a long silence, she said: "How did you find out?"

Qi Shiqin said: "In fact, I recognized it at a glance when I started school. It's not easy for too many people to know about this kind of thing, so I didn't tell anyone." A woman who dared to take risks to study, he It's not good, just a few words of understatement ruined other people's pursuit.

Chen Xiang was surprised: "I recognized her at a glance? But I didn't know it after spending so long with her!"

She didn't blame Qi Shiqin for not telling her so that she could avoid this inappropriate heartbeat.Chen Xiang has always been a considerate, gentle and considerate girl.After she calmed down, she immediately felt admiration for the courage of Lin Zhu, a girl, but not disgust.

Qi Shiqin looked at Chen Xiang in surprise: "You don't seem to be in a bad mood?" Could it be that girls have such a strong recovery ability?

Chen Xiang glanced at him angrily, and said: "Then what can I do, Lin Zhu didn't do it on purpose, besides, I'm just a little bit tempted, Lin Zhu has a very respectful attitude towards girls, that's why I like her Yes. But it’s not to the point where you don’t want to marry.”

"Okay." Qi Shiqin didn't quite understand this kind of emotion, and he continued to reply: "Actually, it's easy to recognize a woman disguised as a man. Even if he is a brother, he will have a small Adam's apple, but Women don't, this is the biggest difference. And even if a man looks like a woman, his skeleton and figure will be much larger than ordinary women, and these need to be carefully observed."

It turned out that Chen Xiang had never paid so much attention to it before, because the academy originally only recruited men, so this could be regarded as being under the lights.

Qi Shiqin said again: "You still need to pay more attention to the matter of marriage. Tell me after you are optimistic about the person. I will help you check the character of the other person. My identity is better to get in touch with."

Chen Xiang was moved in her heart, and she naturally took this matter to heart: "I know, I will definitely trouble you when the time comes, you have to help me take care of it, otherwise something goes wrong, be careful and I will settle accounts with you."

But she put these on the agenda in her heart, Chen Xiang didn't want to marry those powerful families, generally speaking, the men in this kind of family would have many people in the room.She wants to marry a talented scholar, her status is higher, and the other party will not dare to bully her.

After solving Lin Zhu's matter, Qi Shiqin went to Dean Shen's study to find a book, took it back to read in the room, and copied it down by the way.You must know that with Dean Shen's status, he has collected many orphan copies.

In the afternoon, he taught the students who had chosen Guqin for another whole afternoon, and then rushed home after school.

When he arrived at the door, he saw a familiar figure.

The author has something to say: I am convinced of this code word speed, I originally wanted to code a little more.Thank you Shu Yin, Zhi Ye Tai, and Qing Shirt soaked in the mines of the three little angels, hugging them up and holding them high.

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