Chapter 13: One Day in the School

But when he got up the next day, Wei Guangde had to go to the private school to study after breakfast.

In the past few days, Master Sun has asked him to start reading "The Great Learning", and he has to explain it to him every day. It is almost the same as before. His daily homework is about ten sentences. After he has explained it thoroughly, he will be asked to write. The first is to strengthen Memory, the second is to practice calligraphy.

However, Wei Guangde also recalled that this private school system is also very screwed up. There is only one holiday every ten days, and only two days a month. Calculating, there are still two days until the fifteenth holiday.

Fortunately, after today and tomorrow, I can stay at home for a day.

However, Wei Guangde still made a plan in his mind to come back early in the afternoon and try the gun with a blunderbuss.

In later generations, although Wei Guangde also went to college, he never actually fired a gun. During the military training in college, he was issued a gun, and the instructor also explained the structure and use of the gun, and then nothing happened.

I heard it was a better university, or, Wei Guangde couldn't tell, maybe it was just bad luck. Anyway, they didn't encounter any shooting incidents in that class.

Well, after traveling through time, I took a shot at Baihusuo, but I forgot about the fire blunderbuss. It makes me sad to think about it.

However, Wei Guangde admired the group of people who followed Lao Zhu to conquer the world. They relied on such firearms to defeat the Mongolian Tatars and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. They were quite powerful.

When he entered the school today and sat down in his seat, Wei Guangde took out a book as usual, and started reading it like the other students around him.

To be honest, he didn't understand why people in this era read like this. Master Sun was like this when he was studying, and the classmates around him were like this. He didn't know if it was an infection or something, but he still studied like this now.

There are more than twenty students in Master Sun's school. The oldest ones are fifteen or sixteen years old, while the youngest ones are only eight or nine years old. They are about the same age as when he was sent there.

It seems that Master Sun is not willing to recruit children who are too young. He may think that the children are too young to discipline. Even if your family is willing to give him money, he will not accept them.

For a scholar like Sun Fuzi, although he was not a junior citizen and could not receive lumi from the government every month, he was still exempted from land tax and corvee treatment.

Master Sun also has some fields, so he naturally has no worries about food and clothing.

Moreover, he has always stayed in his hometown town. He is also a highly respected person in the local area. He has great influence and naturally leads a smooth life.

For Master Sun, who has no longer taken the imperial examination, training students has naturally become his last hope.

If you can't become a Juren yourself, then train a few Juren to help him fulfill his wish.

Not long after Wei Guangde sat down, Master Sun came over from the backyard.

Master Sun's home is in the center of the town, and the third courtyard is quite large. This was also expanded on the basis of the old house after he obtained the title of scholar.

Later, when there was no hope for the imperial examination, the front yard was vacated and used as a private school to teach students.

When I entered the room, I saw more than 20 students already sitting in their seats, shaking their heads and reading. I was very satisfied. I unconsciously stroked my beard and walked around the school with a smile on my face.

After the students had read for a long time, he walked back to the podium and began to call the students in turn to memorize the text in front of him. Those who could not memorize the text would inevitably be slapped with a few rulers.

When it was Wei Guangde's turn to recite, he naturally felt no pressure. He still remembered the books he had read in the past few years and would read them when he had nothing to do.

Very smoothly, Wei Guangde passed Master Sun's examination.

For students who are still learning, they just need to memorize the text, and then the teacher will ask a few random comments and that's it.

But for the few little guys he was optimistic about who had a chance to stand out in the imperial examinations, he would naturally take more exams.

Not only do you need to memorize what you have said before, but you also need to take a test on the meaning of the words of the saints to pass.

After all the students had taken a turn, a lot of time in the morning had passed, and then the Master began to lecture.

Students are divided into groups, each with their own learning progress.

Students who have finished today's lecture will naturally continue to read and memorize Master's explanations, and then copy the book, practice calligraphy and strengthen their memory.

After Wei Guangde and the others finished listening to today's class, it was almost time to have lunch.

Lunch was arranged uniformly in the private school. After the master said get out of class was over, the students all stood up, bent down and saluted the master, and then walked out with a cheer. They were all going to eat.

The food in the school is average but plentiful. It is definitely not palatable to the children of the squire families in the town, but they can only make do with it.

For other children from ordinary families, eating enough is enough, and the taste is not so particular.

There was a break after dinner, and then classes continued. Wei Guangde and the others finished their classes in the morning, and naturally spent the afternoon reading and practicing calligraphy.

After lunch today, Wei Guangde and several children from Zhang Ji's Hundred Household Residence took a rest in the corridor where they often stayed in the yard. Today, everyone didn't have much to talk about, just chatting casually.

Chen Youcai and the others who came to join them yesterday did not come today either. Instead, they went back to chat and laugh with the children of several wealthy families in the town.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to inquire about the relationship between the Baihu Office next door and the landlords in the town. Anyway, his own Baihu Office had nothing to do with them.

However, Zhang Ji and his friends did mention it to Wei Guangde. It seemed that all the hundred households there secretly sold the military land to the big families in the town. It was just hearsay. Maybe his father knew something.

He stayed in the private school until the end of the Weishi hour, and it was time to go home.

In the later generations, the end of the Weishi hour was around 3 pm. Although most of the classmates in the school lived in the town, there were also students like Wei Guangde who lived far away from the private school.

In the past, Wei Guangde would go home after school at around 5 pm. This was because they usually did not play in the town and went home directly after school.

Today, Wei Guangde had this in mind. During the lunch break, he told Zhang Ji and his friends to go back early and take out a bird gun to try.

Zhang Ji and his friends naturally learned about the expedition from their families. They knew that their fathers had earned a lot of money on this trip. Now their families were planning to make new clothes for the New Year this year. Naturally, they also heard that the guards had received some equipment.

In fact, the so-called equipment is just this batch of bird guns.

However, most of them are not interested in this thing, but seeing that Wei Guangde seems to be very interested, they naturally said to try it together.

Carrying schoolbags, they trotted all the way home. After putting their things away, they ran directly to the military fort warehouse. They definitely couldn't do it to get guns, but Wei Guangde could. Now the warehouse is managed by Wei Wencai, and Wei Guangde's brother is in charge.