Chapter 521 Going out

As soon as Mr. Zhuang turned around, he saw Bai Shan's bitter face. He shook his head, tapped his head lightly with a book, and said with a smile, "If you can't learn, just rest for a while. You are so distressed, it's embarrassing for yourself and for you." book."

Bai Shan said distressedly: "Sir, do we have to go to the government school this year? I think I can postpone it for a year."

Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "Go for an exam this year. It doesn't matter if you don't pass the exam. I'll take a look next year. Besides, you should go out and have a look. You always live in Qili Village with your teacher. Studying doesn't work either."

Man Bao really wants to go out. Ever since she knew that she could go to Yizhou, Man Bao has promised many things to Keke, such as digging grass, picking flowers, catching insects and fish. She will find a way to find a place for everything that has not been included before. Find.

So she comforted Bai Shan, "Shanbao, don't be nervous, we will accompany you, if you are tired, I will play the flute for you?"

"Don't," Bai Shan said with a shake, "I'd better read a book."

Man Bao felt very sorry.

"By the way, I'm about to take the entrance examination for the government school. You are not allowed to call me by my nickname outside in the future."

"Got it, got it," Man Bao said impatiently: "You have said it several times, I will not call you by your nickname, and you are not allowed to call me. By the way, Master Yang is not going to write to you A letter of recommendation, have you gone to get it?"

"It's been brought back."

The recommendation letter Yang Heshu gave was for the academic officer of the prefectural school. With his recommendation letter, Bai Shanbao could directly take the exam without having to go through layer after layer of academic officer recommendation.

Every county magistrate has a recommended quota in his hand, but this is expensive but not expensive, and it is rare but rare.

In fact, the most valuable right of recommendation in the hands of the county magistrate is the quota that can be directly recommended by the government school. With that quota, students can enter the government school without passing the exam.

At the beginning, Yang Heshu said that he would give Bai Shanbao the quota.

However, there is only one county magistrate in his hand, so many county magistrates easily refuse to use this quota.

Generally speaking, when the county magistrate gives this quota, the person is either talented, wealthy, or has relatives.

Yang and Shu are not yet married. They are single, so they naturally have no sons. As far as they are rich, I haven't seen him short of money so far, so it is useless to keep the quota in his hand.

Bai Shanbao has a recommendation letter from Yang Heshu, not only can he take the exam directly, but he should also get some care when he goes to study in Yizhou Prefecture.

It was just after the third day of March, when the farming season was busy, and Mr. Zhuang led his three disciples to go out.

Mrs. Liu and Master Bai each took out a carriage, which was driven by Zhou Zhoulang and Daji.

Mr. Zhuang rejected the servant they offered. He had already planned that, no matter whether he succeeded or not, he would take his three disciples on a trip when he went out to study. It was better for them to do things like food, clothing, housing and transportation by themselves.

Yes, they do it themselves.

As Mr. Zhuang, who already considers himself quite old, if the teacher has something to do, it is natural for the disciple to do his job.

The prefectural school exam is in April, and Luojiang County is only a day away from Yizhou. If you are afraid that the carriage will be slow, start in the early morning and arrive before the city gate closes at night.

But will Mr. Zhuang be in a hurry?

He left the house a month earlier in order not to be in a hurry, and he deliberately took a long detour. After coming out of Luojiang County, he went north again, from north to west, and then from west to south to Yizhou. Turning a day's journey into an unknown number of days.

The reason why I don't know is because on the third day after they came out, where they were, I had to ask the pedestrians I met on the road.

Anyway, the three children don't know the way, neither does Zhou Zhoulang, Daji may know, but he doesn't tell if the masters don't ask, and Mr. Zhuang doesn't tell if he asks, he just asks them to ask the passers-by on the road .

But this official road is dilapidated, but there are no pedestrians.

They walked forward for a long distance and vaguely saw cooking smoke in front of them. Bai Shanbao immediately stood on the shaft of the car, supported the roof of the car and stepped on his feet to look forward. After confirming that it was cooking smoke, he shouted: "There is someone in front!"

Bai Erlang, who was dying of thirst, immediately climbed out of the car and stood up to watch.

Man Bao also climbed out, and seeing him tottering, he said, "Okay, okay, don't stand up, what if you fall down."

Zhou Zhoulang, who was driving the car, nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, Second Young Master, you have to stand firm. If you fall, I won't be able to protect you."

Bai Erlang just sat down on the shaft of the car and said, "Whoever fell, I am very strong."

Daji and Mr. Zhuang, who were driving and sitting in the car, were very happy in their hearts. Fortunately, Zhou Zhoulang followed, otherwise it would be too noisy to have three chatterboxes.

Now that the three of them came out, they didn't go back into the car at all, they just huddled on the shaft and chattered.

The terrible thing was that Zhou Zhoulang also talked a lot, so he moved his butt to make room for them, and started chatting with them.

There are shady green trees on both sides of the official road, blocking the view, and they only had time to see the smoke floating in the air. They thought the place would be far away, but who knew there was a turning in front of them. They saw a teahouse in front of them, and the cooking smoke they were looking at just now was rising from the teahouse.

Not only the four people in the carriage behind, but also Daji and Mr. Zhuang in the front all breathed a sigh of relief. Now that lunch is already over, and they can't find a place to rest, they have to look for a source of water in the nearby woods .

The two carriages stopped outside the teahouse, and a young man dressed as a clerk ran up to help them lead the horses, and asked with a smile on his face, "Do you want to feed the horses?"

Daji jumped down, nodded and said, "Hey, give them two barrels of medium-grade fodder."

"yes."

Daji helped Mr. Zhuang out of the car, and the three people behind had already jumped down and ran up to help Mr. Zhuang.

After sitting for a long time, Mr. Zhuang's legs were really numb, so he stretched out his hand for them to help.

After walking a few steps forward, I found that there were many people in the teahouse, some dressed as farmers, and some seemed to be passing by like them.

Man Bao glanced at their carriage, and found that the boy had already pulled the carriage to the other side, then unloaded the carriage, and moved the horses to the left, where there were five tall horses standing there.

Man Bao wowed secretly, thinking that the people at that table must be very rich, and the horse looked very good at first glance, and there were five more.

Bai Shanbao's family is so rich, and there are only three horses in the family.

The four masters and apprentices entered the tea room, smiled and nodded to the people sitting inside to say hello, and then found an empty table and sat down.

Daji went to see the horses, while Zhou Zhoulang ran to the store and asked, "What do you have in the store?"

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