Chapter 166 [Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite]

   "Why?" Fang Chang asked a little puzzled.

   "Well, family matters are all family matters. I'm really sorry, Your Excellency." The servant who opened the door was a bit elderly, with deep wrinkles on his forehead, and white hair on his temples. He shook his head and sighed worriedly.

   "That's really unfortunate, we'll come back another day." Slightly cupping his hands, Fang Chang replied politely.

   Then he turned and left with Hu Yun, the door creaked behind him and closed again.

  This street is not wide, with few people and quiet.

  The street is paved with bluestone slabs, and the material is solid. Although it is not as smooth as it used to be, it is not dusty, with watermarks that have been swept today.

The courtyard walls on both sides have the same style, they are both old and have mottled traces of the years, they are all cleaned up, and occasionally damaged have been repaired, which shows that the courtyards on both sides are rich or have some status—as a county school teacher , the one I just visited is naturally included in this list.

   Carrying the dried meat that could not be delivered, he walked slowly outside the street. Fang Chang said softly to Hu Yun who was holding a pile of boxes next to him:

   "Let's find an inn to stay in first, and go again in two or three days. I hope that Mr. Li will have settled the family affairs by then."

   "If it still doesn't work, there is another alternative. I can take you to Xingqing Mansion. There are two respected Mr. Jian there. They are running a school. Almost all the scholars in Xingqing Mansion are their students."

   "However, it is different from other places. In order to make education benefit more people, they are recruiting students widely. The tuition fee is extremely low. Originally, that is the best place for you."

   "But the great catastrophe is coming, and I don't know how much impact it will have on the human world, so I chose Ninghe Mansion. After all, there is Zhao Chenghuang here to take care of it, so it is much safer."

   "It may be that things are really unexpected. This place is also close to Yunzhong Mountain. You can let go of your feet and escape back to the mountain to avoid disaster, so the risk here is relatively much less."

  The young Hu Yun nodded repeatedly after hearing this. He lacked understanding of what Mr. Fang said, and he seemed to understand half of what he heard.

  However, he still chose to believe in Mr. Fang, since he would not be sold anyway.

  Fang Chang's hearing power is far beyond that of ordinary people. Suddenly, his heart moved, his steps slowed down, and then stopped.

  Feeling that the people next to him suddenly slowed down, Hu Yun was a little puzzled: "What's wrong? Mr. Fang?"

   "Things may have turned around, interesting."

  He heard a slow and hesitant footstep in the courtyard behind, and he had been wandering around for a long time. After the servant closed the door just now, he seemed to turn around and met the owner of the footstep, and then a few words of dialogue appeared.

   "Fugui, is there a visitor? Who is it?"

"Master, just now a young man came to the door with a young man, holding a gift box and a bundle of dried meat in his hand. He should have come to pay homage to the teacher. Before you ordered no visitors, I turned him back. That young man Say, come back in a few days."

"Well..." The person who asked the question was Mr. Li himself, the school teacher in the county. He should have thought about it for a while, and then said: "Of course ordinary guests will not be there, but there are children who want to go to school...Fugui, go out and see, if they haven't If you go far, please come back, and I will see you last time."

   "Obey, but master, should you block the guests who come later?"

   "Block, still have to block, except for those who come to apprentice."

"okay."

   All this was heard by Fang Chang. Just as he stopped, the back yard door creaked open. It was the elderly domestic servant just now who shouted at their backs: "You two, please stay!"

  After the two of them turned around to look over, Fugui shouted again: "My master wants to see you."

  All over the world, domestic servants address their master's family very confusingly, and there is no fixed rule. Some call them "Master" and "Young Master", while others call "Master" and "Master's family", and some even use them mixedly.

  However, the personal attachment relationship between the two is relatively weak, and has nothing to do with the title.

In the vast majority of cases, it is an employment system. The relationship between master and servant is determined through an officially recognized contract, as well as the rights and responsibilities of both parties. Due to the rules, life contracts are not allowed. The longest contract can only be ten years long, and there are no restrictions on the children of servants. That is, the appearance of "family birth" is not allowed.

   This is a rule set by a certain emperor many, many years ago.

  Yaoyao arched his hands towards the door, Fang Chang took Hu Yun and turned around.

   Walking to the gate, Fugui said to them: "The master just heard about your situation, so he made an exception and asked me to call you in. He wants to see you."

   After finishing speaking, he led them directly into the living room, where Mr. Li was already waiting.

  He asked about his name and place of origin, tested Hu Yun in the school, and after confirming his current level, he immediately accepted Shu Xiu and the boy, and then explained the situation and rules of the school to Fang Chang.

  Because there is no unified enrollment time, the level of Kaimeng School is uneven, and their learning progress is different. Managing these children well is a technical task.

   Moreover, learning is good or bad, but also depends on children's self-consciousness and self-learning ability.

  For young children, this is actually quite cruel, after all, many of them still don't understand the meaning of learning.

  The agenda of apprenticeship is very simple, but it is quite solemn. After paying the ceremony and presenting the Shuxiu, Mr. Li also lent some books to Hu Yun, which are the enlightenment textbooks in the school.

   "These books must be kept well, and must not be damaged or dirty. If there is a mistake, they must be copied for me before returning them. After all, the children behind cannot be left without textbooks."

  Fang Chang took a copy from Hu Yun's hand, flipped through it, and sure enough, it was all manuscripts.

  Even now, the demand and quantity of Kaimeng textbooks is huge for the whole world, handwriting is still popular, and printing can only account for half of the copying of books.

   Others, such as the class time of the school, the rules inside, and the sequence of courses, Mr. Li is explaining to the two of them one by one.

  At this time, a man in his twenties and thirties suddenly rushed into the living room, regardless of the presence of anyone nearby, and knelt down to Mr. Li with a plop:

   "Father, my son is here."

   "You dare to come! Are you trying to **** me off!"

   "Father, after all these years, I can't change it anymore, so let me muddle along, after all, my son doesn't know how to make a living."

"well…"

  Mr. Li sighed deeply and deeply, as if his bones had been emptied, he put his hand on his forehead and sat there. He waved the back of his hand forward: "You go back to the house to rest first, and I will find you after I chat with the guests."

  The young man kowtowed again, and then went to the next room.

  Knowing that this is someone else's family matter, Fang Chang was about to find a topic at random and lead it elsewhere, but when Mr. Li saw that the situation seemed to have been exposed, he smiled wryly, and said straight to the point:

   "It made the two of you laugh, it's really family business."

  (end of this chapter)