Diao Jindong had no doubt at all, “That man is really boring. Cousin, you didn’t see where he put the letter. It was facing the threshold, and there was such a big stone pressing on it. Fortunately, it was me. What if it were you, Cousin, who accidentally tripped over a stone? After all, your body is so delicate.”
Diao Jindong said angrily that if he knew who caused the prank, he must let that person know how powerful he was.
Huo Lindong glanced sideways at his big cousin. Forget it, he won’t argue with the idiot.
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Lin Pingchun is currently studying at Yunshan Academy in the county town. The headmaster of Yunshan Academy is a scholar. Because he lost his son in middle age, he lost the idea of a career, so he simply returned to his hometown to teach.
Over the past twenty years, Yunshan Academy has taught many talented people, and there have been thirteen academic candidates. Four of them have stayed at Yunshan Academy to teach while preparing for the imperial examinations. The teaching force is very strong.
For scholars like Lin Pingchun, what they need is the guidance of those who have passed the provincial examination and have enough experience.
The tuition at Yunshan Academy is not low. A student like Lin Pingchun needs five taels of silver per quarter for tuition. This does not include the cost of food and lodging at the academy, which ordinary families cannot afford.
Since severing contact with the Jiang family, Lin Pingchun never thought that one day he would be able to go to Yunshan Academy to study. He never expected that his mother had secretly saved some money over the years.
After seeing how hard he worked copying books, she changed her attitude about having no money before and gave him fifty taels, allowing him to successfully enroll in Yunshan Academy and also buy some precious books he needed at this stage.
After coming to Yunshan Academy, Lin Pingchun’s life has been very peaceful. He had always been a hard-working student, and now he was focusing on studying.
Because of his solid foundation, Lin Pingchun was successfully promoted from Class C to Class B in the second month after entering the academy. He was praised by his master many times for his diligence.
Scholars looked down on each other. Not all scholars in the academy were of high moral character and good morals, so while Lin Pingchun received the attention of the master, he also provoked some villains.
“I didn’t expect Brother Pingchun to be someone who was destined not to marry early. That’s really strange. But, why did his mother arrange a marriage for him so quickly? Could it be that his mother couldn’t bear to see him living a good life? Bah, bah, bah, look what I’m saying. Brother Pingchun is his mother’s only son. How could she deliberately wish for his death? I hoped Brother Pingchun wouldn’t be surprised, but I was not able to speak.”
Lin Pingchun was studying She Wen’s calligraphy that day when he heard a noise coming from the door.
“What happened?”
Some people spoke, and it seemed that it had been planned in advance.
“What else could be going on? You don’t know. Our Brother Pingchun is a posthumous son. All these years, he has relied on his father’s former classmate to take care of him. And the scholar who took care of their mother and son happened to be our Brother Pingchun’s mentor.”
”That scholar had only one daughter. I heard that Brother Pingchun’s mother even joked about his marriage to that girl when she was pregnant with him. In these years, that scholar took care of Brother Pingchun and his mother. In addition to the kindness of his former classmates in the past, it was also because of this engagement.”
“But, I didn’t expect that our Brother Pingchun was not destined to marry early. On the day he passed the exam to be a scholar, his widowed mother went to the scholar’s house to tell him about the incident, fearing that she would delay the girl in his family.”
The man’s tone was a bit joking: “The scholar didn’t bother and quickly arranged another marriage for his daughter who suffered from brain disease. He just married his daughter not long ago. But, it’s strange to say that when the daughter of that family got married, our Brother Pingchun’s widowed mother chose a marriage for him.”
“Do you think it was Brother Pingchun’s mother who asked some expert to do something that changed Brother Pingchun’s fate of not being able to marry early? Or is there some other reason that we don’t know?”
“Is there such a thing?”
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