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Chapter 16 The Worthless Man

When Chen Xi arrived at the school, he found that the atmosphere in the classroom was strange. Many students living on campus were whispering, as if something had happened. However, Li Yu and the classmates who went to the river to watch the little girl take a bath yesterday did not come.

Until class, not only did these people not come, but even Mr. Feng Huaqi was not seen. Feng Huaqi asked someone to pass on the message, asking the students to review their homework.

At noon, Chen Xi asked in the classmate and found out that something happened to several classmates when they went to the river to play yesterday. Someone was swept away by a sudden torrent. He was only found downstream this morning. He was already exhausted.

Li Yu and others were detained by their families and refused to go to school for the time being. The families of the dead students were to hold Feng Huaqi accountable. It is said that the matter had already reached the government.

Chen Xi has seen many things about birth, old age, sickness and death in two lives, and even he has died once again. However, this kind of thing happened suddenly around him. The classmate who was still alive yesterday was separated by yin and yang today, and Chen Xi suddenly felt depressed.

Chen Xi was not in a bit of energy, and after most of the day of confusion, he went into the classroom for a long time in the afternoon, and his husband Feng Huaqi walked into the classroom with a pale and haggard face. It seemed that he felt uncomfortable suddenly when he encountered such a thing. No matter what, the student went to play by the river and he was responsible for poor supervision, but he only had a teacher in the school. The matter still happened after school, and he couldn't even control it.

After the deceased's family sued the officials, the county government attached great importance to it, and the county magistrate went to the hall to ask about the case. The matter was actually very clear, so in the end it was just a sentence to Feng Huaqi to return the Shu Xiu, the student he had accepted before, and the matter was completely settled.

"Chen Xi, come and find me after school."

As school was approaching, Feng Huaqi suddenly said something, which made Chen Xi's heart skip. Could it be that Li Yu asked him to get up to the river yesterday?

After school, Chen Xi went to Feng Huaqi's house next to the school and knocked on the door. A woman opened the door for Chen Xi.

Chen Xi saluted respectfully: "My wife is up to you."

"Get in quickly, your gentleman is waiting inside."

The master's wife is a honest woman. Because Feng Huaqi lives next to the school, she helps clean the houses of many students who live in school, and she has a good relationship with the students.

When Chen Xi arrived inside, he found Feng Huaqi sitting behind the desk, holding a book in his hand and reading it. Chen Xi saw that the cover was the four words "Qionglin of the Young Students", but it was the batch of books printed by his own printing workshop under the supervision of Ye Mingsu, the magistrate of Ninghua at the beginning of the year.

Chen Xi didn't expect that the kindergarten Qionglin had already arrived in the city so soon.

"gentlemen."

Chen Xi bowed to him, and said that he was reminding Feng Huaqi to come, because Feng Huaqi is a hundred and ten thousand small! He said he was very serious.

"oh."

Feng Huaqi put down the book, looked at Chen Xi's eyes, and nodded slightly, "I have paid close attention to you recently. I will make great progress without saying that my efforts will not be said. I want your parents to come tomorrow."

Chen Xi heard the first half and the last sentence was pretty good, just like being choked. It is understandable for parents to learn, but what does it mean to ask parents to learn?

"Sir, I"

"This time I invited your parents to discuss with them. I asked you to transfer to the Five Classics. Although you are a little younger at the age of reading the Five Classics, you are very talented. I have tested the contents of the Four Books several times. You have completed it very well. If you learn the Five Classics earlier, you can get in touch with the contents of the imperial examination." Feng Huaqi's eyes were filled with appreciation and encouragement. "But you have to ask your parents what they mean first."

Chen Xi was relieved after hearing this and said respectfully: "Yes, sir, the student knows."

"You go back."

Feng Huaqi waved his hand, "Yesterday they asked you to go to the riverside to play, but you didn't go, that's right. But when you encounter such a thing in the future, remember to tell your husband, do you know if you don't know if you are not going to be able to prevent problems?"

Chen Xi agreed again, always feeling that Feng Huaqi's words had a little more vicissitudes.

This incident hit Feng Huaqi the biggest blow to the students was not the death of the students, but many people chose to alienate him from Li Yu and others who went to the river yesterday. Today, the family all requested to drop out of school. Affected by this, students in the classroom just now suggested that they would not go to school tomorrow. According to various signs, it is estimated that the number of people who drop out of school tomorrow will increase, which made Feng Huaqi seriously doubt his teaching and educating people.

Chen Xi didn't care about that. For him, studying was just a springboard for him to enter the imperial examination. In this era, it would be natural to have a good reputation as a scholar. Isn't there a saying that scholars know everything about the world without going out? This is the true portrayal of the present!

But if an ordinary Bai Ding says and writes insightful words, others will either not believe it or think it is a monster.

The imperial examination is an opportunity in this era that only allows ordinary people to enter the top society. Other methods, such as joining the army and doing business, will be despised even if they can obtain a certain social status.

In the era when scholars ruled the world, they admired "all things are inferior, only those who study are of high quality."

When Chen Xi came home and told Zhou Shiyi about this, Zhou Shi smiled and wanted to spread the story so that everyone in the entire city would know about it.

After being happy, Zhou was worried: "Xiaolang, I heard that someone fell into the river and drowned in your school yesterday. Do you know him?"

Chen Xi nodded and said that he would not know him if he wanted to study in the same classroom? But he was not very familiar with him, and he didn't even say a few words. Chen Xi did not dare to tell Zhou about Li Yu's request to go to the river yesterday, so as not to worry Zhou.

"Boy, don't go to dangerous places, do you know? You don't know, you were naughty when you were a child, jumping up and down. When you were six years old, you almost fell from a peach tree and fell to death. My mother hugged you and cried for several days."

Chen Xi couldn't help but sigh that he did not inherit the memory of his original owner. A six-year-old doll had little impression of the world, but he still remembered the injury that time. After all, that was the origin of his coming to this world.

"Silly, go and do your homework quickly. Even if your father and I are busy tomorrow, we will take time to go to school. You must work hard in the future."

Zhou was very happy and took advantage of the uninhabited space in the medicine shop to tell Xie Yuner the good news.

Xie Yuner has been depressed these days, so how could she have the heart to listen to these things? But she still nodded and smiled politely, but behind her smile was full of worry.

The first thing Hui Niang did when she came back in the evening was to discuss it with Zhou. It turned out that she also heard about Chen Xi’s drowning and wanted to discuss transferring to Chen Xi and studying in another school.

"Mr. Feng attaches great importance to the idiots. He just transferred to school like this, for fear of letting Mr. Feng down." Zhou thought that Chen Xi would "jump" to study again tomorrow, so he was reluctant to let Chen Xi transfer to another family.

Hui Niang said, "I heard that even the government was alarmed this time. Many children of wealthy families are preparing to leave the school. We are not sorry to Mr. Feng, just send more thanks to me."

"no."

Chen Xi was reading the collection of chapters and sentences of the Four Books in the room, carefully pondering Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism thoughts of “harmony between man and nature”, “harmony between mind and nature”. Hearing the conversation between Hui Niang and Zhou, he hurried out and refused loudly, “Mr. Feng is very good to me, and he teaches very well. I have just adapted to his teaching method. When I go to another place, I will definitely not be able to keep up. What should I do if I delay my studies at that time?”

Seeing Chen Xi persisting so much, Hui Niang had no choice but to nod her head to agree.

Originally, where Chen Xi went to study was not her business, but she was able to take the initiative to raise it, which shows how much she cared for Chen Xi. Although Chen Xi appreciated it, he was still a little reluctant to let him leave Feng Huaqi's school. Chen Xi agreed with Feng Huaqi's morality and teaching methods. Such a teacher is a real good teacher and friend.

The next morning, Chen Xi went to the roadside tea stall to wait for Hong Zhuo very early. After a long time, he thought Hong Zhuo was about to retreat. He was about to leave and saw this young man in the capital with two dark circles, haggard and staggering.

"Little brother, you're right. I went back yesterday and thought about it all day. If I really wanted to marry a girl from the Xie family, I really don't know how to support her family. I can't bring much money. If I had known it, I would have brought more from home." Hong Zhuo looked full of blame.

Chen Xi curled his lips and said, "Young Master Hong, have you never heard of living a life of nothing? No matter how much money you have, you will still squander it if you have a day or so. But as long as you have a stable income, even if you have a small amount, you can accumulate more and support your family."

Hong Zhuo looked at Chen Xi with some disbelief: "Little brother, you're so good."

"What did Mr. Hong think of doing to make a living to support his family?" Chen Xi squinted his eyes and looked at Hong Zhuo.

Hong Zhuo immediately shook his head and smiled bitterly, and honestly shook his head: "Are I still destined to be with the girl of the Xie family?"

"Since that's the case, Mr. Hong should prepare to set off and return to the capital to be your eldest son. Tingzhou Prefecture is not the place you stay." Chen Xi said coldly.

Hong Zhuo patted his chest: "I am a man, and I am a man who has come from thousands of miles to thousands of miles. How can I bow my head for a small setback? I decided to stay for a few days and figure it out carefully. Besides, I want to talk to the girl of the Xie family alone, or her."

The bold words ended up being laughing.

"Or she doesn't need you to support you, and she can support you by practicing medicine, right?"

Chen Xi stared fiercely at Hong Zhuo, who lowered his head because of shame, "Just said that men should have ambition. Is this what a good man should think? She intervenes women and they all want to show up to make money to support their families. But you are here, but you want to stay with her forever, so why can't you put it into practice?"

Hong Zhuo sat there, with his head hanging down, like a defeated rooster, losing his morale.

"Little brother, you are young and know a lot of big principles. So tell me, what can I do with the girl from the Xie family?"

Finally, Hong Zhuo found that his head was not as good as a child, so he had to ask for help from Chen Xi in front of him.

Chen Xi said disdainfully: "What Sister Xie wants is a responsible man. You should first look at yourself. When you figure out how to make money, come to me before coming to you. I can give you any advice. If you are willing to put down your posture and work hard, you can make a few money. If you don't see those people on the river bank, they are just trying to support their families?"

Hong Zhuo was shocked: "You ask me to be a coolie? Huh, even if I am willing, I don't have that body."

Chen Xi sighed in his heart that only reading in this world is a scholar, but he is useless. To be continued.
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