Wendao Academy faces south and north. It uses Minglun Hall in the center of the academy, with the front and back gates as the central axis, and the east side is the lecture hall for students to study. Near the back gate in the south is the disciple's dormitory. The west side is the Jielang dormitory.

The Qushuiyuan where the mountain captain Zhang Anbo lives in the northwest corner is located in the northwest corner. The mountains are undulating, the bamboo forests are like waves, the scenery is beautiful, and there is a gurgling stream.

Preface to the famous collection of Lanting by the saint Wang Xizhi: There are mountains and steep mountains, lush forests and bamboos, and clear streams and turbulent rivers that reflect the left and right. It is called "flowing wine and water", and sit next to it. Although there is no prosperous silk and bamboo orchestra, every cup and chanting is enough to express the secluded feelings.

This is also the reason why Wendao Academy holds a literary meeting at the end of January every year. Although there is no music to entertain, the leader of the mountain, the best among the men and disciples, the young master gathers together and tastes tea and discusses the Tao. This is enough to be a pleasure in life.

Jia Huan followed Ye Shuolang to the pavilion built by the stream. A couplet was hung in the pavilion: The Tao is about to go, but the text is not here.

There were already five young men and five elders sitting in the pavilion. Jia Huan recognized Qiao Rusong, Luo Xiangyang, Weiyang, and Chen Jiayun among them. There was another handsome young man with Fengshen but he didn't know him. He basically knew several men.

There are charcoal basins burned at four corners of the pavilion to dispel the coldness after the early spring rain. Sitting in the middle is a kind old man cooking tea, wearing a dark green crane flask, which is very fairy-like.

The old man smiled and said, "Why did the Wentai come late? Could it be that my husband's Longjing tea before the rain is not good for your taste?"

Ye Shulang, whose name is Hongyun and whose courtesy name is Wentai, smiled and greeted him, "I just talked to my disciple Shiwen, and I didn't realize that he said a few more words. The longjing in front of the rain is growing, and I can't ask for it. I just hope that the mountain will grow a few more pounds."

After ten days of hard practice, Jia Huan's eight-legged essay level has improved significantly. He was happy in his heart, seized the gap and taught Jia Huan again: skills to solve the topic, follow the topic, and start the lecture.

"Where can I get a few kilograms of tea?" Shanzhu Zhang Anbo laughed.

Everyone laughed and greeted each other. While they were talking and laughing, Wu Shuolang brought a young man with an ugly appearance to the pavilion. All the people who participated in the literary gathering came. Four academy disciples who acted as book children presented the cooked tea.

The news was transmitted to the six lecture halls on the east side through four book children.

The mountain chief Zhang Anbo looked around for a week and said with a smile: "It's another literary meeting. Last year, we were gathered here to study the way of benevolence and righteousness. This year's topic."

Zhang Anbo paused slightly, and his eyes fell on Ye Shanlang, "A few days ago, I heard that Jia Huan, a disciple of the academy, wrote a poem that was determined to study, which spread throughout the academy. Today, I will focus on self-cultivation and determination as the topic. I will give you a try to talk about it before."

The literary associations of Wendao Academy are of competitive assessment. It is impossible to set up a topic to debate around the topic, express their opinions and be in a slew of them. Instead, three contests are used to determine the level.

The first scene was decided by the disciples.

In the second scene, the disciples explained it. Quote the Four Books and Five Classics to explain their own views.

The third session, summarize your own ideas.

The Lecturer and the Shanzhu participated in the discussion and commented. The three games were evaluated using the commonly used "" in the imperial examination. After the final three games, the winner was the head of Wendao Academy this year.

As soon as the mountain captain Zhang Anbo finished speaking, the seven disciples on the seat immediately sat upright, each with a solemn look on their faces, obviously all of them going all out. Even if Jia Huan had been through many battles, he could feel the slightly solidified atmosphere in the air.

The head of the mountain and the six slingers smiled slightly, each of them tasted tea, and observed the expressions and expressions of the disciples of the academy.

A gentleman's struggle is also a competition! Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. This competitive atmosphere helps disciples study the scriptures and improve their studies. Doing learning is like learning, like learning, like learning, like polishing.

In the Jiazi Lecture Hall of Qingyun Courtyard on the east side of the academy, the burly Bazhou Yi Junjie sat on the desk, with a large number of students gathered around him.

Today it is said that classes are suspended for one day and students will study for themselves. But in fact, everyone is paying attention to the dispute over the head of the school. The students in the lecture hall are also happy to listen to the analytical remarks. Yi Junjie, known as "inquiry", is what everyone hopes for.

Yi Junjie was condescending and enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by classmates. He analyzed: "The seven sons compete for the heroes. Two people in the outer house: Jia Sanshou, Wei Prodigy. These two people are the most old but have great potential. However, potential only means the future, so the chance of winning the Wenhui Festival this year is the smallest.

Two people in the Nei Shei Class B: Chen Cangshi, Luo Junzi. Chen Cangshi was a child who passed the imperial examination. The classics and knowledge were of course solid. But he had not passed the imperial examination for several years. It can be seen that he had strong strength, but his potential was exhausted. I am not optimistic.

Luo Junzi has not yet ended up. He studied hard in the academy for two years. In March last year, he was promoted to the inner room and ranked first in Class B. It was like the rising sun, slowly leaping up. The future is bright. I thought he could fight."

Some students agreed and said: "This analysis is reasonable. Wanping Luo Xiangyang has a solid foundation in his knowledge and has been improving all the time. He is optimistic about the men. He has hope of studying in this subject."

Everyone was talking.

Someone said: "Student Jia is a kind-hearted person, but I hope he can fight."

"My man is borrowing people to read books and speak out for others."

"What is the difference between being favored by others and not being grateful to animals? I am sorry for him."

"After all, he is young, he is only nine years old this year. It is expected that he will not even be qualified to end the game in February this year. Even if Wei Dantong is arrogant, he will definitely be promoted to the inner room and get the qualification to end the game in the monthly exam tomorrow."

Everyone in the lecture hall was not optimistic about Jia Huan and Wei Yang who came from this lecture hall. It was really the inner room, and the upper room was all elite disciples of the academy.

Yi Junjie took a sip of tea and felt a little regretful. They saw how hard he worked in his studies with their own eyes. They got up early and read in the morning and studied hard in the evening. It is said that it has been more than two months, regardless of wind and rain.

God rewards hard work!

Yi Junjie coughed and continued: "One person in Neisha Class A: Feng Chu Pang Shiyuan. He is the same character as the ancients of the Three Kingdoms. Although he is a little ugly than us, his talent is a little higher than us. Tong Sheng is a fame and fortune. He is the best in Neisha Class A. He has hope, but he is smaller than Luo Junzi's hope."

Someone asked in confusion, "Student Yi, why is this?"

Yi Junjie said: "Those who are talented are often blind. Feng Chu has a wide range of knowledge, extensive knowledge, and first-class strategy and theory, but her skills in discussing the meaning of the scriptures may not be better than those of Luo Junzi and others."

Yi Junjie said all his nicknames, but the students here naturally understood them.

Yi Junjie said again: "The two of you in Shangshe: Qiao Houdao, Gongsun Long. Qiao Houdao passed the provincial examination, but failed in the college examination. He has accumulated a lot of money in the past three years. He was admitted to Shangshe in October last year and ranked fifth. He has hope of entering the college entrance examination today. This year, he can compete with Gongsun Liang.

Gongsun Liang, who is like a dragon, has nothing to say about this. Our proud disciple, who is a mountain leader, has always dominated the first place in our academy. He has not yet entered school at the age of 18, so he is really unlucky."

"Haha." When talking about Gongsun Liang, all the students burst into laughter. After staying in Wendao Academy for a long time, they had heard the story of Gongsun Long:

He came to Wendao Academy to study at the age of fourteen and was hailed as a seed of study. The mountain chief Zhang Anbo was admitted as a disciple and taught himself. At the age of 15, he was the first test case in Miyun County, but failed to take the test at Shuntian Prefecture. The reason was that he accidentally defiled the paper while eating snacks.

You should know that the county test case leader is recommended to be a student, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, and the Grand Master Association of the Prefecture selected the first test case in each county in the prefecture to pass the test case. This is the unspoken rule of the imperial examination field. The scholar's fame and honor won by Gongsun Liang has soared.

He took the imperial examination again in April last year. It happened to be the rainy season in the capital. He got up and explained it. Because he had been holding it for too long, he moved too quickly and encountered the case. The ink was sprinkled on the paper and failed again. Last year, he did not attend the January literary meeting due to the request of the mountain leader, which allowed Liu Guoshan, a new scholar in the subject to the title. He came out to compete for the current subject and was the strongest.

The mountain chief is afraid that he is also interested in cultivating his confidence. It was the time when the scholar was eighteen years old. If he missed a few more years, it would be a bit too late.

When the students from Class A of the Outhouse Class were laughing, the latest question came out, "Cultivate yourself and set your ambitions."

The first argument is Pang Ze, nicknamed "Feng Chu".

Everyone was excited.

"The great way is like the blue sky, I cannot leave alone."

"Okay." In the lecture hall of Class A of Nei Shek, more than a dozen students gathered together, and they were applauding one after another.

Is crazy or not? Very crazy, very arrogant, very pretentious. It is in line with Pang Ze's confident and ostentatious personality. It is difficult to travel to the famous poems of the poet Li Taibai.

What is an ideal? It is an idea that cannot be realized in reality. If you have an ideal in your heart, you will feel an unfair atmosphere and you will say it out. If you are unfair, you will be rumbling!

Pang Ze quoted Li Bai's poems to make ambition. Li Bai's original poems are bragging and complaining. But in Pang Ze it is: to say the pride in his heart and the frustration of the imperial examination.

If you don’t have to, you have to go out!

The boys in today's science are the opportunity to turn into a cocoon and become a butterfly.

"good."

"It's Pang Shiyuan."

"This sentence is at least a circle."

In the Qushui Pavilion, the other six students were slightly moved by Pang Ze's words.

The Shanzhu and the Lecturer did not express their opinions, but just judged them in their hearts. They were just the first to make an argument, and they were not convenient for them to comment, otherwise it would put pressure on the disciples who spoke later.

At this time, the little fat brother Luo Xiangyang stood up and said, "Disciple: I will examine myself three times a day."

If Confucianism is based on self-cultivation, it should be discussed most and most perfectly in the Analects of Confucius. This is Zeng Zi’s original words. Luo Xiangyang is united in knowledge and action, and has a very Confucian style. This sentence made many speakers nod frequently.

Wei Yang, who was originally proud, changed his color slightly. Today, he learned that the creeping tiger and hidden dragon in the academy were more beautiful than Pang Ze's ambition.

Chen Jiayun is the same.

After Wei Yang and Chen Jiayun said this, these two sentences were ordinary. Qiao Rusong knelt on the couch and said calmly: "Disciple establishes a statement: A gentleman hides his weapon in his body and waits for the time to move."

This sentence comes from the Zhou Yi, one of the Five Classics. King Wen of the Zhou Yi was miserable, and King Wen of Zhou was also regarded as a Confucian sage. This is the inheritance of Neo-Confucianism.

The mountain chief Zhang Anbo praised: "Good!"

Jia Huan was shocked. In fact, the topic of self-cultivation and determination was obviously Lin Yanlang helped him to strive for it. It was based on his public opinion of determined study poetry. But these students in the academy were all powerful players.

Making a argument is not bragging. Otherwise, you can say: Four sentences in Hengqu, and I will say: Three immortal words in the establishment of virtue, meritorious words, how can this article be published? Instead, it should be based on your own actual situation.

All of them here are elite disciples of the academy. How could the mountain leader and the speaker not be familiar with their personalities and experiences?

For example, if others learn from Luo Xiangyang's words to cultivate themselves, how could the academy men believe it? They are afraid that they will denounce "fraudulent and have problems with their character."

It is precisely because Luo Xiangyang has always been like this, and even has the joking name of "Luo Junzi" that he can say this.

Qiao Rusong's argument is very consistent with his three years of accumulation and excellence. Therefore, the eldest son praised him for his goodness. He is even better than Luo Xiangyang's argument, and it is full of wisdom and insights in life.

Fengshen Gongsun Liang smiled at Jia Huan and reached out to signal, "Junior Brother Jia, please give me a try first, brother, then."

When someone commented on the man, he finally made a statement and was under the greatest pressure. Gongsun Liang had a kind intention. He was humble and gentle, as gentle as jade. But he also showed his strong self-confidence.

Jia Huan nodded gently. This is not the time to be polite, "Disciple's argument"

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