The Red Mansions

Chapter 45

While drinking and chatting with Fatty, Jia Yun glanced at the other two roommates indiscriminately.

I found that they seemed to be indifferent, but their eyes were flickering when they lowered their heads and raised their heads, swallowing secretly.

After Fatty's introduction, Jia Yun also knew the names of the three roommates.

The fat man was named Zhou Kun, the one who was buried in reading was named Xu Lihua, and the one who was sculpting was named Wang Bin.

Naturally, there are no characters. Everyone doesn't even have any fame, and they don't have the face to take the characters at this moment, which makes people laugh for no reason.

After Jia Yun took a sip of her wine, she asked curiously, "Pang Kun, how is the food in the cafeteria?"

Fat Kun was taken by Jia Yun when he was teasing Zhou Kun, and after just a short while, he called it easy.

Zhou Kun on the opposite side twitched his nose a few times, was a little speechless, and finally replied: "The food in the cafeteria is just two words: cheap, five yuan and ten yuan will cost you a big meal, and the taste is simply unpalatable. Die!"

"It shouldn't be, why doesn't the Academy dare to accept such a high amount of Shuxiu, so it doesn't improve the food?" Jia Yun wondered.

Zhou Kun said with a displeased face: "Is it because you want to force us to go down the mountain to eat, or make the cafeteria too good, how can those patrols make money?"

Jia Yun sighed secretly, she didn't expect to be in ancient times, and she was bullied and exploited while studying, it was really helpless.

"Looking at you, it seems that you seldom go to the cafeteria to eat?" Jia Yun asked after ordering the dishes on the table.

Zhou Kun nodded and said: "It's not just me, haven't you never been to those two elm lumps? You are not fools. The food is too bad. One or two meals is nothing. Who can stand it after a long time? "

As he spoke, he sighed a long time, and said: "It's just too expensive. I didn't go to Qingshan Academy before, and the pocket money given by my family can live comfortably, but once I get here, it's good to be able to keep food and clothing. gone."

Jia Yun nodded, not doubting what Zhou Kun said, as he used it today, a casual meal would cost dozens of taels, and hundreds of thousands of taels a month would be gone.

This is just eating and drinking, and not doing anything else. If you have a meal and drink flower wine or something, a thousand taels of silver a month is really not enough to spend.

But if it is outside, a thousand taels of silver is enough for ordinary people to use for most of their lives.

Therefore, Castle Peak Academy is a serious school for the nobles.

However, it can also be seen from this that there are really many rich people in Qingshan Academy, at least [-]% of them have good family conditions, otherwise they would not be able to survive here.

After eating and drinking enough, Jia Yun put away the unfinished wine, Zhou Kun also removed the table, took the leftovers and chopsticks outside the door, and someone else took them away.

It was late at night, Xu Lihua and Wang Bin stopped doing their own things and got up at the same time to wash up and get ready for bed.

Jia Yun and Zhou Kun had already got under the covers. Jia Yun watched Xu Wang go out and asked in a low voice, "Why don't these two like to talk?"

Since coming here today, Jia Yun hasn't said a word to them. Even if he took the initiative to say hello, the two pretended not to hear them. They were really rude if they said something bad.

"It's all just fake, don't say you just came here today, haven't I spoken to them for so long?" Zhou Kun wrapped the quilt tightly and said with a chubby head and mouth .

After a pause, he said with a smile: "The three of us only came here to study at the beginning of the year. On the first day, I invited them to dinner, and they agreed."

"However, when they were eating, they hated me for eating and slurred. They threw away the bowls and chopsticks and ran away halfway through the meal. I almost died of anger. From then on, I will never invite them to dinner again."

Jia Yun nodded and asked, "How's the study atmosphere in the academy?"

Zhou Kun replied: "It's not bad. The master teaches meticulously and manages strictly. He studies literature in the morning, martial arts in the afternoon, self-study in the morning and evening, a small test at the end of each month, a quarterly test in March, and a major test every six months."

"Don't look at how many classes we have at the moment. The really good grades are all in Class A. Studying in Class A, not only is the whole year free of tuition, but there is also a monthly fee of ten taels of silver, including pen and ink. The paper inkstones are issued by the academy.”

The small courtyard of Qingshan Academy is divided into ten big classes: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, and Gui, and each big class is divided into several small classes.

Just like Jia Yun, because of her age, she was assigned to the Geng class. This has nothing to do with her grades, but because the academy grouped people of the same age group together for the convenience of management.

And if you want to enter the class with the words A, B, and C, you must have good grades.

"If you want to get into class C, you must get top grades in the quiz for three consecutive months, plus a top grade in the quarterly exam, before you can get into class C," Zhou Kun said.

Only those who enter Class C can live in a single room, and there are many benefits such as half the yearly repairs, one tael of silver per month, and many other benefits.

Zhou Kun roughly talked about some rules in the academy. Jia Yun got a glimpse of the leopard and found that the class with the words A, B, and C was the legendary elite class, also known as the upper class.

All the students in the upper class have the potential to be a scholar. Of course, not all of them can pass the exam, but the students in the academy who get in the county exam every year are basically from the upper class.

"There must be targeted training in the upper class. I have to study hard and strive to enter the upper class as soon as possible." Jia Yun thought silently.

Thinking of this, he asked Zhou Kun: "Fat Kun, you have been in the academy for a few months, and how many times have you passed the upper-class exam?"

"Hehe..." Zhou Kun smiled, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Do you think it's that easy to take the AA test? Anyway, no one in our class has had such a good score in the past few months."

Jia Yun hasn't studied in class yet, let alone an exam, so she doesn't know how difficult the monthly exam is.

But after hearing what Zhou Kun said, he knew that it was not easy to pass the exam.

But he is not discouraged, no matter how far the road is, can't he go forward step by step?
While talking, the two roommates who had gone out to wash came back. Jia Yun saw Zhou Kun put the quilt on his head, and after a while, he heard snoring.

"Sleep so fast!" Jia Yun thought to herself.

The four of them slept on common bunks, and everyone had a tacit agreement to leave some room in the middle, and try not to be close together.

"There are a lot of problems!" Jia Yun complained silently.

Although he hasn't gone to class yet, his roommates in the dormitory taught him a lesson, letting him understand that ancient scholars had a lot of weird problems.

The next day was bright and the bells echoed in the mountains. Zhou Kun pulled Jia Yun and said loudly, "Brother Yun, hurry up and wash up. Don't be late for class, or you will be punished!"

"Get up now!" Jia Yun got up quickly, shook the quilt, folded it in twos and twos, got dressed and got off the kang, and went out to wash with Zhou Kun.

After washing up, Jia Yun took the bookcase with pens, ink, paper and inkstones and books in it, and went to class for morning reading with Zhou Kun.

The classroom is not far away, just a few minutes away.

This is a two-story brick building, with nearly twenty classrooms on the first floor, and three staircases on the left, right and middle.

The environment in front of the building is good, there are flower beds and octagonal pavilions, antique, lush trees, pleasing to the eye.

Jia Yun and Zhou Kun arrived relatively early, and there were not many people in the classroom when they arrived.

"If there is no book on the table, there is no one to sit on. Find a place to sit down first!" Zhou Kun told Jia Yun, and then went back to his seat.

Jia Yun looked around and found that the unoccupied seats were all in the front three rows, so she didn't care, so she just found a seat by the window and sat down.

He knew that from a psychological point of view, sitting in the front row is easy to be seen by the teacher, but in fact it is not the case, the teacher can take all the students into his eyes at a glance during the lecture, regardless of the front and back.

Since Jia Yun hadn't attended class yet, she had to take out the simplest "University" and wait for the morning reading to make a show.

"At this moment, you can read it silently first. If there are any words you don't know, mark them down and ask your master later." Jia Yun thought to herself.

(End of this chapter)