Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 181 The Academy
It was almost dawn, and the lantern at the bow had not been extinguished.

A round of red sun jumped out of the misty water surface, and when the wind blew, countless broken light spots jumped on the deep water surface.

On the surface of the vast lake, mist is rising, and a fishing boat breaks through the fog and rides the waves, riding the wind from the depths of the waters.

The boat was shaking and creaking, and it was docked at the pier by the mountain.

Before the young man in Tsing Yi who was rocking the boat put down his rocker, the little girl standing at the bow of the boat jumped off the boat in one stride, and quickly tied the cable to the wooden stake by the pier.

Qingshan Academy was built on the hillside of Nanyang City. There was a road in front of the main entrance. Several carriages were lined up one by one. The driver held the reins and waited for the students to get off.As soon as the student got out of the car, the driver immediately pulled the reins to take the carriage and the mule cart away, and waited until they reached another fork before getting into the car and driving the carriage away quickly.

No matter what your status is, whether you are rich or powerful, or in white clothes, if you want to enter Qingshan Academy, you have to get off the car at the foot of the mountain, climb the stone steps by yourself, and walk into the academy.

There are 99 stone steps leading to the academy, and the wide and flat stone steps are trampled by countless students every year.The towering trees on both sides of the stone steps cover the sky and the sun, and the pine waves in the forest burst, and the wind blows, as if thousands of troops are galloping.

Today is the big exam day of Qingshan Academy, and the quiet mountain road in the past is very lively early in the morning.

I heard that the invigilator today is the instruction from the Imperial Academy in Beijing.

I heard that this time the Great Shang Dynasty selected talents in an eclectic manner. The teachers of the Imperial College went to academies all over the country to invigilate the exams, hoping to select talented people from the academies to enter the Imperial College.

Students in twos and threes were discussing the big exam of Qingshan Academy, and more hoped that they could overcome obstacles in this big exam and be recognized by the teacher Yu Huiyan of the Imperial College.

Three young students stood on the steps halfway up the mountain, one of them was holding a book in his hand, and was talking to another student on the left with his head tilted.

"I heard that the one who came this time is..."

Before he finished speaking, another student on the right pushed his shoulder and shouted down the mountain: "Here we come."

The three of them hurriedly lowered their heads and looked down. The steps descended layer by layer. The dense fog at the foot of the mountain was disturbed by the carriage and dispersed and then gathered together, making it unclear who was coming.

"Is it really coming?"

The few students who were standing on the first steps of them hurriedly carried their book bags and followed their gazes to look down.

Before the carriage under the stone steps came to a stop, a young man in Tsing Yi flashed out in front of the carriage, carrying a book bag in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other, and was walking up the stone steps. Behind the young man in Tsing Yi was a ten-year-old Little girl, the little girl was walking and talking, her crisp voice chirping and chattering in the mountains and forests.

The students waiting halfway up the mountain inhaled and sighed together, feeling a sense of loss in their hearts.

It seemed that the stone steps were full of classmates, the young man in Tsing Yi who was walking in front was slightly startled, and stopped before the steps.

"what's wrong?"

The little girl behind her poked her head out, looked at the student in front and raised her head and asked, "What are you doing blocking the way?"

"No……"

The white face of the student holding the book was flushed, and he hurriedly stepped aside: "Miss Lu, please first."

The little girl immediately raised her head high, and walked quickly in front of the boy in Tsing Yi, seeing the boy not moving, she called coquettishly: "Brother, hurry up."

The little girl has not yet reached the age of Ji, but she has first seen youth, fair skin, and beauty for the first time.The voice is clear and clear, like an oriole.She had puffed cheeks, and her cheeks were white and pink, as if she had applied the most delicate rouge.She didn't look at the students standing on both sides who refused to go up the mountain at all, she just reached out and grabbed the boy behind her to go up.

Before the young man in Tsing Yi passed by, the student holding the book spoke again: "Lu Yan, today's big exam I wish you success in your studies, you can be selected by the teaching staff and selected into the Imperial College."

The eyes of the young student were full of sincerity, without any jealousy or sarcasm.

Lu Yange stood up straight, bowed his hands, and said humbly: "Lu Yan also hopes that the seniors can succeed in their studies and enter the Imperial College. As for me... for this big exam, I will go to Beijing with my father and stop studying."

"What?" The students were shocked, "Why don't you read it?"

Lu Yan has been in the academy for five years. He cannot be said to be brilliant, but he is a person who makes people happy and willing to associate with him.

He looks good, his family is superior, but he is humble and polite.

Especially his younger sister, Lu Qingluan, who came to the academy with him to listen every day. Everyone watched this cute little girl grow up from an ignorant little girl, as if they were looking at their own sister.

Lu Yange smiled and didn't answer, but his younger sister Lu Qingluan said, "Daddy said, brother doesn't study well, so he can only go back and inherit the family business."

"Can……"

The student holding the book was still talking, but the sleeve robe was pulled lightly by the classmate beside him, and he said awkwardly, "That's fine, that's fine..."

As for what's good, he doesn't know.

Those who come to Qingshan Academy to study, who doesn't want to get fame and fame, and one day be able to worship the prime minister and become a marquis.

No matter how rich the Lu family is, it is just a family of merchants, how can it be compared with the family of officials and eunuchs.

There is not to mention an abyss between these two classes, but there is also a gap that cannot be bridged. For them, the only shortcut they can take is to study and obtain fame.

Lu Yan has been studying in Qingshan Academy for five years, and his talents are not top-notch, but they are not bad.

I don't know why he...

Lu Yange didn't explain, and didn't stop, he just bowed slightly to everyone, stepped up, and walked towards the academy.

The wind on the mountain was a little strong, blowing through the young man's clothes through the mist, as if he was about to walk away through the mist and become a fairy.

An unknown voice came from behind: "It's a pity, it's a pity..."

Is it a pity?
Lu Yange shook her head lightly, if she was really a man, she might give it a try.

Too bad she isn't.

However, this seems to be no regrets.

In the five years of Qingshan Academy, she learned a lot and met a group of pretty good classmates.

And the Lu family, as well as the close friends and old friends around the Lu family, have made a qualitative leap in the past five years.

These are what she needs.

Lu Qingluan was in front, Lu Yange was behind, and the two "brothers and sisters" walked on the stone steps in the mountain one after the other.

Xu Shi has been used to walking the mountain roads for these years, and when he climbed to the end of the stone steps, he was only slightly out of breath and did not feel tired.

Seeing that it was still early in the sky, Lu Yange couldn't help reminding: "Qingluan, if you're tired, go sit next to you and rest for a while before going in."

"Stand for a while."

Lu Qingluan took a breath and looked back at the mountain.

In the misty mountains, autumn is getting stronger. Under the steps, the students in Tsing Yi go up the mountain together, accompanied by the waves of pines coming from the pine forest on both sides of the stone steps, which looks unusually harmonious.

It was foggy in autumn, and when I looked up, I saw a tall academy gate, at the end of the line of sight, a young man in black, walking down from the height.

The late autumn wind was damp and cold, heavy and light, through the autumn mist, Lu Yange watched Song Yunfei step by step from the mountain past the crowd and walk in front of her.

(End of this chapter)