Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 54 The Catfish Effect
By the time I finished my work, it was only around seven o'clock in the evening.

Many freshmen have fallen asleep because they are too tired.

However, it was still early, and some people still couldn't sleep. In order not to disturb those who were sleeping, they took out textbooks and studied quietly.

Jia Qiong also looked through the textbook, then took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone and started coding.

Lu Yu, whose bed was next to his, had already planned to sleep.

Seeing him writing something, I curiously glanced at it, and then realized that he seemed to be writing a new book.

He immediately asked excitedly: "Yu Jing, are you writing a new book? What's it called?"

Jia Qiong nodded and said: "It's a new book, called "The Eight Parts of the Dragon"."

Lu Yu asked expectantly: "Can I watch it now?"

"Okay, I'll show it to you after I finish writing it. You should warm up the book first."

"Okay, I'll wait." The little fat man was so happy that his back teeth were exposed.

Jia Qiong now writes using his own modified willow script, which is much faster than when he first wrote in regular script. He can write about [-] words in an hour, writing in one breath until Zhong Ling appears.

He felt a little sleepy. When he looked up, he found that Lu Yu was still lying on the bed, looking straight at him.

"Are you sleepy?"

"Not sleepy or not, have you finished writing?"

"You can take it and see it yourself, I'm going to bed."

"Good good."

Jia Qiong handed the finished manuscript to Lu Yu and went to bed. A group of people immediately gathered around the little fat man and gathered to read Jia Qiong's new work.

Although the word count is small, everyone is still excited. After all, it is every bookworm's lifelong wish to see the manuscript in advance.

After working continuously for nearly 20 days, the freshmen finally built six brand new bamboo houses under the guidance of the old students.

As expected, we moved from Datongpu to a four-person standard suite. Everyone is very satisfied with the bamboo house they built.

During these ten days, the freshmen not only exercised their physical fitness and willpower, but also strengthened their friendship with each other.

The seniors from Qingsongyuan would come over to help whenever they had free time, so the new students and old students quickly became familiar with each other.

In the past few years, it usually took more than a month for freshmen to complete this "military training period."

This term not only shortened the time by half, but also because of Jia Qiong’s leadership, no one complained again midway.

On the day when the new students officially moved into Qingsongyuan, the academy held a warm welcome meeting.

Only then did the mountain chief and the professors officially meet with everyone.

From this moment on, the freshmen are truly accepted by the academy and become official members of the academy.

According to the academic level of each person, the outer house is divided into five classes.

The four books are taught separately in each class. When teaching the classics and policy theory, all the foreign students attend class together.

The academy has monthly exams, quarterly exams, and major exams. The academy will decide whether to move up or down based on the test results.

Unlike other colleges, there is no competition among students at Sheng Neishe.

As long as the professors unanimously believe that a student has the ability to pass the examination, he will be promoted to the inner house.

When an internal student wants to be promoted to an upper-level student, the college will make the decision based on the ranking of the internal student, but ranking is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.

Only the top student in the internal department during the quarterly examination has a chance to be promoted to the upper class. However, if the professors think that you are not capable enough, you will not be promoted even if you are the first student in the exam.

Therefore, it is very difficult to advance to the upper level. Basically, you need to have the ability to pass the Jinshi examination to advance.

The number of students in Shangshe is only ten at most. If there are more than ten students in Shangshe, the Shangshe will start a downgrade system.

However, so far, the most students in Shangshe have been this year, with only nine students.

Because of this system of the college, there is not much competition among students.

This is one of the reasons why the students in the academy generally have a harmonious relationship.

As for whether students will slack off without competition, there is actually no need to worry.Wansong Academy is well-known for its teaching quality. There are only four professors from the academy who were Jinshi scholars, but there are not ten in the entire Dachu.

And except for the additional students who have to pay a high tuition fee in the first year, there are no fees for other students.

Food, accommodation, books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones are all provided free of charge by the academy.

There is also a scholarship of 20 taels of silver each year for students in the inner dormitory, and a scholarship of 100 taels for the students in the upper dormitory.

In recent years, Zhejiang Xuezheng personally sets and marks the annual year-end exams.

You must know that the college examinations are conducted by the academic administration of each government. Who would not cherish such good conditions?

Quarterly exams will affect promotion and promotion, and failure to pass the major exam will result in direct expulsion from the academy. Who dares to slack off?

Because Jia Qiong entered school this year, many different scenes appeared in the academy.

For example, every morning, there are many students practicing stance, fencing and archery in the square in front of the academy.

For example, every day off, a large group of people would always gather in the dining hall, waiting to hear Lu Yu talk about the latest chapter of "Dragon Babu".

For example, during the first quarterly exam for freshmen, five students were directly promoted to the inner dormitory, which made the old students feel unprecedented pressure.

For example, the academy's first club, the Xia Club, was established.

Time goes by, and in the blink of an eye, it has been three months since the new students entered school, and everyone has fully adapted to life in the college.

Jia Qiongji's test scores were excellent and he was promoted to the inner house along with 11 other people a few days ago.

They moved out of their own small bamboo house in Qingsongyuan and moved into Qingshanyuan.

From a standard bamboo hut suite for four people to a luxurious wooden hut suite for two people, this is one of the benefits of being a student in an internal residence.

Jia Qiong's roommate is Song Mian. He is exactly what Jia Qiong thought. He came all the way from Shandong to study, so he must be very talented.

Because of Jia Qiong's presence in this freshmen class, Qingsongyuan fell into unprecedented intense involution.

Jia Qiong gets up before dawn every morning and stands at the gun pile for about an hour.

Then practice fencing or bow and arrow for half an hour, rain or shine.

In the afternoon class, whether it was policy theory or the Five Classics, whether it was the classics or not, Jia Qiong never missed a lesson.

In the evening, not only did he have to complete double the homework, he also had to practice calligraphy for an hour, which was unbeatable.

Every ten days during his vacation, Jia Qiong would go down the mountain to practice riding and shooting.

In the first monthly exam, Jia Qiong's score was only ranked outside the [-]th place in the outer building, but in the second time, she had already reached the top ten.

People who are more talented than you work harder than you, and this pressure spurs everyone in Waishe to work hard together.

During this intense internal volume, Jia Qiong often shared her reading experience with everyone so that everyone could make progress together, so she was deeply supported by the outside students.

During the quarterly examination at the end of May, twelve students from the outer dormitory were promoted to the inner dormitory.

This is a grand occasion that has never happened before in the history of the academy.

This is the manifestation of the catfish effect. Jia Qiong has driven the progress of all lay students with her own efforts.

The weather starts to get hot in June, which is the season for early rice to mature.

The academy has thousands of acres of its own rice fields, and it’s time to harvest them.

These must be completed by the students, and it is also an experience task assigned to them by the college.

There are more than 300 students in the academy, except for some whose ancestral home is far away and who will take the provincial examination this year and have returned to their hometowns.

All the remaining people, regardless of whether they are outsiders or superiors, must go down the mountain to participate in the harvest.

The freshmen have already gone through the test of building a house and are mentally prepared, so they feel much more calm this time.

This was the first time for Jia Qiong and other freshmen to participate, so they were assigned to fields near Phoenix Mountain.

The farthest place for old students is the village near Hangzhou Bay, which takes two days by boat.

(End of this chapter)