When Mr. Zhai saw him, he stroked his gray beard and asked with a smile, "Why, do you want me to ask you to get up to answer a question?"
"Students dare not."
Mr. Zhai looked at the expression on his face and felt funny in his heart. He was indeed quite proud.
He waved his hand and motioned for Bai Shan to go with him.
"Lan Zhongcheng took the mission and went to Zizhou. He was afraid that he would not come back until after the Dragon Boat Festival."
Bai Shan was slightly surprised, he didn't expect Mr. Zhai to tell him this.
Mr. Zhai looked at him and smiled: "Do you know why we like to ask you to answer questions?"
Bai Shan said depressedly: "Because you don't like me?"
Mr. Zhai laughed heartily after hearing this, put his hands behind his back, and walked slowly: "He Qingping is why I can't care about you, but I ordered you because of your paper."
He Qingping is their academic officer in Class C.
Mr. Zhai said without hesitation: "I was one of the academic officials who reviewed your paper. I thought that although you were young and arrogant, you were a little aggrieved to be at the bottom."
Then you are still targeting me?
The thought flashed past, but Bai Shan reacted and couldn't help but pause.
Not necessarily against him, but because you admire him?
Bai Shan looked at him with wide eyes.
Mr. Zhai also stopped and looked back at him. Seeing his round eyes, he couldn't help but smile and said: "I am an academic officer of Class A and Class 3. In this way, if you can pass the first class in the year-end exam,
100, how about I put you in Class A and Class 3?"
There are 20 people in a class, and only the top 60 can enter Class A and Class 3, so Mr. Zhai feels that he is very talented with this condition.
But Bai Shan doesn't think so.
He frowned and asked, "Can it be replaced by the mid-year exam?"
Mr. Zhai raised his eyebrows, "That's difficult. Generally, you can only be divided into classes after the end-of-year exam."
"Then what if I can get into the top sixty in the mid-year exam?"
"You are quite confident," Mr. Zhai shook his head and said with a smile, "Although you are good, there are others who rank among the top 100 in this government examination."
Bai Shan said seriously: "I know, so I will work hard."
Mr. Zhai thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's okay, as long as you can get into the top sixty, even if you are the sixtieth, you can come in openly."
Bai Shan's ambition was aroused, and he couldn't help but break out a bright smile. He was about to jump up and run back with the book basket in hand to tell his husband the great news.
But as soon as I started, I remembered something. I couldn't help but stop, and turned around and asked: "Mr. Zhai, do you really not know why the academic officer is targeting me?"
Mr. Zhai just smiled and said nothing.
Bai Shan knew at a glance that he couldn't ask anything more, so he stopped asking, bowed and left happily.
If he doesn't tell him, he will find out one day.
After Mr. Zhuang learned about Mr. Zhai's promise, he also felt that it would be better for Bai Shan to study in another environment, so he stepped up his teachings to him.
As for his studies at Fu Xue, Bai Shan is slowly getting on the right track.
As Mr. Zhuang said, these gentlemen from Fu Xue are not weaker than him in knowledge, especially they are more specialized than Mr. Zhuang.
For example, Mr. Zhai mainly teaches historical books such as "Spring and Autumn" and "Hanshu". He is particularly proficient in history. Even if Bai Shan has already studied "Spring and Autumn", he will benefit a lot from studying it again.
The classes he taught were slightly different from those taught by Mr. Zhuang, and the same was true for other teachers.
Even He Xueguan, whom Bai Shan hated, was more thorough in his research on "Shangshu", although his teaching methods were annoying to Bai Shan and made the students in Class C complain endlessly.
But it is undeniable that after listening to his class, Bai Shanbao took his questions back to Mr. Zhuang to answer them, and he was able to gain much more than his classmates.
Similarly, Man Bao also learned a lot from Bai Shan's notes.
The two of them learned from each other, and with Mr. Zhuang's guidance, their progress improved by leaps and bounds, especially Bai Shan.
From the first day of class, he was far ahead of his classmates.
After class, everyone isolated him and secretly discussed and ridiculed him, but in class, he could crush everyone.
Whether in the classes of Mr. Zhai and other teachers, or in the classes of academic officials who always deliberately targeted him, he could always be so dazzling that it made people’s teeth itch.
Then, someone actually broke away from the team that isolated him and started talking to Bai Shan through Kang Xiaodong and Wei Chen.
Although Bai Shan is still too arrogant to talk to them, it is mainly because he holds a grudge.
Although there was no conflict between the two parties, he remembered that these people pointed at him and whispered to him when he was isolated.
Although he despised them in his heart, Bai Shan did not openly make enemies, but only nodded perfunctorily to them.
As a result, these people took it for granted and thought that Bai Shan was always like this.
Of course, since the enemy surrendered, they would naturally express their will.
Their expressions were gossip about why the academic officers were targeting him.
Bai Shan originally wanted to pack up his book basket and leave, but when he heard their discussion, he stopped again and couldn't help but prick up his ears to listen.
"Speaking of it, Bai Shan, you have really suffered a disaster. I heard that your score was more than 150. It was the King of Yizhou who set the ranking. He said you were arrogant, so he wanted to kill you for your courage. So
It’s settled on one hundred and fifty.”
Bai Shan: "...Why am I so arrogant? Didn't I just ask a few questions on the last question? My teacher taught us since childhood that 'knowing is knowing and not knowing is not knowing'. If you don't know, you have to ask."
From the time he entered school until now, he has suffered so many injustices because of those questions. Did he say anything?
Why are you so arrogant?
Several classmates smiled sarcastically, not believing it at all, but they said: "But the prince and the academic officers don't believe it. I heard that your paper couldn't even be nominated in the beginning. In the round when it was submitted,
You lost the election, and Mr. Pianlan interceded for you, so you had a chance to enter the final selection."
Bai Shan asked: "Then, what does this have to do with being an academic officer?"
"Of course it has something to do with it. Don't you know? The nephew of the academic officer also took the national education examination this year. He also entered the last selection, but he failed. Later, the academic officers ranked him privately and he was photographed.
Number one hundred and fifty-one."
"If your paper had not been picked up by Mr. Lan and recommended, then the person enrolled now would be the nephew of the academic officer."
"That's right, and I heard that Academic Officer He and Mr. Lan have always been at odds with each other. If you receive favors from Mr. Lan, you belong to his faction. Of course, Academic Officer He doesn't like you."
"This time, the academic officer and the academic officer deliberately avoided taking part in the grading for the sake of his nephew. I don't know how many things I missed. As a result, what was a sure thing turned out to be nothing. It's strange that he is not angry."
Bai Shan's face was expressionless, but he thought to himself: That's because his nephew is not capable enough, and he blames me instead. Who can blame me?
But Bai Shan finally knew the reason why he was targeted, and his heart dropped completely.