Chapter 410 End of Term

But no matter how much Gu Jingyun wanted to prepare land for Li Baolu, he would not ask the queen mother to send it, let alone the land from her dowry.

However, Gu Jingyun did not enter the palace and return it. Instead, he directly found a box and put it in a title deed, and sent it to the Prince's Mansion, and asked the Prince to hand it over to the Second Prince.

The second prince is twelve years old and has the same mother as the prince. Most of the queen mother's dowry will be left to him in the end, and some will be left to the third prince who was born by a concubine.

The second prince received this gift, with question marks on his forehead, he could only ask the prince who brought him the box, "Brother prince, why did you think of giving me Zhuangzi? Didn't you say that you are poor?"

"Who told you that Mr. is poor?" The prince knocked on his head, picked up the land deed in the box and said, "Be obedient in the future and don't always make random conclusions. The name on this land deed belongs to the emperor's grandmother..."

The prince understood after a little thought. He put the title deed into the box, patted his younger brother on the shoulder and said, "You can show it to the imperial grandmother."

The second prince pouted, although he was a little confused, he obediently went to find the queen mother.

The queen mother sighed slightly when she saw the land deed being sent back, "Forget it, since Mr. Gu gave it to you, then you can accept it."

The second prince took another box and left, with a puzzled expression on his face, but he was happy when he thought that he had gained a Zhuangzi for no reason, that he would gain money every year, and that he had more pocket money.

Don't think that the prince is very rich. He was also very poor when he was a minor. The monthly schedule is fixed. He is okay. From time to time, he has the support of his mother and the prince's elder brother. something you like.

The third child is miserable, his mother and concubine are just a concubine, and the mother's family doesn't have much money, except for Yue Li, the prince's brother occasionally supports him, and he is not richer than him.

But the third child is too young, and there are not many things to buy now.

This Zhuangzi is so big, and he earns at least a thousand taels a year. He saves some, and can use eighty taels to one hundred taels a month, plus his monthly regulations and the support of his mother and concubine and the prince's brother...

The second prince became excited in an instant, and happily ran back to his palace with the box in his arms. With this money, he could buy a lot more things.

At this moment, the Empress Dowager was leaning on the couch rather wearily, in a bad mood. Eunuch Yan walked in lightly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Second Highness is very happy, and is humming a song to go back."

The queen mother laughed, feeling slightly happy, "This child is too easy to satisfy."

"Forget it," the queen mother thought for a while and said, "If he doesn't want to accept us, he won't give it away. You can choose some gold, silver and jewelry to send to Li Shi in the future."

"yes."

Because the new year is coming, Da Chu is very busy from the emperor to the common people, time is like a wild horse running away with a "swoosh" sound, without leaving a shadow.

Every day, Li Baolu had to prepare the New Year gifts sent out by her family, go to the academy to attend classes, and write questions. Before she realized it, it was only half a month before the Chinese New Year.

And it's time for the final exam.

This time Qingxi Academy and Songshan Academy are joint exams.

The women's college and the women's college together, and the boys' college and the boys' college, use the same test paper. The names of the test papers are scrambled and graded together, and then the papers are disassembled and ranked separately.

That's right, although the test papers are the same, they are tested together and corrected together, but the rankings are arranged separately.

But because the test papers are the same, you can tell who is good and who is bad just by looking at the scores, and it doesn't matter whether they are ranked together.

This is the second combined exam of the two academies in eighteen years, which is rare.

In fact, the two academies joined together at the beginning just to make the men's and women's colleges develop a more harmonious relationship, but halfway through the rules, Huang Shanzhang, out of some kind of psychology, suddenly proposed that the women's college should take the exam together this year.

Su Shanchang agreed without thinking about it, and instead suggested that since the women's college took the exam together, why not let the men's college take the exam together, as if we were two academies to learn from each other.

Regardless of Vice-President Zhao's stop, Master Huang agreed with a smile, so the teachers from the two academies began to try their best to come up with questions, and then combined their questions into four test papers according to a certain proportion, sealed them in boxes, and then The invited Guozijian sacrificed the wine to draw test papers, and used whichever test paper was drawn.

fair and just.

Now, the exam will start tomorrow, and Li Baolu's task for these three days is to invigilate the exam, and the busy work will be relieved at once.

After the exam, it is busy marking the papers.

Fortunately, there are few students and many teachers. It only takes two days to read the test papers, and then tear the paper to record the scores. This can be done in half a day, and the remaining half day is used for analysis reports.

This time the combined exam, the most nervous is not the students of the women's school, but the students of the men's school.

The men's court of Qingxi Academy has always been slightly inferior to that of Songshan Academy, and the competition between them is very fierce, almost to the point where the king does not see the king.

As for the newly opened women's school, the little girls are very confident in each other, as long as they are not compared with the male students, they are all striding forward with arrogance.

So when they came to collect their final grades, although they were apprehensive, they all had confident smiles on their faces.

It's a joke, it's not as good as those boys who are going to take the imperial examination, is it not as good as the girls who just entered the academy like them?

Li Baolu entered the Yongmei class with a calm face. The girls who were still full of confidence smiled and sat back in their seats with some trepidation.

Li Baolu put down the test paper and report card in her hand, glanced up at the students in the classroom, and said in a deep voice: "The results of this test have come out. Our Yongmei class ranks second among the ten classes in the third grade. The students in the academy are ranked third in class, and our class ranks first in the total score, and the students with the highest scores in each subject account for three in our class, which is the class with the largest number of people..."

The little girls let out low exclamations, their eyes filled with joy, they were already very satisfied with this achievement.

Li Baolu was also very satisfied, provided that her class's hind legs were not too serious, but she didn't say this, but changed the subject: "Everyone has made great progress, and all the teachers have said that as long as you If you can maintain this kind of learning progress and attitude, it is not impossible to catch up with the students in the men's school in time, so are you ready to get rid of your shame in the mid-term exam next year?"

The whole class was silent, and everyone thought of the fiasco in the midterm exam.

Li Baolu smiled slightly and said, "Why, you only have the guts to compete with the women's college of Songshan Academy, don't you have the guts to compete with the boys' college students?"

Ouyang Qing fixed her eyes, looked at Zheng Dan, and stood up first to salute, "Students will wait for another fight."

The rest of the people also hurriedly stood up and bowed to the end, "Students must go all out!"

Li Baolu watched their complacency disappear and was replaced by fierce fighting spirit, nodded slightly and said, "Very good, then let's distribute the test papers and report cards."

Li Baolu handed out the test papers and report cards, and gave them a quarter of an hour to exchange their results before knocking on the table and saying, "I won't explain the test papers to you. You go back and explain it yourself. If you don't understand, you can ask your classmates first." If you don’t understand any more, you can ask your elders, and if you can’t answer, you can write to me, and I will answer them one by one. Now there are still two quarters of an hour before the end of class, so what are we going to do?”

Wan Zhihe smiled, "What does the master want us to do?"

Li Baolu smiled and said: "I want to ask how you plan to live this year?"

"Isn't Chinese New Year the same every year? Eat New Year's Eve dinner, watch the night, get red envelopes for New Year's greetings, visit relatives, and after the seventh day of the lunar new year, maybe someone will hold a flower banquet. Maybe we can get together at that time."

"You can also go to Huguo Temple to offer incense and appreciate plum blossoms. Every year, the head incense at Huguo Temple is very popular in the first month. If we can't get the head incense, we can just grab a stick of incense."

Seeing Li Baolu looking at them with a smile, Ouyang Qing asked aloud, "Is there any activity, sir?"

Zhu Fanghua rolled his eyes and shouted, "I see. I heard that the courtyard of Mr.'s house has just been repaired this year. Could it be that your house is also going to hold a flower banquet?"

Li Baolu shook her head and said with a smile: "My garden was only repaired in autumn. It is bare, but there are no flowers for everyone to admire. But I have an idea, but I don't know if you are interested."

Li Baolu paused and said, "The academy will be closed for the Chinese New Year. When I passed Chunhui Academy just now, I saw the school workers clearing things out. It seemed that they were all your discarded studies, such as discarded paintings, carpentry, paper-cutting, etc. Among them, paintings You have the most paper, one roll after another, I have seen your paintings, although there are occasional flaws, and the skills are a little immature, but they all have advantages. Are those paintings drawn by students from the painting club?"

Everyone looked at Wan Zhihe one after another, because she was the president of the art club of the third grade.

Wan Zhihe got up and replied: "Yes, because there are all flaws, we discarded them. We wanted to handle them ourselves, but the janitor in charge of Chunhui College said they could handle them, so we always leave it to them. , I didn’t expect them to still pile up in the yard.”

She thought Li Baolu was blaming them.

Li Baolu smiled slightly and said: "Your paintings with flaws are not bad, but how much better are the ones without flaws? So I want to hold a painting exhibition for you, so that you can display your favorite works, but I don't know how much you can do. Willing."

Wan Zhihe's eyes brightened. She didn't expect it to be such a good thing. She nodded excitedly, and then said hesitantly: "Can our paintings really be exhibited? No, won't it make people laugh?"

Li Baolu said calmly and with certainty: "No. But there are many details in this matter. If you really want to, you can connect with members of the painting clubs of other classes in a while, choose a few representatives, and come to me after school. Let's have a good talk."

Li Baolu has seen their paintings. Although the brushwork is immature, they are no different from ordinary paintings in calligraphy and painting shops. The most important thing is that there are many spiritual works in them.

And Li Baolu's move was not to give them a name, but to make them continue to pay attention to the things they were interested in, and there was no need to give up their hobbies for the knowledge in books.

The teacher who taught painting complained to her that because the final exam was approaching, the students' painting skills had not improved but regressed. She also found that several children were secretly reviewing other lessons in her class, which made her very angry.

The scores of the painting class account for a small proportion, and even after the fourth grade, this course will be replaced by an elective course from a compulsory course.

But Li Baolu can see that those who can join the painting club are those who really love or are good at painting, and she doesn't want them to give up this for a test.

She will slowly tell them that even though these skills are a small part of the test score, they are useful, and they will also bring them glory and achievement.