Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 256: Not Studying for the Imperial Examination

Su Yunzhi stood up from his chair and looked Lin Yian up and down. "I haven't seen you for half a year. You've grown taller!"

Lin Yibai and Lu Changqing raised their heads and looked at him eagerly, and Su Yunzhi had a smile in his eyes.

“You’ve all grown up!”

Master Dao was walking behind with a book under his arm. When he heard Lin Yian's exclamation, he stuck his head out and looked outside. He saw Su Yunzhi, wearing a wrinkled black dress, surrounded by several children in the opposite corridor.

Su Yunzhi saw Master Dao coming over here, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Student Su Yunzhi greets the Master!"

"Come on! Come in and sit down." Master Dao nodded and glanced at Su Yunzhidao, who looked much thinner.

Lin Yian and several other children tactfully left the school.

After entering the house, Master Dao put down his book, picked up the kettle on the table and prepared to make tea.

When a trace of surprise flashed across Su Yunzhi's face, Master Dao said slowly, "It was a villager sent by An Nan to take care of me. He will clean up the house and boil water before the get out of class is almost over."

"Anan is thoughtful." Su Yunzhi admired sincerely.

Master Dao poured him a cup of tea and asked, "Are you all right in Cangwu County?"

Su Yunzhi took it with both hands, and was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

"Cangwu County and the southern land are the southern barbarians who were civilized late. There are many mountains and little land. Their thoughts and culture are quite different from those of the Central Plains. They don't attach as much importance to cultural education as the Central Plains do. I'm afraid you will have to spend a lot of energy on it." Master Dao consoled.

Su Yunzhi sighed and explained their current predicament in Cangwu County one by one.

"Master, what do you think we should do? Are we just going to keep wasting time like this?" Su Yunzhi said helplessly.

"If you give up now, then all the efforts of your sisters in the sect in the early stage will be in vain?" Master Dao asked back.

Su Yunzhi held the teacup and fell into deep thought, remaining silent for a long time.

Master Dao said, “Those who achieve great things don’t do it overnight.”

"Master, do you want to go to dinner with me or should I bring it back for you?"

Outside the door, Zhou Linzhao's clear voice came.

"Come in for a moment." Master Dao said to him loudly.

A moment later, Zhou Linzhao's tall figure appeared in the room, "Master, do you have any other instructions?"

"Zhou Linzhao?" Su Yunzhi looked at the person in front of him and was a little hesitant to recognize him, so he asked tentatively.

Zhou Linzhao looked at him after hearing this, and after carefully examining him for a moment, he said in surprise, "Su Yunzhi! Is that you?"

"it's me!"

"Brother Yunzhi, it's really you! I didn't expect to see you in my lifetime!" Zhou Linzhao stepped forward and hugged Su Yunzhi warmly.

After hearing Zhou Linzhao's narration, Su Yunzhi suddenly felt that he was extremely lucky that his whole family was together.

Speaking of his deceased parents and family members again, Zhou Linzhao had already let it go in his heart. He regarded Longtan as his own home and Master Dao as his own father, taking care of him in his old age and seeing him to the end of his life.

The three were just reminiscing about the past when a secret guard came to invite them, "Master, the city lord invites you and the two young masters to have dinner at the Yun family."

"Okay, let's go over there."

Yun Mo returned to the backyard with a lot on his mind, and Lin Yinan was still feeding Yun Shijiu.

He washed his hands, sat down next to Lin Yinan, and shamelessly went forward to drink milk from Yun Shijiu.

"You're such a eater, aren't you full yet?"

Lin Yinan rolled his eyes at the shameless man, "Do you know what Su Yunzhi is doing in Longtan?"

"What are you here for? It's to see you or Master Dao!" Yun Mo said angrily when he mentioned this person.

"Are you jealous?"

"It's nothing, don't talk nonsense."

Yun Mo flatly denied it. How could a man like him be so boring?

"I'll ask Qianxia to cook a few more dishes, and then invite Wu Xingwang and his son, my brother and others, and the teacher to have a meal together." Lin Yinan said.

Yun Mo understood that she wanted to use the meal break to discuss something with everyone, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, you decide on the arrangements."

There was a knock on the door, Qian Wu came trembling, "Third Madam, the food in the kitchen is almost ready."

"Okay, ask the secret guards to invite my brother and Master Dao over."

After Lin Yinan finished speaking, she looked at Yun Shijiu who was already fast asleep with milk in her mouth, pulled down her clothes, asked Yun Mo to wring out a handkerchief to wipe her face and hands, then gently put her on the bed and covered her with a quilt.

Just as she was about to step out, Yun Mo hugged her from behind and rested his head on her back feeling insecure.

"Anan, I don't allow you to think about Su Yunzhi anymore!" Yun Mo said in a muffled voice, the hot and humid breath seeping into his skin through his clothes.

Lin Yinan touched the goose bumps on his arms and tried hard not to throw him away.

I really didn't expect Yun Mo also had the potential to be a love-brained person.

During the dinner, Lin Yinan listened to everyone's conversation to understand the current situation in Cangwu County.

She asked Qianxia to bring the lychee wine they had brewed and pour a glass for everyone present.

"This is the lychee wine we brewed when we first came to Longtan. Let's have a try." Lin Yinan raised the cup in his hand and gestured to everyone.

Master Dao was a heavy drinker. He couldn't wait to pick up the glass and take a sip. He smacked his lips for a long time before saying, "It tastes sweet and sour, and it's very refreshing to drink!"

After three rounds of drinking, Lin Yinan looked at the tipsy Su Yunzhi and asked seriously, "I wonder what your plans are next? Have you ever considered staying in Longtan?"

"Cough cough cough." Yun Mo next to him choked on the wine and started coughing violently.

Su Yunzhi looked at him with a half-smile, and asked instead of answering, "I wonder what the city lord needs me to do?"

"I want to build a college. Are you interested in staying and helping me?" Lin Yinan said.

Didn't they already have a school? Why did they need to build a college?

Wu Xingwang was puzzled, "Don't we have a school?"

Lin Yinan curled his lips with a faint smile on his face, "There are more than 2,000 people in Longtan. There are currently 60 to 70 children in the two classes of the school, not counting the younger and slightly older ones. These are the future of Longtan."

"Let's not talk about scientific research for now, but the cultivation of talents cannot stop."

As the saying goes, no matter how poor you are, you cannot be poor in education.

The South is a place that was civilized relatively late, and those with cultural knowledge are all children of aristocratic families. If left alone, their next generation and even the next few generations will inevitably regress to their ancestors.

Thinking of the scene of eating raw meat and drinking blood, Lin Yinan's hair stood on end.

Although Nanman Prefecture is located in a remote area, it also has its geographical advantages. No matter which emperor comes to power in the future, he will not be able to control them.

The emperor is far away and has never paid much attention to the southern barbarians. This is why Lin Yinan considered taking root in the southern barbarians.

If we want to develop here, we must pay attention to the education of the next generation.

"The purpose of building the academy is to cultivate various technical talents. Just like my second uncle, after mastering the rice planting technology, he took the technicians around him to various villages to provide planting guidance to the people. After half a year, the people who took refuge in Longtan basically solved the problem of food and clothing."

"Then the next step is to teach them various practical life skills, improve their quality of life, and master a technology so that they will not starve to death wherever they go in the future."

Everyone understood that she did not want to train scholars to become officials.

Su Yunzhi fell into deep thought. Lin Yinan's words had a huge impact on him and overturned his imagination. Their Su family was previously famous in the Central Plains for its scholarly family that was good at cultivating scholars.

Taoist Master looked at Lin Yinan, clapped his hands and praised, "With great power comes great responsibility. Nan's idea is really great. Isn't this the way I have been pursuing in my life?"

Lin Yiheng and several other scholars in Linjia Village were silent. They had never thought that studying was not for the purpose of imperial examinations.

Just as the dining room fell into silence, a secret guard hurried in to report.

"Lord City Lord, a villager from East Village came to the city gate and said he had something important to report."

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