The new book of the burning prairie star

Yang Biao took the receipt and left the blacksmith shop.

Then he went to the rice shop and bought a bag of white flour, a bag weighing 100 jin, and also bought 50 jin of glutinous rice and one stone of old rice.

Thinking that it had been a long time since I last visited Master Zhou, I turned the car around and headed to Wenhua Academy to find Master Zhou.

After parking the mule cart in the academy's special parking lot, Yang Biao took his sister to the place in his memory.

"Oh, isn't this Yang Biao, the poor and talented scholar in our Wenhua Academy who is known for his photographic memory and quick wit?" A familiar and annoying voice came to my ears.

Yang Biao stopped and said, "Xu Hongming, how is your Mo Yi learning going? Can we form a partnership and take the exam together next year?"

Xu Hongming's face turned pale in an instant, he clenched his fists and glared at him.

"He is really a country bumpkin. Why is he here? Isn't he still in mourning?"

"Can geniuses be the same as us?"

"The farm boy is really different from us. He is just a mud-legged peasant. His family has no money and he needs to borrow money to come to this academy."

"If you don't have money, just farm the land honestly. Don't dream of making a leap forward. How can you be a burden to your family?"

"That guy was so shameless. I threw a steamed bun on the table and took a few bites of it. He saw that no one was around, so he picked it up and ate it."

The other one heard this and laughed, "He must be hungry, and so are you. We have been classmates for several years. Dogs on the street will throw a meat bun to them. How can you let your poor classmate pick up the buns you threw away and eat them?"

"I wouldn't even feed him to the dogs. What kind of person is this? He is poor and shabby, but he has the aloof, self-important look. He dares to come to the academy to study before the mourning period is over."

"If he dares to come, will the master accept him? He is committing treason and disgracing the civilized world."

"He's coming over, stop talking..." The former classmates discussed at once.

Yang Biao ignored them and walked past them expressionlessly. The original owner had always chosen the off-days in the academy to visit Master Zhou, just because he didn't want to run into Xu Hongming and the others. But Yang Xiaohua stared at them angrily, her face flushed and almost spitting fire.

Yang Biao pulled his sister's sleeve and shook his head at her. "Brother, why do they say that about you? Aren't you angry?"

"Why are you angry? Just treat whatever they say as the barking of a mad dog. I came to the academy to study, not to listen to gossip."

Yang Xiaohua looked at Yang Biao with sympathy, her eyes filled with tears.

Yang Biao couldn't bear to see her like that, so he turned around and walked towards Master Zhou's study. Yang Xiaohua hurriedly followed him, and when she reached the door of the study, she stood aside and didn't go in with her brother.

"Yang Biao, why are you here? Come and sit over here." Master Zhou was in his forties, a little fat, wearing a green gown and sitting at the desk reviewing students' essays. He turned around and saw Yang Biao coming over, and asked with surprise. Yang Biao was a student with a very high talent for reading. When others just started reading Mo Yi and Tie Jing, he could already recite them backwards, and he could often draw inferences from one example. He also wrote well, and was the most proud student in his teaching career so far.

"Have you harvested all the rice at home?"

"The student has purchased a residential plot and has established a new household registration." Yang Biao informed Master Zhou of his recent situation.

"Well, it's not a bad thing to set up your own family. Fourteen years old is not too young." Master Zhou stood up and walked to Yang Biao. Seeing that there was no trace of confusion or sadness in his eyes, he put down his worries and patted him on the shoulders with both hands. "Well, you have grown a lot taller and become a man. Now you have to take on the responsibility of a family and the prosperity of the family. It's a heavy burden!"

Master Zhou felt sorry for Yang Biao. Other students in the academy, some of whom were older than him, were still acting like spoiled brats in front of their parents, while he was already copying books to support his family. "Are you sure about what will happen next year?"

"The student has this idea." Yang Biao knew that in ancient times, if one wanted to be able to protect his family, he had to work hard to become stronger as soon as possible. Being strong was better than anything else, and it was crucial to have strong abilities and strength. This source of strength was not only self-confidence and independence, but also the improvement of self-worth and the respect and recognition of others. However, the best way to obtain these was the imperial examination.

Then it was time for the teacher and the student to test each other. After a round of questions, Master Zhou was very satisfied. Yang Biao was a diligent man. Even though he was at home in mourning, he did not slack off in his studies. He answered the questions on the classics very well, and his understanding and interpretation of some Confucian classics even surpassed his own. He felt that everything had suddenly become clear.

If Yang Biao knew what he was thinking, he would say that he had to thank Mr. Liu for this. If it weren't for the five collected editions he copied, even with a modern core, he would not have had such a deep understanding.

"Since you want to get out, you have to review well. I'll find you some books." Master Zhou walked to the bookshelf behind him, took out six books that he had prepared for Yang Biao, and handed them to him. "Look and ask me if there's anything you don't understand."

"Thank you, teacher. It's getting late and my mother is still waiting for me at home, so I'll take my leave first." Seeing that it was getting late, Yang Biao bowed to him and said goodbye.

Master Zhou smiled and nodded, "Then go back, and be careful on the road."

As a 38-year-old modern person, how could I possibly be disturbed by the words of my classmates? The original owner's family conditions were there, and picking up steamed buns to eat was not a shameful thing. I also heard from the elders in the family who came from the 1960s that when they were very hungry, they ate bran fruit cakes, leaves, Guanyin soil, grass roots and other things that could fill their stomachs.

Yang Biao is a top student. Others cannot catch up with his academic performance no matter how hard they try. They can only attack his original family to gain personal psychological comfort.

I can't help but think of an event that happened not long ago. A 17-year-old technical secondary school girl named Jiang Ping made it into the top 12 of the Global Mathematics Competition. CCTV encourages: Interest is the best talent. No matter what your starting point is, stay focused and you will definitely gain something.

There were seven contest questions, and a Peking University PhD tried and only answered one correctly. However, five days after the news about Jiang Ping came out, voices questioning Jiang Ping emerged: to answer those seven questions correctly, one needs to be extremely proficient in linear algebra, advanced algebra, partial differential equations, mathematical analysis, basic topology, and probability theory. A poor student who scored only 621 out of 760 in the high school entrance examination two years ago and only scored 80 in mathematics can master university and even graduate mathematics after a year and a half. This gives hope to those who want to turn from a sparrow into a phoenix. This is the starting point shining into reality, and the Marvel Math Man is alive. I think this is too outrageous.

There was even a rumor that Jiang Ping cheated and that Damo Academy asked her to redo the blackboard test and announced the results a few days later. So Damo Academy came out to refute the rumor: Jiang Ping was not asked to do the test again.

Some people also commented: Jealousy can change a person beyond recognition and make him psychologically distorted.

Personally, I think there is no need to question a child who is not yet an adult. Some people should stop using their traffic to their advantage. Let Jiang Ping go!