boyutpedia Chapter 300 Academy Entrance Examination
Chapter 300 Academy Entrance Examination
Bai Jun and his son could not understand the drawings drawn by Bai Jingzhou, so they could only make them while Bai Jingzhou watched. Bai Jingzhou had no choice but to take time out to supervise. Fortunately, the two of them could quickly understand Bai Jingzhou's requirements, and the new spinning wheel and loom were made smoothly.
The two did not disappoint Bai Jingzhou's trust in them. When Bai Jingzhou's aunt-in-law asked them what the second house asked them to do, the two said tables, chairs, benches, boxes and cabinets.
Moreover, while they were working in the workshop, they locked the door every day to prevent others - including their own wives and children - from entering or leaving at will. It can be said that they did a very good job of keeping secrets.
During this period, Bai Jingzhou's eldest cousin Ning Qiyuan got married.
His wife, Zhang, was the youngest daughter of his aunt's cousin. She was straightforward and efficient at work. Her family ran a carriage shop in the town. The family members still alive included her three brothers, father and grandmother. Her grandfather, mother, uncle and others had died one after another during the war.
Fang Youshun and Fang Chunxiu also got married at about the same time as him. Fang Youshun married a girl from Baijia Village. In terms of seniority, this girl was Bai Jingzhou's cousin, five generations removed from his parents.
Fang Chunxiu, who was only one year older than Gu Wenxuan, married into a wealthy farming family in Xiaoyangzhuang. Her husband was the eldest son in the family. Although the members of her husband's family had different personalities, they were all good people.
The three Gu and Bai families all sent generous gifts, but because Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan had to take the children to Tianhe Academy in the provincial capital to take exams, they did not attend the two wedding banquets of the Fang family in person.
It should be mentioned here that Bai Jingzhou had originally planned to take a few children to take the entrance examination after the academy opened next year. However, not long ago, the steward of the Mu Mansion who stayed in the state capital sent him a letter, telling him that Tianhe Academy would hold an entrance examination on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month.
This entrance examination is different from the monthly and annual examinations of the academy. It is an irregular examination organized by the academy on a temporary basis. According to the frequency of entrance examinations held by Tianhe Academy in the past, if Bai Jingzhou and his friends missed the one on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, then the next time they will have to wait until the end of February or the beginning of March next year.
Bai Jingzhou didn't want to wait that long, so he simply went to the provincial capital with Gu Wenxuan and the children before the New Year to take the entrance examination for Tianhe Academy.
It was just an entrance exam, and the difficulty was not that high. Most of the test questions were what Bai Jingzhou and his friends had learned from the Lin father and son.
In the afternoon, the teacher of the academy posted the list, and Bai Jingzhou immediately found his name, Bai Jingshan's name, Gu Wenhai's name, and Gu Wenche's name.
The names of the four of them were in the middle of the list. Further down, Bai Jingzhou saw Ning Qirui's name at the end of the list.
Eleven-year-old Ning Qian'an and Bai Jinglin, ten-year-old Bai Jingheng, and nine-year-old Gu Wenzhe were not on the list, but this result was already expected by Bai Jingzhou.
Although they started systematic reading at almost the same time, the younger children's comprehension and memory abilities cannot be compared with their older brothers and sisters.
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou are not the kind of people who like to force things to happen. They brought these four kids here simply to let them experience the academy environment and the assessment atmosphere, and they did not force them to pass the exam.
After collecting Mu Hanzhi's name card, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan returned to the village with the others. Four people including Bai Jingzhou will come to the academy to study next year, and the remaining four will be arranged to study in the village school with Li Fan.
It is worth mentioning that Bai Jingzhou and his group were not the only ones studying in Baijia Village. Bai Lizheng's grandson and children from some wealthy families in the village also attended schools in the county and town. Moreover, they started to learn English at a young age and continued to study hard in the school ever since.
Although the village school funded by Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan charged low tuition, it was not considered by students who had studied for many years because there was only one teacher, Li Fan.
For example, Bai Lizheng's grandson attended a large school where several scholars and a juren taught together.
Although the children of other wealthy families in the village did not have the same academic conditions as the grandson of the village head, the schools they attended had produced scholars.
Those who are determined to pass the imperial examinations would of course prefer to continue studying in the town school which has already achieved some teaching results rather than in the newly built village school which has not yet shown any competitiveness.
Only the little kids who are just starting to learn and the students from poor families who are determined to study for the imperial examinations would turn their attention to the new school in Baijia Village.
Bai Lizheng felt a little regretful about this. His village finally had a private school, and he wished he could attract all the students from the surrounding villages to his own village. However, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou were very satisfied with the situation they had intentionally created.
From the extremely low tuition they set and the various subsidies and benefits they established, it can be seen that their purpose in running this school is not to make money or gain fame, but to support those children who originally could not afford to go to school.
In this case, there is no need to compete for students.
After all, their schools cannot accept unlimited students, and wealthy families who can afford it are willing to send their children to other schools, which actually helps reduce their burden.
"Wenxuan." After the new school in the village was built, many people found Bai Rong, who was in charge of all chores, to register their children. Gu Wenxuan's second aunt Lin Shuzhen privately told Gu Wenxuan that she hoped to continue to retain the girls' school.
Gu Wenxuan was thinking the same thing. She smiled and sat opposite Lin Shuzhen. "Second Aunt and I are thinking the same thing."
She told Lin Shuzhen, "I plan to build a girls' school a little in front of our house. I plan to divide the area in front of Jingzhou's house into two parts and use both to build small houses like the academy dormitory."
The houses built by their two families are at the end of the village, which are the last row of all the houses in the village. Before them, there are some empty houses that have been abandoned for a long time. These empty houses now belong to Gu Wenxuan.
Gu Wenxuan planned to tear down all the empty houses, and then find craftsmen to build a girls' school and orphanage according to her plan on a piece of land that was about twice the size of their homes.
She planned to build small houses like academy dormitories inside the orphanage to house the abandoned babies and orphans they adopted.
"The half next to the girls' school is for girls, and the other half is for boys. The two sides are separated by a high wall, with two gates for entry and exit, and then there are a few dogs in both yards."
The children all had to learn martial arts, and they would keep a few dogs in the yard. Her home and Bai Jingzhou's home were quite close to where the children lived, so the children's personal and property safety was still guaranteed.