Time flies, and half a month passes in a blink of an eye.

For half a month, the apprentices have gotten up early and went to bed late every day, working hard every day, and have completely entered the pre-exam state.

But the master's voice, appearance and smile were gone all day long, and the disciples were always feeling empty.

Especially the elder brother, he actually used his wonderful paintings and drew a portrait of Zhao Hao based on his memory. He hung it on the table to pay his respects and report it every day, but he even made an incense burner to light incense.

Fortunately, the junior brothers joined forces to stop him, which made Mr. Zhao start to be popular before he was a teenager.

The eldest brother was very angry about this and said, "Why can Xuelang make a golden body for his master? I can't put in incense sticks for his master in advance?" There are also people who set up a temple for officials!"

"Master can bear it, but it's unscientific!" The third junior brother hugged him tightly.

"That's right, the science sect is superstitious. I think you, the senior brother, are very incompetent!" The second junior brother snatched the incense burner from his hand and said, "I think my master is not here for this time, so I might as well take charge of the affairs of this sect for a while."

"The rules set by the master are still sticking to the wall. You are going to rebel!" The senior brother struggled desperately.

Everyone was making a fuss when they suddenly heard a thud in the backyard, which scared them all to tremble.

After coming back to their senses, they hurried to the backyard to check out the experimental room of Zhao Shizhen and Zhang Jian.

When they opened the door, steam came from the room. Everyone hurriedly opened the window to ventilate. Only then did they see Zhao Shizhen and Zhang Jian sitting by the wall in frustration, with expressions of nod to love.

In the middle of the house, there is a coal lotus stove still burning, with a cast iron can more than one foot high on its head.

A long crack appeared on the tank body, and steam continued to gush out...

"Not hurt, are you?"

The senior brothers quickly helped the two of them up, and saw that they were just hit hard and that there was nothing wrong with them. Then they felt relieved and asked:

"Failed again?"

"Well..." Zhang Jian was not confident at first, and said in great frustration: "Master has given us the pictures. I can't do it well with a copy of it. It's so useless..."

Zhao Shizhen also said straight with his eyes: "Uncle said, this thing must be made two feet tall to be useful. We can't even make a one-foot model well..."

"Get up, get up!" The senior brother patted the two of them on the heads, pulled them up, and encouraged with a smile: "Don't Master teach us often, is it a success to fail? Have you just failed several times? Is it early to be discouraged?"

"That's right, such a magical achievement can make you two get into your pocket in half a month?" The second senior brother also smiled.

"When we wait for the spring exam, we will help you find a solution!" The third senior brother Wang Dingjue also comforted him.

"I think this is normal. Master often says that science is profound and you haven't learned anything yet..." The fourth senior brother's comfort was always so rational and constructive: "You might as well do the things you can do first, and then ask questions after Master comes out of seclusion."

As for the fifth senior brother... well, he was not in the backyard at this moment, but was called to the gate of the west courtyard by the guard.

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When Yu Shensi walked to the door, he saw a horse-tie pile outside the gate surrounded by many neighbors and laughed and watched the fun.

He separated everyone and came close to him, and saw a servant protecting the gray donkey tied there and having an argument with the golden monkey last time.

"What's up?"

Yu Shensi walked forward and glanced at the golden monkey coldly, thinking that this kid is so brave that he really dares to come alone.

"He wants to steal our donkey." The servant hurriedly said to Shen Si: "And he said we insulted him."

"Why are we insulting you?" Yu Shensi looked down at the little man.

"My name is Jin Xuezeng. You give this donkey a name, also called Jin Xuezeng. What are your intentions?"

Jin Xuezeng said angrily: "Now even the people in the Hangzhou Guild Hall know that you have raised a donkey called Jin Xuezeng."

"Wow, it turns out that he is Jin Xuezeng's master..."

"His name is Jin Xuezeng, is there such a coincidence?"

"Not to mention, they are all thin and small, and they are so gray that they look quite like..."

The crowd began to talk.

No matter how thick-skinned Jin Xuezeng was, he couldn't stand this. He was so angry that he jumped up and said, "It's a shame for a scholar to insult him, but it's not what scholars do!"

"Your young man surnamed Jin is sneering with blood." Yu Shensi spat and said, "The teacher kindly asked us to tie your donkey at the door and wait for you to pick it up. I'm afraid that you don't know, so I even wrote big words to spread it. How could it be a disgrace to be a gentleman?"

"Then you can't just write my name on the donkey." Jin Xuezeng jumped and said, "At least, write something like 'Jin Xuezeng, you lost your donkey'?"

"Who said we didn't write it?" Yu Shensi sneered, slapped the donkey's left butt, and the donkey turned around and faced everyone against the wall.

"The donkey... Jin Xuezeng's donkey!" Everyone laughed and said, "I'm just telling the truth, it's not really a swearing."

"..." Jin Xuezeng stayed for a long time, laughed and touched his head, "I didn't expect that your master is still a wonderful person."

"My master has so many wonderful things." Yu Shensi sneered, untied the reins and threw them to him and said, "Take off with Jin Xuezeng's donkey."

This donkey has been exhibited for half a month, and there are many more people coming to visit every day than those who go to see popular science exhibitions. At this time, there are already thousands of people in Beijing, and everyone knows that there is a donkey named Jin Xuezeng in Chunsong Hutong.

Otherwise, it would not have been passed on to Jin Xuezeng's ears.

Since the anger has come out, are you still holding someone’s donkeys and making donkey meat?

Seeing that there was no fun and the neighbors dispersed, Yu Shensi also turned around and prepared to enter.

After walking a few steps, he found that the golden monkey was following behind him and wanted to go in with him.

"What are you doing?" Yu Shensi turned around, and Jin Xuezeng hit his head on the chest.

"Oh, go in and become a disciple." Jin Xuezeng rubbed his head and grinned.

"You can't go in." Yu Shensi said decisively.

"Why not? I recently solved ten propositions and can I go there twice." Jin Xue once wanted to get in from his armpit because of his small body.

"If you say no, you won't." Yu Shensi shrank his arm, clamped his neck, threw Jin Xuezeng out and said:

"You were asked to enter but you didn't, but now you want to enter, there is no way." Yu Shensi sneered and was about to close the door.

"I think you're wrong." Jin Xuezeng squeezed up with shameless face and leaned into the door and said halfway through:

"You gave that letter to me, right? If our master doesn't want to accept me, why would he have to work hard to write to me?"

"It's my master, not your master." Yu Shensi emphasized first, then sneered:

"Besides, Master doesn't lack you as an apprentice. He wrote a letter just to tell you that you did something stupid that day!"

As he said that, he kicked Jin Xuezeng out with one kick, and then closed the door with a bang. "Leave a lifelong regret!"

"Open the door, can't I be wrong?" Jin Xuezeng hurriedly hit the door and begged: "I be wrong, can't I be wrong, can't I beware of Taishan. If I don't know the content behind the letter, I will definitely fail the exam..."

"Don't be so ruthless, give me a chance to correct my mistakes..."

But no matter how he slapped it, the door was still closed and there was no intention of opening it.

"Hey, I really regret it..." Jin Xuezeng was tired of filming, so he couldn't sit by the door laughing and crying.

I thought to myself, if someone can't invite him, but now I can't get in, I'm really cheap.
Chapter completed!