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The monthly exams every month are a test for Lu Hong’s disciples.

Although there are nearly a hundred students who listen to the lectures in Lu's Caotang, most of them cannot pass the third exam of Lu's class and cannot get the recommended books of those famous scholars. So they can only listen to the lectures and go freely, and they are not qualified to take the monthly exam. Those who are qualified to take the monthly exams have already begun to prepare in full swing every few days, because Lu Hong personally gave questions for the monthly exams, and everyone's papers are different according to the courses chosen by each person. If you want to cheat, it is not only embarrassing, but also almost impossible.

Because of this, although it was not the first time I took the monthly exam, Cui Jianxuan still dragged Du Shiyi to stay up for two nights. When he finally finished the answer, he watched the senior brother smiling and put the paper in his eyes. He couldn't help but yawn a big yawn. Then he leaned back exhaustedly and complained, "Apart from the test essay, since we all learned the same, why did we have to have two different papers? Master Lu caused trouble for himself! Really, God knows how difficult it is to finish those books..."

He was lying on the sky and saw Du Shiyi standing up, stretching lazily, but not as tired as himself. He couldn't help but sit up with a carp, glanced at the books on the desks of Lao Gao's thread-bound books, and took a breath and said, "I really don't know where you are so good at it. How many books have you copied in the past few months? You have to listen to lectures, hand in your homework books regularly, climb mountains, go back to see Thirteen Niang, and have monthly exams. You are enough time! You still let Liu Ximing spread your talents outside, you are... this is..."

Hearing Cui Jianxuan's shell stuck suddenly and clearly could not find the exact adjective, Du Shiyi said with a smile: "Do you want to say that I am pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

"Yes, that's right, that's what it means! Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger... This description is really wonderful!" Cui Jianxuan immediately slapped hard on the seat under him, but was shocked by the huge recoil force to make his palm hurt. While sucking cold air and rubbing his palms, he said angrily, "I just said, you must be unhappy!"

"I am no longer able to write poetry, of course I have lost all my talents!"

Du Shiyi ignored Cui Jianxuan's eyes and walked to the edge of the book desk to open the copy and bound thread books, which had been copied and bound by himself. He felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment. Since he sent off Gongsun Auntie, he went back every few days to visit Du Shisanniang and listened to lectures in the cottage, and also the small historical books that Lu Hongdan had opened for him, and began to sit in the house and only copy books. The reason is that every time he copied a book, he would write down a book in its original book. Now several months have passed, from "The Book of Gongyang in the Spring and Autumn Period", "Zuo Zhuan", "Wu Yue Chunqiu", "Records of the Grand Historian", and "Yonghui Lu Shu", "The Book of Records of the Grand Historian", "The Book of Records of the Grand Historian", and "The Book of Yonghui Lu Shu", "The Book of Replies" for only the hand-written books in the room can see his hard work these days.

Of course, if it weren't for the senior brothers such as Lu Hong and Lu Wangzhi, he wouldn't have copied so many of them. After all, "Yonghui Rule Shu" cannot be found just by looking for it, especially the Lu family's cottage, which is a literary scholar, not a legal official.

Nowadays, many of the poor students who are listening to the lectures in Caotang Fulu have begun to learn from him to copy books in the form of thread-bound books. Among these people, he has become a role model who is willing to work hard.

When Cui Jianxuan saw Du Shiyi rubbing the books with his back to him, he suddenly asked, "Hey, Du Shijiu, what Gongsun said about Shaoshishan Wuru Peak Shaolin Temple, when are you going?"

When Du Shiyi heard Cui Jianxuan ask this, he immediately paused. His impression of Shaolin Temple was so profound that he was a little too deep, so he turned around and smiled, "Why, are you planning to leave your studies in Caotang and go there to learn swords?"

"Can't you take care of both sides?" Cui Jianxuan raised his chest confidently, and then said with a striking remark, "You can go out and go to the generals and ministers! How can you do without the power of a chicken? I have been riding a horse and shooting arrows since I was a child. Even my swordsmanship has been practiced with two teachers for a while. If my mother hadn't told my grandmother this time, my swordsmanship might have been a little successful! Besides, Master Lu is not the kind of person who sticks to the rules, and he is easy to understand in his lectures. As long as we go and explain it carefully, he will definitely agree!"

"Let's talk about it until this monthly exam results come out." Seeing Cui Jianxuan turning into a bitter face in an instant, Du Shiyi couldn't help laughing, "What, are you not sure about the results of your exam?"

"Bao, you don't have a crow's mouth!" Cui Jianxuan glared at Du Shiyi in a furious manner. Finally, he couldn't help it anymore. He stood up and walked straight to the west room, saying without looking back, "The sky is big, the most sleeping... I haven't closed my eyes for two days, this time I have to sleep full! I can warn you not to disturb me, otherwise I'm not polite!"

Hearing the sound of a heavy object slamming on the bamboo bed, then turning over, and finally snoring, Du Shiyi couldn't help but sigh that Cui Jianxuan was not as good as his appearance. Not to mention the embroidered mouth, he was just mean and straightened his stomach. Even falling asleep faster than anyone else at night. Thinking that "Yonghui Lu Shu" was left with only the last part of the last volume of the final volume of the verdict, he rubbed his temples and then came to the desk next to the window.

Since copying books is already tiring and heavy enough, he is not interested in abuseing himself anymore, so he asked Tian Mo to make a set of tables and chairs to deliver them. When the things were delivered in, it attracted a lot of criticism. However, it was obvious that most of the children of the aristocratic families were still despised, but they also thought that while studying in Lu's thatched cottage, the poor students who had copied more books and brought them back to observe them, and immediately relied on their own to copy a set of self-use when they returned.

But after copying a little half of the page, he immediately calmed down. Although the sound of Fulu listening to the students' speeches, the sound of the disciples' conversations after the monthly exam, and even the noise of reading, he almost turned a deaf ear. From time to time, his wrist became sore, so he stopped to rub his elbows, and then silently recited the content he had just copied. When he recovered, he continued to copy. When he was thirsty, he picked up the water from the white porcelain jar next to him and took a sip. Before he knew it, he had forgotten the time.

Pei Ning and Lu Wangzhi, who were standing side by side outside the thatched hut, looked at this scene, and Lu Wangzhi said with a smile: "I have been copying books every day in the past few months. Those thread-bound books have filled the book cases. I used to take a whim and asked questions, but he could even memorize them. It turns out that diligence can make perfect. I just read the paper on the way to Master Lu. His answers all have their own opinions."

"If you can't even pass the monthly exam, it will be useless to make Master Lu's hard work. It's a pity that Cui Shiyi is really lazy. Since he is inseparable from Du Shijiu, why don't he learn Du Shijiu's diligence?" Speaking of this, Pei Ning felt sorry for being disappointed. Suddenly he saw the slight smile on Lu Wangzhi's face. He immediately had an idea and frowned and said, "Senior Brother, it's not that Cui Shiyi didn't learn well, but he just learned your laziness and ignorance, right?"

"Stern Junior Brother, what are you saying? Even if Shiyilang wants to learn, he should learn my beautiful articles, right?" Lu Wangzhi smiled and replied to Pei Ning. Seeing that the junior brother's face became even colder, he said slowly, "I know everyone regards you as the supervisor of Lu's cottage, but don't always be so stern. You clearly pay attention to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone of the junior brother, and you will make up for it whenever there is a deficit. Why do you always look up in front of him? Even when Shiyilang stayed up late to study, you wandered in front of the cottage, but you were always so cold on his face. Why did you feel so hard?"

Pei Ning's expression changed a lot after saying something, and finally said in anger: "I just don't want anyone to fall into the reputation of Master Lu! In short, senior brother, please set a good example for them, I'll leave first!"

Seeing Pei Ning walking fast, Lu Wangzhi couldn't help but smile and rub the short beard of his jaw, then yawned and muttered: "This spring is easy to get sleepy, but I didn't expect that autumn is easy to get sleepy... I don't know where my junior brother got such a good spirit... By the way, it's been several months, and the great mourning in Chang'an City should be almost the same, right?"

The news of the death of the Supreme Emperor in June did not cause much trouble in the Lu family's cottage, and it was even more worrying as locust plagues in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places were eventually controlled. Even Du Shiyi did not have much feelings about the Supreme Emperor Li Dan, who abdicated in Chang'an City for several years and finally passed away. The only thing he felt was that Li Dan and Zhongzong Li Xian, the brothers who had suffered difficulties in life. In the evening, when he finally copied the original 30th volume of "Yonghui Lu Shu", he breathed a sigh of relief and threw the pen back into the pen and washed it without thinking. He stood up and did several moves to move his waist and legs.

"My junior brother, Master Lu invites you to the thatched cottage!"

Hearing the shouts outside, Du Shiyi was slightly stunned, and quickly pressed the hemp paper with the paperweight on the table with the undried ink, and then hurried out. After the golden needle finally succeeded in removing the barrier, Lu Hong moved out of the cave, and the disciples worked together to build another thatched cottage in the northwest of the waterfall. At this moment, he pushed open the thick curtain and entered the room. Seeing Lu Hong sitting in the center of the main seat, he hurriedly bowed and bowed.

"Master Lu."

"Sit, don't be too polite." Seeing Du Shiyi responding to his order, Lu Hong said, "You have been in the school for more than three months. Diligence and hard work are the best among the people. I feel very relieved in my eyes. However, you get up early every day in these three months, and then copy nearly 10,000 words of books, and you have never stopped listening to the lecture. You are really desperate. Brother Sima Dao said that your body is a serious illness that you have just recovered from, so you should not force it."

Before Du Shiyi could defend himself, he said without any doubt: "Your monthly exam is indecisive, but don't just focus on studying. You might as well learn other things that cultivate temperament. Starting tomorrow, you should learn the pipa from your third senior brother." He said as he pointed to a book on the desk next to him and said with a smile, "That is a musical score by Brother Sima. When can you play it well with a pipa? Even if your pipa is mastered. As for pipa, I remember that your senior brother has collected two, so you can learn it first."
Chapter completed!