No wonder, Gu Jingyun didn't let go of his intention to accept him as a disciple, Chu Yi still reported to Gu's residence early every day.

The people in the Gu residence didn't stop him from coming, as long as he came, he would be invited in as a guest. When entering Gu's mansion, he would first go to the study to ask Gu Jingyun for his accumulated questions, and then Gu Jingyun would recommend him to read some books before going to the academy to attend classes.

It was not good for Chu Yi to stay in the Gu Mansion for a long time, so he took the homework assigned by Gu Jingyun and went home to read it by himself. In the afternoon, he would come back to the Gu Mansion during Gu Jingyun's time, and continue to take care of the greenhouse with Qu Weizhen and his brother.

Through the process of fertilizing and loosening the soil, the seeds of various fruits and vegetables have been scattered in the ground. Perhaps because the greenhouse is warm and fertile, the seeds they planted have not germinated yet, and the grass has sprouted first, so the three of them Start weeding.

Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu seemed to be very interested in agriculture recently. Seeing that they had plenty of time, they gave them a pile of wood and blueprints, and asked them to build a waterwheel, which could be placed in a farm in the suburbs of Beijing.

Fu Dalang has complained to Li Baolu more than once that their farm is too far away from the water source, and irrigation is difficult. If there is a drought, the field will suffer serious harvest failure.

Ordinary waterwheels can hardly meet Fu Dalang's requirements due to the small amount of pumping water and the power system, so Li Baolu wants to improve the waterwheel.

Of course she can't do this alone, so she can only ask Gu Jingyun for help.

Gu Jingyun's knowledge of arithmetic and mechanics is not bad, and the couple have made some progress through tinkering. Seeing that the children were so leisurely, the two decided to grab the young man.

Moreover, Li Baolu also wanted to teach agriculture in the technical school that was about to start, so he first tested the waters with Qu Weizhen and the others.

Qu Jingxi and Chu Yi were dumbfounded, and asked in amazement, "You need to be taught how to farm?"

Qu Weizhen has been by Li Baolu's side all the time, and knows all the courses she wants to teach, and also knows all the original intentions of these courses, so she said unconvinced: "Why don't people teach it? Who is born to farm?"

"Yes, you have to learn farming at home with your parents and elders, so why go to a technical school?" Chu Yi glanced at Li Baolu cautiously, but couldn't help but said, "Mr. Li, although you don't know much, you can listen I have passed your idea about the technical school. The technical school should be facing the middle and lower class people, and most of the middle and lower class people are farmers, can they not farm the land?"

"Of course what the teacher teaches is not what they can learn at home," Qu Weizhen said ahead of Li Baolu: "Most farmers are illiterate, and the experience of farming is mostly passed on by word of mouth, and it is limited to one area. Jiangbei doesn't know how Jiangnan is. Plant rice, and Jiangnan doesn’t know how to sow wheat in Jiangbei. But it’s different when you go to the technical school. Since you can learn about the world’s major events from books, you can naturally learn things like that kind of field from books. In addition to farming, fruits and vegetables You can also learn about sowing seeds, breeding animals, and even sericulture. If it can help farmers get more benefits from the land, that would be a great benefit.”

Chu Yi blinked, half understanding, after all, he was not familiar with agriculture, but it seemed reasonable after hearing what Qu Weizhen said.

He scratched his head and asked, "Mr. Li, can I learn from you? The vegetables in the field have sprouted, and I don't know what to do next."

Li Baolu glanced at Gu Jingyun, nodded and smiled, "Come on."

Chu Yi just followed Li Baolu to run errands for the technical school.

In fact, the preparations for the technical school have been almost done, the school has been set up, the teachers who need to be hired have made appointments, the rules and regulations of the technical school are almost formulated, and Li Baolu has even advertised.

She didn't make it big at the beginning, she only promoted it in the capital and the suburbs of Beijing. No one knows whether the technical school can be run well or to what extent. Because this is new business.

Now Li Baolu is just taking Qu Weizhen to go through everything again, and Chu Yi followed behind to know that Qu Weizhen is also a teacher there.

He stared at Qu Weizhen dumbfounded, and it took him a while to recover his voice, "You can teach at such a young age?"

"It's just to teach everyone to know a few words and do arithmetic, and it's not to teach them to take the number one exam."

The positioning of Li Baolu Technical School is very clear. She does not teach the girls piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting, nor does she train them to become talented women and great writers. She only hopes that they are not illiterate, can generally recognize common characters, and know the most basic arithmetic. suffer.

On this basis, they can choose agriculture, animal husbandry, textile, embroidery, sewing, carpentry, accounting and other majors for intensive study, and learn a craft that can survive in the world.

Only then did Chu Yi realize that besides the Four Books and Five Classics, there are so many books and skills to choose from.

He became more and more silent, and went to and from Gu's house more frequently. Even the neighbors in the neighborhood knew Chu Yi, and raised their hands to greet him every time they saw him.

When the students of Qingxi Academy heard what Chu Yi had done, they all looked at him warily and contemptuously, thinking that he was too wishful thinking.

Mr. Gu's personal disciple is not so easy to be. It's not that no one has thought about it in the past few years. However, no matter whether it is the route of favor, or the route of lure and talent, Mr. Gu can't let go of his disciples.

How could Chu Yi, who ran out halfway, have such delusions?

But those students couldn't help but imitate Chu Yi and cling to Gu Jingyun's side when they looked back, constantly showing their presence in front of him.

I hope that Mr. Gu will also look at them more, especially the Juren class led by Gu Jingyun. The Juren classes with an average age of more than 30 years old are always holding a notebook and dangling in front of Gu Jingyun. .

Almost from poetry to poetry to life ideals.

Gu Jingyun: "..."

Gu Jingyun simply captured the strong men one by one and put them on the street to sweep the snow, euphemistically saying: experience the suffering of the people.

Chu Yi, who was only eleven years old, stood out among the group of uncles. He was only eleven years old, so he could sweep the snow without shame, but the Juren class couldn't.

Not to mention that they are Juren, even if they are a group of old men, they are embarrassed to sweep the street in front of a group of ordinary people, what a shame. Those who didn't know thought they had committed a crime.

So in the end, only one Chu Yi and one Chu Yu could persevere.

On the third day of snow sweeping, Chu Yi raised his head and looked at Chu Yu. In the end, the older Chu Yu smiled slightly and said, "Your name is Chu Yi? It's a coincidence that we were one family five hundred years ago."

Chu Yi smiled embarrassedly, cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Chu."

Chu Yu is already a Juren, but he is just a child in white clothes, so he should be called Master Chu.

"We are all taught by Mr. Gu, and I heard that you are interested in applying for Qingxi Academy, then we are brothers, so there is no need to call me Mr.

"Mr. Gu didn't accept me as an apprentice, and I might not be able to get into Qingxi Academy..."

Chu Yu smiled, "With the guidance of Mr. Gu, how could you not pass the exam? If you don't want to call me Senior Brother, then call me Senior Brother."

Chu Yu winked at him and said, "Don't call me sir, master, or something like that, call me old."

Chu Yi hesitated for a moment, but still called out "Brother Xue" in a low voice.

Chu Yu pursed her lips and smiled, and said with the broom on her shoulders, "Let's go, there are only two of us today, it will take a lot of time to finish sweeping this section of the road."

Chu Yi nodded slightly, and carried the broom to sweep the snow with Chu Yu. The two of them were on one side, and they were not lonely when they talked from time to time.

Gu Jingyun sat on the carriage and watched from a distance. After putting down the curtain, he took the warm hand stove from Baolu, nodded his chin and said, "Let's go, it's cold, let's go back and eat mutton hot pot."

Li Baolu was gnawing mutton and burning it, she blinked and asked, "How long do you plan to test them?"

"The snow in front of each house is cleaned by each house. This is the rule. However, the snow on this section of the road is always not swept. Last year when the carriage passed here, it was almost impossible to walk. They are free, let them sweep it first, and it is very cold. Sweeping snow for a day can also exercise the body."

"You would have said this more convincingly if you hadn't been wearing your scarf and cloak and holding the hearth."

Gu Jingyun laughed loudly when he heard the words, winked at Baolu and said, "I'm doing this for our own good, and you don't want to take a long detour every time you go out, do you?"

"Then do you plan to let your disciples come to sweep the snow every winter? Otherwise, if there is no detour this winter, there will be a detour next year."

The corner of Gu Jingyun's mouth twitched slightly: "That's not necessarily the case, maybe next year, no, it won't be until next year, the residents on this section of the road will develop the habit of sweeping snow?"

"Then I'll wait and see."

Chu Yu and Chu Yi swept the snow until Gu Jingyun told them to stop until the academy was on vacation.

Gu Jingyun glanced at their cold sore hands, handed them each a test paper, and said, "I'll give you two hours to answer."

Chu Yu and Chu Yi's eyes lit up, knowing that this was the ultimate test.

Not daring to be negligent, the two of them reached out to take the test paper respectfully and found a seat in the study to sit down and answer.

Gu Jingyun didn't supervise, got up and left.

As soon as he walked out of the study, a chubby figure rushed towards his feet nimbly and headed straight for the door.

Gu Jingyun stretched out his hand to grab her, only in time to touch her collar, twisted his chubby body, broke free from his hand and flew forward with a yell.

Gu Jingyun looked at the fat girl who disappeared quickly and silently followed her footsteps.

Erlin was unloading the New Year’s goods at the gate, and his feet were stained. He was carrying the New Year’s goods out of the car while complaining to everyone, “The snow on the road ahead has not been swept. I got stuck there, fortunately there was a passerby behind me who helped push me..."

Dongfeng: "The two young masters of Chu didn't go to sweep the snow today, they are in the mansion."

"No wonder, I said why the road is blocked again." Erlin said regretfully: "It seems that we will have to take a long detour in the future."

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