Houfu Key Class

Xu Wan smiled and said, "It's so easy to find your confidence. I hope your strength can catch up with your confidence soon."

After that, she patted his shoulder and said, "Kid, come on."

Zong Jincheng stood there with his fist clenched.

This cheer sounded like an insult to him.

He remembered Qin Ye's arrogance before he left, and it seemed that a fire was ignited in his chest, burning him all over!

"Isn't it just the first place? I'll take it back for him and see!"

Zong Jincheng was aroused by his competitive spirit, and he ran out of the academy regardless of Zong Wenxiu's shouting behind him.

Zong Wenxiu chased him and asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

Zong Jincheng ran faster and faster with his head down.

It seemed that a force suddenly surged into him, making his body more agile and powerful than before.

In the huge academy, only his running sound and the words blown into the wind were heard:

"Go home and read books!"

The little devil's efforts were more fierce than Xu Wan expected.

She thought that this kid would continue to memorize by rote, and use his photographic memory to force all the knowledge to remember.

Who knew that this kid asked Shunzi to find all the books mentioned in Qin Ye's answer as soon as he got home.

"Historical Records, Geography." Shunzi listened to the sentence he recited and called out the book title, and the more he called out, the more shocked he became, "Sir, is this really the answer from Qin Ye? These books are not learned by Master Xiu at this age."

Zong Jincheng gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Yes, this is what he answered!"

Shunzi's knowledge is very good, otherwise he would not have been specially sent to him by his grandmother, but he didn't expect that even Shunzi thought Qin Ye was strong, which made the little devil even more angry.

"This hateful kid, this young master can knock him down right away!"

Zong Jincheng grabbed the book in Shunzi's hand and no longer had the patience to listen to him recite it to him sentence by sentence.

The speed of memorizing it by watching it yourself is faster!

But Zong Jincheng started learning late, so his literacy is limited. He often encountered unfamiliar words when reading, and would ask Shunzi how to pronounce this word or that word from time to time.

It was three days later when Xu Wan came to see him.

Before she even entered the door, she heard the little devil's voice howling in despair: "How to pronounce this word again?!"

Xu Wan smiled unscrupulously.

This kid finally suffered the pain of swallowing a whole apple.

If the foundation is not solid and you always want to take shortcuts, it will make learning more and more difficult in the future.

She walked into the room and said to Shunzi, who was anxious, "What books will Jincheng read next? Please sort them out and annotate them for him, so that he can recognize the pronunciation of the words when he reads them again."

"Annotation?" Shunzi asked.

Xu Wan hummed and said, "Many characters have the same pronunciation. Jincheng can read some simple characters. For those complex characters, you can annotate them according to the homophones."

She has learned pinyin first and then learned characters since she was a child, but there is no pinyin here. Xu Wan doesn't want to show abnormality, so she wants to try to use the direct phonetic method instead.

Shunzi is smart and understands it at once.

He said excitedly, "Madam is still amazing. I will prepare it now!"

Zong Jincheng listened blankly, and it took him several seconds to react to the meaning of phonetic notation. He looked at Xu Wan with even more strange eyes.

How did this woman think of it?

Is she really smart?

Xu Wan looked at his suspicious eyes and knew what was in his little head without asking, but she was not as easy to expand as Zong Jincheng, so she skipped the topic directly.

In the following time, with the help of phonetic notation, Zong Jincheng learned more conveniently.

When Baili Xi came to the Marquis's Mansion to teach, he saw the amazing changes of the little devil and almost gave Xu Wan a thumbs up.

"Reborn, reborn!" He praised Xu Wan repeatedly.

Xu Wan looked at the little devil writing seriously in the study room and asked Baili Xi: "Master, how long do you think Jincheng will catch up with Qin Ye's progress?"

Her question was very clever.

It was not about whether he could catch up, but when he could catch up. She was very confident in Zong Jincheng's learning ability.

Baili Xi glanced at her and replied with a smile: "It depends on how long he can hold on with this spirit."

Xu Wan also smiled: "Master is still far-sighted. He is hanging on with this breath. He has to wait until he surpasses Qin Ye before he stops."

Baili Xi shook his head and reminded: "Not really."

"Huh?" Xu Wan was puzzled.

Bailixi pointed at him and said, "A lazy child can't hold on for too long with just this spirit. His laziness will gradually prevail, and then the lady will be worried again."

Xu Wan: "..."

What he said makes sense, but the truth is really hard to hear...

No wonder people don't want to listen to honest advice!

In the following time, Zong Jincheng continued to stay at home to study in the Marquis's Mansion. This time he volunteered and refused to go out no matter who called him.

As for Xu Wan's promise to give him a monthly reward of fifty taels of silver, he completely forgot about it.

And this time he worked hard for a whole month.

It's time for another monthly exam.

The two brothers of the Zong family have a top teacher like Bailixi to teach them, so they don't have to go to Qingbo Academy to study. Xu Wan has been helping them pay their tuition fees to keep their degrees so that they can participate in the big and small exams in the academy and check their learning progress at all times.

Zong Jincheng studied hard for a month. During this month, he not only understood and memorized hundreds of books, but also often asked Bailixi how to quote classics and how to integrate the ideas of multiple books.

Bailixi's sense of accomplishment exploded instantly. When he came to the Marquis's Mansion to teach every day, he no longer had a sad face as before, and even wanted to come early.

Zong Wenxiu was also infected by his brother's hard work. He also got up an hour earlier than before to read books, and his learning progress improved by leaps and bounds.

There are more students in Qingbo Academy today than usual.

When Zong Jincheng and Zong Wenxiu came, they obviously felt that walking was a bit crowded. The two did not know what happened in the academy and were quite confused.

After asking other students, he found out: "Didn't you receive the notice? This monthly exam is a joint exam for four colleges, and the three most powerful academies in Beijing are participating!"

Zong Jincheng has never been afraid of these: "So what, we can just beat him!"

The man saw that he was so confident, and his mouth twitched: "But our college is always the last in the joint exam of the four colleges, and has never been higher than the second to last."

Zong Jincheng: "..."

The academy Xu Wan found for him is so bad?

Does she look down on him? !

Zong Jincheng was about to get angry, and Zong Wenxiu hurriedly asked: "Is the joint exam of the four colleges a tradition? Since you can't pass it every time, why do you still take it with them, instead of choosing one or two slightly weaker academies?"

"Because our dean likes to challenge difficulties very much."

Zong Wenxiu: "Ah?"

"The students of our Qingbo Academy have been hit since they entered school, and they have long given up struggling!"

"But this year is not necessarily the case. I heard that there is a student named Qin Ye who is particularly powerful. The dean has long made a big promise that he will rely on Qin Ye to fight a comeback for us!"