Rebel

Gu Ao said goodbye to Tian Rong, and started down the mountain.On this day, Yunshan was green and there was a sense of tranquility, Gu Ao walked down the winding path, step by step on the bluestone steps.Suddenly seeing a flying bird flying across the sky and sinking into the mountains behind him, Gu Ao couldn't help but look up and look back: "When will I be able to fly like this flying bird in the world?"

Seeing that the birds had finally disappeared into the forest, Gu Ao sighed and stopped, looked back at the mountains, and saw the Shanyun Academy standing in the distance among the mountains, and another clear spring flowed through the mountains, just passing through the mountains. The pavilions are scattered, and when viewed from a distance, there is really a fairy posture of "the buildings are full of clear springs and mountains, and the wind is clear and the water is cold, who can bear to lie down".

Gu Ao was immersed in the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers, the corners of his mouth could not help but curve, and he continued to walk leisurely.When he was halfway up the mountain, he suddenly heard someone calling him: "...Hey! That little boy!"

Gu Ao looked back, and saw a porter with rich hair, a rough coat and short brown clothes, sitting on a strange rock on the mountainside for a rest, with two empty buckets and a pole beside him—it was the man who taught himself that day. The old man with the water-carrying formula, Gu Ao would feel sorry for it, so he walked forward with a smile and asked, "Old man, are you carrying water today?"

The old man smiled and said, "Isn't it? Little boy, the old man just saw you coming from the academy road, and I want to ask, do you go to school there?"

Gu Ao nodded and said, "Exactly."

The old man looked at Gu Ao and said: "The old man asked you something, don't be unhappy, little boy..."

Gu Ao nodded: "Excuse me, old man."

The old man said curiously: "I just want to ask, little boy, do you have a common surname?"

Gu Ao knew that the big surname meant a family, so he shook his head: "I don't belong to the big surname, I came from the mountains."

The old man couldn't help but wonder: "Oh! You can go in and study if you don't have a common surname?"

Gu Ao said: "Not all the people who study in the academy are from common surnames. Although there are many people with common surnames, there are some who don't know their backgrounds but their talents."

The old man sized up Gu Ao, with admiration in his eyes, he said: "Since you are a student of Shanyun Academy, the old man just called you a child, it is rude! You should be called a child!"

Gu Ao laughed and said, "It's nothing."

The old man then sighed again: "You little boy, you are really lucky... There are other little children as old as you in the old man's village. It's a pity! I want to study, but no one teaches... I have been here Three or four masters have left after teaching for less than a year... But who doesn't want to study to have a future? But even one master can't be expected, alas!"

Gu Ao knew that Mr. Jian, who enlightened him since he was a child, was hired by the Tian family, and he thought that as long as a poor family was willing to hire him, it would not be difficult for him to be a teacher.He never knew that there was a time when he couldn't hire a teacher, so he asked suspiciously: "Why can't I find a teacher?"

The old man shook his head and said despondently: "How much money do these small surnames have for the master? Besides, there is no way out for the small surnames, unlike those with the big surnames, who can become officials after learning. Where can I go when it's over? Which master is willing to teach a hopeless little kid? Besides, those little kids in the old man's village are indeed not as smart as the little kids from other people with a surname. The masters who came here all said they were too stupid..."

Gu Ao couldn't help being slightly taken aback, he didn't expect that studying from a poor family is such a difficult task.

The old man looked at Gu Ao, and said: "The old man sees that you must be a learned man if you can enter the academy to study. I wonder if you would like to tell the little surnames at the foot of the mountain and teach them a thing or two? Let them all learn. Learning from you, can I have the ability to come to the academy to study?"

Gu Ao thought for a while, then said: "I can have some free time this month, if they want, I can go down the mountain to meet them, it doesn't matter."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help but happily said: "That's really thankful to you, little boy. Then...how many bundles of repairs do they need to prepare?"

Gu Ao laughed: "There's no need for Shuxiu, I and them are just schoolmates, just talk about it, don't talk about master and apprentice."

"Hey!" The old man stood up and said with a smile, "little boy, whenever you have free time, come here to find me, and the old man will take you down the mountain."

Gu Ao thought about what Mr. Jian told him to do the fasting things slowly, and he was not in a hurry. Now it is better to hit the sun than to choose a day, so he said: "It can be done today."

The old man was overjoyed, took a step forward and took Gu Ao's hand, said: "Come, come, the old man will take you there!"

Gu Ao nodded, followed the old man to turn into another mountain road, and saw that the road under his feet was covered with mud, unlike when there were bluestone pavements just now, the old man walked in front, his steps were vigorous, Gu Ao was not used to walking like this On the rugged mountain road, from time to time, you have to hold on to the trees next to you to go down the mountain.

After walking like this for more than half an hour, I finally came to a small village covered by mountains. As soon as the old man entered the village, he took off the gongs and drums tied to the standing trees at the entrance of the village, and walked to the open space in the village. There was a sudden knock on the place, and the sound of gold and platinum pierced through the ears for a while, only to hear the old man shouting in a long voice: "Little children! There is a learned man in our village! Come out and see you quickly!! Come on!" Go to the small village school in the east!!"

After shouting like this three times, at this time, many teenagers in the family stretched out their heads, took a look, and then shrank back.The old man continued to knock for a while, then hung the gong back to the distance, and said to Gu Ao: "Follow me!"

Gu Ao followed the old man towards the east of the village, and saw a sign nailed to a few desolate wooden houses, engraved on it: "Village school", the strokes are stiff, and it is also a little blurred in the wind and rain , the old man pushed open the door, made a creaking sound, tore off a lot of cobwebs and dust.

The old man turned his head to look at Gu Ao, and said apologetically, "I made the kid laugh..."

"It's okay."

Gu Ao stepped into the empty schoolhouse, looked around, and thought: "This place is much worse than Tianjiazhuang. I heard that when King Qin won the world, there were poor landlords who used their wealth to support the king. It is said that they bought it for a day. In the past of all the grain transported by the Neijiang River, the landlord has become the only eunuch from a poor family in Sihai County. From this, I thought that the best of the poor family in the world, in terms of financial and material resources, has long been on par with the aristocratic family. Even the most disadvantaged ones are those from a poor family like the Tian family. But it turned out not to be the case, the poor family among the poor families, when I saw it today, there are even lower ones."

At this moment, the old man led Gu Ao up to the high platform rammed with earth in the middle. After waiting for a while, he heard a noise outside the door. Young people from the village came one after another. As soon as one of them pushed the door, he asked the old man Said: "Uncle Chen, have you invited your master again? My mother said, this is the last rice left in my house, let me bring it and make a bunch of rice for my master..."

Gu Ao raised his eyes and saw the brown skin of the young man who pushed the door, his eyebrows were not conspicuous, but he had Anshun's small face. He was wearing a gray jacket and a turban on his head. His face was a little slender. Khan, he looks like an ordinary small farmer.

The old man said: "...you are blessed, don't practice this time!"

The boy looked at Gu Ao suspiciously: "... Is he the master? Why is he younger than me?"

At this time, school-age teenagers in the village pushed the door one after another to enter the village school. There were more than a dozen of them, all wearing short brown clothes, and some with rolled trousers. They looked like they had just come out of the fields. They all followed the voice and looked towards Gu Ao.

The old man waved his hand: "Hey! What do you know! He is a student of Shanyun Academy, and he has a university question! Which of the masters I invited before is from Shanyun Academy? They are not as good as him! Why don't you hurry up and salute?"

When those teenagers heard that they were from Shanyun Academy, they all looked solemn, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master is good!" Many of the students in the school have become high-ranking officials. Even if they can't be high-ranking officials, they can still be county magistrates if they are lower.Seeing Gu Ao coming from the academy, they immediately bowed down.

Seeing this, Gu Ao hurriedly stepped forward to help them up, and said with a smile: "I am not your master, but your schoolmate. You can just call me Brother Gu in the future. I am entrusted by the old man. If I have time these days, I will Come here to chat with everyone, don't be cautious!"

The brown-clothed boy in the lead was used to the cold eyes of scholars, but now seeing that Gu Ao didn't put on an air, nor did he look down on them, his expression seemed kind, and he couldn't help but said: "...My name is Chen Jiang, I've been here for a long time No scholar is willing to come, you are willing to come, but you don’t want Shu Xiu, I can’t call you Brother Gu, it’s too rude, why don’t you call you Mr. Gu?”

Seeing that he had won the title of 'Mr.', Gu Ao couldn't help being dumbfounded. Just as he was about to decline, he saw the old man beside him and said, "Just listen to the Chen family boy once! Everyone in the village will be happy if you can come!"

At this moment, several young people from the same village surrounded Gu Ao and shouted: "Mr. Gu!"

Gu Ao was amused by them, and asked, "What books have you read?"

Then Chen Jiang said: "I'm not afraid of Mr. Gu's jokes, we haven't read a whole book. The masters here come and go, and none of them handed in a whole book."

Gu Ao thought for a while, then asked in contemplation: "...then how many characters do you know?"

"us……"

Just as Chen Jiang was about to answer, before he finished speaking, a voice like a bell suddenly sounded outside the door.

That strength was like piercing the clouds and piercing the sky, only to hear that person shouting loudly outside: "...Where is the master who cheated on food and drink again! Get out, young master!"

Gu Ao was slightly taken aback, but saw a voice outside the door, and several teenagers inside the door all changed their faces, showing a trace of timidity and shrinking, only to hear the voice continue to shout outside the door: "Master, last time Yu Liang was also deceived by you bunch of heartless scholars! You said that you can get a good job if you can read and write, what a fart! My brother and sister are still hungry! See if I don’t beat you to death!!”

At this time, the old man who had followed Gu Ao to maintain the order of the village school couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and hurriedly wanted to go out, but just as he moved, Gu Ao stretched out his hand to stop him.He gave a slight nod to Chen Jiang and other teenagers, telling everyone to stay calm, and then he got off the high platform rammed with earth, came to the door, pushed the door open and walked outside.

I saw a tall young man with a strong figure and a dark face standing in an open space outside. He had thick brows and tiger eyes on a face with Chinese characters.He was standing in front of the door with his feet spread out and his belly puffed out, and he had the air of a general in charge.

Looking closely, it turned out that he was carrying a bamboo basket behind him, and there were actually two children with big eyes squeezed inside.Different from the menacing eyes of the black-skinned boy, the two young children, a boy and a girl, were blinking at Gu Ao with their watery eyes open.One of them was grabbing the boy's back and resting his chin on the boy's shoulder, while the other was holding the boy's neckline with his small hand, trying to bite the boy's ear with his small mouth that hadn't grown any teeth.

And the young man didn't realize it, and put on a fierce and arrogant face, with his hips akimbo in an awe-inspiring posture, showing strong muscles on his arms.

As soon as he saw Gu Ao walking out of the door, he shouted loudly: "Good fellow! You are the young master who came down from the academy! Did the dog take away your conscience, even cheating the poor people in the village?!"

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ps: Everyone is concerned about why Xiaogong and Xiaoshou are not allowed to meet.Gu Ao's current social status is too low (although his status in Shanyun Academy is not bad), even if he arranges a table for dinner, he can't arrange to be with Young Master Yu.So I am going to let Gu Ao accumulate a little more power first.

But before that, I will arrange for them to meet up a few times.It shouldn't be too long, the first time was at Shanyun Academy.