Chapter 1171: Life at the Imperial Academy, Rest at Home

Life in the Imperial College was far from what the head student Yan Tu described.

In the Imperial College, there are only three grades of students: upper, middle and lower. There is no distinction between tribute students, hereditary students and regular students.

It's all bullshit!

There is a natural gap between the Gongjian students, Yinjian students and Lijian students. People can tell them apart at a glance when they walk on the street.

For example, for students who are Yin Jiansheng, there must be officials in the court among their elders, and there may even be some first or second rank court officials.

The second or even third generation of a prominent family, if they are devoted to study, will be the favorites of the teachers in the Imperial College.

If they do not seek to study and instead devote themselves to being idlers, they will become black sheep in the eyes of the teachers and cannot be beaten or scolded.

Although these second and third generation people usually dress like scholars in long gowns, the jade pendants hanging around their waists, the paper fans in their hands, and the rings on their fingers all prove the special nature of their identities.

For example, the students of the Imperial Academy were sent in after their families donated money, grain, and silk, and spent a lot of money.

When these people entered the Imperial College, they must have wanted to become officials as quickly as possible and then make back the money they spent in the Imperial College.

However, they themselves do not have the ability to take the imperial examinations.

In desperation, the students could only start to resort to crooked means.

According to regulations, if students of the Imperial Academy wanted to become officials, they had to first obtain a diploma from the Imperial Academy and then pass an assessment by the Ministry of Personnel before they could be qualified to become an official.

The person in charge of the assessment will become the object of flattery, fawning and bribery by the regular students.

Most of these students have one thing in common: they are good at dancing with long sleeves and have a strong sense of commercialism.

Su Mingzhe was holding the key and on his way to the upper residence, he met a few regular students who bowed to him to show their goodwill.

To be honest, no one knew him. The reason why these students saluted Su Mingzhe was simply because they saw that Su Mingzhe was dressed in luxurious clothes and was undoubtedly a student of the Yin Academy. In order not to offend him, they took the initiative to salute him even though they didn't know him.

The next day.

Su Mingzhe got up, washed, went to the dining room to have breakfast, and then followed the crowd to the classroom to study.

There are about fifty people working in the entire Imperial College, including eight doctors who teach regularly, twenty-four teaching assistants, and there are also teachers from other colleges and other places who come for exchanges, a total of about fifty people.

The main teacher in the class is a Ph.D.

Each PhD student has a regular classroom lecture.

Each classroom is divided into fifteen small rooms. There are more than one hundred small classrooms in the entire Imperial College.

In addition to PhD lectures, teaching assistants also give lectures.

Students attend classes according to their subjects.

In the Imperial College, students basically have classes in the morning and do homework in the afternoon.

In addition to the homework assigned by the teacher, the general homework content also includes compulsory homework, such as writing 600 words in regular script every day.

In addition to teaching the Four Books and Five Classics, the Imperial College also offered courses in the Six Arts of a Gentleman, namely etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Students are required to sign up for this themselves.

Sometimes, when famous scholars from other universities in Daqing came to the Imperial College to meet friends through literature, the teachers of the Imperial College would give lectures to everyone in the square and other places using the method of debate.

It can be said that the academic atmosphere is particularly strong.

In just nine days, Su Mingzhe got to experience college life, got to know many classmates, and expanded his circle of friends.

In a blink of an eye, nine days passed.

Rest once every ten days.

After experiencing nine days of student life, Su Mingzhe was looking forward to a day off.

After school at noon that day, Su Mingzhe returned to his residence, packed his luggage, and walked towards the outside of the Imperial College.

"Second Master, here, here!"

When the long-time attendant Li Gui and several servants saw Su Mingzhe walking out of the gate archway, they hurriedly waved their hands to greet him.

Su Mingzhe threw the luggage over and asked with a smile:
"How long have you been here?"

Mingyan smiled and answered, "Second Master, we knew that the Imperial College was closed today, so we came here after breakfast!"

It is now almost noon and these people have been waiting for quite some time.

Su Mingzhe smiled and said nothing more.

However, Mingyan smiled and said:
"Second Master, I have inquired about it. The Imperial College allows students to bring book boys in. When school starts the day after tomorrow, let me go in with you. I can also help you wash clothes and do housework."

"Without!"

When Su Mingzhe heard the word "book boy", he couldn't help but reveal disgust in the corners of his eyes, and he had the urge to beat someone up.

The Imperial Academy did allow students to bring in their own servants and page boys.

However, the original intention of the Imperial College to have students bring along book boys was to have these book boys help students with chores and prevent them from being distracted by things other than studying.

When Su Mingzhe extended his spiritual sense and wanted to observe the operation of the entire Imperial College, he discovered that most of the time these book boys would do unspeakable things.

That scene almost made Su Mingzhe sick to death.

Also because he was disgusted by the book boys in the Imperial College, Su Mingzhe now looked at Mingyan and the other four servants with a hint of disgust.

Therefore, Su Mingzhe would rather do everything by himself than bring a servant in.

When I returned to Rongguo Mansion, I met Jia Zheng who was taking a day off.

Su Mingzhe first went to Rongxi Hall to pay his respects to Jia Zheng and report on his studies, and then went to pay his respects to his mother.

When Mrs. Wang saw her son whom she hadn't seen for several days, she cried out of heartache.

Su Mingzhe comforted his mother for a while, and when his mother stopped crying, he was about to go to the backyard to see Lady Jia, but unexpectedly, Jinchuan and Yuchuan followed him out quietly.

When Mrs. Wang first married into the Rongguo Mansion, she was taken care of by two maids, eight chambermaids, and eight servants, a total of eighteen people.

Two of the maids were old and had been sent away long ago.

Among the eight maids, Nanny Li is now serving Jia Baoyu, Nanny Jiang is serving Jia Yuanchun, and the other three are useless and were sent away early to take care of outside business. Only three, namely, Zhou Rui's wife, Wu Xing's wife, and Zheng Hua's wife, are relatively important.

Unfortunately, some time ago, these three families were beheaded by the prefect of Chang'an.

Among the eight maids, Mrs. Wang gave one to Jia Baoyu (Qiu Wen) and one to her daughter Jia Yuanchun (Baoqin).

Now, there are only six maids left to serve Mrs. Wang, namely the sisters Jinchuan and Yuchuan, the sisters Caiyun and Xia, and the sisters Xiuluan and Xiufeng.

To be honest, this situation is not in line with Mrs. Wang's identity at all.

However, Mrs. Wang herself did not care about it. She did not take care of things every day. She just ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddhist scriptures, and she did not feel that there was a shortage of manpower.

Among these six maids, the sisters Jinchuan and Yuchuan were chosen by Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, who said that when Su Mingzhe grew up and got married, they would be allowed to be concubines.

It was precisely because of the promise of their two masters that the sisters Jinchuan and Yuchuan dared to boldly come to Su Mingzhe to talk and chat.

The three of them arrived at a quiet and deserted place. Jin Chuan bravely challenged the man:
"Second Master, do you want some rouge?"

This girl is so brave!
Su Mingzhe looked at Jin Chuan's rosy lips and couldn't help but stepped forward and kissed her:
"Yes, of course!"

Having kissed the elder sister, naturally one cannot let the younger sister go.

Su Mingzhe expanded his spiritual sense and found no one passing by, so he simply held one in each hand, sniffing the fragrance and eating rouge for a while.

Jin Chuan had already fallen in love, and after being intimate with the man for a while, her pair of almond-shaped eyes were like silk threads, full of affection and hard to let go.

On the other hand, although Yuchuan was also aroused by the man's teasing and her whole body was hot, her eyes were still clear. It was obvious that it was just a natural reaction of her body and her mind was still as calm as water.

After playing with the two sisters for a while, Su Mingzhe went to the backyard to pay a visit to Grandmother Jia.

Although Grandmother Jia missed her beloved grandson whom she had not seen for a few days very much, she kept him by her side with a smile on her face. After confirming that Su Mingzhe was not only not thinner, but had become a little stronger, she happily asked the maids to serve the dishes quickly.

As the granddaughter-in-law, Li Wan serves the food.

After everyone had finished their meal, Su Mingzhe, suppressing his homesickness, chatted with Lady Jia and several sisters for a while.

After Lady Jia expressed that she was sleepy and wanted to take a nap, Su Mingzhe followed Sister Lin to the green gauze cabinet and confessed her longing for her.

(End of this chapter)