Chapter 417: Please forgive me for not welcoming you in person
Chapter 417: Please forgive me for not welcoming you in person
Soon, the ox cart steadily entered Shangtang Village and headed straight for the Hang family.
When passing the entrance of the village, you can see from afar a group of neat and new houses at the foot of the mountain, and further up the mountainside, there are people busy building new houses.
Master Liu couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's going on over there?" He looked at the new houses and thought that some wealthy family was building a manor there.
He Tiesheng smiled and explained, "Over there! It's a newly built workshop in our village. A little further away on the mountain is a manor that is under construction. The owner of both the workshop and the manor is Shuheng."
After hearing this, Master Liu was a little bit unbelievable. He didn't expect that Hang Shuheng had such great ability.
Before Hang Shuheng left Hongyuan Academy, he was still paying attention to him. He knew that this student's family background was actually very ordinary. But what he saw and heard now was very different from what he had known before. Could it be that the information he had learned was wrong?
Once upon a time, Hang Shuheng's knowledge was witnessed by all the teachers in the academy. Later, he left the academy without any warning, and the teachers in the academy felt sorry for it.
People had many speculations. Some thought that maybe he was short of money and couldn't pay the tuition, while others thought it was for some other reason. When they asked Dean Cao about it, they didn't get a definite answer.
In short, the final result was that the only student who passed the examination to become a Tongsheng in the academy left the academy.
At the beginning, Master Liu also didn't understand why Hang Shuheng left suddenly. Now, after so many things have happened, he has some guesses in his mind.
Perhaps, this student from Hang had already recognized what kind of person Master Cao was, and therefore was unwilling to stay in Hongyuan Academy to study.
After all, how can a teacher who can't even teach his own daughter be a role model for others?
Soon, the ox cart stopped outside the gate of the Hang family.
Seeing the gate wide open, He Tiesheng jumped off the ox cart and shouted into the yard, "Is Shuheng home? Someone's looking for you."
Master Liu was a gentleman and could not jump off the carriage like He Tiesheng did, so his movements were very gentle.
He looked around the yard carefully and found that his yard was the largest and most imposing among all the yards from the village entrance. It seemed that the information he had learned was indeed wrong.
I heard He Tiesheng calling someone into the yard, but no one answered. Instead, I heard bursts of reading sounds coming from the yard.
If you listen carefully, it sounds like he is reading some medical book or pharmacology book.
Seeing that no one responded, He Tiesheng led the person directly into the yard and said, "Maybe the adults are not at home. Come in first!"
"This, this is inappropriate." It is really impolite to come in without being invited.
"It's okay, come in, we are from the countryside, so we don't have to be so particular."
Master Liu finally couldn't resist and followed He Tiesheng into the yard.
Four children were lined up in the yard, each holding a bowl full of water. They were doing horse stance and reciting pharmacology in unison.
Master Liu was shocked by the scene. From being a student in school to becoming a teacher, he had never seen anyone reciting a book like this.
The three little ones, plus Little Stone, kept moving and continued to recite, but all four pairs of eyes turned to the person who came.
"Yangyang, where is your father?" He Tiesheng asked.
The little ones didn't answer, for they were afraid that if they stopped talking, they would forget what they were reciting next.
Although they couldn't answer, the children knew to make faces and look towards the backyard.
He Tiesheng understood and walked straight to the backyard and shouted again into the backyard.
Hang Shuheng was surveying the terrain in the backyard with a few craftsmen, planning to build an ice cellar for his home so that he could store more ice in the winter and have a better time next summer.
He came out after hearing the shouting, and asked the person who came, "Brother Tiesheng, why are you here? What's the matter?"
"It's not that I have something to do. Someone is looking for you and happened to take my ox cart."
After He Tiesheng's guidance, Hang Shuheng finally spotted Master Liu in the courtyard and hurried forward to greet him. "Master Liu, please excuse me for not coming to meet you from afar."
He Tiesheng had never expected that the person riding in his ox cart would be a scholar, and he didn't know if he had said anything inappropriate on the way. He quickly imitated Hang Shuheng and greeted him in a proper manner, "So you are a scholar, I am so sorry for your disrespect."
Master Liu quickly returned the greeting and explained, "Brother, you are too kind. I am no longer a teacher, so I am not a master."
"Master Liu, what you said is wrong. If you are willing, you can continue to teach." Hang Shuheng said meaningfully, led Master Liu to sit at a small table in the yard, and personally brewed a pot of tea and poured it for him.
He Tiesheng had already sent the people to the destination anyway, and he felt that what they were talking about as scholars was brain-burning, so he said goodbye and left.
Master Liu picked up the tea and drank it, then looked at the children in the yard and asked in confusion: "What are you doing, kids?"
Hang Shuheng glanced at the children and explained, "They are still in the basic stage of martial arts training. They are also learning pharmacology at the same time, and they are memorizing pharmacology knowledge."
"But squatting is tiring enough. How can I still recite the book properly?"
"Because squatting makes you tired, you need to recite the book, so that you can divert some of the tiredness."
"Can this still happen?"
"Of course you can." Hang Shuheng said, and then talked about the various subjects in the primary school. "The village primary school will also offer martial arts courses in the future. I don't ask for great skills, but I hope that I can strengthen my body, which is good."
"In addition to martial arts, there are also arithmetic, needlework, etc."
When Master Liu listened to Hang Shuheng enumerating the various fields that the primary school would be involved in in the future, he felt that his brain capacity was almost full and he couldn't wait to go to the primary school to take a look.
"Hang Tongsheng, can I go to the elementary school to take a look?"
"Of course you can." Hang Shuheng smiled and said, "Master Liu, you are much older than me, so just call me Shuheng. There is no need to call me Hang Tongsheng, which is just an unimportant title."
"In that case, I will shamelessly do it." Master Liu agreed without any hesitation.
After the two of them agreed, Hang Shuheng stood up and led Master Liu to the village primary school.
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