Zhou "Xuedao", formerly known as Zhou Jin, is more than sixty years old, has always been a "child student", and has never "entered the school". His social status is very low, and people and talents look down on him. You can only be a primary school teacher. To put it in layman's terms, it is that he has not gone to college and can only work as a private teacher in a remote primary school. Even through self-study, no matter how high the level of education, under the imperial examination system at that time, it was only possible to pass the county examination, the government examination, and the academy examination step by step to obtain xiucai, lift people, and enter the army, until they entered the DPRK as officials. Therefore, Zhou Jin was extremely poor and could only live by teaching.
Let's first look at what he was wearing when he went to XueJiaji in Wenshang County, the capital of Yanzhou, Shandong, to teach: "When everyone greeted him, they saw Zhou Jin, wearing an old felt hat, wearing an old black robe, the cuffs on the right side were also rotten, there was a patch on his ass, and he wore a pair of old red silk shoes on his feet, black skinny skin, and a white beard. Then look at what he usually eats: "A plate of old vegetable leaves, a pot of hot water." ”
Mei Jiu and Wang Ju, who were "in school", looked down on him. When he first arrived at xuejiaji to teach, the parents invited him to dinner, there were fish and meat, Zhou Jin ate fasting and did not eat meat, Mei Jiu said a poem of one word to seven words to make fun of him, "stay, show talent, eat long fast, beard full of cheeks, the scriptures are not uncovered, the paper and pen are arranged by themselves, and I will not be invited to come next year." Zhou Jin is not a show talent, which makes Zhou Jin very embarrassed.
One day after lunch, Zhou Jin walked along the river, spring flowers bloomed, a few small flowers bloomed gorgeously, at this time a small boat rowed in the river, sitting on the boat Wang Juren, thirty years old. Followed by two servants, disembarked to the school gate, because he was a lifter, Zhou Jin was just a child, although he was old, but he also had to worship Wang Juren first, Wang Juren only returned a half-salute, in the evening Wang Juren let the servants put wine and vegetables, and did not let Zhou Jin, just eat, spit full of chicken bones, melon seed skin, the next morning Zhou Jin cleaned a morning, very angry, and helpless.
Later, the parents were unable to support Zhou Jin and had to dismiss him. Zhou Jin was unemployed.
His brother-in-law Jin Youyu, who is in business, said to Zhou Jin: "You are so old, there is no point in it, I see that it is impossible for you to get a meritorious name, it is better to do some business with me, it is enough for you to eat." Zhou Jin couldn't do anything, so he went out to do business with his brother-in-law. On this day, they passed by the Gongyuan, that is, the place where people were examined, and Zhou Jin wanted to go in to see, but the janitor was not allowed to enter. His brother-in-law Jin Youyu spent a few dollars, several people went in to visit together, and when Zhou Jin walked into Tianzi No. 1, he saw two signs neatly lined up there, thinking back to the past, a pang of sadness, a long sigh, and a head crashed into the sign and died. Jin Youyu saw the situation, and it was warm water in the pinch, and finally woke up. Suddenly, he bumped into the second sign, this time not dead, wow wow crying, a handful of snot and a handful of tears, crying to death, sad to the extreme. I couldn't persuade him until I cried and vomited blood, and then I put him back.
Jin Youyu discussed with a few people: "It seems that Zhou Jin is a Sven man, not a material for doing business", "It is better that each of us give him some money, go to donate a prisoner, and let him take the exam again", "If he is admitted to the exam and then returns us, it is not bad to pay back these few dollars." "Everybody has agreed. The next day, several people gathered two hundred taels of silver to give to Jin Youyu, and Jin Youyu reported to Zhou Jin, just in time for the eighth exam in early August. When Zhou Jin walked into the Gongyuan and saw the first Tianzi number one he was crying, he didn't feel overjoyed, "People are in good spirits every time they are happy!" "Splashing ink and sprinkling with ink, the first one handed in the roll." I didn't expect to raise people in high school. Everyone went back to Wenshang County together, Bai County Taiye, teachers, many people also took the post to worship Zhou Jin, for a time, not relatives to recognize relatives, no contact to communicate, busy for a month.
Look at the Beijing will try, travel expenses, clothes, eat and drink his brother-in-law Jin Youyu all packed. To the Beijing examination and won the jinshi, the temple in the third class, arranged in the ministry, worked for three years and then awarded the royal history, hand-picked Guangdong Xuedao! Only then did he have the later Fan Jinzhongju.