In response to Shen Yichen's humility, Sun Tixue smiled and said nothing. In fact, the way he called it that meant it was teasing.

Because at the family banquet of Duke Chengguo's mansion, Sun Tixue didn't have a very good impression of Shen Yichen at first.

The root cause is that when reciting poems and composing poems, Shen Yichen looked like a starving ghost reincarnated, staring at the dishes on the table and swallowing saliva. It was really degrading!

However, Shen Yichen's subsequent performance and response could be said to have greatly changed Sun Tixue's outlook. He did not expect that a student who had not even passed the Tongsheng examination would be able to advance and retreat in such a big scene, and respond and counterattack heartily.

Especially when the last song "Linjiang Immortal" came out, compared to the young scholars, who have been in officialdom for half their lives, they felt deeply about the indifferent and free and easy meaning described in the poem.

It was precisely with this good impression that Sun Tixue took the initiative to stay and wait after learning that Shen Yichen was coming to visit Lin Zhen today.

"In that case, Xiaoyou Shen probably doesn't have a cousin yet, so I'll just call you Yichen."

"Wan Sheng hasn't chosen his cousin name yet, Grand Master, please feel free to do so."

Seeing that the two of them started chatting, Lin Zhen joked: "The autumn wind is getting cold now. Even if we feel like old friends after seeing each other for the past year, we'd better go inside first. We're not in a hurry."

"Haha, what Brother Dunsheng said is true."

Sun Tixue was smiling all over his face, and it could be seen that he was in a good mood today.

"please."

After saying this, the champion Lin Zhen made a gesture of invitation.

Watching Lin Zhen and Sun Tixue turn around and enter the main hall, Li Tingxiu approached Shen Yichen and asked quietly: "Yichen, when did you meet the great master?"

Li Tingxiu was full of questions at this moment. Shen Yichen seemed to be familiar with Sun Ti's studies. But the question was how could he be so close to a schoolboy with his status as a great master? It was impossible to meet him under normal circumstances. What happened? What?

"At the father-in-law's family banquet, I sat at the same table as the Grand Master, but we didn't say anything."

"That's it?"

"That's all."

Not to mention Li Tingxiu, even Shen Yichen himself was surprised. When we were at the table before, Sun Tixue looked at him with contempt, applauded and applauded Zeng Mengjian, but now his attitude is 180 degrees different. Turn?

Several people entered the main hall and sat down one after another. Lin Zhen, the champion, spoke first: "Wei Chu, since we said goodbye to our hometown of Zhangzhou, four years have passed unknowingly."

"Yes, back then you resigned and returned to your hometown to run a school, but I was going to Yingtian to teach. It has been four years since we said goodbye and met again."

When Li Tingxiu said this, his tone was full of sighs and emotions. In ancient times, due to limited transportation and geographical conditions, sometimes we would say goodbye in a hurry and not know what year or month it was when we met again.

When Shen Yichen heard this passage, it was a huge amount of information. He originally thought that Mr. Li Tingxiu and Lin Zhen were in the same year of the imperial examination at most, but now it seems that it is much more than that. They are also close friends from the same hometown?

"This time I came to Yingtian to give lectures and temporarily served as a professor at Zhaowen University. I will have the opportunity to move around more in the future."

"Wei Chu, to tell you the truth, after I resigned, I recalled the days when I took the national examination and drank and talked happily in the Capital Fellowship Hall."

Lin Zhen and Li Tingxiu may not have seen each other for several years. The conversation was mostly about reminiscing about the past, and their words were casual and free.

However, this kind of behavior is also in line with Lin Zhen's character. You must know that he could resign as the number one scholar and return to his hometown to run a school and teach. Such a state of being indifferent to fame and wealth is really something that ordinary people can't do.

"You can also call me an old man when it comes to drinking and talking."

Sun Tixue intervened at the right time, and his words and deeds did not have any airs of a great master.

"Of course, having fun alone is not as good as having fun together."

"Ha ha."

…

The senior bosses were chatting happily, and Shen Yichen, who was sitting at the bottom of the table, could only apologize in embarrassment. After all, the gap in age and status was too big, so he couldn't get a word in at all in this kind of situation, and he didn't dare to say anything.

After chatting for a while, Lin Zhen saw Shen Yichen who was a little embarrassed, and then he remembered that there was still something serious to say today.

"Wei Chu, you asked me to meet Yi Chen in your invitation. Why?"

Hearing Lin Zhen finally mention his name, Shen Yichen perked up. In fact, he was also curious about what Li Tingxiu wanted to do.

"It's a shame to say that, as Yi Chen's tutor, he has little talent and knowledge in classics. Next year will not only have the college examination, but also the year of the provincial examination, so I would like to ask Brother Dunsheng to be Yi Chen's tutor and provide him with Clarify this scripture."

Just like there are teachers of different grades and subjects in modern times, there are also teachers of different periods in ancient times. Generally speaking, they are roughly divided into three main periods, namely, the first teacher, the professional teacher, and the seat teacher.

Mentors are teachers like Li Tingxiu who teach basic enlightenment education to schoolchildren. They can also be called private tutors. Under normal circumstances, mentors are served by children or scholars. In remote and backward areas, even elders who have not entered school can be Serve as a mentor.

It can be said that there are very few people who serve as tutors with the reputation of being a candidate. From the side, we can see how top-notch the educational resources of the Chengguo Government are and how much Shen Yichen failed before.

Masters can be roughly divided into two types. One is an advanced version of a mentor, a teacher who teaches more advanced studies. The other is someone who teaches students according to their aptitude, or who accepts them as disciples if they meet a talented person.

A man like Lin Zhen is a highly accomplished man who recruits disciples and teaches them as industry teachers.

The last teacher is quite special. It teaches almost nothing in terms of knowledge, but in ancient times it was the most important teacher-student relationship.

Because the examiner is the examiner of your imperial examination, from the moment he selects you, he automatically becomes your examiner.

Compared with a mentor and a professional mentor, a mentor has the dual identity of a teacher and a career leader. The future career path in life is largely bound to the mentor. The two parties can be said to be a community of interests, so the relationship will naturally be close.

In addition, there are other titles such as "Fang Master", "Palace Examiner Imperial Master", etc., which are not as important as these "Three Masters".

Shen Yichen never expected that Li Tingxiu brought him here because he actually wanted Lin Zhen to become his spiritual master!

This is the number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty. In future generations, it will be equivalent to a doctoral supervisor from Tsinghua University and Peking University. It is unimaginable to be a teacher of an elementary school student like myself!

Not to mention Shen Yichen, when Li Tingxiu said these words, Lin Zhen and Sun Tixue, both present, had their expressions frozen for two seconds.

Good guy, you, an old boy, really dare to think...

"At the beginning of the Wei Dynasty, although I returned to my hometown to run a school and teach, I had no precedent of accepting schoolchildren as my disciples. As for Yichen, after hearing the poem "Linjiang Immortal", I also admired him very much and even planned to invite him to participate in this year's competition. Winter Solstice Poetry Party."

"But if you want to become my disciple, you can't just rely on "Linjiang Immortal". Yichen must come up with other knowledge to impress me."

After finishing speaking, Lin Zhen set his eyes on Shen Yichen, with a hint of testing in his eyes.

Seeing this, Shen Yichen stood up, saluted Lin Zhen and said: "If you are a late student, if you are brave, please ask the top scholar to take the exam."

Li Tingxiu has already handed the opportunity to him. If he is indifferent and does not know how to grasp it, he will really let down his hard work.
Chapter completed!