So Su Wan followed Mrs. Chen to sit in her yard. The yard where Mrs. Chen lived was a courtyard with three entrances. The yard in the house was spacious and clean and tidy, which made people feel happy.
Mrs. Chen asked someone to bring some food over, and then the two of them sat down and talked.
Su Wan asked her curiously: "Why did the Sun family come here? Even the second lady came. Hasn't the previous matter been resolved?"
Mrs. Chen sighed, with a sad look on her face: "After the Chunwei results were released this year, no one from Hongyan Academy could pass the exam."
Hongyan Academy's vitality has been severely damaged since several students cheated last year.
It would be fine if they were other students, but these are the most outstanding students of Hongyan Academy. The academy still wants them to bring glory to the academy. I don’t know who inspired them to do such a wrong thing. , not only was he banned from the imperial examination, but it also caused great damage to the reputation of the academy.
After that incident, although Dean Sun stepped down and replaced Mr. Sun as the academy dean, the originally good students still moved to the academy, and not many students were recruited this year.
This matter will take a few years to recover, and it will be fine by then. The Sun family also planned this, but what they didn't expect was that not even one person passed the exam this spring.
There are two major academies in Guiyan City, namely Hongyan Academy and Shiqiao Academy. Hongyan Academy has a history of more than 100 years and is very famous in Guiyan City. It is known as the first academy in Guiyan City. It is also quite famous in this world, ranking third.
Over the years, there have been many people who came to Hongyan Academy to study and settled in Guiyan City. The Sun family who founded the academy is highly regarded, so it is also ranked as one of the four major clans in Guiyan City as a noble and scholarly family.
At the beginning, Stone Bridge Academy was just a rural private school, not even comparable to Hongyan Academy. It was only twenty years ago that Stone Bridge Academy slowly appeared in people's sight, and the academy also successively produced many A high school Jinshi.
In the past twenty years, there have been more than a dozen candidates, seven or eight Jinshi, and two Number One Scholars. The previous one was very old, but he single-handedly helped Shiqiao Academy to become the second academy in Guiyan City, and There was another Song Zhan in the last session, which was even more eye-catching.
If it weren't for the fact that Shiqiao Academy only accepted students from nearby villages, there would be so many people studying there, and even the name of the first academy in Yancheng would have been changed to Shiqiao Academy long ago.
Fortunately, Hongyan Academy is not too bad, and Shiqiao Academy has only a small number of students, so it has always been known as the number one academy.
Just after the incident of student cheating last year, many students were unwilling to stay at Hongyan Academy. After learning that there was an academy like Shiqiao Academy, they started to think about leaving.
It was a pity that Shiqiao Academy only accepted students from a few nearby villages and would not accept them, so he gave up.
But this spring, none of the students from Hongyan Academy passed the exam, but three students from Shiqiao Academy passed the exam. Shi Huixin ranked 11th in the exam, and the other two students each passed the exam in the 30s, and one was also lucky. Exactly the last one.
Now many people have proposed that Shiqiao Academy can recruit more students, and they have organized people to find Qian Zhitong, the Fu Yin of Lanzhou City, and several respected old gentlemen, planning to persuade Shiqiao Academy to recruit more students. .
If Shiqiao Academy really recruits students, Hongyan Academy will really be doomed, and so will the Sun family.
Therefore, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun Er ignored their previous grudges and came together to see Mrs. Xie to ask her if she had any good ideas.
But what can Mrs. Xie do?
Things like academies are about reputation and performance. Hongyan Academy has lost its reputation first and then lost its performance. Who is still willing to send students to Hongyan Academy? Is it possible that they are unwilling and have to force them to go?
If you go, you will not be able to study well in the future and fail to pass exams, and people will resent you for ruining their future.
Chen told Su Wan about the incident, and Su Wan also sighed. He didn't expect that Hongyan Academy would be like this because of a few cheating students.
Mrs. Chen said: "It seems that Hongyan Academy doesn't know the people well, and that's why it happened like this."
But no, if the cheater were another student in the academy, they would just be kicked out of the academy. At most, they would be criticized for a few words and it would be over. But those students are the most important group of students trained by Hongyan Academy.
The college originally wanted them to get good grades and come back to make the college famous. It also took them to study in several famous colleges in the country. This is equivalent to the facade of Hongyan College. This facade has collapsed, and others no longer believe that you have real abilities.
Although these students were not all of that group of students, they were already half of them. The remaining ones were unwilling to associate with them after learning that a few of them had cheated. They regarded their classmates as a shame and quickly changed colleges.
Mrs. Chen sighed: "Mrs. Sun said that someone was plotting against Hongyan Academy, and that's why she tempted those students to commit such wrong things. But if these students are determined, no matter what others say, they won't believe it. Yes, let alone cheating."
"Mrs. Sun also said that it may be something done by Shiqiao Academy. She wants to overthrow Hongyan Academy and become the first academy in Guiyan City."
Su Wan was stunned: "This is definitely impossible. Stone Bridge Academy is so big and only accepts students from nearby villages. How can we compete for the first place? Moreover, there are many students from Stone Bridge Academy who have cheated in the past. "
When investigating the cheating case last year, Shiqiao Academy also found three people, one of whom was Li Lan. All three of them were kicked out by the academy and were not allowed to study in the academy again.
"Who says it's not the case?" Mrs. Chen sighed, "It's just that Mrs. Sun seems to be going crazy now. She doesn't want to reason. She only says that others framed Hongyan Academy. She just wants to find the culprit and restore Hongyan Academy's innocence. .”
Su Wan could probably understand what Mrs. Sun was thinking. The Sun family relied on Hongyan Academy to achieve its current status. When she walked out before, no one respectfully called her Mrs. Sun, "Mrs. Dean, Madam." If Hongyan Academy declined, Now, the Sun family, which belongs to the four families in Yancheng, is about to change.
How could Mrs. Sun not be crazy?
"The number of new students admitted to the academy this year is much less than before. I heard that several gentlemen are waiting and looking for another way out. This time, no one has been admitted to Hongyan Academy, and I am afraid they will leave. The two gentlemen of the Sun family, I’ve been so busy lately that my hair has turned a lot gray.”
"Everyone knows that the Sun family has put a lot of effort into Hongyan Academy, but right now, even if they want to help, there is no way."
"Now, I can only persuade them to look away." Mrs. Chen lowered her eyes and sighed, "I came out from my mother-in-law's house earlier, and Mrs. Sun was still crying there. I really don't know how to persuade them."
