Sima Ao smiled and replied: "Of course, my 'Little Golden Lotus' will also have a companion by then."
"Hee! Thank you so much, Master!"
Hearing Sima Ao's permission, Xiaopang was so excited that he could not wait to tell his daughter and lady at home about the matter.
Because Sima Ao College was opened on the outskirts of the city, it was in the mountains, and it had just opened.
Naturally, not many people know that a 'Xiangshu Academy' has opened on a hillside on the outskirts of the city.
When the school day came, only a few people signed up.
Sima Ao invested all his family assets in opening a school. It can be said that 'Xiang Shu Academy' carries Sima Ao's hopes and ideals.
Now that he can't recruit students, Sima Ao feels very sad and disappointed, and falls into self-doubt.
Dongfang Yu'er knew that it wouldn't be long before Heavenly Court came to arrest her. Seeing Sima Ao's disappointed look, Dongfang Yu'er wanted to help Sima Ao one more time before being taken away.
Dongfang Yu'er believes that the problem with Xiangshu Academy's inability to receive students is not the academy, but the lack of good publicity.
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The air in the morning is particularly fresh, and the scenery on the mountains is also particularly pleasant.
Since it was too far away from home, Sima Ao lived in the college during the semester.
Birds were already looking for food on the roof, and Sima Ao was awakened by the chirping of birds.
Sima Ao woke up, filled a basin of water, and started to wash up.
After Sima Ao washed up, he cooked breakfast for the students, which was gruel with pickles and radish.
In order to save money, Sima Ao did not hire anyone. He did all the work himself. It can be said that he is both a teacher and a handyman.
Fortunately, there were not many students, so Sima Ao could still keep busy.
After Sima Ao was busy cooking, he would be busy cleaning the classroom and preparing lessons.
On the first day of school, students all came early.
"Student, thank you sir!" When the student saw Sima Ao, he saluted energetically and said hello!
"Those of you who haven't had breakfast should go to the kitchen to finish your breakfast before going to class."
Sima Ao was afraid that students would be hungry, so he asked students who had not eaten breakfast to eat some porridge before going to class.
About twenty minutes passed.
After students finished their breakfast, they sat in their assigned seats.
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Today, Sima Ao taught students to write the character '人'.
Sima Ao lectured in the classroom. The character "人" is very easy to write. It is like a person standing upright and stretching out his left and right feet.
Sima Ao was afraid that the students wouldn't understand, so he demonstrated the word '人' himself.
"Oh! It turns out that standing still with legs spread out is a 'person'."
The cursor of the word '人' means oneself, but it refers to others; therefore, people include oneself and others; if a person only has himself, and without others, he is not a person.
He is indeed a good teacher. Through the stroke order of the character '人', Sima Ao taught students that they should be principled and reasonable.
Sima Ao's interesting teaching method allows students to understand at once that the word '人' is written like this; they also understand that the word '人' is based on the image of a person; and they also understand that people should be principled and reasonable. of.
If I add a vertical line to the character '人', it will become the character '一'; if I don't add a vertical line, it will become the character '大' if I add a horizontal line to it; if I add a horizontal line to the character '大', it will become the character '大' The word "天". …
Sima Ao's teaching method goes from simple to complex, and from complex to profound.
In class, he should be serious when he should be serious, and he should be cheerful when he should be cheerful, so there would be roars of laughter from time to time in class.
Students like this special and interesting teacher very much.
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Found it, found it, here it is.
"Hey, it's just like the poster says, it's a pretty good college!"
Sima Ao, who was teaching, heard a commotion outside, as if many people had arrived.
Sima Ao didn't know what was happening outside that was so noisy. He wanted to go out and have a look, but he was worried about the safety of the students.
"Teacher, go out and take a look. Sit here and don't come out." Sima Ao told the students to stay in the classroom and not come out if anything happens. "After Sima Ao finished explaining, he came to the gate of the college.
Why, such a person suddenly came?
Sima Ao saw the people in the city rushing here as if they were going to a market.
There were young men and old women, all with their children. Some came on foot; some came in sedan chairs; and some came in carriages.
What surprised Sima Ao was that these people all held posters with their own colleges on them.
It turns out that Jingjing came up with a good idea and asked Li Fulai to write a poster for Sima Ao.
(It’s not so much Jingjing’s idea as it is Dongfang Yuer’s idea.)
Li Fulai painted the original appearance of the "Shuxiangyuan" on posters and posted them all over the city, attracting all the people in the city to watch.
People who have children at home who want to go to school naturally come to the college to register.
Sima Ao asked the people in astonishment: "What are you doing here?"
When the people saw the elegant Sima Ao, they asked excitedly: "Are you the dean of Shuxiangyuan?"
Sima Aozuo bowed and replied: "Yes."
"The tuition fees for enrolling students here are very cheap, right?" the people asked again.
"Yes. It only requires ten bundles, which is the price of ten bacon. If you don't have money, you can use items instead, but it must be equivalent to ten bacon." Sima Ao replied.
Some people were so excited that they cheered when they heard that they only charged ten pieces of bacon for tuition; some people were full of sorrow.
In fact, the tuition fee of only ten pieces of bacon is really not expensive, and most families can afford it. But some people from poor families cannot eat a bite of meat for a year, so how can they get ten strips of bacon?
Sima Ao followed Confucius's idea of "teaching without distinction". Students who really couldn't afford the tuition could use their labor to pay for it, that is, working for the college while going to school.
There is a creek behind the college, and Sima Ao opened a piece of land there.
Sima Ao wanted to use this land to grow vegetables, corn, wheat and other crops to cover the school's expenses.
The poor people were moved to tears when they learned that they could use their labor to compensate for their losses.
Unexpectedly, in just one day, Shuxiangyuan was filled with students.
Knowing that it was Jingjing's good idea, Sima Ao, who was busy going to class, had no choice but to ask his wife Jiang Min to convey her gratitude.
(It’s not so much Jingjing’s idea as it is Dongfang Yuer’s idea.)
Every day, Sima Ao had a fulfilling life. During the day, he taught students how to read, and in the evening, he took the students to dig soil and grow vegetables under the moonlight.
Our senior brother was demoted to a mortal, but he was still able to hold a pen, a weapon, and a hoe. He was good at literature, martial arts, and farming. He really became a god-man.
Wenquxingjun, who was in the same position in the sky, was shocked by Sima Ao's spirit of bending and stretching!
There were more and more students, and Sima Ao couldn't handle it all by himself, so Jiang Min brought her daughter over to help.
After Jiang Min brought her daughter over, Xiaopang also brought his family over to help.
If Xiaopang is not good at teaching literature, if he can teach martial arts, he can be a martial arts coach. If not, he can just work as a miscellaneous person.
There was only one housekeeper left in Sima Mansion to look after Sima Xiang.
Sima Xiang was very supportive of his son's idea of opening a school to teach and educate people.
