Chen Kan explained to Hua Shi the questions he had done wrong, most of which were math questions.
To be honest, Hua Shi's attitude towards learning made even Chen Kan, a man of two generations, feel ashamed.
Chen Kan only needs to talk about many topics once before he can understand them.
This is not the most awesome thing. The most awesome thing is that Chen Kan discovered that Hua Shi also has the ability to have a photographic memory.
This kind of ability was beyond the reach of Chen Kan in his two lifetimes.
There were not many questions that took time to make mistakes, only a few multiplication and division questions.
So Chen Kan quickly picked out the mistakes in his question.
"Today's homework is to test the knowledge you have learned this month. Although your grades are qualified, learning has always been about sailing against the current or retreating if you do not advance. Only by reviewing the past can you learn the new. You must always remember it."
"Yes, teacher, the students understand."
After warning Hua Shi, Chen Kan took him out of the study.
Yuncheng stood at the door like a door god, looking at every servant passing by the door of the study as if they were watching a thief.
He has been doing this kind of work for more than a month.
Yuncheng still saluted respectfully: "I have met my uncle."
Chen Kan rubbed his brows and said helplessly: "Yuncheng, you really don't have to stay outside the study every day. Although our knowledge is novel, it is not yet to this level. Whoever wants to listen can just listen."
Yun Cheng shook his head and said righteously: "Her Royal Highness the Princess said that our family's knowledge is your exclusive knowledge, Lord Marquis. If you learn it, you can govern the country and secure it. How can such precious knowledge be given to slaves so easily? Hou Don’t mention these words again.”
Chen Kan was a little suspicious, although Yuncheng's words sounded nice.
But he suspected that the main reason why he was so conscientious was because it was his nephew who was teaching in the study.
But Chen Kan couldn't say anything if he had doubts. Yuncheng was also an old man in the family, so it wouldn't be good to say it and hurt his heart.
"Okay, then you continue to guard."
Chen Kan pouted, took Hua Shi's hand and planned to go to the front yard.
But Yuncheng seemed to have enlightened and suddenly followed Chen Kan.
Chen Kan squinted and said, "Is something wrong?"
Yun Cheng nodded: "Master Marquis, His Highness the Crown Prince has sent a greeting card. Tomorrow His Highness the Crown Prince will personally bring the Emperor's eldest grandson to the mansion for a ceremony of worship. What standards should our family use to receive it?"
No wonder Yuncheng insisted on asking Chen Kan this question. Almost all Ming officials now have no experience in receiving His Highness the Crown Prince.
After all, the newly minted Crown Prince has only been in office for a month, and he has not even left the palace to visit any ministers.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Kan said casually: "Since I'm here for the apprenticeship ceremony, let's treat him as a member of the family, without going to a lot of trouble."
"Good at being a family member?"
"Okay, I'll make arrangements now."
Chen Kan had expected that Zhu Gaochi would bring Zhu Zhanji to his house to become his disciple. He had known that such a day would come as early as when Empress Xu threw Zhu Zhanji into the Marquis Mansion and ignored her.
Besides, Chen Kan is now considered to be a talented person. A poem of bamboo and stone was written by countless literati and hung in the study room to wake him up day and night.
The two short poems "Niannujiao" and "Mid-Autumn Moon" were widely sung by the Chu Guan, a brothel on the Qinhuai River, which vaguely laid the foundation for Chen Kan to become the leader of the romantic group.
With the foundation of this poem and two words, and the various decrees presented by Chen Kan, good results have been obtained one by one. There are countless students outside who want to worship Chen Kan as their teacher.
Therefore, Zhu Zhanji's worshiping under Chen Kan's name would not be regarded as an insult to his status as the emperor's eldest grandson.
Chen Kan went out and was about to take Hua Shi to the Qinhuai River to play in the water to cool off the heat. Suddenly, a knight rushed towards Chen Kan's direction.
"Master Marquis, I have a letter from Marquis Xiping."
That knight was the personal guard that Chen Kan sent to the southwest a few months ago to deliver the news about Annan to Mu Sheng.
As soon as he jumped off his horse, he took out a crumpled letter from his arms.
His face was dusty and he could tell that he had traveled a long way.
Chen Kan patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work. Let's go back to the mansion and take a bath first. Then go to Yuncheng to pay ten guan of money. I will give you three days off to relax."
The knight grinned: "Thank you, Lord Marquis, for the reward."
Chen Kan took the letter in his hand, kicked him on the butt, and said with a smile: "Go away."
"Master Marquis, has your prediction come true?"
Fang Xu came closer, his restless hands trying to reach out to the letter in Chen Kan's hand.
Chen Kan slapped the back of his hand and cursed angrily: "Why are you so anxious? Do you know how to read?"
Fang Xu blinked: "Although I don't know much about reading, I can still read a letter."
"Roll rough!"
Chen Kan scolded him, tore off the wax on the envelope, opened the letter paper and read it.
As expected by Chen Kan, Li Jili sent Annan's elite troops to intercept and kill Chen Tianping, and also dispatched 30,000 troops at once.
If Mu Sheng had not been reminded by Chen Kan and sent out scouts early to find out where Li Jili's army was ambushing, the five thousand elite soldiers sent by the Ming Dynasty to escort Chen Tianping back to Annan would have been in danger.
But now the elite of the Ming Dynasty had learned about Li Jili's conspiracy in advance, and the leading generals were fully prepared.
Therefore, not only did the Ming Dynasty's five thousand elite troops not be wiped out like in history, but they took advantage of the asymmetry of information to catch Li Jili off guard.
With a small number of enemies and less than a thousand casualties, they crippled Li Jili's 30,000-strong army and successfully covered Chen Tianping's return to Yunnan.
Li Jili's plan to catch the Ming Dynasty by surprise failed. In anger, he summoned an army of 100,000 people, including the logistics and civilians, and marched on the Yunnan border with a so-called 300,000-strong army.
He shouted to the Ming Dynasty and asked Mu Sheng to send Chen Tianping back to his country, otherwise he would use all his troops to fight against it.
In response to Li Jili's big talk, Mu Sheng just fired a few shots at him.
After reading Mu Sheng's letter, Chen Kan's first reaction was to go to the palace.
But before he could make a decision, he saw a red feather emergency message passing directly past Chen Kan's team and heading straight towards the palace.
When Mu Sheng's messenger arrived, Chen Kan stopped joining in the fun.
He stretched out his hand to summon Fang Xu and ordered: "Send someone to the Licheng Hou Mansion and tell him that the opportunity to die has arrived."
Then, Chen Kan decided to continue swimming.
It was now approaching the afternoon, and the sun was no longer so scorching, but the air was uncomfortably wet, so it was a good time to go swimming.
A group of people left the city and found a river with gentle water flow.
Chen Kan remembered that it was here that he was assassinated by the White Lotus Sect for the first time, and met the cute girl with big eyes for the second time.
So Chen Kan waved his hand: "It's right here!"
In a few breaths, Chen Kan's personal guards isolated a blank area here that no one could enter.
Chen Kan took off his robe in a few moments, and in a moment he turned into a handsome man wearing only boxer briefs.
The boxer briefs are made of silk, with cowhide as the belt, and are both elastic and waterproof.
Surrounded by so many people, Hua Shi was a little shy at first, but when he saw Chen Kan being so shameless as an imperial marquis, he suddenly felt infinite courage in his heart.
He took off his robe and was wearing a pair of boxer briefs exactly like Chen Kan's.
Since arriving at the Hou Mansion, he has had many things on his body that do not belong to this era, and boxer briefs are one of them.
After Chen Kan finished his warm-up exercises, he found a place with slightly deeper water, took off and fell into the water.
"Plop~"
Splashing water one meter high, zero points!
After swimming in the water for a full minute, Chen Kan emerged from the water.
Jiangnan people have been around water since they were young. Chen Kan has always been a true southerner in his past life. Swimming is a trivial matter.
The flowering time is about the same. Although it is only a small one, it is as agile as a swimming fish in the water.
This is something engraved in the genes, not surprising.
The master and apprentice were having fun in the water.
A group of guards set up defenses, leaving half of them on guard while the other half also took off their flying fish uniforms.
"Thump~thump~thump~"
For a moment, the Qinhuai River seemed to be dropping dumplings, with water splashing constantly.
Chen Kan and Hua Shi were upstream, and the guards were downstream. The clear water of the Qinhuai River was ice cold. After soaking in the water for ten minutes, everyone's summer heat disappeared immediately.
After all, Hua Shi was still young, and her physical strength was far less than that of a group of big men who had already grown up, so after swimming for a while, she went ashore, casually tied her wet hair into a single piece with a silk thread, and lay down On the recliner, I grabbed a golden apricot in one hand and ate it till the juices overflowed.
Chen Kanfu stayed in the water for a while, and after feeling that the heat in the air was not so strong, he also went ashore and lay down on the rocking chair next to Hua Shi.
I casually grabbed a morning peach, took a bite, and spat it out far away with a "poof" sound.
"Unappetizing."
Chen Kan gave an objective evaluation, grabbed another golden apricot and took a bite.
A scent with the fragrance of honey exploded in his mouth. Chen Kan chewed up a golden apricot in a few times and spit out the apricot core.
Then two words came out of his mouth: "It's delicious."
Seeing that there was still cold melon on the small wooden table, Chen Kan grabbed a piece and took a bite, then frowned and threw it aside, commenting: "It's not delicious."
Cold melons are watermelons, and the watermelons of the Ming Dynasty are very similar to those that Chen Kan saw in later generations.
It's just a little small.
But the taste is really hard to describe.
Not to mention it is all seeds, there is no sweetness at all, only a faint melon smell.
For this reason, it was also known as a noble fruit in the Ming Dynasty.
Not only is it expensive to sell, but it also needs to be planted in the best fertile land, using the best farmyard fertilizer, and needs to be cared for day and night.
etc!
Chen Kan suddenly remembered that the most suitable place for watermelon growth seemed not to be fertile fields, but on dry plateaus with long sunshine hours.
"Another way to make a fortune..."
After muttering to himself, Chen Kan felt that the cold melon filled with black melon seeds in his hand suddenly became more precious.
The Ming Dynasty's demand for cold melons was almost endless, especially in the palace, where there was an endless stream of carriages carrying watermelons to the harem every day.
If I grow sweet and delicious watermelons, does that mean I can make money from Zhu Di, oh no, the concubines in Zhu Di's harem?
