Wen Yuejun
Thinking of this, Sun Yigao said to Lin Xiao:
"By the way, Brother Xiao, I'm planning to recruit some teachers for the private school soon."
At the beginning of this year, more people came to the private school to inquire about enrollment than last year. Moreover, unlike many of the students' elders last year, these students did not mind at all that the school had male and female students studying together. Or rather, their concerns were completely insignificant given the background of the Lingxian Sect.
Families that were already well-off and would hire extra tutors for their daughters also came to the private school run by Immortal Sun at the foot of the Lingxian Sect Mountain after learning that it also accepted female disciples, hoping that their daughters could study there.
Moreover, it's not just the students from outside the village who are attracted; the living conditions of every household in Xiushui Village have improved significantly. So, seeing the children in the village happily going to school every day with their little schoolbags on their backs, while their own children of the same age are either helping with chores at home or playing with cats and dogs outside, they also become tempted.
They all went to the village chief's door, asking him to inquire whether the private school would accept more students in the future.
Faced with a large number of students seeking education, Sun Yigao knew that his abilities were limited and that he could not possibly teach so many students. However, he also hoped that the children in the village and many more children who could not attend school normally could study properly. Therefore, he came up with the idea of hiring teachers to expand the scale of the private school.
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao naturally agreed wholeheartedly.
"That's good. If you feel that the Master's character is not easy to discern, you can simply have someone walk the Heart-Questioning Road."
Although the purpose of their sect's "Heart-Questioning Road" is to test and select the character of their disciples, it can also be used to select teachers for private schools.
With Sun Yigao overseeing academic knowledge and Heart-Questioning Road screening character, how could one worry about not finding a good teacher?
As it turns out, I was still worried.
The following day, as soon as the news spread that Lingxian Sect Sect's private school needed to recruit teachers, Xiushui Village experienced another surge in visitors.
Although the treatment offered by the private school was similar to that of the private schools in the city, the teacher's monthly salary was ten taels of silver.
However, the Lingxian Sect's current popularity in Hufang Province cannot be ignored.
If Liu Yunan hadn't set up a temporary recruitment booth in the middle of the road between North Mountain and the village, the entrance to the private school would probably have been overcrowded.
Fortunately, the village chief had held a meeting with the villagers some time ago, urging them to repeatedly warn tourists not to get too close and disturb the immortals.
Faced with this surge in visitors, villagers have spontaneously gone to advise tourists and job applicants to remain calm and not disturb the immortals' tranquility.
Through word of mouth and the efforts of villagers and some veteran tourists, the newlyweds were able to keep things from becoming too noisy and excited.
The job applicants lined up obediently for interviews, while onlookers tried their best to remain quiet.
Even with such a large number of applicants, it's not easy to select a few who can pass the increasingly difficult "Heart-Questioning Road".
The main problem is that most of the people who come are actually disappointed test-takers who came hoping to curry favor with someone influential.
They themselves may not be very knowledgeable; they wouldn't even pass a cultural interview.
However, those who pass the cultural interview are mostly stopped at the Heart-Questioning Road.
Let alone staying inside for a few days, many people were even pushed out within half an hour of entering.
Speaking of this, we must mention the humanistic aspects of Heart-Questioning Road).
It appears that different assessments are set for different people.
Basically, ordinary people who go in, whether they pass or not, will all come out within two or three days at the longest.
As a cultivator's cultivation level increases, the upper limit of their time limit will also change.
This prevented ordinary people from starving to death if they stayed inside for too long.
After a whole morning, the private school had only managed to recruit one qualified teacher.
This gentleman, surnamed Pei, was a scholar who had moved to Xiushui Village some time ago. He was over fifty years old and originally planned to retire in Xiushui Village, but when he learned that a private school was recruiting teachers, he decided to apply.
Teacher Pei's family was quite wealthy, and he was well-read and famous in the literary circles of Hufang Province. He was truly a learned scholar. He only had the title of Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial civil service examination) because he did not continue to take the exam, not because he failed.
He didn't come to apply for the job for the small salary from the private school, but because he greatly admired the young man Sun Yigao.
He had met the students at the private school, and they seemed quite different from most students taught at other private schools. Therefore, he was quite curious about his teacher Sun Yigao.
It wasn't until the afternoon that the Lingxian Sect Sect's recruitment office finally welcomed its second potential candidate who might pass the Heart-Questioning Road assessment.
This person's name was Wen Yuejun.
He was the youngest son of Wen Keming, the magistrate of Anqun County.
When the Heart-Questioning Road was first completed last year, he was one of the first mortals to accidentally wander into it.
He is one of the few ordinary people who strayed into this path and found his way out on his own, rather than being pushed out by the Heart-Questioning Road.
Since that incredibly vivid dream experience, Wen Yuejun has held the Lingxian Sect in the highest esteem and longed to be a disciple of it.
Having been keeping a close eye on the Lingxian Sect's activities and occasionally strolling around Xiushui Village, he immediately took a bath and changed his clothes after learning about the Lingxian Sect's recruitment news this morning. He even took some time to review the lessons he had been studying regularly before heading off to the interview with a mix of nervousness and anticipation.
Wen Yuejun is now seventeen years old. He passed the imperial examination in the same year as Sun Yigao, but his ancestral home is not in Hufang Province, so he took the exam in his ancestral home.
After he finished the exam last year, Wen Keming learned that he had passed the county-level exam but ranked only so-so, Wen Keming he was not very satisfied and asked him to pack his things so that he could teach him personally.
At that time, Wen Yuejun was very unwilling because his relationship with his father was not very good, or rather, he was the one who didn't like his father.
This happened because, as he grew up, he discovered that his father was overly materialistic and somewhat obsessed with officialdom.
In order to get promoted, his father would give generous gifts to others and flatter them with ease, but Wen Yuejun actually didn't think much of this kind of behavior.
Unfortunately, this person was his own father.
He had complained to his father about this many times at home and had lost his temper a lot, but his father always ignored him, saying that he was just a child who didn't understand anything.
That's why he was very reluctant to come at first.
Unexpectedly, they encountered the Lingxian Sect, having mistakenly entered the Heart-Questioning Road.
On his first visit to the Heart-Questioning Road, he saw and learned a great deal.
Although I still can't accept it, I've come to understand my father a little better, and I've come to understand that everyone in this world is different.
Later, he wrote to his teacher in his hometown, mentioning his views on his father. He was later invited back to his hometown and had a long talk with his teacher.