Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 225: Become a disciple of Cuiliu Pavilion (Part )

On August 15th, the students who were admitted to various colleges went to the colleges to report, while the students who failed to be admitted to the colleges were preparing to pursue their own careers.

On August 16, starting from the early morning, apprenticeship meetings were held one after another in various places in Changluo City. Except for a few academies that held apprenticeship meetings inside the academies, most of the apprenticeship meetings were held in major restaurants.

These restaurants all host apprenticeship sessions for free in order to enhance their own reputation.

Cuiliu Pavilion is a festive scene with lights and decorations.

From Liu Qianqian to ordinary servants, everyone had a smile on their face and was very happy.

Liu Qianqian was naturally happy that her younger brother Liu Feiyun could become a disciple of the great scholar Chang Xianzhi, while the servants were mostly happy because of the extra red envelopes that Liu Qianqian gave out.

This red envelope is not small, it is equivalent to one month’s salary or monthly allowance!

These servants are divided into two categories. One is the common people or untouchables employed by the Liu family, who are paid wages; the other is the private slaves of the Liu family, that is, slaves, who are paid monthly wages!

There are certain rules for wages and they are protected by laws. But the monthly allowance is entirely up to the slave owner! Whether to cheat or not, how much to cheat or not, even the imperial law cannot control it.

However, at this time in Cuiliu Pavilion, the slaves were happier than the common people who were paid.

The Liu family is famous for treating servants and slaves well, of course, the premise is that you have to sincerely protect the interests of the Liu family! And these slaves who can be transferred to Changluo by Liu Qianqian are naturally the most loyal to the Liu family, and they are also people with outstanding talents or advantages. They naturally understand that the more prosperous the Liu family is, the better their lives will be with their families!

"Listen, everyone! This time my brother's apprenticeship meeting must be held beautifully! If everything goes well, I will give each of you a red envelope exactly like the one I gave yesterday after the meeting! But if anyone makes a mistake! Those who are hired from outside will be fired and never used again, and those who are hired from home will be dealt with strictly according to the family rules! Do you understand?"

Liu Feiyun gave a speech to all the managers and officials.

"Don't worry, Miss! I have already made all the arrangements!"

"Don't worry, Boss! We will make sure everything is safe!"

"Master, don't worry!"

All the leaders of Cuiliu Pavilion responded one after another!

"In that case, let's go about our respective business!"

As soon as Liu Qianqian finished speaking, she heard a guard at the gate of Cuiliu Pavilion shouting, "The distinguished guests have arrived! ... Welcome... Lecturer Chen and Lecturer Chang from Wende College..."

Following the shouts of a temporary welcoming guard outside the gate today, many literati and scholars who rarely appeared in Cuiliu Pavilion gathered here!

Although Cuiliu Pavilion is not as tall as Linglong Pavilion, it is definitely not small in scale. After all, it is also a nine-story building that is 11 meters high.

At this time, the original restaurant area on the upper three floors was arranged into a rest area, viewing area, and VIP area.

In the rest area on the seventh floor, rows of seats surround the music stage in the middle. Singers and dancers take turns to sing and dance on stage, drawing cheers from early-arriving guests from time to time!

At this time, there are more than a hundred people sitting or standing in the rest area, and the number is still increasing!

It was almost noon when Liu Feiyun and Chang Xian and their group of dozens of people finally arrived!

At this time, there were less than 200 people gathered in the rest area. Among them, only dozens of people were qualified to go up to the eighth floor to watch the ceremony. Among them, half were scholars in the literary world, and the other half were nobles and wealthy people who were on good terms with Wende Academy or the Liu family.

Chang Xianzhi was known as a famous scholar, so it stands to reason that many scholars would come to watch and congratulate him. But for some reason, not many scholars came.

As for the Liu family, in order to avoid suspicion, the Fufeng Liu family only made friends with a few families who were also nobles serving the dragon. The rest were just casual friends, and most of them were military personnel. Naturally, there would not be many literati to support them! As for the Anping Liu family, as a branch of the Fufeng Liu family, Liu Shihao had the bad reputation of Liu the Butcher and had been scolded by those literati for so many years, so naturally, there were not many literati connections.

Dozens of people went up to the viewing area on the eighth floor. After Chang Xianzhi and several old lecturers from Wende Academy, accompanied by the old Earl Liu Jingang, went up to the rostrum, dozens of distinguished guests scattered to the viewing seats.

Chang Xianzhi looked at the dozens of people in the audience and smiled bitterly in his heart: "It seems that in order to accept Liu Feiyun as his disciple, my reputation in the literary world has been completely ruined!"

In fact, it was not just him, even the old lecturers of Wende College felt ashamed: Is this dean old and confused! Why did he have to accept the son of Liu the Butcher as his disciple? He was the son of Liu the Butcher! Over the years, which Confucian school had not severely criticized Liu the Butcher? It would be more glorious to accept a scholar who was born a slave as his disciple than to accept the son of Liu the Butcher as his disciple.

On the contrary, the old Earl Liu Jingang was very satisfied and proud: the Liu family had fought for the Great Chen Dynasty for nearly twenty generations, and finally there were some scholars! I just don't know if this grandson can study better than his eldest son who is a county governor in the south!

It's already noon. Logically speaking, if there are no distinguished guests of sufficient importance coming to watch the ceremony, the apprenticeship ceremony can be held!

Liu Qianqian was about to order the items for the apprenticeship gift to be brought up, but she heard a notification from downstairs:

"The distinguished guests have arrived! ... Welcoming Wenqi Academy, President Sun and his disciples!"

This sentence was shouted out by several people in succession. After a while, an old Confucian scholar in his seventies led three young Confucian scholars up the stairs.

Chang Xian was stunned: Why is this old guy here? My Wende College and his Wenqi College have always been at odds!

After going upstairs, Dean Sun looked around at the dozens of people sparsely gathered upstairs and couldn't help laughing: "Chang Xianzhi! What! Your disciple-taking ceremony hasn't started yet! I've already finished the ceremony for more than half an hour! Hahahaha! Do you want to wait for a few more people to watch the ceremony? Chang Xianzhi, Chang Xianzhi, I advise you not to wait! Most of us scholars have to save face! You actually want to accept the son of a butcher whose hands are stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of people as your disciple! Who has the nerve to come and help you watch the ceremony! Only I, old Sun, am thick-skinned! I'm willing to help you! Chang Xianzhi! Congratulations! Congratulations on accepting a good disciple today! A good disciple who slaughtered tens of thousands of people as soon as he opened his mouth! A good disciple with a family fortune of billions! Your Wende Academy will not be short of money to spend now! Hahahaha!"

Dean Sun's words immediately made the scene very awkward! Chang Xianzhi on the rostrum laughed even harder, several old lecturers looked livid, and Liu Jingang's eyes were wide open with anger, but he couldn't vent his anger and had to hold it back.

Most of the people in the audience seats just wanted to watch the fun and were watching how Chang Xianzhi and Liu Feiyun would respond.