PFC Chapter 660: Once you send someone away, they won’t come back (4)
Chapter 660: Once you send someone away, they won’t come back (4)
Liang Huaixin watched the two people walking away, and a nameless anger surged in his heart.
He frowned and was about to ask the person who was pulling him what he was trying to do, but he heard the other person sighing and saying slowly: "My dear brother, from what I see, your hometown is probably not the capital city, right?"
"What does this mean?" Liang Huaixin looked confused and had no idea what was going on.
Seeing the other party's "I knew it" look, Liang Huaixin planned to extract some useful information from him.
The man showed a helpless smile and continued to explain: "It is mainly because the schools and private schools in the prefecture will conduct strict examinations on Mandarin.
Just like this Yuening Academy, this is considered the most important thing. If you want to be admitted, you must pass this level."
"Could it be that... the reason why those two people stopped talking to me just now was because my Mandarin accent was not standard enough?" Liang Huaixin's eyes widened, still finding it hard to believe. "But our academy in Anyang City has never had such a rule!"
"That's right! Because of this, they must be students from other cities, but we are not!" The student shook his head slightly, as if he had already looked down on this situation. "To be honest, I have been here for a whole year.
When I first came here, my accent was much heavier than it is now. Yuening College recruits new students every four months. I did well in the written exams, but I failed the interviews every time.
During the interview at Yuening Academy, there is a task called "reciting", which requires students to speak to the teacher in Mandarin and recite a randomly selected article.
"Random?" Liang Huaixin was even more confused.
"Before, the essays were fixed every year, so some students would practice repeatedly to get an advantage," the student explained, "so that they looked very standard during the exam, but after entering the school, they found that they were not good enough at all."
After hearing this, Liang Huaixin suddenly realized, but also felt frustrated.
"Won't it mean that I will have to spend a lot of time correcting my accent before I can get into Yuening Academy?" he asked worriedly.
The student patted his shoulder and explained, "Of course, there is a way. You can go to some bookstores or stationery stores to ask around. There are private schools that specialize in helping students get into Yuening Academy."
"I've also applied for a private school, so I should be able to correct my accent before the next exam." The man said confidently, "If you want to enter Yuening Academy, you should hurry up. In two months, it will be almost time for the next recruitment."
"Thank you for letting me know!" Liang Huaixin thanked the student and left the gate of Yuening Academy.
Then Liang Huaixin returned to the inn in a bad mood.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Xiangsi accompanying her grandmother to "sunbathe" in the yard of their rented house.
Because they had a large population, Old Madam Liang directly rented an entire inn. The environment was very good. Of course, she was not "sunbathing" at the moment.
Seeing her grandson coming back, Madam Liang said directly: "Huai Xin, kneel down!"
"Grandma?" Liang Huaixin obviously didn't understand the reason, so he looked at Xiangsi and asked, wanting to know what was going on!
But Xiangsi didn't even look at the other person, but just massaged Madam Liang's shoulders as requested.
"Let me ask you, today I asked you to go and apologize to the family we had an appointment with yesterday, did you go?" Old Madam Liang's eyes were a little angry, "Do you know where Shuojing Street is, and what the status of the people who can live there is?"
Liang Huaixin still looked confused, but he immediately said quickly: "I didn't buy the soup, what can I take to apologize!"
"So you broke your promise?" Madam Liang's teacup hit her grandson's footsteps. "Xiangsi said, go find a way. Tell me what you gained today."
Liang Huaixin dejectedly recounted the news he had learned at the gate of Yuening Academy today.
Finally, he couldn't help but say, "I don't know why the academy in the prefecture takes the Mandarin test so seriously!"
Xiangsi's heart was moved. Even though she was young at that time, she remembered that her father spoke Mandarin very well, and she also knew that this was a very important matter.
In fact, she spoke Mandarin very well before, but after living in the Liang Mansion for many years, her accent had been somewhat assimilated.
But now it was the grandparents and grandchildren who were "chatting", and as a maid, she had no right to interrupt, so Xiangsi gently massaged Madam Liang's shoulders.
Xiangsi really didn't understand why. She was just a cook, and just because she didn't have to cook for the next two days, why did she have to be assigned more work?
It's really unbearable to see people having free time!
"Xiangsi, can you tell me why?" Old Madam Liang asked this question suddenly. In fact, she didn't expect a servant to say anything, but she felt that Xiangsi was a little absent-minded, so she asked this question.
"Madam, are you asking me?" Xiangsi asked uncertainly.
"Yes! If you can answer it, I will give you a hundred coins." Madam Liang said jokingly, "But if you can't answer it, you will be hit on the palm of your hand ten times, after all, you were distracted just now."