d by Fu

and the earth underneath. And it was more important that he was able to tell what he knows in colloquial words, which was very different from hired pedantic old Confucian scholars before. Under the guidance of those scholars, Ma Tian'en, needless to say, was unwilling to learn while Ma Chaosheng himself was annoyed to listen to such fusty

told Ma Tian'en that it was him who invited the master, so he should not say no concerning study matters. After that, he solemnly hande

as seated in the head seat with the ferule in his hand. And his expression towards Ma Tian'en was just like: I will give you a lesson

me aspire to be officials of the emperor for benefiting the people; and others resolve to g

"My ambition is very simple, which is to be a toff to drink and gamble in company of beauties. Simply speaking, I just want to kill time. You know, we can at most live f

t is a waste of time to teach a student like me, who doesn't want to make any progress at all

"You said you wanted to be a toff,

is addicted to drinking, gamb

cuju (literally kick ball; the earliest form of football played in ancient China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam), drinking games, tea art, horse riding, etc. You mentioned gambling, so how many ways of gambling do you k

and: "I can't believe that you and I are in the same boat. I will take you to th

rence, "Who said that I would gam

so much about gambli

accidentally saved a beautiful woman, you may only go forward to say, 'Dear lady, you are so beautiful that I have fallen in love with you at first sight. How about marrying me?' Saying so, you would be scolded as a satyr prodigal, and what the lady m

mise to marry me to repay my kindness, and then she will go w

its, so you will have no such improper thoughts. You have read too li

id like that... Is that

ok of Rites and handed it to Ma Tian'en, "You should learn rites first. Just read the book, and I will interpret it to you later. If you w

out of the study

nd of scholar he is! What a teacher! He just annoye

ell, all servants were warned by Ma Chaosheng to completely cooperate with Wu Zhong. Ma Tian'en

sk, she poured it into a cup and gulped it quickly. She found the tea smelled and tasted better than us

was so different from what he saw before! There were notes in small characters, clear explanation which was easy to understand, and some simple drawings, whi