Perhaps because it touched on a topic of interest to Lu Yuan, he gradually became more engrossed in the conversation and no longer found it boring, so he was patient and continued to listen.
Through the servant's words, he learned some interesting tidbits about the academy.
For example, there were three highly regarded students within the academy.
One was the young master of the largest rice trader in the city, the Li Family, who controlled the rice business. This young master was said to be incredibly intelligent, and by the age of fifteen, he had become a scholar. At only eighteen years old now, he had accumulated three years of experience and was very likely to become a juren in the imperial examination next year.
