Mr. Zhang had always liked the intelligent Qian Yeejin, and after heaping praise and encouragement on him, he asked him to come to class the next day.
Private tutoring was held at Mr. Zhang's house at the east end of the village, where several rooms in his east wing were used as a classroom.
In the neighboring villages, there was only this one private tutor. Aside from the children of particularly wealthy families who went to the town to study, all other children chose to attend Mr. Zhang's private tutoring. One reason was that studying in town was expensive, and another was because Mr. Zhang was a Scholar, who in his more than twenty years of teaching had produced one Scholar and five elementary scholars, earning great admiration and respect from the villagers. The class had a total of sixteen students, with five from Huaxi Village and eleven from the other villages.
