Zhai Dalang frowned and kept silent; he didn't want to get married since marriage meant waking up even earlier.
At this time, Bai Erlang was also yawning. He irritably tossed aside his pen and said, "There are too few books here; this one is missing, that one is missing, it's nothing like the Chongwen Pavilion. I can't find the books I'm looking for. Why does Mr. Zhuang assign us so much homework?"
Bai Shan stuffed the book he flipped through quickly back onto the shelf, pulled out another one after seeing the title, and said, "That's what training is about, isn't it? Stop complaining, just get on with transcribing. I've already figured out the solution to one problem."
Manbao was reading the exam papers County Magistrate Zhai collected for his son. "I took a look; the exam papers from Shangzhou Prefecture two and three years ago were really hard."
