We were both studying in the local private school in the village. Our teacher was an old mandarin scholar of about fifty odd years. It was perhaps because he was a mandarin scholar that he had significantly more students.

• 我们是同在一个村塾里读书的，我们的老师，是一个五十余岁的老秀才，许是因为他是秀才的缘故，所以学生特别多。