The first of the ninth lunar month was the first day of lessons at Pingxi Prefecture Martial Arts Academy in the current term. This also meant that it was the first lesson the new students of the martial arts academy would attend and the venue was the huge classroom in the academy.
Apart from the old students, most of the new students had already arrived and filled the seats of the classroom, leaving only a few empty seats. The entire classroom was filled with excitement. All of the people were whispering to the people beside them rather excitedly while some couldn't help but look everywhere. The sight before Yan Liqiang's eyes was no different from those university students in lecture halls during their first day of lessons at the university.
Yan Liqiang still came even though he already knew the subject of the first lesson and had even 'gone through' it once.
[1] The saying ‘Don't discriminate a poor young man’ means one shouldn’t underestimate a poor young man because a young person has boundless prospects ahead of him.
[2] This is a pun as ‘to blow’ can also mean ‘to bluff’ in Chinese, and Yan Liqiang later mentioned that ‘his mouth was indeed unrivaled’ because he was great at bluffing his whole life.