"Okay, Sister Qian said so, and listened to the six girls' direct reading. Feng Shi did not hesitate to speak.

"Yes. Xile turned the book to the back in response, and confirmed it with Shen Junqian before starting to read.

Shen Junqian looked at everyone's reaction after thinking of it for a while, and covered her mouth with a handkerchief to secretly laugh.

In the second half of this book, Shen Junqian has read it, and it is written as "Celebrity and Scholar Science Examination Anecdotes", to put it bluntly, it is to write some strange things inside and outside the field, and the only difference from the outside is that these things are pressed on the disciples of the Shen family, the eldest master of the Shen family, the second master and the deceased Shen family master are the focus, and there are the most strange things on the body. There are also some things that happened to some scholars surnamed Shen, as for whether the scholar surnamed Shen is a member of the Shen family or even whether the surname Shen was originally surnamed Shen, probably no one will care.

Many times, what people care about is the event itself, but they don't care much about the characters in the incident, whether he is Zhang San or Li Si, in short, there is such a thing, isn't it?

Listening to Xile happily reading the story in a frustrated tone, I don't know if it was Zhang Guan Li Dai: Shen Yaoshu, the old lady Shen, became famous when he was a teenager, and he was full of ambition to show his talent in front of everyone, but he didn't want to reveal his identity as a disciple of the Shen family, so he pretended to be a word seller, and set up a word selling stall in front of the crowded small street at the entrance of the big Buddha Temple, the most prosperous incense in the suburbs, and put a few of his proud works, wanting to see how much his words praised by everyone were worth.

As a result, even a few businesses that came to the door were farmers who asked to write letters on their behalf, who didn't know the words at all, and didn't care about the value of the words, and the only thing that required them to write neatly was that others could read and understand them. Once asked how much a word is worth, he immediately looked at Shen Yaoshu with a vigilant face and looked at Shen Yaoshu in surprise: "How much is the word worth, do you still have to add money?" After a few times, Shen Yaoshu also understood that these people who wrote letters to their relatives didn't care how much your words were worth, and the few copper plates they were willing to give were completely aimed at the content expressed in the letter itself.

Shen Yaoshu, who had been busy all morning and had found nothing, had already planned to close the stall and leave when an old gentleman came, looking like a scholar, Shen Yaoshu suddenly came to his senses and asked the old gentleman to buy calligraphy and paintings. The old gentleman glanced at Shen Yaoshu's calligraphy and paintings, nodded and praised: "The writing is good." ”

Seeing that Shen Yaoshu was not like a poor gentleman who set up a stall to sell words, he asked, Shen Yaoshu was a thin-skinned person, and if he didn't ask, he wouldn't take the initiative to say it.

After listening to this, the old gentleman looked Shen Yaoshu up and down for a while, and asked, "I really think I can give as much as this calligraphy and painting is worth." After seeing Shen Yaoshu nodding, he picked one out of the few words that were put out, and then took out a penny from the money bag he carried and put it on the table in front of Shen Yaoshu.

Shen Yaoshu was stunned on the spot, and when he came back to his senses and saw that the old gentleman was leaving, he quickly stopped him, and asked ashamedly and puzzledly, "Didn't the old gentleman praise the younger generation's words just now, why did he ......?"

"Why do you only give you a penny? Do you think that your words are worth more than a penny?" Shen Yaoshu was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

The old gentleman was not embarrassed by him, but turned around and replied: "Actually, if you really want to talk about the value of this word, I may not even give a penny, this penny is just to see that you are still a little witty, at least you know that asking the price in words here can be regarded as encouraging you, a young descendant." As for my praise of your good words, that's also true, even if you ask me now, I will still say that the words are good, but if you want to ask me how much I write, I will still only give you one article at most. ”

Shen Yaoshu was a little confused when he heard this, and immediately asked respectfully to Mr. "Please also ask the old gentleman to solve his doubts." ”

"With your clothes, your family must have sent you to school since you were a child, and you have been studying this book for a few years at your age, right?"

Shen Yaoshu nodded, the Shen family is indeed not short of food and clothing, and the children have also been enlightened since childhood.

"That's been written for a few years, right?"

"If you are free to learn, you will take a pen. ”

"Yes, Meng Tong didn't understand the initial pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the words were learned from scratch, or the writing was a little unwritten, but there was nothing to be ashamed of, but anyone who could write a little bit like that, presumably both the master and the adults around him would really praise a few words. Now you have been writing for a few years, but because of the accumulation of these years, you are more proficient in writing than Meng Tong. I praise it well, not because of how good the word itself is, but because you can persist in writing it down in the past few years, which makes me see that in the future, if you continue to persevere, this word will be brilliant.

If you talk about how good your handwriting is now, it's really a joke, not to mention anything else, that is, your current classmates or scholars of the same age must be as brilliant as your handwriting or even more brilliant than you, right?

Praise your sentence, more to applaud me for seeing you in the future, in terms of axiology, in fact, what is the difference between your words and Mengtong's writing? And the authors of those characters that are worthy of being bid for, or calligraphers who have claimed to be one, or calligraphers who write their own style in a certain type of font and can be recognized by people at first sight, some of these people have not worked tirelessly on the word for decades to have achievements, and those who wrote the same as them or better than them when they were young, and there are still a few people who remember it today."

Shen Yaoshu thought carefully for a while, and made a big salute to the old gentleman on the spot, "Thank you for the old gentleman's advice, the younger generation has been taught." ”

Then he took the word stall and went home to practice hard, and even carried the penny given by the old gentleman with him, reminding himself from time to time, and later won the champion in one fell swoop.

Feng Shi said with a smile after listening to this paragraph, "Although this paragraph is exaggerated, there is nothing wrong with this money, and it seems that there has really been such a thing when you think about it carefully." ”

Mama Yan responded on the side, "No, the old lady did have a word stall to sell words, and she really has such a penny." ”

Shen Junqian thought it was all made up by people, but he didn't expect it to be true, and asked at the moment: "Really? Grandfather still had such a thing back then?"

"I haven't heard of it either, grandmother, grandmother, tell me about it. Shen Junluo didn't know that there was such a thing.

Not to mention the girls, even the three ladies of the Shen family heard about this for the first time, De'an turned his head and asked Xiao Shi in a low voice: "Second sister-in-law, do you know about the old lady?"

Xiao Shi shook his head and said that he didn't know, just when he heard Ma's voice sound, "If I hadn't heard the old lady say it today, I would never have known that the old lady had such a strange thing, if I heard it outside, I wouldn't believe it was true?"

Feng shook his head, "It's not surprising that you haven't heard of it, it's a lot exaggerated in this book, except for your old lady who did put calligraphy and paintings at the entrance of the temple, and did get a penny, the others are basically wrong." ”

"Huh?" the crowd was shaken again.

"Your grandfather is the only son of the Shen family for several generations, and at that time he was somewhat spoiled by my mother-in-law, plus he was a little talented, somewhat arrogant, and he thought too highly of himself, and he was a little out of place in the school. Master Taishang is my father-in-law, once deliberately came up with a way, and said that if he set up a stall in front of the most lively Big Buddha Temple to sell calligraphy and paintings, no one would be willing to pay for it. The old man was young and vigorous at that time, so he asked people to find the things needed to set up a bookstall, and ran to the temple gate to set up a stall in the afternoon. As a result, no one was willing to bid for the master's words. Seeing that the master didn't give up, I was worried in my heart, so I discussed with Mama Yan to arrange someone to buy your master's words......"

"So grandmother found someone to buy grandfather's words for a penny?" Shen Junqian looked at Feng with a look of surprise.

Mama Yan said on the side: "It's really not, it's really a strange thing." When the old lady and I just discussed how to buy the old lady's words without hurting his self-esteem, we arranged for the person who protected the old lady to report that the master had already collected the word stall. ”

At first, we thought it was someone arranged by my father-in-law or mother-in-law, but then we had a vigil to talk about it, and then we knew that the old gentleman who bought words that day was really not the person we arranged, and I don't know where it came from, and said such a thing to your grandfather.

Since then, your old lady has indeed changed a lot, and she has devoted herself a lot to studying. But the most strange thing, your old lady later spent some money to find the old gentleman, but the strangeness is strange, I searched the whole of Shangjing and didn't find such a person, and asked the city gate guards, but there was no old gentleman with a similar appearance. Feng Shi sighed, and then said: "Based on your grandfather's description of the appearance of that old gentleman, it doesn't look like a foreigner, but it is said that Shangjing, which is not big, can't find this person. ”

"Is that a penny really there?" asked Shen Junqian by shaking Feng's sleeve.

"Yes, your grandfather deliberately put it in the study in the front yard to encourage our Shen family's sons. Later, when Jizhong and Jitang ran Cangwu Academy, they put it on the top floor of the academy's library building. One day, let Jizhong or Jitang take you girls to see it too. How to say, the girls of our Shen family don't have to be bad. ”

Seeing that Feng Shi said that the old lady was a little depressed, Xiao Shi said: "Old lady, listening to your explanation, I want to hear the anecdotes of the uncle and our master when I hear this, there must be some facts, and they have been exaggerated by the writer." I just don't know what it's going to be?"

Ma Shi also echoed: "What the second brother and sister said is, I am also a little curious, I only remember the lively scene of the old man being the champion in the middle of the year, playing horses and parading the streets, I don't remember any interesting things." ”

was interrupted by Xiao and Ma, Feng also smiled and continued to read the following books with joy, and sure enough, each had its own wonders. A noble family

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Chapter 59 Interesting Facts About the Imperial Examination.