Chapter 15: Ten Years
Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In a certain courtyard of Wenyuan Pavilion.
The green bamboo forest, tall and verdant, graceful bamboo, bamboo shadows, elegant bamboo leaves rustle in the wind. A gust of breeze is full of quiet bamboo fragrance, a sea of bamboo with a variety of styles.
A handsome young man in Tsing Yi stood in the bamboo forest, holding a scroll in one hand, as if immersed in a book.
I saw that the young man in Tsing Yi looked male and female, perhaps because of his very young age, he was slightly feminine. The temperament is as warm as jade, and the figure is tall and handsome. A pair of eyes shine like stars, making people look closely but deep and full of mystery. Under the warm sun, the moist teenager is like a piece of flawless jade. This teenager is Enron ten years later.
A lot has changed in the last decade.
In the twenty-first year of the Daqing Dynasty, the Yuanchen Emperor. Chu Yu, the third son of Emperor Yuanchen, ascended the throne as Emperor Wenjing, and the second year was officially the first year of Wenjing. The new emperor ascended the throne, granted amnesty to the world, and held the opening of the Keen Examination in the same year.
The Shen Mansion has also undergone tremendous changes over the years. At that time, Shen Qixun went to Beijing to report on his work, and because of his good performance, he was able to stay in the capital after his term of office ended. With the help of the eldest lady's mother, An Ninghou, he took refuge in the three princes of the year, and was appreciated by the three princes, so Shen Qixun was promoted to the household servant of the third grade.
In the past ten years, the third prince has already become Emperor Wenjing, and Shen Qixun has also relied on his dragon skills and his own ability to be promoted from the household servant of the third product to the post of the household secretary of the second product.
The eldest master Shen Yiyin is just a lifter, and he has only served as the director of the six products in the Ministry of Industry over the years. And the second master, Shen Qian, has changed from the Hanlin Academy's Jishi to the current Zhengsanpin East Palace, the minister and prince's guest.
The Shen family officially settled in the capital, and the third generation of the Shen family also married one after another, and the fourth generation was born.
And Enron has also undergone great changes in the past ten years. The impetuousness that was originally unique to modern people has gradually been washed away by time, and it has truly become calm and connotative.
Because of the saying that men and women are not at the same time at the age of seven, An Ran also moved out of the backyard after turning seven years old and lived in the Wenyuan Pavilion in the front yard.
After moving to Wenyuan Pavilion, An Ran also had two scholars by his side, and there were four errand boys when he went out. Formal apprenticeship learns the six arts, which refer to the six aspects of etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics. At this time, it was no longer just about learning calligraphy and writing. Because as a child of an ancient big family, you not only have to learn homework, but also learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etiquette, tea art, antique appraisal, human relations and so on. Of course, you don't have to be proficient in everything, and some only need to be slightly understood. But at least you have to be proficient in one according to your own preferences, so that when you interact with other people outside, you won't lose the face of your family, and you won't have nothing to talk about.
An Ran and Shen Zijue worshipped the famous Confucian Huai'an monk in the capital as their teacher. An Ran mainly followed him to learn calligraphy and painting, and he was also very valued by Huai'an Jushi on the way to calligraphy and painting, so An Ran has also been slightly famous in the capital over the years. The eldest lord Shen Yi has also paid attention to him over the years.
Because of the previous second son, Shen Ziyan, that is, the eldest son of Dafang, passed the entrance examination at the age of 20 and passed the Jinshi, which was valued by the old lady and the eldest master, and has become more and more excellent in recent years. With him in front of everyone's attention, in addition to his homework, he is no longer clumsy. Calligraphy and painting have the foundation of more than 20 years in the previous life plus more than 10 years in this life, but it is very good and self-contained, and can be regarded as a master in calligraphy and painting, while the others are only in contact with this life, and the fourth son Shen Zijue is the same as the beginner, and it is not eye-catching.
An Ran chose to learn the guqin and the flute in terms of qin art, and the reason why he chose these two was because his cousin in his previous life learned the guqin, so he had a little understanding of the guqin An Ran. And I chose Xiao because I watched Huang Yaoshi's weapon in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in my previous life was Xiao, which was extremely chic. An Ran also had a martial arts dream when he was a child in his previous life, using a flute as a weapon like Huang Yaoshi.
In terms of chess skills, I chose to learn Go, which is also the worst one of Enron's learning. In fact, it's not that you can't learn well, but it's relative to other homework. And Enron himself is a brain-wielding person. In the previous world, when I was in high school, I was divided into arts and sciences, and An Ran still chose liberal arts on the premise that science was better than liberal arts, because I was influenced by my grandfather and grandmother at home and loved literature since I was a child, and second, liberal arts were mostly based on memorization, and there were fewer brains. Therefore, Enron's performance in chess is mediocre.
In calligraphy, Enron is very aura and has formed his own style, although it is not a calligraphy master, but it is not much worse than it, but the age is not enough, and it has not really precipitated. The regular script written by An Ran is rich and dignified, graceful and light, gentle and elegant, and contains ancient style. The style of the book is that the strokes are sharp and angular, the posture is thousands, the style is chic, the bones are delicate, and the heart is full.
On the way to Danqing, An Ran was good at flower and bird painting, and he had studied painting for more than 30 years in his previous life and present life. Therefore, the performance in painting is also excellent.
In addition, An Ran also learned the six arts, in learning archery, royal and other martial arts-related aspects, An Ran because the body has been washed and the essence is removed, and there is a reason for the nourishment of aura all year round, it is very easy to learn these aspects.
Now, on the premise of studying heavy homework, An Ran still has not relaxed his cultivation of the exercises. He even combined the study of homework with cultivation, and achieved the goal of two purposes, often practicing the characters and piano while running the exercises.
After An Ran came to the capital, after hearing about Qi Jingyao in the Marquis of Wu'an and her masterpiece, he was even more sure that there was more than one country in this world. Enron's sense of crisis intensified, and he didn't dare to relax his cultivation and study at any time.
Therefore, in the past ten years, An Ran has also made great progress in cultivation, and his cultivation has reached the peak of the late stage of the refining period, and he can break through to the third level of the psychic stage if he goes further.
The breakthrough in the latter part of the refining period came during a painting.
At that time, when the flowers were in full bloom, he painted among the flowers. At that time, An Ran habitually operated the exercises, concentrated on the brush in his hand, cleared his mind and closed his mind, focused on his mind, eliminated distracting thoughts, and entered meditation with peace of mind. An Ran waved the brush in his hand, only to feel hearty, and intended to close the pen. After a while, a cluster of graceful and magnificent peony flowers jumped on the paper. When An Ran was painting, his breath was in the middle of nothingness, and when he closed the pen, the rich aura went towards An Ran, and he successfully broke through to the late stage of the refining period.
Through reading a lot of Taoist books and his own experience, An Ran came to the conclusion that cultivation is the cultivation of the mind and nature, and the cultivation of self and life. The practice of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., is to cultivate one's self and one's mind.
Therefore, Enron also studied more carefully in these aspects.
On this day, An Ran finished the morning class and closed the page of the book in his hand. The maid who was waiting on the side stepped forward to take the book and brought the tea.
An Ran took a sip of tea, it was his favorite Longjing tea, and the green tea leaves in the tea cup were delicate and lovely, like water hibiscus. It tastes fresh and refreshing.
In the past ten years, An Ran has long been accustomed to this ancient aristocratic life. With the rise of the Shen Mansion, although An Ran is only a concubine, his life and food are exquisite and exquisite.
"Fifth son, the second housekeeper just came to say that the eldest master asked you to go to his study after finishing the morning class. The maid saw that her son-in-law had finished the morning class, and said hurriedly.
"Oh, do you know what's going on?" An Ran asked casually, stretched out his hand to straighten his clothes, and walked towards the eldest master's study.
The second steward didn't say anything, but the slave didn't know. However, the slave maid thought that it should be the matter of the son's government test the day after tomorrow. The maid said truthfully, and the maids who followed her son were also very concerned about her son's exam.
An Ran nodded, didn't say anything, but he knew it in his heart. The eldest lord is looking for him to be around, but it is just a matter of the imperial examination.
He passed the boy's test with his fourth son, Shen Zijue, a year ago and became a child. This year, the two of them have already taken the county exam in February, and passed the first exam, qualifying for the prefectural exam in April.
Regarding the general examination of the county examination, there are five exams, one a day, and the roll call at dawn will be handed in on the same day. He and Shen Zijue were both admitted directly in the first session, that is, at the main stage, and did not participate in the next four exams, but carefully prepared for the government exam. The exam is only two of the "Four Books", plus a five-word and six-rhyme test poem. For An Ranyan's "Four Books" is relatively simple, and the slightly difficult thing is to compose poems, not that he can't do it, but the poems he makes are too ordinary and have no aura.
When he came to the eldest master's study, Shen Zijue had already arrived, listening to the eldest master's lecture.
"How is Brother Yue'er studying? Can you be sure of the government test the day after tomorrow? Tomorrow, I will have a good rest and nourish my spirit. The eldest lord said to An Ran with a gentle face. In the past few years, Enron's outstanding performance has attracted the attention of the eldest master, and the eldest master originally did not pay much attention to this third son, who was not the eldest son.
I never thought that this child was very diligent and serious in his studies, and he did not slack off in all aspects of learning. He has great talent in calligraphy and painting, and even some great Confucians have said, "This son has a lot of aura, and after a few years, he can be described as a generation of masters on the way to calligraphy and painting." Therefore, he is very famous outside, and he has earned a lot of face.
"Back to his father, the child reviewed the content taught by the teacher many times, and thought that there would be no problem in coming to the exam the day after tomorrow. An Ran replied respectfully.
Then the eldest master told the two of them a little more things, talked about his experience in the exam that year, and answered a lot of questions to An Ran and the two, so that the two of them went down to rest.