"You know what. Cui Ning stuffed her mouth full of pastries, and felt extremely happy in her heart, she had not been so relaxed for a long time in the past three years under the noses of the four teaching maids.

Cui Kuang pushed the pastry plate in front of her, supporting his cheek raiser with one hand, "I'm going to take the exam the day after tomorrow, do you have any parting words?"

Cui Ning swallowed what was in his mouth, "Come back with a top prize." ”

"......" Cui Kuang looked at her speechlessly for a long time.

Cui Ning's back was swishing and cold when he looked at it, "I wish you the boy's exam this year and the Jinshi exam next year." ”

In the early Tang Dynasty, there were more than 50 subjects in the imperial examination, but later they were slowly eliminated a lot, and now they mainly test the two subjects of Mingjing and Jinshi. Jinshi emphasizes poetry, and the Ming scriptures emphasize the scriptures and ink meanings.

Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi. It can be seen that the Jinshi is much more difficult to take the exam.

At this time, there was no particularly complicated system for the imperial examination, and there was no age limit, as long as you first passed the guò children's examination and obtained the examination qualifications, you could enter the academy and the tribute academy, and then the academy and the tribute academy recommended to participate in the imperial examination. Xingzhou's Xuezheng is the Cui family, and the colleges and tribute institutes that are qualified to recommend candidates have the shadow of the Cui family everywhere, so as for the examination qualifications, it is just a formality.

Choi asked his sons to take the test, mainly to find out where they stood among their peers.

"I won't take the exam next year. Cui said seriously.

"Huh?" Cui Ning wondered, "Why?"

"Maybe no one told you about that. Cui Guo moved forward and said to her, "Last year, Brother Chang Geng participated in the imperial examination. won the champion position in one fell swoop, this year it is Brother Changyuan who participates, and next year it will be my cousin's turn. The three of them were specially staggered. It's going to be the top prize for three years in a row, and if I go next year, won't I meet my cousin?"

"Are you afraid of robbing him of the champion and embarrassing him?" Cui Ning asked.

Cui Kuang glanced at her, "The second sister is so confident, she is very happy for her brother, but ...... You eat dry rice in front of everyone else?"

"Ahem!" Cui Ning thought. also laughed, "My cousin seems to be quite talented." ”

"I just can't afford to lose. Cui Guo Lao Cheng touched his tender chin. "Wouldn't it be a pity if a genius like me didn't have the first match? To be the first in everything, you need not only strength, but also strategy. ”

Cui Ning nodded in admiration. "What you say makes sense, so do you have a strategy?"

"The current strategy is to avoid strong opponents. Cui Kuang lay back lazily and yawned, "Those people eat more than me for twelve or ten years, and I have suffered a little bit when I go forward." ”

Cui Ning said, "But isn't it more rewarding to overwhelm people who are older than you?"

Cui Kuang rolled his eyes, "I didn't say that I would take the exam in twenty years!"

"Then you ......"

"I pick a suitable year within five years to get the top prize, then go home and marry a wife, and after giving birth to my eldest son, I will raise myself at home for a few years. At that time, I was twenty-five or sixteen years old, and it was just right for me to go out and become an official. ”

Cui Ning blinked, and then blinked. There is still a white bun face in front of me, and it seems that there is still a far, far way from "giving birth" and "raising children"!

"What do you think?" asked Cui Kuang.

"That'...... That ......" Cui Ning was stunned by his words, and only reacted after a while, "You are a child yourself, do you know what it means to marry a wife and have children!"

"You think everyone is as stupid as you?" Cui said, "I've already taken a fancy to a candidate." ”

"My mother!" Cui Ning didn't dare to look directly at his younger brother at the moment.

Cui Daoyu, who had been eavesdropping outside the door for a long time, heard this paragraph. I couldn't help but rush in and take this rabbit cub out and beat him hard, I didn't learn well at a young age. What do you think about all day long!

"Which lady is it? If I see it in the future, I can help you see if you are worthy of you. ”

Cui Daoyu heard Cui Ning say this, and secretly praised it in his heart, what a girl!

"It's Pei's nine-ranked lady in the third room, called Pei Ying, I haven't seen her once when I was seven years old, she looks white and cute, her voice is sweet and glutinous, if there is no accident, it won't be too ugly in the future. ”

Cui Daoyu clenched his fists, counting, it was the year the old lady died, and in the next few years, the family had been closed to visitors, and the clan had never received the Zheng family, it should be when the Zheng family came to pay homage to the old lady.

"Oh my God. Cui Ning still can't accept this fact.

Cui Daoyu couldn't help but break in, "Ning'er, you go out first." ”

"Father's eavesdropping is not a gentleman's doing. Cui Guan hurriedly put on his shoes as a precaution.

"You!" Cui Daoyu casually picked up the red sandalwood paperweight on the case, "You are a six-year-old girl who peeps at other people's families, and you are embarrassed to talk to me about what kind of gentleman!"

Cui Ning hurriedly ran out, took the door with her hand, and leaned on the crack of the door to look inside.

It sounded like there was a lot of movement, but in fact, it didn't hit Cui Jing a few times, which made Cui Ning feel a lot more relieved.

Ling Shi and Cui Jing were coming over, and they heard the crackling sound in the study from a distance, and hurriedly quickened their pace. When I arrived at the door of the study, I saw Cui Ning pouting and peeking over there.

"Ning'er. Ling called.

Cui Ning hurriedly stood up straight, put on a ladylike posture, and a weak willow wind came to Ling's face, "Mother, father is teaching my little brother a lesson." ”

"What's going on?" Ling was slightly shocked, Cui had never made Cui Daoyu so angry before!

Cui Ning whispered, "The younger brother said that he fell in love with Jiuniang in the third room of the Pei family and was going to marry her back as a daughter-in-law." ”

"Huh?" Ling's heart fluttered.

She only thought that Cui Guo was a little young and old before, but she never dreamed that she would be so old!

"Just for this little thing, you won't make a big fuss, right?" Cui Jing said.

Ten years old is a very early age, but it's not so strange to just think about it, after all, Cui is more precocious than ordinary children.

"Maybe it's because the younger brother said that he saw him when he was less than six years old?" Cui Ning heard the movement in the house, and suddenly said urgently, "Mother, go and take a look, my father really beat him!"

At this time, the Ling clan also thought that Cui Guo was spying on other girls at the funeral! If this matter spreads......

"You must never bring up this matter in the future. Ling Shi hurriedly admonished.

Cui Ning and Cui Jing agreed in unison.

Inside, Cui Guan was finally caught, picked up his pants, and slapped him a few times. Gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound.

"Do you know what's wrong?" asked Cui Daoyu.

"Son, yes. Cui said stubbornly.

Cui Daoyu was so angry that he wanted to fight again, but reason prevailed, "Okay." I'll hear your reasons. ”

"I saw that Pei Jiuniang didn't have any other thoughts, but I had a plan this year, and I thought of the girls I had seen, compared it, she was more suitable!" Cui Guo looked at Cui Daoyu, "Father, I want to marry a wife this year, and I don't want to marry a wife this year." Is there anything wrong?"

There's nothing wrong with that.

"You...... I didn't have anything to do with the little lady of the Pei family......" Cui Daoyu thought it was funny, even if his son had a private lifelong move when he was six years old. That girl from the Pei family shouldn't be such a bastard like him at a young age.

"Father thinks too much. Cui Kuang felt that he had been beaten very unjustly.

"Then you said that the little girl is white and cute, and her voice is soft and glutinous. Cui Daoyu knew that he didn't think about it at a young age, and his anger disappeared a lot.

"People are born to know beauty and ugliness, can't my son tell if it's ugly and good-looking?" Cui Kuang snorted.

Choi Do-wook remembered that he had just said the plan. His heart suddenly felt sour, and his voice was slightly hoarse, "You said that you would teach your eldest son at home, and then go out to be an official...... Do you blame me in your heart?"

What Cui Guo said in the past, Cui Daoyu only took it as a joke and never went to his heart, but now when he sees his son thinking about it at a young age, he knows that he has a knot.

"In the past, I struggled to make ends meet, and I was going to find another way out. I think I'm a person who knows the times very well. Cui Daoyu sat on the edge of the bed depressedly, "But I have been trapped in one place for so many years to see the reality clearly, and I think my father is stupid, right?"

Cui Guo looked at him. The gaze slowly became less stubborn.

"I often asked my mother when my father would pick us up and take us to Chang'an, and my mother always said that I would go when I was a little older. Cui Kuang said slowly, "So I want to grow up quickly, and I also want to know, why wait until I grow up before I can go to Chang'an." Actually, I knew early on that she was lying to me. ”

"Besides, I think my father is very incompetent. Cui Daoyu's mouth was bitter, no father wants that image in his son's heart.

"That's what I thought when I was a kid. But now I understand that if my father was not wise, he would not have given birth to me. Cui said.

Cui Daoyu rubbed his head vigorously, "Stinky boy, you are still young now!"

"I've read my father's writings, the annotations. Cui Guo is not just relying on that kind of ridiculous speculation to discern it.

After Cui Kuang understood that his father had been an eight-grade inspector for seven or eight years, he had been taking his articles and poems as model texts, not because he thought it was good, but because he thought in his heart that his father would definitely not be able to make any good articles, if he couldn't even surpass such an article, he would die for the rest of his life, so he had been studying hard and trying his best to catch up with his father.

After understanding more truths, Cui Kuang was stunned to find that it was not what he imagined. Father's article is even ten million times better than that of gentlemen.

Cui Kuang showed a confused look in front of people for the first time, "I still don't understand, my father is obviously very talented, why has he always been ......"

There are lessons from the past, Cui Daoyu didn't dare to say this time, "I'll understand when I grow up", he thought about it, "Life is far from being as simple as you think, you are only ten years old, don't worry, I will tell you slowly in the future." ”

There was a knock on the door.

"Husband, my father asked you to come over. The Ling clan stopped the little servant, and only came forward to call him when the father and son had almost finished speaking.

Cui Daoyu went out and said to the Ling family, "I've just started a little heavy, you take care of the situation, I'll come when I go." ”

Cui Ning was the first to run in, "Are you okay?"

"Out of the way. Cui stood up and straightened his clothes.

"I'm sorry, I heard my father's footsteps just now......" Cui Ning felt particularly guilty, she just thought, if her father really did it, she would come in to stop her, who expected that after saying a few words, Cui Jing would be beaten.

She could hear the sound of hitting the flesh clearly! But then she was stopped outside by the Ling clan and was not allowed to enter, but fortunately, her father did not continue to beat her.

Cui Kuang whispered, "I heard it too, his gnashing of teeth was so loud, and I wasn't deaf." ”

So is this purely an itchy skin?

Cui Ning was speechless, she was really worried in vain!(To be continued)

ps: Ask for the first decision, ask for pink!!