Chapter Eighty-Five: One Man Attains the Way
Jingtai twenty-one years
One morning after the Double Ninth Festival, most people were still asleep, but they heard the sound of firecrackers on the street. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The people who were awakened poked their heads out one after another to see where the excitement came from.
Shi Wen, who was called a filial and honest man, stood at the door, smiling like a lucky toad who couldn't close his mouth when he opened his mouth, and thanked the annunciator wearing a red tasseled hat again and again.
The red tasseled hat took the red envelope and smiled very flatteringly, and muttered as if he didn't want money, the son-in-law of the Yu family was really developed this time.
After sending off the annunciation, Sven did not go back to the house immediately, but continued to wait at the gate, echoing each other with the neighbors who were probing their brains.
Everyone is a filial and honest master, and he lifts people to the master, and he holds Shi Wen so that there is nothing in the sky and it is difficult to find it in the ground, and Shi Wen is modest and polite on his face, and his heart has long been happy.
It's hard to think that he didn't sleep well all night last night, so he put on the big clothes of the guest on the fifth watch, and sat in the hall waiting for the dawn.
It was still dark and early, and Sven was like an ant on a hot pot, fidgeting. He was in a hurry, he was clearly on the list in the last township test, but who knew that something went wrong in the middle of the road.
It turned out that there was a little fellow villager of Shi Wen, and when he heard that Shi Mao had won the lift, he begged for Mo with half compliment and half flattery.
Shi Wen was naturally proud, but the bad thing was that this little fellow villager was touting and showing off everywhere with this ink, exaggerating and exaggerating, which attracted the dissatisfaction of the examiners and marking officials, especially Lao Hanlin, and asked to review Shi Wen's examination papers.
It should also be on his back, every time at this time, the powerful people are waiting for the vacancy with a lot of money, and each session can indeed vacate one or two vacancies, and the scroll of the partial Shiwen is missing, but the review is not successful, and it is immediately topped, and even Professor Yu can't help.
This is also the main reason why the marriage between Shi Yu and the two families was very unhappy at the beginning, but after the marriage, the young couple lived well, and Yu Weiwei was still very considerate to him.
The surrounding neighbors returned one after another, and Shi Wen was still clubbed at the gate, his body standing two inches taller than usual, as if he was not standing at his own threshold, but standing in the Jinluan Palace.
After a while, Yu Weiwei came out, and she asked Sven to go back to "have breakfast".
Shi Wen did not move, but discussed with the "lady" in front of the door about the trivial matters of setting up the banquet and sacrificing the ancestral hall - which restaurant to set for the banquet and which wine to want; In addition to the whole pig and sheep to pay tribute, but also gunners, musicians and lisheng, and then ask craftsmen to play two flags.
Yu Weiwei was secretly amused when she heard it, and those people in her in-laws' family still know what etiquette and music! However, seeing that Shi Wenzheng was talking about the rise, Yu Weiwei was not good at splashing him with cold water, so she responded one by one.
After a while, Sven and the others finally came.
The first three are drummers with big red silk flowers, the leader of the gong and drum is in front, and there is a large black plaque in the middle, with three big characters of "filial piety" written on it, which was carefully carried to the door of the Shi family by two lacquer craftsmen, followed by a group of children.
The Shi family set off the battle again, and the children couldn't stop saying hello when they saw Shi Wen, and Shi Wen was also willing to sprinkle the copper coins and sugar cubes prepared early one by one, and the children immediately came up to rob them, and crowded together with the people watching the excitement.
Most of these children are free-range at home, in addition to playing on the street every day, that is, waiting for someone to grab the joy of money and candy, if you are lucky, you can also meet the happy cake and cake, and the day's food will come out.
Sven said to the leading child, "Who else have you been to?" ”
The kid winked and said to Sven, "Your family is the first one!" ”
"Didn't you go to Guixing Lane?" Guixing Lane lived in many of Shi Wen's classmates.
The boy pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "I haven't heard it." ”
Sven was overjoyed when he heard this, and rewarded the child with a few copper plates.
There was also a wave of congratulations and praise around, and when this wave of people left, Shi Wen remembered to go back to the house for dinner.
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In addition to the real talent and learning that must be possessed, the key to the results of the township examination depends on whether the door is hard or not.
Thanks to the blessing of the Yu family, Shi Wen calculated that he could be on the list early, and he still has some real ability, but now it is just a matter of waiting for the ranking.
Forty-one, ranked in the middle, neither good nor bad, Sven was very happy with his results.
The list of exams was copied backwards, and the crowd waiting for the bottom of the list erupted into a burst of chanting from time to time, saying who won and who won again.
In the afternoon, the people who reported the good news were one after another, and the whole city was talking about the new lifters.
Mr. Ji was drinking tea, and he didn't seem to care about Mingyu's restless little movements, he couldn't be quiet for a moment, as if he had a tip on his buttocks.
"Sir..."Mingyu glanced up at the sky, the autumn days were short, and the sun was already setting in the west.
"Can you do it?" Mr. Ji assigned an article to Mingyu, but at this moment, he still has the heart to make a fuss, and all he thinks about is whether his sister passed the exam.
If you pass the exam, why don't you come to report the good news to your husband?
If you don't pass the test... Thinking of my sister's hard work on weekdays, my sister was so smart that she couldn't pass the test, so she changed herself...
"No..." Mingyu lowered his head in shame, and without waiting for him to say more, Mr. Ji waved his hand and said, "You can go back." ”
Mingyu was amnesty, he really couldn't stay any longer, and he couldn't care about his image, so he rushed all the way home.
Brother He, who is waiting at the bottom of the apricot list, is also getting more and more anxious, this is all reported to the top ten, why is there still no sister's name?
Thinking of my sister's efforts in the past year, if I don't win... Brother He'er didn't have a taste in his heart.
This year, Qinglan has had a very hard time, but it is also very fulfilling.
I got up earlier than the chickens, went to bed later than the dogs, but fortunately, the food was as good as ever, and I was ten centimeters taller. She seems to have returned to the battlefield of her third year of high school, fighting in books and exam questions every day.
She doesn't want her to interfere in everything at home, and she only dedicates all her energy to prepare for the exam.
Soon, August arrived as scheduled.
On the morning of the eighth day of the new year, Shu Lao Er sent her to the Tribute Academy.
Qinglan took the exam basket and suddenly had a different emotion—a frustration that was about to be put in prison.
The two big characters "Gongyuan" look more like "prison".
Well, in fact, the two don't look alike.
Shu Lao Er reluctantly told his daughter a few words, and Qinglan's ears were about to grind out of cocoons when she heard these words, and most of the meanings were the word "cautious".
Waving her hand perfunctorily to Shu Er, Qing Lan walked towards the door with her head pouted, she had insomnia last night.
Handing over her exam vouchers such as the examination citation, Qinglan stared at the water and fire sticks of the public officials, will she burn down the examination shed at that time?
No wonder she thinks too much, a small shack for one person, I heard that tall people can't stand up straight when they stand in it, and they have been eating, drinking, and sleeping in it for the past few days, uh... Qinglan held her forehead, and she remembered a word: wo eat wola.
Entering the Tribute Courtyard, the solemn atmosphere was very shocking, Qinglan couldn't help but relax her steps, she knew that she should come with Xiaobao.
She just wanted to get a little more sleep, and apparently most of the candidates were already settled.
This time it was still a female soldier who checked whether she had "entrainment", she was expressionless, and after checking it, she pointed in a direction with Qinglan, which was the woman's examination shed.
Qinglan felt that she had gone a long way, and the tolerance of supervising this place was some middle-aged women who were five big and three thick, and Qinglan had heard that they were guarding female prisoners.
Finding her own room and opening the rudimentary iron door, Qinglan felt more like she was in prison, but fortunately, she comforted herself, you are not tall enough.
The simplicity of the house is really speechless, there is an inexplicable musty smell, Qinglan dares to guarantee that if it rains heavily outside, the room will definitely become a shower in seconds.
The room was very cramped, with only two lonely planks, one on top and one on the wall, stuck on the walls on either side.
Fortunately, it is not a fixed card slot, the top plank can be used as a table, and the bottom can be used as a chair, and the two boards can be put together when you sleep at night - this is the bed. There is also a charcoal fire and a candle in the room.
Qinglan took out the small stove that her grandfather had specially made for her exam, and threw in a few pieces of charcoal, which was not cold at night and did not need to be warmed, but could be used to boil water for cooking—she urgently needed a cup of hot tea to calm down at the moment.
The plank didn't dare to sit down, for fear of hitting the ground. Looking at that candle, Qinglan couldn't help but pout, there was no window in the room, such a dim light, one candle was enough to make it strange.
The candidates were completely isolated from the outside world during the exam, and soon, the female tolerances locked the iron door one by one, and Qinglan fantasized that if she stretched out her arm at this time, she shouted "My lord, I am wronged~!" Wouldn't it be very appropriate?
That's right, there's no sense of disobedience.
As soon as the bag was fired, even the door outside was locked, and Qinglan listened to the footsteps that were gradually moving away, and had a feeling of "leaving the world and being independent".
The content of the preliminary examination questions is selected from the four books, the essay "Analects", the essay "The Mean", and the essay "Mencius", and each question requires more than 200 words. In addition, there is one poem with five words and eight rhymes, four scriptures, and four scriptures and meanings are required to be more than 300 words.
As soon as Qinglan started writing, she didn't write until after two o'clock in the afternoon, only to find that her stomach was empty, and she was gurgling with joy.
But before eating, she urgently needed to address her physiology.
Looking left and right outside the iron gate, there was no one to inspect except for a trip to the examination shed, she quickly sat on the gong bucket, covered her thighs with her skirt, and exhaled ~ cool ~ Bringing Gong Tong to the door with disgust, Qinglan felt that she didn't seem to be so hungry anymore, but she still took out a pack of Pan Erniang's handmade instant noodles and threw it into the boiling small pot.
"It's so fragrant~"
Hearing this sigh, Qinglan was stunned for a moment, this sound insulation effect is too bad! If someone grinds their teeth and snores at night...
The invigilators seemed to be particularly relieved about the women's examination room, and they toured once an hour, and at about eight o'clock in the evening, Qinglan was very sure that she heard the snoring.
Qinglan is used to going to bed late, and sometimes she gets a sentence or two in the dead of night, so when all the examination rooms are dark, she is still writing hard in front of the desk.
I don't know if it's her psychological effect, but I always feel that the women's examination booth at night has an eerie feeling, especially with the "whooshing" sound of leaves.
She comforted herself and said: Shu Qinglan, you are a scholar, you have "Haoran righteousness" in your body, you are not afraid of it.
In order to cheer herself up, she whispered: "It is qi, the greatest to the strongest, and it is harmless to be directly raised, and it is stuffed between heaven and earth..."
"The big night doesn't let people sleep!" There was a knock on the wall next door, and the dust fell down here, and Qinglan was suddenly silent and didn't dare to say anything more.
I don't know if I'm too big-hearted, Qinglan actually slept well all night, and slept very sweetly. It's just that when she woke up, she was already on the third pole, which caused the inspector to look at her twice.
After the preliminary examination, Qinglan carried the baggage roll and quickly walked out of the Gongyuan with the Gong bucket - the Gong bucket is too delicious!
The first thing others do when they leave the Tribute House is to eat or sleep, but Qinglan is - to take a bath.
Halfway, she also called Pan Erniang to come in and bathe her, and washed her hair three times - who knows if there are lice and fleas in the shed.
The next day, the blue list (the list written in the blue pen, those who write irregularly, will be disqualified from the exam and the list will be announced), Qinglan only glanced at it and went to Mr. Ji to memorize the exam questions and answers.
When it was twelve, Qinglan led the exam basket into the arena again, Xu was born and matured twice, she felt that the room was not so small, and she was not so uncomfortable in it.
The second test is an argumentative essay, which is one of the necessary test qualities for college entrance examination candidates, and the number of words is limited to 500 words.
The third session is Qinglan's best strategy, trying to use five current affairs policies, that is, combining scripture theory to express opinions or opinions on current current affairs and government affairs.
Qinglan was excited to write and write, and played a lot of small details that she had ignored before, and then recited it to Mr. Ji, and Mr. only said yes, whether it was better to add it or the article, or he knew, Qinglan didn't understand what it meant.
After the exam, the protégé invited the main exam, and Qinglan was also mixed in, eating a few banquets large and small, and the days were calmed down, and she waited for the results to come out with peace of mind.
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"Sister!" Mingyu ran all the way into the courtyard, his father and mother were busy in the front shop, and the family couldn't see any difference from usual at all.
"Sister," Mingyu's words came to his lips but he was stuck, and he cautiously glanced at Qinglan and said, "Sister, on the list..."
Qinglan shook her head at him, and Mingyu slowly sat down beside her, "You... Don't be upset. ”
Qinglan didn't know what to say, just looked at him.
Mingyu became more and more sure of his guess, and comforted: "Sister, you are still young, and Mr. just wants you to try the water first..."
"Sister!" Brother He's wind blew in and interrupted Mingyu's words.
The two sisters bounced up at the same time, staring straight at Brother He'er, their hearts pounding violently, as if they were about to pop out in the next second.
"Sister, sister, you won the fifth kui!" Brother He'er hugged Qinglan excitedly, saying that since Brother He'er was three years old, he didn't hug anyone or let people hug him anymore.
Whew~~~ Qinglan breathed a sigh of relief and sat back on the chair, just not disappointing her family and husband.
(Wukui, the top five in the township test, Dashun followed the "Five Classics" of the previous dynasty, that is, the first place in the five classics of "Book of Rites", "Spring and Autumn", "Book of Songs", "Book of Books" and "Book of Changes", guess which one Qinglan is the first?) \(≧▽≦)/)