Chapter 63: Writing Essays and Inferior Grades
Runju Hanfu.
Su Chen was seriously seeing a doctor, cutting his pulse, and exploring his physical condition, but he felt that Han Xizai's condition was not serious, but he was too excited yesterday, and he drank too much in recent days, and often stayed up late to have fun, which led to the early onset of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
"Old Han, your body has to reduce drinking in recent days, and rest early every night, as long as it takes a few days, your condition will improve significantly."
Han Xizai smiled and nodded: "Thank you Su Gongzi." ”
Su Chen took out a small white bottle from the medicine box, which contained the Baoxin Pill pill, handed it to Han Xizai and said: "Han is very old, because of excessive drinking, the heart load is very large, and there is a problem with coronary heart disease. ”
Han Xizai was overjoyed when he heard this, since he started last year, he often has symptoms of chest tightness, angina, and dizziness, and he has also seen it in Langzhong in the city, but he said that he was overworked, hurt his spirits and weakened, drank too much alcohol and other reasons, prescribed medicine, drank some decoction, but the effect was average, and most of them were only relieved a little at that time.
But occasionally, when people are outside the mansion, it's too late to boil medicine, so you can't always put a medicinal soup gourd by your side! What's more, if you don't take the decoction for two days, it will be easy to get moldy, whether it is to carry it around or store the medicinal soup, it is very inconvenient and unrealistic.
However, the pills that Su Chen took out can be stored for a longer time, and they are also very convenient to carry, and they are special drugs for angina pectoris, which can indeed make Han Xizai suffer less guilt, and can also save his heart and life at a critical time.
"It's a pity that you don't inherit your ancestral business and continue to be a langzhong." Han Xizai sighed.
Su Chen smiled slightly: "Practicing medicine requires many years of clinical experience, and I don't have enough experience, and I don't study too much medical pathology, I only occasionally treat diseases. ”
Han Xizai nodded, and asked again: "Have you ever considered the imperial examination?" ”
Su Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head, the imperial examination is by no means simple, at present, the Southern Tang Dynasty is mainly based on the poetry of the Jinshi Science Examination, and the content of the examination follows the Yu Xi of the Tang Dynasty.
In the imperial examination of the Southern Tang Dynasty, one of the poems, poems or words can be chosen by one, but the article of the pun wen fu is a must, that can be proficient in ancient scriptures, Confucian classics, Han and Tang dynasty articles, etc., according to the pun Wen to the neat and sonorous way of writing, not only to write some truth, but also to write a brilliant article.
Su Chen felt that he could copy a Song poem and Song Ci, but if he wanted to write an article, it would be difficult, and he needed to pile up all kinds of gorgeous rhetoric, sound rhythm and rhyme, poetry allusions, etc., which was not much simpler than Baguwen.
"Although he knew a little about poetry in his later years, he was not good at writing splendid articles, even if he participated in the imperial examination, he was afraid that it would be difficult to get the first, so forget it. The road to official career is difficult, and you can only consider the business of the ninth class of industry and commerce, and you can support your family and live a prosperous life. Su Chen told the truth, he really couldn't write a pen.
"Oh? Is there such a thing? Han Xizai was obviously a little surprised, in his opinion, as long as you are familiar with the scriptures and Confucian works, the poems and articles have worked hard from an early age, and it is not difficult to write an eye-catching essay, but to write famous poems, shine brightly, and beat all readers, this is the most difficult.
It is hard for Han Xizai to imagine that Su Chen can write the two lyrics of "Appealing to the Heart" and "Breaking the Array", which are enough to be passed on, and he will not be able to write a first-class prose.
"That'...... What level can you write? As long as it is medium, it doesn't have to be brilliant, just by virtue of poetry talent, you can be in the first class, after all, His Majesty the current lord of the country, but love poetry, Shilin from top to bottom have followed suit, to take people by words, if the court Shilin Qingliu, see your two words, your talent will definitely be able to alarm Jinling, the imperial examination and the first, it is not difficult. Han Xizai still didn't give up and continued to ask.
"This ......" Su Chen was bitter in his heart, and asked him to write a pun essay, I am afraid that he can only write a bullshit, I have only seen it in textbooks, but I have never written it myself, I only know that I have to be neat and tidy, pay attention to music and rhythm, and I don't know much about other doorways.
In his general impression, the style of writing originated in the late Han Dynasty and was formed and flourished in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It is a sentence with four characters and six characters, and it is known as "four or six texts". In the Tang Dynasty, after the imperial examination was endowed with poetry, its endowment was derived from the law of the pun text; The official documents of the Tang Dynasty were also known as pun scripts, that is, four or six bodies.
Because of the exquisiteness of the prose, the sound and rhythm are flat, the sentence structure is accommodated, and the rhetoric is piled up, which often affects the expression of the content itself, and it is difficult to explain the connotation of what you want to say. Therefore, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, after Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated the ancient literature movement, the first time to suffer a setback; But after the death of Han and Liu, the resurrection of Lu Fu, Li Shangyin, Wen Tingyun, and Duan Chengshi in the late Tang Dynasty were all good players, and all three of them ranked sixteenth, so they were called "thirty-six bodies".
In Su Chen's mind, the prose that can be memorized is a famous poem that has been passed down through the ages, Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng". Among them, the rhetoric is gorgeous and ingenious, such as "Luoxia and lonely birds fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky", which is absolutely bullish, which amazes the ancient and modern literary circles.
It's a pity that Wang Bo is from the Tang Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty, and has appeared before the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Su Chen can't take it out to deal with the scientific expedition.
"Level...... Wait! Su Chen smiled very shy and embarrassed.
After Han Xizai heard this, he didn't believe that if Su Chen said "medium," "lower average" and "mediocre", he could barely accept it. However, when he heard Su Chen say that he was inferior and the worst rank, he didn't believe it, and felt that this was Su Chen's intention to cover up his talent, and he didn't want to participate in the imperial examination at all and enter the Southern Tang Shilin and the court.
"What does Su Gongzi think of the Song Kingdom in the north?" Han Hee-jae diverted the topic and planned to ask him for his opinion on current affairs.
Su Chen packed the medicine box, anyway, there was no one in the house, Han Xiaopang left just now, there were only two people in the room, he and Han Xizai, so he was not too restrained, and said: "Zhao Kuangyin in the north, with the talent of the hero, has built the Song Dynasty on behalf of Zhou for four years, and now he is stabilizing the court situation, eliminating dissidents in the Zhou family, strengthening the imperial power, and at the same time digesting the financial resources, population, and army of the Jianghuai land, they are all reorganizing and rectifying, I am afraid that it will not be long before the Song State will begin the strategy of unifying the north and the south, and the war in the world will start." ”
Han Xizai asked this sentence, the original intention was to test whether he was suspected of smuggling into the north, to see his attitude towards the Song Kingdom, to speculate on the deep meaning behind Su Chen's act of covering up his talent in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but after hearing Su Chen's remarks, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, which coincided with his expectations.
A young man with a weak crown had such a far-sighted vision of the situation in the state, which surprised him a lot.
Han Xizai was able to guess this, it was after his many years of political experience, rich qualifications and knowledge, plus the news that the intelligence network kept coming back from Jiangbei, all together, he had this judgment!
Even so, in the Jinling court, there are still most officials who disagree, many people are indifferent, and very few people have the same prediction as Han Xizai. Today, he didn't expect to hear it easily from a young man's mouth on the side of the bed, which surprised him and made him quite excited.