On the night of the county exam, Shen Fuxuan found Wang Yuan: "Xi Pressai wants to accept you as a student." ”

Xi presses the table, which is the Xi book.

Generally speaking, education matters are handled by a deputy inspector, i.e. a serious commissioner. But this place in Guizhou is a bit ridiculous, before Xi Shu went to work, nominally under the exclusive management of Yunnan Tixuedao, but in fact it was represented by Guizhou according to the envoy.

In order to facilitate the work of Xi Shu, the imperial court took the position of deputy envoy of Guizhou to study, and he was also suspended as the deputy envoy of Guizhou, which was two levels higher than his own post.

In order to express his respect for Xi Shu, Master Shen simply called him the envoy, so there was "Xi Press". This kind of title is obviously beyond the system, and can only be shouted in front of people close to it, and it is easy to be impeached by the official when it is taken outside.

"He wants to take me as a student?" Wang Yuan smiled, "He became the chief examiner, isn't he my teacher?" ”

Shen Fuxuan shook his head and said, "It's not a teacher, but a teacher!" ”

Wang Yuan was a little surprised: "The deputy envoy of a province can't just accept disciples privately, right?" ”

"Naturally, you can't do it elsewhere," Master Shen said in an indifferent tone, "but this is Guizhou, and students need to go to Yunnan Township to take the exam, and the deputy envoy of this province does not participate in the invigilation, so naturally there is no taboo of accepting disciples privately." However, it's not time to apprentice now, because Xi has to invigilate the exam. You must wait until you finish the Taoist exam, otherwise it is easy to give someone a handle. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "Did he say it himself?" ”

Master Shen smiled: "I definitely won't say death, but it has that meaning." ”

If Xi Shu wants to accumulate political achievements and be promoted, he must develop education in Guizhou. Rolling out the boy test system for the imperial court, and running a social school in Guizhou, these are all political achievements. But this kind of political achievement is not obvious in the court, and it is better to cultivate a jinshi.

This is just the opposite of Jiangnan, Jiangnan's Jinshi is more, and there is no need to mention the training of scholars, but it is more practical to run a school seriously.

Xi Shu not only wanted to accept Wang Yuan as a disciple, but also wanted to accept other students as disciples, and then personally conduct imperial examination training. Due to the system, he will not recognize his status as a karmic teacher, and at most accept a few registered disciples. After a few years, these disciples will be admitted to the Jinshi, no matter where he is transferred, he can accumulate his political achievements, and there will be a few more Jinshi protégés.

Master Shen told the reason, and Wang Yuan couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm not a student yet, so he wants to train me to be a jinshi?" This year of the monkey and the month of the horse, maybe he will have to wait for one or two decades, and he is thinking too far. ”

"If you don't plan for the future, what kind of official are you doing?" Master Shen laughed along.

The next day, Shen Fuxuan left Guizhou City, accompanied by another master, and accompanied Xi Shu to tour all parts of Guizhou.

This is called "press the visit", one of the main responsibilities of the student officer, the purpose is twofold: one is to inspect the homework of past students, and the other is to preside over this year's local road examination.

After going around Guizhou, Xi Shu will turn back and personally preside over the Taoist test in Guizhou City.

As for the results of the prefectural and prefectural exams, they were posted the next day.

Wang Yuan and Liu Yaozu both passed the exam, and they were officially promoted from schoolchildren to children, and they will be able to show off their talents when they take the aisle exam in April.

There was nothing lively to speak of when looking at the list, and even Wang Yuan won the first place, which did not attract the attention of many people.

Let's put it this way, Guizhou has the conditions to take the Xiucai test, and there is no shortage of those few buckets of Gongfu rice! And after being admitted to Xiucai, the number of people in Guizhou is too small, and the probability of winning is like buying a lottery ticket, what is there to celebrate?

For the next month or so, Wang Yuan lived as usual every day, reading, practicing calligraphy, making literature, hunting, and petting cats.

"Notes on the Four Books" must be memorized every day, otherwise it will be slowly forgotten, and Wang Yuan is not able to form a conditioned reflex on the content of the four books for the time being.

As for the Five Classics, Wang Yuan's book is the Book of Rites, because Master Shen can only teach the Book of Rites. This thing is still familiar, and I can only barely memorize the first few articles, and it will take at least two years to get the first mastery.

……

Longchang Station.

From Qiantang to Guizhou, in addition to lecturing along the way, Wang Yangming has been running around for the past few months.

At this moment, he finally came to the dragon field, and he thought he would be able to settle down. Who knew that the inn had been flooded with weeds, vines were climbing everywhere and destroying houses, and there was no way to live in it!

Wang Yangming used a wooden pole to push away the thorny grass, passed through the post yard dam with difficulty, and stretched out his hand to push the door suddenly.

Repeat it several times, but it can't be pushed away.

"Bang!"

Wang Yangming kicked over, and really kicked the door open, but unfortunately he used too much force and kicked the rotten door shaft on the spot.

The gate fell, caught in the weeds of the house, and a flock of bats flew out in fright.

The two servants stood in the courtyard, putting down the wooden box they had brought brought, their faces full of tiredness and sorrow. One is called Wang Changxi and the other is called Wang Changle, both of whom are the sons of the Wang family, and they have followed Wang Yangming all the way from Yuyao to this point.

Wang Changxi scratched his head and said, "Uncle, are you in the wrong place?" ”

"That's right." Wang Yangming pointed to the wooden sign in the grass, and the words "Longchang Horse Station" could be faintly seen.

"Snake!"

Wang Changle was suddenly shocked, picked up the flat pole and whipped the grass vigorously.

A large snake with gray linen stripes was spitting letters in the grass. The so-called scaring snake, it was also startled by humans, and quickly fled in the opposite direction.

Wang Yangming observed it carefully and said to the two servants: "This place must not be lived, so let's get together for a night on the official road first." Tomorrow I will go to the people in the vicinity, borrow sickles and hoes to clean up the thorns, and then move in after repairing the roof. ”

"Boom!"

There was a burst of thunder, dark clouds rolling, and the rainy season in Guizhou has come.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the master and servant immediately left the post station, wanting to find a nearby house to spend the night.

But all around is a mountain, and there are no people in sight. They could only look aimlessly, and encountered two poisonous snakes on the way, but fortunately, the poisonous snakes were also busy sheltering from the rain, so they had no time to pay attention to the three of them for the time being.

Suddenly, the wind blew fiercely, and Wang Yangming's hat was blown away.

After going around for half an hour, it finally started to rain and drenched them all into soup.

After braving the rain for a long time, Wang Changle suddenly shouted happily: "Uncle, there is a cave here, you can go in to avoid the rain." ”

Uncle Wang hurriedly took his servants and rushed into the cave to hide.

The cave was dimly lit, and there was no dry wood to make a fire. They had no choice but to take off their soaked clothes, take them out of the wooden box and change them, wring out the wet clothes and putting them on the rocks to dry.

As it got dark, the three of them took out dry food and brought rain to swallow.

Temperatures are cooler at night.

Their quilts had not been put into the wooden box, and they had already been soaked in the rain. At this moment, I can only find out all the clothes, wrap them in three layers inside and three layers outside, and I still shiver with cold, and finally close together to keep each other warm.

Early the next morning.

Wang Yangming walked outside the cave, faced the rising sun to practice the art of guidance, and said after finishing the exercise: "Changxi, the sun is rising, it's time to wake up and make breakfast." ”

No one responded.

Wang Yangming called a few more times, and finally felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly went back to the cave to check the situation.

The two servants had swollen red faces, hot foreheads, dry and chapped lips, and were obviously very ill.

"Uncle, my head hurts." Wang Changxi groaned.

Wang Changle struggled to get up, but his whole body was weak and fell down, holding his clothes and swinging straight away.

"Wait a minute, I'll go find dry wood to make a fire!"

Wang Yangming appeased a few words, then went out with a jar to find a water source, and picked up some relatively dry dead branches along the road. Soon returned to the cave to make a fire to keep warm, but the dry branches rained with water, making the whole cave full of smoke.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

The two servants coughed so hard that they couldn't even open their eyes.

Wang Yangming hurriedly carried Chai He out of the cave, and then brought it back after drying it. Then he scooped out the corn from the box, washed it with water, and boiled it until it was a paste, and then he helped the two of them to feed them.

Two days later, the servant's condition improved, but he was still sore and weak.

What's worse is that they began to complain, sighing all day long, saying that they would die in Guizhou and that they would not be able to return to Yuyao in this life, and finally simply lay there and cried.

Wang Yangming picked up the wooden battle, knocked on the rock wall to accompaniment, and opened his throat to sing: "Yinghua companion, Xiao Zhuo's play the piano, Sima Diqiao." The love is deep and far-reaching, and the struggle is shallow. The incense note hated the red bag, and the voice broke off the jasper flute. They all hate him, and they ...... to break their souls."

The servants stopped crying, but they felt more upset.

Wang Changxi couldn't help but say, "Uncle, we don't understand again, so don't sing it yet." ”

"Then I'll change it." Wang Yangming beat the beat again and hummed the silver twisted tune in dialect.

This time it worked, and the servants listened to the tune of their hometown, and thought of the situation at this moment, and couldn't help but cry sadly, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

"Uh......"

Wang Yangming stopped singing, threw the wooden battle, sat down in front of the two, squeezed out a smile and said, "I'll tell you a joke." It was said that a man was buying meat, and suddenly he was in a hurry and hung the meat outside the latrine. The others came to steal, but before they could leave, the man came out of the latrine. And when the two men quarreled, the thief took it to his mouth and said, 'How can you hang it out and not lose it?' If you bite like me, you won't be able to lose it! Isn't it funny? ”

This is from "Laughing Forest" in the Three Kingdoms era, which has a long history.

But the two servants are not highly educated, but the laughter is still very high, and this joke makes them almost cry.

Wang Yangming clapped his hands and said, "Isn't it funny?" Then I'll talk about one more. ”

(PS: In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "Three Treasure Eunuchs Descended to the West" already called the emperor Long Live Ye.) Some other novels and miscellaneous dramas of the Ming Dynasty often have the title of "Ye". Wang Yangming is the eldest, and his father is alive, so there should be nothing wrong with the servants calling him "uncle". ）