The sunset hangs, the colorful glow is in the sky, like a cloud baked by the heavenly fire, red, gorgeous and colorful.

Su Chen went out of the mansion, got into the special carriage of the Xu Mansion, and followed the two girls to Xiangyun Pavilion to watch the performance of "The Peony Pavilion" tonight.

Since Xu Cainu's car was followed by several guards from the Xu Mansion, Su Chen didn't have to take his family there this time.

In the carriage, Su Chen sat opposite Xu Qingwan and Zhou Jiamin, smelling the unique faint fragrance of the girl, fresh and pleasant, although he enjoyed looking at the second daughter's appearance, but he had to constantly answer some questions and opinions of the second daughter, which made him have a little headache.

His relationship with Xu Cainu is at most a good friend of the opposite sex, at least Su Chen has not found out that they have other feelings for each other, this Xu Qingwan just likes to come over and ask him some questions, such as poetry, arithmetic skills, theory of things, etc., which belongs to academic discussions, and has a feeling of friendship.

Su Chen didn't think that with this, he could make Xu Cainu, who was extremely talented, fall in love with him all of a sudden.

also because he once inadvertently asked her that she was not married at such an age, and jokingly asked her what kind of husband she liked? At that time, Xu Cainu said that she wanted to be all-round in civil and military affairs, able to govern the country with civil and military skills, and able to be safe and secure in martial arts, the kind of great heroes who stand up to the sky.

Su Chen was also relieved, he just didn't have that ambition.

He has been back in the Southern Tang Dynasty for a month and a half, and his goal is to live a good life, to be able to live without worrying about food and clothing, to have abundant wealth, to have a beautiful wife and a beautiful maid by his side, to enjoy the privileges of a feudal gentry man in front of the rich man, and it is not in vain to travel back to ancient times, and he does not have to be restricted by the monogamous marriage law.

However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and in order to survive, he offended the Cao family; In order to make money to help the Bai family, he offended the Ding family, so he had friends and enemies.

Now that Su Chen has been pulled into the Sun Party camp by Han Xizai, Su Chen has to protect the interests of his Su family and the Bai family, so he must start to think about how he can gain a foothold in the Southern Tang Dynasty, how to successfully pass the imperial examination, and then obtain the Jinshi background, and become an official and a half-post, if the Southern Tang Dynasty and Li Yu are still saved, he will help fight against the Northern Song Dynasty.

If nothing can be done, and the Southern Tang Dynasty is completely helpless, then conform to history, watch it perish with a cold eye, and return to the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for making contributions, expanding territory, and governing the country and the country, Su Chen did not have much interest for the time being.

Zhou Jiamin glanced at him, and suddenly asked: "Master Su, you have such a poetic achievement, why haven't you participated in the imperial examination yet?" ”

Su Chen smiled and explained: "I used to think that if I participated in the imperial examination and became an official, I would not be free. However, as I grew older, and under the guidance of Lord Han Shilang, I felt that my previous ideas were too paranoid, and I was preparing to participate in this year's Autumn Festival. ”

Zhou Jiamin said with a bit of admiration: "With the talent of the son, he will definitely be able to solve the yuan in the government examination, and then enter Jinling to participate in the provincial examination and get the champion Lang, right?" ”

Su Chen said embarrassedly: "The girl is too elevated, although Su is accomplished in poetry, but after all, it is only a part of the assessment of the imperial examination, and he also needs to write a splendid article and quote Confucian classics, and he may not be able to write other scholars in the future!" ”

"It's Childe's modesty, I don't believe it!" Zhou Jiamin chuckled, feeling that this was Su Chen's humble words.

Su Chen was helpless, and he couldn't explain it, so he could only smile bitterly,

Xu Qingwan suddenly remembered that she had never seen him write an article in his study, the kind of article that was really used for the imperial examination!

"Master Su, it's been three months before the Autumn Festival, and I haven't seen you review your homework every day and prepare for the Autumn Festival, are you already confident?"

Su Chen snickered in his heart, how could he be confident, but he didn't know where to start, so many anthologies, Tang Quanquan and other essays, prose, Han Fu, etc., he had to carefully read and memorize them from the beginning, it would take ten years of hard work, and only three months was too little!

"There are too many subsets of scripture and history that need to be reviewed, and I don't know where to start for a while, so I don't bother to read them."

"......" The two daughters heard such an absurd reason, and they both felt ridiculous.

Xu Qingwan smiled faintly: "How about it, how about Qingwan come to the door every day in the future and personally urge you to review the scriptures and scientific examinations?" If you have an opinion on the article, you can also discuss it with each other. ”

Su Chen didn't think about it, and decisively refused, he couldn't have too much contact with Xu Cainu, otherwise it would be easy to expose his shortcomings in the article, and this Xu Cainu Bingxue is smart, and she has many questions every time she meets, so I sincerely ask Su Chen to answer it, and over time, as soon as Su Chen meets, she feels that her brain hurts.

"You don't have to bother the girl so much, just ask Miss Xu to help sort out the topics of the Runzhou Mansion Examination and the Jinling Provincial Examination in the past ten years, and then help find the articles of Runzhou Qiuqiu Jieyuan every year in the past ten years, and the articles of the Spring Champion, Bangyan, and Tanhua, collect them together, just give me a copy, I will flip through it to understand the splendid articles of their imperial examinations, how to write them!"

This is the most convenient way that Su Chen can think of, just like the ten-year real questions necessary for the English test and graduate school entrance examination in later generations!

The most convenient way to take the exam is to brush up on the real questions, Su Chen plans to read all these articles in the past ten years, such as Xie Yuan, Zhuangyuan, and Bangyan, choose words and make sentences, quote scriptures, etc., how to pay attention to it, whether there is anything in common, and memorize these example essays by yourself, which should also have some effect on the imperial examination.

This is Su Chen's case in the autumn of August, Han Shilang did not have the ability to affect the imperial examination, so he had to rely on this way to fight.

"Yes, it's not a big problem!" Xu Qingwan happily agreed, because she has a collection of thousands of books in her house, and she has sent someone to copy the articles of Runzhou Xie Yuan and many outstanding talents over the years, and the articles of the three people who tried the first class in Jinling Province have also been collected, and it is enough to go back and sort it out.

After a stick of incense, the carriage came to Xiangyun Pavilion.

At this time, outside the Xiangyun Pavilion, there was already a long queue, many high-ranking officials and nobles in Runzhou City, the daughters of the daughters, the rich sons, the apprentices and scholars of the Fuxue, the local squires, and the businessmen from other places, all came to join in the fun, to see the drama "Peony Pavilion" staged by the Xiangyun Pavilion at dusk.

Since Xu Qingwan bought a VIP number, there is a special and convenient passage through the side door, so there is no need to queue up.

The three of them came to the front row of seats and found that in the spacious hall, only one-third of the seats were seated, and there was still a period of time before the opening, Su Chen planned to visit the class behind the scenes, wanting to surprise Liu Monong, and at the same time introduce Zhou Jiamin to Liu Monong and get to know each other.

After Zhou Jiamin heard his proposal, he was naturally very happy, and he had long thought of seeing Liu Huadan and others behind the stage with makeup.

Su Chen got up, took his second daughter through the courtyard, and went to Liu Huadan's theater courtyard.

Along the way, someone from Xiangyun Pavilion asked, Su Chen took out a jade plate that Liu Monong gave him before, and he could travel unhindered in the back house of Xiangyun Pavilion, and these two guards guessed that this young man must be extremely noble and respectfully let him go.

When approaching Liu Monong's small courtyard, he heard someone at the moon gate at the end of the corridor, claiming to see Liu Monong and even redeem her.

Su Chen was surprised, and looked at it, and found that the young man in brocade clothes was none other than Ding Yin!

This is really a narrow road.