When it was almost time to arrive, when Zhang Yue wore a new suit of clothes and socks and went to Dayjin Hall, there was some longing, excitement, and worry along the way.

When he arrived at the Dayjin Hall, Zhang Yue did not go in first.

The rules of Nanfeng Academy are like this, and the professor will teach from the hour until noon.

After noon, I heard the bell ringing of Nanfeng Temple next door, and all the students dispersed for lunch.

After lunch, according to the saying that sitting for a long time in the scholars hurts their qi and blood, the students will go to the rest to throw pots and shoot arrows, and few of them return to the hall to continue studying.

And the professor will also go back to the room to take a nap, after all, the old man is not energetic, and the day and night sleep is only said to young readers. After arriving at Shenshi, the professor would go to the Dayjin Hall, at this time he would answer students' questions, and many scholars came to visit and ask for advice.

Zhang Yue is also qualified to visit and ask for advice, and does not teach informally.

Zhang Yue stood beside the Dayjin Hall and waited, but saw that the students of the clan studies had arrived in twos and threes, and watched them pass by in front of him.

At this time, Zhang Heng was chatting with several students and a scholar in white.

Zhang Heng walked side by side with the white-clothed scholar, and the rest of them were on the side as if they were followers.

Seeing this, Zhang Yue first avoided the side of the road.

Zhang Heng didn't see Zhang Yue at first, but when he got closer and saw him, he didn't speak a little thoughtfully.

After the group passed by, Zhang Heng stopped and turned around and said to Zhang Yue: "What are you waiting for outside?" Come on in! ”

This person actually took the initiative to invite himself in.

Zhang Yue didn't know which one Zhang Heng sang.

Zhang Heng then said: "There are distinguished guests today, you must not be rude, remember." ”

Zhang Yue said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I know, I don't dare to remind the chief." ”

Zhang Heng snorted and turned to leave.

Zhang Yue waited for a while before coming to the front of the steps to take off his shoes, and the shoes in front of the steps were neatly placed, most of which were clogs.

This scene reminded Zhang Yue of seeing the messy shoes at the door of the computer room when he was studying.

"He is worthy of being a child of the scholar clan." Zhang Yue couldn't help but praise secretly.

Zhang Yue placed his shoes in the farthest place, and then stepped over the steps and walked into the hall.

When he entered the Dayjin Hall, Zhang Yue stood at the end. But when I saw the professor, Zhang Heng and the white-clothed scholar were standing in front of the lecture.

But seeing Zhang Heng said to the professor: "Sir, this is Jinke Xie Yuanlang!" ”

The white-clothed scholar sang loudly and said, "Later Xuefuqing Lin Xi has seen Mr. Boyi. ”

The professor smiled and said, "How dare you be the Duke of Xie Yuan." ”

Lin Xi said: "I have admired Mr. Boyi's name for a long time, and today I rely on Ziping's recommendation to ask for teaching." ”

Speaking of which, the disciples were already in an uproar.

Zhang Yue heard the two disciples talking in each other's ears.

"Unexpectedly, it was the solution of the current department."

"I don't know who has a higher literary talent, he or Ziping?"

"Ziping is the third in the solution, but he is the top of the Cao test, and outsiders often say that the Cao test is not as good as the state government test, so he takes the first place in the state government test as the solution. But in my opinion, it is more difficult to solve the test, and Ziping may not be under this Lin Xi. ”

"I also think that this person's popularity is not as good as Ziping."

"How?"

"You see Xie Yuanlang's arrogant posture when he entered the door just now, but Ziping is dignified and easy-going."

"Yes, Ziping won the first place in the Cao test before, but I never heard him mention it, and then I learned it from Brother Jianfu."

"Today, no one is too flat in terms of talent and liberal arts."

The Song Dynasty issued a test and a state military test, and most of the tests referred to this. For example, in Fujian and Zhejiang, the military examination of these southeastern prefectures is one out of 100 people, and generally two or three thousand children from poor families are taken all the way, and twenty or thirty people are taken.

And the Cao test is also a solution test, and it is the children of official eunuchs like Zhang Heng who participate in the exam.

During the reign of Renzong Jingyou, the ratio of Cao test recruitment was three out of ten.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination has been said to be a 'meritocracy', but in fact, the purpose is to break the monopoly of the gate lord clan on officialdom and take back the center of the right to enter and employ people.

But even so, most of the officials selected by the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty were still from the clan of gate lords, and these people were still not very obedient.

So the imperial examination of the Song Dynasty began to consciously take scholars from the cold family.

Because the Song Dynasty really achieved a relatively fair examination, the only way to do it was the Ministry of Rites and the Palace Examination, but there was no way to solve the examination in the local area.

Therefore, the purpose of the imperial court to set up the Cao test is to arrange the children of high-ranking officials and dignitaries here. Use this method to prevent these people from squeezing out the enterprising space of poor scholars through fraud and bribery.

However, such a serious imbalance in the proportion made the officials and ministers very dissatisfied, after Song Qi and other ministers in the court ran up and down, and finally the proportion of Cao test admissions finally declined, and the court ordered to limit the "first test (Cao test) of each way, set to 100 people to take 15 people".

Having said that, which is more difficult, the Cao test or the state military test?

There has been a debate among the readers about this.

Those who are in the first place in the Cao test are indeed outstanding, and their performance in the Ministry of Rites test is not inferior to or even better than the children of the poor family who came out of the state military test, but in the Cao test, they are ...... There is also a large part of the dishes that have to pick the feet, etc., and they can only be admitted after knowing the joints at a glance.

The so-called rat feces spoiled a pot of porridge, because of these people who had a bad reputation, the Cao test became worse, so those who passed the Cao test avoided talking about themselves and the first.

After talking too much, people think that you are really a good joint, so you can't wait to show off, so really talented readers still have to go to the Ministry of Rites to see the real chapter.

And through the discussion of these two, Zhang Yue understood that Zhang Heng was the latter.

Listen to the small talk between the two of them.

Zhang Yue probably had an impression of Zhang Heng. Zhang Yue used to read those third-rate novels, and the author would not transition the plot, so the protagonist had to arrange a few passers-by to introduce the background every time he went to a place, but he didn't expect that there would be in reality, and it was really art that came from life.

"Zhang Saburo."

Zhang Yue heard someone call him, but when he turned his head, he saw that he was learning to record Zhang Cai.

"You sit next to me." Zhang Cai smiled and pointed out to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue was overjoyed to see Zhang Cai's sitting posture and asked, "You need to sit upright." ”

"Yes, yes."

Zhang took a brocade mattress, and Zhang Yue learned from Zhang Xianzi to kneel on the brocade mattress.

"I heard that you had another conflict with Zhai Changsheng yesterday?" Zhang Cai asked.

Looking at Zhang Heng in the hall, Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Zhang Cai smiled: "Don't blame Ziping, Ziping is the person I admire the most, and he is also the person who works hardest." ”

"Every night he would light the lamp and read it at night, until the third watch, so that the roof of his mosquito net was blackened with candles. Although he reads until the third watch every night, Ziping still gets up early to read before the fifth watch. ”

"Ziping's daily study of poetry and scriptures has always been a little bit of a masterpiece, and ordinary people are afraid that they will be proud and unwilling to work hard. But he never held himself up, and he studied diligently every day. ”

When Zhang Yue heard this, he felt that what he said was similar to what Guo Lin said about himself.

Zhang Cai continued: "This county is a big county, and the talented man can be called the carp that crosses the river, not to mention all the way. Ziping was the first in the Cao test, not only talented, but also studied hard for more than ten years. ”

Zhang Yue remembered that Zhang Heng had been haunted by his previous loss to his brother: "Zhai Chang seems to be a person who does not admit defeat. ”

Zhang Cai said with a smile: "Ziping's affairs seem to be light and light, but his heart is more energetic, in addition to his homework is not weaker than others, even the two ways of throwing pots and archery are the same, they are all the leaders of my generation, and this side is also the chief of the hall to deal with the big and small things." A few months ago, Mr. asked him if he had relieved himself of his ministry as a fasting chief and concentrated on preparing for the exam, but Ziping refused. This side is in charge of things, but there is a hard study day and night, and in the end, he is the first to take the test and the third to solve the test. Only extraordinary people can do extraordinary things, and even if Ziping is put in our clan, it will only come out in fifty years. I admire him from top to bottom, and you'll know it after you've been with him for a long time. ”

"But for so many years, only Brother Ling can not be with him, and then again, Brother Ling's diligence in studying should not be inferior to Ziping."

Hearing Zhang Cai say this, Zhang Yue tried his best to recall Zhang Xu's deeds for a long time, and then said: "It seems that it is not as good as Zhai Chang." ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Yue said: "It's not that I put gold on my family's face. For as long as I can remember, my brother has been studying, but he has worked so hard. It seems that someone once asked my brother, and he said, I am very weightless in my academic articles! ”

Zhang Cai was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and then said: "In this way, Ziping seems to be inferior." ”

"But this township test list, I have read it carefully, and Brother Ru is not among them, which is really puzzling."

Zhang Yue said in his heart, Zhao Zhusi is looking for the second brother in the sky and the earth, and the second brother is afraid that he will be arrested as soon as he appears in the examination room.

Zhang Yue thought about it again, so his second brother is really a dragon and phoenix among people, but he knew in his previous life that no one in the Song Dynasty had the same name as his second brother, so it was because he ran away from marriage, and he was out of the picture. Or maybe the second brother has been cut off by Zhao Absi at this moment, but Zhao Absi deliberately didn't say it, but took the opportunity to squeeze his own ......

Zhang Yueshi didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

Also, a middle jinshi can leave a mark in the history books, and if you don't get a jinshi, no matter how talented you are, you will be buried in the end.

Zhang Cai turned to say: "I knew from me a few days ago that he was suspicious of your identity. But you don't have to think too much, Mr. accepted you by letting you sit in. For thousands of years, this view is not something that can be resolved in a moment, and it is enough for them to give you a place here. The eldest husband should carry a three-foot sword to establish immortality, and what is the honor and disgrace for a while, and if it comes, it will be safe. ”

Zhang Yue said: "Xuelu is really grateful for the guidance below. ”

Xuelu smiled bitterly: "Or pity each other with the same fate, I am also from a concubine, but my luck is better than yours." I don't have the longest knowledge, so I also hone some things at the same time, so as to get the appreciation of the clan. ”

"For example, Ziping never looks down on me and is friends with me, he only makes friends with characters like Lin Xi. In the school, most people know my brother, and the less respect for me is all in my brother's face. ”

This heart-to-heart conversation quickly narrowed the distance between the two. People like Zhang Heng and his second brother are a minority after all, and most of them have the same attitude of looking up to them as they are and Xuelu.

At most, they will be developed in the future, and they can blow about the fact that I have been classmates with them.