Back in Jiuruju, Shen Rui was still a little sullen.

Listening to Xu's meaning, foot binding is not to disable the foot bones. There was indeed no inconvenience between Ping Suri and the third wife. As for Sister Yu, I don't know how it is in private, and she doesn't have the habit of helping people walk in front of Shen Rui.

Think about Yang Tian, if he wasn't ashamed to run, he wouldn't have supported his mother.

Is this foot binding really not an obstacle to walking?

Shen Rui always felt like seeing flowers in the fog, and the reason why he never forgot this matter was that he felt that Yang Tian's little girl did not need to suffer this hardship, but was afraid that she would see a pair of terrifying "golden lotus" in the future. Looking at the Ming and Qing scripts, they all use "Golden Lotus" as a sexual organ to help the pleasure of the boudoir, and later generations can only understand it.

But Xu said it clearly, the world is like this, except for the poor people, the female relatives of the eunuchs are bound to their feet.

In the eyes of the world, "small feet are mothers, and big feet are women". Whoever has a girl who puts her feet will be picky when she talks about her relatives in the future, and she will be disliked after she gets married, whether it is her mother-in-law or an outsider.

Even if Shen Rui couldn't get used to it, he couldn't compete with the entire social system, so he wrote twenty big characters to calm down the chaotic mood, and decided to treat Yang Tian and Sister Yu better in the future. The growth process of the ladies of the Ming Dynasty is not easy.

In the blink of an eye, it was June 28.

Shen Rui got up early, changed into a Confucian scarf, and wore official boots on his feet, dressed as a rookie. Today, Xuezheng set up a banquet for rookies in the yamen to drink, perform hairpin ceremony, and worship Confucius. This year's rookie talent, after today, officially became a protégé of Confucius.

As soon as breakfast was served, He Taizhi came.

Looking at the buns and beef tongue cakes on the dinner table, as well as the bean curd in front of Shen Rui, He Taizhi unceremoniously asked for a bowl of bean curd and ate it along.

Shen Rui smiled: "It won't be to wait for the noon feast and come on an empty stomach, right?" ”

He Taizhi yawned: "Last night, I tossed and turned four watches before I went to sleep, and I had no appetite when I got up early, so I ate two mouthfuls of porridge indiscriminately......"

He Taizhi is now the time to draw strips, and the weight has increased greatly. Seeing this, Shen Rui had to ask someone to go to the kitchen to get two more plates of dim sum.

After breakfast, the two went to the main courtyard.

The eldest master has not yet gone to the yamen, and he only came over when he saw the two rookies, so he had to encourage him a few more words.

Xu prepared two purses, and one person gave one, and said: "After the hairpin banquet, there must be no private entertainment." As a landlord, don't skimp on money. It's just that you are not allowed to go to the dirty realm, and the teahouse and restaurant also have to pick the clean people's house, and now in the summer, you have to be careful when eating out, don't spoil the stomach......"

He Taizhi waved his hand and said, "My aunt can prepare one for Cousin Rui, and my mother will bring me silver......

Xu said with a smile: "Your mother is your mother's, your aunt is your aunt's, and your aunt can't give back a few pocket money?"

He Taizhi took it with both hands.

Xu said: "By the way, did your father give you a word?" ”

He Tai's way: "Up, the word Zhong'an,." ”

Shen Rui listened to it and felt that He Taizhi's words were good and easy to understand, and he also named the rankings.

Xu nodded and said, "I won't be a child in the future, and I should be a little more stable in my interactions." ”

He Taizhi listened respectfully, and Xu instructed Shen Rui: "There are many people today, you should take care of your cousin more."

Shen Rui responded and took He Taizhi's Shen Mansion out.

He Taizhi did not ride a horse, but came by carriage, and Shen Rui rode directly with him.

When I arrived at the government office, I was already a rookie of all ages walking on the road. There are also many people watching the excitement, and the road is cramped. The two got out of the car and sent the coachman's entourage back.

It seemed that everyone's faces were filled with joy, and Shen Rui's mood also soared a little.

It has been five years since the tenth year of Hongji, and the joy of harvest is indeed sweet.

Although Shen Rui is not very old, because of his high stature, he looks the same as a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, and he is not conspicuous among many rookie talents. He Taizhi is not enough, his face is immature, and he is particularly eye-catching in a new Confucian costume, which attracts the attention of many people.

He Taizhi didn't know at first, but with curiosity, he looked around.

When he found that many people were staring at him, he was inevitably worried, and hid beside Shen Rui, and whispered: "Cousin Rui, why do they look at me?" ”

Compared with those old talents who have stopped being famous all their lives, He Taizhi's age is too enviable.

After He Taizhi asked, he couldn't react, but he was not proud, but he only said: "What is the great thing about a twelve-year-old middle school student?" Only the students in Chunshan Academy have passed the children's examination at the age of eleven or twelve every year, which is really rare and strange. ”

He had already asked his father whether he would enter the government school or continue to study at Chunshan Academy, and Master He meant to let him continue to study at Chunshan Academy.

Shuntianfu is Jingfu, and Daxing County is Jingxian, and the scholars in these two places should be no different. However, with He Taizhi's current results, he can't enter the first and second class in the annual examination, and he is hopeless, but he is an epistudent, and the academic officials will not value it. If you are down-to-earth and wait a few more years at Chunshan Academy, when the results are good, it will not be difficult to pass the New Year exam. Otherwise, if you mess around in the school palace, you will be stuck in the annual exam, and you will not be eligible to go to the countryside to take the exam in the future.

In He Tai's heart, he was faintly disappointed, and he also had some regrets.

He was enlightened at the age of four, and he has been studying for eight years so far, and his qualifications are not bad, but he was afraid of the college exam, and he almost fell to Sun Shan, and he wanted to enter the palace with Shen Rui, but he couldn't even mix it with birth and hyperplasia, in the final analysis, it was because he didn't study hard before.

This year, more than 20 students from Chunshan College participated in the college examination, and 10 passed. Among them, four are from Jingxian County, and the others are from other prefectures and counties in Beizhi.

Outside the official office, before it was time to enter the venue, everyone had to gather together.

Among them, there are three students in the E class, three students in the T-shaped class, and six students in the C class.

The students in the E class are Shen Rui's classmates, and the students in the C class are He Taizhi's classmates. As for the students in the T-shaped class, some of them were Shen Rui's classmates who were newly promoted in February, and some were He Taizhi's former classmates.

In this way, everyone knows each other.

In terms of age, the youngest of them was only eleven or two years old, and the eldest was no more than sixteen or seventeen.

And because he is a child of an official family, he is cleaned up white and clean, and he is wearing Confucian clothes and scarves of similar styles, but he can also see that the texture of the clothes is better.

Ten teenagers stood here, eye-catching.

The only thing that can compete with it is another team of young talents.

There are also seven or eight people, although they are a few years older, and their clothes are not as good as those here in Chunshan Academy, but they are all elegant and vigorous.

One of them looked at Shen Rui from time to time, with a hidden obscurity in his eyes.

Shen Rui noticed something, looked back, and recognized that the person was the candidate who had won the first two games in the county exam, so he nodded in greeting. Among the remaining Nancheng Academy Xiucai, he also took two more looks, but the disciple of the mountain chief surnamed Wang was not among them, and he should have stopped the academy exam.

The man was stunned for a moment, and bowed in return.

Seeing this, He Taizhi asked with curiosity: "That seems to be a rookie talent of Nancheng Academy, and Cousin Rui knows him."

Shen Rui nodded and said, "The county trial hall is not far away......"

Although he didn't pay attention to it, Shen Rui was really impressed by this candidate.

The boy test is second in the county test, second in the government test, and second in the hospital test.

When the county results came out, although Shen Rui was happy, he was also a little uncomfortable, just because of this person.

The students of Nancheng Academy are all children of ordinary people, and fame is very important to them. If the county order is in accordance with the examination convention, the first place in this first field should be taken as the "head of the case", instead of choosing Shen Rui.

Shen Rui is more attentive than one game, and he is not weak about the "first case" in the county test, but when he thinks that the first place in the first and second games is not himself, he will feel that he has robbed others of the "first".

However, this kind of discomfort disappeared when the results of the government test came out.

Because of the results of the government examination, Shen Rui is still the first, and that person is the second.

This shows that the person's article is still inferior to Shen Rui, otherwise the county order may have taken Shen Rui as the "head of the case" due to selfishness, but he was vague during the government examination. If this person really did a better job than Shen Rui's article, he would not be buried.

When the results of the hospital examination came out, and this person was still the second place, Shen Rui could only sigh that this person was unlucky

If there was no Shen Rui, wouldn't this person be a proper "little three yuan"?

After a while, the door of the official office was slowly pushed open, and several Tsing Yi officials came out, one of whom held a roll and took a roll call at the door, and the rookies entered the school palace in turn.

Shen Rui was the first in line, followed by the second person, and the two entered the official office one after the other.

In the courtyard of the government office, there are ten large round tables as far as the eye can see, and there are more than 100 tables. There were already plates and cold cuts on the table, as well as two jugs of wine.

Someone led the crowd to their seats. The top 10 people on the list of the college examination took their seats at the round table in the middle of the first row.

Among the ten people, in addition to the second person, the ninth Shen Rui also knew him. It is a student in the C character class of Chunshan Academy, and he has a good relationship with Shen Quan, and Shen Rui is also familiar with each other. It's just that the seats between the two are far away, and it's not cheap to talk, so they look at each other and smile and listen to others.

The third of them, twenty-five or six years old, was a man of good speech, and he called him "brother" when he said it, which was a compliment. Among them, the main objects are Shen Rui, the "head of the case", and the second place.

Since Shen Rui planned to enter the official school, if everyone in the audience was from Shuntianfu, they would be classmates, so they responded very politely and humbly.

He is tall, and he speaks calmly and steadily, although he is the "head of the case", he has no arrogance, and for a while, everyone at the table has a great impression of him.

But when he was only fourteen years old, there was something else in everyone's smiles.

Shen Rui only did not see it, if he held a grudge because he was young, it was really unnecessary.

In the final analysis, the road of the imperial examination still has to be walked out step by step, the children's examination is nothing, and the competition is fierce when it comes to the township examination.

About an hour later, more than 1,000 rookies entered the field.

Shen Rui looked back and found He Taizhi at the penultimate table. Because the distance is too far, it is not real, only because Shen Rui knows his name, and he is small, can he distinguish it from others.

This is also the reason why He Taizhi passed the hospital examination, and he was happy but could not hide his sadness, that is, because his ranking was too low, not far from "Sun Mountain......