The entrance exam of Chunshan Academy, which is at the same level as the prefectural exam, is not a joke.

On September 16, Shen Rui, under the leadership of the third master, came to Chunshan Academy to take the entrance exam.

Although he was a little curious about this exam mode, he had experienced the test-taking education in his previous life, and after Shen Rui got the exam papers, he entered the answer mode.

The mountain chief and several masters who watched the invigilation secretly admired, you must know that Lu Dao answered the questions under the attention of several division commanders like this, not everyone could be as calm as Shen Rui.

Chunshan Academy used this method to deter many students and pushed away many parents of students who went through the back door.

Otherwise, the children of the eunuchs, as long as they study hard, their qualifications are not wood, and they should be able to pass the examination papers for five or six years to deal with the water test products of the county. It's really stupid, and parents won't be embarrassed to send it here

Shen Rui is from the Shen family, is Shen Zhou's nephew, Shen Li's brother, and has an incense relationship with Hanlin Academy.

Although there have always been people in the officialdom, Shen Zhou has only been away for half a month, and Chunshan Academy will not deliberately embarrass his nephew. It's just a routine, everyone didn't deliberately embarrass Shen Rui, and they didn't release water

The reason why Chunshan Academy can occupy a place in Beijing is that it is "strict entry and strict exit" to ensure the level of students.

The head of Chunshan Academy, unlike the thin old Hanlin in Shen Rui's impression, is a slightly rich septuagenarian. He looked at Shen Rui's gaze with scrutiny, but when he looked at Shen Rui's test paper, the old man's gaze was full of admiration.

For readers, a brush is the second face, and Shen Rui's "second face" is not ugly.

Even though he only learned three or four years in the Four Books and Five Classics, this handwriting is not at the level of three or four years. In addition, he is here, and others don't know it, so it is inevitable to think that he studied hard, and they will take a look at his learning level.

With a good handwriting and a satisfactory answer sheet, Shen Rui passed the exam of Chunshan Academy.

He didn't know what to do, and the old Hanlin in front of him, who had a white beard, also loved gossip.

In addition, the only son of the Shen family died in an accident last year, which is not a secret in Hanlin. After Shen Rui left the academy, several masters began to gossip.

"If you don't know Shen Shangshu's family affairs, you can't see that you look like an heir, but you can't look worse than Shen Luo......" said a master.

Another old Hanlin touched his beard and said: "Although Shen Shangshu's house is withered, the Shen family in Songjiang is a big surname, and the heir selected will naturally not be a mediocre ......."

Overall, the teachers had a good impression of Shen Rui.

Liu Cheng had already left Beijing and was old in life, so Xu asked Zhou's mother to choose a few teenagers from among the children in the family, and let Shen Rui choose a scholar from among them.

Shen Rui did not choose people directly, but asked Zhou's mother about the temperament of each parent.

For more than half a year in the Shen house, Shen Rui also knew the stewards and internal stewards of the Shen family's front and back houses.

Now those who are qualified to send their children to him are the most important people among the subordinates. Shen Rui, as a little master, did not use the quota of scholars to win over his subordinates, but just thought about "dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes", and picked people from his parents and family.

After all, the scholar next to him will be the henchman he can rely on in the future, and if he chooses something he doesn't like, it will be troublesome to change it in the future. In the end, I chose two people, one honest and responsible, and the other flexible. Both of them are nicknames such as Ah Mao and Ergou, which are not elegant, so Shen Rui changed them to Bai Yan and Moshu.

As for the long-term follower beside him, in addition to longevity, the Xu family had already given him another one, the eldest grandson of the big housekeeper. In the name of longevity, it was renamed Changfu by the Xu family.

When Shen Rui was in the south, he went to school by carriage, because he was still young and it was a cold winter. When traveling in Beijing, most of the cars and horses are far away or women and children ride, and Shen Rui should ride a horse at this age.

For Shen Rui, this is not a difficult task.

He could have ridden horses in his previous life, and he learned it half a year ago in this life.

The schoolbag is ready, and the four treasures of the study are ready-made, just waiting for school the next day.

After dinner that day, Shen Quan and He Tai came over.

Because they had long been concerned about Shen Rui's study, they knew that he would take the entrance exam today.

They weren't worried about Shen Rui's results, and they turned around in order to introduce Chunshan Academy carefully with Shen Rui again.

The classes in Chunshan Academy, imitating the Guozijian, have a hierarchical system, and are not divided by age, but by merit, which is similar to the Shen family. However, it is not divided into three classes, but into five, A, B, C, D, and E. Those who do not have merit and fame are admitted to Class E, and after the county trial, they are admitted to Class C, after the government test, they are admitted to Class B, and after the township test, they are admitted to Class A.

Shen Quan and He Taizhi have now passed the hospital examination, and they are classmates in Class C, while Shen Rui can only enter Class E in vain, and they are not classmates with the two, so these two are worried about him.

Shen Rui finally knew why Mao Chi was depressed, because he didn't go back to his hometown to participate in the boys' exam, Mao Chi was white and had been stuck in Class E. And Shen Quan didn't want to mention much about the affairs of Chunshan Academy before, thinking that it was also because he was stuck in Class C.

Because Chunshan Academy encourages students to take the children's examination as early as possible, most of the students who enter the school take the county examination in the same year or the following year, so that Class E is a flowing camp, and most of them are 11-year-old teenagers who have just entered the school or students who are from other places. At Mao Chi's age, sitting in the middle of a bunch of children, not only did he feel uncomfortable, but the master would also find it an eyesore

"So, Brother Xiaolin is in Ding Ban now?" Shen Rui asked.

He Taizhi said: "That's right, before the April government exam, we also did two classmates ......"

Don't look at He Taizhi, who was proud of himself in front of the Shen family's children last year, but after returning to Chunshan Academy, he took away his tail, and he was really proud.

In Chunshan Academy, children in their early tens, fourteen or fifteen-year-olds, and people in the years of weak crowns are all ordinary. All of them are excellent students, and no one can say that they are better than others unless they pass the examination.

Listening to the introduction of Shen Quan and He Taizhi, Shen Rui was a little more curious about Chunshan Academy.

The next day was Shen Rui's first day of school, but there was no need for the elders to come forward.

The eldest lord admonished Shen Rui a few words, which was nothing more than diligent study, not arrogant and impatient; Here, Xu persuades him to communicate more with his classmates, and not to be a nerd with only a book.

Last year, Shen Rui had experience in entering the academy, and when he entered the academy today, he waited directly outside Mr. Qin's door.

Mr. Qin was one of the "invigilator" teachers for yesterday's entrance exam, and he is also the master of Class E. Before Shen Rui left yesterday, the third master took Shen Rui to see Mr. Qin.

Mr. Qin is in his fifties, but he is much younger than the other gentlemen who showed up.

At this age, it doesn't look like it's the age of Zhishi. Listening to the third master's private inform, Shen Rui knew that he was indeed from Hanlin, or Hanlin during the Chenghua period, and was dismissed from office in his early years for offending the eunuch. After being rehabilitated by the imperial court during the Hongzhi period, Mr. Qin did not re-enter the office, but chose to become a gentleman in Chunshan Academy.

Although Chunshan Academy is a school for the children of Hanlin Academy, the tuition fee is not low, but because of the high level of laziness for gentlemen, the tuition fee here is two or three times that of other colleges. Students like Shen Rui who have just entered the school have the lowest tuition fee, and they also need five taels of silver per month. Ordinary people can't afford such high tuition.

Unlike the sound of books in ordinary seowons, Chunshan Seowon gives the impression of being quiet.

When I entered the alley where Chunshan Academy was located, I didn't smell the fireworks, which made people involuntarily hold their breath and concentrate.

Yesterday, the third master introduced that this is because in addition to Chunshan Academy in this alley, several other houses also belong to the Hanlin Academy, which is a place where the Hanlin Academy compiles books. For this reason, there are no residents in the alley, and there are often people stationed in the alley, so it is very quiet.

As for Chunshan Academy, because Mengtong is not accepted, it is exempted from recitation and endorsement. Even for Class E students, they started with the annotations and solutions to the four books.

As Shen Quan and He Taizhi said, there are very few students in Class E, only about a dozen, and they all look like they are in their teens. Shen Ruiyin was tall, not like thirteen or fourteen, but like a fifteen or sixteen teenager, and followed Mr. Qin into the classroom, attracting everyone's attention.

But fortunately, there is an acquaintance Mao Chi, and Shen Rui is not too embarrassed.

Mao Chi sat in the back row, and when he saw Shen Rui, he was stunned at first, and then he was surprised.

Mr. Qin looked at Shen Rui's figure and pointed to the seat next to Mao Chi.

Waiting for Mr. Qin to leave, Mao Chi turned sideways, a little puzzled, and said in a low voice: "Didn't you say that you came to the academy?" Why do you come in at this time? ”

It's late September, and there are only three months left before the end of the year. Although there are transfer students in the college every year, most of them are in the first half of the year.

Shen Rui whispered about Shen Jue and the others going south with the second master, and Mao Chi sighed: "I didn't know about it, otherwise I should have gone over to see him off." ”

Shen Rui said: "Even the third brother and Cousin He didn't send it, who doesn't know that your academy is not easy to ask for leave except for the exam, where will Brother Jue care about this with you?" ”

After the joy, Mao Chi looked at the row of small radish heads in front of him and sighed: "Finally, someone is with me, I am the only one who is here before, and the person who knows the Tao is still there, and I know that I am far away from my hometown, and I am only a fool if I don't know the Tao......"

Shen Rui said in a low voice: "Why didn't Ling Zun think about sending his home? ”

The Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy is from all over the country, and the origins of these students are definitely not all in Beijing.

Mao Chi glanced at Shen Rui, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Junior Brother Shen is still young, and he doesn't know the world, 'Living in the capital is not easy, where is it so easy to send home?' Hanlin Academy is also the Qingshui Yamen, unless you go to the service to study and lecture on the bachelor, how many people can afford to buy a house and property in Beijing? Most of them live in rented houses. ”

The prerequisite for "consignment" is to buy a house and land.

Not all Beijing officials are eligible to "send their home", otherwise there will be too many candidates in the capital, which is unfair to the local students of Shuntianfu. Besides, even if you can "send your home", not everyone is willing to take the boy's test in the capital