Originally, it was said that Shen Xi was too demanding of Xiucai this year, but when it came to the end, Zhou began to nag again.

Shen Xi came back and smiled, Zhou said that he did well in the exam, and when Shen Xi sat down to eat, Zhou said that he was rich and noble, and when he went to bed at night, Zhou said that he would definitely have good dreams. The next morning, Shen Xi got up and went out of the door, Zhou stared at the door, muttering: "Zuo Ji and right fierce, the right foot that stepped first, this is not right......"

Shen Xi felt speechless, the old lady was thinking that he was a little stupid and crazy!

Shen Xi hurriedly told Hui Niang about this, Hui Niang shook her head and said, "Aunt also calculated it for you last night, but Aunt doesn't understand this, I have to find a reliable fortune teller to calculate it for you today......

If you care, it's messy!

Zhou and Hui Niang said that they didn't force it, but they cared about it tightly in their hearts, and they all looked forward to him becoming a talent as soon as possible. After he finished the college exam, they didn't know the bottom of their hearts, and while comforting themselves, they relied on some godly methods to cheer them up.

However, after the exam, no one finally forced him to study anymore, but Feng Yanqi came to the morning and asked him to write out the article for the second session of the college exam.

Feng Yanqi learned in advance about the topic of the four books in the second session of this college exam, knowing that this question was very difficult, after reading Shen Xi's article, Feng Yanqi frowned, and finally just nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

The two-word comment made Zhou nervous for a long time, and she hurriedly asked Xiu'er to go to the Chamber of Commerce to inform Hui Niang...... Any matter about Shen Xi's study, Hui Niang will be told in detail, and even Feng Yanqi's comments cannot be omitted.

"Shang Ke is just okay, that should be a big increase in chances. I don't know how others write, if it's all the same, who will the examiner admit? ”

Zhou didn't have much energy to do anything all morning, as long as there were no customers in the pharmacy, she would go to the door of the back hall to stare at Shen Xi in a daze, muttering on her lips.

It wasn't until noon that Su Tong sent someone to send an invitation to invite Shen Xi to talk about it, which could be regarded as "saving" Shen Xi. Shen Xi said goodbye to Zhou, and Zhou waved his hand, meaning that Shen Xi could go wherever he wanted, and wait for him to go out. Zhou's voice came from behind: "Come back early." ”

When I arrived at the agreed place, it was a wine shop, and there were two tables of banquets on the second floor, and the banquet was all for the same college examination candidates, and they were all children who had passed the first session of the college examination.

Sutong as the proprietor. was pouring tea for the candidates present, and when he saw Shen Xi coming, Su Tong was very happy and pulled Shen Xi to everyone: "This Brother Shen...... Ha ha...... Everyone is familiar with it, right? ”

If you want to talk about others, the scholars present may not know each other, but Shen Xi is a celebrity among the candidates in the same class. Wu Xingyu was still the focus of the banquet just now, but as soon as Shen Xi came, the limelight was immediately overshadowed.

After the ceremony, Wu Xingyu picked up a cup of tea and said to Shen Xi: "Replace wine with tea." A glass to Shen Gongzi. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Shen Xi to answer, Wu Xingyu poured a cup of tea into his stomach with a "coo", and then flicked his sleeves and went downstairs, making all the children present in an uproar. Su Tong said with a smile: "Wu Gongzi just said that there is something at home......

Someone said: "Master Su, don't lie for him, the surname Wu was fashionable last year, and this year his concubine is straightened, and his eyes are above the top." More and more people are in sight. ”

Because Wu Xingyu passed the county examination and the government examination at the age of fourteen, he was outstanding among the people of the same clan, and his grandfather, Wu Wendu, the political envoy of Shanxi, intended to let Wu Xingyu study in the country, in the eyes of outsiders. This is the correction of the concubine.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Guozijian was divided into two Yong, the north Yong was the Jingshi Guozijian, and the southern Yong was the Nanjing Guozijian, and the number of Nanjing Guozijian in the Yongle period had reached 10,000. The main reason is that there is no hospital examination at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary candidates have to take the township examination. It can only be recommended by the government, and many of the Guozi Prison students are local talents who are recommended by the local government to participate in the township examination and briefly study the "mixed diploma" in the Guozi Prison.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system was modeled on the three-level examination system of the Song Dynasty's Liberation Examination, the Provincial Examination and the Palace Examination, and set up three levels of the Township Examination, the Hui Examination and the Palace Examination, but later because there were too many students in the Guozijian and the level of the local people who recommended the Township Examination was uneven, so the basic examination system of the Lower Children's Examination was formally established during the Xuande period, and then the county examination and the prefectural examination were added before the Children's Examination, so that the imperial examination system tended to be perfect.

Since then, the number of prisoners has dropped dramatically.

Although the prison students are at the same level as Xiucai and can participate in the township examination, they belong to the "** school", and it has become an honor for the children of the eunuchs to be able to enter the country to study.

And Wu Xingyu has been selected as the descendant of the Wu family to go to Guozijian to study, no matter whether he passes this college examination or not, he can actually get the merit test of Xiucai or the prison student, and he is a real escort student.

Su Tong seemed quite generous, let everyone fill the wine glasses in front of them, raised the glasses and said: "Okay, okay, don't affect your Yaxing because of a person leaving, come, I wish me to win fame when the case comes to the next day, and try a hairpin in the township." ”

Before the Song Dynasty, there was an allusion to the four-phase hairpin, and men in the Ming Dynasty occasionally had to "wear flowers", respectively, when they were in the middle of the lift and the newlywed, the Jinshi in the Da Dengke was to wear the golden flower.

But Su Tong's words, it is difficult to get the recognition of the people present, even if everyone is full of expectations for the future, but they also know that it is not easy to get the Xiucai and Zhongju people, there are fifteen or sixteen people at the two big round tables present, and there are only a few people who can pass the Xiucai level, let alone the middle lift.

"Master Su, this is just the end of the exam, let's hold a banquet to celebrate, is it too early?" Some people questioned it.

Su Tong said with a smile: "You have been preparing for the imperial examination for several years, and you have little leisure, if you don't have fun and relax at this time, after the case, whether you go to school or not, don't you have to study hard for the future fame?" ”

When everyone thought about it, this was indeed the case.

Anyway, I just finished the exam, because I don't know if I can be admitted, I feel uneasy, even if Wen Shu can't read it, it's better to relax for a few days, whether I pass this time or not, either for the next college exam, or for the next year's annual exam and township exam preparation, I still need to read at night, day and night.

Thinking about it like this, everyone suddenly felt much more comfortable, and there was no restraint in drinking and feasting together.

After they were full of wine and food, most of them had to disperse, but a few scholars who had a good relationship with Su Tong on weekdays stayed. Su Tong smiled at Shen Xi and said, "Brother Shen, I specially drank a few glasses, just to keep your mind clear, and ask you to go back to painting in a while." ”

Shen Xi immediately got goosebumps: "Brother Su, I think it's better to wait until I get back and paint...... Today is not a good time. ”

Su Tong asked in surprise: "Could it be that Brother Shen, when you paint, you also have to pick a good day first, bathe, change clothes, burn incense and worship?" ”

In a word, it made the people around laugh. Zheng Qian said: "Shen Gongzi, don't misunderstand. In fact, Brother Su wants you to make a picture for his wife, and he will not be disadvantaged in terms of remuneration. Brother Su is about to become a father, and he is happy in his heart, and he wants to leave a pen and ink for his wife's appearance of being pregnant with a first-born belly. ”

Shen Xi thought to himself. This should be similar to leaving a photo as a souvenir, these days there is no mobile phone camera, to leave an appearance, you can only rely on the painter to paint.

Everyone came downstairs, and Su Tong sent a carriage to take Shen Xi home to get paintbrushes and paints. And he went back to the house first to "prepare", and Shen Xi didn't know anything about what to prepare.

When Shen Xi took the carriage to Sufu, he saw several small sedan chairs parked at the door, and several women came down from the sedan chair, one of which was very conspicuous Xi'er, as for the other women, Shen Xi felt extremely angry, as if he was not a person from the sect.

Zheng Qian had already greeted Shen Xi at the door: "Shen Gongzi, please inside." ”

Shen Xi asked, "Didn't you ask me to draw Mrs. Su?" ”

Zheng Qian sloppily said: "This is going to ask Brother Su, and I don't know what he is going to do." ”

Shen Xi felt strange in his heart. But thinking about it, I had to endure the chatter of the Zhou family when I got home, so I still followed Zheng Qian inside, it was still the inner courtyard, but it was not the hall where I was entertaining, but the small flower hall that Shen Xi had entered last time, and Su Tong was sitting there looking at the treasures at this time.

Seeing Shen Xi, Su Tong said with a smile: "Shen Gongzi, I have to trouble you to draw a picture of ten beauties for a while, don't blame your brother for not explaining it in advance, and I'm afraid that my brother won't agree." ”

"This is one of the ten beauties. In addition to my wife and Concubine Teng, there are also Zheng Gongzi's wife and two concubines, plus Miss Xi'er and the four girls of Chunyuan Pavilion, which just make up ten beauties. ”

"Originally, I wanted to invite Miss Yunliu to come with me. It's a pity that Yu Niang refused to let go. ”

Chunyuan Pavilion is a well-known Qinglou Chu Pavilion in the city, which belongs to the "private brothel", and the girls in it also have a reputation for selling their art, but they are basically doing leather and meat business. Needless to say, these four girls from Chunyuan Pavilion are all Su Tong and Zheng Qian's "old friends".

Su Tong said again: "I asked all the guests to wait in the front hall. After a while, you will be painting in the small hall next door, hehe, Brother Shen is really a blessing. ”

Hearing this, Shen Xi was stunned in his heart.

When Su Tong invited his wife and Concubine Teng, as well as the people who were picked up in a small sedan chair, to the inner hall, Su Tong made his meaning clear.

The girls heard that they were going to paint the "Ten Beautiful Pictures", but they didn't feel anything, Su Tong and Zheng Qian were a little stinky, their wives and concubines naturally understood it very clearly, as for the invited Xi'er and the girls from Chunyuan Pavilion, they had silver to collect, and they could also enter the painting, which was also a beautiful thing.

Su Tong finally smiled and said, "What I mean is to let you draw wide clothes, I don't know how?" After he finished speaking, not to mention Xi'er and the girls of Chunyuan Pavilion, even Su Tong's wife and Concubine Teng showed surprise on their faces.

On the contrary, Zheng Qian's wife and two concubines behaved normally, only slightly embarrassed, obviously Zheng Qian explained clearly in advance.

Among them, the one who reacted the most was Xi'er, and she said angrily: "Is Su Gongzi too bullying like this? ”

"Miss Xi'er, don't be angry, when Shen Gongzi paints in a while, Zheng Gongzi and I will leave here, and no one will disturb us. Leave you and ...... with Shen Gongzi"

For the girls of Chunyuan Pavilion, as long as they have money, they can say anything, and although Su Tong's wife and concubine are wiping their tears, they can only endure it in order to maintain their status at home, but Xi'er is not such an easy person to get along with. She originally heard that Shen Xi painted, and she still made "ten beautiful pictures", and she wanted to show her face and demeanor in front of all the beauties from the beginning of her competitiveness.

She hadn't seen Shen Xi for a long time, and she also wanted to demonstrate in front of Shen Xi.

But now when she heard that it was an unsightly painting, she was ashamed in her heart, but with her identity, she couldn't directly get along with Su Tong and the others, because it would affect Yu Niang's business. She gritted her teeth and said, "Even if the slave family is willing, I'm afraid Shen Gongzi won't either, right?" ”

Shen Xi had already retreated, although there were women and no men, it was not a Spring Palace, but it was not much worse.

Shen Xi looked at Su Tong and Zheng Qian with a look of jealousy, and was silent for a while before saying, "Two brothers, I think it's better to give up this matter." ”

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