Entering the Confucian Education Bureau, Shen Xi knew how cruel it was to take a college test.

Of the more than 700 children who participated in the examination, only 50 were finally admitted, among whom the oldest one had gray hair and beard, and most of the children who were conceited before the examination and often ranked first in the prefectural school, county school routine examination and monthly examination, were named Sun Shan.

Liu Bing was very cautious in the examination for selecting students, and the second examination paper of the college examination was personally reviewed by him, and even each test paper had comments annotated by him.

These comments were transcribed by the Confucianism Department and sent back to the children who took the exam, so that they could know where they were lacking and plan the direction of their future efforts.

Shen Xi met Wu Xingyu, who had just gotten the head of the hospital test.

At this time, Wu Xingyu was extremely modest, and thanked the new students one by one. Shen Xi hung his head and was silent, but Su Tong was a little unhappy: "I heard that the head of the case this session was originally you, Brother Shen." ”

Shen Xi knew that Sutongmen had a wide range of roads and could get some "gossip". But he didn't ask that he must take the first place in the academy to become a student of the school, for the current Shen family, the food of six buckets of rice per month and four taels of silver per year no longer care too much.

Moreover, although the college examination is already the official examination in the fourth-level imperial examination, at best, it allows children to get a place to go to school, and their social status has changed to a certain extent.

When Wu Xingyu came to Shen Xi and Su Tong, he was still very polite and courteous, but he looked at Shen Xi with a little provocation in his eyes: "Shen Gongzi, this time I won by luck, and in the autumn of next year, I will fight again." ”

Shen Xi smiled and said, "Okay." But I'm afraid that someone between you and me won't be able to pass next year's New Year's test, and we can't compete together. ”

Wu Xingyu was stunned, then nodded and smiled, he was the head of the hospital examination, and the replacement of the students had already been determined, and he naturally obtained the qualification to participate in the township examination. And Shen Xi is an epiphyte of Ninghua County School. But he had to take the annual exam, and what Shen Xi said "I can't pass the annual test" has nothing to do with him.

Because Liu Bing had left Tingzhou Mansion one day early, only people from the Tingzhou Mansion Confucianism Department attended today's Xie Shi.

The number of salutes is simple. However, it is to worship the Temple of Confucius, in addition to worshiping the holy master Confucius, but also to worship the portraits of Mencius, Zhu Xi and other sages.

When I arrived at the gate of the Confucian Temple, someone suddenly questioned: "Worship the Confucian Temple today, I'm afraid that someone is not suitable to come in, right?" Insulting the Ancestors. Such people also have faces? ”

The spearhead is directed at Shen Xi, who questioned Zhu Xi's science and advocated psychology in this year's college examination.

Fuxue Instructor Hu waved his hand for Pan, signaling that the place where the portrait of the ancestor was enshrined should not be noisy, and many people were still indignant, and when they came out after the official worship, they were still talking about it.

Although Shen Xi had long expected that his own article might have a bad impact, he didn't expect the impact to spread so quickly, although Liu Bing's supplement was helping him, it also indirectly harmed him, if Liu Bing didn't get to the bottom of it. The fact that he wrote an article advocating the study of the mind would not spread.

There are pros and cons......

Back in the main hall, there were still many people glaring at Shen Xi angrily. Originally, they were not convinced by Shen Xi, and they heard that Liu Bing specially promoted Shen Xi, and in the second session of the college examination, Liu Bing specially read Shen Xi's examination papers, which was the performance of the examiner's deliberate favoritism.

Originally, these people shouldn't have said anything when they were in the show, but just now when they were worshipping the portrait of the master, someone provoked the contradiction, and they were a little angry.

Those students who are about to enter the school when they are old are not as impulsive as young people, regardless of whether Shen Xi insulted the ancestor or not. They don't want to ask, they only know that now that they are in Xiucai, they can find relatively decent jobs in the clan's private school and social studies, so as not to make their families hungry.

"After going back. We must study hard and do not slack off......"

Hu Weipan gave some lectures to the new students present about some rules of government and county schools, including the process of the annual examination and the scientific examination, which is also convenient for the candidates to seize the time and prepare for the annual examination at the beginning of next year and the township examination in the autumn.

Then Hu Weipan announced the dismissal of the meeting, and the sloppy ceremony surprised Shen Xi, who was full of longing.

From the Confucian Education Bureau. Su Tong invited Shen Xi to the teahouse at the corner of the street. When they arrived on the second floor of the teahouse, the two sat down opposite each other, and Su Tong sighed: "Unexpectedly, even Brother Zheng and others have not won the name of Xiucai. ”

The group of people who are often with Su Tong, including Zheng Qian, these people are all good in talent and learning, but the competition in the college examination is fierce, saying that there are fifty students every year, but in fact, except for the county head of each county examination in each county, the rest of the people are fighting for the last thirty or so places, and the older candidates are relatively more experienced in writing and know how to grasp the preferences of the examiner.

Therefore, usually the main group of middle talent is between the twenties and thirties, and those who have real talent and real learning will generally be in the middle of the show before the age of thirty. If you are thirty years old and not in middle school, you are either really "born at the wrong time", or you are a nerd who reads dead books.

And Zheng Qian, although he is a good learner, he still lacks some enthusiasm in answering questions, and he needs to accumulate experience by taking more exams.

Su Tong said with a smile: "Brother Shen, it seems that next year's autumn season, you and I will go together, with the results of you and me in this year's college examination, the selection of next year's New Year examination should not be a problem, right?" ”

Shen Xi doesn't have such a lot of self-confidence, this time his article offended many people, although Liu Bing ordered his students, but the annual exam for the coming year is not necessarily, with the new promotion to the appointment, he has to be listed at the bottom, and he has no choice.

"That's not for sure." Shen Xi said helplessly.

Su Tong smiled and shook his head: "Brother Shen's heart is relaxed, today's classmates are ...... It's just a casual whining. I learned well for my brother, I was a talent in the same class as you, and I was ten years older than you, but in the end I was still behind you, which shows the brilliance of your article, otherwise Liu Tixue would not have almost asked you to be the head of the case! ”

Shen Xi knew that his results this time were good, but the things behind this were too complicated.

After the three exams of the county, government, and hospital, he asked himself if he was performing normally, but he was met with countless white eyes and criticism, which really responded to the old saying: literati are light.

But if these scholars catch you in the slightest mistake, they will hold on to you, and they will kill you until you die.

On the occasion of farewell, Su Tong took out an invitation and stuffed it into Shen Xi's arms: "At the beginning of July, there are several cultural meetings, and Brother Shen must attend." ”

Shen Xi knew very well that although Su Tong had lost a lot of children because of his education, as long as he was willing to spend money, he would soon meet a lot of talented friends who took the township exam together.

New for old!

However, with the relationship between Su Tong and Zheng Qian's wine and meat friends, even if they are not at the same level in the future. Still won't break the relationship.

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On this day, it also happened to be the day when Xie Yun'er came back from Nanchang Mansion, just in time to eat the celebration wine of Shen Xi's study.

Xie Yun'er has been gone for more than a month, and when she came back, she was much more energetic. She also regarded her trip as a distraction, which was much happier than her being bored in the pharmacy all day long.

In Zhou's words, Xie Yun'er was radiant, like a spring heart.

Xie Yun'er remembered Shen Xi's hospital exam and left to come back a few days in advance. After all, Ningkang Wang Zhu Jinjun's condition is not curable overnight, it needs to be slowly regulated, and at the same time, she is not going as the attending doctor, but only as a consultant, as for the finished medicines produced by Lu's pharmacy, she brought a lot, and handed over the specific prescription to Ning Wangfu.

After all, this patent medicine is going to treat a prince, and it can't be said that you can take the medicine from an unknown source. With a prescription, even if Xie Yun'er finished eating the prescription sent over, Ning Wangfu would dispense the medicine by itself. I won't come to Tingzhou Mansion again.

"Xiaolang, this is a gift for you, I specially selected it in Nanchang, you can take a look at ......"

Xie Yun'er's gift to Shen Xi was some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and various books.

Hui Niang has the Chamber of Commerce behind her, and the goods from the north and south of the river can basically be transported to Tingzhou Mansion for sale, and there is basically nothing lacking in Fucheng, she really can't think of other gifts to fulfill her heart for Shen Xi.

Xie Yun'er prepared a lot of gifts, not only Shen Xi's, but also Hui Niang, Zhou's and even the maids. After the gifts were distributed, she went in to talk to Hui Niang and Zhou.

It turned out that Ning Wangfu took out two hundred silver as a salary and handed it to Xie Yun'er, who was going to consult on behalf of Lu's pharmacy after all. The consultation fee received does not dare to be used exclusively.

Hui Niang directly pushed back the box full of silver: "Sister, this is yours, we won't diagnose the disease, this is the reward given to you by King Ning, how can we accept it?" ”

Xie Yun'er insisted: "If it weren't for Xiaolang's prescription, I would have been helpless against King Ning's illness." Our Xie family's prescription for lung disease. It's just very ordinary, how can they get the favor of Ning Wangfu? ”

Hui Niang smiled: "Then thank Xiaolang for going." We can't control this. ”

Zhou smiled and quipped: "Yes, if the sister of the Xie family feels that she can't go, give the silver to Xiaolang...... If he dares to take it, I won't break his hand. ”

Xie Yun'er finally heard that Hui Niang and the Zhou family would not ask for the reward she received. She is not the kind of pedantic person, she put the box with silver at the moment, she should have gone home to reunite with her family first when she came back, but because Shen Xi was admitted to the student examination, she still stayed in the pharmacy to eat before leaving.

At the end of the celebration banquet, Zhou was about to take Shen Xi and Lin Dai home, when Hui Niang suddenly called her and Xie Yun'er to the upstairs room, and when they came down, one of them was holding a wooden box, and the three sisters had joy on their faces.

Shen Xi didn't have to guess to know that Hui Niang was sharing money.

The business of the champion wine store has been very good recently, and the wine store has not been divided since the beginning of its business, which is also the first time that Hui Niang's "sister wine shop" has paid dividends. Although it is not much, there are only about 20 taels of silver per person, scattered silver coins and copper plates, and each person fills a wooden box.

Hui Niang asked: "Sister Yun'er wants to tidy up the yard, if the money is not enough, take some from me?" ”

"No, no, no." Xie Yun'er hurriedly excused herself.

Zhou Shi said beautifully: "Looking back, I want to buy two silk horses and come back, make hundreds of handkerchiefs, and I will send one to a guest." See who dares to say I'm stingy......"

Shen Xi shouted: "Mother, do you want red apricots out of the wall?" ”

As soon as Zhou's heart was on fire when he heard this, he picked up the wooden box and was about to smash it on Shen Xi's head: "Stinky boy, what are you talking about?" ”

Shen Xi slipped away so fast that he didn't give Zhou a chance to hit him at all.

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