Song Xiaocheng suddenly said that there was an urgent matter to return to Ninghua, and Zhou and Hui Niang originally guessed that it was related to Su Lian's marriage, but after asking carefully, even Su Lian didn't know why Song Xiaocheng went back.

Zhou muttered: "This kid, it can't be someone outside, right?" ”

Su Lian's face immediately changed.

Hui Niang smiled and comforted: "Xiaocheng is honest and diligent, I want to reuse him in the future." He has delayed Su Lian's marriage, if he dares not to marry, I will be the first to spare him. ”

Su Lian was grateful: "Thank you two masters for calling the shots for me." ”

The girl is very happy, there is no one to rely on outside, and now there are two shopkeepers and sisters like Hui Niang and Zhou, which are her blessings.

After Hui Niang asked Xiu'er to send Sulian out, she couldn't help but shake her head: "Maybe something happened to Xiaocheng's family, I must ask when I go back." Where you can, you can help more. ”

Hui Niang did not suspect that the beating was related to Song Xiaocheng at this time.

Shen Xi had been eavesdropping in the back hall, and it wasn't until the meal was open that he came out and pretended to be nothing.

Hui Niang didn't suspect Shen Xi, the two families sat down to eat, and Hui Niang kept putting meat in his bowl: "Xiaolang, you take the exam tomorrow, try to relax, you are young now, it doesn't matter if you can't pass, if you really can't study for a few more years, it's not too late to take the exam in the future." ”

Shen Xi smiled: "Aunt, according to your words, I will definitely fail the test this time?" ”

Zhou scolded with a smile: "Bastard boy, your aunt is letting you have no baggage, although my mother and your aunt grandchild both hope that you can live, but you are too young, if you become a showman early, you don't even dare to let you take the exam." "Input to the website: Нёǐуапge.сОМ觀看intoxicating Zhang 節

Hui Niang couldn't help pursing her lips and smiled: "Sister always asks me not to think too much, it seems that my sister is further away than I think, this house has not yet been tested, and my sister has the luxury of showing off her talents." ”

Zhou smiled embarrassedly.

Parents are all looking forward to their sons becoming dragons and daughters becoming phoenixes, although they also know in their hearts that it is a luxury, but they still can't help but have a sweet dream, looking forward to what will happen if their dreams come true.

After eating, Zhou asked Shen Xi to go home and sleep early.

Because he had to get up early the next morning to catch the exam, Shen Xi had to go to bed early and get up early, Shen Yongzhuo would also go to the courtyard of the Shen family to sleep at night, and on the fourth watch of the next day, Shen Mingjun would take the two brothers of the Shen family to the examination room.

There are nephews at home who come to sleep, and Zhou and Lin Dai have to stay at the pharmacy for the night.

Shen Xi slept alone in his bedroom, because he slept in the afternoon, and without Lin Dai to accompany him, he remembered some of the past, and fell asleep very late.

When it was dark outside in the early morning, Shen Mingjun began to knock on the door to get Shen Xi up, Shen Xi came out to wash, I thought that Zhou would not come, but I didn't know that his wife was more concerned than anyone else.

"You eat first, you have something in your stomach to cushion, and then you have the strength to take the exam." Zhou had a big belly, and sent the food from the pharmacy with a food box, and asked Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi to eat first.

The two brothers ate, and Zhou put a lot of food in the examination basket.

There were four eggs per person, a sauce, a small plate with stir-fried vegetables, dry cakes and rice balls, and even a few pieces of bacon.

Not to mention eating one meal, these things are more than enough for three meals a day.

During the exam in Ninghua County, even if the Shen family paid attention to it, no one got up to cook in the morning, and prepared a few rice balls in advance the night before, and prepared a bamboo tube to hold some water.

In the Fucheng exam, this is Shen Xi's home field, and both the Zhou family and Hui Niang care about Shen Xi.

Incidentally, Shen Yongzhuo also ate and drank spicy food.

When she was about to go out, Hui Niang also came to see her off, and she had a lot of words of advice at the parting, after all, she also knew that the first session of the house exam was the most critical, and whether she could be admitted basically depended on this one.

Walking on the road, Shen Yongzhuo couldn't help but sigh: "Qilang, your life in the city is so good, I really want to stay here in the future." ”

Shen Xi smiled, Shen Yongzhuo has seen the world in Fucheng these days, which may have a certain impact on his future state of mind.

But what Shen Yongzhuo saw was only the prosperity of the city and the affluent life of the Shen family, but in the final analysis, the current Shen family just made a little money by doing business, and was protected by the name of Hui Niang's "goddess doctor", so as to avoid the official family reaching out, otherwise a small county order would be enough to ruin the Shen family.

In this era, if you really want to get ahead, you can't rely on business, you still have to rely on studying. Without the support of fame, even if it is prosperous for a while, it will eventually disappear.

When Shen Mingjun took the two brothers to the outside of the examination room, it was already crowded with people, and the scene was much more lively than during the county exam.

After all, there are only four or five hundred candidates in the county examination, and in addition to the primary examination of the imperial examination, many people enter the county seat alone. The government test is different, the number of people who signed up is thousands, and the significance of this exam is much greater than that of the county test.

"I'll send it here, and you'll take care of the rest."

Shen Mingjun was sent outside the examination room, and without waiting for the two brothers to enter the gate, he was about to turn around and go home, but before parting, he still reminded him, "The two Xiucai men you have seen in the first two days, don't forget who they are, don't make a mistake when you roll call." ”

Seeing that the two brothers Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi responded, Shen Mingjun left with confidence.

When the time was approaching the fifth watch, the officials divided all the candidates into areas, and each area had about 50 people.

The 1,000-strong procession of candidates was divided into 20 sections, with the gate open due south, and also divided into the east gate and the west gate. Shen Xi and Shen Yongzhuo were assigned to different examination booths in order to prevent cheating because they were cousins when they registered.

The inspection of the entrance is not as strict as the county examination, it may be that there are too many candidates, and the official only roughly touches it up and down when it is inspected, and then takes a look at the things in the examination basket, as long as there is no paper, it will be released.

Shen Xi did not enjoy any privileges in this search, and was also carefully searched. When he got inside, he knew that his examination booth was a T-shape, so he easily found a place and found a seat to sit down. This time, he entered the examination room early and chose a central position, so that even if it was windy and rainy that day, it would not affect him.

"The thatched house here is on the left, if you want to go to the thatched house, go through it first, and you must not leave your seat without authorization, otherwise you will be punished as cheating."

After the candidates enter the room, the official comes over to explain the "unexpected situations" that may occur during the exam for a while, the most important of which is to go to the toilet.

In these days, it is basically impossible to wipe your butt with toilet paper, and everyone will bring one or two bamboo sticks when they enter the venue, called "toilet chips", if you forget to bring them, you can borrow them from the officials, which is more troublesome.

Because the government test was in April, the day was already very long at this time, and the sky was already bright before the fifth watch. In addition, it was dark late, which meant that the examination time of the prefectural examination was about half an hour longer than that of the prefectural examination.

The examination process of the prefectural examination is basically the same as that of the county exam, except that the chief examiner is the prefect of a prefecture, and now the prefect of Tingzhou Mansion is Gao Chong's grandfather Gao Mingcheng.

This is an old official who is nearly sixty years old, born in the second department, that is, he is an official, but because he has a certain background in the court, he has traveled all over the country, from the main book, the county seat, the county order, and the same governor all the way to the current prefect of a prefecture.

A roll call ensued.

In order to save time, two people sing at a time, candidates go to the front to receive the exam papers, and at the same time, two students with insurance will recognize the person to confirm whether there is an impostor.

When it was Shen Xi's turn, Shen Xi came to the outside of the main hall and took the exam paper handed over by Gao Mingcheng, on which his name and the seat number of the examination shed were written in advance.

Unlike the county test in Ninghua, the government test in Tingzhou Prefecture needs to be named.

Shen Xi glanced at it secretly and found that Gao Mingcheng's face was not very good-looking, or it was related to the beating of his grandson yesterday.

I don't know how Gao Mingcheng is going to put pressure on Changting Zhixian, but I think that as the head of the government, he will definitely not give up on those people in the "Dry Road Gang" in the city, or he is still taking exams here, and on the other side he has already sent someone to find trouble with the "Dry Road Gang".

Shen Xi returned to his seat, stretched his waist first, and made a simple preparation, because the sky was starting to brighten, and the exam was going on soon.

The difference from the county test is that the scope of the prefectural test is relatively wide, and the truncation questions are used more. Generally speaking, one four-book essay is compulsory, but the five scriptures can be tested or not, and it is very possible to produce two four-book essays at a time, which will reduce the pressure on the examiner to ask questions a lot.

Because if you want to test the Five Scriptures, it will mean that each of the Pentateuch questions will have one question, which is a test of the examiner's knowledge and ability to solve the questions.

With the release of the question, the two questions came out at the same time, and Shen Xi knew at a glance that Gao Mingcheng was worried about how to punish the "Dry Road Gang" thieves in the city, and directly dealt with the problem with two four-book essays.

The first question is: "Poetry Cloud: Although it is lurking, it is also clear." ”

The words "The Mean" mean that although it is deeply hidden, it is also exposed. It is about the cultivation of a gentleman.

The second question is the interception question: "Learn and learn." There are bandits! ”

The first half is very simple, from the Analects, which means that the knowledge learned should be constantly put into practice. The second half is from "University", but there are four words "there are bandit gentlemen", which means a gentleman with literary talents.

Relatively speaking, in these two four-book texts, the first one is very simple, how a gentleman cultivates his own body, can be the same as the inside and the outside, the words of the ancient sages abound, in the eight-strand text of "speaking on behalf of the sage", these high-sounding words are quoted, plus a little turning Chengping sentences, as long as a scholar can write a few sentences.

The difficulty lies in the fact that this first question is mainly to examine the students' mastery of the words of the sages such as "Confucius, Mencius, Cheng and Zhu", and to take the essence of the words that the sages have said about the cultivation of a gentleman and make an article of about 400 words, which tests the candidates' ability to organize and express themselves.

The second question is not so easy.

The second question, at first glance, literally speaking, as long as you learn to practice and apply, that is, "a gentleman with literary talents", this topic seems very simple, it seems that you only need to talk about the role of "learning and learning".

But this sentence in the "University" is quoted from the "Book of Songs". The original text in the "Book of Songs" is "There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting, such as grinding", which means that if you want to be a gentleman with literary talents, it is like carving jade.

If the candidate only reads four books, he will focus on the importance of "learning and learning". The question is, as long as you learn and practice, you must be a gentleman with literary talents? Those who seek fame and fame have not studied, nor have they applied their study and practice?

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