The first three sessions of the county examination have already decided whether to be shortlisted for the county examination or not, although the ranking has not yet been finalized, but there must be a name of their own when the long case is issued, and they have obtained the qualification to participate in the provincial examination.

The next day, I had to take the fourth exam, and the time seemed to be in a hurry.

In order to be at the top of the final ranking after the fourth game, the Shen family still let the two brothers go back to review their homework. But on the other side of the front yard, there was an endless stream of people who came to congratulate...... They are all neighbors, and the whole family of the Shen family went out to greet them and set off firecrackers, and it was difficult for the neighbors to think about it.

Although the Shen family was prominent in Ninghua in the early years, with the decline of the family business, the branches were scattered, especially the line of Grandpa Shen Xi who migrated to Taohua Village for twenty or thirty years. Now that Shen Xi has returned to the county seat not long ago, he has nominally belonged to the foreign household, which was originally despised by the neighborhood, and this time the Shen family has passed the county test at the same time, which can be regarded as giving the Shen family enough face, indicating that the revival of the Shen family is hopeful.

Even if the Li family is frugal on weekdays, at this time, he still opens the door to entertain guests.

On the same day, the Shen family set up a flowing water seat in the courtyard in the first two entrances, and when they entered the door, they were guests, and they could sit down and eat at will, and leave after eating.

Shen Xi has passed the county examination, and his status at home is very different, he and Shen Yongzhuo used to study separately, but now the Li family is in charge of letting the two brothers warm their books in the study room of the East Chamber, and mention each other.

Shen Xi held a copy of "Notes on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books", looked at it weakly, listened to the noise and excitement in the front yard, and suddenly had a feeling of loss.

After taking the county exam this time, he didn't have much joy, he was young and promising, which also means that every move in the future will be under the gaze of others, and once there is any mistake, you will be put to death.

In these years, can you say that there is no selection of talents, but everything still can't get rid of a relationship, he is a poor child, and he has entered the science field, and no one is covered. It's only the sake of being bullied.

In a small county test, the Shen family held such a grand event, and it was also a commendable happy event for the Shen family over the years...... Seeing that Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi passed the county examination, there were also government examinations and hospital examinations after that. Even the township test, the meeting test, and the palace test, plus Shen Yongzhuo in the long house is about to get married, and the third generation of the Shen family is gradually growing up, and there will be many more celebrations.

"Seventh brother, what did you say about the fourth test tomorrow?" Shen Yongzhuo looked preoccupied. It seems that he is still worried about his marriage.

Shen Xi shook his head, in his opinion, the fourth scene had little to do with him. During the day, Shen Xi carefully observed the reaction of the county order under Ye, and Ye Mingsu deliberately avoided ordering a ten-year-old child to pass the county test. This seems to mean that no matter how well his essay is written tomorrow and how outstanding he is in the specialty exam, Ye Mingsu will not call him the "county head".

Since Xiucai can't be guaranteed, the fourth exam has no practical significance for Shen Xi, even if he can get the top ten. The external reputation will be better, but this means that the government examination will be "mentioned to the hall number", that is, the seat is closer to the examiner, which may affect the performance of the next step in the government examination.

That night, the old lady Li personally came over to deliver food to the two brothers, sat down and chattered for a while, mainly to say some words of encouragement, so that Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi could take the exam well the next day, and it was best to pass the April government exam together.

said that she would not put pressure on the two brothers, but she herself was under great pressure. The old lady talked a lot when she was old, and when she chatted, it was easy to mention the things when the Shen family was brilliant, and mentioned that Shen Xi's grandfather had been a fellow acquaintance. mentioned how big an official it was, and even the local magistrate had to salute when he saw it.

Shen Xi knew very well that not everyone could become an official, and the reason why his grandfather was able to become a Tongzhi was because of the special circumstances at that time.

During the orthodox Jingtai period, it experienced the civil engineering changes, the Beijing defense war, the change of seizing the gate and the Shicao Rebellion. The imperial examination was interrupted for a time, and even famous ministers like Yu Qian were inevitably killed and defeated, and the pond fish affected did not know how much, so there were many more vacant official positions than now, and there were countless officials who were promoted as people.

But after the Chenghua years of recuperation, and the Hongzhi Emperor made great efforts, everything has now stabilized, and I don't know how many Jinshi have been in the past few decades, and it is not enough to lift people.

With the dilapidated appearance of the Shen family today, even if Shen Mingwen or Shen Yongzhuo, or he himself is admitted to the people, he must be admitted to the Jinshi in order to truly change his fate, and if he wants to enter the officialdom from the "B department", he needs a background. In the examination, at most, there is a head and face in the place, or if you are lucky, you can't find anyone who has a vacancy in a certain official position in a prefecture or county, so you have the opportunity to fill the term, but so many people are snatched, and such a good thing may not fall on your own head.

The next day, the brothers got up early and rushed to the county school.

Shen Xi rested well this time, or thought that he could leave to go back to Fucheng after the exam, and he had nothing to worry about when he was in a good mood, and he slept peacefully.

Because the fifty people who took the exam this time had all met yesterday, when they entered the examination room, they walked into each other in greetings, and the search at the gate was not as strict as before.

Originally, there were fifty people, and they did not necessarily need to take the exam in the huge examination booth, but Ninghua County, whether it was the Confucian Education Department or the county government, was too narrow and simple, and there was really no place for these fifty people to set up the exam.

From four or five hundred people to fifty people, the examination booth seemed deserted.

Because Shen Xi was admitted in the first game, he had to sit in the front row, but the table in the front row was very high, and Shen Xi sat on it, and he had to hold his chest hard, so that he could barely expose a small part of his body on the table, which had an impact on him to pick up a pen and write.

Soon, Ye Mingsu and the teachings of the Confucianism Department came, or first checked the "personal confessions" of the candidates to prevent impostors, and after confirming that there were no mistakes, the examination officially began.

The exam also starts at dawn, but ends around mid-afternoon, and the final results of the prefectural exam will be announced the day after the exam.

Ye Mingsu also didn't look at Shen Xi much.

Shen Xi's mentality is very relaxed, when others are struggling to write for the quota of a "county head", he is already looking forward to meeting Hui Niang and the two little Loli when he returns to Fucheng.

But after all, it's an exam, you can't fool around at will, if you hand in a blank paper or there is a taboo in the text, even if the first one passes, it will be brushed down in the end.

Shen Xiquan is a battle of honor, and he can probably play it, and he doesn't really want to write an article, but he should pay more attention to the choice of words and sentences, so as not to commit taboos and let the ducks fly away.

There are four books and five scriptures for this one. The questions traced by Ye Ming are not difficult, and there are no truncated questions.

However, the exam is like this, not that the chance of admission is high if the questions are simple, it mainly depends on everyone's performance. If you think it's simple, others think it's simple, and you get high scores, but there are always higher scores.

Shen Xi did not discuss the great principles of benevolence and politics in the fourth exam, and tried to avoid esoteric in quoting scriptures. This is also the principle he has always adhered to in the county examination.

In these years, the gun shot the first bird, you have to write an eight-strand essay, you have to quote the ancient famous books that have been lost, the examiner knows well, and the one who doesn't know thinks you are making things up, or some examiners are also half-witted and knowledgeable, and you will not be jealous of your talent, and you will not be angry with you. Then you can't do anything about it.

The most important thing in writing an article is to be on topic, as long as it is not off-topic, and the use of allusions is too biased.

At noon, the test questions for poems, strategies, and theories began to be played, and there was also a math problem from "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic": There is a loan of 1,000 dollars today, and the monthly interest rate is thirty. Today, there is a lender with 750 dollars, and he will return it in nine days, and he asks how much interest is there?

Few scholars in this era dabbled in arithmetic, even Ye Mingsu, which made it extremely difficult for him to make up a math problem. I had to go to the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to find ready-made exam questions, and even the numbers did not change, so as not to solve the answers even by himself.

This math problem calculates the monthly interest, less than a month. There is no question of rolling profits, if the ninth day becomes September, Shen Xi believes that even those senior account keepers must use abacus to calculate this problem.

Shen Xi and Feng Yuqi had learned trial poems, and it was not difficult to compose a poem. But writing poetry, whether it is easy to understand or ornate, is not very good, and it is too difficult to grasp it properly.

Shen Xi simply chose not to answer the additional questions, anyway, it will not affect the overall score of the county exam, and whether he does well or not will only have an impact on the government exam.

Besides, when the prefect of Tingzhou Prefecture presided over the provincial examination, did he really have the heart to review the specialties of these candidates reported by the counties, and to consider giving special preferential treatment during the provincial examination?

This kind of special score is at most to provide those gentry and the children of official eunuchs with a kind of preferential treatment for entering the school, even if they do not do well in the four books and five scriptures, they can finally pass through this special strength.

Shen Xi has been waiting for the rehearsal since noon, and there will be two rehearsals for this exam, once at six o'clock, and the second rehearsal at the end of the hour, with an interval of almost half an hour.

Shen Xi was still out of the gate for the first time, and there were only a few people who appeared with him...... At this time, others are still there to calculate the interest problem with an immature algorithm, and it is really not easy to calculate the interest geometry with the words "one two three" on the scratch paper.

In the end, it is not the account room of the store, and if you are a shrewd woman like Hui Niang, you don't need to take paper to calculate, and you can get the final answer after an oral performance.

When all the candidates came out for the second time, and Shen Yongzhuo was among them, Shen Yongzhuo couldn't help but sigh when he saw Shen Xi: "The fourth game is really difficult." ”

Shen Xi didn't know if the difficulty Shen Yongzhuo was talking about was the difficulty of the four books and the five scriptures, or the difficulty of those additional questions. After all, the county examination is the first level of the imperial examination, and the scope of knowledge involved is not very wide, and if it is a little difficult, there is only the additional part.

"Shichiro, which questions did you choose to answer?" On the way back, Shen Yongzhuo was very concerned about Shen Xi's choice of additional questions.

Shen Xi shook his head: "I don't know any of them, so I simply skipped it and didn't answer." ”

"Is that okay?" Shen Yongzhuo had doubts in his heart.

Shen Xi smiled: "Tomorrow, there will be a long case, and only the four books and five scriptures will be included in the results." As long as the eldest brother does the first two articles better, it should be fine. ”

Shen Yongzhuo probably suffers from test anxiety syndrome, and even though the last one is no longer about admission, he still keeps talking about how he wasted time on the road because he was answering the later exam questions.

When they got home, the Li family, the Wang family and others came over to ask about the two of them about the exam, and then the Wang family said happily: "Da Lang, the Lu family sent Song Matchmaker to come over and say, this time you passed the county exam, and the Lu family officially talked about marriage with us, and even the eight characters were right, so I waited for the next hire to marry Miss Lu Jia." ”

Shen Yongzhuo in this county test, it can be regarded as a double harvest of career and love.

The Lu family took a fancy to Shen Yongzhuo's father as a student, and Shen Yongzhuo was a scholar who had passed the county examination, so he felt that his future was limitless and was ready to marry his daughter.

The Lu family has a big business, and marrying a daughter will definitely not be shabby, and the dowry must be very rich.

This was originally a good thing that everyone was happy about, but after Shen Xi saw Shen Yongzhuo's dark face, he had a premonition that something bad was happening.

Sure enough, Shen Yongzhuo hesitated for a moment, and replied in a deep voice: "Grandmother, mother, Miss Lu family...... I still won't marry. ”

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