Can't leave Ninghua's big family, the Li family is not ready to live for a long time when he arrives in Fucheng, and he has to leave the next day, and when Shen Xi tells him that he wants to marry Lin Dai in front of the Li family, Li's face suddenly becomes gloomy and terrifying.

The little grandson dared to go against her will and wanted to overturn her decision, which was extremely unfilial in the eyes of the old lady.

"Mother, Han Wa'er, he is a showman, but after all, he is still young and ignorant, don't worry about it." Zhou hurriedly said something for Shen Xi.

Li Shi was furious: "Then how do you teach on weekdays?" In the long run, he knows what it means to be inferior to the elderly? ”

Hui Niang smiled and comforted: "Old lady, in fact, it's just that the two children have been together for a long time and have feelings, not that he intends to contradict you. On weekdays, Xiaolang is very filial, and he often mentions that he should honor you well. ”

"That's fine. Don't do that in the future! ”

Li's face improved slightly, "Marriage is a major event in life, don't be reckless, I'm a grandmother, will I still harm you?" If you like this girl, let her serve by your side in the future, and being a concubine will not insult her. ”

Shen Mingjun and his wife didn't dare to argue with the Li family on this kind of issue, but Hui Niang accepted Shen Xi's commission and expressed her opinion:

"Old lady, the concubine thinks that now Xiaolang is already a talent at a young age, and it is easy to move in the future, or he can also be named on the gold list, and at that time, the princes and princes in the Beijing division will not necessarily take the initiative to marry him. Why rush to arrange his marriage? ”

Hui Niang's words, once again said the heart of the old lady!

It was also after Shen Xi won the first place in the government examination that there were too many people who went to the Shen family to tell the old lady that she was secretly proud, so she put her little grandson "waiting for the price and selling", thinking that she could make those who looked down on the Shen family turn around and beg to marry their daughter, what kind of thing is that kind of puffing and raising eyebrows?

But after listening to Hui Niang's words, the old lady thought again: "My grandson is so capable, he was betrothed to him too early, if he has a future chance." There are really dignitaries and dignitaries who want to marry their daughters to him, wouldn't it delay the future of him and even the Shen family? ”

The more Li thought about it, the more reasonable he became, and nodded: "That Qilang's marriage, I'll mention it in two years." ”

One word. Let Hui Niang and Shen Mingjun and his wife breathe a sigh of relief at the same time, the old lady originally insisted on two things, one was to take Shen Xi back to Ninghua to study, and the other was to let Shen Xi go back at the end of the year to get married, and they were all persuaded by Hui Niang in a sentence or two...... Zhou admired this well-spoken sister more and more.

Originally, Li was going to leave that day. But Zhou insisted that Li stay for an extra day, so she could buy some gifts for Li to take back.

It wasn't until the morning of the third day when the old lady entered Fucheng that Hui Niang found a carriage from the Chamber of Commerce and returned to Ninghua with the Li family and large bags and small bags of gifts.

Or maybe the Li family was afraid that her son and daughter-in-law would think too much, so she didn't mention that she wanted to go to the Yang family this time. However, before leaving, the Li family still mentioned it, and asked Shen Mingjun and his wife to go to the Yang family to call Yang Ling and his wife, and return to Ninghua on August 15, in addition to the family reunion, it is also good to attend the wedding banquet of Shen Yongzhuo and Miss Lu Jia.

The marriage dragged on for more than a year. It was finally held, although Shen Yongzhuo didn't come to participate in the government test at all this year, but in the end the Lu family gave in.

The old lady left, Zhou breathed a long sigh of relief, and the first thing she did when she returned to the pharmacy was to express her gratitude to Hui Niang, if it weren't for Hui Niang, she and her son would be separated, and at the end of the year, she would have to get engaged to a local lady in Ninghua.

Zhou believes that her son was cultivated by her, and Li chose Liulang to study. It proves that her vision is ridiculously wrong, where is there a halfway out to pick peaches now? What Zhou thought was that no matter what major events Shen Xi's life had in the future, it should be planned by her, the mother. You don't need to do it for you.

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Since July, Shen Xi's studies have suddenly become nervous, and he has to prepare for the annual and township exams for the coming year.

There is nothing to do in the annual exam, Xiucai is promoted to epiphysis, epiphysia is proliferated, and hyperplasia is promoted. All of them are upgraded from the annual exam. However, after a province is newly promoted to a post, an annual examination will be organized in the first year, on the one hand, to determine the number of births, hyperbiosis and epistudents in each county, and on the other hand, to select candidates for the township examination.

According to the regulations, the annual examination is divided into six grades according to the results, among which those who are listed in the first and second classes are automatically qualified to participate in the township examination and are called imperial examination students.

As the second level of the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty, the township examination was a local examination held by the southern and northern Zhili and the political envoys, and the locations were in the southern and Beijing prefectures and the residence of the political envoys. Once every three years, it is held in the year of Fengzi, Mao, Wu and You, and it is also called Xiangfu, and the examination place of the examination is called Gongyuan, and the examination period is in autumn and August, so it is also called Qiufu. All students and supervisors of the provincial imperial examination can take the examination.

In terms of the content of the examination, the township examination has added many items compared with the hospital examination.

The four books and the five scriptures are still compulsory subjects, and at the same time, there are additional examinations, such as arguments, expressions, internal and scientific judgments, as well as argumentative essays on scriptures, history, and strategies.

Many of these contents were rarely covered in Shen Xi's previous studies, and some of them still needed to be learned from scratch.

The township test in the Ming Dynasty was divided into three sessions, each of which lasted three days.

Because there are a large number of candidates in the township examination, the examination period is long, and there are many articles written, the examiner cannot read them one by one, and the judgment standard for the results of the three and four books in the first examination will appear, and the rest of the articles will be "simple and inferior, as for all the allusions, those who do not know the ordinary are all Chinese".

Therefore, the focus of Shen Xi's preparation is still on the "Four Books" and "Five Classics".

On July 12, after Shen Xi studied for a few days, he felt that he couldn't grasp the essentials, and on this day Su Tong came to invite Shen Xi to go out to participate in the literary meeting.

The coming year is the year of the township test, and the talents in the city will participate in the township test together in the coming year, and after the midsummer passes, the literary society in the city will gradually increase.

This is also the first time that Shen Xizhong Xiucai has participated in the city Chinese meeting.

After being bored at home for a long time, Shen Xi didn't get used to the noise and excitement outside for a while. When they arrived at the agreed place, Su Tong was playing against people, and there were many onlookers, looking at the situation, Su Tong and the people playing against him were on the same footing, but because Su Tong accidentally fell into passivity, a large area was lost, and the defeat had appeared.

The person who played against Su Tong, twenty years old, looked quite comfortable, as if the gains and losses on the chess surface did not matter, this was a kind of graceful bearing that Taishan collapsed in front of him and did not change color.

Shen Xi secretly speculated in his heart, whose son is this?

"Oh, Brother Shen is here, and he forgot to greet him, it's really a sin."

When Su Tong saw Shen Xi, it was as if he had seen a savior. He usually plays chess well with conceit. Except for Shen Xi, he had never met an opponent, and the defeat of this game of chess in front of him was decided, and he greeted Shen Xi, so he could take the opportunity to throw the chess game aside. Then he can still maintain a close posture on the chess table, and he does not have to abandon his son to admit defeat.

This time, Sutong invited more than a dozen people, most of whom Shen Xi didn't know, and only two of them were candidates who had just graduated from high school this year, and they were twenty-four or five years old. People disdain to talk to a child like Shen Xi.

Su Tong introduced Shen Xi one by one, and finally introduced the person who was playing chess with him, Jiang Liwei, a scholar from Putian, who came to Tingzhou Province this time to accept Su Tong's invitation to participate in the cultural meeting together.

Although Jiang Liwei is only twenty-one years old, he has participated in two township examinations, and Shen Xi calculates, then this Jiang Liwei won the show at least sixteen years old, which can be regarded as a young and promising talent.

"It turns out that this is a little genius who has been famous in Fujian, and he has admired him for a long time." Jiang Liwei looked very polite. He stood up and saluted Shen Xi.

Su Tong said with a smile: "Brother Gu Yu may not know, Brother Shen, he is not only a good learner, but also has superb chess skills, Brother Gu Yu might as well play a game with him?" ”

Su Tong saw that he was going to lose this game of chess, and wanted Shen Xi to play chess with Jiang Liwei instead of him. Jiang Liwei shook his head slightly, and made a gesture of invitation: "It's better to wait until the game of chess with Brother Tai is finished." ”

Su Tong smiled and sat down to continue playing with Jiang Liwei.

As a result, after a few moves, the equilibrium on the chessboard was broken, and Su Tong was quickly defeated, and finally he shook his head: "In the end, the skills are not as good as others." ”

Jiang Liwei didn't have any smugness. Just reach out and pick up the pieces on the board into the box. Shen Xi comforted: "Brother Su has the advantage in the middle game, but he didn't seize the opportunity. ”

"Huh?"

Su Tong was stunned for a moment, not understanding Shen Xi's words too much.

Jiang Liwei said with a smile: "When Shen Gongzi first came before, Brother Su's chess board was on par with me. It's really hard to tell the difference. ”

Su Tong had already made a few stinky moves at that time, and he asked himself if he had lost at that time, but he just refused to admit it. Jiang Liwei looked at Shen Xi and said, "Or maybe Shen Gongzi came to distract Brother Su, but I don't know if Shen Gongzi can play with him and retreat the chess game to the previous one." Again? ”

Shen Xi was originally just a kind remark, which made Su Tong look better, but he didn't expect Jiang Liwei to be very serious, and he actually wanted to retreat to the chess face when he came and play against him again. Shen Xi's face hesitated: "It's not an endgame, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to play such a game, right?" ”

The surrounding onlookers are not afraid of big things!

In fact, as long as people who know a little bit about chess, they can see that the previous Su Tong scene has been very bad, many of them have heard that Shen Xi has won Su Tong in chess, and Su Tong and Jiang Liwei are equivalent in chess, Shen Xi and Jiang Liwei play a normal game, winning or losing is really not necessarily, but if Shen Xi uses Su Tong's chess face just now to play with Jiang Liwei, it will definitely lose.

"Why should Shen Gongzi be humble? Who doesn't know that Shen Gongzi is good at chess? The crowd had to push Shen Xi to sit down and play against Jiang Liwei.

Many people knew that their chess skills were far from Su Tong, and they couldn't break Shen Xi's face by playing chess, so they asked Jiang Liwei to do it for them. Shen Xi looked at this situation, he was really the public enemy of these young students, in this way, even if he could win Jiang Liwei, it was best to release the water, only in this way would he not become the target of public criticism.

Jiang Liwei had a good memory, and soon put the chess board back to the appearance when Su Tong got up to greet Shen Xi. He also asked Su Tong for confirmation, and Su Tong looked at it carefully and nodded: "That's true." Brother Shen, if you lose, it's not your fault, it's really me who made a few wrong moves......"

Shen Xi first observed the chessboard in its entirety, and although he made up his mind to lose, he couldn't lose too ugly.

At this time, there are two corners of the chessboard to divide the winner and loser, Su Tong does have a certain disadvantage, the focus of the battle is in the lower left corner, Su Tong was originally a few eyes in the lower left corner of the advantage to fight a chess face, but Su Tong's stinky move is also in the lower left corner, so that the situation on the lower road suddenly turned evil.

Shen Xi didn't think about it, and when he mentioned the sunspot, he fell on the side of the lower right corner, which was tantamount to abandoning the battle and fleeing.

"Haha, Shen Gongzi, before the battle was won, you admitted defeat?" Someone next to him immediately asked with a smile.

Obviously, there was still room for turning around in the lower left corner, but Shen Xi went to another battlefield first. Shen Xi smiled and didn't answer.

Jiang Liwei's brows furrowed, and he thought to himself: "Being able to afford to put it down like this can be regarded as a kind of bearing." ”

Jiang Liwei is still in the lower left corner, one step away, Shen Xi is equivalent to losing the lower left corner, but also because Shen Xi has an extra son in the lower right corner, on the contrary, Shen Xi has a slight advantage in the lower right corner.

So the two sides started a battle for more than a dozen moves on the chess board, and after Shen Xi finally established the situation of the big advantage on the right, he began to enter the end.

In the last calculation, Shen Xi lost six eyes, two less than Su Tong. Shen Xi got up with a slight regret and said, "I am not good at learning the arts, which makes you laugh." ”

Su Tong disagreed: "Where is it, it's better than me!" ”

On the contrary, Jiang Liwei shook his head slightly and sighed, just now Shen Xi had a few chances to revitalize before the beginning and the end, and at that time, it was no longer Shen Xi who lost a few meshes, but he could reverse the victory, but Shen Xi seemed to be really "not good at learning", and he didn't grasp the opportunity.

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