It's been 15 years, it's been 15 years since I came to this world, these 15 years, I have lived carefully every day, and I finally understand the culture of this world, which is similar to the culture of the earth, and it is remembered from ancient times, which is divided into Xia, Shang, Zhou [Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou (Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States)], Qin, Han (Western Han, Eastern Han), Three Kingdoms Period (Wei, Shu, Wu), Jin (Western Jin, Eastern Jin), Northern and Southern Dynasties [Southern Dynasties (Song, Qi, Liang, Chen), Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou)], Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties (Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou), Ten Kingdoms [Former Shu, Later Shu, Wu, Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Fujian, Chu, Southern Han, Nanping (Jingnan), Northern Han], Song (Northern Song Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty) is just different after the Song Dynasty, the emperors of each dynasty are different, and the heroes and famous generals of each dynasty are different, but one thing is the same, they all pay attention to Confucianism, and there are three saints from ancient times to the present, namely the saint Confucius, the sub-saint Mencius, and the sage Zengzi. The dynasty in which he lived was codenamed Da Yuan, and the emperor of the opening dynasty was called Yuan Jie, who paid attention to literature and had a high status as a literati.

The literati examination is divided into three levels, the first level is the academy examination, the examiners are collectively referred to as Tongsheng, and the scope of the examination is the state and county. (Tongsheng does not refer to children, there are also children who are seven, eight, and ten years old) The people who pass this exam are the "Xiucai" that we are all familiar with. If you become a showman, you will get rid of the status of a commoner, and you will also be an intellectual, and you can enjoy certain privileges, such as exempting one person from servitude, and you can not kneel when you see the county magistrate. The next level of examination is called the township examination, and the township examination does not refer to the township examination, but the provincial unified examination. The township examination is only once in three years, generally in August, and the questions are issued by the province, and there is a limit on the number of places. Those who pass the exam at this level are called lifters. Lifting people is qualified to be officials. The reason why I say that I am qualified is because this level does not guarantee that you must be an official, which is similar to today's college graduation without allocation. The person who gets the first place in this exam is called Xie Yuan.

If you are already a lifter now, then please pack your baggage, prepare your pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and you will meet the real test of life next February: the examination. This exam can only be taken by those who have obtained the qualification to raise people, that is, your opponents will be the elites of other provinces, and the imperial court will select three hundred people among you (subject to change), but be careful, these three hundred people are not what we often call jinshi, they are just "gongsheng", and if you want to be a jinshi, you have to pass another level. The first place in the entrance examination is called Huiyuan.

The final test for the elites who passed the examination was the palace examination, in which they faced the rulers of the empire in the form of questions from the emperor and answers by the candidates, mainly in the form of strategic questions. The emperor and ministers will be divided into grades according to the performance of the candidates, there are three first-class, there are only three people in the first class, called Jinshi and the first, respectively, the champion, the list, and the flower, which is well known to all of us. And the champion is the third element of the three. Although the champion is rare, there is only one in three years, and the output is very low, but after all, there is still one, so the highest honor in the hearts of the readers is not the champion, but another title, which is what every reader thinks about in the morning, and the person who wins this title will become a legend, that is, even in the three yuan, specifically it is the three titles of Xie Yuan, Hui Yuan, and Zhuangyuan. This is a really difficult action, and it must be guaranteed to be the first in the provincial examination, and then the first in the national examination in the general examination, and finally the first in the emperor's mind in the palace examination. There are very few such people, and there has never been a single person since the beginning of the dynasty, only the current prime minister Bai Linjie is considered to have won two yuan, and he is a model of talent in the world.

"Brother, what are you thinking? Young Master, when I was shopping for vegetables, I heard that our patriarch will celebrate his 80th birthday in 5 days, and the children and grandchildren of the family are busy preparing gifts? Brother, what are we going to prepare? Xiaozhu's fair face, faint willow eyebrows, small eyes but her inner world are exposed, and her small nose and small mouth are also extremely symbolic. The ponytail from the end to the top adds a bit of delicacy. Exquisite shape.

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, take a step and look at the step" Su San looked at his house, what gifts did he have to prepare, Su San looked at the items at home, there was no valuable item, summed up in one word poor, two words very poor, three words very poor, talking about what he could prepare for a 15-year-old child.

"Oh." Xiaozhu pouted, drooped her ears, and held her cheeks with her hands sullenly, sitting on the chair that was about to fall apart, not knowing what she was thinking?

Time flies, and five days are coming up in a blink of an eye.

On June 18 of the first year, before dawn in the morning, outside the Lin family's house in Lingcheng, there was an endless stream of people coming and going, all busy preparing for the 80th birthday of Lin Zhen, the current head of the Lin family.

"Brother, brother, brother is about to get up" Chen Yi was still asleep in a daze, when he heard Xiaozhu screaming. Chen Yi hurriedly sat up from the bed, and was really about to put on his shoes and go out, only to hear the door squeak, Xiaozhu pushed the door open and ran in.

"Brother, I saw that I just went out this morning and met Steward Zhang, and today I will send you new clothes, he asked the young master to change into new clothes later, freshen up and go to the main courtyard to go to the old master with other young masters to pay homage to the old man." Seeing Xiaozhu holding this new set of new clothes in her hand, she thought, it was a new dress for me, it was just an old man's birthday, I was afraid that I would lose the face of their Lin family, what a stupid sister.

"Brother, you look so good in this new outfit. I'll bring you a basin of water, you can take a look" Xiaozhu ran quickly with little stars in her eyes, and came in with a basin of water in a short time. Chen Yi, took the water in the basin and looked at it, only to see a smooth and fair face, revealing an angular cold hand; dark and deep eyes, glowing with a charming color; The thick eyebrows, the high nose, and the beautiful shape of the lips. Finally, there was no crossing in vain.

"Xiaozhu, you wait for me at home, and I'll bring you something delicious when I come back." Chen Yi said to Xiaozhu like a year.

"Got it, brother, you go early and come back early" Xiaozhu stood at the mouth of the people and looked at Chenyi's back farther and farther away, knowing that it had disappeared on the distant horizon, so she reluctantly returned to the room. Chen Yi has not been valued by the family much in the past ten years, although he is a young master, but no one has taken the initiative to greet him all the way, he thinks that this is fine, and he has to pretend to be very polite. So he walked with his head down.

"Yo, who's it, a few of you come and see, you guys come and see who this is" A voice suddenly came, and Chen Yi jumped. Raising his head and looking at those familiar faces that couldn't be more familiar, I felt that this world was so small.

"Isn't this my third brother? I have new clothes to wear today, I can't steal them there, I celebrate my grandfather's birthday today, and you came empty-handed, where are the gifts? Where are they hidden? Take it out, let's have a long face" said Chenyi's beating Ge Linjie, the name is very good, he thinks he is the most beautiful man in the city, but compared with Chenyi, it is still more than half a point.

Lin Jie, the eldest son of the Lin family, has a status that no one can shake, because he has a prominent mother, why does he have a prominent mother? Because her mother has a prominent father, that is, Lin Jie's grandfather served as a third-grade member in the imperial court, and also secretly solved a lot of tricky things for the Lin family. Such a family cannot exist for long.

"Have I prepared a gift, what do you care?" Chen Yi looked at them lightly and said.

"Yo, when you grow up, your wings are stiff, little rabbit cub, tell you, when you receive the gift at the end of the year, you can get out of the Lin family, do you really think that a son born to a maid can really be the young master of the Lin family?" What can talk is that Chen Yi's second brother, named Lin Hui, likes to pat Lin Jie's sycophants, one set in front of others and one set in the back, which is much more annoying than Chen Yi's eldest brother.

"Big brother, second brother, what are you doing so slowly? Hurry in, I'm going to prepare a birthday gift for my grandfather. A little girl about ten years old dressed in a turquoise emerald cigarette shirt, a pleated skirt with scattered flowers, mist and green grass, and a thin veil of emerald water and smoke slowly approached. As she approached, there was a faint fragrance all around, which made people feel very comfortable smelling it. But seeing that her skin is better than snow, her black hair like silk satin fluttering in the wind, her slender phoenix eyebrows, and her face has a pair of beautiful eyes with childishness and long eyelashes, like two crystal grapes. However, her eyes are like a pool of clear water, looking forward to it, she has an elegant and elegant temperament, which makes people feel ashamed of herself, exquisite Qiong nose, pink cheeks are slightly dizzy, dripping cherry-like red lips, flawless melon seed face with a little alienation, light figure, refined and elegant. Lin Xue walked over, glanced at Chen Yi, and hurriedly urged his two elder brothers to hurriedly prepare to go in to pay their respects. Chen Yi also silently followed behind him and walked in.

Walking into Shoutang, I saw a longevity curtain hanging on the front, and the couplets on both sides were: Furu Donghai, Shoubi Nanshan. In the middle of the Shoutang is placed a table of eight immortals, and on the table of the eight immortals, there are incense burners, wax thousands, longevity wax, and the god code of 'Natal Longevity Star Jun', as well as yellow money, paper ingots, and thousands of sheets, so that the two sides of the confession are lowered. On the table, there are longevity peaches, longevity noodles and other foods that symbolize longevity. A red mat is placed on the ground in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, which is used by those who worship longevity when they kneel and worship, and those who are above the same age bow their hands, and those who are below kowtow. Send the lantern flower lantern flower with colored lantern paper twisted into a flower shape, dipped in sesame oil, the number of lantern flowers is two more than the age of the longevity, one is the "natal year", one is the "longevity year". The people in the Shoutang are all sitting neatly. Waiting for today's protagonist, appearance. After a while, I heard footsteps coming from the inner room, Old Man Lin was there, and with the support of the maid, he walked out through the screen and walked slowly, sitting on the high hall. Immediately afterwards, the people below stood up from their chairs, as if they had been trained, bent over and said in unison: "I wish Master Lin good fortune like the East China Sea and longevity than Nanshan." ”

Master Lin said with a smile, "Colleagues, thank you, thank you, thank you for your love, thank you for giving Lin such a big face, I'm really ashamed." Hurry up, take a seat. After saying that, the people in the hall sat down as well. Immediately afterwards, an elderly man wearing a blue gown stood up and said: Please invite the son and daughter-in-law of the old birthday star to come to the church to pay a respect, and wish the old birthday star a blessing like the East China Sea and a longevity than Nanshan; Second worship, wishing the old birthday star the sun and moon to be prosperous, and the pine crane to be Changchun; Three bows, I wish the old birthday star a smile and a happy family. When all the sons and daughters-in-law have finished their birthdays. Immediately afterwards, he said that he would invite the daughter and son-in-law of the old birthday star to come to the church to pay respects

A bow, I wish the old birthday star good health and a long life; Second worship, I wish the old birthday star all the best and happiness in his old age; Three worships, I wish the old birthday star a happy birthday and boundless blessings.

(Please ask the daughters and sons-in-law of the old birthday star to give birthday gifts) Please ask the old birthday star to give his daughters and sons-in-law a blessing in return, Mr. Lin, and said some grateful Yunyun. Invite the grandson and granddaughter of the old birthday star to come to the church to pay a respect, and wish the old birthday star good luck, wealth and health; Second worship, I wish the old birthday star everything goes well and is happy for a long time; Three bows, I wish the old birthday star a smile and good health. Invite the grandson and granddaughter of the old birthday star to the church. Invite the grandchildren and granddaughters of the old birthday star to give birthday gifts.

"Grandpa, I specially found someone from other places to buy it from the outside world, jade coral, here to congratulate grandpa, blessings such as the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan, come to carry it up" After Lin Xue finished speaking, someone carried it up after a while, about more than 100 catties. The people sitting in Shoutang all said words of praise.

"Okay, good, it's really a rare baby, Lin Xue, grandpa didn't hurt you in vain." Master Lin touched his beard and said happily.

"Grandpa, this is me and my second brother, in order to congratulate you on your birthday, I beg to be the famous painter Zhang Ye painted the "Birthday Offering Picture", come and present it."

"Come on, open it and take a look" The painting scroll opened little by little, and everyone looked at it and praised it, which was really good. Say kind words to each other.

"Grandpa, the third brother wants to compose a poem for you" Lin Jie finished speaking, looking at Chen Yi with a provocative look. Everyone in the audience looked at it, and Chen Yi had eaten just right at this time, holding chicken legs in one hand and snacks in his arms in the other. looked at the people present, calmly carrying the last fruit in his arms. The faces of the people present were flushed, and they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. Chen Yi wiped his hands clean, walked to the middle of the Shoutang, scratched his ears and cheeks and thought for a while, and said: "This old man is not a person" Just finished speaking, the whole audience couldn't hold back and laughed. And the people of the Lin family were all there, with a fierce light on their faces, and they looked at Chen Yi viciously. Especially the old man Lin, his face changed, and Chen Yi also felt very embarrassed at this time, and hurriedly said the second sentence: "The Antarctic immortal Weng went down to the earth", and suddenly the audience was active, praising each other, and the old man Lin also turned his anger into joy, and then Chen Yi said the third sentence: "His sons are all thieves" The guests in the audience became mute again, and the joyful atmosphere became embarrassing. Chen Yi hurriedly said the last sentence: "Steal the fairy peach first father." The audience praised Yunyun, saying that he was smart and clever, and he could be able to take on heavy responsibilities when he grew up. Master Lin also had to praise Chen Yi for being smart, and generously rewarded 50 taels of silver, and asked Lin Jie to give it to him, (In this era, the value of currency is 1 tael of gold = 100 taels of silver = 10,000 copper coins, and the average person's annual expenses are only 20 taels of silver) Chen Yi took it happily, thinking that he could buy a lot of delicious food and new clothes for Xiaozhu, Lin Jie's gaze at Chen Yi was full of poison. Gritted his teeth and said, you kid wait. Chen Yi took it, money bag. happily in his arms, after a while, when no one was paying attention, sneaked out.