The next few days were the happiest days since Sun Dan traveled to the Ming Dynasty.

Although he has a profession as a flower worker in the Sun Mansion, the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang doesn't seem to care if he goes to work or not. In fact, the flowers and trees in a huge garden can be handled by the ordinary boys and maids themselves, and they can only find florists when they encounter really cumbersome and technical work, and this writing thing can be handled by one person.

Moreover, for the Sun family, Sun Dan's ability to be admitted to Xiucai and even raise people is more meaningful to the Sun family than cultivating a qualified gardener.

In the past few days, the school has also been on vacation, and Sun Dan naturally doesn't have to go back to Sun's mansion to listen to errands, so he just stays in the county town and waits for the list to be released.

With a large sum of money, Sun Dan finally got rid of the breathless poverty. In terms of his current net worth, he is also in the middle and lower in the county. One hundred and fifty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the sea was leveled, from Xuande to Zhengde, where eighty years, the imperial court implemented the policy of hiding the wealth from the people, the people were rich, and there were many rich people in the locality. People like Sun Dan, who have dozens of taels of silver, are not uncommon in Zouping. It's just that the Ming Dynasty didn't have much consumption, and twenty-four taels of silver was enough to spend for a while.

As a modern person, Sun Dan's consumption concept is still very different from that of the ancients. For example, he doesn't think he can save a lot of money by eating at home. Time is money, and if you have the time to cook by yourself, it is better to write a few words to earn some manuscript fees, or review your homework and prepare for next month's government exam.

Of course, the cooking thing belongs to Zhi Niang. However, this little woman doesn't seem to have much talent in cooking, and her cooking is only to the extent that she cooks badly and doesn't hurt her stomach.

didn't want to see her work, Sun Dan simply made dinner in the restaurant every day.

Zhi Niang and her own health are not very good, and they need to be nourished by big fish and meat.

After a few days, Zhi Niang's green face began to turn bloody, and she became a lot more beautiful.

What surprised Sun Dan the most was that Zhi Niang's already full breasts seemed to have become bigger again.

Seeing the sky, the restaurant asked the restaurant to deliver food, and at the beginning, Zhi Niang also reminded Sun Dan in a whisper to save. I can hear Sun Dan say: "Money is earned, not saved." Zhiniang could only sigh silently and didn't say anything.

In the final analysis, she is a very traditional woman, marrying her husband with her husband, and what her husband wants to do can only be left to him.

When Sun Dan's second manuscript fee arrived, Zhi Niang's sigh was gone, replaced by an unspeakable worry---- money came too easily, which made her a little scared.

The second episode of "Journey to the West" was printed with 10,000 copies on the basis of the first episode, and even so, as soon as it was printed, it was sold out.

Therefore, in the past few days of cultivation in the city, Sun Dan has another thirty taels in the account.

He studied well this time, and greeted the owner of the bookstore in advance without copper coins, as long as cash.

As for the more than 20,000 copper coins that he got some time ago, he could only spend them slowly in the corner, and the lack of a bank made Sun Dan feel a little annoyed. Spring has come, there is no snow, only a drizzle does not stop, those copper coins begin to rust, and the house is filled with copper stench, which is really vulgar.

Five days later, the results of the county exam came out and the results began to be released.

Sun Dan ran over to take a look.

In this county examination, the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang was in full bloom, and 13 of the 20 candidates passed. Among them, Sun Hao won the sixth, and Sun Gui, the kid, actually ranked fifth in high school, and I can't see that this obscene kid has some skills.

As for Sun Dan, this high school is the first.

Just kidding, Sun Dan's beautiful calligraphy is copied by posterity. The two papers were thrown in the examination papers of a group of schoolchildren, like a bright light in the night, how not to stand out from the crowd.

If he can't get first, that's weird.

It is not surprising that Sun Dan, Sun Hao and Sun Gui passed the test. But the Sun family hit thirteen people in one breath still made Sun Dan amazed, although this exam had Mr. Li delineated the scope of the exam in advance, and prepared a month in advance. But according to the usual practice, the magistrate wants to balance the local forces, and will deliberately admit some poor scholars to suppress the wealthy family.

But the power of the Sun family is too great, and Li Meiting used to be a scholar in Shaanxi, and he has the face of the Sun family and Mr. Li, so that many children of the Sun family who are not very good and cannot pass the test can be successfully admitted.

Sun Dan was slightly surprised in his heart, the human factors of the county test and the government test are too large, but Zhang Zhixian's words can determine the success or failure of a candidate. If he is an enemy of Zhang Zhixian, no matter how good his grades are, his articles are written in flowers, and he has been a county official in Zouping for a year, he will not want to take a step forward on the road of the imperial examination. The magistrate is just a seven-rank official, but the power is already like this. It seems that only being an official is the right way.

According to the rules, Sun Dan still prepared a thin gift and sealed five taels of silver to meet Zhang Zhixian, the teacher.

Zhang Zhixian is a very easy-going person, chatted with him by the way, encouraged a few words, and then sealed three taels of silver to Sun Dan, and said with a smile: "Sun Dan, you can recite the Four Books and Five Classics in a month, and you can write well, do a good hand, and you can find such a young genius under my rule, the official is very pleased." You have a talent for reading, and you must work hard in the future, and you must guard against arrogance and rashness. Throughout the ages, there are many young geniuses, but not everyone can enter high school. For example, my brother Zhang Xuan has an excellent memory with you for a year, he is enlightened at the age of seven, he can memorize Confucian classics backwards at the age of eight, and he can do a good article at the age of nine. Therefore, you can write an essay in a month, and this official is not surprised. But since the age of twelve, my brother went to Nanjing to take the Jinshi examination, and took the exam for 35 years in one go, and now he has seven out of forty, and he has repeatedly fallen behind Sun Shan. It can be seen that luck is still very important in the imperial examination. Based on your article, the government test and the hospital test are not very problematic, but it is difficult to say about the township test. ”

Sun Dan said yes again and again, saying that the students must remember the teachings of the teacher, and they must get a good score in the children's examination to live up to the expectations of the teacher.

Hearing Zhang Zhixian talk about his eldest brother Zhang Xuan, Sun Dan's heart moved. This guy is a big man, in real history, Zhang Xuan was the first assistant to the cabinet in the early days of the Jiajing Dynasty, and one of Emperor Jiajing's henchmen in his early years.

Sun Dan now has a teacher-student relationship with Zhang Zhixian, and if he is an official in the imperial examination in the future, he can be regarded as an official of Zhang Xuan's department.

Officialdom is like this, when you touch the threshold of this circle, it invisibly makes you make a choice.

Zhang Xuan's future is limitless, but now he is still an ordinary lifter. Because of repeated failures, he is now establishing Luofeng Academy in Wenzhou, recruiting more than 30 students, and exchanging letters with Mr. Wang Shouren.

If nothing else, he should have been in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, that is, the first year of Emperor Jiajing's accession to the throne, when he opened Enke, and since then he has been in the political arena.

If Sun Dan can successfully enter Beijing to participate in the examination next year, it is very likely that he will be the same year as Zhang Xuan.

With Zhang Zhixian's relationship, Sun Dan now finally has a relationship with the future imperial chief.

But there is another problem here, the Sun family, the Marquis of Huichang, is now the head of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe. In the future, Yang Tinghe and his son Yang Shen and Zhang Xuan will be political enemies who will never die.

Sun Dan must be very uncomfortable in the middle of it.

However, now he is just a small schoolboy, and it is not his turn to worry about high-level things.

In the future, we can only take one step at a time.

You can't show off your talents in the exam, you can't raise people in the exam, and everything you say is empty talk.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Duan, the magistrate, and returning home, Sun Dan's vacation was also full, and he packed up his things and prepared to go back to Sun's mansion.

It is now the fifth day of the first month of March, and the government examination will start on March 25. The thirteen schoolchildren who have passed the test in Sunjia County should go to Jinan Mansion to familiarize themselves with the examination room and review their homework on the spot as soon as the school is concentrated. There is a compound in the Sun family in Jinan, which is suitable for schoolchildren.

Counting up, time is running out.

The Sun family achieved good results in the county examination this time, especially the first place Sun Dan, which caused a sensation in the county. Everyone is talking about this young genius who can read and write essays in just a month, and they say that he is a literary song star and a reincarnation.

Of course, Sun Dan only smiled faintly when he heard these gossips, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

These words can't be taken seriously at all, if they really fall into bad luck in the future, I'm afraid that these people will say that they are a waste, useless Fang Zhongyong.

Firm goals, peace of mind, and perseverance are the guarantees of success, and it doesn't matter what others say.