Hearing this, a warm current suddenly rose from Sun Dan's chest.

He used to be single, and he didn't have a girlfriend, so he was used to being lonely. Now that I suddenly have a family, I can't accept it emotionally for a while. But seeing the gentle and considerate woman in front of him, he suddenly realized that he was someone's fiancé, the head of the family, and a man. Even if he resists this feudal arranged marriage, it is not a reason to shirk the responsibility on his shoulders.

"Nothing to be sorry about." Sun Dan got up from the bed, walked in front of Zhi Niang, carefully looked at this woman who was still very strange to him, and said softly: "Actually, it's you who are really sorry. I have made you suffer for the past three years, it is my incompetence, and the responsibility lies with me. I'll go over there in the cloth shop, you were tired all night last night, take a rest first, and wait for me to come back from changing rice. ”

After saying that, he snatched the cotton cloth that Zhi Niang put on the floor and rushed out.

"Hey, let me go, or let me go, you're a big man......"

"What about big men, big men have to eat." Sun Dan smiled heartily, straightened his body, and went far.

As long as Sun Lang doesn't have a rickety back like in the past, he really looks like a tall pine tree.

Looking at Sun Dan's back, Zhi Niang suddenly felt unfamiliar. Yu Sun Dan has been together for three years, although there is no skin relationship, although Sun Dan suspects her father of plotting to seize the Sun family's property and has a deep hatred for herself, but the two have stayed together for a long time, and they are very familiar with each other. In Zhi Niang's view, Sun Dan in the past was just an unconscious big child. But today's Sun Dan, whether he speaks or does things, is calm and calm, and has the demeanor of a mature man.

Thinking back to hugging Sun Dan during the sandstorm before, recalling the strong masculine atmosphere on his body, and then thinking that the funeral period of his father-in-law has expired, and he is about to marry Sun Dan in the near future and become a formal husband and wife, Zhi Niang can't help but be a little stupid.

With his memory, he went to the shop that belonged to him but now belonged to the quasi-father-in-law of the Ten Thousand Butchers, and Sun Dan handed over the cotton cloth in exchange for twenty literary wages. Twenty yuan is not much, relying on the purchasing power of the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and then converting it into the yuan of later generations, it is only twenty yuan. But this money can buy ten catties of rice, which can be eaten by his branch mother for three or five days.

It can be seen that the owner and men of the cloth shop are very sympathetic to Sun Dan, the former landlord, and are also very polite to Sun Dan.

Sun Dan didn't care much, it was just a small shop, and when he won the promotion and gained fame, he was afraid that the 10,000 butchers would send the title deed to the door. When the time comes, my Sun Dan will be an official, and the butcher will be a people, and it will be too late for me to confront me.

With food in his hands, he didn't panic in his heart, and with twenty copper coins in his arms, Sun Dan's heart was much more stable. As he walked towards the rice shop, he pondered what to do next.

It is now the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, and the New Year has just passed. And this year is the fifteenth year of Zhengde, and the age is in Gengchen. If you decide to take the path of the imperial examination, the time will not be good for you.

That's because there will be no imperial examinations this year, and there will be no ones for the next year.

In the Ming Dynasty, if a scholar wanted to take the imperial examination, he had to go through four steps: the boy examination, the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination.

Among them, the township examination is the most important, which is held every three years in the provincial capital where the candidate is located. As the name suggests, it is a person who is recommended by the local government to enter the city to participate in the examination, and after being admitted, the emperor will grant an official position.

Of course, even if they fail the examination, ordinary people are qualified to be officials. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the official who raised his son did not kneel, and he could enjoy the privilege of being exempt from all taxes and servitude. At that time, when ordinary people saw him, they would call him master, and he could be regarded as a figure in the system, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty.

The identity of the person is so important, and it is a triennial exam, and the number of places for each admission is also very limited. This shows how difficult the township test is. But once admitted, even if he was poor before, he will be transformed into an idol that thousands of people look up to.

Because of this, there is a saying that thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge.

For the exam, Sun Dan is not worried. He went from elementary school to university, and finally took the civil service examination, which can be said to be three or five times a year, and the on-the-spot experience is much richer than that of ordinary Ming Dynasty scholars. Besides, he has a huge amount of information in his head. One of the most useful is that he collected thousands of eight-strand essays from the Ming and Qing dynasties, from the thirteenth year of Zhengde to the last imperial examination of the Guangxu year, the questions and model essays of each exam were collected.

With this powerful cheat, if nothing else, you can go all the way to the palace test.

But the problem is that it is now the fifteenth year of Zhengde, and there is no imperial examination this year.

If you want to be able to win in the short term, you have to wait two years to change your life. The past two years have been enduring for Sun Dan.

However, it's better to wait two years for the exam. If nothing else, Emperor Zhengde will die in August this year, and Emperor Jiajing should continue to take the throne next. The new emperor ascended the throne and as usual, he wanted to open Enke.

The significance of Enke is very significant, once he is admitted to the Jinshi, he is called the protégé of the Son of Heaven, which is very beneficial to his future.

Well, it seems that I can only endure it for the time being, and rely on a show first.

Xiucai, a special name for scholars who read the Four Books and the Five Classics. In order to obtain this qualification, one must be admitted to the Sho or Tong Tong Examination. Regardless of age, those who should be tested for children are called children. The Boys' Examination is held once a year in March of that year. As long as there are talents in the examination, they can obtain the qualification of the examiner.

There is not much time, and if you want to clear the customs all the way, it is no longer possible to directly take the Jinshi examination.

The meal should be eaten one bite at a time, the road should be walked step by step, and it should be done first to make a show, and feel the atmosphere of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Dan is full of confidence in the future, and the current difficulties in life are simply a trivial matter worth mentioning to him.

There is still more than a month between now and the first children's exam, and it is still too late to prepare now.

Of course, as a cautious person by nature, Sun Dan felt that he still faced two problems. First, he can't write traditional Chinese characters, he can read them, but he can't write them. This requires a lot of practice, otherwise once you take the exam, your pen will be full of simplified Chinese characters and you will definitely be treated as a typo. The imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty did not require any calligraphy, but if there was a typo in the examination paper, it would be brushed down immediately. Don't let the horse stumble and capsize in the gutter.

It looks like I'm going to start practicing a lot of handwriting in the next month.

Before that, you have to find a dictionary and compare the two.

The second problem is actually more urgent---- Sun Dan was illiterate in the past, but now he is suddenly able to write and draw, and he also participates in the imperial examination. If it spreads, it will definitely be regarded as a monster. Even if you are a prodigy, you have to find a teacher to learn "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names" for a few years. Well, now a big illiterate person can suddenly write eight articles overnight, isn't it abnormal?

The purpose of Sun Dan's imperial examination is just to change his life, and he doesn't want to become a monster. Calm and calm, mediocre and peaceful, is his life principle.

Besides, there is a circle of scholars and certain rules. Even if he wanted to take the boys' exam now, he couldn't sign up.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that if a scholar wanted to take the children's examination, he needed to find five scholars to guarantee each other, and he had to find a student to recommend him in order to obtain the qualification for the examination.

This rule is not a problem for ordinary readers, anyway, when the time comes, just pull four students to sign up together. As for the recommenders, most of them are their teachers, and most of the teachers who can be private school teachers are at the first level.

Children, talents, lifters, jinshi.

This is the hierarchy of readers.

For Sun Dan, he must enter the academy within more than a month and enter the circle of readers. Then I spent this month reading all the subjects taken by the scholars of the Ming Dynasty and was admitted to Xiucai.