According to the practice of previous years, the government examination in Baoding began in early April. The prefectural examination is a slice examination in Baoding Prefecture, that is, a joint examination of several counties and several counties.

This year, candidates in Qingdu County will take the exam together with the four counties of Boye County, Tang County and Wan County, and the time is set for mid-April. Therefore, Zhou Zhi only needs to rush home in early April, so that from now on, he will have almost a month to study and study in the Liujia Academy.

Originally, I planned to study here for a month and then go home, but now I have more time. But although the time is abundant, Liu Yu's requirements for Zhou Zhi have not relaxed at all, but have increased Zhou Zhi's reading and composition.

It turned out that he only wrote one article in the evening, but Liu Yu asked Zhou Zhi to complete two articles every day in the following days, and these two articles must be completed carefully and carefully. Liu Yu carefully reviewed the comments, and if Liu Yu was slightly dissatisfied, he would lose his temper with Zhou Zhi, and then patiently advise.

In this way, Zhou Zhi's reading and learning are even more intense.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhi has long adapted to this kind of intense busyness, and immerses himself in the sea of books every day, but it is a unique taste of happiness.

Strict teachers produce high apprentices, and Zhou Zhi is still very adaptable to Liu Yu's character. Because of Liu Yu's guidance in place, Zhou Zhi added a little more respect to Liu Yu.

The days passed quickly, and it was the end of March in a blink of an eye, and in more than a month, Zhou Zhi almost read all the books in Liu Yu's house, including various subsets of scriptures and histories, as well as various excellent current texts.

The level of Zhou Zhi's composition seems to have been greatly improved. In Liu Yu's words, among his students, Zhou Zhi's articles are outstanding, one of the best.

Zhou Zhi read his own articles and felt that there was a great change from a month ago. At this time, the horizon seems to be broader, the words seem to be more accurate, and the structure and layout of the article are more reasonable.

However, what made Zhou Zhi very depressed was that what could be fought with Zhou Zhi's article turned out to be an article written by Yang Jinshan.

In Zhou Zhi's impression, Yang Jinshan should be a person who does not learn and has no skills, and he came to study with Liu Yu because he just wanted to have a good reputation as a student of Liu Yu.

Could it be that this Yang Jinshan has opened up his mind in this month and made rapid progress? If Yang Jinshan really made such rapid progress, I am afraid that in the government test, not to mention Liu Long of Boye, this Yang Jinshan is a strong opponent.

What makes Zhou Zhi most angry is that whenever he meets Yang Jinshan, Yang Jinshan always raises his head high, pouts and says disdainfully, "The progress of the first month of Zhou's case is not small!" Zhou Da's head cheated out during the county test and got the head of the case, but I don't know if Zhou Da's head was so lucky when he took the government test?

Hum! If you learn with real talent, I'm afraid that your Zhou Da case will be the first enemy of me, Yang Jinshan. ”

For a while, Yang Jinshan has received a lot of praise from Liu Yu, and he is arrogant and unstoppable.

Zhou Zhi didn't pay much attention to a small role like Yang Jinshan from beginning to end. But he has already made up his mind, and he must be taught a hard lesson in the future.

But the more he got to the end, the more arrogant this guy became, and he had to make noise in Zhou Zhi's ears almost every day, and he spoke coldly to Zhou Zhi, full of contempt. This made Zhou Zhi have to observe Yang Jinshan carefully.

Liu Yu asked students to write articles in the evening every day, and they had to submit them to him for review early the next morning. Just after a few days of observation, Zhou Zhi discovered a secret of Yang Jinshan.

Yang Jinshan's article was not written by him himself, but by his scholar Wu Feng. In this way, Wu Feng is a master, and Yang Jinshan came to Liu Yu this time just to ask for a reputation.

For Yang Jinshan's secret, it was none of his business, and Zhou Zhi didn't want to expose him. But on this day, Zhou Zhi had just arrived at the academy, and Sun Gong said in Zhou Zhi's ear, "Brother Zhou Zhi, what kind of enmity do you have with that Yang Jinshan?" When you didn't arrive just now, Yang Jinshan had a good speech.

said that the strange thing about your county's trial case was that Chen Guangyao, the magistrate of Qingdu County, revealed the question to you in advance. He said that Chen Guangyao is not a good official, and he is cheating!

Brother Zhou, brother believes in you, but it's not okay to always let this Yang Jinshan bury your brother behind your back! The reputation of these brothers is very bad. ”

It's just a matter of insulting himself behind Yang Jinshan's back, after all, Yang Jinshan is a villain, and Zhou Zhi can barely endure it for a while, but this time he even brought Chen Guangyao, a teacher from the county magistrate, with him, which made Zhou Zhi unacceptable.

Chen Guangyao, the county teacher, can be regarded as a kind of acquaintance with himself. Besides, letting Liu Yu accept such a garbage student will not be good for Liu Yu's reputation in the future.

Damn! It seems that this kid died on his own. Then don't blame me for being rude.

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Tonight, Liu Yu still came up with a question as usual, which is a very simple topic in "Spring and Autumn": The wise man wins when the two armies fight.

Liu Yu walked around the school hall a few times, suddenly his face sank, and said, "Today's essay topic is simple, the old man will comment on the spot, whoever finishes writing first will hand it over to the old man!" ”

After Liu Yu finished speaking, he simply sat down on the Taishi chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Obviously, Liu Yu is a little abnormal today. But Zhou Zhi's heart is like a mirror, hehe! The teacher seemed to still believe my words, and he was very angry with Yang Jinshan!

Zhou Zhi peeked at Yang Jinshan, and sure enough, he saw Yang Jinshan's bewildered look, and he scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously.

It takes more than an hour to polish an article. For this kind of simple topic, Zhou Zhi naturally solved the problem very easily, and then the writing and thinking flowed, and the pen was flying, and the article was handed in in more than half an hour.

Liu Yu nodded lightly after looking at it, very satisfied.

Soon after, the rest of the students also submitted their essays.

Liu Yu also went out today, carefully reviewed them one by one, and made some comments.

"Yang Jinshan, it's just you, have you ever written an article?" Liu Yu stood up abruptly and asked with a cold face.

Yang Jinshan was so frightened that his hands holding the brush were trembling. He stood up slowly, touched his head with one hand, and muttered, "If you return to your teacher, I will ...... I have a terrible headache and nausea today, my brain seems numb, and I haven't written it yet!

However, the teacher should actually be the most reassuring to me, an article like this, if it is normal, it will definitely be completed quickly! ”

Hearing Yang Jinshan speak like this, everyone looked at each other and was puzzled. Yes, according to Yang Jinshan's talent, isn't it a piece of cake to write such an article? But he was still in good spirits in the evening, how could he have a headache now, is there something strange about this?

Zhou Zhi was silent.

Liu Yu was slightly stunned and said, "Okay, since you are not in good health today, then hand in the article tomorrow!" ”

"Thank you!" Yang Jinshan said busily.