Because he is poor, he doesn't even care about thieves.

The people of Splendid City get along very harmoniously with each other, no one complains that life is too poor, and no one thinks of changing this poverty.

When Mei Xiaohan walked in front, the child followed behind. Stop-and-go, the child followed for miles.

"Whose child is unforgiving?"

The child smirked, but did not speak, and stretched out his dirty little hand, only to see that he was holding a handful of small golden bumps tightly in his hand.

Mei Xiaohan's eyes lit up, but when she looked closely, it was corn kernels.

"Uncle... Your stuff is gone! ”

Mei Xiaohan squatted down, pointed her finger at the corn kernels and said, "What do you guess this is?" ”

The child innocently replied, "Could this be gold?" ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "This is much more expensive than gold!" ”

"One grain... Two, three, four..."

"That's thirteen in total!"

Mei Xiaohan held the corn kernels tightly in one hand and pulled the child forward with the other.

"Uncle, it's not far away to the village where I live!"

"How far is it?"

"Two more sticks of incense will be there!"

Mei Xiaohan said: "Child, I warn you!" Don't ask me if I'm happy! ”

The child was a little timid and said, "Are you very unhappy now?" ”

Mei Xiaohan was speechless for a while, and the two stopped and stopped, and finally arrived in the village when the sun was about to set.

When I was about to enter the village, a stone stele was engraved with the words "Yuelong Village".

The total population of this village is only about 100 people, and there are 20 or 30 households.

There is no village chief, only a patriarch. The patriarch was an old man with gray hair and a wooden cane. Walking tremblingly, looking around at the entrance of the village. He was used to this, day after day, year after year, standing at the entrance of the village.

When he was older, he never left the village again.

Whether it's windy or sandstorming, the patriarch will appear at the entrance of the village.

Today he ushered in another stranger, when Mei Xiaohan and the child came from afar, the patriarch's eyes narrowed into a line, and suddenly his mouth opened wide.

This small village called "Yuelong Village" has not seen a foreigner for more than 80 years, and the last time the patriarch saw a foreigner was a child under the age of ten.

The vicissitudes of life have changed, and the former "Yuelong Village" was once prosperous, and there have been many jinshi.

In 605, the Sui Dynasty first entered the Shike and was regarded as the beginning of the imperial examination.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the "Jinshi Branch" was only one of the various subjects in the imperial examination, and the test was poetry. Because Jinshi is a regular subject, and it is the most difficult to obtain, it is the most noble, and its status has become the first of all subjects.

When Mei Xiaohan walked into the boundary of "Yuelong Village", she felt a sense of desolation.

When he saw Mei Xiaohan, the patriarch nodded and asked, "Little brother, where are you from?" ”

Mei Xiaohan also said bluntly: "I'm from Nanshan..."

The patriarch clasped Mei Xiaohan's hand and said, "The old man thought that he would never see a foreigner again in his life. ”

I have been away from my hometown for a long time, and I have been half-worn recently. Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze does not change the old waves.

He Zhizhang of the Tang Dynasty resigned and returned to his hometown in his later years, with complex feelings, feeling the changes and unchanged of his hometown, and making this poem with feelings about the changes in life, the vicissitudes of time, and the rights and wrongs of things.

Ying Mei Xiaohan entered the village, and the patriarch invited Mei Xiaohan into his courtyard.

Mei Xiaohan said: "I don't know, why is this village called Yuelong Village?" ”

The old man said: "Yuelong Village, formerly known as Yuelong Village, was once under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, because of the many talents in the regular scientific examination, it was changed to a dragon by the emperor, and it was designated as Yuelong Village!" ”

There are more than 50 kinds of subjects in the regular course, such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, Ming Calculation, etc.

Among them, the subjects of Ming Law, Ming Calculation, and Ming Characters are not taken seriously. Junshi and other subjects are not held often, and Xiucai is a subject, which was very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, and later gradually abandoned.

Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi became the main subjects of the Tang Dynasty.

After Tang Gaozong, Jinshike was especially important to the people. Many of the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty were mostly Jinshi backgrounds.

There are two sources for candidates in the regular course, one is a student and the other is a village tribute.

Born from the Jingshi and the state and county schools, and sent to Shangshu Province, the subjects are called apprentices; Not by the school hall but first by the state and county examination,

And then send the Shangshu Province test takers to call Xianggong.

Those who enter Beijing from the township tribute are generally called lifters. The state and county examinations are called the Jiekao, and the examinations in Shangshu Province are commonly known as the provincial examinations, or the Ministry of Rites examinations.

The Ministry of Rites Examination is held in the spring, so it is also called Chunqiu, which is also the meaning of the examination room.

The most important of the regular subjects is the Jinshi department, followed by the Ming Jing department.

The Ming Classics Department is mainly the memory and understanding of Confucian scriptures, the admission rate is about one-tenth, and it is relatively easy to pass the examination.

But Jinshi has a great future and a bright career.

Half of the prime ministers in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were Jinshi. Jinshi was the preferred way for scholars to enter the profession at that time.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the Jinshi department, and Wu Zetian personally examined the Jinshi in the palace, creating a precedent for the "palace test". In the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi branch was in a dominant position.

There have been more than 100 jinshi in Yuelong Village, and many of them have served as officials in the court, but this is all in the past.

The patriarch said: "The rise and fall of the world is a natural law, so it is not to be sighed!" ”

"However, the grain crops planted cannot be harvested, I don't know if it is a heavenly punishment, or if there are demons to worship, this is really unknown!"

Mei Xiaohan said: "Can't all the crops you grow be harvested?" ”

The patriarch said: "The harvest is very weak! ”

Why is that? When did this change begin? ”

"In the past ten years, it was okay at first, but with the gradual reduction of agricultural production, the villagers realized the seriousness of the problem! Until now, the agricultural harvest has almost disappeared! ”

"The wizard said that this is the punishment of the heavens for Yuelong Village! It needs to be sacrificed with a living person! ”

Mei Xiaohan was a little creepy when she heard this, and confirmed: "Use a living person to sacrifice? ”

"And it must be a boy and a girl, only the soul of a child can suppress the demon!"

Mei Xiaohan was a little frightened and said, "This is too ignorant and ignorant!" ”

"It's also a last resort! Otherwise, God will be angry! ”

The child said: "In three days, a sacrifice will be held in Yuelong Village. ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "Whose child is it this time?" ”

The patriarch shook his head and said, "The young people in the village are gone, and only some old, weak, sick and disabled people are still left in the village, where are there any children!" ”

The child said, "Fortunately, I am sick, otherwise they would have been arrested and sacrificed!" ”

The patriarch said: "The villagers of Yuelong Village are almost gone, and now they no longer use living sacrifices, only clay figures instead, and deal with things!" ”