"Second brother, do you know where your grandfather is fishing?"

Out of the living room, Zhao Yulong helped Li Hongyu to his bedroom, ready to let Li Hongyu sleep, Li Hongyu suddenly stopped in front of the bedroom door, opened his mouth and asked him in a whisper, his eyes were clear and drunk.

"Hmm!" Zhao Yulong couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and nodded subconsciously, quite surprised by the sudden change in Li Hongyu.

You must know that Li Hongyu has never taken the initiative to talk to him over the years, even if he is the first to speak to Li Hongyu, Li Hongyu will fall silent after two sounds, after all, Li Hongyu's personality is more introverted.

"Take me to my grandfather." Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, because Zhao Guangfeng deliberately avoided the Zhao family, he had never seen Zhao Guangfeng in his impression.

Li Hongyu knew very well that the reason why Zhao Guangfeng didn't see Zhao was because there was a stuffy gas in his chest, and only by getting this stuffy out of the father and daughter could they reconcile as before.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, Zhao Guangfeng has actually forgiven Zhao in his heart, after all, Zhao is his only daughter, and the so-called deep love is hateful, but time is indeed easy to dilute everything, and his mood has calmed down for more than ten years, and he must be extremely concerned about the widowed Zhao family.

At the beginning, Zhao and Li Renhai couldn't even enter the house when they came, until Zhao and Li Renhai came to the door with Li Hongyu in swaddling clothes, Mrs. Zhao felt sorry for her daughter, son-in-law and grandson, and asked Zhao Wenhan to open the door and welcome the Zhao family into the house, and Zhao Guangfeng did not object.

In any case, Li Hongyu is Zhao Guangfeng's grandson, how could Zhao Guangfeng watch them stay outside in the ice and snow and get frozen, Mrs. Zhao's approach just found him a step down.

Later, although Zhao Guangfeng did not see Zhao and Li Renhai behind closed doors, he did not prevent the couple from entering the house, and these changes were major positive factors for the father and daughter to reconcile.

The reason why Li Hongyu was in a hurry to handle this matter was because he realized that he might not have time to spend on the reconciliation between Zhao Guangfeng and the Zhao family in the future.

The county test will be held in February, and if everything goes well, the prefectural and hospital exams will be held in April, and the township exams will be held in August.

Regardless of whether Li Hongyu can be lifted in the township examination, he will be relatively busy in the next time, if the middle lift will definitely go to Beijing to participate in the examination to be held in March next year, if he fails to win, he will be busy with the business of the Li family's three rooms, and he must take precautions to prepare in advance if there are more places to use money in the future.

Outside the city of Xiangyang, on the banks of the Hanshui River.

In a secluded place, an old man in Tsing Yi about sixty years old man wore a hat and fished leisurely by the river, looking at the fish floating on the water while slowly pouring wine into his mouth, he was Li Hongyu's grandfather Zhao Guangfeng.

Not far from Zhao Guangfeng's side, a polite young man is holding a book and reading it attentively, he is Zhao Yuxin, who accompanied Zhao Guangfeng, has already won the fame of Xiucai, and is seizing the time to meet this year's "science examination" presided over by the University of Academic Affairs, and can only participate in the township examination after "recording the subject".

It is worth mentioning that not everyone who has won the fame of Xiucai can participate in the examination, and those who are fortunate enough to participate in the examination are the best among the students, and the examination to obtain the qualification for the examination is called the "scientific examination".

The results of the subject examination are usually divided into six grades, and only those who are at the top of the first, second and third classes can participate in the examination, commonly known as "admission subjects".

The examination is held once every three years, presided over by the students of each province, and is conducted together with the college examination, and if you miss it, you can only wait for another three years.

Among the children of the Zhao family, the hard-working Zhao Yuxin is the most promising person, but contrary to Zhao Yuxin, Zhao Yulong has no interest in reading, and he is messing with people from three religions and nine ranks, which makes Zhao Guangfeng shake his head and sigh.

"Big brother, my mother asked me to exchange you for going back." A carriage drove over and stopped on the side of the road behind Zhao Yuxin, Zhao Yulong got out of the carriage and said to Zhao Yuxin, who was concentrating on reading.

"Grandpa, I'll go first." Zhao Yuxin immediately got up, bowed down to say hello to Zhao Guangfeng, and got into the carriage and left.

"Grandpa, this is the good wine that my aunt brought, and my mother asked me to bring it to you to taste." Zhao Yulong sat next to Zhao Guangfeng, and shook a small jar of wine in his hand at Zhao Guangfeng with a smile, "If you don't drink it all the time, you will have to cheapen me." ”

Saying that, Zhao Yulong opened the sealing mud on the small wine jar, and a refreshing aroma of wine suddenly spread, Zhao knew that Zhao Guangfeng loved to drink, so he specially prepared a few jars of good wine for him.

"Don't fill it up for grandpa yet!" Zhao Guangfeng's nose sniffed, and he handed the wine glass in his hand to Zhao Yulong with a smile, and his alcohol addiction was immediately led out by the aroma of wine.

It's strange to say, although Zhao Yulong seems to be a little "unlearned", he has the best relationship with Zhao Guangfeng among the children of the Zhao family, and he can coax Zhao Guangfeng to be happy every time, not as dull as Zhao Yuxin.

"Is your cousin's body okay?" After taking a sip of the wine in the wine glass, Zhao Guangfeng asked quietly.

He naturally knew that Li Hongyu almost died when he fell into the water last year, when Zhao Wenhan and his wife went to Baihe Town to visit Li Hongyu, after all, they were the Zhao family's mother's family, and once something really happened, they would definitely stand up for the widowed Zhao family.

"My cousin is fine, but I miss my grandfather." Zhao Yuxin smiled when she heard this, "Grandpa, it's been all these years, your anger should be gone, my aunt has not had a good time over the years." ”

"It's not your aunt's own fault, a good family doesn't have to marry those businessmen who chase fame and fortune." Zhao Guangfeng's face couldn't help but change slightly, and his words seemed a little angry, if the Zhao family followed his arrangement, the family would not have been widowed for many years and worked hard to keep the property of the Li family's three houses.

"Grandpa, in that case, you won't be able to see your grandson!" At this moment, a loud voice came from behind Zhao Guangfeng.

Zhao Guangfeng frowned when he heard this, turned his head to look back, and saw a gentle and elegant young man standing there, it was Li Hongyu who came with Zhao Yulong.

"Yu'er has seen grandpa." Seeing Zhao Guangfeng turn around, Li Hongyu knelt on the ground with both knees bent and gave Zhao Guangfeng a big salute.

"You...... Are you Yu'er? Zhao Guangfeng couldn't help but put down the fishing rod in his hand, and looked at Li Hongyu with some surprise, it was the first time he saw Li Hongyu in so many years, and he was very surprised.

"Grandpa, Yu'er will prove to you that my mother's original choice was not wrong, Yu'er will definitely take the test and win the fame, I hope my grandfather can forgive my mother at that time, my mother has been thinking about my grandfather." Li Hongyu raised his head and said solemnly to Zhao Guangfeng.

"You want to be a lifter?"

Zhao Guangfeng suddenly showed a look of surprise when he heard this, and felt that Li Hongyu seemed to be confident about the matter of lifting in the middle of the mountain, as easy as finding out for things, which made him feel very surprised.

Therefore, in Zhao Guangfeng's eyes, Li Hongyu looks a little arrogant, you must know that his two uncles have not yet been promoted.

"Yu'er knows that her grandfather is a Confucian in Xiangyang, but to be honest, Yu'er doesn't want to take the imperial examination, in Yu'er's opinion, eight misleading countries and harming people, if it weren't for the love, Yu'er would not have taken the imperial examination, and would rather go overseas to study and learn about overseas culture."

Li Hongyu nodded first, then shook his head, and said to Zhao Guangfeng, who was staring at him, seriously.

Poof, Zhao Yuxin, who was drinking with a wine glass, squirted out the wine in his mouth when he heard the words, and looked at Li Hongyu with a shocked face, he never expected Li Hongyu to say such earth-shattering words, you must know that Zhao Guangfeng in front of him is a person, and Li Hongyu is not belittling Zhao Guangfeng by doing this.

"Haha......" was out of Zhao Yuxin's surprise, when he was worried about how to comfort Zhao Guangfeng, who was annoyed by Li Hongyu, Zhao Guangfeng stared at Li Hongyu for a while and suddenly laughed out loud.

Zhao Yuxin was stunned for a moment, and he found that Zhao Guangfeng was smiling happily and did not look like he was angry, which made him confused, and some of the second monks were confused.

A subtle smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, of course he came prepared, he had already inquired about Zhao Guangfeng's experience and personality, so he said what he said before.

"Tell me, how did Bagu mislead the country and harm people?" After laughing for a while, Zhao Guangfeng looked at Li Hongyu with interest and asked, to be honest, no one has ever dared to speak like this in front of him.

"Grandfather, Emperor Hongwu founded Bagu just for the convenience of taking the exam, but later generations gradually solidified it, forming a set of rigid styles, imprisoning the minds of readers, unable to show real talent, but used by some opportunistic people."

Li Hongyu pondered for a moment when he heard this, and said in an orderly manner, "In Yu'er's opinion, if Da Ming wants to prosper, he must first innovate the Eight Shares, otherwise he will not be able to give Da Ming a truly talented scribe!" ”

Bagu was created by Emperor Hongwu, and the Bagu Wen at that time can only be said to have a basic feature of the Bagu Wen in later generations, that is, even sentences: that is, the previous sentence raises opinions or questions, and the next sentence explains or answers.

This style of writing was very suitable for interpreting the Four Books and Five Classics at that time, and there was no more suitable for answering questions than even sentences at that time, otherwise the Baguwen would not have been developed and would definitely be eliminated.

According to the law of history, everything has a development process from simple to complex, Baguwen gradually developed and perfected from the initial duality, and finally formed a fixed style in the Chenghua period, and the names of the parts that make up the Baguwen are:

There are a total of 12 components, including breaking the question, undertaking the topic, the original question, sending fan, entering the question, comparing one or two to two, outgoing the question, three or four ratios, passing the connection, five or six ratios, seven or eight ratios, and large knots.

Among them, "Fa Fan" is the "starting speech" in the later Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the Bagu Wen in the true sense of the Ming Dynasty actually originated from the Chenghua period, and the imperial examination before that was not the real Bagu Wen.