Chapter Thirty-Eight: Winning the Crown
The four students of the Yili Town School took the lead in handing in the answers, and what they needed to do was relatively simple, each copied the master's old work and then handed it over, the only thing that needed to be noted was that they could not repeat each other. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The four students of the Lushan Town School pondered for a long time, and it was nearly half of the time limit before they handed in their respective poems together.
The eight poems were scattered to the judges, and for a while there were whispers in the hall, and the eight students were in a worried mood, at this time, the first rejected poem came out, Li Jiuzhen glanced at Wang Gui sympathetically, and Wang Gui suddenly wilted, as if a vegetable leaf had been beaten by frost.
Soon, Li Jiuzhen's sympathetic gaze glanced at Tang Huai again, and Tang Huai immediately turned into a second small wilting leaf, a pair of difficult brothers and sisters listless.
The poems of the four students in the Yuli Town School are all good, but two of them obviously did not bet on the topic and wrote the scenery of the Daimyo's mansion, and they were immediately eliminated.
"County gentleman, how about watching this one?"
The presiding judge handed a poem to Liu Zhen, and Liu Zhen looked at the payment, it was "Farmer's Song" written by Yue Fei.
The red sun is scorching like fire, and the Noda rice is half scorched.
The farmer's heart is like soup boiling, and the prince and grandson shake the fan.
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Liu Zhen was startled, hurriedly covered the poem, and whispered to the chief judge: "If Li Guanren is allowed to see this poem, we will be severely reprimanded, and this poem will be invalid!" ”
After speaking, he tore off the poem manuscript with a handful of brushes, and glared at Yue Fei fiercely, he dared to write this kind of poem at a young age, and he could pay it back when he grew up.
He secretly thought in his heart, "What does a child understand, this must be taught by Yao Ding, it seems that this person must not be used again." ’
Liu Zhen originally planned to transfer Yao Ding back to the county school to teach, but when he saw Yue Fei's poem, he changed his mind again, he couldn't let Yao Ding stay in the county to harm the students, and it was best to stay in a remote village, so he dispelled the idea of reusing Yao Ding.
At this time, the county Cheng Ma Fu handed a poem to Li Kui and said with a smile: "Several of us think this poem is good, but we can get the first, please Li Guanren take a look." ”
Li Kui looked at the county lieutenant and the master bookkeeper, and both of them nodded in agreement with the county officer's opinion.
Li Kui took a closer look, and the word card was "Partridge Day"
"Partridge Day. Rainbow Spring"
The plum is not broken in the deep winter, and the lonely branches are thin and frost-resistant. The old peach and plum are left unattended, and Xiao Xiao in the snow knows the water. After the light rain, the early spring returns, and the sun and news return from the sky. Thanks to Dongjunli, Qiongrui bud is fat overnight.
This poem is the proud work of Lu Yun, the master of the Yuli Town School, and was used by his students to compete for the championship.
Li Kui nodded, "The old peach remnant plum is unattended, and Xiao Shu in the snow knows the water, these two sentences are well written, a little interesting, but the whole poem is slightly frivolous, the idea is poor, and the narrative is more than reasonable, so it can be rated as second." ”
Ma Fu and the others looked at each other, they were all stunned, and Ma Fu asked, "I don't know who Li Guanren thinks can be the first?" ”
Li Kui handed them the poem in his hand, "Look at this one by Li Yanqing!" ”
Tour Li Wen Village
Mo laughs at the farmer's wine, and the guests are full of chickens and dolphins in the harvest year.
Children know the warmth of the day when they see each other, and their clothes are simple and ancient.
Xiao Gu followed the Spring Society, and the drunkard was helped back to the village.
The green branches are full of flowers, and I know that it is the stubborn grandson who fights the grass.
Ma Fu was dumbfounded, everyone circulated it, and the hall was shocked for a while, Li Kui nodded and praised: "Being able to read such interesting poems is not in vain for my trip to Tangyin County." ”
Liu Zhixian immediately announced that the Lushan Town School won the debate competition, and the four partners of the Lushan Town School immediately hugged each other excitedly, and they finally won the final victory in the ring.
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When the news of the Lushan Town School won the championship, the crackling firecrackers immediately sounded around the Tang Ji Inn, accompanied by people's cheers.
There are more than a dozen small servants carrying large baskets, and the villagers have thrown money into the baskets, rich businessmen have invested several times, and poor husbands and servants will also invest more than a dozen dollars to show their hearts, and finally accumulate more than 100 yuan to donate to the school as a school funding.
"It's coming! Here it comes! ”
Hundreds of villagers crowded around the ox cart towards the inn, and when the four children came out of the ox cart, the villagers rushed up and carried the four of them high and threw them into the air one by one, cheers, applause, laughter and firecrackers resounded through the inn.
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The celebration continued, but the four of them were not blessed to enjoy it anymore, and after a sumptuous dinner, they were locked in the room by the master again and began to prepare for tomorrow's exam.
"Actually, don't worry too much!"
Tang Huai burped, simply put his feet on the table, and said proudly: "Generally speaking, if you win the ring match, the overall situation is basically decided, unless the bitter children in Tangbei Township have collective diarrhea like last year, otherwise the final leader will not be able to escape our palms." ”
"Why?" Li Yanqing asked puzzled.
"Because the content of the exam is very simple, that is, the Meditation Sutra, from the "Book of Filial Piety", "Analects" and "Mencius" three books to extract fragments of the Meditation Sutra, we have memorized it well, what are we afraid of?"
"But some people can't recite it!" Yue Fei glanced at Wang Guidao.
"What's my business!"
Wang Gui muttered in a low voice: "You have studied for five more days than me, of course I am stronger than me, even if I am killed now, I will not be able to carry so much." ”
"It's okay! It's okay! ”
Tang Huai waved his hand with a big grin, "Anyway, in the end, only the results of the three people are counted, and even if Lao Gui hands in the blank papers, it will not matter." ”
"Really?" The three of them asked in unison.
"Of course it's true, I didn't count my results last year, don't I know?"
Wang Gui cheered, "Go read the book!" ”
As soon as he threw away his pen, he went to his room to read, and he was going to read it for the second time today, and he wanted to read it word by word.
Tang Huai was also about to follow, but was grabbed by Yue Fei, "You can't go, stay and endorse well, in case you fail the exam, our leader will really be gone." ”
At this time, Li Yanqing saw the guy poking his brain at the door, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter with Brother?" ”
"There are people looking for petty officials outside, just waiting in the lobby."
Li Yanqing turned back to the two of them and said, "You guys start first!" I'll come when I go. ”
Li Yanqing came to the front yard and saw a man in a soap-colored short coat sitting in the lobby, and Li Yanqing recognized him at a glance, it was the entourage who had given himself medicine at the beginning.
Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Why is the uncle here!" ”
This man was Zhizhou Li Kui's entourage, and when he saw that Li Yanqing was quite polite, he returned the salute and smiled: "It doesn't matter if Li Shaolang's injury is serious!" ”
"Thanks to Uncle's medicine, it's fine."
The man nodded, "My family official asked Shaolang to talk about it, I wonder if Shaolang has time?" ”
"No problem! Go now? ”
"The carriage is waiting outside."
Li Yanqing turned around and asked the man to send a message to the master and his partners, and then got into the carriage, and the carriage slowly left the inn and headed south of Tangyin City.
Li Kui has been living in the home of a retired official eunuch in the past two days, the old master's surname is Zhou, he was once the Ministry of Rites Langzhong, and now he has returned to his hometown, and his family's house is also one of the best in Tangyin County.
Li Kui had nothing to do this afternoon, so he played chess with his master in the study.
At this time, the entourage reported at the door, "Qiqi official, Li Shaolang is here." ”
Li Kui put down the chess pieces and said with a smile: "I saw a little prodigy at the children's meeting this time, I am quite interested in him, let's meet him together!" ”
The master knew that this was a kind word, so he got up and took his leave under the pretext that there was something else to do.
After a while, Li Yanqing was led into the study, and he stepped forward and bowed, "Yanqing see the big officials!" ”
Li Kui waved his hand and smiled: "Feel free, let's sit down and talk." ”
At this time, the servant woman came up with two bowls of tea and a few snacks, Li Yanqing looked around, but did not see the little lady Jiuzhen.
Li Kui understood, and said with a slight smile: "The little girl got a Zhiwei vernacular novel out of nowhere, and I have been fascinated by it for the past two days, this is the second time I have read it, and I don't pay attention to her when I ask her to eat, and I am probably hiding in the room to read at this time!" ”
Li Yanqing said apologetically: "It should have been sent to her by my friend, and the officials also saw it that day, so I'm really sorry." ”
"It's okay, it's a good thing to like to read, and besides, it's all snow and ice outside, I'm afraid that she will get cold when she goes out to play, so staying in the room is just what I want."
Li Yanqing smiled, although this Li official was in a high position, his tone was gentle and his attitude was friendly, so that Li Yanqing didn't feel the pressure of official authority, and only felt that he was chatting with a generous elder.
Li Kui pondered for a while, and then asked: "Shaolang is only six years old, and he knows that he is a scholar and a scholar, and he can be described as a young man, I think this should be because of Shaolang's deep family education, I don't know who Ling Zun is?" ”
This is what Li Kui is interested in Li Yanqing, what kind of father can teach such a young genius, of course, talent is necessary, but family learning is equally important, his own little daughter is the best example, only four years old can write poetry.
Li Yanqing hesitated for a moment, and then said, "My father's name is a big thing. ”
'Li Daqi! ’
Li Kui felt that he had heard this name somewhere, he had only been in office in Xiangzhou for two years, and he didn't know about the Cizhou imperial examination case that year, but he had just read some files by chance.
Li Yanqing knew that some things could not be avoided, as long as Li Kui had a little contact with the local officials, he would know about his father's past, and it was more advantageous to say it himself than to let him know it from others.
Li Yanqing mustered up the courage to ask: "Have the big officials heard of the Cizhou imperial examination case five years ago?" ”