Sun Yuan's decision to participate in the county examination was just to take advantage of the situation, compared to the war-torn north. If you want to get ahead in the calm and wealthy Jiangnan region, you must study and take the imperial examination. Because of this, the status of scholars in society is extremely high. It can be said that the mainstream society in the Jiangnan area is composed of scholars, or squires who are born as scholars.

If you want to make a career in the here and now, you have to enter this circle. Even if you can't get into it completely, you have to get in touch with them.

However, looking at the situation in front of you, if you don't make the list, you won't be a student in the county, and you will rely on this backer. Maybe as soon as the county test is over, he will become Leitai's fish.

After all, he has been out of society for so many years, and in his work in his previous life, Sun Yuan has seen too much of this kind of villain, and he has no doubt about this person's determination to take revenge on him.

"Then, this time the county has to mention the spirit of 10,000 times. However, although the county examination seems to be only the level of the high school entrance examination in later generations, it is not so easy to pass it smoothly. Moreover, the knowledge system of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty and modern people are fundamentally different things. ”

Thinking of this, Sun Yuan frowned unconsciously: "From tomorrow, there are still three days until entering the examination room." Three days, is it too late? ”

Anyway, give it a try.

Later, Sun Yuan was also a famous university scholar majoring in Chinese, and he also dabbled in Chinese studies.

Now that time is pressing, it is not the time to suffer from gains and losses, so it is better to prepare for the exam earlier.

Sun Yuan went to visit Du Lisheng again to ask for advice on the precautions for the county examination and the writing method of Baguwen.

Du Lisheng heard Sun Yuan say that it was the first time to participate in the imperial examination, and he seemed very enthusiastic. I heard him say that he had never learned Bagu writing before, and when he was afraid of handing in the blank paper after entering the examination room, he couldn't help laughing, and said, Bagu writing is difficult to say, but it is actually simple. As long as the format is correct, you know the meaning of the scriptures, and you can put pen to paper.

Hearing him say this, Sun Yuan frowned, and he knew the eight-strand text format. Speaking of scriptures, I also studied them when I was in college, so I am not unfamiliar. But it is not so easy to really pick up the pen to write articles, and to use classical Chinese.

Sun Yuan's concerns Du Lisheng didn't know, after all, he also came from that stage.

couldn't help but sneer, with a look of arrogance: "It's just a county test, what's the big deal." When you enter the examination room, you will find that there are many old children in their fifties and sixties, and even children in their sixties and seventeens. Six or seven-year-old children have only been in the past few years, and it is estimated that they have just memorized the four books and five classics, what articles will they write? So, you don't have to worry, just go for the test. Can't write...... Just copy it. Isn't it well said as the saying goes, if you are familiar with 300 Tang poems, you will be able to chant poetry if you can't chant it. ”

As he spoke, he threw a copy of Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books" and several copies of the "Collection of Essays" in front of Sun Yuan. Said, according to the imperial examination system, the scope of the examiner's questions is in the four books annotated by Zhu Zi, and you have probably read this book, so you can familiarize yourself with the scriptures.

As for the writing of the Bagu essay, memorize these four collections, and after entering the examination room, according to the topic and format, pick some appropriate sentences from the collection, change the appearance, and put together a paragraph from the east and west, and the article will not be completed?

"Is that okay?" Sun Yuan was dumbfounded.

Du Xiucai snorted: "The county exam is just to test whether your foundation is solid, as long as the format is correct, there will be no big forks in the scriptures, and most of them will pass." Anyway, it's just a formality, and there is no academic and political patrol, and the magistrate says that if you do a good job, you can pass the test. The formal imperial examination has to start with the prefectural examination. ”

"I see!" Sun Yuan suddenly realized and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If it is really as Du Lisheng said, the county test is not as difficult as he imagined.

It seems that for those who came to study in ancient times, the county examination is only afraid that it will not even be counted as the high school entrance examination, that is, the level of small promotion. I was born in 985 anyway, not to mention anything else, just the ability to analyze and synthesize is much stronger than the ancients didn't know.

I stood up and thanked Du Liao for growing up.

borrowed Du Lisheng's book, and went to the street to buy a set of four treasures of the study, and spent three coins of silver, so Sun Yuan hurried home.

There are still three days left before the county exam, and because of the shadow of Lei Tai hanging over his head, he has to hurry up and review his homework. Originally, it was very troublesome to rush home from Rugao County, and it was best to live in my sister's house. However, Sun Yuan couldn't get used to his brother-in-law's philistine face, and he was worried about his mother, so he decided to go home.

Jiangnan Water Town, go out by boat. On the boat, Sun Yuan roughly flipped through the books that Du Lisheng had lent him.

As for the compulsory subjects for the imperial examination, "Four Books" and "Five Classics". I learned many of the articles in the four books when I was in middle school, and I read them systematically when I was in college, and I don't feel unfamiliar. As for the "Five Classics", anyway, I only need to pass the county exam, and the county exam will not produce the Pentateuch questions, so I don't care.

The imperial examinations of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "Four Books" annotated by Zhu Xi, have also been contacted before, and now they only need to read it cursoryly. Anyway, most of the studies of Chinese studies in later generations are also based on Zhu Xi's scriptures, and there has not changed much.

As for the writing of Baguwen, it is a little difficult for Sun Yuan at this moment. It's too late to start learning now, so I can only follow Du Lisheng's method and memorize these model texts first. When the time comes, I'll just put it together randomly.

The "Collection of Essays" that Du Xiucai lent him was the winning article in the Jiangsu Academy Examination in the past two years, with a total of more than 60 articles in three major books. The Ming and Qing dynasties have a limit on the number of words, generally between 500 and 800 words, and the format requirements are very strict, accurate to the extent of how many words are needed for each paragraph and what words to use at the beginning. In this way, these three collections have a total of about 30,000 words, and it is not so easy to memorize them all.

As soon as he saw the book in his hand, Sun Yuan's head was big.

Moreover, the time is also extremely urgent, can you memorize it? Even if you memorize all of them, how to write the eight-strand essay is a great difficulty.

But on second thought: instead of feeling sorry for myself here, I might as well hurry up and memorize two articles. If you don't do anything, it's dead, and it's better to do it than not to do it.

I think back to when I first entered college. After the intense college entrance examination, there was no one to supervise me in college, so I immediately relaxed mentally and only cared about playing all day long, and it was only in the first week of the final exam that I began to panic. So, take out a book that I haven't read a page, learn it from scratch, memorize it from scratch, and pass it differently when I get to the final exam, that's seven homework!

It can be seen that liberal arts are not like science, once the homework is pulled down, you can't make up for it if you want to.

In the humanities, most of these things need to be memorized by rote.

……

On the boat, Sun Yuan read two eight-strand model essays, tried to memorize them again, and found that his memory was not bad, and this kind of thing was also very easy to memorize. After all, Baguwen has a fixed format, and many articles are also different in terms of structure and writing techniques.

Moreover, in the process of memorizing, Sun Yuan found that he had a preliminary understanding of the writing of Baguwen.

Thinking of this, he perked up: Perhaps, the county exam is not as difficult as I imagined, and I can still fight it! Isn't it just four books for three days, but it's better than the last week of the first semester of college. That's seven courses: Modern and Contemporary Literature, Ancient Literature, Modern Chinese, Ancient Chinese, Writing, English, and Literary Theory......

By the time I got home, it was already the middle of the night.

Sun Yuan beat the tolerance and committed such a big thing, in the eyes of ordinary people in ancient times, it really broke the heavenly capital. Tolerance represents the authority of the county yamen, how Sun Yuan was caught by the yamen, even if he didn't die, he had to take off a layer of skin.

Sun Yuan's mother thought that Sun Yuan had fled, but she didn't want her son to return home in the middle of the night, and her face was suddenly pale with shock, her lips trembled slightly, and she wanted to say it, but she couldn't say anything.

Sun Yuan, who was worried about his mother, naturally knew about it, and said, "Mother, it's okay, the matter is over." ”

"It's over, how can it be, our Sun family is just ordinary people, and there is no way. Now that you have offended the presumptuous, how can this matter be so easy to pass? The mother had a sad face on her face, and said in a panic: "Yuan'er, are you not relieved that your mother is back again, go quickly, go quickly!" ”

As he spoke, he was anxious to leave Sun Yuan and go out.

Sun Yuan grabbed his mother's hands, felt the roughness of her palms, felt a sadness in his heart, and said with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, it's really fine, I looked for my brother-in-law this morning." The brother-in-law is from the city, and he also knows the master in the yamen, so he spent some money to open the joints, so that his son can come home. ”

At least in the past few days, he is safe, and he doesn't dare to come to his mother's trouble, otherwise he will destroy the county test ceremony of Zhouzhi County and destroy the achievements of the county lord.

This matter is in the past for now, but he has caused more trouble with Leitai. This point, for fear that his mother would worry, Sun Yuan would not tell her.

"Your brother-in-law...... How is it possible, you are lying to me again, how much money can your brother-in-law have, he cares about the silver tightly, how can he be willing to ......" The mother still refused to believe it and kept shaking her head.

Sun Yuan smiled: "Mother, you are mistaken brother-in-law, he seems to be stingy on the surface, but he is not an ambiguous person when he encounters big things, after all, I am his brother-in-law." He doesn't care about his brother-in-law's affairs. This time, in order to get through the joint, my brother-in-law can be said to have taken out all the savings of previous years, and asked me to bring money to my mother, saying that I would let you pay this year's taxes before you should pass. ”

As he spoke, he took out the money he had left and stuffed it into his mother's hand.

Seeing the silver, Sun Yuan's mother believed it. This is more than one or two pieces of silver, enough for a country family for a year, not from the son-in-law, who can it be.

She wiped her eyes, tears flowed down, and she shouted a few times, "It's good that the matter has passed", and said: "In times of trouble, you can see people's hearts, although your brother-in-law is cold on weekdays, but after all, he is a family, of course the family has to help the family, I used to see that he was not good to your sister, and I misunderstood him." ”

"Mother is right." Sun Yuan couldn't say anything, so he nodded again and again, only sneering in his heart: Zhou Quan, this villain, is just right now. In time, once my Sun Yuan gains power, if he bullies his sister again, he will be good-looking!

Heaven also took pity on me Sun Yuan, who was alone in my previous life, and reincarnated as a human being, giving me a loving mother and a sister who really cared about me. When a manly man is in the world, he has to protect his family and deserve a decent life.

If I can't do even the most basic one, am I still a traverser?