Chapter 17 The Boy Takes the Exam

Back in the courtyard, Zhu Wenguang arranged a room for the Yun family brothers and sisters, and a few people entered the hall, and there were six or seven people sitting in the hall, who were Zhu Qiang and other military men. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info everyone saw that the uncle was back, and they hurriedly got up to salute. Zhu Wenguang said that he didn't need to be polite: "How is the injury?" ”

The man with the knife on his back smiled: "Thank you uncle, I am worried, the injury is not a big deal, but the numbness is boiling badly, and I am only recovering now, and I am still a little weak." ”

Zhu Qiang was relieved and said: "It's okay, prepare the table later, and let's drink a few more glasses tonight." ”

Zhu Qiang, they call Zhu Wenguang the uncle or the eldest master, and Zhu Wenzhong is called the eldest brother. It is also their own friendship, and people with merit and fame must be respected, this is something engraved in the bones of everyone in this world, and they can no longer be as slacking off as when they were children, including Zhu Wenyuan, who has to call the fourth master when he sees it, even the old people of the clan and foreign families are no exception.

Originally, a few military men in the hall were chatting and reminiscing about the past eventful years, despising the lake bandits to be vulnerable, and now Zhu Wenguang's brothers are back, and they can't find a common topic after a few simple greetings, and they seem a little dull in less than a quarter of an hour, Zhu Wenguang is also interested, and they are not comfortable talking when they come, so they go back to the room to read, and Zhu Wenyuan also explained and went back to the wing room to read.

There is a group of soldiers and Zhu Zhenguo left in the hall, and Zhu Wenyuan must have taken Zhu Zhenguo to study in the past, but he saw his nephew Wencai on the way, but he was not as strict as before.

Zhu Zhenguo saw that the two elders had left, and said, "Uncle Qiang, I want to learn martial arts, what should I do?" ”

Zhu Qiang listened to it and said, "The little boy still wants to learn martial arts?" Learning martial arts is hard. ”

"I'm not afraid of hard work, it's too easy to study, I always have to find something to do, but also to keep fit, and I have a self-protection in case of trouble. I am afraid that if I sit and study for a long time every day, I will become a bloated master in the future. Zhu Zhenguo felt that what he said was reasonable.

"It's not difficult to learn martial arts, I'm not good at martial arts, and the little boy will go back to find your second uncle." The eldest brother has superb martial arts, and he was also a well-known master in the border town at the beginning, and there are few enemies in the rivers and lakes. Zhu Qiang said with a little admiration.

"The second uncle doesn't want me to learn martial arts, and I don't know why, no matter how much I persuade him, he doesn't want me to learn martial arts. Besides, the second uncle's leg disease is also a little inconvenient. Uncle Qiang is willing to teach me, I must study hard and not be afraid of hard work. "Zhu Zhenguo's current idea is to fool the elder brother first, not to mention that this master's martial arts have also been seen with his own eyes, and he is definitely also a master.

"The eldest brother doesn't want to teach the little boy, and I can't teach it even more, the eldest brother is angry and I can't bear it, don't look at the eldest brother's foot disease, it is not a problem to cut me off my head within a few steps of a long knife." It seems that Zhu Wenzhong has also accumulated prestige for a long time, and Zhu Qiang heard that Zhu Wenzhong did not teach, and he did not dare to make decisions at will.

Hearing this, Zhu Zhenguo was stunned, it seems that he still has to go back and start with the second uncle, since his martial arts are so powerful, it is a waste of such a good resource not to inherit his martial arts.

In the evening, a few adults ate and chatted, but the two wounded could not drink, so they sat down to eat at the small table with Zhu Zhenguo, and there were two brothers and sisters of the Yun family on the small table. Although the dish is not a delicacy, it can be regarded as a country feast of big fish and meat, the brother and sister were still a little restrained at first, but after Zhu Zhenguo sandwiched the dishes into the bowl of the brother and sister a few times, the two also let go of their hands and feet and devoured them.

After eating his belly, Zhu Zhenguo asked clearly that the boy's name was Yun Shuhuan, and after careful questioning, he also knew that Yun Shuhuan was eight years old this year, and he had really read a few books, and he saw that the name of Yun Shuhuan was not obtained by ordinary people.

Zhu Zhenguo also wanted to inquire about the details of the two brothers and sisters, and asked slowly and step by step, and also figured out that the two brothers and sisters turned out to be the sons and daughters of a salt merchant family in Jingli Mansion, which was considered a wealthy family, but because of the officialdom, the umbrella above fell, and the Yun family was also unlucky. I think there are also people who operate behind and sell the brother and sister far away. The dark things can only be analyzed one or two, and there must be all kinds of filth in them.

I got up early the next morning and Zhu Zhenguo flipped through a few books, but I read them carefully, and the exam will be tomorrow, so it is necessary to be familiar with it. In the afternoon, I took my two brothers and sisters and a little servant, took a few pieces of silver and went to the street to buy a few clothes that fit the brother and sister, I can't always look dirty.

In the evening, Zhu Wenyuan called Zhu Zhenguo to him, and slowly explained the matters to be paid attention to in the exam, first talking about the answering skills, and there was no skill in the children's exam, that is, reciting the silent fill-in-the-blank questions. The main skill is to do what you can do first, let go of what you can't remember, and think about what you didn't do before when everything else is done.

As for the things other than the answers, I explained a lot, such as less water when grinding ink, so as not to expand too much on the paper after writing, and the handwriting looks ugly, and to avoid the words from appearing too light, resulting in the font not having a sense of vigor and power.

For example, if the inkstone is placed a little farther away, be careful to knock over the dirty roll of paper, and it will be a big trouble. If the brush is dipped in ink, you must brush it more, so as not to stain the roll paper with too much ink. You must think about it and then write, it must be necessary to scribble and change, and Mr. Marking is the most dislike of scribbling and changing test papers.

Zhu Zhenguo really didn't think of these things before, but the fourth uncle reminded him, and he also kept it in his heart silently, and he couldn't be careless. Don't lose points because of this kind of thing, it will be worth the loss.

In the turn of the day, the Wenguang and Wenyuan brothers and Zhu Qiang sent the exam together, and they felt that they attached great importance to it. When you get to Xiucai, you have to test the Tijing first, and then test Moyi. If you take the examination of people in the autumn season, you must test the scriptures, Moyi, and questions.

Moyi is to make his own understanding and elaboration of the words of the saints in the four books, which must not only be ornate in rhetoric, but also accurate in understanding, and also require strict format, the meaning is in "speaking on behalf of the saints", and must be written in accordance with the thoughts of the saints, and cannot deviate from the scriptures. Therefore, the question is to randomly extract a passage from the words of the sage in the four books, and then answer the question.

The question is similar to the argument of the modern civil service examination, which probably tests the opinions and countermeasures of various political affairs of the country. Most of the questions were some current affairs issues of the imperial court at that time.

The examination room is next to the county government, Zhu Zhenguo and his entourage are considered to have arrived slowly, and many people have already gathered at the entrance of the examination room, most of them are surrounded by a few elders and a half. Of course, there are also older people who come alone, and generally older scholars are still taking the children's exam, and they will also be laughed at. When it came to the Xiucai exam, there were even graying beards who were still taking the exam, and Lao Tongsheng described this kind of person.

Zhu Wenyuan carefully checked the pen and ink inkstone in Zhu Zhenguo's basket, paper cannot be brought, Zhu Wenyuan took out a few high-quality brushes one by one and brushed them on the back of his hand a few times, feeling that there was no problem with the pen and nodded and put it in the basket.

Zhu Zhenguo is not familiar with this scene at all, the college entrance examination in his previous life is much better than this one, and he lifted the small basket prepared by Zhu Wenyuan and stood forward. After a while, the door of the examination room was opened, and two officials walked out, and then the drums sounded, and the time to enter the room was up. Zhu Zhenguo didn't look back and walked in.

Entering the gate is a large courtyard, and there are several people wearing official uniforms sitting opposite the courtyard, and the one sitting in the middle is Yang Renfu, the head of Zhixian County, that is, the seat teacher of Wen Guang and Wenyuan, and it is no surprise that he will also be the seat teacher of Zhu Zhenguo in the future.

Everyone lined up for the roll call. The one who was called by name walked a few steps forward, and then waited for the official to check and search his body. Dahua is extremely strict with the imperial examination, if cheating is caught, the light will be cut off all fame and will not be allowed to take the test again for the rest of the life, and the heavy will be sent to the prison or conscription. If the major fraud case of conspiracy between the top and bottom is discovered, it will be a rolling head, and there have been major cases in Dahua about 400 years, from a county to a county of Xuezheng and down to the county, and it is a river of blood.

When Zhu Zhenguo stepped forward to check, the focus of the audience was immediately attracted, and the quiet courtyard suddenly emitted many whispers and buzzed.

"It's ridiculous that a six-year-old child also came to the exam, and I don't know if I can hold the pen...

"Yes, yes, I don't know what the examiner thinks, it's ridiculous that these six-year-old children are allowed to sign up."

"It's not, isn't it the people of Zhujiazhuang who want to be in the limelight."

For a while, the discussion became louder and louder, but Zhu Zhenguo wanted to laugh when he heard it, thinking in his heart that he had to give you an insight into what a genius is.

The voices of discussion came and went, and the students who knew each other on the left and right were talking to each other, until the magistrate shouted a word of silence before stopping.

After the inspection, each person received a wooden sign, and through the side door was a row of bungalows, each of which was only the size of two tables, with walls on three sides and an opening on one side, just enough for a candidate to sit in it, and put something next to it.

The room is open to one side of the path, and there will be officials patrolling back and forth to prevent fraud.