"You want to take the imperial examination and want to be an official?" The moth jumped up suddenly, stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, and looked at Wu Jie in surprise: "Do you know how to write and make a fuss......

As soon as the words came out, she suddenly remembered the situation when Young Master Wu splashed ink yesterday when he wrote the letter of resignation, and she was stunned.

"Yes."

"But...... When you were in Nanjing, it seems like you only read for a year......"

"One year is enough, isn't it just to write eight strands of current writing, and it's not a big deal." Wu Jie suddenly touched his chin and said, "I am indeed confused in my heart, and people seem to be stunned by the devil." It doesn't mean I don't understand, it's just that I can't say it. When I was at home in Nanjing, wasn't I locked up in the library by my father? But whenever I was awake, because I couldn't go out, I pulled out the books on the shelves to read. For more than ten years, I have read all the books in my family. The so-called reading has broken 10,000 volumes, and the pen is like a god. Now that people are normal, all their knowledge has returned. No matter what the text is, the pen will have it. ”

After speaking, he read: "The so-called sincerity of its intentions, do not deceive yourself, such as the stench, such as lustful, this position is humble." Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious of his independence. This is a passage from "The University". Self-cultivation is the way. If you are virtuous, you will not be confused. kiss, then the fathers and brothers do not complain. Respect the minister, then do not dazzle. The body of the ministers, the reward of the scholars. The people will persuade the people. This is "The Mean"...... Do you need me to read it? ”

In fact, Wu Jie, the two books "University" and "The Mean", only started reading yesterday when he was sure that he would embark on the road of the imperial examination, and he memorized these two sentences, and if he continued to recite them, he was about to be exposed.

"Wow!" Suddenly, the moth let out a loud cry.

"What's wrong with you?" Wu Jie was so startled by the moth that he jumped out of bed.

"Master, master, it must be your blessing in the spirit of heaven." Moth knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the spiritual position of Wu Jie's parents in the shrine in front of him: "Moth is illiterate, although he doesn't know what the young master is reading, but he is definitely endorsing it." If the young master is really the material for reading, and he can really get a fame, it will be a great joy. Originally, the moth who couldn't see hope was enough, if it weren't for the young master's loneliness, if it wasn't for the love of the past, the moth wouldn't be able to last a day. But I never expected that the eldest young master would be enlightened now. The slave maid was happy and sad in her heart, happy that the young master had such great ambitions, and if he had a future interest, it would also be my blessing. Sadly, studying for the imperial examination has always been a matter that costs a lot of money. The family is so poor, what do you rely on to support a scholar? ”

Tears fell on the floor in a row, and they became wet in an instant.

Hearing Mozi mention the hardships and hardships of the past, Wu Jie was also a little sad in his heart. Laughing and pulling her up from the ground: "Moth, don't cry. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and I have my own way to deal with money. If you're hungry, get something to eat. ”

After a few words of comfort, it was not easy to calm the little girl down.

Mozi suddenly pushed open the door and rushed outside: "No, I have to buy a few books for Gongzi, and the four treasures of the study must also be prepared, this money can't be saved." ”

Wu Jie shook his head with a wry smile: "Don't make lunch anymore?" ”

"It's important."

"By the way, go to the county government to inquire, what is the next county test?"

"Hey."

"By the way, buy a big white goose and come back."

"It's important, don't worry about eating."

"I'm not trying to eat goose meat, it's useful."

"Got it."

After a while, Mozi came back with a big bamboo basket, which was full, "The four treasures of the study, and the books have been bought, I don't know if it is suitable for use?" ”

"Books, what books did you buy?" Wu Jie looked at it for a long time and couldn't help laughing. There is a set of "Four Books" annotated by Zhu Xi, but most of them are idle books such as novels, such as "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and even a "Golden Vase Plum", which is still illustrated and beautifully bound.

"What kind of mess?" Wu Jie remembered that "Golden Vase Plum" was published in the Longqing and Wanli periods, but he didn't expect that it would have been released on the market now. But if you think about it, historical records are not necessarily true. It is now the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, and it is only a few years away from the Longqing Dynasty, and it is normal to have a few years of discrepancy.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Wu Jie's evil smile, Mozi couldn't help but stick his head over, and couldn't see the clue after staring for a long time: "The bookstore owner said that this book sells the best, this is the last one, and I am going to keep it for myself. However, the more expensive the book, the better, so I bought the most expensive one. Why, this book doesn't work, what is it talking about? ”

"It's not that you can't see it." Wu Jie said: "This is a storybook, about talented and beautiful women...... Well, that's not right, that's the kind of thing? ”

"What kind of thing?"

"It's a big official named Ximenqing, who seduces a woman from a good family."

"Phew!" Moth's face was red with shame, and he scolded: "I don't think that boss is a good person, he has a bad smile on his face when he sells books to me, and it's so expensive." No, I'll return the book immediately. ”

The more she spoke, the more excited she became: "You have to smash his sign." ”

"No, no, it's not bad to look at it." Wu Jie suddenly asked curiously, "Why did that boss smile at you just now?" ”

The moth was so ashamed that he couldn't wait for a crack on the ground to get into, so he hurriedly escaped: "Young master, I went to the yamen to ask, this year's county test is on February 9th, and it's not a few days away, by the way, the goose has also been bought." I'll kill right away, are you going to eat braised or steamed? ”

"Braised it, by the way, pluck off all the big feathers of that goose and give it to me." Wu Jie: "I don't want to eat goose meat. ”

After reading a few pages of "Golden Vase Plum", just as I was looking into the alley, the moth washed the goose feathers and sent them.

The reason why Mozi was asked to buy a goose was because Wu Jie wanted to make a few quill pens to record something useful.

The so-called good memory of the surname is not as good as a bad pen, and some things are better to record. Especially those questions from modern society that will be used in the next few years, such as the Boys' Examination, the Township Examination, the Guild Examination and the Palace Examination.

There is no way to bring all the electronic information to the dream, so you can only memorize it first, and then record it here little by little.

Originally, his calligraphy was also very good. But the speed of such a thing as a brush is really not enough, and it is not as fast as a hard pen.

In those years, there was nowhere to buy pencil pens, so I had to settle for the next best thing and make a few quills by myself.

Moreover, for the sake of secrecy, he replaced all the written materials he recorded with the phonetic alphabet. Writing pinyin with a brush always feels a little weird.

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