Chapter Seventy-Five: The Road to Rivalry is Narrow
How good it is to be a Sven person, folding a fan and shaking gently, riding a horse and leaning on the bridge, reading poetry and books at night under the lonely lamp under the moon, tasting life in the wind and snow, everything is so calm, elegant, calm, not arguing, not noisy, not angry, not frightened, watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, going to stay unintentionally, looking at the sky and clouds...... Xiao Fan has always wanted to be a Sven person, even if it is pretending, he must strive to pretend to be a Sven person, Sven represents self-cultivation and culture, in this era when scholars are the ruling class, Sven people are the most popular.
But someone has to force Xiao Fan to show his hideous true face, the sky is cheap, there is no way, people are cheap, and they can't live.
Maybe Xiao Fan mistook the readers of this era, not all of them are gentle and elegant, and they also have the hob meat that is tricky, maybe the readers of this era have mistaken Xiao Fan, Wenwen's appearance does not mean that he has Wenwen's surname...... In a word...... Xiao Fan made a move, and he said that he would beat him, without mercy.
In the screams of the scholar, Xiao Fan's fists and feet fell on the scholar's body like raindrops, beating the scholar without the strength to fight back, and he was beaten down, it was really hearty, and Xiao Fan himself was sweating.
Yuan Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and said, "Childe, don't fight, if you fight again, you will die......"
"Don't stop me, let me beat him up! It's so annoying, the tiger doesn't threaten, you treat me as a sick cat? Bullying honest people is not like you bullying, it's too much! Xiao Fan shouted while beating, looking very sad and angry.
The scholar screamed miserably, and shouted in his mouth still admitting defeat: "Good fight, just fight!" Kill me and go into the coffin, you go to the vegetable market and get stabbed, both of you save trouble......"
Xiao Fan had no choice but to stop.
This piece of hob meat is very difficult to dismiss, he seems to be looking for a bad child, and he has a very masochistic tendency, as if to escape something, Xiao Fan also did this kind of thing in his previous life, in order not to go to school, he deliberately took a cold shower in the winter, and went to the hospital to open a sick note when he caught a cold, and this is what the scholar in front of him did.
No matter what his purpose is, Xiao Fan can't entangle with him anymore, the number room will not wait for him, if the candidate is late, he is not allowed to enter at all, he can't compete with this scholar, and his future is important.
The scholar lay on the ground and hummed to himself: "You wait...... You beat the scholar, this matter is not over with you, I will go to Yingtianfu Yamen to beat the drum and tell you to go......"
Xiao Fan squatted in front of him and said with a smile: "You sue me? I ask you, do you know who I am? ”
The scholar snorted angrily: "I don't care who you are, anyway, I will tell you......"
Xiao Fan laughed evilly, stood up, kicked the scholar hard, and said coldly: "You don't know me, where can you sue me?" Reading makes the brain stupid? ”
After saying that, Xiao Fan glanced at Yuan Zhong, and Yuan Zhong nodded knowingly.
With a dashing wave of his sleeves, the two pro-army guards led the way, and took Xiao Fan into the crowd quickly and walked towards the Gongyuan.
Brushing off the clothes and going away, hiding deep with the name.
Beating people, it's that simple.
The scholar was still lying on the ground and humming, he was beaten by Xiao Fan with a blue nose and swollen face, a white robe covered with footprints, and a basket of pen and ink knocked aside, the standard victim appearance attracted the sympathy of countless onlookers.
Yuan Zhong waved his hand, and the remaining seven or eight pro-army guards shouted and drove away the crowd of onlookers.
Yuan Zhong squatted in front of the scholar and said coldly: "Don't howl, Ming people don't say dark words, we all know what's going on, you are deliberately looking for trouble, and you are not wronged when you beat you." ”
The scholar rolled his eyes miserably, looking like he was not going to die soon: "My life is on hold, this guy beats the reader, I can't survive, I can't try...... I'm going to sue him, and you, for aiding and abetting ......."
Yuan Zhong impatiently took out his waist card, and the golden waist card was engraved with "The Ming brocade clothes and pro-army are all commanding the envoys to the hundred households." ”
"See the waist card? If you have a kind, you can sue it, how dare do you have to provoke our brocade pro-army? Yuan Zhong had to take out his waist card to scare him, and Xiao Fan gave him a look, which meant that he wanted him to help settle the matter.
Although the Jinyi Wei has been abolished, the reputation of the Jinyi pro-army still has a lot of deterrent power among the people, under normal circumstances, ordinary people or scholars, as long as they see this waist card, it is a great grievance and hatred, and they dare not squeak anymore, offending the Jinyi pro-army is not a joke, and the end is not ordinary miserable.
Who knew that this scholar didn't buy it, and after seeing Yuan Zhong's waist card, he became more and more angry: "What about your brocade clothes?" I am a bachelor of Hanlin, if you dare to arrest me, we will go to the Son of Heaven to judge!" ”
Yuan Zhong was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Master Hanlin? Are you a Hallym Bachelor? Hallym Bachelor's ...... Exam Xiucai? You're not sick, are you? ”
The scholar said angrily: "Do you think I am willing? It's not His Royal Highness the Taisun who forced me to ......"
Speaking of this, Shusheng was taken aback and hurriedly stopped.
But when this half sentence was heard in Yuan Zhong's ears, he immediately understood what was going on. - This is really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and things are in trouble, it turns out that this is a great talent who His Royal Highness Taisun has worked so hard to help Xiao Fan make scrolls...... The exam-taker beat up the examiner, this thing is troublesome...... Yuan Zhong broke out in a cold sweat, he knew how much His Royal Highness valued Xiao Fan, and he knew that the Son of Heaven had decreed that if Xiao Fan couldn't pass the exam this time, he would be questioned for his guilt, and now that the exam hadn't started, the only hope for the exam was beaten up by Xiao Fan...... "This ...... This adult, I was offended a lot just now, this, hehe, haha, the so-called adults don't remember the villain, what happened just now is really a misunderstanding...... My lord, it's almost three o'clock in the hour, and the room is about to enter, so why don't we send you to the tribute courtyard, how about it? Yuan Zhong put on a flattering smile, for His Royal Highness, for the sake of Xiao Fan, who made him look pleasing to the eye, he had to help him no matter what.
The scholar didn't understand why the brocade-clothed pro-army, who had always been flying and domineering, suddenly bowed forward and bowed politely, and after a pause, he still shouted loudly: "Don't go!" No more exams! I have suffered such a serious injury, how can I deserve the hospital examination? If you don't take the test, you won't take the test, and you won't take the test......"
Yuan Zhong's face suddenly became extremely bitter.
He is a martial artist, he is not afraid of swords and swords, he is afraid of comparing his mouth with a scholar, how to persuade this talented man who has just been beaten up to participate in the college examination willingly and help Xiao Fan make papers?
Yuan Zhong was annoyed, if he was this scholar, he wouldn't go again, he had to run to help people make rolls when he was beaten, even if he was cheap, he wouldn't be cheap to this extent.
Bitter and bitter, it is easy to say, Yuan Zhong's saliva is exhausted, and the scholar is still hard to say: Don't go!
Yuan Zhongnai's surname was finally exhausted, he stood up and said coldly: "This adult, it's up to you whether you go or not, Yuan doesn't persuade you, but Yuan Mou will say again, you must be honest, you responded to His Royal Highness Taisun before, and now you are looking for an opportunity to regret it, being a man is not like this, if you don't want to, why did you promise His Royal Highness Taisun before?" You kind of reader, huh! I don't even look down on you! ”
The scholar was stunned by Yuan Zhong's words, and then a look of shame appeared on his face, and after thinking about it carefully, he finally cried and stomped his feet and said: "That's it, today I will practice the matter of His Royal Highness the Taisun, and I will go back and reason with that guy!" ”
Yuan Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and said to the guards of the pro-army under him: "Brothers, open the way ahead, and immediately send this lord to the Gongyuan, quickly!" Fast! ”
The two pro-army guards clamped the scholar one on the left and one on the right, for fear that he would regret it again, so they immediately set up the scholar and walked like a fly, and the group left in the blink of an eye.
When they arrived at the gate of the Gongyuan, the guards of the pro-army couldn't wait to throw the scholar into the door, and then threw the scholar's pen and ink basket into it one by one, clapped their hands, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The scholar is confused, he doesn't have a relationship or a reason, this group of people sent him to the tribute courtyard so kindly, and it was as fast as if his family was on fire along the way.
It wasn't until he was searched and entered the number room that the scholar slapped his head and said to himself in surprise: "How do they know that I promised His Royal Highness the grandson?" What kind of people are these? ”
Yuan Zhong kept staring at the figure of the scholar and disappeared into the gate of the Gongyuan, and then he relaxed.
A pro-army guard hesitated and said to Yuan Zhong: "Lord Baihu, if this scholar enters the number room, recognizes Xiao Gongzi, and is unwilling to make a scroll for him, what should I do?" ”
Yuan Zhong sighed and said, "That's all we can do, the rest of the matter depends on Xiao Gongzi himself, this is their scholar's business, we can't control so much." ”
Jiangnan Gongyuan.
Located on the south bank of the Qinhuai River, the center of the Confucius Temple, the Gongyuan was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, founded by the then prefect Shi Zhengzhi, the county government school examination place at the beginning, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it was the unified examination location of the hospital examination, the township examination and the examination.
There are two walls around the Gongyuan, the wall is full of thorns, in order to prevent the people of the examination from cheating, there are five built-in gates, commonly known as "Dragon Gate", take the meaning of carp jumping over the Dragon Gate, there is a horizontal plaque hanging above the three doors in the middle, the title on the middle door is "Tiankai Wenyun", the east and west two doors are entitled "Ming Jing to take scholars", "seek talents for the country", the left and right sides after entering the door, is two rows of low number rooms, and the title shed, the scholars who take the examination are one person in one room, seek fame here.
The scholars of the Tribute Academy have to check the identity of the children, and the children are eligible to take the examination, and then the children are also searched by the soldiers, in case someone is involved in fraud, after the search, each person received a small sign, the sign is written with the name of their own number room, and the number is not confused.
Xiao Fan admired it with great interest for a while, and after receiving the sign, he followed the number on the sign, went straight to the past, found his place, and then went in and sat down.
As soon as he entered the room, he felt that something was wrong.
The room is two rows into an alley, each alley is standing an invigilator official, and several soldiers patrolling back and forth, the strange thing is that he was assigned to the number room is in the southernmost part of the tribute courtyard, and the two rows of room number are empty, there is no one else except him, what is even more outrageous is that the invigilator officer and the patrol soldier are also missing, as if he, the boy who took the test, has been completely forgotten, and no one pays attention to him at all.
Thinking that after he reported his name at the gate of the Gongyuan just now, an official in a fourth-grade official robe glanced at him with a smile, Xiao Fan suddenly realized in his heart,—— most likely Zhu Yunwen had already greeted these officials, and the officials simply ignored him, and they didn't even bother to supervise the invigilator.
This is blatant favoritism! This kind of behavior is simply ...... It's so delightful!
It's really nice to have a grandson covered.
At this time, I only heard a noisy voice in front of Mingyuan Building, it turned out that it was the academic and political master of Ying Tianfu who was lecturing the candidates, and the content of the lecture was very boring, it was nothing more than praising the sages Confucius and Mencius, and then singing praises to today's son, and finally announcing the discipline in the examination room, warning against cheating, etc...... The general college examination needs to be tested four or five, the first one is called "the main field", the next few are called the first repetition, and then the repetition, etc., as the name suggests, the initial repetition and repetition, which is equivalent to the make-up examination in the previous life, the first one who fails to take the opportunity to make up the examination, if the first one can pass, the later ones do not have to take the test again.
It wasn't until after the exam started that Xiao Fan stopped looking around curiously and sat in the room with peace of mind.
After a while, a scribe came up to him, handed him an answer sheet on the table where he was, smiled at him incomprehensibly, turned and left.
The answer sheet is written with the candidate's name, place of origin, the number of the room where it is located, and even the candidate's appearance is simply described in two sentences,—— there is no photo in these years, and the person's appearance can only be simply described in words to prevent the situation of taking the test.
However, what made Xiao Fan strange was that on the answer sheet sent to him by the scribe, it was clearly someone else's name and someone else's place of origin.
Could it be that the scribe made a mistake?
Before he could open his mouth to call someone, he heard a somewhat familiar voice from the next room.
"Xiao Fan? Hum! Vulgar name, vulgar unbearable, no wonder I can't even get a show talent, and I want to help, phew! ”
Xiao Fan paused for a moment, and then understood.
The person next to him is probably the person Zhu Yunwen found to help him make the rolls, right? Since I said hello to the above, I directly sent the paper with my name written on it to the person, and he handed it in, and the whole process of taking the test went smoothly.
The person next to him was still sighing and muttering to himself, with deep guilt in his voice: "I think I am also a disciple of Confucius, and the sages tasted it: the gentleman, the powerful are not flattering, the powerful are not attached, the poor are not righteous, and they cannot deviate from the way...... Alack! I have read the books of the sages, but now I am afraid of power and have to do such dirty things, and I am really a Confucian sinner......"
The bitterness in his words was sympathetic, Xiao Fan couldn't bear it, if it weren't for the fact that the person was helping him make the papers, he really wanted to run to the side to persuade him to adhere to the principle of being a man, and not to lower his eyebrows and destroy the powerful...... It's a pity that Xiao Fan is also under pressure, and what he is pressing is Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree, so he ...... In fact, it's not good to be too principled, didn't the sage also say that rigidity is extremely easy to break? Why didn't he listen to that?
Xiao Fan decided to let him continue to struggle, wait until he finished making the paper for himself and handed it in, and then comforted him a few words.
It's just that why is his voice so familiar?
The gong struck three times, and the scribe came again, this time to issue the title.
The title is a current article, and its title says: A gentleman has himself and then asks for others, and without himself and then he is not everyone. "Poem" says: "Happy only gentlemen, parents of the people".
Xiao Fan looked at this incomprehensible topic in a daze, and he didn't understand what this topic meant.
The person next to him was speechless, thinking that he had recognized the reality, and since he had already sat in, he had to do bad things if he didn't do them.
So the person next to him sighed while answering the question, and Xiao Fan sat in the room in a daze, playing with his fingers boredly...... After waiting boringly for about two hours, Xiao Fan heard a long sigh from the person next to him, Xiao Fan couldn't help but be happy in his heart, it seemed that the guy had finished making the roll.
Xiao Fan couldn't hold back in his heart, poked his head out first, and found that there was still no one in the alley of the row room, and there was no one in the shadow, so he tiptoed out of the room quietly, looked around sneakily, and after making sure that no one saw him, he turned around and walked two steps to the right, and came to the front of the room next door,—— people were burdened with a heavy burden of conscience, to help him cheat, as a polite Ming Dynasty quasi-showman, Xiao Fan felt the need to thank him in person.
In the next room, a young man dressed as a scholar was holding an answer sheet, shaking his head and groaning, with a smug look on his face, and it seemed that he was very satisfied with the text he answered.
Since he was satisfied, Xiao Fan was of course even more satisfied.
Walking to the front of the room in two steps, Xiao Fan bowed his hand and lowered his voice: "Thank you Brother Tai for your generosity, thank you Xiao Fan a lot, and His Royal Highness the Taisun will also have a good reward for Brother Tai when he is young......"
The scholar who took the exam was interrupted by Yaxing, and he immediately raised his head and frowned unhappily and looked at Xiao Fan.
Thereupon...... Both were stunned.
......"It's you?" The two exclaimed in unison, their eyes wider than bells.
"You're the one who made the rolls for me (you're the one who just asked me to help make the rolls)?" The two spoke in unison.
Silence...... "I'm quitting!" The scholar looked inexplicably sad and angry, and shouted angrily.
Xiao Fan looked embarrassed and said, "Brother Tai is not angry, it was a misunderstanding just now......
"Misunderstanding?" The book was so angry that his face turned red: "I beat you up and then tell you that it was a misunderstanding, do you want to do it?" ”
"Don't do it!" Xiao Fan replied quickly.
The scholar still looked like he had a blue nose and swollen face, and he sneered when he heard this, but he gasped in pain again.
"Hey-let me tell you, although I promised His Royal Highness the Taisun, but you humiliate me like this today, I will fight to let His Royal Highness the Taisun blame, and I won't help you make this volume!"
With that, the scholar raised his hands and wanted to tear off the scroll he had just made.
Xiao Fan was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward with an arrow step, grabbed it with both hands, and held down the scholar's hand.
"Brother Tai can't be impulsive, this scroll is related to my future and life, don't be joking!"
"You...... You let go! Shi can be killed but not humiliated, I will never help you write a word today, I want to be a showman, hum! Let's find another smart next year! ”
Xiao Fan was so anxious that he sweated out, this scroll is very important to him, Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree is still pressed on his head, if he can't pass the Xiucai exam this time, he may be beheaded by Lao Zhu,—— the emperor is unreasonable, what can you do with him?"
"Brother, if you have something to discuss, you have to feel angry, let's hand over the roll now, you can beat me up after you go out, the roll must not be torn, I will die if I tear it......" Xiao Fan begged bitterly.
"No! If I don't tear this scroll today, how can I eliminate the hatred in my heart! I have to tear it today! "The scholar is very stubborn.
Xiao Fan's face sank, and he said, "Hey, why don't you listen to it?" You have to force me to be rude, right? ”
The scholar was furious: "Okay! It wasn't enough to beat me just now, but now in this tribute courtyard, you still dare to beat people? It's kind of you beating me! ”
"Beat you, beat you!"
Xiao Fan's eyes flashed with fierce light, this time he learned to be smart, first covered the scholar's mouth, so that he couldn't shout, and then the other hand clenched his fist, slammed, and hit the scholar's face hard, the scholar only felt a pain in his cheeks, and then there was a whirlwind of the sky, and as soon as his hands were released, the finished scroll gently floated down.
Xiao Fan's eyes were quick, he reached out and fished out, grabbed the scroll in his hand, and then carefully put it on the table in the number room, this time he finally had no scruples, Xiao Fan's heart was light, and then he covered the scholar's mouth with one hand, and beat the scholar mercilessly with the other, beating the scholar "woo" again and again.
"Tell you to pretend to be high! Tell you to touch the porcelain and stop my carriage! Tell you not to eat oil and salt! So that you don't know what to do......"
"Woo-woo-woo-"
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Half an hour later, Xiao Fan took the scroll with satisfaction and called open the locked door of the number room.
A scribe walked over, looked at him, and said, "Done?" Do you want to submit your papers? ”
"Yes." Xiao Fan had a gentle smile on his face, just looking at his appearance, he was simply a gentleman among gentlemen.
The scribe nodded, took the paper, and handed it to the examiner.
The chief examiner stood in front of Mingyuan Building, and when he saw Xiao Fan walking out, he couldn't help but show a strange gaze.
"Ahem, it's very early, are you sure you hand in the papers?"
"Yes, my lord, after the students get the questions, their thoughts are like springs of thought, and they will be done in a while."
The examiner's strange gaze grew, and after coughing dryly, he said, "Then you can go out of the Tribute Academy...... By the way, the one in the room next door to you......"
"Oh, the adults said he, that person must be an unlearned person, when the student came out, he was still sleeping on the table, the student is really ashamed of my great master out of this scum......"
"Huh? Ahem, okay, you go out, go out......"
(To be continued)