Chapter 2 Martial Arts
There is a river in front of the door and a mountain behind the house.
The Liu family's house is located at the eastern end of Sai Wan Village, which is located on the edge of a rice field between mountains and water.
The village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, guarding the ferry of the river in front of the county, forming a small bazaar, Xiwan Village is also called Xiwan Town, the village has a cross street, shops on both sides.
With such conditions, most people in Xiwan Village are in a good situation.
The sky was still dark, and the morning breeze was cold.
Liu Jun walked slowly around the drying field in front of Liu's house, digesting the countless mixed memories he received last night. He crossed over, although it was a little unbelievable, but it was the truth.
It's not a reality show, it's not a dream, it's not a prank, it's all because he took a bronze mirror for a long time last night, although it was a little blurry, but it still made him understand that this was not him at all. Or rather, he is no longer the same person he used to be.
Liu Jun was born in the 80s, born in a poor peasant family in the south of the Yangtze River, and his memory of being a child is that he was poor, in addition to being able to eat well, he even wore patched clothes all year round, and most of them were given to him by his cousins.
My mother was bedridden all the year round, and the river was next to her, and nine out of ten years there was a flood that flooded not only the fields but also the houses, and the family had to live in a warehouse on the high ground at the head of the village.
The most vivid memory is that my father often rode that broken bicycle to go to relatives' houses to borrow money, and sometimes he had to run all over his relatives' houses to borrow enough money for tuition or medical expenses of one or two hundred yuan.
Liu Jun barely graduated from high school and did not continue to study, although he was also admitted to an ordinary university at that time, but his family could not afford to support him. My sister graduated from junior high school with excellent grades, but in the end she went to study as a teacher, just to study a few years less and make money as a teacher after graduation.
After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the army and served as a soldier for seven years. After the recruit training was completed and he went down to the company, he took the children to the company commander for two years. Then he worked as a driver for the battalion commander, for another three years, and then promoted to a non-commissioned officer as a squad leader for two years, and then he couldn't do it and was discharged.
After retiring from the army, he worked as a security guard in a shopping mall, watched the scene at night, and also served as a bodyguard for the boss, and finally drove a taxi by himself, collecting scrap, until he later had his own scrap acquisition station, and then the business gradually got on track, with a net worth of tens of millions, and became a township representative, a county commissioner, and a figure in a small county town, and then went to participate in a blind date event for Wang Lao Wu, and then went to the Ming Dynasty.
In the second half of the night, I had a headache for a long time, and then countless memories appeared in my mind, which seemed to be the memories of the original owner of this body. Liu Jun, Liu Jun, the names of the two are almost the same, in later generations he is a thirty-five-year-old diamond king Lao Wu, and Liu Jun in this life is just twenty years old, more than six feet tall, slightly taller than him in later generations, but his body is very strong, and he does not have the impression that the people in the Ming and Qing dynasties are thin and weak.
It was just dawn, but there were already early children leading the cattle to graze the cattle, some villagers who had risen earlier had even returned from walking around the fields, and some women had also come back with baskets to pick fresh vegetables from the vegetable fields.
When they passed by the door of Liu's house, they looked at Liu Jun stunned and greeted him.
"Erlenzi, when will you be back, I haven't seen you for a long time." The fat aunt in the west of the village greeted him with a smile and handed him a cucumber with thorns and dew that had just been picked from the vegetable garden.
"I just came back, this dish is fresh and tender." Liu Jun took the fat aunt's cucumber and replied with a smile.
After a while, the gentleman of the private school in the village walked over with his hands behind his back, and when he saw him, he also stepped forward to greet him, "Brother Jun, you have a chance, now you are a martial artist of Wei Wuxue, you have to be given a towel, enjoy preferential exemption from miscellaneous miscellaneous labor, and you are already a martial artist." How about it, do you plan to prepare well in advance when you come back this time, wait a few days to participate in the martial arts examination, and win the qualification for the township examination to take the martial arts examination. ”
This Mr. Zhao is an old gentleman in the village private school, Liu Jun was also enlightened under him at the beginning, Mr. Zhao is an old talent, but unfortunately he has not been promoted for many years, so he has been teaching and educating people with peace of mind. Liu Jun's father, Liu Xiu, is a peer with Mr. Zhao, and he is also an old talent, and he also teaches in the village school.
As soon as Zhao Xiucai said, Liu Jun remembered that he was still a martial artist.
The general students refer to the students of Fuzhou County School, that is, the students of Confucianism, the Ming Dynasty is the imperial examination plus the school system, Fuzhou County School is the official school, not everyone can read, you must be admitted to the Xiucai before you can enter the school, and the county and state schools are not upper and lower, the Xiucai do not need to read from the county school to the state school and then to the government school, they are not up and down but parallel, generally speaking, after the Xiucai enter the school, in addition to the middle and tribute, generally do not graduate, but in the official school for a lifetime.
Of course, Xiucai is not for life, they also have to participate in the school's monthly and quarterly examinations, as well as the annual examination hosted by the school administration. Especially in the annual examination, the results of the examination are divided into six grades, and if Xiucai takes a sixth-class exam, he will be deprived of his Xiucai's fame.
Liu Jun's father, Liu Xiu, is an old showman, and he is also a food showman, and he can still receive six buckets of rice every month, but he usually has a name in school, and only when the monthly exam season is the annual exam, he will go back to school to take the exam, and he usually doesn't have to stay in school, he can have his own job.
And Liu Jun, a martial arts student, is a student in martial arts, called Wusheng, but not Wu Xiucai. Because of the Ming generation, although there are martial arts, but the opening time is not fixed, and there has always been only the township test and the meeting test, so there are martial artists and martial artists, but there is no martial arts and martial arts. Even the Ming Dynasty never had a palace test four years before Chongzhen, and there was no martial champion, until the fourth year of Chongzhen, the palace test was opened, and the martial champion was selected.
However, at the time when the imperial court was running Confucianism, it also established martial arts schools in the northern and southern capitals and local health centers to recruit those young military attachés and the young children of those hereditary military attachés.
Martial arts students have the qualifications to participate in the martial arts examination, and the martial arts examination, like the Wenju examination, is a qualification examination for the township examination.
The number of civil and martial arts students in the Ming Dynasty is very large, but the number of participants in the township examination every year is limited, and the number of reference students in the township examination in Wenju provinces is about four to five thousand, while the number of reference martial arts students in the township examination in Wuju provinces is only about 1,000.
But at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the number of talents in the country has reached a massive number of more than 600,000, so it is necessary to hold a scientific examination before the township examination to determine the qualification quota. Only the top five in the first, second and third classes can participate in the township examination of that year.
In the final of the 600,000 talents, only about 20,000 were qualified to participate in the township examination to compete for about 2,000 places, and in the final examination, about 4,000 or 5,000 people were raised to compete for 300 jinshi places, and then 300 jinshi competed for more than a dozen Shujishi places.
The acceptance rate of the martial arts test is slightly higher, but it is also one in a hundred.
Liu Jun is now a martial artist of Huangzhou Weiwuxue, and this year is the year of the township examination, next year is the year of the examination, and this year's scientific examination is about to start.
Liu Jun smiled slightly, noncommittal.
In fact, although he inherited a lot of Liu Jun's memories, it was only a partial memory, and he was still a little dizzy, let him participate in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was a martial arts, this was a bit too nonsense. According to the memory he obtained, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty was actually still based on the examination of literature, and even the martial arts examination had special regulations, first test the strategy, if the results were not qualified, they were not even eligible to take the bow horse.
Let him go to the archaeological generation to set up some marching formations, banners and drum orders, and all kinds of military books and battle strategies, it will really be difficult for him to die. Fortunately, the Liu family's family situation is not bad, at least not the destitute people who woke up and found that their homes were surrounded by walls and had no food overnight.
Wusheng, although he is not a Xiucai, he also has a scarf for a student, and he enjoys the same treatment as Xiucai, he can see the official without kneeling, and he can also be exempted from the privilege of the second ding of the household.
"Brother, it's time to eat." Bao'er stood at the gate and shouted from afar.
Yahuan called the young master's brother, and Liu Jun was also drunk.
At first, he thought this girl was his sister.
However, after integrating Liu Jun's memories, he realized that the Ming Dynasty originally did not allow ordinary civilians to own slaves, just as ordinary people were not allowed to wear boots and merchants were not allowed to wear silk earlier. But gradually, it changed.
Ordinary people are not allowed to own slaves, so change the name and keep slaves in the name of adopted sons and daughters, anyway, they sign a contract of sale, but they were originally sold into slavery, and now they are adopted sons and daughters. However, since it is in the name of an adopted son and daughter, of course the title at home must be changed.
The servants of the maid ring called the masters along with the children of the master's family, calling the master father, calling the mother mother, calling the sons brothers, and calling the girls sisters.
It's good to get used to it, Liu Jun said to himself, then waved his hand, signaling that he heard it, and slowly walked home.
The morning of May is extremely cool, next to the north bank of the county front river, stands the old house of the Liu family with blue bricks and green tiles, which is three rooms wide, and is the front hall, the patio, and the back hall in turn.
The main gate hangs the stone carving plaque of Liu's two words, and there are eight immortals pilgrimage carved on the front square of the gatehouse.
The high wall of the Liu family's house is closed and self-contained, the horse's head and corners are scattered, and the white walls are elegant and generous, reflecting the architectural style of Jing Chu in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The exterior of the house is a blue brick door, a brick carved window, and a wood carved pillar. There are also various colorful paintings combined with dark eight immortals, auspicious grass, landscape paintings, and bird pictures, which make this building even more beautiful.
This house reflects the difference of the owner's family everywhere, and there is an elegance in the wealth, not the feeling of a rural landowner, but a low-key elegance, with a bit of elegant cultural atmosphere.
There is a hollow carved gatehouse in front of the foyer of the house, and there is a lattice fan screen in the foyer.
On the exterior walls of the wings on both sides of the well, there are more vivid lion head columns, which are very exquisite.
The perimeter of the patio is equipped with a hanging flower column, the head of the hanging flower column is also carved with auspicious beasts such as lions, elephants, unicorns, etc., the bottom of the column is carved with flower baskets and lanterns, and the myths, drama stories and unique flower cover decorations are carved between the columns, which are luxurious and elegant. The corridor on the second floor is set up with a "beauty leaning".
The gooseneck Xuan, the square caisson well, the Ruyi Xuan, the forehead fang and the diagonal brace in the back hall all have the single-sided openwork carving of historical legends such as Shoushan Fuhai, which is intriguing.
There are no pillars in the hall, and the whole space is spacious and bright, which makes Liu Jun linger and forget to return, and there is a sense of time and space disorder.
About 20 steps away in front of the gate of Liu's house, there is a green sandalwood tree about five or six zhang high, the tree needs to be hugged by two or three people, and the lush crown is seven or eight zhang open.
Under this tree, there are also three huge stone grinding plates, each of which has a circumference of more than two zhang, a diameter of nearly six feet, and a thickness of nearly two feet.
Just looking at the Liu family's house, you can know that the Liu family's family background is still good, there are Liu Xiu and Liu Jun in the family, the Liu family is considered the lowest gentry class, the family has a house and a hundred acres of land, but the land is handed over to the tenant farmers to cultivate, and the Liu family cultivates by themselves, and only collects rent on schedule.
However, the Liu family is only a medium-sized family in Xiwanji. Xiwan has a large set, with more than 1,000 household accounts, and many landlords and wealthy merchants have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
As soon as Liu Jun entered the door, he saw his five-year-old nephew Liu Hong standing in front of a young man and a woman by the patio shaking his head and recognizing, "Everything is predetermined, and if it is not hesitated, it will be wasted...... Ex-ante rules...... Not ......"
The young woman wore a narrow-sleeved blouse and a close-fitting pleated skirt, slender and concave, full of mature and plump, with a long goose face, willow eyebrows, almond eyes, cherry mouth, and black hair tied into a falling bun obliquely combed on the back of her head. When the young woman heard that he couldn't carry it, her apricot eyes immediately widened, "If you don't come out again, don't think about going out to play today, you can't play all day long and don't seek progress." ”
"Sister-in-law, Hong'er is still young, don't be too demanding. At this age, it is almost the same to read a thousand characters with a hundred family names, and you let him read the Analects strictly, not to mention the mediocrity of etiquette. Liu Jun stepped forward and smiled at the beautiful young woman.
"Alas, you guys, always spoil him so much, he is getting less and less motivated." The young woman Bo made a disgusted look, glared at Liu Jun, and said, "You too, such a big person, it is rare to go home for the second time in the past two years, and as soon as you come back, you immediately got drunk with those fox friends and dog friends in the past, and you don't care about your body." Even if you don't need money for wine, but your body is your own, how about it, it's better now. ”
"Hmm. Much better. Liu Jun felt a little overwhelmed by the care of this beautiful sister-in-law, and hurriedly walked in while replying.
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