Realizing that he was fooled by Wu Jiugong, Lin Jin didn't go back to argue with him, so he went to a few pastry shops and bought the snacks that the family liked to eat.

When I returned to the East Courtyard, before I entered the house, I heard Lin'er's milky voice, reciting "Thousand Character Text". Accompanied by "...... The clouds cause rain, and the dew turns into frost. Jin Sheng Lishui, jade out of Kungang. ......", Lin Jin entered the house, handed the dim sum in her hand to the big girl Jinxiu on the side, and asked her to take it out and put it on the plate, and serve it to everyone.

Yang Wan smiled and praised the second son who looked up at her after reciting a paragraph: "Brother Lin is so smart, she memorized it all so quickly, much better than your brother, but your brother memorized this paragraph for two or three days." ”

Lin Jin, who was sitting on the side, interjected unhappily when she heard this: "Mom, if you praise your brother, you can praise your brother, why do you have to take me and step on it?" Yes, my endorsement is not as good as my brother's, but in other aspects it is better than him, why don't you say it? ”

Aunt Lin smiled and played a round game: "Brother Sumire, your mother is not very good at talking, and you don't know, she didn't mean to step on you." It's just that both of you brothers are enlightened by your mother, and when you see Brother Lin like this now, you naturally remember what you looked like when you first started learning to read and write, and put them together to talk about it, which is inevitable. ”

In fact, Lin Jin just said it casually, and she didn't care, but letting Aunt Lin say it made people think that she was just calculating, so she was not good at what she was saying at the moment.

Just when she was silent, Jinxiu just packed up the snacks and brought them up, she reached out and took a piece and ate it.

Aunt Lin took a piece for Lin'er, looked at Brother Lin'er who was eating sweetly, and sighed: "Children are all long-sighted, just a little old when they were born, in the blink of an eye, Brother Lin'er will reach the age of literacy, in less than two years, he will go to school, and he should participate in the imperial examination in a few years." It's just that like Lin Ge'er, I don't know if I will take the imperial examination in the future, whether I will go back to Gusu to take the exam, or take the exam in Wuxi? ”

In later generations, Gusu and Wuxi, two cities that are relatively close to each other, belong to Jiangsu Province, but at this time, Gusu, where the Lin clan is located, belongs to Suzhou Prefecture, and Wuxi, where the Yang clan is located, belongs to Changzhou Prefecture and belongs to different provinces. And Lin Ge'er has names in the clans of the Lin family and the Yang family, so he has two places to choose for the imperial examination.

Yang Wan said disapprovingly: "Whether it is in Gusu or Wuxi, there is no difference, these two places belong to the Jiangnan boundary. The literary style is flourishing in Jiangnan, and students with the same talent can pass the exam in the north, but there is a high chance that they will fail in Jiangnan. ”

Lin Jin didn't understand, and interjected in surprise: "Why do you want to go to Gusu or Wuxi to take the exam?" ”

Aunt Lin explained to her: "Students who take the imperial examination must take the examination in their place of origin. Otherwise, everyone knows that Jiangnan students who have increased the difficulty of the imperial examination because of the flourishing style of writing go to those remote places in the north where there are few scholars to participate in the imperial examination.

At that time, students will flock to those places where the probability of passing the examination is high, which is not only unfair to local students, but also will have a very bad impact, so the imperial court has strict regulations for students to participate in the scientific examination, they must take the examination in their hometown, and they are not allowed to 'impersonate'. ”

After listening to Aunt Lin's words, Lin Jin suddenly realized that this situation would also occur in the college entrance examination in later generations. When she knew that the imperial examination was to be taken in her hometown, because Lin Ruhai insisted on letting her participate in the imperial examination, she was worried about her heart suddenly moved, thinking that if she wanted to take the imperial examination, she needed to go back to Gusu to take the exam, and she had never been back to Gusu, so no one knew her there at all, if she found someone to take the exam for her, the operation would be good, and no one knew if the person who took the exam was her.

In the following days, the more Lin Jin pondered it, the more she felt that this was feasible. On the Gusu side, neither the clan nor the local officials knew her, so this matter was not only very operable, but also had a very high success rate.

Although in order to prevent cheating, the imperial court requires that students who take the exam must be guaranteed by someone, and once it is found out, not only the students will be punished, but even those who help them guarantee will be implicated, but even in later generations, the college entrance examination is so strict, there are still people who dare to commit crimes against the wind, not to mention this society.

Besides, there are photos of the college entrance examination in later generations, there is only a text description here, just like Cao Gong's description of Baoyu's appearance, if it is not a person standing in front of him, he rushes to this text description, how many people can be found who are similar to him? So, don't worry about not being able to pass the inspection at all?

The more she pondered it, the more she felt that it was feasible, Lin Jin couldn't help but get excited, if she succeeded in cheating, she would be able to have the fame of Xiucai, even if she didn't succeed in donating officials in the future, she could breathe a sigh of relief, after all, Xiucai himself was a member of the "scholar" class, although he was at the bottom, but after all, he was better than the common people.

It's just that there are many things that need to be prepared to really operate, and the most important one is where to find candidates for the substitute exam? Even though this person doesn't look like Lin Jin, there should be a lot of similarities in the language description. And the most important point is that this candidate must be extremely reliable, not only can he be tight-lipped afterwards, but he will not rely on this to blackmail or blackmail Lin Jin.

Coming out of Yang Wan's room and returning to Yuhua Pavilion, Mama Tao hurriedly greeted her from the house, and said in a low voice: "Brother, yesterday you asked Wang Zuo to arrange two girls in my house, one of whom is a man dressed as a woman. ”

"What, a man dressed as a woman, how is this possible?" Lin Jin was extremely surprised, and her first reaction was that she felt that Mama Tao had made a mistake. You must know that Wang You is the one who bought it in the Qinglou, not in the Nanfeng Pavilion.

"That's just the way it is. Originally, I didn't see it, but when I arranged for them to take a bath, I originally planned to let them wash together, but who knew that the one named 'Xiaoyanagi' refused to live or die, and I was suspicious, and then I found out that he was a boy. ”

Lin Jin's face sank. She didn't see what this Xiaoliu looked like, but she could be mistaken by both the bustard mother and the turtle father, which showed that in addition to being born well, he was definitely fine-skinned and tender-fleshed. In this era, if you want to raise a good skin, you can't do it if you don't have a big family.

"Let's go and have a look at your house." Lin Jin thought to herself in her heart, hoping that this Xiaoliu's background was just a big fortune, and if it was a noble family, I was afraid that there would be a lot of troubles in the future.

When she came to Mama Tao's house, Lin Jin went straight to the place where the two people were housed in the backyard, and asked Mama Tao to take out the girl with rouge on her eyebrows, who was suspected to be Zhen Yinglian, and looked at Xiao Liu in front of her who was wearing women's clothes.

Before she saw anyone, she thought that this Xiaoliu should be similar to Qin Zhong, the boy and girl who were born were the kind of people who looked like daughters, but after seeing her, she found that it was not.

Although he was born very handsome, he was very good-looking, and because he was wearing women's clothes, he looked indistinguishable, so he was easily mistaken for a woman; But once you know that he is a boy, and then look at it, no matter how you look at it, you will think that he is a man, and you will not mistake him.

"What's your name? Where is home? Who did you go out with, and how did you get sold? When was it sold? How can you, a man, wear women's clothes and be sold in that place? ”

Faced with Lin Jin's series of questions, Xiaoyanagi kept his mouth shut.

Seeing him standing there, looking like I didn't know what you asked, Lin Jin held his forehead with a little headache, exhaled, and said, "Don't you want to be reunited with your family?" ”

Seeing that the other party was still silent, Lin Jin thought for a while and said, "Do you think that if you don't say anything, I won't know anything?" Although you are the same age as the girl who went out just now, she was abducted when she was a child, so she can't remember what happened at home, but you are different from her.

You are obviously not trained by a crutch or a human tooth; A boy as big as you was dressed as a girl to sell it, and it was not discovered, which shows that you were abducted, which should be a recent thing, so you won't not remember where your home is, and the person who sold you should be trusted and close to you.

Judging from your appearance, your family background should be good, so, I make a bold guess that if you are sold, what kind of struggle should be involved, such as the jealousy of the back house, or the property dispute, or other reasons, in short, it is not as simple as selling people. ”

The other party seemed to be afraid that Lin Jin would see something from his expression, so he lowered his head, but still didn't speak.

Lin Jin saw his response, and sighed helplessly: "Okay, you are willing to be dumb, I have no opinion, but can you tell me whether I will get involved in any trouble because I bought you, right?" I didn't want to save people, so I ended up saving disaster. ”

"There won't be trouble." Koyanagi, who had been silent, finally answered her once.

Hearing this, Lin Jin smiled and nodded again and again, "It seems that you are relying on me." I don't owe you a mouthful of food here, but I can't support you for nothing, after all, I don't deserve you, and I don't owe you. ”

Xiao Liu finally looked up, looked at her, and said in an unusually firm tone: "I can do anything." ”

Looking at his face, Lin Jin suddenly thought of his cheating plan for the imperial examination, his eyes rolled, he had an idea, and agreed to his request: "Okay, in that case, as long as you do what I say, I don't mind taking you in for a while." But you have to wear women's clothes all the time during this time, is that okay? ”

Xiao Liu was stunned for a moment, and seeing that she didn't mean to humiliate him, she hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.