Since Jia Yucun resigned, although the family did not invite another gentleman back, Lin Jin's studies were not in a free-range state. She reads and practices calligraphy every day, and writes an article to Lin Ruhai every ten days, and she can also ask him for advice on difficult problems encountered while reading.

It's just that Lin Jin knows her own qualifications, although she has crossed over and changed her skin, but her brain has not changed, so the scumbag is still a scumbag, and she will not become a god of learning because of this, therefore, although she has worked very hard, and has been taught by the three bigwigs Jia Yucun, Lin Ruhai and Wu Jiugong, her level of craftsmanship is still very average and average, and it can even be said to be poor.

When Jia Yucun was there, because he believed in his teaching level and knowledge, and at that time, Lin Ruhai had just taken office as a salt patrol imperial historian, in order to straighten out this stall, so he did not personally inquire about Lin Jin's studies, but talked about this issue with Jia Yucun.

It's just that Jia Yucun is sleek, and when he asked, he refused to say that Lin Jin was not good, but that his knowledge had not yet arrived, and the article was almost hot. At that time, Lin Ruhai believed that it was true, and after Jia Yucun left, he began to point out Lin Jin's eight-strand text, and he understood what Jia Yucun meant by this, and what knowledge had not yet arrived, so the article was almost hot, and it was clear that he was not very enlightened.

Although Lin Ruhai knew that the ten fingers were long and short, and he couldn't ask for ordinary Qi, among the three children in the family, Lin Jin's qualifications were the worst.

This is the worst, not that she is ordinary, but compared with Daiyu and Lin Ge'er, it is worse. But in Lin Ruhai's opinion, she is actually very talented, but her talent is a little wrong, most of it is in counting, and it is so much worse in poetry and songs.

In contrast, although Yang Lin is young, has just been enlightened, and has not officially studied, her talent is still higher than that of Lin Jin. As the eldest sister, Daiyu is the smartest one among the children in the family, but unfortunately she is a girl, no matter how smart and clever she is, it is useless, because in this world, it is impossible for Yi'an Jushi to appear.

Although Lin Ruhai is not partial, sometimes, he still can't help but think about how good it would be if the qualifications of Daiyu and Lin Jin were exchanged with each other. After all, in this era when women can no longer be famous, no matter how talented Daiyu is, as a woman, she is destined to waste in the inner house, after all, she can't use her intelligence to find a brilliant future for herself, and she still has to rely on her husband and her mother's brother.

Lin Jin didn't know that Lin Ruhai just thought that she was biased, and her evaluation of her was not low, in fact, even if she knew, she didn't have anything to be complacent, because she knew what kind of level she was now, and she was the way she was now, mainly relying on the skills she learned in her previous life and the existence of the library.

Knowing that she was a girl and couldn't pass the stage of the physical examination when she participated in the scientific examination, before she officially studied and started writing Baguwen, Lin Jin had a period of luck and was eager to try the imperial examination, thinking that she might be able to find a way to fool the physical examination and take the exam. But after she began to learn to write Bagu Wen, she completely extinguished the small flame of the imperial examination.

As a reasoned ancient style prose, after so many years of development, the format is fixed, and the thinking has become extremely rigid, and because it uses the scriptures and meanings, it is all the annotations of Cheng Zhu Lixue, which are not allowed to be changed. In addition, when she was studying, Chinese was a weak subject, and she was even weaker in composition, and now she is asked to write Bagu Wen in ancient Chinese, which is really a word by word, squeezing out like toothpaste, which is really a special pain.

Although she disguised it well, in fact, she was disgusted with writing Baguwen, because of this disgust with learning, her Baguwen was even worse written, and under the vicious circle, she felt that she would never be able to write Baguwen.

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On this day, Lin Ruhai called Lin Jin to the study, "Since Mr. Jia left, there has been no special person to teach you in your schoolwork, I have the heart to help you choose a good gentleman to come back, but I have never found a suitable one." The day before yesterday, I went to the prefect's house to have a New Year's wine, and I heard that the gentleman invited by the prefect's family was also from Jinshi and the first generation, so I want you to go to the prefect's house to study, what do you think? ”

Since knowing that she knew her true level in the imperial examination, Lin Jin thought about telling Lin Ruhai that she didn't want to participate in the imperial examination, but she never found a suitable opportunity. After listening to Lin Ruhai's words at this time, she directly picked out her words. "I don't want to go. My father should know that I don't know how to pass the imperial examination, so why bother to force me to improve? ”

Hearing this, Lin Ruhai said unhappily: "What do you mean that you are not that material?" As long as you are willing to learn it in a down-to-earth manner, even if you don't pass the Jinshi exam, Zhongxiucai is still no problem, work hard, maybe you will be promoted. It's not just me who thinks so, but even Jia Yucun, who taught you, also commented on you.

Besides, the imperial examination is a matter of 'one life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four accumulations of yin virtue and five reading', maybe you will have a star in your life, and you can be admitted all the way up and come back with a jinshi. ”

Although Lin Jin has always felt that her talent is average, she has forgotten one thing, she is an adult thinking, and she has the insight of later generations, so her performance, in the eyes of Jia Yucun and Lin Ruhai, is not up to the level of genius, but it is definitely above ordinary people, so they are not as pessimistic about her imperial examination as her.

Lin Jin sighed and said helplessly: "Father, I'm not humbling or self-deprecating, but I really know that I can't do it."

I heard that the second uncle of Rongguofu's grandmother's family was a scholar, and he was happy to read and good at reading, but he had read for so many years, and finally got nothing in the imperial examination, so he relied on his grandfather's dying legacy to enter the Ministry of Industry as a petty official.

Although the two mansions of Rongning were born in honor and were military generals, with the resources of these two prefectures, since Uncle Jing of Ningguo Mansion was able to win the Jinshi in the imperial examination, it can be seen that the teachers and scriptures of these two prefectures in the imperial examination are not worse than civil officials, but the second uncle did not even pass the examination.

It's not that I don't respect my second uncle, but the facts are there, and obviously he is not that material. I am self-aware, and I know that I am not the material that can be promoted to the Jinshi, so my father should not bother about my imperial examination. ”

Lin Ruhai was angry and laughed, and said: "Although your second uncle failed to achieve anything in the imperial examination due to his limited talent, he at least worked hard, and how old was he when he gave up, and how old are you now?"

Even if you compare with your second uncle, at least you have to work hard, try, and the final result will not work, and it will not be too late for you to give up at that time. But you are now at the age of studying, and you have never even seen what the examination room is like, so you are here with empty teeth and white teeth, swearing to me that you are not the fast material of the imperial examination, which is really ridiculous in the world. It's not that I don't believe it, do you think that if you take this out and tell people, others will believe it? ”

Lin Jin was speechless by Lin Ruhai's question.

She couldn't tell him that although she was only a teenager on the outside, her soul was an adult, and she was systematically educated, had a complete three views and thinking ability, and was a piece of paper that had already been painted, and she couldn't really be as old as a child like her, and there were still many blanks to fill. Therefore, no matter how much she studied, because the drawings on the paper that were almost full could not be erased and deleted, the little gap on the paper alone could not meet the needs of the imperial examination.

Seeing that Lin Jin stopped talking, Lin Ruhai persuaded again: "My father was born in the imperial examination, and I know that reading is hard, when I was in school, I hated reading boring and boring, and I didn't like to read, so at the beginning, I found an excuse to skip class at the end of three days." Your grandmother felt sorry for me and helped me cover it up, but after your grandfather found out, he taught me a good lesson.

Originally, your great-grandfather's title was the last generation, but at that time, he was still the emperor's Emperor Jiaen, and he had one more generation, so your grandfather still had a title, but when it came to me, the royal family had already given grace, and it was obviously impossible to add grace again, so if I wanted to have a background, I could only choose to start from the imperial examination.

You are in a similar situation to me, there is no title for you to inherit at home, and if you don't take the imperial examination, how will you support the lintel of the Lin family in the future? ”

"If you want to be an official, you don't necessarily have to take the imperial examination? Don't say that you can't enter the cabinet unless you are a jinshi, even if you are born in the imperial examination, there are very few people who can do the position of a feudal official or a prefect of the first department, let alone be an old man. Although she knew that Lin Ruhai might not approve, Lin Jin would still express her true thoughts.

Although Lin Jin didn't say it directly, Lin Ruhai guessed her thoughts at once, thinking that Lin Jin was young and didn't know how to study hard to take the imperial examination, but wanted to take a shortcut, she couldn't help sighing, but she didn't scold her, but continued to persuade: "Donating officials is one way, but the imperial examination is another way, and the two are not in conflict." If you fail the imperial examination, it is not too late to take the road of donating officials. After all, compared with the imperial examination, donating officials is not the right way, and in the officialdom, not only can you not go too far, but you are also discriminated against. ”

Lin Ruhai put her attitude out, and Lin Jin also knew that no matter what she said, it was useless, and at her current age, it was really unreasonable to say that she didn't study, so after thinking about it, she felt that she could deal with it temporarily, so she said: "Since my father already has a plan, then let's follow my father's arrangement." ”