In Gusu City, in a small courtyard rented by Lin Jin to prepare for the imperial examination, in the hall of the main house, Lin Jin's name, age, place of origin, physique, and appearance characteristics will be written, and at the same time, the name card of the report with the history of the three generations of great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents is in hand, Liu Xianglian looked at Lin Jin and sighed with a smile: "I've known this for so long, if it weren't for this registration post, I wouldn't even know who you are." I'm also stupid, just like that, and I've been letting you handle it. ”

Lin Jin fiddled with the tea set and played with kung fu tea, without raising her eyelids, and said disapprerovantly: "When you asked me earlier, I told you, sooner or later you will know." Look, don't you know everything, it's more detailed than I said, and if I do, I'm afraid I won't talk about my ancestors. ”

Liu Xianglian picked up the top one from the stack of famous posts on the table, and said: "I rejected the previous posts that invited me to go out to communicate, but this is a post from Gusu County, how to deal with it?" Did you refuse too? ”

"Of course not." Lin Jin looked up at Liu Xianglian, "It's the county lord who is presiding over the county exam, as a candidate, the county lord gave me a post, he looks down on me, if I don't go, wouldn't it be a shame on the other party?" Before, I asked me to reject those posts inviting scholars to gather, in order to leave people with the impression that I am a withdrawn, arrogant, and difficult person to contact, so as to prevent 'falling off the horse', but our Gusulin clan lives under the hands of others, and people politely hand over the posts, even if I don't understand the world, I will not have this look at all. ”

Liu Xianglian knew that this invitation was a must-go, thought for a while, frowned and said, "In this case, you should be more than one candidate invited by the county order, right?" What if the county order inspects my knowledge when the time comes? As for this bit of ink in my stomach, although I don't know three questions, I don't know how much, but I don't think I can answer much. ”

"It doesn't matter how many candidates there are, I let you socialize less with people, not that you don't interact with people. Besides, if you meet at the county magistrate, it doesn't mean that you will have to come and go in the future, so why worry about it? On this occasion, it is necessary to take the school knowledge, but you can rest assured that when the county order is taking the school knowledge, in order to leave a good impression on him, there will be other scholars rushing to answer. Therefore, unless the county order names you and asks you to answer, otherwise, you don't have to steal the limelight at all. As for whether the county order will appoint you to answer," Lin Jin got up, pulled out a few articles from the bookcase and handed them to him, "When you go to visit the county order, give him these articles first and ask him to correct them." The county magistrate knows your level from the article, and he will not be difficult for you. ”

Liu Xianglian looked at the few articles handed to him by Lin Jin, and said helplessly: "This is your level, not mine." You think you're poor, but I'm worse than you. I can barely understand the words of the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics", which is still the result of being imprisoned by you for a year and copying your handwriting, but no matter how deep it is, I can't. Therefore, I am afraid that the county order will be able to stop me if I ask, and at that time, if something goes wrong in the substitute exam, don't blame me. ”

Lin Jin chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I won't blame you." During the Warring States Period, you know Han Feizi of the Legalist, right? Not only did he stutter, but he also did not understand the words when he told people about the knowledge he studied, so when he traveled around the world and recommended himself to the kings of various countries, no monarch took a fancy to him, including the king of Qin. Later, King Qin accidentally saw his article and regretted it greatly, if it weren't for Li Si's jealousy and jealousy and killing him, he would definitely be reused by Emperor Shi. ”

"So, in other words, you asked me to be the second Han Fei?" Liu Xianglian understood the story told by Lin Jin, her eyes lit up, and the sorrow between her eyebrows immediately dispersed.

Seeing Lin Jin drinking tea there, looking like he was sitting on the Diaoyu Tai, he smiled, sat opposite Lin Jin, poured a cup of tea by himself, drank it slowly, and asked with concern: "Didn't you say that you came to Gusu early to participate in the big festival in the clan?" But after you came to Gusu, except for the day you came, you went to the clan to say hello, and then ran to Gusu City. You don't live in the clan, you don't interact with the clan, and you don't see you stretching out your hand at the big sacrifice, although you do this because you are afraid that the clan will know about your fraud in the imperial examination, but the big thing in the big festival in the clan, you are like an outsider, so standing by, it doesn't seem right? ”

Lin Jin put down the teacup in her hand, looked at Liu Xianglian, and asked funny: "Who said that I don't associate with the clan because I'm afraid that they will know about my fraud in the imperial examination?" If this matter is exposed, it will be sitting, and the entire Lin clan will be implicated, if the clan finds out, in order not to affect themselves, I am afraid that they will not know how to cover it up for me? ”

Showing a sarcastic smile, she smiled: "I thought that after being usurped and sold by the clan, you already know, isn't it that everyone in the clan has a good relationship with the clan?" You only see that I am not close to the clan, so what do you think about me if you see the clan? A half-grown person like me is away from home, if the clan has a good relationship with my family, how can I be allowed to live alone in Gusu City? Could it be that such a big clan didn't give me a place to live? As for the great sacrifice of the clan, how do you know that I am standing by? There are so many people up and down the Lin clan, there is no shortage of people to work at all, what is lacking is people who take money. The finger pointed back at himself, "And I am the one who paid for it, so the great sacrifice of the clan, I don't do nothing, on the contrary, I do the most important part." ”

Speaking of paying money, Lin Jin suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said to Mama Tao on the side: "By the way, Mama, go back and prepare three gifts for the county order." One is for the examiner by the scholar, one is for this year's big sacrifice in the clan, the Gusulin clan, my father's one is for the county order, and one is the annual gift from our family to the county order. ”

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Because a few days ago, I heard that Baochai was sick, and Daiyu went to Lixiang Hospital to visit the patient. After eating at Aunt Xue's place, Baoyu, who also came to Lixiangyuan to visit Baochai one step earlier, the two dressed neatly and went back to Jia's mother together.

Back in Jia's mother's yard, the old lady was getting up, and when she heard that the two of them had come back from Aunt Xue's place, and had eaten wine, she only told the two of them to go back to the house to rest, and they didn't have to come to her.

When the two came to Baoyu House, Yuou greeted him with a big sweater, just in time for Qingwen to point to the three words "Jiang Yunxuan" that she had pasted on the door bucket to Baoyu. After living in the house for so long, Yuou knew that Baoyu's room was very chaotic, and the attacker didn't look silent, but he never refused to let people stand in front of her, and now Qingwen behaved like this, and the attacker didn't move, and she didn't know what idea she had in her heart, and she wanted to suppress Qingwen, because she didn't want Daiyu to get involved, she hurriedly pulled Daiyu away.