Different from the Jinshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it can only be called after obtaining the reputation of "Jinshi".

At this time, anyone who has the qualification of the Chang'an Provincial Examination can be called Jinshi, and those who have passed the Jinshi Department are called Jinshi.

Liu Chenxing is also known as Liu Xie Yuan in Beizhou, since Luoyang to Chang'an on the way, everyone who knows that she is a female lifter who went to Chang'an Province to test, all call her Jinshi.

Subverted the impression constructed by the modern era, but this way I heard a lot of habits, just a title, not to mention that I enjoyed the name of "Jinshi" in advance, just when this is a good sign, but I have to remind myself again that I must not apply some modern concepts to the present.

That's why listening to Aunt Cheng's title of "Jinshi", Liu Chenxing was not surprised at all, and greeted Liu Qingshan with a smile, "I'm tired of Aunt Cheng." ”

Aunt Cheng also saluted with a forked hand and said: "The single name of the child is a blue character, the two of you don't mind, just call Er Alan is." As he spoke, he glanced at Liu Wensu, and his eyes did not hide the resentment in it, and said angrily: "Son also let Liu Xiaoshu call it that, but Liu Xiaoshu wants to see outside!" ”

Now I heard two more messages.

First, the eldest daughter of the Cheng family next door is called Cheng Lan.

Second, although it is not that there are signs on both sides as she guessed, Cheng Lan is obviously interested in Uncle Liu, and she is worthy of being a local lady in Chang'an with a bold style, and she does not hide her admiration for Uncle Liu directly in front of them.

Liu Chenxing can rest assured now, she said no, how could a man like Uncle Liu not have a fancy to the little lady of Chang'an, and he won't come now?

Cheng Lan's little lady is also a person with eyes, seeing Liu Chenxing's brother and sister coming in the dust, this will be tired and hungry, she can't pull people to talk all the time at this moment, so she said that she went home to bring food, and turned around and went back to the yard.

In this way, the uncle and nephew returned to their home.

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The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi also served as a school scholar in the secretary province, and once wrote a poem: "There are four or five thatched huts, one horse and two servants." The money is 16,000, and the monthly payment is more than enough. ”

The official system of this dynasty and the Tang Dynasty is generally the same, and although Uncle Liu, the secretary of the provincial school, has no two servants, the housing conditions are better than those of Bai Juyi at the beginning.

The yard covers an area of about one and a half acres, which is equivalent to about 800 square meters in modern times, and it is a proper mansion from the perspective of modern people.

There are two halls in the courtyard, and there are four rooms in the east and west compartments, which is one or two more rooms than Bai Juyi.

There is another locust tree in the courtyard, a well, there is a chongping at the entrance, it is similar to the wall shadow of the courtyard of the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the door is opened, it is facing the hall house, it is considered to be open to the hall in feng shui, so there needs to be a barrier between the two. The kitchen is in the east corner between Ping Chong and the entrance.

In addition, behind the two west chambers, there is a long and narrow stable, in which there is a mount of Uncle Liu, and now with the addition of two horses of their brother and sister, the stable is not big, but it is just enough.

After walking around, I didn't have time to put my luggage in the room, only to hear the street drum "bang", and then again and again, and the sound was endless.

Liu Wensu stood under the eaves of the main hall, glanced at the night that had gradually closed, and said, "It's curfew, and I came back in time." ”

At this time, there are six street drums in Chang'an, and the drums and drums of the six streets are sounding in unison before nightfall, and six hundred times in a row is the curfew time in Chang'an City - the thirty-eight streets of Chang'an, which were still crowded one moment ago, are empty the next moment.

This is exactly what it is: the drums of the sixth street are resting and the pedestrians are gone, and there is a moon in the vast sky of the nine streets.

However, although the night-long curfew on Chang'an Avenue began, the night of the 108 squares in the city will only open.

The flower street and willow lane in Pingkangfang are singing and dancing, the hotel orchids in Chongrenfang are singing and dancing, and the small house north of the west gate of Yongchongfang is also brightly lit, and the uncles and nephews are sitting around the hall and eating at dusk.

A large pot of mutton soup on the square low table, because it is late autumn, it is early winter in a few days into the tenth month of the lunar calendar, at this time the weather has already cooled down at night, and the mutton fat is easy to condense as soon as it is cold, so the stove is set up under the pot.

The charcoal fire is vigorous, the milky white mutton soup is gurgling and boiling, you can clearly see that the pot is full of large slices of mutton, and there are cabbage and radish as the side of the shabu-shabu, and the fragrant soybean sauce is the dipping sauce, with more than a dozen white flour steamed cakes.

The mutton has to eat the taste of the original soup before it is stewed, and if the cabbage and radish taste are the most important, they can be dipped in soybean sauce and eaten with white steamed buns.

Liu Chenxing took a big bite of mutton, and then dipped the cabbage in soybean sauce and took a bite of white steamed buns, which is what the people of Chang'an usually eat, but they are extremely satisfied.

Especially outside the hall, I don't know when the wind is blowing, the wind is whistling, and the locust trees in the yard are rustling, this kind of weather full of gloomy feeling, will only make the wanderers who travel far away feel more homesick, but maybe it is the uncle's home that makes her feel as if she is in her own home, and there is a continuous stream of heat from the fire, driving away the wandering feeling of blindly rushing for more than two months, only to feel that in this strange and huge Chang'an City, there is no loneliness of strangers at all, but extraordinarily down-to-earth.

That night, the uncle and nephew, who are also masters and apprentices, ate mutton soup and talked about each other's lives in the past eight years.

Liu Wensu learned from the two brothers and sisters that Grandma Liu has now been taken to Liu's side, and as an only son, she feels less guilty about not being able to serve Auntie, and she is more at ease.

The brother and sister knew from Liu Wensu who the chief of this year's provincial examination was, what his preferences were, and which dignitary Chen Qi would be a poet if he wanted to do the book. More importantly, after listening to Liu Wensu's experience in Chang'an for the past eight years, especially the various things that took the exam for four consecutive years to be a high school jinshi, the brother and sister gradually calmed down, and they no longer demanded how to pass the exam, but only went all out.

Although there are endless words, but after more than two months of wind and dust, now they finally go to the side of the uncle they regard as the teacher, and under the relaxation of body and mind, they are sleepy.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, Liu Chenxing's mind was already a mess, and he couldn't support it, so he washed his face and feet at will, and went back to the West Chamber, while his uncle and nephew went to live in a room in the East Chamber.

I didn't take a bath to wash away the dust on my body, but I still slept the darkest and sweetest sleep since July, and the next day's biological clock made it, and I woke up when it was dark.

Ran pushed the door out, but saw Uncle Liu, who was dressed in a blue and blue official uniform, waiting in the courtyard, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Uncle, don't you go to the government office to look at things?" She remembered that the morning dynasty usually began at four or five o'clock in the morning, and even though her uncle's official position was not enough to reach the morning court every day, he would go to work at the yamen at dawn.

Uncle Liu saw that Liu Chenxing still got up according to the time of the morning exercise eight years ago, and his heart was already satisfied, as for the nephew who was still asleep, he sneered in his heart, and only said to Liu Chenxing with a pleasant face: "The secretary is idle in the provincial school book, if it is not for Uncle to serve as the school secretary, you can mix a free lunch in the imperial court, and it is good to go to it three or four times a month." Therefore, in the future, Uncle can accompany you to finish reading in the morning, and it is not too late to go to the government office to see things. ”

The implication is that their brother and sister are going back to the days when they were taught by Uncle Liu.

Hearing his consciousness, Liu Chenxing opened his mouth wide and froze in place.

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