"Oh, you know, that thin and tall is the female jinshi in this time, amazing!"

"Hey, what's this, she's not the only one who passed the exam, I just tiptoed and peeked at the hall, and it's all women, it's amazing."

"I don't know what the use of recruiting these little ladies is, I can't lift my shoulders and can't pick them, I look at them one by one, as if they are about to fall when I touch them."

......

It's been more than a year since I left home, and Fu Shuye has come to see me twice in the past year, once with the roast chicken and egg stew he made, and once with the cool stickers made by my father to refresh me.

I was amazed by Fu Shuye's creativity, how the roast chicken and stewed eggs were created, and Fu Shuye explained that this dish also has a scientific name, called Stew Yourself.

I couldn't help but grin at the thought of this.

The female officials in the palace were very majestic, unsmiling, and their eyes were extremely keen, and at a glance they took a fancy to me, who secretly pursed their lips and smiled in the crowd, and carried me out of the ranks.

"The palace is majestic, how can it be so presumptuous!"

I lowered my head, and secretly slandered in my heart, even if I laughed in the palace, it was presumptuous.

The lady took my name, gave me a hard look, and told me to go back to the queue, but she kept staring at me.

I secretly screamed in my heart that it was not good, but don't make me stumble in the distribution.

Sure enough, I'm afraid of something.

The Jinshi of the new middle school were either assigned to the Guozijian or the Hanlin Academy, although we can only be idle and miscellaneous, but the weight of the Hanlin Academy in my heart is heavier than that of the Guozijian.

Because after entering the Hanlin Academy, he will have the opportunity to be a Hanlin Bachelor, and if he becomes a Hanlin Bachelor, he can draft an edict for the emperor. Although it is not a real power job, the fox and the fake tiger always have a bit of a powerful meaning.

Sure enough, when the serious female official called my name, her nostrils wanted to look up to the sky, I looked at her and rolled her eyes, scratched down my intention to fill in, and snorted in my nostrils: "Guozijian." ”

Finished.

I knew that if I didn't laugh, I blamed Fu Shuye.

The "supervisor" of the Guozijian is to supervise and monitor, and Sima Qian once wrote "The Yellow Emperor placed the left and right eunuchs and imprisoned all countries." and all nations. ”

It is the same as Qin Tianjian, Zhongshu Supervisor, and Horse Husbandry, but Guozijian has the nature of Guozixue.

The low eyebrows were pleasing to the eyes and were led into the vermilion lacquer gate of the Guozijian, and the high threshold required people to roll up their skirts so as not to trip, and the female official who brought us in said that this reflected the status of the Guozijian and did not allow us to step on it.

There are only four people in this session, and the remaining three are all members of the family, either the children of official eunuchs or the nobles of the family.

I looked down at the embroidered shoes that my mother made for me on my feet, the bright red peonies were worn down and faded a little, and I stole a glance at the shoes of other women, all of them were painted with gold and silver, and I retracted my feet a little shyly.

After standing for a while, several middle-aged men with big bellies and poop appeared with oily faces. The female official, who originally had a solemn face, looked like she had planted a moon season, and she smiled so much that her folds came out.

Those few people only stopped for a while, and the female jinshi around me were all picked up.

But for a moment, I was the only one left in this large courtyard.

The officials who were busy in and out had no one to pay attention to me, and they were in a hurry and looked anxious.

Standing until the sun went down, I finally couldn't help myself.

"Why haven't you given me a position yet?" Knowing how powerful the female officer was, I asked obediently and carefully.

The female officer looked at me in surprise, and the silver hairpin on her head with emerald beads clanged as she looked down.

"Ah," the female officer carefully flipped through the book, until the end of the book was pushed in front of my eyes, and said a little perfunctorily: "Let's go to the school department and report by yourself." ”

In front of me, there was a wooden plaque hanging crookedly on the somewhat dilapidated courtyard, and the big word "arithmetic" was crumbling in the wind and rain.

I asked all the way and saw that such a boundary was far from the elaborate two-story buildings of other departments.

I'm a little lost.

How can the children of the official family follow the sacrificial wine, the business, no matter how bad it is, it is also a master book, and my grades are obviously higher than theirs.

"You're the female jinshi who passed this year's exam?" Dr. Fu asked, looking through my file.

I stared at the doctor's skinny fingers and said respectfully, "Yes, Fu Yazi of Lu County, come to report." ”

Dr. Fu didn't answer, he was looking at my file carefully, his eyes pausing on my past grades, showing a satisfied look.

"Ahem." Dr. Fu cleared his throat, finally put down the file book that he had read back and forth several times, picked up a brush with some prickly bristles on the side, and signed my name.

Fu Zhiliang.

I silently wrote down the name, and he would be my immediate boss for a long time to come.

I moved out of the inn where I stayed with my luggage and lived in a not very spacious dormitory, which was for those who had just entered the official career, and then moved out when I got married or ascended to the mansion.

As soon as you enter the small courtyard, the years have left unceremonious traces, and the gray wall skin will fall off at the slightest touch, and it will melt into one when it falls into the original soil.

A bed and a table are placed in each corner of the room against the wall, and carved screens are used as partitions.

I picked a bed by the window, lay down on my back tiredly, threw off the bags I was carrying, and finally relaxed.

"Ahem... Ahem..."

The original straight bed was printed in the shape of my outstretched arms, and I didn't know how long the dust had accumulated was thrashed into the air by me, and even though night had fallen, the choking dust still penetrated my nose accurately.

The courtyard next to me was already dark, and I was very happy to see the scattered colleagues returning to the house one after another, and then extinguishing the candles in twos and threes, as if I had forgotten the feelings of injustice during the day.

Anyway, I finally got it, didn't I?

It was the middle of the night, and I lit a candle faintly, and wrote at least five pieces of rice paper to my father and aunt.

Unfolded the dossier signed by Dr. Bai Rifu, and neatly copied his 'Mathematics Department-Assistant Professor Fu Yazi'.

The moon is five stones, the year Lu is thirty-six taels of snowflake silver, the clothes are given six cloths, and the moon is given by Lusu.

It is also a fixed income in addition to the regular income, which is mainly formed by various "rewards", such as regular rewards, celebration rewards, and meritorious rewards.

"Stay with Yazi for a few more years, and I will definitely take Daddy and Auntie to live with me."

I took the abacus and crackled, and now I have all the food and housing, and I can save at least seventy or eighty taels a year with a monthly salary of silver and rice.

Compared with A-Niang's original hard work of teaching for a year, ten math students can only get more than a dozen taels, which is simply a job to ensure income in drought and flood.

I slept beautifully with an abacus, and the corners of my mouth were sweet smiles.

The rooster crows up, and the drums are cut early in the morning.

Fu Zhiliang lowered his head and hurriedly, passed through a group of colleagues who were dozing and pacing idly, and pushed open the door of the arithmetic department with a thick stack of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

"Dr. Fu is early!"

Fu Zhiliang was startled, and jumped on the spot only to notice me standing in the middle of the room with a broom.

"Morning," Fu Zhiliang straightened up with a slightly curved back, looked at the broom in my hand, and said lightly: "Who asked you to sweep the floor." ”

"Huh?" I was stunned when I was asked, and A-Niang taught me to be diligent in my hands and feet when I arrived in the new environment, so as to be liked by others, and I kept it in mind.

"You're here to learn, not to be a sweeper." Fu Zhiliang put down the book and said in a toneless tone.

I stuck out my tongue secretly, thinking to myself that this old man was not easy to get along with, so I had to be cautious.

Fu Zhiliang sat at the table, carefully opened the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and then wrote a few strokes and handed them to me on paper.

"Explain it."

"Today there are people who buy things together, and each of them gives eight denarii, and the surplus is three denarii; People pay seven dollars, less than four dollars, ask the number of people, what are the prices? "

"Seven people, 53 yuan." But after reading through, the answer is calculated.

Fu Zhiliang looked at me with some surprise, his gray hair was tied tightly on his scalp, and his cloudy eyes looked me from head to toe and back again.

"What about this one?"

"Today Arita wide fifteen steps, from sixteen steps. Q: Geometry for the field? I muttered it again, but after closing my eyes for a moment, I replied, "One acre." ”

Fu Zhiliang couldn't sit still, as if nails had been sprinkled on the wooden chair, making him twist around.

"How do you do that?"

"Dr. Hui, Fang Tianshu said: Guangcong multiplies the number of steps to get the cumulative step, and the mu method is 240 steps, and divide it, that is, the number of mu."

"Okay, good," Fu Zhiliang praised again and again: "I didn't expect you to be young but you know mental arithmetic, I think Ling Zunding has been cultivated since childhood." ”

I smiled and replied, "Ah Niang has run a private school for women, and Ah Niang has taught me since I was a child. ”

Fu Zhiliang was even more awe-struck, stood up, and said in a respectful tone: "Lingtang is far-sighted, both internal and external, and no one can match it." ”

Today is my first day on the job, and Fu Zhiliang took me to the student department to teach.

At the end of the long road, a fork in the road went west to the men's school and east to the women's school.

Fu Zhiliang told me not to be nervous, I am only a teaching assistant now, I just need to stay in class and take notes carefully and learn other doctoral lectures.

The further east I went, the sound of students reading decreased, and I thought to myself that most women were shy, even if they were reading.

Thinking so, he pushed open the door marked "Dizi No. 5".

The empty room was lined up with tables and chairs, and I thought I had gone to the wrong class.

Take two steps back and look again, checking against the schedule.

That's right.

I walked into the classroom in a daze, stared at the empty silence of the room, and sat like this all afternoon.

Fu Zhiliang heard that I had been staying by myself for an afternoon, so he went to the Guangwen Museum to theorize.

I sat at my desk and stared at the blank notes.

"It's not like words, it's not like words!" Fu Zhiliang came back from outside with his hair scattered, and said to me when he entered the room: "Girl, you will go to my classes in the future, and those perfunctory classes don't waste time!" ”

Fu Zhiliang's face flushed, and he spitted at me: "Absenteeism is still reasonable, and you can't learn anything with them, everyone is not young and all their minds are on dressing up, even if you get married so early, why bother to get fame but not cherish it!" ”

Seeing Fu Zhiliang drink the herbal tea that splashed into his saliva droplets, I nodded mechanically.