"Ah Jin," after the morning's incident, Cheng Zhan's mood has not calmed down, and when Cheng Jin said this, the originally hidden emotions were also broken, but he still tried his best to hold himself, "Don't say this in the future." ”

Since the beginning of the previous dynasty, women can study the imperial examination and enter the office, but even so, there are still very few women who study the imperial examination, after all, women still have to marry and have children, and ordinary people may not be willing to spend a lot of money to cultivate a female talent who will marry in the future and glorify her husband's family.

Although the family doesn't care about this little money, they will let their daughters read and write, and even learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but they are unwilling to let their daughters show up and mix with men to study for exams, and even enter the office, let alone marry such a woman.

Female talents, female lifters, female jinshi, female officials sound good, but they are not good daughters-in-law who are popular with their in-laws.

A woman who can read and write and hyphenate, has the same status as a man, and is even a woman, whether it is in her mother's house or in her mother-in-law's house, it is very difficult to handle, and she is quiet and supple in any case.

Only talented and stubborn women have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination, and on the way to the imperial examination, they often give up the hope of marriage, and will be opposed by the whole family, and the few female officials are not satisfactory in marriage.

What's more, there are so many scholars in the world, and only a few can win the fame, and as a woman, it is even more difficult to compete with the world's scholars for those places.

Therefore, whether it is in the previous dynasty or in Daliang, there are several female generals, but there are very few female officials who have passed the imperial examination, and now there are only two female officials in Beijing.

One is Ye Pingye, who joined the office 20 years ago and has now become the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and the other is Yu Xi, who is 20 years old and is already a doctor of Guozijian, both of whom are from Hongshan Academy.

Empress Zhuang Jing's father, the Confucian Zhao Qi, lived in seclusion in Hongshan and founded Hongshan Academy, although it is a academy, in fact, it only accepted three disciples, after Empress Zhuang Jing and Wen Xiang died, their little junior brother returned to Hongshan, and only reopened the mountain gate after living in seclusion for more than ten years, recruiting disciples, but for decades, Hongshan Academy only had a master and a gentleman, and he only accepted a dozen disciples.

However, all this does not affect Hongshan Academy to become a prestigious first-class academy in the world, and there are so many gentlemen in the world who preach and solve doubts, and only the head of Hongshan Academy can be worthy of the world's "master".

Can be accepted by the master as a disciple, the talent and ability are far beyond mortals, after entering the office, he is naturally the world's handsome, very respected in the Shilin, even if it is a woman, not only can be admitted to the imperial examination, but also all of them are the first or second class top few, Hongshan Academy has already become a holy place in the hearts of scholars, if it can be accepted by the master as a disciple, the examination is naturally not a problem.

Cheng Chan sighed, Rao felt that she was not bad, and she really couldn't afford the idea of climbing Hongshan Academy.

Cheng Zhan has been studying in the Cheng clan school before, and later also studied in the Guozijian Women's School for a few years, although she also learned the four books and five classics, but she still mainly focused on qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the gentleman who taught Jingyi was limited to understanding them, she had listened to the class of Dr. Yu of Guozijian, and she was a woman, and her temperament was admirable, and she was like a cloud of mud between her, with such a pearl in front, how did she have the courage to participate in the imperial examination that was one of the ten thousand.

Cheng Jin could see that Cheng Chan was obviously moving, but he was forcing himself to cut off this thought, and couldn't help but wonder, "Why can't you mention it again?" It's not that women are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, since the eldest sister is unwilling to be a woman in the back house, she told her mother to take the imperial examination, and when I study for a few more years, I will also go to the exam. ”

Cheng Jin naturally doesn't want to get married, but he also knows that being an old girl in Cheng Mansion, even if Mrs. Cheng loves her and can tolerate her, Cheng Mingzhi and Cheng Mingyuan will marry in the future, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient, it is better to take the imperial examination and find an errand to do it freely.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Cheng Chan looked at her nervously, "Do you want to be angry with A-Niang?" Is it so easy to get a female officer? It's not honorable to be a schoolgirl! ”

It is always easy for people to think about the women who show up, Ye Ping is older, and she is in the Dali Temple of Killing and Decision, and no one dares to arrange anything with a murderous aura, but the young and beautiful Dr. Yu is not less arranged behind his back, and even more so are the female students who have resisted the pressure and decided to study hard for the imperial examination but have not yet passed, not only are they contemptuous in their words, but even some men who are not stingy will do anything to them. There are even some books for sale in the Ruyi bookstore that arrange all kinds of fragrant stories of those deceased female students and female adults, and if you really want to embark on this road, the burden on your body is definitely not light.

"Those who are clear are self-purifying, what do those people do? Just because 'the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it', you have to make yourself stand out from the crowd, okay? It's obviously a phoenix, but because you're in a flock of chickens, do you want to pluck all the feathers and pretend to be hens? Cheng Jin said disapprovingly.

Cheng Chan was amused by her, "A-Niang was still angry with me this morning about my marriage, if your words reach her old man's ears, I don't know what to make her angry." I am the eldest daughter of the Cheng'en Hou Mansion, if I go to participate in the karma regardless of it, what will others think of our Hou Mansion? The sons and girls in our house are not yet married, do you want them to be implicated because of me, and it is not a good family matter? ”

The eldest daughter of the first house is the most valued, but she also bears the heaviest responsibility, and there are too many things that she can't be autonomous.

"Our Hou Mansion still has to look at other people's eyes? Who doesn't know that our family is the most unruly? Cheng Jin said with a smile, "If they can't talk about good family affairs, they are making trouble by themselves, and it is the old lady and the old man who are making trouble, so they can't count this account on you." ”

"A-Niang won't agree." There was longing in Cheng Chan's eyes, but he was forced down by reason.

"I'll go talk to A-Niang." Cheng Jin volunteered.

"What do you want to say to A-Niang?" Cheng Chan shook his head, "That's it, let's talk about it in the future, A-Niang has been feeling uncomfortable recently, don't talk to her about these troubles." ”

Cheng Jin paused, she also felt that Mrs. Cheng was a little strange, especially after she got better, although Mrs. Cheng tried her best to hide it in front of her, she was now extremely sensitive, and always felt that as the wife in charge of the Hou Mansion, Mrs. Cheng's mood was very unstable, "Is A-Niang's body also uncomfortable?" ”

"She has always been in poor health, but she has to have a strong personality and hold on, and she hasn't stopped taking medicine in the past year." Cheng Chan said worriedly, "Now that you are sensible, don't let A-Niang worry about it anymore." ”