It took several days for the two of them to finally clean up the house. This place is not in the downtown area, there are some merchants' warehouses on the left and near, and there are only a few households, and they are all far away, so it is not easy to meet. Fortunately, it is also convenient to go out, and wait for the firewood, rice, oil, salt, pots and pans, and this is just passing the days. Because of the fear of gossip from outsiders, Ji Qingling and Gu Yanzhang simply pretended to be brothers and sisters, and settled here.

She is not very old, as long as she changes her dress, she is actually no different from an ordinary child, and when no one knows her at this time, she simply acts like a boy and goes out to visit with Gu Yanzhang. The Jin Dynasty is not as strict as the men and women of the later generations, Yanzhou is a border city, in times of war, women are also used as men, Gu Yanzhang grew up in such an environment, but he also felt that Ji Qingling's men's clothing was more convenient.

In the past, they fled in a hurry, and they didn't pay much attention to it, but now they are serious about staying, and then they found that this Jixian Wenhua Tianbao is quite literate. Ji Qingling and Gu Yanzhang went around in a big circle, probed all the academies in the county, and immediately had a headache.

This Jixian County is not the same as Yanzhou, even if it is an ordinary academy, if you want to enter the hospital, it is not a simple matter to pay a bundle and worship a gentleman.

"The April selection exam, there are nearly three months to go, I will study for a while, even if I can't enter Qingming Liangshan, I should be able to go to state school." Gu Yanzhang held a book and analyzed.

What he was holding in his hand was the article selected by the academy in Jixian County a few years ago.

There are two of the best academies here, one Qingming and one Liangshan, both of which are built by the people, but the Guanzhong Zhou School built by Jizhou is ranked behind.

Jixian County is originally in the territory of Jizhou, it is a large county, and the rest here are not famous, but they are famous for their talents. In the history of Jixian County, there are often talents, and in the nearly 100 years since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, two champions have been taken, one Tanhua, and dozens of Jinshi.

In the border city of Yanzhou, even if you get a show, you can have a yamen commendation, but in this Jixian County, Xiucai is simply everywhere, to put it mildly, go to the street to find a vendor to buy food, and I can't say that there are people in other clans who are showmen.

The population here was originally not much, because there were hundreds of large and small academies, there were often wanderers who came here to study, and it gathered popularity, and gradually became the most prosperous county under the jurisdiction of Jizhou. The academy in Jixian County has become a climate, and naturally it also provokes students, but anyone who can be slightly famous will set up a selection at the beginning of the year, and only select students with the best qualifications to enter the college.

Gu Yanzhang used to have parents and brothers to support, he was an old man, and he didn't need to take any responsibility, so he messed up by his own temperament, and now that something happened to his family, he had to stand up, knowing that now only good students can have a bright future. His original foundation was not solid, and because Yanzhou did not have much industry, although he was lazy, he couldn't stand up to his very good qualifications, so he could learn it casually and brag about it in the state. At this time, I came to Jixian County, and the level of knowledge was only mediocre among my peers.

Gu Yanzhang is not a stubborn person, seeing that this is wrong, he immediately adjusted his goal and set his sights on the second-class Jizhou state school.

"The state school here requires a household registration in Jixian County to enroll." Ji Qingling held another volume of the collection of essays of the academy, and reminded Gu Yanzhang while reading it.

"Jixian household registration only needs to live here for three months to enter the house, we have already rented a house, and by the beginning of summer, exactly three months, is enough to settle down."

The Jin Dynasty could not help the flow of population, no matter where the population was, the size of the population determined the tax, that is, the capital only needed to stay for one year to enter the government to handle household registration, Jixian County is just a small state and county, naturally simpler.

"There is another good thing about state school, as long as you can get in the top ten in the mid-month exam every month, you can be exempted from the constraints in the hospital, room and board, and money subsidies." Gu Yanzhang added, "If you take the state school, you don't have to work hard to copy books and do embroidery work at home, our remaining money is enough, you can also buy two girls back, saving you the need to boil water and cook every day, which is inconvenient." ”

Although Gu Yanzhang has been carrying water and chopping firewood and sweeping the floor in the past few days, Ji Qingling has done the sweeping and cooking, she was born in a noble life in her last life, and she is also frail and sickly, she has never even entered the kitchen, she doesn't know anything about housework, and what she can talk about is just some diet recipes. The original body of this life is also an official girl, fortunately, she suffered a lot on the way to escape, and she was finally able to grope for cooking, but she was really in a hurry.

Gu Yanzhang saw it in his eyes, and he was also worried in his heart, thinking that when he entered the school, Ji Qingling would definitely be the only one in the family, and he would not be at ease at that time, so it would be better to buy a girl and hire an old servant to come in and guard the house, it would be better than her being lonely.

Ji Qingling immediately laughed: "The girl is going to buy it, wait a few days to find Sister-in-law Liao, let her help pay attention to it, and pick a clever one." As for the rest...... When I was at home, I also loved to copy and read books, it was not hard, the embroidery work was forgotten, I could copy books for money, who would embroider! ”

Although she has suffered a lot along the way, and she has lost a lot of weight, her eyes are still round, and her eyes have more black pupils than white pupils, as long as she smiles, her eyes will squint into a crescent moon, and the dimples on her cheeks will also appear, making her more and more pitiful and cute.

Gu Yanzhang suddenly felt his heart soften.

He wanted a sister before, but now with Ji Qingling, the two rely on each other, making him feel that this is God's compensation.

For a while, he thought of his parents, brothers, and old servants and playmates, and sighed secretly, suppressing his sadness.

Ji Qingling naturally couldn't guess his thoughts, so he only continued: "Even so, let's try to test Qingming and Liangshan." Now I can enter the state to study with Jizhou's household registration, which saves a little money, but if it is a scientific examination in the future, Jizhou may not be as good as Yanzhou. ”

She saw Gu Yanzhang's unknown appearance, and explained: "My father is also from the imperial examination, in the past, at home, I often heard him tell his brothers about scientific examinations, now that Yanzhou has fallen, the DPRK will send troops to garrison it, this time the Northern Barbarians are strange, I don't know what the reason is, but after Yanzhou is recovered, it must be rebuilt." As soon as the new official comes, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, in addition to settling the people and building civil engineering, it is bound to set up a state school, at that time, Brother Gu, you will go to Beijing with Yanzhou household registration for scientific examination, and when the palace examination is held, isn't it cheaper than Jizhou's household registration? ”

Gu Yanzhang is extremely smart, as long as Ji Qingling is so gentle, he will wake up immediately.

Indeed, compared with the county and provincial examinations, it is undoubtedly the palace examination that determines the starting point of the top scholars. Ranked first or tenth, the treatment can be described as very different.

Later, he took the official, and his peers introduced it, "This is the champion of such and such a year" and "This is the tenth place in the first class of such and such a year" is simply a high judgment.

The Gu family used to be just an ordinary big family in Yanzhou, but in Gu Yanzhang's father's generation, they gradually started to come home. Gu's father is good at business, not to mention his keen vision, he can also speculate on the current situation, and his ability to play up and down is very powerful. In just over ten years, it has gradually grown. Gu Yanzhang grew up with a small upbringing, and naturally knew many important things, which were often just a sentence for the superiors.