Chapter 1 Prepare for the imperial examination
Fu Heng was concentrating on copying the calligraphy, and when he heard Xu Lan say, his hands trembled with laughter, and he said with big white teeth: "Yuan Zhen is confused, Feng Jiu's small body, how can he raise a big bird." β
Feng Shuanglin leaned on the bed and read a book, without raising his eyes.
Shun Yu's face flushed, and the inkstone in his hand flew straight towards Xu Lan, biting his lip and saying cruel words: "People can't look good!" Beware of scaring you to death. β
Xu Lan easily caught the inkstone and put it on the table, if she wanted to laugh or not, she suddenly grabbed Shun Yu's arm, and reached out to her waist with the other hand: "It's better to hit the sun, let me touch it!" I suspect you're a girl! β
I'm going to die! Shun Yu didn't care about it, bit the back of his hand, and used all his strength, so that his teeth hurt.
Xu Lan hissed and withdrew his hand with his teeth bared, looking at a circle of red and bloody tooth marks.
The scratches on his cheeks have not faded, and he has been teased by his classmates for a long time, and this has added a new injury! He still wants to be shameless.
And these claws and teeth are even better than weapons! His face finally became gloomy, and he looked at Shun Yu gloomily and didn't speak.
Fu Heng saw that the atmosphere was wrong, came over to protect Shun Yu behind him, hugged Xu Lan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's not right for Yuan Zhen, you said that Feng Jiu Bird is small, how can you ridicule him for being a girl?" If it were me, I would have to be anxious with you. β
Shun Yu wiped the bloody smell from her lips with her sleeve, poked her head out from behind Fu Heng, and exhaled: "I still think Yuan Zhen, you are a girl." β
"I'm a girl?" Xu Lan's thick eyebrows furrowed, she laughed angrily, and simply wanted to untie her belt: "I'm a girl, show you that the girl has this big one?" β
"Don't mess around! Disturbing Feng Jiu's study. Feng Shuanglin couldn't stand it, so he threw down the book and came over to stop him: "The Qiuyu imperial examination will search the body, and the strict soldiers will ask to untie the shirt or underwear to inspect, and you need Yuan Zhen to come to inspect Feng Jiu's body?" What's more, there have never been rumors of women's scientific expeditions in history. Don't be unceremonious here, and spread it out to laugh and be generous. β
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was slammed open.
Hearing the sound and looking, it was Hao Tianlu who broke in, and everyone was surprised, this guy with a thin yellow face, an unshaved beard, and a half-new shirt with oil and flowers, how could he be haggard and sloppy so far!
Hao Tianlu shouted at Fu Heng: "Fu Heng, where are you hiding my lady?" I'm looking for her! β
Fu Heng shook his head: "You are arrogant, it's not that I don't allow you to reunite with your husband and wife, it's that Yun Niang told me that if I miss you and will come here to find you, you can patiently reflect and wait." β
"Who knew you were talking nonsense? Yun Niang is kind and soft-hearted, and she can't do anything to abandon her husband, you name which house she is in, I ........! Hao Tianlu blushed suddenly, struggled to put his hand in front of his throat, choked a few times, and said dumbly: "Brother Yuanzhi, what are you doing?" β
"If you have something to say, don't make noise here and disturb Feng Jiu's study." As he spoke, Xu Lan was already holding the collar at the back of his neck and striding out of the door.
Fu Heng sneered: "Look at his down-and-out appearance, he knew it was like this, so why bother in the first place." So he chased him out.
Zhai Shefu calmed down again, Feng Shuanglin picked out a blue book from the cage, handed it to Shun Yu, and said lightly: "You think it's good, but you can read it in your leisure, you feel useless, just return me." β
Shun Yu turned two pages, and was very surprised, all of them were the previous Qiu Yu exam questions and the champion Cheng Mo, and he knew that it was Feng Shuanglin's private collection, and it was rare to show it.
looked up to thank him, but saw him leaning on the bed again, quietly reading the book.
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In a blink of an eye, it has come to the eve of the autumn imperial examination, and gradually at dusk, but I listen to the cool raindrops hitting the eaves, and the twilight smoke is deep in the green color of the west window.
Shun Yu no longer studied, and only used the orange candlelight to carefully sort out the examination materials for tomorrow's admission.
Prepare a four-layer bamboo basket with partitions, the lower layer is placed with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, cylinder box, kettle, etc., all of which are hungry white flour burritos, fruit filling steamed pastry and other pasta, chrysanthemum wood and goose fat sweet cake and other delicate fine points, as well as smoked and marinated chicken breast duck breast pork, etc., all cooked and fragrant, white through rouge, piece by piece cut thinly, neatly arranged and wrapped with oil paper, this is full of two layers, the top layer also placed rice noodles, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other cookable ingredients, as if afraid that she will not eat enough.
Then the bamboo box is uncovered, there is no door in the room, you have to bring your own oilcloth curtain to cover, the window is afraid of the autumn rain to enter, you have to nail the curtains, the candle is prepared with a tube, a white leather stove, and the rest is the bedding pillow cushion and some sundries.
Shun Yu suddenly heard that someone was faintly calling again, stopped tidying up, walked to the window to listen carefully, and sure enough, a voice came: "Ghosts, gods, and monsters are going here, there is revenge, revengeββ! β
couldn't help but change his face, opened the window and looked into the distance, the black shadow of the ancient camphor onion cage swayed, but it was a trance.
"Yongting, what do you hear?" Shun Yu turned his head and asked Feng Shuanglin, who was washing.
Feng Shuanglin wiped the water droplets on his face with a cotton towel, and also walked to the window to listen for a while, and said with his jaw bowed: "This is not uncommon. On the eve of the entrance of Confucian students in autumn, the "two ghosts of enmity and hatred" ceremony should be summoned in the trial courtyard. I felt a little autumnal, so I went to get my clothes.
Shun Yu closed the window tightly and chased him to ask what the "two ghosts of enmity" ceremony was.
Feng Shuanglin continued: "Tonight, the chief examiner and his fellow examiners, proctors and others need to wear sacrificial clothes, set up the table, and need a stove of sandalwood, a pair of red candles, and several pots of melons, fruits and vegetables. β
"The gods and ghosts come from three points, one is the gods of heaven and earth, to help the officials to seriously observe the order of the examination room and uphold justice, which is public. The second is the ancestral soul of the Confucian students, who came to cheer up their children and grandchildren. The third is the two ghosts of enmity and enmity, and the ghosts who have enmity and enmity with the Confucian students and their clans who should take the examination will also rush to make waves. β
"This is to prepare a tricolor flag: the gods of heaven and earth are red flags, the souls of ancestors are blue flags, and the two ghosts of enmity and enmity are black flags. Otherwise, the lonely ghosts and ghosts will get lost, and they will plague the people nearby. After two hours, the tricolor flag is planted in the four corners of the conspicuous house, that is, the gods and ghosts have entered into place. β
Feng Shuanglin paused, picked up the teacup to eat, saw Shun Yu's stunned expression, and pulled his lips and joked: "Feng Jiuming entered, maybe there are already ancestors waiting there in your room." β
Shun Yu pursed her lips and shook her head, and said after a while: "If you really can't ask for it, only this yin and yang are separated, how can the blue sky and the day blend, but I don't believe it." β
"It may sound absurd, but it doesn't make it up in a vacuum." Feng Shuanglin said lightly: "In the past year, no matter whether it is spring or autumn, every time the imperial examination is held, there are always people who are crazy and become demons, and some people die strangely. β
Shun Yu was a little speechless, and at this time, he suddenly heard a knock on the door of the house, and a voice came: "Shun Yu can be inside!" β