In the Great Zhou Dynasty, if you want to participate in the national examination, you must first start with the children's examination.

The children's examination, also known as the "children's examination", is divided into two subjects, civil and military, and is a local imperial examination presided over by the state academic administration, including the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination.

The county examination is the first pass of the children's examination, the entrance examination for the national examination of the Great Zhou Dynasty to obtain the qualification of students, and the beginning of the entry of scholars.

The county examination is generally presided over by the county official, and the instructor of the Confucianism Department supervises the examination. One month before the test, the county office will announce the test date.

"It's time again," Zhu Rong sighed lightly as he looked at Mrs. Chen's figure leaving in a hurry.

The prefectural test is held in February every year, and it is exactly one month before the prefectural test.

"The Duan clan's genealogy, is it the Ziyang Academy?" Not far away, there was a sudden faint question from a young girl, and Zhu Rong, who was immersed in thoughts, was shocked, and turned his head left and right, only to find that the sound came from the bed opposite.

"You're awake." Zhu Rong laughed loudly and looked at his sister Zhu Yue, who was also tied to the bed opposite.

"Hmm." Zhu Yue answered softly.

"How do you feel?" Zhu Rong asked with concern.

"It's painful and itchy." Zhu Yue frowned, "But it's better than last time." ”

"Really?" Zhu Rong felt a little surprised, he also thought that his sister was the same as himself, and he didn't feel as good as last time, but he didn't expect that only he was uncomfortable and more ruthless.

"Big brother, you haven't answered my words yet." Zhu Yue said dissatisfiedly.

Only then did Zhu Rong remember what his sister mentioned before, "It's indeed Ziyang Academy, I didn't expect you to know about this academy." ”

"Big brother, you told me about this academy before, but it seems that you don't remember." Zhu Yue laughed when he heard this.

Zhu Rong was stunned for a moment, then thought of what happened at that time, and fell silent.

"Well, there is such a thing." The boy's voice echoed through the room.

"I remember you said that if you could get out of this secret room one day, you would want to study in this academy." Zhu Yue looked at his brother with a complicated expression.

Because of her ugly appearance, she was trapped in this ghost place where she didn't see the light of day, and her brother, who used to talk to her with a book and a long sword, became more and more silent as he grew older, and no longer fantasized about his life after going out of here.

The ambitions of the teenager rotted day by day in the ground.

It wasn't until the woman rushed into this frozen place like a whirlwind that the name Ziyang Academy reappeared.

"I didn't expect her to have the courage to go to Ziyang Academy." Zhu Rong smiled reluctantly, "If you want to pass the county exam, it is indeed the best place to go, but ......" Zhu Rong stopped in the middle of his words. However, Zhu Yue already understood what his brother meant.

"How can a woman take the national exam?" Zhu Yue asked puzzled.

"I've read in books that Empress Chengzong seems to have implemented a women's national examination system for a short period of time after usurping the throne," Zhu Rong muttered, "but no women participated, and in the end, it was over." ”

"Our ninth sister is really special." Zhu Rong smiled meaningfully.

If you want to sensationalize, this is also ingenious.

Zhu Yue snorted lightly, turned his head away, and stopped talking.

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The predecessor of Ziyang Academy is the Duan clan study, which was built by the ancestors of the Duan family in Anping Town, Ningxian County, Huizhou a hundred years ago at the foot of Ziyang Mountain outside the south gate of Huizhou Mansion.

Today, Ziyang Academy has gathered famous teachers and has a far-reaching reputation, and it is one of the colleges with the largest number of titles on the Huizhou Gold List.

Nowadays, Ziyang Academy has more than 80 regular students and more than 40 children, and the fifth and twentieth of each month are large classes, and the sixth and twenty-first are small classes. The big class tests the texts, and the small classes test the ancient poems, scriptures, and strategies.

Today is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and on the Wuqu Yinping Peak where Ziyang Academy is located, students gather together in twos and threes, either talking or pondering.

A student in a white dark striped robe was lazily lying on a piece of bluestone, flipping through a book for a while, looking out of place with his surroundings, but no one around him had any complaints about him, and occasionally his eyes touched, but there was a faint sense of awe.

"Kezhi," a man in a green shirt and robe walked up to Shan Shi, "Mr. Nanshan is coming to the school soon, how are you preparing?" ”

"Isn't it these things that are turned over and over, and what is there to prepare for." The man, whose name was Kezhi, simply closed the book, rested his head on his folded hands, and watched the white clouds swim in the sky.

"Yes," the man in the green shirt laughed loudly, "The book to be examined is already in your heart, so naturally there is nothing to prepare." ”

"Wen Yao, I thought you wouldn't be here today, when did you become interested in the small class?" Mu Kezhi asked.

"I heard that you rarely want to attend a small class, and you are here, how can I not come?" Li Wenyao smiled gently and looked at Mu Kezhi, "Your family is finally going to let you go?" ”

"Wrong." Mu Kezhi turned over and sat up, "I heard that Duan Lizheng is going to participate in this year's township exam, so I don't need to wait any longer." ”

"You're really on the same page with him," Li Wenyao smiled bitterly, "If you plan to take Wen Sanyuan, wouldn't it be better to avoid Duan Lizheng?" ”

Mu Kezhi laughed, his eyebrows were full of spirit, "If it wasn't Wen Sanyuan that he snatched from Duan Lizheng's hand, what would it mean?" ”

"You, it's a shame that your family is willing to let you mess around like this." Li Wenyao shook his head.

He looked at the unruly friend in front of him with a headache, and climbed the bluestone in three or two, standing on the stacked rocks, condescendingly overlooking the scenery in the middle of the mountain.

"In the entire Huizhou Mansion, only Duan Lizheng's article is a little interesting," Mu Kezhi lay down again, looked around at the students who were busy reciting books, and yawned long, "The current Ziyang Academy is really boring." ”

As soon as Mu Kezhi's words fell, he heard his friends beside him sigh in surprise.

"How can there be a woman here?" Li Wenyao stared at the road up the mountain and said.

"Is it that a young lady of a family has taken a fancy to you and chased you here?" Mu Kezhi turned over and said casually.

"How is that possible?" Li Wenyao helplessly refuted his friend's joke, frowned and looked down the mountain, and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl and a little girl ring walking up the mountain road.

The doorman who was originally guarding the bottom of the mountain was talking to the side constantly, but the girl turned a deaf ear, revealing a smell of single-mindedness.

The closer you go, you can see that the girl's face is fair, she is dressed simply, her eyebrows are picturesque, and her eyes are amazingly bright.

Whose lady is this?

Li Wenyao frowned.

He watched as the girl walked through the mountain gate to the thatched cottage and looked around.

The students who were studying in front of the cottage all noticed this uninvited guest at this time, and the original buzzing reading sound.

At that moment, the woman spoke.

The clear voice resounded through the mountains and forests.

"Zhu Shi, the British Mansion of Huizhou, has come to study."

You're here to study? Li Wenyao, who was standing on the bluestone, staggered and opened his eyes wide in surprise.

The students were in an uproar.

"Coming to study?" Mu Kezhi, who was originally lying on the bluestone without interest, suddenly got up.

"This is interesting." The boy touched his chin and looked at the woman with interest.