Soon the opening day of the women's college of Yunlu Academy arrived, and everyone in the house took a carriage to Yunlu Academy located at the foot of Yunlu Mountain in western Beijing. Yunlu Academy is about twenty miles away from the capital, and it takes an hour and a half to take a carriage one way and a half.

According to the rules of the college, a student can only bring a maximum of one maid or scholar, and these scholars or maids live in the side courtyard outside the college, in order to facilitate the transmission of messages between students by their families. The school has prepared a school building for two students, regardless of status, both male and female, in order to enhance the way students get along with each other and their hands-on skills.

Nan Lingmei has been studying at Yunlu Academy for two years and is a second-year student. has a good understanding of the situation of the academy, and at this time, of course, she will play the image of a dignified and virtuous big sister. She enthusiastically took Nan Lingmo and Nan Lingxuan to the registration office to report, and explained the matter in detail.

"Second sister, you haven't passed the exam yet, so naturally you can't live in the school building, so you can only temporarily live in the school building for reference students." Nan Lingmei smiled softly, "The third sister is young, why don't you take the second sister to the school building where you live temporarily after the third sister settles down?" ”

Nan Lingxuan smiled obediently: "Don't bother the big sister, hasn't Xiuxia beside the big sister been following the big sister in the academy before?" Why don't you take me with Xiuxia! The eldest sister will take the second sister to the temporary residence! ”

Seeing this, Nan Lingmei asked Xiuxia to take Nan Lingxuan and Xinrong beside her to Nan Lingxuan's school building. Nan Lingmei's move won the praise of the academy people, what kind of friendly atmosphere, gentle and virtuous, etc., although Nan Lingmei hated this approach in her heart, but this harvest made her heart proud.

Nan Lingmo looked around his temporary residence, although it was simpler, it was also clean, and there was a noble atmosphere of a century-old academy inside and out. There was another person in the same room as her, but this person was not there for the time being. She and Mei Xue sorted things together, "Hey, Lord Ren'an, why are you?" A voice came from outside the door.

Nanling Mo and Mei Xue turned around and saw a girl in green clothes appearing at the door. She fixed her eyes and saw that it was Lin Chaoying, the daughter of General Pingxi. She walked towards her happily: "I didn't expect to see you here, I remember that during the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, you returned to Beijing with General Pingxi to report on work, why didn't you follow your father back to the border city?" ”

"No, my father has been transferred, and he is in the Gyeonggi camp! We won't go back, and my mother and brother are also on their way to the capital according to the will of the saints. ”

"Then where do you live in the capital?"

"Wude Street in Western Beijing."

"It's only three streets away from the palace, but it's not far away." Nanling Mo said with a smile, "It should be the general's mansion over there." ”

Lin Chaoying nodded, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, frowned and said, "Actually, I don't want to come, I don't know anything about "Women's Rules" and "Women's Rings", the Four Books and Five Classics are only slightly understood, but the most read is the military book." But most of my father's noble daughters in Beijing are studying here, so they have to sign me up. County Lord, if I fail the exam, it will be a loss of my father's face, and my father will scold me to death. ”

"You said that you know a little about the Four Books and the Five Classics, but you can read the Analects and Mencius?" Nanling Mo looked at her two good-looking eyebrows wrinkled together, and couldn't help but laugh, "And the Book of Poetry?" ”

"This ...... I learned it when I was young. Lin Chaoying lowered his head and thought for a long time, and said, "But I have forgotten a lot, after signing up, I read those books at home, I have a headache when I read them, it is better to practice hard in the martial arts arena." ”

"It's not a few days, anyway, you and I live together, so naturally we have to help each other." Nan Lingmo said indifferently.

"Well, thank you, Lord County!" Lin Chaoying said happily.

"Don't always call me the county lord, just call me Lingmo."

"Then how can it be done, my father said that the capital is not as good as our border city, and there are many nobles in the capital, and it is a place where rules are everywhere."

"It's okay to call me Ren'an, whatever you like." Nan Lingmo said with a smile.

The area on the left half of the first floor of the library building of the college is a place where the college temporarily borrows books for those who come to the college every year to take the exam. Students are allowed to enter the library for half an hour each day to read the books they need. In the past few days, Nan Lingmo and Lin Chaoying have not only eaten in the canteen, but also between the classroom and the library building. The two of them almost ignored what was going on outside the window, and only read the books of the sages. For the parts that they didn't understand very well, the two of them humbly asked for advice like the caretaker of the library, which made the caretaker of the library quite satisfied.

Soon it was the day before the exam, and although Lin Chaoying followed Nanling Mo to make up for a few days, she was inevitably uneasy in her heart. Nan Lingmo comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Chaoying, you will definitely be qualified according to the answer I told you." ”

Early in the morning of the exam, all the students gathered in the examination hall. A total of 28 people participated in the entrance examination, including 18 men and 10 women, all of whom were qualified candidates in Beijing. The focus of the male and female papers is different, so the examination is divided into two examination halls.

Nan Lingmo opened the test paper and looked at it, and smiled in her heart. For Li Yunqing, the questions on the test paper are simply pediatrics. She was about to write a flying book, and she thought about Nan Lingmo's life in front of the world not to read poetry and books, but to read medical books, so she couldn't answer some questions as well as in her previous life, and could only answer them a little inferiorly, so she answered very hard.

Lin Chaoying also took these exam questions very seriously, and after she received the papers, she found that these exam questions had been more or less dialed by Nanling Mo, and she was very happy. But she was afraid of her own negligence, so she answered the questions very seriously.

There are still two days before the official release of the lists, and most of the students in the academy have returned home on leave in these two days, and Lin Chaoying and Nan Lingmo are no exception. The two made an appointment to go back to Beijing together, and after entering the city, the two separated, Nanling Mo was worried about Huaqilou, and asked Mei Xue to go back to the house first, and she herself went to a ready-to-wear store that looked good, and when she came out of the back door, she was already a jade-faced Langjun.

Several gentlemen of the college read the papers together in the school building dedicated to preparing lessons for them, but the work of assisting the gentlemen in grading the papers after reading them was Nan Lingmei, an assistant of Mr. Zheng, who taught the Four Books and the Five Classics. To say that Nan Lingmei's reputation as "the first dance in the capital" is not in vain, although she is not as good as dancing in poetry and books, she is also top-notch among her peers, otherwise the errand of this gentleman's assistant will not fall on her.

The gentlemen spent one day judging the examination papers, and drew up the admission list, which was ready to be released the next day. The test papers of the women's hospital were sorted and stored by Nan Lingmei.

On this day and night, Nan Lingmei took advantage of the fact that there was no one around, quietly entered the house, pulled out Nan Lingmo's roll, and saw that the score on the paper turned out to be the second grade, she was angry and tore it directly, and then took out a blank piece of paper, and randomly pulled out a few exam questions of the unsuccessful people, recalling Nan Lingmo's past handwriting in her mind, imitating her handwriting and hastily completing a roll, lighting the fire and burning the torn exam paper. After doing all this, Nanling Mei smiled fiercely, gritted her teeth and said, "Hmph, wait until tomorrow when you officially enroll, I'll see how you deal with it!" ”

On the day the list was released, Nanling Mo was admitted with the second grade of the women's hospital, and the third place was Lin Chaoying. And the first place is Su Qingyan, the daughter of Su Yang, the newly appointed imperial historian, who was admitted to the hospital together. The news of the admission soon spread to the Zhennan Palace, and Nanling Mo immediately packed up and rushed to the academy.

Nan Lingmei privately sent her maid to secretly spread rumors in the place where the maid lived, saying that the county lord and one of the unsuccessful people answered the question similarly, and due to identity reasons, one was admitted, and the other was named Sun Shan, and this matter soon caused an uproar.

The current mountain chief Ye Baozhen attached great importance to this matter after hearing about it, so he immediately issued a notice to recall the newly enrolled students, intending to inquire about the matter in public.

Ye Baozhen asked his assistant to take everyone's papers, drew out the test papers of the two in public, and judged them carefully, but found that these two papers were indeed not enough to meet the criteria for admission.

The woman who fell off the list was even more unconvinced, and she spilled it in public regardless of her identity. Everyone pointed at Nan Lingmo, and Nan Lingmo stood calmly in the crowd, as if these words were not hers. After reading the test papers, several gentlemen also wondered in their hearts, and they always felt that it was not quite the same as in their impressions.

Mr. Chen, who was in charge of the general grading of the papers, was known in the college for his fairness and strictness, never being emotional, and respected him from the dean to the students of the college, and he had a high prestige. He was also puzzled, so he said: "Mountain Chief, when the admission ranking was set this time, Mr. Zheng was also full of praise for the paper of the county lord of Ren'an, so the old man also read the paper of the county lord of Ren'an carefully. It's not quite the same as this one, but the handwriting looks similar......"

Ye Baozhen pondered for a moment and said, "Since this is the case, it is better to take another test on the spot." If the exam paper of the Lord of Ringan is not satisfactory, then the result will be invalid and you will not be allowed to take the exam again for three years? As soon as these words came out, the hall was shocked. This sentence means that it is impossible for Nanling Mo to enter the gate of Yunlu Academy in this life, and in this way, the reputation of the county lord of Ren'an in the capital will be completely ruined.

The woman who fell off the list retreated, but Nan Lingmo refused, and agreed to come down, Lin Chaoying, who was watching, was anxious for a while, and just wanted to persuade in a low voice, but she didn't expect Nan Lingmo not to give her a chance to speak, so she agreed directly.

"Then take the cicada as the theme," Ye Baozhen said, "and limit it to one stick of incense." ”

Soon someone was laying paper for the two of them. Nanling Mo thought about it a little, and put a few sentences from the previous poet Cao Zhi's "Cicada Fu" on the page.

Soon the time came, Ye Baozhen looked at Nanling Mo's test paper and asked: "With cicadas as the theme, many people can think of the previous poet Cao Zhi's "Cicada Fu". But why do you love these sentences alone: 'Only the cicada is pure and plain, and the latent convulsion is like Taiyin.'" In the midsummer of the sun, the first trip to the Fanglin forest. Solid and unwanted, lonely and happy and long. The voice is bright and powerful, like the mind of a chaste. And not something else? What is your opinion on these words? ”

Nanling Mo pondered for a moment and said aloud: "Mountain Chief, in the eyes of the students, although these sentences seem to write the sound of cicadas, they also write the poet's own arrogance. This is indeed something that students appreciate, not moved by fame and fortune, but only stick to their own hearts. However, students think that Cao Zhi's poem is a little deliberate. Cicadas are hidden in the mountains and forests, but students think that the so-called everything in the world is everywhere. Hidden in the mountains and forests is the way, and the temple is also the way, as long as his heart is pure, he does not make judgments against his heart, and does not make disobedient words, so why should he be obsessed with where he stands? ”

Ye Baozhen and several gentlemen were dumbfounded when they heard this, and it took a long time to react, Ye Baozhen laughed and said, "Wonderful! Cicadas are endowed with cicadas metaphors, cicadas are combined, and your thinking is obviously much broader, and there is really no need to stand in an indifferent place to show that as long as the original intention remains the same, nature can be the way everywhere. Ok, good, good! ”

Ye Baozhen was very happy, and everyone was so happy to see Ye Shanchang, and saw that Nanling Mo was not only quite proficient in poetry and books, but also had her own unique opinions, which attracted the praise of all the gentlemen and the mountain chief, and their comments about her turned from disdain to admiration.

"Han Qing, your judgment is not accurate," Ye Baozhen smiled at Mr. Zheng and said, "How can such an opinion be the second grade?" It's not an exaggeration to be at the top of the list. And this handwriting is not like a hairpin flower Xiaokai, plum blossom Xiaokai, but Zhong Xiang Xiaokai, which shows the character. Lord Ren'an, if the old man said that from now on, your strategy course will be taught by the old man himself, are you willing? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was another uproar. What kind of person is Ye Baozhen, the favorite son of Ye Rong, the elder of the old mountain, and the most outstanding in learning, which can be called a contemporary Confucian. is not only the companion of the first emperor, but also the teacher of the first emperor's princes, to say that this disciple, in addition to the first prince who died early, the unequaled queen, this Nanling Mo is regarded as the closed disciple of the mountain chief.

"Thank you, Master, student." Nanling Mo thanked happily.

This farce ended with Nan Lingmo not only successfully entering the academy with the top score, but also becoming a closed disciple of Mountain Chief Ye Baozhen, and the woman who fell off the list was no longer convinced. When the news came out, Nanling Mei angrily smashed an inkstone directly in the dormitory. Nan Lingxuan was also secretly surprised when she knew it, and had to look up at Nan Lingmo, feeling that she had underestimated Nan Lingmo in the past.

At the same time, the news that Nanling Mo became a closed disciple of Ye Baozhen, the mountain chief, also spread in Beijing.