Fuzhou is the hometown of talents, Yan Shu father and son, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, these Song Dynasty people do not need to say, only the Ming Dynasty Hongwu seventeen years since the opening of the branch to take scholars, each subject is indispensable Fuzhou Jinshi, "Hanlin Duoji water, courtiers half Jiangxi", Ji'an and Fuzhou two mansions are Jiangxi imperial examination mansions, some people say that Renzong Hongxi began to implement the examination of the north and south paper system is because Jiangxi people are too able to take the test, northerners can not test the southerners represented by Jiangxi, so this is to divide the number of scholars in the north and south regions, in order to calm the grievances of the northern gentry, relatively speaking, the Ming Dynasty paid more attention to the northern gentry, after all, Beijing City is over there-

Therefore, it is more difficult to participate in the scientific examination in Fuzhou, although there are 20 more places in the Fuzhou Academy than Guangxin Mansion, but there are as many as 2,500 children who take the examination, which is almost double that of Guangxin Mansion.

Zeng Yu master and servant two people in the first month of May seven palm lamp time into the Fuzhou City, Fuzhou Academy examination has ended yesterday, the city is full of children waiting to be released, Tong Sheng has the nickname "Tong Tianwang", social status is lower than Xiucai, slightly higher than the common people, after the end of life can be written on the god card "to be given to Deng Shilang" five words, these children who have not yet released the list after the examination are in extreme anxiety, expectation and excitement, looking for flowers and asking willows, drunken crazy people, and even fights and brawls, Zeng Yu experienced this experience in Guangxin City, So as soon as I entered the capital city of Fuzhou, I quickly found an inn in the middle of nowhere to live, and this unfamiliar person tried to stay in the room and make less trouble.

It takes more than ten days from the end of the college examination to the marking, dismantling, and release of the list, during which the student officer lives in the temporary school yamen of the examination shed, and the entourage of the student officer must also live in the examination shed, and the local gentry are not allowed to visit the examination shed.

Zeng Yu didn't want to cheat, the problem he is facing now is: should he stay in Fuzhou and wait for the release of the list to find an opportunity to meet Huang Guoqing, the student official, or rush to Yuanzhou and wait first? If you wait in Fuzhou, you will have to wait for more than ten days, and if you can't see Huang Tixue, you will have to rush to Yuanzhou in a hurry, even if you are allowed to take the make-up exam, but the fatigue and hardship will definitely affect the exam composition; And if he rushed to Yuanzhou first and was worried that he wouldn't be able to see Huang Tixue at Yichun Wharf, as soon as Huang Tixue arrived in Yuanzhou, he would soon live in the examination shed and not see outsiders, leaving him not much time-

"What should I do?"

Under the stinky oil lamp of the inn, Zeng Yu wandered, he had no friends in Fuzhou, let alone the local gentry, and there was nothing he could do for the time being-

Sixi thought that Zeng Yu was worried about his injury, and said: "Young master, my knee is almost better, we can walk tomorrow, and I can carry the burden." ”

Zeng Yu smiled slightly and said: "Don't do your business, sleep your sleep and take care of your injuries, we have to stay here for two days, anyway, the time is not in a hurry, and it is unknown what opportunities we may be able to find here." ”

In the next two days, Zeng Yu stayed bored in the inn, painted an ink orchid and a picture of the three friends of the cold and inscribed a poem on it, anyway, Sixi was also bored, so he asked Sixi to take these two paintings and the two previous freehand flowers and birds in the book to the nearby Guanwang Temple to sell, and did not indicate the price, and waited for the rabbit to see if he could meet the appreciators, which was equivalent to painting friends, opening a gap in the chaos of this foreign land, and trying to integrate -

The four paintings were placed on the square in front of the Guanwang Temple for a day and no one cared about them, and the literary style of Fuzhou was extremely prosperous, so there was no Bole?

On the morning of the tenth day of the first month of May, Sixi rolled up four paintings and went to the Guanwang Temple to set up a stall, Zeng Yu wrote an eight-strand essay in the guest room, felt good, was in a good mood, thought that he had not gone around in Fuzhou for a few days, so he took a small money bag, ordered the inn guys, and went out to the Guanwang Temple.

In the morning, the Guanwang Temple was deserted, there were few people in the square, I saw Sixi sitting on the edge of the station in front of the temple, a few paintings were spread on the ground, and the wind blew the edge of the paper, Sixi picked up a few small stones and pressed them, otherwise the painting was blown away by the wind, this scene is indeed a bit bleak-

Zeng Yu paced slowly, Sixi saw him, his eyes widened, his face was about to get up to greet him, Zeng Yu raised his hands and pressed down, as if there was an invisible force pressing Sixi in place and couldn't move, Zeng Yu said: "I'll see how this painting is sold——"

Boredom, pretending to be a customer, walking to the four paintings and looking at them, Zeng Yu himself shook his head, of course, the ink paintings are not as eye-catching and dazzling as the heavy color paintings, and these four ink paintings are not framed, spread on the ground and uneven, blown by the wind one by one, it looks really shabby, and it is reasonable that no one cares.

Zeng Yu looked up at the blue sky, the sun was dazzling, a round of red sun was rising to the middle sky, the Dragon Boat Festival cold had long passed, and the weather was already very hot before noon; Looking around at the Guanwangmiao Square in Fuzhou, Guan Wangye read "Spring and Autumn" but didn't care about the article, and the people who walked by the painting stall only glanced at it and walked indifferently-

Zeng Yu had a sense of indignation in his chest that he did not meet, and the anger and injustice slowly accumulated, Han Yu said, "If things are uneven, they will sing", Zeng Yu wanted to make a big noise at this time, and couldn't help shouting: "Take a look, take a look, don't miss it, don't miss it, learn from Gu Kaizhi, and Wu Daozi from Yuanfa......"

Zeng Yu is joking and self-deprecating, venting the depression in his heart, but as soon as he shouted like this, some people really gathered to see, Fuzhou is less illiterate, as long as he is a child of a good family, he has more or less read books for a few years, and then came to see Zeng Yu's four paintings, and he was vassally elegant and commented, this said that the word is not good, and the ink is uneven; The one who said that this painting was awkward, how could there be such an ugly bird, and that only one corner of a piece of paper was drawn, and the rest were empty, which was a pure waste of paper......

There were many onlookers, Zeng Yu was pushed aside, he smiled and listened to those people gossiping about his calligraphy and paintings, and he was not angry, because these people are completely laymen, and today's jokes are heard.

The onlookers came and went, and when they left, they all shook their heads and pouted, saying that this kind of painting also wanted to be sold for money and given to others.

At this time, an old man with a staff came walking briskly, and when he heard someone selling paintings here, he came over and stood by the crowd to watch—

Zeng Yu glanced at the old Confucian and looked away, because the old Confucian's right eye was blind, and the crippled obviously didn't like others to look at it more, and suddenly heard the old Confucian shout: "Who painted this?" Who drew this? ”

Sixi replied: "It was painted by my young master." ”

The old man hurriedly asked: "Is your young master's surname Zeng Mingyu?" ”

Sixi looked at the old man twice, a little familiar, but he didn't remember where he had seen it, and nodded: "Exactly." ”

The old man put the dovehead staff in his hand to the ground, "Ha Lu Ha" Da Lu laughed, and said: "The old man said how could he miss it in person like this, I didn't expect to be able to meet here again after half a month, wonderful, wonderful - little scholar, where is your young master, take the old man to see him." ”

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