For several days, Fanning's parents were extremely busy, and on the sixth night, they hired a large boat to carry all the remaining belongings of the family on board.

There were no firecrackers or dinner, so he moved quietly from Jiangwan Village to the town.

As the end of the year gradually approaches, Yanying Academy has also stepped up the students' studies, and there are exams almost every day, which makes the students complain and suffer.

And Zhu Pei only cared about two things in the academy, one was to urge Fan Ning to find a stone and urge him to write a letter to Fan Zhongyan.

In addition, he compares his grades with Fanning, and every time he takes an exam, the two of them always alternate first.

If the score of calligraphy is large, it is Zhu Pei first, and if the score of calligraphy is small, the first is Fanning.

Every time Juppey was first, she would smile and sarcastically say sarcastic about Fanning's writing, and Fanning would take the first, she would look unhappy, saying that the professor was biased.

It's the middle of December, and it's the middle of winter.

Early that morning, more than 100 students gathered on the playground, rubbing their hands and stomping their feet in the cold.

Everyone complains about the sky, such a cold weather, what to do with gathering them together?

They are all middle and lower students, that is, middle and lower students.

The student is the highest grade, and he will take the prefectural school exam next spring, so he is very nervous at this time, and he usually does not come out.

At this time, Master Liu walked out with seven or eight professors.

Several teaching assistants hurriedly beckoned the students to line up.

Soon there were more than a dozen teams lined up on the playground, and the master of Liu Yuan waved his hand, and the playground suddenly quieted down.

Courtyard Master Liu said in a loud voice: "Students over the age of twelve, please raise your hand!" ”

More than a dozen students raised their hands on the playground one after another.

"Students who raise their hands, please go back to class first."

More than a dozen students left the group, and there were only about a hundred and so people left in the playground, everyone was quite interested, and they actually had to choose an age, what was this for?

Everyone craned their necks to look at Master Liu.

Courtyard Master Liu smiled slightly, "There are still ten days before the annual exam, and the annual exams in previous years were separated, but this year is special, this year you will use the same test paper for the exam......"

Before Master Liu's words were finished, he was drowned out by the buzzing discussion below.

The middle and lower students have spanned four full years, and it is unreasonable to have to take the same test paper.

"Everyone, be quiet!"

Courtyard Master Liu shouted, and everyone fell silent.

"I repeat again, this exam is an annual exam, I hope you will prepare carefully, and the rewards this time will be richer than last year."

At the end of the main lecture, everyone went back to the classroom in twos and threes, and Fan Ning waited for Liu Kang.

"What's your news?"

Although Fan Ning has been in town for more than a month, the news is still closed, but Liu Kang knows a lot of people and is sensitive to news.

"This year is not only special for our school, but also for other schools, and it is really strange for students under the age of 12 to take the unified exam."

"Could it be a request from the county?"

"I don't know!"

Everyone talked about returning to class, and as soon as Fanning sat down, Juppé walked into the class.

She wears the more popular Khitan hat, which is large and her face appears smaller.

He wears a thick white fox fur coat, a silver-white fox tail around his neck, a hat attached to it, a scarlet coat, and deerskin boots.

From a distance, it was a doll with extremely exquisite workmanship, but Fanning privately felt that she looked like a little vixen.

She just came, and she never participated in the various group activities of the school.

"What are you all talking about?" Juppe asked, sitting down.

"It's a bit strange to take the annual exam this year, all students under the age of 12 take a test paper, as if it's the same in other schools, and everyone doesn't know what's going on?"

Zhu Pei's face showed her usual contemptuous sign, "I don't even know this, selection!" ”

Fan Ning suddenly remembered that she had a source, and hurriedly stepped forward and smiled: "Tell me, what is the selection?" ”

"Stinky boy, what are you doing with me so close, stay away! Far away! ”

"Then tell me about it!"

"What do you say, I don't know? Also, when will your stone be given to me, I will warn you first, and you are not allowed to lie to me with fake Taihu Lake stones! ”

A few days ago, Fan Ning received two paintings from Fan Zhongyan, and praised him for making great progress in handwriting, and encouraged him to continue to work hard.

A picture of 'the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world' in the middle hall he left by himself.

The other was given to Juppé.

The middle hall made Zhu Pei very satisfied, but the Taihu Stone made her very annoyed, and Fanning actually gave her a fake Taihu Stone to fill up.

Fan Ning was too lazy to talk to her anymore, she said that she was dry, it was not a fake Taihu Lake stone, it was a Lingbi stone, and she found it easily, she just didn't believe it.

asked her to go to her grandfather for identification, but she refused.

At this time, Professor Yan walked into the classroom and knocked on the desk with a whip, and the class suddenly fell silent.

"In yesterday's exam, Fan Ning was the first, Zhu Pei was the second, Liu Kang was the third, and the students whose names I read below came to me after class to be punished, Fan Jiang, Luo Pingzhou, and Zhang Cang ......"

Fan Ning quickly glanced at Ju Pei out of the corner of her eye, and as she expected, she won the first place, and her mouth was about to pout.

"Every time it's this old man Yan, his heart is completely deviated." Juppé whispered hatefully.

In fact, her complaint is not wrong, Professor Yan does not pay much attention to calligraphy, and the score of calligraphy is relatively low, so Fan Ning takes the first place every time.

However, Professor Cai, who taught Mencius, paid more attention to calligraphy, so in his class, Fan Ning did not win the first place many times, and most of the first places were taken away by Zhu Pei.

"Today, the three articles of the "Analects", Yan Yuan, Zilu and Xianwen, are still the old rules, I will whip my palm if I make a mistake in two words, let's start!"

Fanning spread out the test paper and began to pick up the pen and write.

His calligraphy has indeed progressed very quickly, jumping to the first step two months ago and the second step at the beginning of the month.

Fan Ning's current regular script has reached the level of Fan Zhongyan's tea boy Xiaofu's handwriting, and it is even a little better than Xiaofu, of course, there is still a certain distance compared to Zhu Pei.

This little lady's handwriting is indeed beautiful, very spiritual, and she can also rank in the top three in the entire Yanying Academy, this is what Master Liu said about her.

Fanning began to write silently, writing faster and faster with the pen in his hand, and his whole body and mind were immersed in the beauty of calligraphy.

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At lunchtime, all the students were talking about the annual exam.

"It's too unreasonable for students from the lower and middle houses to take a test paper!"

One student shouted at the top of his voice: "The middle student has studied the Book of Songs, and the Book of Changes is also learning, but we have not studied anything, so do we only take the Analects and Mencius?" ”

"Impossible!"

Another student said, "Didn't you hear what Professor Yan hinted at today?" Let's have time to take a look at the "Book of Songs", everyone, the annual exam will test the "Book of Songs"! ”

The cafeteria was like a fryer, and it was very noisy.

Liu Kang said to Fan Ning: "This mixed exam with middle school students is indeed unfair to us. ”

Fan Ning smiled and asked, "I heard that there are a few powerful guys in Zhongshesheng?" ”

Liu Kang nodded, "Our class is recognized as the worst, and the best class is the middle school students get off work, that class has seven powerful characters, known as the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest', these seven guys in the first year of study, silent writing has never been good, no matter up or down, can only rely on calligraphy to fight for the first, I heard that several guys can write poems at the age of five or six, all of them are deep in family learning. ”

At this time, two students rushed into the cafeteria and said loudly: "You go to the canteen of the middle school students to have a look, they are predicting the results of the annual examination, and they have already sorted out the list of the top ten in the annual examination." ”

"Do you have any of our names?"

"How could it be, they didn't care about us at all!"

Liu Kang stood up and asked, "Old Five, did they mention Fanning?" ”

Fanning's face was hot, and his ears pricked up.

"Mentioned, they put Fanning in sixty-one!"

There was a sudden uproar in the cafeteria, and there were exactly sixty students in the upper and lower classes of the middle house, and Fan Ning was ranked at sixty-one, which meant that he was not qualified to compete with them.

Liu Kang was so angry that he slapped the table and said angrily: "Fanning, you have to prepare well, these guys are too deceitful!" ”

Fan Ning smiled, he really wanted to understand the power of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest.

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In the next few days, all the students went all out to prepare for the annual exam, and Fanning was no exception, getting up every day without dawn, except for practicing words or practicing words, and did not fall asleep until one watch.

For Fanning, poetry and writing gave him nothing to fear, and his only weakness was calligraphy.

He couldn't take advantage of his foresight, so he could only practice calligraphy honestly and make steady progress like every student in this era.

In the blink of an eye, it was late December, and there were still two days before the annual exam.

The reason for the unified examination, which has been confusing the students, has finally been revealed, and it is really a unified deployment of the whole county, and a prodigy selection competition will be held in the county on February 2 next year.

This is actually part of the Great Song Boys' Examination, which was conducted simultaneously with the Imperial Examination, and all the processes were the same as the Imperial Examinations, except that a separate Boys' List was issued at the time of the announcement.

Like the famous Prime Minister Yan Shu, at the age of fourteen, he was the first in the boy's list and was given the same Jinshi background.

The selection of prodigies to enter Beijing is the responsibility of the local officials of each prefecture and county, and it is included in the evaluation of the officials, so officials in various places attach great importance to it.

Although they all attach importance to it, the implementation methods vary from place to place, and most counties do not send people to find prodigies until the eve of the imperial examination, or to order the government to recommend prodigies.

However, some educationally developed counties pay attention to cultivating prodigies, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, after the end of each imperial examination, all localities begin to start training new prodigies for the next imperial examination.

The same is true in Wu County, where it is a tradition to select and train prodigies.

The Great Song Dynasty stipulates that the qualification for the children's examination is under the age of fifteen, so there is also an age regulation for the Wu County Prodigy Selection Competition, which cannot exceed the age of twelve before April next year.

The prodigy selection tournament is held every three years and follows the steps of the imperial examination.

In the past, each school directly recommended students to participate in the prodigy selection competition, which has a lot of drawbacks, and the recommended people are basically the children of rich families, and there are very few children from poor families.

This time, Zhao Xuezheng carried out reforms, requiring all schools to use the method of examination to pre-select.

Therefore, the annual examination of each school has become a qualification selection examination.