On the way home, Shen Yichen secretly regretted it in his heart, because he suddenly remembered that he had seen a painting called "The Scene of the Southern Capital Meeting" at the National Museum.

This picture scroll is like the Qingming Riverside picture, vividly depicting the life scene of Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, which left a deep impression on Shen Yichen at that time, and the street market in the center of the picture scroll is called Nanshi Street.

"I didn't pretend to be forced if I knew it, and promised Zhao Hongjie's kid to go shopping on Nanshi Street."

Of course, regret is regret, Shen Yichen's decision to go back first is not simply because of pretending, but more because the amount of information he has seen and heard today is too large, and he needs to calm down and sort it out carefully.

In the courtyard at the end of the alley, Shen was weaving, and when he saw his son coming back, he was a little surprised and asked, "Chen'er, why did you come back so early today?" ”

"There wasn't much homework taught by Mr. today, so I got out of school early."

Shen Yichen did not have the slightest doubt about Shen Yichen's words, put down the spindle in his hand and got up and said, "I'm hungry, my mother will go and prepare a meal." ”

"Mother, don't be in a hurry to cook, I'll go back to the house and read the book first."

Hearing Shen Yichen say that she wanted to go back to the house to read first, Shen was subconsciously stunned, she didn't seem to have seen her son so diligent in all these years, which made her a little worried: "Chen'er, nothing happened in the grandfather's mansion, right?" ”

"It's okay, don't worry, mother, I'm just preparing in advance for next year's county test."

Shen Yichen hurriedly explained, it seems that sometimes there are too many changes, and it is not a surprise, but a fright.

"Okay, okay, then Chen'er, you can study in peace."

Sure that nothing happened to his son, he just planned to study hard, and Shen's face was full of relieved smiles.

"Mother, I'll go back to the house first."

After Shen Yichen finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards his room, but when he walked to the door, he vaguely felt that Shen's reaction just now was a little strange. Even if it is not normal for you to become diligent and studious, why did you first think of an accident in the Chengguo Mansion?

Thinking of this, Shen Yichen stopped and turned back and asked, "Mother, I lived in the Chengguo Mansion when I was a child, right?" ”

Shen Shi was a little puzzled and said, "Chen'er, why did you suddenly ask about this?" ”

"It's nothing, just today I met Chen Qingtong, the only daughter of Taining Hou, she still remembers what happened when we were children."

Hearing Shen Yichen mention Chen Qingtong's name, Shen nodded with a smile and replied: "Yes, when I was a child, Qingtong liked to play with you the most, and I still remember that whenever you were not in the house, that little girl would sit on the threshold and wait for you to come back." ”

"Then why did we leave the mansion back then?"

Today's appearance of Chen Qingtong also reminded Shen Yichen of some dusty memories.

He was not denied by Zhu Yong from birth, he was treated like a concubine when he was a child, and he lived normally in the Chengguo Mansion, only choosing a good day and an auspicious day to be included in the genealogy.

But all this was changed suddenly, Shen Yichen vaguely remembered that night, his mother left the Chengguo Mansion with him in a panic, and since then he has lived in this corner courtyard, never mentioning what happened back then.

Although her mother Shen was born as a maidservant, she was gentle and frugal, and she would not fight or rob, and theoretically she would not anger Chengguogong. And more importantly, in the third year of Xuande (1428), after Zhu Yong entered the crown prince Taibao and was officially in charge of Beijing, he rarely returned to the Chengguo Mansion in Nanjing.

In the past, Shen Yichen lived in vain, with empty thoughts but no action, and never delved into these things in the past. And now Shen Yichen is different, he knows that whether it is for himself or for his mother, it is not easy to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and he must understand what has happened.

When Shen Yichen asked this sentence, the smile on Shen's face instantly froze, and his eyes dodged and replied: "It's all in the past, there's no need to mention it again, just study hard." ”

Looking at his mother's emotional changes, Shen Yichen could basically assume that his guess was right, something did happen back then. However, since his mother didn't want to mention it, Shen Yichen didn't continue to ask, so he nodded.

"I see."

Back in the house, Shen Yichen sat in front of the desk, looking at the Four Books and Five Classics on the table, as well as the interpretations and commentaries written by the sages, and began to think about how to achieve success on the road to fame in the shortest possible time.

His current identity is Mengsheng, and he will be a primary school student in the next life, of course, the actual difficulty must be far beyond the level of primary school students.

In the ninth year of orthodoxy, that is, next year, there will be two examinations in three years, of which the first examination is called the prefectural examination, which is mainly examined by the magistrate, which is equivalent to the entry-level examination, and those who pass will be qualified to participate in the second prefectural examination.

The prefectural examination is an advanced examination, which is presided over by the prefect or an official at the same level, and if you pass the prefectural examination, you will get the status of a child.

Don't look at the identity of the imperial examination as a child, but it is a watershed in whether it can be called a scholar. If you can't even pass the exam, you will call yourself a scholar outside, and you will probably be a little empty in your heart.

This is why, in the Chengguo Public School before, Li Dan mocked Zhao Hongjie as a child. It's a bit embarrassing that I haven't even officially obtained the status of a scholar for several years.

After passing the county and government examinations, then the next is the last level of the college examination, the chief examiner is the admiral Xuezheng, and the admitter is the well-known "Xiucai" in later generations, which is equivalent to having a formal fame, and the first place in the college examination will be called the head of the case.

If Tongsheng is a watershed that distinguishes scholars, then Xiucai is equivalent to a watershed of class, and from then on, it can be regarded as entering the scholar class, and there are privileges such as exemption from forced labor, not kneeling when seeing the county, and not being punished casually.

Shen Yichen is not ambitious at present, and feels that he can easily raise people in high school, jinshi and so on, so he only focuses on the most basic talent identity.

But having said that, Xiucai is not so easy to test, you need to have an in-depth understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics, and a certain level of poetry strategy.

Poetry policy aside, take the main Four Books and Five Classics as an example, purely from the number of words, the Four Books and Five Classics are only 170,000 words, and it is not difficult to memorize them by rote.

However, in the imperial examination, you are not just asked to write silently, but to take one of the paragraphs or sentences to make a propositional composition in a standardized format, which is the well-known Bagu essay.

If you want to write a good Bagu Wen, in addition to your own understanding, you also need to refer to the conceptual arguments of the Wenzong family, such as the famous Cheng Zhu Lixue, and then imitate the tone of the ancients "speaking on behalf of the sage".

To use the simplest and rude explanation, the so-called eight-strand essay of the imperial examination is simply the "reading notes" of those before the examination!

It is very simple to buy a college entrance examination workbook in the future, who hasn't had two five-year college entrance examination three-year simulations? But in ancient times, it was not a scholarly family or a wealthy gentry and eunuch, and it was not easy to have a huge library and collect this kind of "imperial examination teaching aids".

Compared with Shen Yichen, he was lucky, although he was kicked out of the Chengguo Mansion, he could at least study in the outer courtyard and enjoy the top educational resources in ancient times.

At present, what Shen Yichen needs to do is to convert this educational resource into actual results, and without the help of plug-ins and systems, the only thing he can rely on is his own efforts.

"The master is right, you still have to learn to be diligent, and there are thousands of books......"