Chapter 1: The Toad Chasing the Snake

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Pine Mountain, named after the pine trees in the mountain, the pine posture is swaying, the immortal guides the way, and the birthday star offers peaches...... Pine trees everywhere, dotted among them.

In autumn this year, the pine nuts are ripe, but also attract birds to peck at the beasts, and the pine scenery of this mountain is full of contrast, there are hundreds of birds gathering, and hundreds of beasts are chasing the trend.

It's just that compared with this mountain scene, Ning Caichen's mood is gloomy.

That's right, it's that Ning Caichen, the namesake of Ning Caichen, who is well-known to modern people.

Ning Caichen in the book is from Zhejiang, but he is from Hangzhou, the word "Xianzhi", he is sixteen years old this year, but he is just a child.

Tong Sheng, Tong Zi Sheng, in order to obtain the qualification to participate in the official imperial examination, must first take the Tong Examination, and the person who participates in the Tong Examination is called Confucian or Tong Sheng.

This is clearly the imperial examination system of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the era in which he is now can scare people to death, the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty that only took two exams.

For this reason, he often lamented why the Song Dynasty would use the system of the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, now Ning Caichen, his soul has changed hands and has been occupied by a modern college student from Earth.

Crossing was originally just a fantasy, but when this fantasy came true, his eyes went dark......

Great Song Dynasty.

This dynasty in history shared the world with scholars.

In this dynasty, being a scholar is happy, but Ning Caichen's heart is gloomy. Because he studied law in modern times, a law student.

If you want to say what era this law scholar hates the most, I am afraid that it is also this era when Confucianism flourished. Fortunately, he still has the memory of Yuan Ning Caichen, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to mix it up for a day.

None of these issues are critical.

The key is that the Ming system was adopted in this era, and the Ming system of scientific research was much more numerous than that of the Song Dynasty.

In the early Song Dynasty, there were only two levels of examinations, one was the examination held by the prefectures, and the first was the provincial examination held by the Ministry of Rites. The examination was presided over by the judges and recorders of each state, and the provincial examination was presided over by officials selected by the emperor. After adding the hall to the third examination.

The examination time is: every autumn, the examination is held in each state, in the spring of the following year, the examination is conducted by the Ministry of Rites, and the provincial examination is held in the temple examination in the same year.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination rankings were originally only divided into A and B, and later the examination system was divided into five grades, the upper second class was the first class, and the Jinshi and the first; the third class was the second class, and the Jinshi was born; the fourth and fifth classes were the third class, and the same Jinshi was born, and only those who were in the middle of the Jinshi were called "Jinshi". Those who are "appointed as officials at the same time" do not need to be tested by the officials.

But the Ming system is much more terrifying.

Before becoming a Xiucai, there are three-level children's examinations; after entering the college, they must take the annual examination and the scientific examination, and they will be divided into six grades according to their grades; only those who have obtained the first or second class in the scientific examination can obtain the qualification for the township examination. However, this is far from over, after the township test, there will be the meeting test and the palace test......

It's a test of talent.

The most important thing is that this is the Song Dynasty, which is half of the Analects to rule the world, everything is inferior, only the Song Dynasty with high reading.

One of your students is going to say that I won't take the test and go to something else. Soon it will stink on the street.

As a modern college student, what unit test, mid-term and final term, what will take the college entrance examination, teachers still play a trick from time to time. He has long been tired of this kind of test, how is it a burnt head, scorched inside and tender outside, and changing "test" to "test".

It's just that he's afraid, he will make a major decision before he crosses, and he won't take the test.

But I just didn't take the test, so I wore it over there. If you wear it, you don't have to say it, you have to continue the test.

What kind of life is this, and what kind of pain is it? His heart is just gray, but he has not gone crazy, and he is lucky.

Could it be that his fate is destined to be "roasted"?

"I'll give you a lung!"

Ning Caichen blurted out and scolded, carrying Ning Caichen's scholarly basket on his back, walking step by step.

Ning Caichen's family is not good, he can't afford to live in a schoolhouse, and he is not allowed to walk home on the mountain road every day, which is the so-called "Song Dynasty version of day students".

When he thought of the miserable life that lay ahead, his heart could not be happy.

In particular, the Ning family only has two acres of thin land, and his father died early, so he relied on his mother to make ends meet.

During this period, the mountain scenery is unique, and naturally there are tourists who visit the mountains and rivers, among which most of them are literati and tourists, in groups of three or five, two or two in pairs. Or take the hand to overlook the mountains, or sit in the mountain pavilion mountain road, taste tea and soft wine, talk highly, open your mouth "talk and laugh with Confucianism", close your mouth "there is no white ding", poetry and songs, you call me to respond, and the voice is in the ears.

This made him even more irritable, and before he knew it, he was entering the mountain path.

The path is quiet, although there is no beautiful scenery of mountain streams, but it is better than birds and beasts.

Looking around, there were no more pedestrians, but he took the basket from his back, and took out a square wooden box from it, and the box had a door, which could be opened, and lifted by a rope, and the beast could fall down as soon as it entered.

This is a trap he has managed to make on his own.

If it was in the Ming Dynasty, he was also called Ning Caichen, he would definitely be a scholar who loved small animals, but this was the Song Dynasty. I didn't know what meat tasted like, but it made him a craftsman.

Set the trap and he waited.

Sizzle......

With a sizzling sound, a snake sprang out of the grass.

The snake's body is as green as jade, and it is actually a highly poisonous bamboo leaf green.

He was not interested in such a venomous snake. If you can't catch a snake and get bitten by a snake, it will be more than worth the loss.

But the snake didn't know whether it was dizzy, or if it was no longer afraid of people, and it ran straight to his hiding place.

Ning Caichen didn't dare to move even more. He firmly remembered that this man did not provoke snakes, and snakes generally did not bite people.

The snake scurried up to his body and scared him half to death. Fortunately, there was no deception in this animal world, and the snake really didn't bite him.

It's just hiding, as if some predator is chasing it.

Goo-quack-

With a frog roar, a toad with a big belly, almost the size of a newborn rabbit, jumped out.

Toad chasing snakes?

Ning Caichen felt his head swell. What kind of world is this? This toad has learned to chase snakes. The old birthday star hanged himself, and he felt that his life was long?

He was wondering, but he found that the snake that had escaped from him suddenly opened its mouth and bit at the hand where he was holding the rope.

He was so frightened that his hand shrank, and the rope was not properly held, and he fell down all at once. As soon as the rope falls, the mechanism automatically activates.

Coincidentally, the toad jumped right on his trap and was caught at once.

Seeing that the toad was caught, the snake clearly showed a girl's successful smile. The snake twisted and slid away.

And that wasn't the end, the caught toad jumped and jumped, screaming and yelling. "Damn the snake spirit! I won't let you go!"

Snake spirit, toad, demon?

Ning Caichen didn't dare to move. This toad is even afraid of snake spirits, so it must be a demon.

How can there be a demon?

I can't figure it out, and I don't dare to think about it. He lowered his body and didn't even dare to come out.

I don't know how long it took, but he was paralyzed from his stomach anyway. The trapped chest had long since stopped.

This trap is badly buried because it is the only exit.

Ning Caichen's family was poor, and he was reluctant to put food in the trap, so he had to choose such a necessary path.

It's good now, but it's blocked his only way out.

But he couldn't wait any longer. "If I let it go, it won't hold a grudge against me. Thinking like this, he moved his body and leaned over cautiously.

This section of the road is less than 100 meters, but he feels like he has run a marathon.

No.

There was no more in the box, no more toad.

Ning Caichen immediately rushed down the mountain, ignoring the trapped box. After running all the way for a thousand meters, I had to rest.

Scholars, the body is not very strong.

"There's a youkai!" he took a big breath of fresh air, and as if he had thought of something, he rummaged through the basket again.

He was looking for a book, titled "The Inner Scene of the Yellow Court", which was something from the earth that he had traveled with him.

The book appears in a case.

"The Interior of the Yellow Court" seems to have little connection with the case, but if this "The Interior of the Yellow Court" is written by the ancestor of the word, its meaning will become different.

Of course, this is just a legend, and he didn't believe it in the past, but now it's different, even the toad has spoken, so what's the matter.

He had read this book in his previous life, but he didn't gain anything. Let's look at it this time...... He took it into his bosom again, for it was getting late, and he could no longer read the words on it.

He stood up, quickened his pace again, and hurried home.

At the foot of the mountain, a fence and a wall, the hut is a house, and the smoke curls up......

A woman stood outside the courtyard gate, and the mother waited for her son to return.

This woman is only in her twenties, but the years have already carved the traces of wind and frost. Gray hair, wrinkles crawling all over beautiful faces. is in its prime, but it is already dying.

Since his father was a civilian man and sent food to the front line, he has never returned. The mother and son depended on each other for their lives.

"Mother, why are you waiting outside again?"

Ning Caichen's footsteps did not stop, and his tone was full of concern.

In his previous life, he had no family experience. His parents only gave birth to him, but left him under the overpass. In this life, he vowed to be good to his mother, but what could he do?

Business?

No capital, no experience, how to do it.

Workers and peasants? This is the lower people, and under the lower people there are untouchables and slaves.

Ning's mother would never allow him to do it, and he easily became a child, and he could be exempted from taxes immediately. Once you turn back, won't you give up all your achievements? If you follow the example of his father and draw the husband of the people, will you not die in vain?

As for Yuan Ning Caichen. In the era when "everything is inferior, only reading is high", in the dynasty when "half of the Analects can govern the country", he, like most scholars, was not diligent, did not distinguish between grains and grains, and had no other skills except reading.

Mother Ning just smiled, but didn't say anything.

It's not the first time that Ning Caichen has persuaded her, but every time she just says it's good, it's still like me.

Mother Ning took his hand and walked into the house. "I'm hungry, aren't I? ”

At this time, it was too early for the evening meal, but Ning's mother warmed the food on the stove and waited for him to come back. That's why his house is full of smoke.

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