The sun rises in the east, the orange light illuminates the sky little by little, and the crowing of the rooster comes and goes, full of life.

On the criss-crossed field roads, Wei Chen carried a big bookcase on his back, followed behind Wei Ruyi, swaying slowly.

Today is the day when Wei Chen left home to study.

What Wei Ruyi brought home yesterday was not only the gratifying ten taels of silver, but also Wei Chen's qualifications to enter the Sheng Family's Yixue School.

Wei Chen has always been unresistant to reading, and he stayed in school to work in the library as soon as he graduated from graduate school in his previous life, completely out of love for books.

What's more, now Wei Chen has also traveled to ancient times, although it is a somewhat strange world of knowing whether or not it is, but this world still adheres to the principle of "everything is inferior, only reading is high".

Although there are 360 lines in the world, there is only one way out in the Great Zhou Dynasty if you want not to be bullied, if you want to get ahead, and do a career.

That is, to be an official, to be a civil official, and to be a civil official from a scholar!

Of course, being an official is still too far away for Wei Chen, who is only ten years old now, and it is the most realistic to study hard and get a student (that is, Xiucai).

In the past, when Wei Chen watched history books and TV series, he felt that there was nothing great about the ancient Xiucai and even lifting people, and only by taking the Jinshi examination could he be regarded as a character.

But after really staying at the bottom of this ancient world for a while, Wei Chen understood what it meant to be hierarchical, respectful and inferior, and how difficult it was to become a showman.

Reading is the only chance to change the fate of the children of the poor.

Become a student, you can not worship when you see the county order, you can be exempted from the criminal law of forced labor, you can travel to study in all directions without being restricted by road guides, and even the threshold of your own family can be three points higher than that of ordinary people.

As long as you have fame, you are different from ordinary people, even if you are the lowest-level show of talent and fame, it is also a talisman that others can't ask for, the elder doesn't dare to difficult you, the squire doesn't dare to difficult you, and the servants don't dare to difficult you.

Otherwise, even if you have ten thousand gold, you are just pigs and sheep in captivity by those in power.

Therefore, since the beginning of the crossing, Wei Chen has made up his mind to study and participate in the imperial examination.

He has the ability to never forget, and the starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people, as long as he can endure the loneliness of studying hard in the cold window, even if the elimination rate of the imperial examination is high, it is always not difficult to take the exam.

If you have to meet a famous teacher for guidance, it should be no problem to raise people and jinshi.

"Perhaps, ten years later, I can earn a champion archway back for Xiyin Village, and then the civil officials will get off the sedan chair and the military attaché will get off the horse, what a glory it is......"

Wei Chen thought happily all the way, and before he knew it, he had walked more than ten miles, and Youyang County was already close in front of him.

Taking advantage of the fact that the sun was not scorching, the people rushed into the city, inspected the city gate, officers and soldiers checked pedestrians, and most of the people could only block the city gate.

In Wei Chen's eyes, the city wall was getting higher and higher, and the official road was becoming more and more congested, Wei Ruyi slowed down and took Wei Chen's hand.

After lining up and entering the city gate, the two came to the county seat.

Youyang County is not big, but it is very prosperous, the wide and smooth stone road is full of pedestrians, the sound of selling, shouting, laughing and scolding is mixed together, noisy and cut, endlessly.

On the left side of the road are rows of small buildings, with white walls and black tiles, with two or three floors.

On the first floor of the small building, there are various storefronts, and the façade is hung with a variety of signboards and banners.

Some are very elegant, such as the "Songhe Zhai" carved in the seal style, the "wine flag wind" written in cursive, etc., and some are very straightforward, such as "Wang Mama mud mask style medicine shop", "Li family kung fu needle shop" and so on.

Some small shops simply don't write the name of the store, and directly draw the things for sale on the flag, such as scissors, iron pots, etc., which are clear at a glance and very easy to recognize.

On the right side of the road is the clear river with no end in sight, and the boats on the river are connected end to end, and every dozen feet away, there is an arched stone bridge for pedestrians to pass.

Willow trees are planted on both sides of the river, and under the weeping willows that are as green as silk, from time to time there are boatgirls wearing bright clothes rowing past in front of them.

"What a scene of prosperity!"

The prosperity of Youyang County refreshed Wei Chen's impression of the barrenness of ancient society, and he couldn't help but admire.

But think about it, Youyang is located in the south of the Yangtze River Water Town, which can be called the most elite place in the Great Zhou, and the economy and people's livelihood will not be bad.

As soon as he entered the city, Wei Ruyi took Wei Chen to the grocery store under the name of the Sheng family, and after selling the straw mats he had made yesterday, he bought six things: celery, lotus seeds, red beans, dates, longan, and dried lean pork strips.

This is the six apprenticeship rites prepared for Wei Chen.

When a student meets a teacher for the first time, he or she must first present a gift as a sign of respect, that is, a bondage.

Celery means diligence and studiousness, lotus seeds mean painstaking education, red beans mean grand exhibitions, jujube means early high school, and longan means enlightenment and wisdom.

Dried lean pork strips are considered hard goods, which are used to express the disciple's gratitude to the teacher.

Wei Ruyi was very concerned about Wei Chen's schooling, and tied each of the six rites of apprenticeship with a red rope and put it in a gift box with a small drawer, which looked very exquisite.

Seeing Wei Ruyi's cherished and cherished way of sorting out the apprenticeship ceremony, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the respect of people in this era for knowledge and teachers is really far from being comparable to later generations.

The two of them, one older and one younger, left the grocery store and walked down the street all the way to the Sheng Yixue in the south of the city.

Wei Ruyi handed the gift box to Wei Chen, and did not forget to advise: "Brother Chen, this Sheng family's Yixue is different from the social studies you used to be, the gentleman here is a talented man, and when he enters the school, he must respect the teacher and love his classmates......"

Wei Chen listened helplessly and funny, he had read books for more than ten years in his previous life, didn't he understand this truth?

However, he also knew that this was Wei Ruyi's care and love for him, and after listening to Wei Ruyi's advice patiently, he did not show the slightest impatience on his face.

Wei Ruyi saw it in his eyes, he was very pleased, and thought: Brother Chen has been sick, but he is much more sensible.

Seeing that it was not early, Wei Ruyi finally stopped chattering, and after saying goodbye to Wei Chen, he let Wei Chen enter the Sheng School alone.

Wei Chen walked to the door with a bookcase on his back, and when he looked up, he saw a big archway standing there.

On the two floors of the middle door, the word "Jinshi" is engraved vertically, and the right side is vertically engraved with the small block "Jingping five years Ding Chou will try", and the left side is vertically engraved with "Chinese-style top 3 69 Sheng Hongli".

The predecessor of Sheng's Yixue was the Sheng clan study, which was mainly for the children of the Sheng family to study and study, and later with the funding of Sheng Wei, it began to recruit poor students from Quanyouyang, and provided free accommodation and board, which is now Yixue.

Sheng Hong has been raised in his hometown when he was young, Sheng clan is his place of enlightenment, at the age of fifteen, Sheng Hong only in the arrangement of his mother-in-law to worship under the famous Confucianism, and then in one fell swoop was admitted to the Jinshi.

At that time, Youyang County ordered in accordance with the regulations, in the Sheng Yixue gate for the construction of this Jinshi archway, in order to inspire the latecomers, such a memorial arch, not only here is one, there is one in the township where the ancestral house of the Sheng family lives.

"It seems that the Red Wolf Senior is still very famous in Youyang's hometown!"

Wei Chen looked up at the tall Jinshi archway in front of him, and his heart was a little more yearning for the upcoming school life.