"Learn and learn, don't you also say? Have friends come from afar, are you happy? People don't know and are not ashamed, and they are not gentlemen......"

"Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness have not yet occurred, and they are in the middle. It is said that it is the sum of ......"

"There are many people in all directions, and they listen to one person. But the emperor God surrendered to the people. If there is constancy......"

"Have you heard, this year is still the chief examiner, it is said that the topics of the main exam have been chosen, I listened to one of my fellow students in Mangshan College......

"Brother Tai, have you ever prepared a Bo Gift to go to see Master Taishi? Look at my specialty from Zhaoyuan......"

"Bang!" Qiu Shaohu pushed the door directly out of the inn where he was staying, and looked at the shopkeeper who happened to pass by with a gloomy face.

Early in the morning, I was woken up by the bustling sound of a group of scholars.

"I'm sorry, this guest officer," the shopkeeper pointed to the lobby with three points of apology and seven points of helplessness, "That...... The scholars are preparing to take the exam recently......"

Qiu Shaohu naturally understands that in a few days the exam will be held, and these scholars who gather in the capital from all over the city to take the exam often call friends and gather in spacious places such as teahouses and inns in various places, on the one hand, to review their homework, and on the other hand, to discuss the changes in this year's test questions.

Once you take the high school exam, you will be a leaping dragon from now on, and your life of wealth is limitless. Qiu Shaohu naturally understood the truth, so he couldn't say anything about the eagerness of these scholars.

walked directly to the lobby, found an empty seat to sit down, and while yawning, Qiu Shaohu asked for some boiled meat, planning to eat breakfast first to fill his stomach.

"Hey," but at this moment, Qiu Shaohu heard a voice in front of him, "This is my location." ”

Qiu Shaohu was stunned, lowered his head slightly, and saw a young man sitting opposite him. Wearing a green scarf on his head, wearing a deep coat, and holding a folding fan in his hand, he is dressed as a scholar. On the bridge of his nose is a pair of student mirrors, which is quite knowledgeable. With red lips and white teeth, and his appearance is quite handsome, if he finally gets the Jinshi, he should be hand-picked as "Tanhua" in the palace examination, a title that only those with beautiful looks can get in the top three.

The only fly in the ointment is that this teenager is too short. The petite figure not only couldn't support his clothes, but was almost submerged among a group of scholars in the lobby, no wonder Qiu Shaohu didn't see that this table was actually sitting on people.

Qiu Shaohu chuckled lightly and said directly: "Since this brother is here alone, he must be a person who likes to be pure, and he happens to be below." There is no purer place for the lower places; For Brother Tai, if he leaves, maybe more people will come here. Why don't you let me continue to sit here, there are only two people at a table, and for you and me, they are the cleanest. If both parties hesitate to accept something, it is acceptable to both parties, isn't it? ”

"If both sides hesitate, both sides accept, which is a wonderful word." The bespectacled young man nodded and said, "Which saint is this also saying?" ”

"I just came up with it." The boiled meat has been served, Qiu Shaohu said while eating.

The young bachelor nodded, which was regarded as an approval of the other party, and then he just drank tea while watching Qiu Shaohu eat.

In just a moment, Qiu Shaohu ate almost the same, and said while wiping his mouth: "Since Brother Tai is also going to Beijing to take the exam, why is he not in the same place with others, but here alone?" ”

For the scholars who are rushing to take the exam, the more they get together, the more information they can exchange, and maybe any message will directly affect their grades, so it is really rare to be like this teenager.

"A group of philistine, what a plan and a plan." The young man said indifferently.

"Oh?" Qiu Shaohu was a little interested, looking at the other party's appearance, he didn't look like a high-minded and arrogant person, why would he say this, so he said: "This group of scholars, all of them are from a good background, and they have the ability to be a villager, if they return to the countryside, it is not an exaggeration to be a village sage." Why are they mediocre in your eyes? ”

"Before the exam starts, they are going to befriend the Taishi, how can they not be mediocre?"

"Taishi Duan Hou Xinggang is upright, but he won't pay attention to them. If they want to do what they like, they are really wrong. Qiu Shaohu agreed.

"I don't mean this," unexpectedly, the young man denied his statement, "Mu Qiang is human nature, but there is no need to blame." What I disdain, they don't know what a true saint is, but the person who wants to please is Duan Houxing. ”

"From thirty years ago, a "Treatise on Filial Piety" moved the world, and its "words seem to cry blood, and every sentence silently listens to thunder", Duan Houxing has since become the head of the dynasty, and no one dares to shake his status. I'm afraid you're also the first person in years to say that about him. Qiu Shaohu said.

"I'm only targeting their knowledge, not others." Juvenile Road.

"It turns out that you don't like the Mangshan School's 'Evidence Study'." Qiu Shaohu understood and said: "'Looking at the present with the past, you can know the rise and end of the future', if you talk about the ability to find chapters and excerpts from the words of the previous saints, I am afraid that no one can compare with them." ”

"Knowing only the knowledge of the predecessors, but not our own opinions, is no different from ignorance. Don't you hear that 'learning without thinking is reckless'? The boy looked sarcastic.

"What do you think of the Mei School, when the second largest scholar defected to the academy?" Qiu Shaohu said: "Self-cultivation and self-denial, self-purification, can it be regarded as a gentleman's trip?" ”

"A gentleman cultivates himself, works as a family, governs the country, and equalizes the world. If you only know self-cultivation, is it different from the monks in the deep mountain temple? The boy said.

"Since you are so picky, then according to your opinion, who in the world can be considered a saint?" Qiu Shaohu wanted to hear what the other party had to say.

"Of course there is one person," the young man said clearly, "the former generation of scholars, the first fifteen-year-old Shi Yi." ”

"But you admire him," Qiu Shaohu was indifferent, and he didn't show surprise, "Then, what do you think is outstanding about him, and even makes you feel better than being a court master?" ”

"I'm just a little learned, and I really haven't had a chance to read his article. However, I heard that near the capital, there is a ruined temple where he lived, and at this time of year, there are often scholars who go to pray for blessings in the hope of having a good result, and I also want to go and see it. ”

"Since you have learned the words of the saints, why do you also care about such ethereal prayers?" Qiu Shaohu said.

"I don't want to pray for blessings, I just want to see what kind of place I live in, so that people like Shi Yi are created." The boy unfolded the folding fan and fanned it gently.

"Hey, let's go, today's poetry meeting is going to start again, I heard that the winner plans to pay for it in person, and go to the temple where he remembered to take the lead in incense, let's go and see!"

Before every exam, scholars from the south to the north often choose good days and auspicious days to recite poems for each other, which can be regarded as learning from each other. Today, another poetry meeting began nearby, and the scholars here also got up excitedly when they heard the words, and went to see what was going on.

Hulala, the people in the lobby walked away, like opening the sluice gate to release water, everyone in it is an inconspicuous wave, and you can't see through the people coming and going.

When everyone left, Qiu Shaohu saw that the young man opposite had also left.

……

"Father, when we returned to Beijing this time, we didn't go directly to report on our work, but you want to take me where to go first?"

On the endless avenue, Chengshi father and son rode side by side, and Cheng went to ask Chengting Dongdao like this.

"I'm taking you with me, just to debrief." Cheng Tingdong took the cigarette pouch and smoked slowly on the horse, saying.

"Then, are we going to the yamen of the Xuanzhen Division?" Cheng Fuxian said that after all, Fushendu also belongs to the subordinates of the Xuanzhen Division, and the nominal supreme commander of the Xuanzhen Division is also the common boss of their father and son.

"No, we're going to see Jiang Wei, but not Xuanzhen!" Cheng Tingdong said as he rode his horse at a gallop.

Cheng Fuxian's heart sank, but he didn't expect his father to take him directly to meet that person.

If there are people at the foot of the imperial city that everyone doesn't want to deal with, Xuanzhen Si will definitely be on the list if he commands Jiang Wei from Sanpin. He looks chubby and kind, but his methods are vicious, but he has the title of "Fat Yama".

The father and son went one after the other, and soon arrived outside a mansion. There are many dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital, and this kind of mansion is also common everywhere. Seeing the regulations for the construction of the gate, it is estimated that it is the home of a six-grade official.

The two dismounted, and before they could enter the door, they heard a frightened cry from inside. Then Cheng Tingdong led the way, walked to the main hall inside, and saw two people sitting at the table of eight immortals, one left and one right. On the left is Guo Ziqian, the secretary of the Guozijian Division, who was drenched in sweat at this time, holding a tea bowl in one hand but not drinking tea, but trembling. On the right, there is a fat man, with a red face, a small face and small eyes, wearing a python suit, but he doesn't mind holding a plate of pastries and eating it, which is the Jiang Wei that everyone in the capital is afraid of.

"Lord Guo, what kind of relationship do you have with the late Lord Luan, the Metropolitan Inspectorate, let's talk about it, it's convenient for you and me." Jiang Wei said with a grin, and said unmindably while holding the pastry.

Guo Ziqian didn't say a word, but he couldn't stop glancing at a cabinet in the left corner, and he didn't even see Cheng Tingdong and the others who were already standing at the door.

"Your Excellency!" At this time, another soldier of the Xuanzhen Division walked in with an old man, saluted Jiang Wei and said, "The person has brought it." ”

"Father!" Seeing the old man, Guo Ziqian was taken aback, and while running to the cabinet in horror, he took out a box and protected it in his arms, and said to the old man: "Didn't I send a message to tell you that you don't have to say anything when someone comes to you!" ”

"I didn't?" The old man's face was full of confusion, "But, didn't you find someone to call me over and say that they wanted to discuss the matter of giving me a birthday?" ”

Guo Ziqian's blood all over his body seemed to be frozen, and he looked at Jiang Wei blankly, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Hehe, Master Guo, you better say it," Jiang Wei's fat face suddenly squeezed out a trace of sharpness in his small eyes, "You are a filial son, you shouldn't want your father to be embarrassed." ”

The "Fat Yama" method is worthy of its name.

Witnessing all this, Cheng went to the first place shuddering.