The selection is for all students in the country, if the field is equivalent to the college entrance examination, then this competition is equivalent to a strict screening before the college entrance examination. Due to the backward communication technology and the slow speed of information dissemination, the imperial court will set the quota for each province and province in advance according to the results of previous years, and select the top number of private school students who meet the quota to enter the state-owned bookstore to continue their studies, and the students of the state-owned bookstore with backward grades will also be "dissuaded" by the academy after the statistics, which is actually expulsion. If you want to continue to study in the state-owned bookstore, you will only have to bury your head in hard study, which can be regarded as a fairer way to choose talents.

Under such fierce competition, the results of the students of the state-owned book club are generally more guaranteed, but the dissatisfied literati still feel that this kind of competition is not fierce enough, which gives rise to today's Shangyuan Academy. Of course, the so-called Shangyuan Scholarly Ritual is just a name, mainly referring to the fact that several well-known state-owned book societies around Beijing have selected the top talents of their own societies to gather in Beijing at a certain time to discuss and compete together, and there are similar activities in many other places in the country, but there are differences in names.

This kind of competition is especially beneficial for students who have reached the age to be used for reference, and the annual Shangyuan Ceremony is a great time for them to show their talents in front of the public and get official attention. Since the launch of similar activities, dozens of young talents across the country have been exceptionally named officials because of their outstanding performance in the activities and the attention of the imperial court, saving them the trouble of going down to the examination room with tens of thousands of students across the country and crossing the single-plank bridge. Therefore, for those students who are confident that they can become a generation of good ministers, the significance of this academic ceremony every two years is even more than a serious fight for fame in the examination room.

For the people of Beijing, each session of the school is a grand gathering for them to get a glimpse of contemporary young talents and feel the baptism of pioneer culture, after all, in this era, the capital is different from other places, bringing together literati and scholars from all over the country, and the overall cultural level is still much higher than that of other regions that have just begun to promote basic education. For them, Shang Yuanxue is more like a grand gathering of the cultural circles, and they are also happy to come to watch with the excitement of ordinary people dragging their families to the market, which can be regarded as a grand event in the so-called upper cultural circle.

Even due to the limitations of the venue and other reasons, the audience who can enter the field to see the famous schools compete must be strictly selected, and the literati love their names, and being able to get the admission qualification is an affirmation of their talents, such regulations are even more destined to be a fierce battle in the dark whether it is inside or outside the field. Of course, such a brainless activity is so meaningless in Chang Jinbai's eyes, if it weren't for the fact that he was selected to participate in this event because his performance in the joint examination was too bright this time, Chang Jinbai is afraid that he doesn't even know what Shangyuan Xueji does.

Not only him, but also several children who performed well in the unified examination this time have all become the representative players of their respective colleges. Because there are many female friends in the new era in the initiator group of Shangyuan Academy, the major women's calligraphy also has the opportunity to stand out in this grand event, and even compared to those self-righteous male disciples, the female disciples who have never received much attention will be more desperate to prepare, just waiting to be able to show their talents on the school field. It's just that boys have a chance to enter the career if they perform well, and girls, hey...

Therefore, no matter how reluctant they were, the Chang family sisters who had to come forward because of their top grades could only resign themselves to their fate and sit in Chang Jinbai's wide carriage, and the three unlucky children had a calm face all the way, and bitterly let the coachman drive the carriage to bring them to the gate of Tai Academy.

What the three sisters and brothers didn't expect was that as soon as they got out of the car, they met the two elder brothers in the family, and the two of them were holding one in their arms, except that they didn't see the eldest sister Chang Yu'an, and several children of the Chang family gathered in front of the gate of this Tai Academy.

The eldest brother, Chang Jinsong, used to be a student of Tai Academy, but he had already achieved fame in his early years, and now he has not climbed the mountain gate of this Tai Academy for more than a year.

Standing on the familiar land at this time, Chang Jinsong's eyes were full of mixed feelings, and he was also so youthful and energetic. But in just a few years, he has changed from a proud son of the sky who has just entered the school to a cautious and cautious "mature" man.

In contrast, Chang Jinyang's state is much better, his mind has never been on studying for the exam, and looking at the students who came and went from the surrounding academies in a hurry, he only had two more feelings, and he didn't have the complicated emotions of his brother. On the contrary, it is the eighth elder of the Chang family who is holding in his arms, and the youngest sister in the family, Chang Yujin, who rarely sees so many strange faces, and has been waving his little arms excitedly as soon as he gets out of the car, and after a while, he tosses a fine sweat in the arms of the second brother, and a small face carved in pink is now flushed against several other brothers and sisters, and anyone who sees the cute appearance can't help but want to come up and pinch it.

Chang Yujiao was afraid that her sister would catch a cold, so she took off her scarf and tied it for her, and then saluted her two brothers.

"Big brother, second brother, why are you here too?"

Chang Jinsong's face was a little red, and he was thinking about how to organize the language answer, but Chang Laoqi, who was holding him in his arms, was ruthlessly pierced.

"Hmph, the eldest brother thinks that the third sister is timid, and he is afraid that you will have stage fright, so he has been thinking about coming to support you. As a result, he didn't dare to come by himself, so he insisted that I go to my mother's place and beg him, and brought him by the way, so that I was taken out by him early in the morning, but I was trapped to death..."

While speaking, Chang Jintong was very good at seizing the opportunity to yawn, which suddenly provoked Chang Yujiao to laugh, and covered his mouth with a handkerchief and couldn't stop laughing.

Chang Jinsong, who was pierced in his heart, turned even redder on his face, even he didn't know when it started, and he seemed to have gradually begun to pay attention to his brothers and sisters of the same generation in the family like the third brother. As the eldest son in the family, although he has been taught to protect his younger siblings since he was a child, but with the increasingly strict educational environment, his inner world has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

Seeing through his thoughts, Chang Jinbai smiled tacitly, and stepped forward while holding Chang Yuning's hand: "Oh~ Listen to the meaning of Lao Qi, big brother, this is not taking me and the second sister seriously at all?" Big brother, you're too unrighteous, aren't you? They are all their own younger brothers and sisters, how can they only protect one of their three sisters? ”

"It's not... No, the third brother must not say that! Big brother, he must be, he must also cherish his brother and sister to use this method to come and see us off in person, right? Third brother, you... Big brother, are you going to say that is not the case? ”

Chang Yujiao's worrying personality appeared again, for fear that there would be a gap between the brothers, so she hurriedly opened her mouth to play a round, but after facing Chang Jinbai's smiling gaze, she realized that she had been fooled, and immediately turned around shyly and stopped looking at him, but her slightly red face made her whole person more shy and lovely, which attracted many male students to look back frequently, which suddenly caused several boys in the Chang family to be seriously dissatisfied.

"Yes, yes, Jiaojiao said that it is my younger brothers and sisters, and my brother will never favor one over the other. Don't listen to Xiao Qi's nonsense, this kid is just angry when he gets up, and he thinks I'm disturbing his good dreams, it's really our Xiao Qi, why are you so stingy? Hahaha..."While quietly moving two steps to block those ill-intentioned sights, Chang Jinsong exonerated himself with a smile.

"Hehehehe, Seventh Brother is a stingy ghost! Cheapskate! Chang Yujin on the side also followed to help, so angry that Chang Jintong blushed, and wanted to open his mouth to refute but felt that he couldn't afford to offend this little ancestor, so in the end he could only sulk with a puffed face, and the labor brothers and sisters coaxed him for a long time before he saw a smile again.

The arrival of the family undoubtedly gave the three children great psychological comfort, of course, this comfort is mainly in Chang Yujin. Compared with the indifference of her brothers and sisters, as the daughter of the family, she has been required to do everything since she was a child. Now that he has won the honor of attending such a large-scale event at a young age, the pressure in Chang Yujin's heart can be imagined.

In fact, what Chang Xiaoqi said was right, since he saw his mother's two younger brothers and sisters at his mother's place on the day of the fight, Chang Jinsong thought a lot when he returned to the house. In all fairness, as an older brother, he did quite well in the first few years. But later, the younger brothers and sisters grew up, and there was a gap between them, and even his third sister Su Rili was not very willing to take care of him, let alone the children who came out of the concubine.

After a year, Chang Jinsong's mentality has gradually changed slightly. She is actually a very warm and kind person at heart, and the cold image formed by being constrained by stereotypical dogmas in the past is just a form of self-protection when he faces this cold world. Every day, he looks at the third brother and his two younger sisters living closely, laughing and laughing, and he is actually very envious in his heart, and at the same time, he also has a little self-blame.

He is not completely ignorant of the grievances that Chang Yuning and Chang Yujiao have suffered over the years, but he is used to seeing you and me competing for the favor of wealthy families, which has made Chang Jinsong's attitude towards family affection have changed very significantly. It wasn't until later, Chang Jinbai, who suddenly woke up, jumped out and gave him a blow to the head with his actual actions, Chang Jinsong gradually began to reflect, and gradually found that his past behavior was really inappropriate, and he also began to think of ways to make up for these sensible younger brothers and sisters.