Chapter 189: Tricky Exam Questions
Chen Nanbin gave everyone a stick of incense, wrote a seven-character quatrain, and asked Zhu Bai to make a question.
Zhu Bai said: "This king will not embarrass you, just write a poem about Wing Qiu." However, it is required that the word 'autumn' should not appear in the poem. You can't plagiarize the sentences of your predecessors. ”
The examinees below are about to scold him to death.
It's tricky!
It is necessary to sing autumn again, and the word autumn cannot appear.
Sure enough, it's a little Hades.
Zhu Bai sat on it with great interest, watching the people below scratch his ears and cheeks, and his heart blossomed: Is this difficult? It can be seen that you people are all unlearned.
It turns out that when I was writing poems below, the Master was like watching a monkey. It's kind of fun to torture people.
A stick of incense passed quickly, the poems were handed in, and Chen Nanbin looked at one of them, and his face turned green.
Zhu Bai stretched out his head and looked over, and there was a line of words written on it: Five hundred taels, let me pass.
Zhu Bai laughed: It's so direct!
Eight of the ten civilians were well written.
Of these ten official eunuchs, only two or three can be singled out.
One of them is: "One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five six seven eight or ninety pieces." The leaves are endless, and summer has not yet passed. ”
It doesn't rhyme, it also plagiarizes.
It's just that I just watched "Five Hundred Taels, Let Me Pass", Chen Nanbin felt that this was already passable, and he also recorded it.
The next day, the list of admitted persons and the list of rejected persons were posted on the wall outside the prison at the same time.
The teahouse restaurant began to discuss this matter.
"Eh, this Chen Nanbin is really not afraid of death. Even Li Shanchang's nephew dared to refuse. ”
"Ha, it's still on the wall, it's equivalent to slapping Li Shanchang's face with big ears."
"It's so happy, it seems that this country is still quite fair."
Everyone here clapped their hands and applauded, and over there, Li Shanchang's chickens flew and dogs jumped.
The nephew came to the door and cried: "That old man Chen is too bullying. It's not that Zhu Bai is supporting him. If you don't accept me, you won't accept me, and you will post my name at the gate, isn't this just a naked humiliation, slapping your uncle in the face. ”
Li Shanchang's face was flushed, he was usually polite when he met, but he didn't expect this sour Confucian to be so faceless.
If you don't breathe this way, wouldn't he have been the first assistant in the past ten years in vain!!
Moreover, Chen Nanping, the old sour Confucian, must no longer be allowed to control the national prison alone!
Otherwise, in the long run, there will be fewer and fewer of his people, and Liu Bowen's people will be more and more tired.
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There were suddenly more people who came to Guozijian to sign up.
Zhu Bai saw that Chen Nanbin couldn't be busy alone, so he transferred two agents from the dental store to help him register for reception.
He just watched with a smile on his face.
Well, this one looks quite clever, so it's good to let him do the economy
That one speaks nicely, and looks very pleasing to the eye, yes, it's okay to be a welcome guest if you can't be economical.
Most of the people who came to sign up were young people, and they didn't know Zhu Bai, they just wanted to make trouble with a child running away, and they were smiling and smiling, and they were shy, and they made people's hearts furious.
Seeing that it was not early, it seemed that no one was coming, so Zhu Bai stretched his waist. I took the list I had memorized and prepared to go.
If it weren't for the fact that someone would use it in the future, he wouldn't have bothered to waste a few days here.
Erhu came in with a few people and saw Zhu Bai bowing his hand.
Zhu Bai raised his eyebrows slightly: "Eh, Lord Erhu is also coming to the country?" ”
Erhu smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, don't make fun of me, Weichen came to take Chen Nanbin back for questioning." ”
Zhu Bai frowned: "What do you have to ask the master?" ”
Erhu whispered: "Someone went to the General Administration Department to report that Chen Fuzi accepted bribes when Guozi was invigilating the exam. The emperor attaches great importance to it and wants to personally interrogate Chen Nanbin. ”
Zhu Bai asked, "Who reported it?" ”
When he came up with the question, he watched Chen Nanbin revise the paper, there were only twenty people in total, and it took less than an hour before and after.
If you want to bribe, you have to have a chance.
Erhu hesitated: "According to the requirements of the General Administration Department, the name of the whistleblower cannot be disclosed to the public." ”
Zhu Bai sneered: "So, don't be afraid of false accusations?" ”
Erhu said: "If false accusations are found, they will naturally be held responsible." ”
Zhu Bai nodded: "Okay, this king will go back with the adults." ”
Erhu waved his hand and took Chen Nanbin away.
Chen Nanbin didn't do anything wrong when he thought about it, and Zhu Bai looked very angry, maybe he offended this little Hades?
The thousand taels of silver, sure enough, could not be taken.
Lao Zhu sat in the imperial study, also with a gloomy face.
Seeing Zhu Bai and Chen Nanbin coming in together, his face became even worse.
Zhu Bai was secretly surprised: Hey. It's strange, Chen Nanbin took bribes, could it be that he still involved me?!
Lao Zhu said: "Master Chen, someone reported that the King of Xiang forced you to take bribes and asked you to show favoritism when you changed the papers, but is there such a thing?" ”
Zhu Bai laughed.
Lao Zhu asked, "What are you laughing at, we haven't asked you yet." When we ask you, there are times when you cry. ”
He himself knew that the money allocated to the "Guozijian" was too small, so he was a little weak-hearted.
So as soon as he heard Zeng Bingzheng say that Zhu Bai collected money to do things, he became angry.
Isn't that a good way to get money quickly?
Zhu Bai received 100 taels from others and gave Chen Nanbin 50 taels, and he didn't have to do anything, he made a net profit of 50 taels.
In order to make the "Guozijian" run, Chen Nanbin could only accept Zhu Bai's silver.
Zhu Bai sighed: "Father." Are you confused? If Erchen wants to sell his official beard, does it have to be so troublesome to take the road of the imperial examination? Have you forgotten the last time you snatched two people directly from me and sent them to the household? Moreover, no matter how stupid Erchen is, he will not pull an old stubborn bribe like Master Chen, leaving a handle. Even if you don't believe in Erchen, you have to believe in Master Chen. ”
Lao Zhu was stunned for a moment, and turned the corner.
Zhu Bai took out the twenty poems from yesterday and put them on the table: "Father." You see. This is the question that the retainers and the master gave on the spot yesterday and asked them to compose poems. If it were you, who would you admit. ”
As soon as Lao Zhu looked at those poems, as well as Chen Nanbin's wandering book and Zhu Bai's words that no one could understand, he was sure that these two people were wronged.
"These poems, they don't make sense, let alone the master, the sons and daughters can't even look at it." Zhu Bai said: "Not only did Erchen not accept bribes, but also donated 1,000 taels of silver to the 'Guozijian' to run the school. ”
Lao Zhu was very happy when he heard that Zhu Bai had donated money, and then immediately became vigilant again: "How can you be so kind?" ”
Zhu Bai winked at Lao Zhu: "Because the sons also have to pick people." ”
Lao Zhu hurriedly pointed at Zhu Bai and said to Chen Nanbin: "Listen, our will, before the imperial examination is over, this rebel is not allowed to take people away from the 'Guozijian'." ”
Zhu Bai smacked his lips: "It's boring for you to do this." ”
Lao Zhu rolled his eyes at him and comforted Chen Nanbin a few words.
Zhu Bai said: "Father, now that there are more students in the 'Guozijian', I am afraid that Master Chen will not be able to keep busy,"
You can't do a day job for someone from the Guanya Bureau to work for Guozijian every day.
Even if he wanted to, the broker was not willing, because of the delay in making money.