Xu Jie.

Hearing this name that was like thunder in later generations, I didn't make much waves in my sleepless heart.

He looked Xu Jie up and down, only to feel that this person was like a sword blade waiting to be unsheathed, which was both respectful and willing to approach him.

Xu Jie was born in the sixteenth year of Hongzhi (1503), this year, is the first year of Jiajing (1522), according to the Chinese tradition of using virtual years, this future Ming famous minister, is already the age of a weak crown, just by the family to crown the table, the character is promoted.

And in this year, Xu Jie's high school should be seventh in the Tianfu Township exam. is young, and he is already a person.

Xu Jie was lifted at the age of 20, Fan Jin in "The History of Confucianism", he was only lifted in his fifties with gray hair, and he went crazy when he was hit, and his mother died of happiness in a few days (literally, I was so happy that I didn't come up in one breath).

It's really more human than human, and it's infuriating.

When Sleepless Night was looking at Xu Jie, Xu Jie's was also looking at him.

In Xu Jie's eyes, Sleepless Night is a man with a feminine temperament, but looking at his temples, which are slightly raised, and then listening to his breathing, watching his steps and standing, he knows that Sleepless Night's appearance is deceptive.

"His martial arts cultivation should be on par with me."

Xu Jie nodded secretly.

When the two looked at each other, they both had a sense of heroic sympathy.

After intermingling with each other's names and prefaces, Xu Jie was surprised: "Brother Zizai is also the age of a weak crown?" Really, I can't see it. ”

He looked up and down the face and figure of Sleepless Night, and no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Sleepless Night was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

In fact, after this winter, I was only seventeen years old. It was only in order to avoid being associated with "wanted criminals who have no sleep" that he changed his age to twenty years old.

Sleepless at night snickered: "The years are not forgiving! I am from the spring of the sixteenth year of Hongji. After this winter, I will be twenty-one years old. ”

Yin Tai looked around, and he didn't see Chu Yan holding the child, but only Sleepless, Jiang Pan, and Zhou Qingshuang.

Seeing Zhou Qingshuang, Yin Tai's eyes lit up again, and he didn't sleep all night, and talked directly with her.

Zhou Qingshuang has a faint temperament, no matter what he says, he only occasionally replies with a sentence or two.

At this time, the people on the top of the gold were gathering more and more, and the noise was also everywhere, and it was noisy, Xu Jie frowned.

Xiang Sleepless hugged his fists and said goodbye: "Brother Luo Zizai, fortunately." There was still something to do, so I left first. ”

Sleepless at night naturally wouldn't stop him, so he also hugged his fists and said goodbye.

Yin Tai smiled bitterly: "Brother Zisheng, you're here, why don't you go after reading the poetry conference?" Besides, is it so important to go to Beijing to take the exam? You didn't even participate in such a rare event? ”

Xu Jie disagreed with this, and was about to refute it, but saw Jiang Pan happily asking, "Brother Zisheng, do you want to go to Beijing to take the exam?" ”

Previously, Jiang Pan had not spoken. After all, the people on the field are all older than her, and she is really not good at interjecting, even if she admires Xu Jie's demeanor, she just blushes slightly, looks at him secretly, and does not speak.

It wasn't until through Yin Tai's mouth that he learned that Xu Jie's intention to enter Beijing to take the exam did he ask such a question.

Xu Jie also looked at Jiang Pan, looking at the little girl who had been ignored by him just now, and said with a smile: "Yes." I will set off after the year and go to Beijing to participate in the examination! ”

Jiang Pan looked at him with admiration: "Brother Zisheng, then you, can you take me to take the exam together?" Zhu Zi's "Notes on the Four Books", I can already memorize it backwards! ”

Hearing this, Xu Jie looked at her a little strangely.

After a while, in Jiang Pan's expectant eyes, he asked suspiciously: "Could it be that you are not a woman, but a man dressed as a woman, but a man?" ”

Xu Jie's thinking jumped a little, but Jiang Pan could also understand it immediately.

She hurriedly said: "Who would be so disgusting to disguise themselves as women!" She's a serious girl! Although I am a skirt hairpin, but, Brother Zisheng, do you know the reason why women don't let women shave their eyebrows? Men can be named on the gold list, and I Jiang Pan, although I am a woman, I will not lose much to these men. Therefore, I also want to go to Beijing to take the exam and compete with the men! ”

I couldn't sleep at night, I couldn't cry or laugh.

Xu Jie smiled dumbly.

"Haha, I haven't heard of it since ancient times, which daughter can go to the imperial examination."

Yes, it was not until hundreds of years later, when I was dying in the Qing Dynasty, that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, established by the peasant rebels, allowed women to take the imperial examination, and produced the first female champion in Chinese history, Fu Shanxiang.

Since the establishment of the imperial examination in the Sui and Tang dynasties, in ancient Chinese history (excluding the modern Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), there are indeed all men in the field, and the ratio of men and women is even more unbalanced than that on the battlefield. There are also female generals such as Liang Shi (known as Liang Hongyu) in the Southern Song Dynasty and Qin Liangyu who led the White Pole Army in the late Ming Dynasty.

It is not yet the time when the Qing Dynasty is about to perish, and the female department of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still a few hundred years later, so Xu Jie heard that Jiang Pan wanted to participate in the imperial examination, and it really felt strange and fresh.

"You have such ambitions, far more than many men." Xu Jie exclaimed, "The few gentlemen I know are obsessed with smoke and willows all day long, and they don't want to make progress, and they have no intention of studying. If they knew that you could do this as a woman, they would probably be ashamed and ashamed! ”

Jiang Pan said proudly: "What's wrong with the women? In this world, except for men, are they not women? We're half of the number! Nuwa Niangniang is also a woman, and human beings are still made by her! ”

Xu Jie sighed: "It's a pity that there is no precedent for women to participate in the scientific examination in our dynasty, otherwise, the girl can try one or two." ”

"Then start with me!" Jiang Pan said with a firm gaze.

Sleepless at night admiring Jiang Pan's courage, and knowing the impossibility of women's scientific research. But he didn't say anything, and couldn't bear to extinguish the flame of her hope.

Xu Jie pondered for a long time, then turned to look at Jiang Pan solemnly and said: "In this way, sister, if Xu can go to high school this time and have the opportunity to meet Shengyan, he will definitely ask the dynasty to open a precedent for women's scientific examinations in front of the emperor, so that at that time, you can participate in the imperial examination justifiably!" ”

Jiang Pan was overjoyed, jumped up excitedly, and said, "What Brother Zisheng said is true?" ”

Xu Jie stretched out his palm.

Jiang Pan understood, and hurriedly struck his immature little hand on Xu Jie's palm.

"Smack!"

Jiang Pan said loudly: "A word is a certainty!" ”

Xu Jie laughed and said, "A promise!" ”

Everyone watched Xu Jie's back go down the mountain.

At this time, because the poetry annotation conference was about to be held, everyone on the side rushed up the mountain, but Xu Jie walked down from the mountain.

He is the only retrograde in the crowd.

It wasn't until Xu Jie's figure disappeared that Jiang Pan muttered, "I'm so stupid, why don't I just go to the exam with Brother Zisheng?" Even if I wasn't allowed to enter, I waited outside the exam room for him to finish the test and brought the test questions out for me to do. ”

She looked at the direction where Xu Jie's distance went, there were already a lot of people, but there was no Xu Jie's figure.

"Should I change my name back to 'Wang Pandi'? This 'first' is not the other's 'brother', not looking forward to having a younger brother, but looking forward to the middle ......."

Seeing that she looked down-and-out, Yin Tai stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her, and said with a smile: "Little sister Jiang Pan, don't look at it, you haven't reached for it yet, don't have a spring in advance." ”

"Phew!"

Jiang Pan was ashamed and annoyed, spat out a mouthful, glared at Yin Tai angrily and said, "You guy with a mouth full of nonsense, who is pregnant with spring?!" I'm thinking about the imperial examination! ”

Seeing that Jiang Pan was like an angry little leopard, although he had no internal strength, Yin Tai was not easy to provoke her. After all, there is such a beautiful woman as Zhou Qingshuang on the side in front of her, and "Luo Zizai", who is suspected to be her daughter, is also on the side, and it is too embarrassing for her to quarrel with the child.

"Okay, okay, it's the foolish brother who said the wrong thing." Yin Tai hurriedly said, "All in all, we are now on top of the golden dome, and this poetry conference should not be missed." Ladies and gentlemen, do you know the rules of the Poetry Commentary Conference? ”

Sleepless was not interested in this poetry conference. The reason why he came here was to see if there would be any changes in the undercurrent of the Golden Dome Gate at the Poetry Annotation Conference, so he could choose the opportunity to move.

Therefore, he did not answer.

Zhou Qingshuang couldn't help but say, "Oh? Yin Gongzi, according to what you said, do you know the rules of the Poetry Annotation Conference? ”

Yin Tai saw that Zhou Qingshuang, who had been ignored before, actually took the initiative to ask, and his heart couldn't help but feel hot.

Hurriedly suppressed his excitement and said, "I've been learning about the poetry conference for the past few days, how can I not know?" Let me talk to you. ”

I didn't want to listen to it at night, but Yin Tai's colorful description still made him listen to it.

Roughly speaking, the Jindingmen Poetry Annotation Conference is divided into three processes.

First of all, the Jindingmen will show several poems of the predecessors discovered this time to everyone present without reservation, and they will understand and create corresponding swordsmanship.

Next, several huge stone monuments will be erected on Wugong Mountain. The crowd was divided into two batches, the Shuntong realm and the reverse realm, each went to the stone tablet, and carved a note on the understanding of the poem. Due to the small size of the stele, it is impossible for everyone to engrave many characters. Therefore, there can only be competition, who has high martial arts skills and can force others back, naturally there are more words engraved and more annotations. In the end, it is up to whoever carves the most words to win.

"When competing for lettering, can you only use the new swordsmanship that you have learned?" Zhou Qingshuang interrupted him and asked.

Yin Tai was even more attentive, shook his head, and said with a smile: "Naturally not." There are so many people here, and when the time comes, it will be dazzling. How can you tell what kind of swordsmanship is used? ”

Zhou Qingshuang said: "In this way, the one who engraves the most and leaves the most annotations must be the best overall strength." But this has little to do with the understanding of this swordsmanship. ”

In the history of martial arts, at Teng Wangzong's "Poetry Annotation Conference", because of the comprehension of the poem "Goose Goose Goose", the person who commented on the almost caused the vision of heaven and earth was not the person with the highest realm among the participants.

On the contrary, it's just a little old man in the first realm who has just practiced his internal strength, and his talent is extremely poor!

However, the old man with poor talent, because of his childlike innocence, enjoyed the poem and integrated it with the poem, which was able to annotate this simple little poem to such a high level and finally win.

And the Jindingmen's poetry annotation conference seems to rule out the possibility of a victory for those who are low-level cultivators.

After all, it is difficult for people with low cultivation to drive back the competitors around them when everyone rushes up to grab the inscription on the stone tablet, so as to leave their own annotations.

"Why don't you give everyone a booklet and let everyone comment on it?" Zhou Qingshuang wondered.

She was very interested in the poetry conference, knew the rules of the poetry conference in other places, and after learning about the different regulations of the Jindingmen, she had a sense of complaining in her heart.

Yin Taidao: "I don't know the specifics, maybe I'm in a hurry!" However, although the second step is suspected of keeping people from the lower realm, the next third step is still relatively fair! ”

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