Chapter 36, the old man

The intimacy of the two is not seen by others, otherwise it is strange that unmarried men and women flirt with me and me, and they will not be drowned in saliva. Jiang Mingyue was also a traditional girl, but when she met an unruly person like Li Shucheng, she couldn't control her heart and couldn't stop wanting to taste more sweetness.

After the New Year, I continued to prepare for the exam, although it did not reach the level of darkness, but it was almost the same as the college entrance examination review in the previous life.

On the day of the exam, my father Li Yu specially came to send the exam, and told him thousands of times outside the examination room, Li Shucheng, who said that he didn't care, was a little nervous, as if the exam was not his business alone, but the long-cherished wish of the old Li family for many generations.

After getting the test questions, Li Shucheng breathed a sigh of relief, they were all decent test questions. However, the more questions like this, the more difficult it is to write flowers.

Coming out of the examination room, Li Shucheng completed a task and relaxed greatly. From a distance, I saw Jiang Mingyue waiting on the side of the road with a few guys, walked over and handed the basket with pen and ink to the guys, and said, "The exam is finally over!"

"How's the exam?" Jiang Mingyue asked. People who don't care about the exam at all, especially those who don't do well, the last thing they want to hear when they come out of the exam room is to ask how they did in the exam.

"It feels okay. Li Shucheng said, "The exam questions are not very difficult, but how to write them is very clear." Pingjiang Mansion is a big scientific research house, and there are many talented and learned people, and I don't know if I can be selected. But whatever he does, it's the same whether he wins or not, it's just that he has the status of a person for three years. ”

"The young master will definitely pass the exam!" said one of the fellows. Although he didn't know how Li Shucheng learned, he could still say good things.

"There are so many people who take the exam, from young people to old people, and I don't know how many talented people have learned, what am I worth!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Don't talk big and make people listen to jokes." Let's go, go back to the restaurant and have a good meal, I didn't eat much in the examination room, and I was already hungry. ”

"Shucheng, how did you do in the exam?" As soon as I entered the restaurant and found a private room to sit down, my father Li Yu came in and asked anxiously.

"It's just a good feeling. Li Shucheng said, "Don't get your hopes up." ”

"Then let's take the test next time. Li Yu listened to Li Shucheng's words and said with a look of loss.

"Daddy, just spare me. Li Shucheng raised his hand to make a surrender form, "This has been prepared for almost a year, and I have been tortured and thinned, but don't come for another three years." We are not that kind of people, if we don't have the ability to study the imperial examination, don't force it. After a lifetime of hard work, I can't even pass the solution test, so why bother!"

"You, alas, don't want to forget it. Li Yu said, "When you have a son in the future, let him continue." ”

"Yes, you can. Li Shucheng hurriedly said, "He can't do it, doesn't he still have a son." If you continue to cultivate from generation to generation, you won't believe that you can't raise people!"

Jiang Mingyue listened to it on the side, but she didn't dare to laugh. If Li Shucheng can't do it himself, he will push it to the next generation, and if the next generation can't do it, he will push it to the next generation.

"Yes, that's it! Huh? No! You, and Mingyue, you two have to raise their children well, and the next generation will fulfill this wish. Li Yu was almost scolded by Li Shucheng, and reacted and said.

"Dad, we haven't gotten married yet, and it's still very early to raise our children. Li Shucheng said, "If you don't find a poor student who has a talent for studying, you can achieve your wish faster." ”

"No, even if you get admitted, you are not from our Li family. Li Yu vetoed.

"You can find someone surnamed Li, isn't that someone from the Li family!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Or, take a righteous son." ”

"No, it must be the blood of my Li family. Li Yu said, "Don't be lazy." ”

The next day, I packed up and went home, my father Li Yu's mood was not as bad as yesterday, Li Shucheng assured and coaxed all the way, and after arriving home, it was finally cloudy and sunny, and he didn't bother Li Shucheng again.

"Being an official in the imperial examination is one step to the sky. Alas, how many people have been harmed by this imperial examination!" Seeing Li Yu's figure disappear behind the arch, Li Shucheng sighed, "There are so many scholars, and the official position is so small, and a part of it has to be divided into the children of the eunuchs of Enyin, and every three years, only four or five hundred jinshi are admitted, and what about the others? I have been busy and studying hard all my life, but I have not gained anything." ”

"This is just a wish of my uncle, and besides, my uncle no longer forces you to take the imperial examination, so you don't have to feel so much. Jiang Mingyue said with a smile, "Besides, studying doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be an official." It's just that, as you said, if you can become an official in the imperial examination, you can ascend to the sky in one step, and if you can take the imperial examination and become an official, who is not desperately going to the imperial examination? Other businessmen, langzhong, bookkeepers, and gentlemen are all people who have no hope in the imperial examination will turn their heads and do it. ”

"You're right, you really have to do it well, being a businessman and being a Langzhong may not be as good as being an official. Li Shucheng said, "Don't talk about these people, just talk about ordinary people." The silkworm industry is prosperous, and those workers who weave in the silk workshop are highly skilled and earn less than the prefect's fortune in a year, but they cannot be corrupted and have no gray income. And how many people can be officials and above the prefect?" Many people are blind, and their eyes are fixed on the end of the imperial examination, and they will not stop from the teenage examination to their sixties and seventies.

In the evening, I had a good celebration with the two of us, and I went to prepare two chickens and make them called flower chickens. Li Shucheng smiled happily. Getting rid of the imperial examination is really something to celebrate.

"Celebrate yourself. Jiang Mingyue said, "I'm not crazy with you." Li Shucheng's celebration is generally to make delicious food, not at home, just by the nearby mountains and rivers, crying ghosts and singing crooked songs while doing it, and being as stupid as a madman. But what Jiang Mingyue hoped was that in the dead of night, the two would sit on the roof and look at the stars and moon in the sky and whisper.

Things in the world are wonderful, and when you don't have hope for something, it surprises you.

After returning from the exam, Li Shucheng's family gave up and lived in peace, and suddenly the guy rushed back to report the good news, Li Shucheng was actually selected! Although it was only in the latter part of the list, it was also selected.

"Dad, now you have achieved your wish!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Don't let me take the imperial examination in the future, this is really not an ordinary person's examination." has no talent, and all the tired work is in vain. ”

"Okay! Just lift people in the exam. Li Yu smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyebrows, "Besides, you are hanging in the second half, your ranking is too low, even if you go to the provincial exam, you can't pass it." Although he has been wishing for many years, Li Yu was not carried away by joy, knowing that with Li Shucheng's ranking, he could not pass the provincial exam.

"Meet the master!" Jiang Mingyue also smiled and quipped.

"Since you know that you are a master, why don't you hurry up and come over and serve!" Li Shucheng said with a smile.

went to Suzhou City to meet the prefect and came back, and soon Lu Chengfeng brought Lu Guanying and his wife to visit.

"Brother Shucheng, congratulations on becoming a lifter!" Lu Guanying said happily. Speaking of people in the rivers and lakes, there are many people who are literate and literate, but there are very few people who have really achieved fame. In the eyes of ordinary Jianghu people, official fame is very weighty, and it is more respected.

"It's just a lifter, and it's only a three-year lifter. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "After three years, I have to take the exam again, and if I pass the exam, I can still do three years of lifting, and if I don't pass the exam, I will no longer lift people." ”

"Is that so? But anyway, now you're a lifter. Lu Guanying didn't go through the imperial examination, he didn't know the way of the imperial examination, and said with a smile, "Is there going to be a provincial examination next?"

"Provincial exam?" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "I almost failed in this solution test, what kind of provincial test do I have to take." Besides, I went to take the exam just to fulfill my father's wish. Now that it's been achieved, what else is there to take the test? ”

"Why don't you go, what if you get hit?" Lu Guanying said.

"You also said it was just in case. Besides, what if I win? Go to the exam? Good luck doesn't happen to me every time. Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Besides, you don't know how hard and difficult it is to study, anyway, it is ten times harder than practice! Every day, from morning to night, my mind is full of the words of the saints, and I can't even be at peace when I sleep." Immersed in hard study for more than ten years, and then take the exam level by level, and can't start over, most people grind until they are forty or fifty years old before they are admitted, which is still talented. It's useless to stay up to the age of eighty without talent. ”

Hearing what Li Shucheng said terrifyingly, Lu Guanying said: "It's really so hard? Then I won't let my child take the imperial examination in the future." In his heart, Li Shucheng is good at martial arts and good at reading, and has always been the object of his worship, and his children will follow Li Shucheng's path in the future, both civil and military. Now listening to Li Shucheng, I feel that I still can't bear to torture my child like this.

"Yes. What is the use of taking the imperial examination?" Li Shucheng said, "You see how many scholars have fallen on the road to the imperial examination, why bother to let their own children go." ”

"By the way, speaking of children, the two of you have been married for a year, why haven't you moved?" Li Shucheng said and approached Lu Guanying, and said in a low voice, "It can't be that you have a problem, right?"

"What's the problem?" Lu Guanying blushed suddenly, "We just feel that we are still young and don't want children for the time being." "Don't say it's okay, even if there is a problem, you have to say it's okay, can this be preached!

"That's right, you are both still young, and I haven't married yet, if you two have a child, wouldn't that be a slap in the face!" Li Shucheng said, "However, isn't Uncle Lu in a hurry to hold his grandson and not urge you?"

"My father felt that we were still young, and it was time to meditate on martial arts. If you have a child now, you will delay a lot of kung fu, and it will be difficult to go further in the end. Lu Guanying said.

"Hmm. Uncle Lu is an understanding person. Li Shucheng said. Lu Guanying is now about to break through the first-class martial arts, according to his cultivation speed, he will definitely become a master on the rivers and lakes in a few years, and he will have a chance to climb to a higher martial arts realm. In Li Shucheng's view, Lu Guanying may not be able to congenital in the end, but it is very likely that he will become a top master the day after tomorrow.