On March 28, the birthday of Emperor Dongyue, Zhao Ran and the Taoist priests of the courtyard set up an altar in front of the Sanqing Palace.

There are a lot of Taoist festivals, there are hundreds of official announcements from the general view of the edict, and the festivals in March are still few, that is, there are Tan Zu Changzhen Zhenren on the first day of the new year, Xuantian God Christmas, Vision Niangniang Christmas, Heavenly Master Zhang Dazhen Christmas, God of Wealth Zhao Gongmarshal Christmas, Sanmao Zhenjun Daoist Chen, Zhongyue Emperor Christmas, Wang Zu Yuyang Real Christmas, Hou Tu Niang Niang Christmas, Sun Xingjun Christmas, Descendants Niangniang Christmas, Tianhou Mazu Christmas, Guigu Ancestor Christmas, Dongyue Emperor Christmas and so on.

Almost every three and five is a festival, if the Taoist priests are sacrificing festivals one by one, then they will be busy with the festival all day long, and don't do anything. Therefore, different palaces have different lords of sacrifice, such as Wuji Temple, which is a ten-sided jungle, and in March, there are only the birthdays of the Heavenly Master Zhenzhen, the birthday of the Emperor Zhongyue and the birthday of the Emperor Dongyue. As for the rest of the gods, I'm sorry - the cultivators of my generation can only keep it in their hearts.

Dongyue is one of the five mountains, the Lord lives and dies, therefore, those pilgrims who want to live a long life, or pray for longevity for the elders in the family, have 66 consecutive rushed to the front of the Sanqing Palace. After the Taoist children in the scripture hall of Wuji Temple finished chanting, they rushed up and lit high incense and donated one after another. At this time, there is a guest hall and a pawn house for everyone to receive, and it is not a matter of the Taoist children who recite the scriptures - they will usher in this month's monthly exam.

This is Zhao Ran's first time participating in the monthly examination of the Jingtang, and in addition to being curious, he is also a little apprehensive.

The twenty-three chanting children all returned to the scripture hall and sat on the futon, each of which placed a small table of the same width as a shoulder width for the study of ink answers.

There are only four Taoist children who have entered the scripture hall for less than three years, Zhao Ran and Zhumeng are two of them, their test papers are B, and the assessment content is concentrated in the "Tao Te Ching", "Nanhua Sutra", "Chongxu Zhide Sutra" and "Tongxuan Sutra", the "Four Sons Sutra", the form of the examination questions is similar to the secular imperial examination, nothing more than pasting the scriptures, ink scriptures, paraphrasing and so on.

Zhao Ran was confident, roughly skimmed through the questions, picked up the brush and began to answer, and in less than three sticks of incense, he had finished answering. After looking back and examining it carefully, there were no mistakes or omissions, so I got up and handed in the papers. He thought that he should be the first to hand in the paper if he answered the question so quickly, but after standing up, he realized that there were already two small empty sheets - people had already finished answering, one of them was Ma Zhili, and the other turned out to be Zhumeng in the same room, oh, it should be called Zhumeng, but Zhao Ran was still used to calling him Zhumeng.

Liu Jingzhu accepted Zhao Ran's test paper, flipped through it back and forth, nodded, didn't say anything, and waved him to wait for the interview in the wing room on the east side of the scripture hall - this is the second level of the monthly exam. The results of the examination paper and the interview are the same as the grades of the monthly examination, and the part of the examination paper is immediately posted in front of the scripture hall, so as to ensure relative fairness. If you cheat in the interview and get a first-class evaluation, but the test paper is answered miserably, then you can see the trickiness at a glance, so the examiner of the interview will basically not do this kind of stupid thing of slapping himself in the face.

Zhao Ran came to the east wing, opened the curtain and entered, and it was Zhumeng who was sitting on the bench in the outer hall.

"Senior brothers are very fast, are there a lot of empty questions that can't be answered, so I'm embarrassed to continue answering?"

"Senior Brother Zhao is a little slow, such a simple question has been delayed for so long, and I still have to work hard to learn from it in the future. ”

It seems to have become a habit for the two to pinch each other as soon as they meet.

After waiting for a while, Ma Zhili came out of the inner room, nodded slightly to the two, and stepped out. Zhu Meng got up and entered the inner room to be questioned, leaving Zhao Ran to sit and wait.

After a while, when there were already five or six Taoist children sitting next to Zhao Ran, Zhu Meng came out of the inner room after the interview, raised his chin high, threw Zhao Ran a white eye, and then walked away, like a little rooster who had won a fight.

Zhao Ran sneered, entered the inner room, and saw that Jiang Gaogong, the main examiner today, was in the main seat.

Zhao Ran was able to accept it, and Jiang Gaogong played a great role in it. But Zhao Ran has made a huge amount of money, so no one owes anyone, and this kind of thing has always been forgotten afterwards, so no one mentioned half a sentence between the two. However, after such a relationship, Zhao Ran felt that Jiang Gaogong was still relatively kind.

Jiang Gaogong's attitude towards Zhao Ran was indeed very kind, and he inquired in detail about Zhao Ran's study progress in the past three months, and the meaning of earnest advice and dedicated guidance was far greater than that of the school examination, which made Zhao Ran feel warm. Subsequently, Jiang Gaogong randomly clicked on the content of "King Zhou Mu" in "Chongxu Zhide Zhenjing" and asked him to explain it.

This scripture tells the story of Zhou Muwang, a first-class travel enthusiast, who drove around in a luxury car, and walked to the Yao Pond, feasted and drank Qionglin with the Queen Mother of the West, and sang poems and harmony. When Zhao Ran read this paragraph, he admired it deeply, and said in his heart that this is a model of good qualifications, eating, drinking and having fun can also become immortals, so why should we be embarrassed by the general public?

Retelling this story, Jiang Gaogong asked Zhao Ran what he thought this story told. Zhao Ran groaned slightly, and then replied that King Zhou Mu is the Son of Heaven, but he is not burdened by state affairs, nor is he bound by beauty, this is the real rush to the void to virtue, so he is happy and happy, which is secretly in line with the way of heaven and man.

Jiang Gaogong nodded after listening, and did not say that it was right or wrong, so he ended the interview with the school.

The next day, Zhao Ran rushed to the scripture hall, and saw that the ranking of this monthly exam had been posted in front of the scripture hall. A total of seven people were recorded as first-class, thirteen second-class, and three third-class. Zhao Ran was not disappointed, he found his name in the first class, and he was a little excited when he said it. But then he was a little disappointed, because he also saw the three words Zhu Zhimeng in the first rank, and he felt very unhappy.

The unhappy Zhao Ran wanted to check the test paper of the opposite head, but he carefully looked at the end from the beginning to the end, and there was no mistake in the test paper of Zhumeng! This is a bit unacceptable, Lao Tzu worked hard to read the scriptures day and night, and also added a golden finger, you are swaying and playing while learning freely, and finally mixed up with a full score like me, is this still a natural reason? It's really annoying!

When he turned around, he saw that Zhu Meng had come to the front of the scripture hall at some point, and this guy was also frowning and looking at Zhao Ran's test papers, and after reading it, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "How can this be reasonable!"

It's not cool to be unhappy, but Zhao Ran also feels helpless, the roots and qualifications of this Nima legend really make some sense, if he doesn't have the golden finger of Xisuo to help improve his physique, plus he reads hard day and night, I'm afraid he really can't do Zhumeng. If you don't pay attention, or if you slack off a little in studying the scriptures, maybe you will be passed by this guy, and then this guy will definitely ridicule and ridicule you in every way.

In addition to constantly consolidating the existing scriptures, Zhao Ran also picked up various books such as commentaries, compilations, and interpretations and read them desperately, trying to integrate several important classics.

While he worked hard, he also secretly observed Zhumeng, who was also a lot more diligent than before, but the time to read the scriptures was still not as good as Zhao Ran, and at the same time, there were a lot of entertainments in this house.

On the other hand, Zhao Ran, the group of fireworkers in the clean house and the house wanted to invite him to Guyang County many times, but he all politely declined, so that the second brother Guan had an opinion, and went to Zhao Ran's residence to ask if he looked down on everyone after becoming a Taoist priest, and did he plan to have no contact with everyone in the future?

Zhao Ran had no choice but to spend a special day off, and paid to invite Guan Er and others to go to Guyang County to drink back flower wine, and then gave up.

In addition to Guan Er and the others, he went to Yu Zhiyuan a lot less often, but fortunately, Zhiyuan seemed to be very busy recently, and he didn't have much time to deal with him, so as not to cause misunderstandings on the side.

In the three monthly exams in April, May and June, Zhao Ran and Zhumeng were ranked first, from the ranking point of view, in the four monthly exams, Zhao Ran's name was only once in front of Zhumeng, and the other three were after Zhumeng.

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