Prime Minister

Chapter 259

The fourth Mingjing.

The Mingjing test is the ten posts of "The Analects of Confucius", and the ten articles of Mo Yi in "Spring and Autumn" or "Book of Rites". This may be difficult for ordinary Jinshi, but for Zhang Yue, who came from various disciplines, he is very familiar with it. familiar.

After the fourth round of exams, the provincial exams are all over, and the next thing is to wait for the results to be released.

The provincial examination started from the eighth day of the eighth day, and took four exams for seven days, so the fourth exam happened to be the Lantern Festival.

In the capital, the Shangyuan Festival is naturally grand, but Zhang Yue brought Guo Lin and Huang Lu to Zhang Shi's home to celebrate the festival.

Needless to say Zhang Shizhi's hospitality, he was as close as a nephew to Guo Lin at the beginning, but now he loves Huang Lu as well.

After the exam that day, Huang Lu brought a bottle of wine to the door, and Zhang Shi was surprised.

Now the three of Zhang Yue and Zhang Shi, Yu Shi, and Zhang Qiu are eating Yuanxiao at a table, which is quite lively.

The three of them inevitably drank a few more glasses this day.

Then Zhang Yue took the jug to the pavilion and the three of them drank and chatted, Zhang Yue suddenly asked: "Brother, why were you late when you were in the first stage?"

Guo Lin was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said with some concealment: "It snowed heavily that day...was I blocked by wind and snow?"

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, don't say that. I know you are cautious by nature. If it snows suddenly, how can you be unprepared? Could there be other reasons?"

Guo Lin hesitated for a while and said: "Sanlang, to tell the truth, I already knew that it was snowing in the middle of the night that day, and I asked my classmates to go to the Gongyuan earlier the next day."

"In the end, I went back to my room because of something, and asked this classmate to wait for me in the carriage, but after returning, they had already driven away in the carriage."

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu looked at each other, Guo Lin was framed.

Guo Lin continued: "After the incident... I also asked him after the incident, and he said that someone told him that I had gotten into the carriage of an acquaintance. As a result, I had no choice but to run all the way from the dormitory to the Gongyuan, and I went to ask the other party. The man said he didn't, and I don't know who's lying."

"Senior brother, can't this be the case?" Zhang Yue asked in a deep voice.

Guo Lin waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I don't want to pursue it anymore. Anyway, I was a classmate in Nanjian for three years. Besides, I didn't fall behind in the end."

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Brother, how can you let these people hurt you so much."

Guo Lin smiled wryly and said: "Hey, we don't have many people who study classics. They are all transferred from various disciplines. They learn many classics. I am a Fujianese who came from the south. I will inevitably be excluded. Now I just ask And the first, don't ask about everything else, don't argue with others on these trivial matters. The younger brother should forget it..."

Zhang Yue thought to himself that there were a lot of rumors about Jinshi departments stumbling each other, but he didn't expect that the same was true of all Mingjing departments.

Brother must have suffered a lot while studying in Nanjing these years.

Huang Lu winked at Zhang Yue and said, "Brother Guo is right, you are sitting on the salt cart now, but when Bole appreciates you, the future will be different."

Guo Lindao: "Exactly."

Speaking of this, Guo Lin burst into tears and said: "But since I went to Nanjing to study, I haven't seen my wife, children, and parents for three years. I haven't seen my son yet. Do you have close relatives and friends... If I fail this subject, I really don’t know if I can endure it, when will I be able to endure these endless days.”

Speaking of this, Guo Lin couldn't help but burst into tears.

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu sighed when they heard this.

Zhang Yue turned his head to look at Huang Lu, but saw that he was also wiping away tears.

Zhang Yue asked, "Anzhong, do you miss your family too?"

Huang Lu sighed and said, "Duzhi knows that I have a childhood sweetheart in my hometown."

"I know."

"Last month, I got it from another classmate. She was very ill and had been bedridden for half a year. She barely survived on soup and medicine. But she didn't mention this to me in the letter, and only let me Read at ease, just like when we two got together. When I wrote poems, she looked up the rhymes for me, and when I wrote lyrics, she matched them with songs. At that time, we were childhood sweethearts, and now I think about the past..."

Speaking of this, Huang Lu drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, then looked to the south, unable to hide the melancholy in his heart, and finally turned into tears and dripped into the wine cup.

Zhang Yue looked at Guo Lin and Huang Lu, and didn't know how to comfort them, so he poured wine into their cups and said, "Eat wine, eat wine."

According to some days before the release of the list, Zhang Yue took the two of them to visit Zhang Heng the next day.

Huang Lu and Guo Lin both admired Zhang Heng very much, and when they saw each other, they felt happy as the number one scholar.

The three of them came to the hall led by the servants, but they saw Zhang Heng having a happy conversation with another person.

This person was only 25 or [-] years old, and he looked very familiar, and the other person smiled as soon as he saw Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue suddenly remembered, isn't this person Lin Xi?

In the second year of Jiayou's reign, Lin Xi and his younger brother Lin Dan passed the Jinshi examination together. When it came to the palace examination, Lin Xi was likely to win the first prize.

But Lin Xi's article was read by the officials, and they felt that there was a sentence in it, "Heavenly Prison is not far away, and the hearts of the people can be known" was a bit abrupt. The family selected Zhang Heng as the champion.

Therefore, it is also very mysterious to talk about luck.

As for Lin Xi, not only did he fail to win the first prize, he did not even make it to the first prize, and was relegated to the second prize, and then became the leader of Jing County.

Why are you back in Beijing now?

But no matter how you say it, Zhang Yue was deeply impressed by Fang Zhong's high-spirited appearance when he and Zhang Heng were in the sociology school together.

After Zhang Yue and Lin Xi greeted each other, Lin Xi looked at Zhang Yue and said to Zhang Heng with a smile: "Zi Ping, I told you earlier that this son is not a thing in the pool, and now we will not meet again in Beijing."

Zhang Heng wanted to be humble for Zhang Yue and said: "Hey, it's too early to say, it's not too late to say it after passing the Jinshi examination."

Lin Xi shook her head and said, "I don't think you should wait, this year is just right."

"How do you know that I dare not say that?"

Lin Xidao: "Your Zhang family in Pucheng has produced a large number of talents, and almost every subject has a Jinshi. In the second year of Jiayou, you were the number one scholar, and in the fourth year of Jiayou, your son was fifth. Of course, it is now the turn of the degree."

Zhang Heng laughed out loud.

When Zhang Yue heard it, his face was full of glory.

Although the Zhang family is now scattered in different parts of the world, the prosperity of the family is like this, relying on the relay from generation to generation, dare you not try your best?

At present, Zhang Yue introduced Guo Lin and Huang Lu to Zhang Heng and Lin Xi.

Several people immediately sat down to chat, and Zhang Yue just learned that Lin Xi had been recommended as a collation of the pavilion, and now he is working in Beijing.

Zhang Yue learned that Lin Xi had a lot of friends in Beijing, not only with Zhang Heng, but also with Chen Xiang, Zeng Gong, Zhang Dun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe.

When Lin Xi learned that Zhang Yue was worshiping under Chen Xiang's sect, she was so happy that she almost danced and said with a smile: "Du Zhi, you and I are my family."

It turned out that although Lin Xi didn't have a teacher-student friendship in front of Chen Xiang, he still regarded himself as a half-disciple, so he was even more cordial when he met Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue is also emotional, what is a relationship, and his circle of friends is also expanding step by step.

Ps: If you have the audacity to ask for a monthly pass, there will be more changes tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)