Prime Minister

Chapter 272

But Zhang Yue and Huang Lu studied behind closed doors at Wu's house for several days in order to go to the imperial examination.

The butler sent by the Wu Mansion, the servants all know that Zhang Yue is now the second in the provincial examination, and that is the prospective son-in-law of the mansion. It is rare that he lives here now, so he should not be praised.

In order to serve the uncle-in-law and his good friend, Butler Wu and the others tried every means.

Anyway, apart from not being able to entertain them with wine and sex, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu can satisfy all kinds of needs.

For example, Zhang Yue was from the south and was not used to northern food, so Butler Wu asked the old man in the mansion to cook some dishes from various places in Fujian and Zhejiang in different ways.

Every day Zhang Yue got together, some servants boiled hot soup for him to wash, and some servants dressed him and tied his hair in a bun.After Zhang Yue dressed up, he drank tea and rinsed his mouth, and then read for half an hour with a book in his hand before eating breakfast.

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu went to the dining table and sat down, and put on the table like fried broad-leaf catecha, jujube cake, walnut meat, steamed rolls, bad ginger and so on.

After breakfast, Zhang Yue took a walk around the mansion, exchanged his reading experience with Huang Lu, chatted, and then went back to his room to do his homework. Every day, he wrote a poem, a fu, a policy or a theory. Unshakable.

After finishing writing, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu commented on their respective articles, and then had lunch.

People in the market in Bianjing have the habit of eating lunch, but Taixue only eats two meals a day.

But lunch is just some staple food, it is a transition between breakfast and dinner, so it is not very rich.After Zhang Yuelue ate some, he went to take a nap in the house, and as for the yellow shoes, he went back to the room to rest.

Zhang Yue slept for an hour or two before getting up, then went out for a walk with Huang Lu, and then went back to his room to take a bath.

What I look forward to most on the day is dinner. There are tender chicken, fat goose, fatty fish and fresh fish. The best is the yellow lamb from Liao Kingdom. Zhang Yue likes to dip it in garlic and eat it.

After eating, read again. Generally, Zhang Yue will rest on the second watch.

In February, when the spring rains have just rested, the people of the capital go out of the city to continue their spring outings.

Spring is ten miles outside Bianjing.

Many scholars called for friends and companions, and traveled in chariots and horses.

After studying for a few days, they picked up a day with good weather, and the two of them went to the Erxianggong Temple in the inner city west of the city together.

This Erxianggong Temple in the capital is a must-see place for everyone who comes to Bianjing.Praying for dreams and divination here is extremely effective, even more famous than Daxiangguo Temple.

As for who are these two gentlemen?
There are different opinions, but generally speaking, it is Ziyou and Zixia, two students of Confucius.

Ziyou is the governor of Wucheng, and Zixia is employed by various countries. It is not known when the two became known as husband and wife.The status of Erxianggong Temple in the minds of scholars who come to Beijing to take the exam, this temple has many mysteries, and it is innumerable.

Therefore, before the provincial examination and palace examination, Erxianggong Temple was particularly popular.

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu went there early in the morning, and when passing by the famous Wanjia steamed bun shop in the capital, they bought two steamed buns and ate them as they walked.

The two arrived at the Erxianggong Temple at the foot of the inner city, and saw that there were quite a lot of scholars who came to pray.

People in the Song Dynasty generally believed that imperial examinations were all about fate.Sometimes your essays can be world-class, but if you are not lucky, you will not win. But sometimes you fail to succeed after repeated trials, and when all thoughts are lost, you have a strange dream, and then try it reluctantly, and you will win.

Many scholars in the Song Dynasty circulated such stories about the imperial examination.

For example, a young man named Yang went to Erxianggong Temple to pray for a dream.In my dream, I saw the list of Jinshi, and there was no name on it, but there was a person with the same name named Yang Zheng.

So this person immediately changed his name to Yang Zheng, and he passed the test as expected.

There is also dreaming about exam questions.

A student dreamed of Wu Zixu who was offering at home, and asked him to read a prose "Guangwu Tongfu Gaozu" in his dream for several days in a row. People can go to high school.

Now the two went to Erxianggong Temple, worshiped Ziyou and Zixia, and then put the money in the hands of the two young men.The monks in the temple told the two to stay in the temple for one night and pray for dreams.

Both Zhang Yue and Huang Lu laughed, and the monk said again: "However, the theory of praying for dreams is still empty. The most important thing for you in daily life is to do good deeds and accumulate virtue. If you do good deeds in this world, even if you fail today, you can leave it to your descendants. If it is an unrighteous thing, even the fame you get will be lost."

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu listened to the monk's advice very respectfully and piously.

Huang Lu asked Zhang Yue if he believed it, and Zhang Yue said: "Why don't you believe it? One is fate, two is luck, three is Fengshui, four is accumulation of Yin and five is reading, you look at people's fate, Fengshui, what is your background, whether you are born smart or not, and where you were born. The most important thing, but none of us can control it.”

"Therefore, the only things that can be done by man are accumulating yin virtue and studying. This accumulating yin virtue is more than studying. Being filial to your parents, taking care of your wife and children, and sometimes even persuading others with a good word, not to do unrighteous things in your life, these are the comparisons. It doesn’t matter how much you have read and how high an official you are.”

Huang Lu nodded, and the two strolled around the temple.

It happened that there were more than a dozen plum trees in the temple courtyard, and now the plum trees have almost withered after winter and spring, and only some plum blossoms are left hanging on the trees.

Under the plum tree, there was a fortune teller who was counting characters. When he saw the two scholars, he smiled slightly and waved to them in front of the booth.

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu looked at each other's fairy-like appearance, and they couldn't help stepping forward.

The fortune teller smiled at the two of them: "I have a destiny with you, you two are here to ask about the future."

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu all nodded, and the fortune teller said: "Thousands of miles of study are only for the purpose of becoming an official. If you have an official, you will have a wife. If you have a wife, you will have money. If you have money, you will have land. There are countless golden mountains and fertile fields in the book. "

Zhang Yue Huanglu shook his head and said: "This statement is too vulgar, too vulgar."

The fortune teller smiled and said: "Vulgar or not, it depends on whether you get it or not. If you get it, it is vulgar. If you don't get it, it's not vulgar. In fact, fame and wealth are like a dish. It tastes the same when you want to eat it, but it tastes delicious when you eat it." One taste, if you eat it every day, it will be another taste."

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu laughed together and said, "It's interesting."

Seeing the two, the fortune teller listened to his own words and continued: "How about the two of you?"

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu nodded, Huang Lu took the money and immediately took a note.

But I saw the word 'no' written in the note.However, this word is a little different, and the upper and lower parts are slightly separated.

The fortune teller smiled and said, "It seems that this subject is dead."

But Huang Lu smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm here anyway, just take a test."

Xiang Shi said: "Officials are open-minded. This is also the reason. You don't have to despair. There is a way to resolve everything. I have a way..."

Huang Lu laughed and said: "I don't know how to solve it, let me pass the imperial examination?"

The fortune-teller was stunned for a moment, then his face changed, and he said forcefully: "It's hard to say, there was a scholar who asked me before and thought that he would pass the palace examination, but he got a vision problem... and couldn't write a single word."

Huang Lu nodded, and immediately put the note in his sleeve and said: "That's fine, I just use this note to go to the imperial examination. If I pass the exam, I will come back and smash your business!"

Zhang Yue quickly persuaded: "Anzhong, when the time comes, you will be merciful. Just smash the stall and don't break people."

The fortune-teller was shocked when he heard this and said, "Officials, stop!"

Huang Lu turned back and said, "What are you doing?"

Xiang Shi said: "The beggar will give me this note again."

Huang Lu sneered and handed over the note,

The fortune teller looked at it for a while and said with a smile: "Officer, I am not wrong. You see that the word 'not to be' is not continuous. Isn't this just 'one get'? Congratulations to the officer, congratulations to the officer. "

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu looked at each other, and they both burst out laughing at the same time.

The fortune teller also wiped his sweat when he saw it, and laughed a couple of times.

"It's a good one, if you can make a smile, that's all." Zhang Yue took out a handful of money and put it on the stall.

The fortune teller was overjoyed at getting the money, and then said to Zhang Yue and Huang Lu, "I hit it off with you two. In fact, as soon as I saw the two of you, I knew they were both dragons and phoenixes. After the palace examination, they must be famous on the yellow list."

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu stopped talking and continued to visit the temple.

The two strolled to the back hall of the temple, but saw a long white wall covered with poems.

It seems to be the graffiti pen and ink left by the students who came to Beijing.

In later generations, it is of course an uncivilized behavior of "going here for a visit", but in the Song Dynasty, this was the romantic behavior of scholars.

There is also a special title called "Lie Ti", which is to write names and poems on the pilasters.

Many places even cater to the preference of readers who like to list questions on the wall, providing pen, ink and paper.

In many restaurants, hotels, temples and other places in Bianjing, there will be a special board for inscribing poems called "Poetry Board".

"Poetry Pai" is pre-painted with a layer of white powder. After it is filled with poems, it can be washed off, and then painted with a layer of white powder for reuse.During the Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival, Zhang Yue saw many such plaques in Daxiangguo Temple.

The treatment for inscribing poems in this way is different when scholars are well-developed and not well-developed.

There was a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor and he lived in a temple.Later, this person worshiped a high official and returned to the temple where he lived sojourn. Not only was he received grandly, but even the poems he wrote on the wall were covered with green gauze.

This person wrote a poem with a feeling after reading it. In the poem, there are words like this: "The dust has been blowing on the face for 30 years, and now I have only got a green sarong." '

Zhang Yuehuanglu looked at the writing on the wall.

Zhang Yue couldn't help laughing and said: "Who can get the green sarong?"

Huang Lu smiled and said, "I don't know, you and I might as well give it a try."

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "I'm not good at poetry, so I don't write poems, I'd better read the excellent works of predecessors."

So the two walked and read the poems left by the predecessors on the wall.

Zhang Yue and Huang Lu originally came here to watch a few 'green sarongs', to see if there are any celebrities they know who have left poems here, so as to open their eyes.

But to Zhang Yue and Huang Lu's surprise, ninety-nine percent of the people who wrote the inscription here did not know each other, and had never even heard of it.

The more Zhang Yue and Huang Lu looked at the back, the more uneasy they felt in their hearts, and the cold sweat on their backs was cold.

Looking at their verses, there are smug, uneasy, dismissive, all kinds of life.

Today their verses and articles remain here, but where are the people going?

There are hundreds of thousands of people on this wall, are there not a few who can leave their names in the history?

PS: After the author coded the words, for some reason, when I saw the chapters I just coded, I got a bad headache, so there are mistakes, and I apologize to everyone.If book friends see it, they can post it in chapter reviews or book reviews, and I will change it when I see it.

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