ask sword 2

Chapter 24 Finding Someone
"Don't plan to take the test?"

Song Shaoyuan was stunned for a moment, and the classmates sitting around were also a little surprised.

Young students who can be ranked in the upper middle level in the state school all have the dream of being in the top ten in the provincial exam and going to Chang'an to participate in the first exam of the school.

As long as you can stand out in the fiercely competitive entrance examination and enter the school, it means that you will jump into the dragon gate, and even the Zeji family, so that the entire family can prosper in the next few decades.

Some wealthy families who are trying to become a thousand-year-old family, in order to continue their ethnic movement, on the one hand, spare no effort to invest in education. They not only teach the children of the clan, but also spend money to go to other places to find children who are born smart, and bring their parents' family over and let them live there. Educated in family school.

On the other hand, one or several rooms will be specially allocated in the family and relocated to the prefecture in the borderland of the Yu Kingdom, where the education level is relatively backward, in order to improve the probability of the family's children passing the provincial examination and entering the palace.

This kind of behavior has also caused some small rich families to imitate and move their families ten years ahead of schedule.Furthermore, in some frontier prefectures, regional hostility between northerners and southerners and westerners and easterners arose.

For this illusory opportunity for promotion, the whole world does not know how many students have broken through the classics, and how many parents have exhausted their efforts.

"Why didn't you take the test?"

Song Shaoyuan asked with concern: "Is it lack of confidence, or is it too busy recently? If it is to save the five notary fees for the test, I have it here."

Someone next to him said with a smile, "Brother Shao Yuan, who doesn't know that Bao'an Tang has been in the limelight in the past few days in Kuangzhou City. I heard that there are rich businessmen from other places who want to come to Kuangzhou to find Risheng for medical treatment. How can you not pay out a mere five-pass notary fee?

I see, because I think it is too profitable to be a prince, and there is no need to read the classics of Confucius and Mencius. "

"Yeah, after all, no matter how you learn, isn't it for Brother Kong Fang in the end? It's better to take advantage of the reputation and make it happen in one step. It's just like that doctor."

A group of classmates burst into laughter, Shilin's atmosphere is like this, these scholars, except for scholars, do not look down on any profession or profession.

Seeing this, Li Ang frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy about their frivolous tone and the comments made about him and Yu Miaoshui.

Yu Miaoshui also match?
"Don't talk nonsense."

Song Shaoyuan frowned, and said unceremoniously to his friends who usually traveled the mountains and waters with him: "A doctor hanging a pot to help the world, saving people's lives, is not much better than just reading and talking about things?

Moreover, I have seen Risheng's bone injury skills with my own eyes, and it is definitely not something that Yu Miaoshui and other deceivers can compare. "

He turned his head and said to Li Ang seriously: "Risheng, don't rush to make a decision on this matter. When my mother and I come to Bao'an Tang in the evening, we will discuss it together."

"Everyone has their own aspirations, Brother Shao Yuan, you are just too warm-hearted."

Another star of state studies not far away, Zhai Yiming, heard the movement and came over, ignoring Li Ang and the others, and bowed his hands to Song Shaoyuan gracefully: "Brother Shaoyuan, I have an invitation for an acquaintance banquet in my hand, just Six days later. I invited several other classmates and other villagers from other places, I wonder if you have any free time?"

Yu country has an open atmosphere, and various public and private banquets are popular, and banquets can be held for large and small matters.

The so-called acquaintance banquet is an elegant banquet held by scholars in order to build relationships and spread fame in the future.

Zhai Yiming came from a local wealthy family in Wuzhou. He went to Chang'an last year. The one who can catch his eye must be the talented person who he thinks is most likely to pass the provincial examination in Wuzhou and become a classmate with him in the academy.

Song Shaoyuan bowed his hands, his expression still indifferent, but he heard Zhai Yiming say leisurely: "It is not me who is hosting the banquet, but the son of the prefect."

As soon as Zhai Yiming said this, the courtyard instantly became quiet.

Yu Cheng Sui system, the head of a state is the prefect, what Zhai Yiming said can only be the prefect of Kuangzhou Jizhi.

The son of the prefect of Kuangzhou is undoubtedly the biggest yanei.

"The acquaintance banquet of the prefect's son"

A partner next to Song Shaoyuan stared at him, put his hands on his side, and murmured, "This, this"

The other person was also shocked and said: "But, I remember that the eldest son of the prefect's family has reached the crown last year, and he didn't go to the academy. Could it be the second son? That's not right, I heard that the second son is only 11 years old this year."

Zhai Yiming glanced at him and said lightly: "The daughter of the prefect, I have received a recommendation letter from the school tour a few days ago, and I will also go to the school this year."

The courtyard was inexplicably quiet again, and the eyes of many people with active thoughts turned their eyes and immediately understood.

Compared with the former Sui Dynasty and the Zhou state in the south, the status of women in Yu state was much higher. Women were not the appendages of men. They could voluntarily terminate the relationship between husband and wife. .

On the one hand, this is a new phenomenon brought by the Academy - the ratio of spiritual talents for men and women is basically the same, and there are not many female monks, occupying high positions in the Academy, and even some have been mountain leaders, which greatly promotes equality between men and women. social atmosphere.

On the other hand, it is because a hundred years ago in the Kingdom of Yu, a holy queen surnamed Wu was born
The prefect held a banquet, no doubt to help the younger sister who was going to Chang'an soon, and to get to know some other elites from the same town.

As for these state scholars, if they can leave a good influence on the son and daughter of the prefect's family at the acquaintance banquet, even if they fail to enter the school, they can still find a job as an official in the prefect's mansion.

It is even possible to go further.
Zhai Yiming looked at these imaginative classmates in front of him, and the corner of his mouth rose slightly.

I don't even think about how delicate and high-class people the sons and daughters of the prefect's family are, these mediocre talents who have little literary talent and struggle to write poems, who are not even qualified to go to banquets, still want to show their faces?

"Young Master Prefect handed the invitation to me,

After thinking about it, I still think that only Brother Shao Yuan, you are the most qualified. "

Zhai Yiming slowly took out a red invitation card from his arms and handed it to Song Shaoyuan, contentedly seeing expressions of envy and jealousy on other people's faces.

Oh, that's right.

Zhai Yiming smiled and wanted to say a few more words when he suddenly heard noises from outside the state school.

"Please let me know, saying that Mi Xing and Zheng Jialiang are asking to see you."

"Lu Zishi from Taiyihang."

"Zou Wenbo of Zhengping Bank"

Ok?
The sound from outside the state school made Zhai Yiming and others frown.

Zhai Yiming, who considers himself the leader of the state school, walked to the door and stopped abruptly when he was about to scold who was making a loud noise outside the state school.

I saw [-] or [-] luxury carriages parked at the entrance of the state school, and rich businessmen in luxurious clothes kept getting out of the carriages, each holding a salutation letter in his hand.

The president of the rice line, the president of the commoner, and the treasurer of the bank
Any one of them is a big man who needs to be well received by the Zhai family on weekdays.

"How is this going?"

Zhai Yiming calmed down instantly, pulled a servant at the door, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter? Who are these people looking for?"

The little servant scratched his head and said uncertainly: "They said, looking for the great man of the Li family?"

(End of this chapter)