lied to Kangxi

Chapter 76 The Monthly Exam of the Academy

"Whoosh..." Before Yu Zhu could see clearly, Niu Tai had already completed the whole process of setting up the bow and releasing the arrow, shooting four stars with one arrow.

Yuzhu also practiced riding and shooting from time to time, he could see clearly that the four arrows with white feathers and eagle feathers hit the bull's-eye, and the tails of the arrows were still trembling slightly in the wind.

"Okay, good boy, I really underestimated you." Bai Xing has a crazy personality, and he immediately became elated, grabbed a handful of arrows with his backhand, put them on the string, and saw the five stars without aiming. All hit the bullseye.

"Haha, boy, are you convinced?" Bai Xing raised his chin triumphantly, and squinted at Niu Tai.

Yu Zhu originally thought that Niu Tai was going to die.Because, the Five Star Lianzhu is already considered the limit of the continuous shooting.

Who would have thought that without saying a word, Niu Tai grabbed a handful of arrows with his backhand almost the same as Bai Xing, hit the string and shot.

"Duo duo duo..." The arrows behind actually squeezed the front arrows out of the target. There were exactly nine arrows on the bull's-eye, and five were missing.

Yuzhu's eyesight is not bad, he has already seen that this is a pair of extremely talented marksmen.If they continue to let the competition go on, there will be no lunch.

"Okay, let's stop here, there is no winner. I will give the silver for two hundred sheep, and you will each get half." Yuzhu made a final decision and made a qualitative judgment for the whole competition.

"Hey." Niu Tai didn't dare to disobey Yu Zhu's intention, and immediately recognized it.

Bai Xing wanted to continue pestering Niu Tai, but he was still a little rational after all.When there are foreign guests at the scene, if Yuzhu's face is refuted, it will be too deadly.

Yuzhu took the lead in apologizing to Hu Fenghui: "Brother Hu, I'm really sorry, the two reckless people in the family are fighting, and you made me laugh."

Hu Fenghui hurriedly bowed his hand to return the salute, and said very politely: "My brother, your subordinates are full of talents. It is really gratifying. To be honest, many of the Eight Banners soldiers in the Beijing camp are no longer able to fight. Now the only ones who can really count on are Count me the Sauron cavalry in the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty."

Yuzhu couldn't help but smiled slightly, Hu Fenghui really had good eyesight, and he saw through Niu Tai's origin at once.

According to Martai, his only son, Niu Tai, grew up in Sauron outside the customs since he was a child. He is a famous eagle shooter and tamer in the tribe.

"Brother Hu, Niu Tai's Guo Luomafa (grandfather) is the great elder of the Sauron tribe outside the pass. Apart from being good at shooting eagles, he is also good at domesticating Haidongqing. Niu Tai followed his Guoluomafa , I’ve been in Sauron’s department for a relatively long time, and I’ve more or less learned a little bit.” Yuzhu has never been a boastful personality, and he humbly belittled his family’s magical skills.

Hu Fenghui smiled, and did not refute Yuzhu's self-effacing face to face.There are some things that you can understand in your heart, so why bother to talk about it?

Just now on the road, through mutual introduction and acquaintance, Hu Fenghui also knew the details of Yuzhu.

He secretly rejoiced that he was able to get to know the son of the nine admiral Longkodo in this Jiuhua Academy, it was wonderful.

Different from Nian Gengyao's half-hearted and half-hearted, Hu Fenghui has always been the loyal disciple of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen.

The circumstances of the Hu family and the Nian family are very different, and the choices they make are naturally very different.

The head of the Nian family, Nian Yaling, is the current governor of Huguang, a proper official in Xinjiang.

Nian Gengyao himself became a Jinshi at the age of 21.In just a few years, Nian Gengyao has been promoted to a bachelor's degree from the fourth rank of the cabinet, and his future is boundless.

As for the Hu family, if they want money, they don't have money, if they want officials, they don't have officials, and if they want power, they don't have power. They can only dedicate their loyalty to the fourth elder brother.

It would be much more convenient if Yuzhu was pulled into the camp of the fourth elder brother, and then Longkodo.

However, Hu Fenghui never expected that Longkodo had long been the backbone of the Fourth Master Party.

The fourth elder brother's scheming is too deep, and the layout is too long-term. Except for the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, he has deceived almost everyone who participated in the seizure of the heir.

It wasn't until November of Kangxi's 61st year, after the fourth elder brother Yinzhen succeeded in winning the throne in Changchun Garden, that Hu Fenghui, who had been kept in the dark, realized that Ganqing Longkodo had long been the fourth master lurking beside Kangxi party up.

The small house where Yu Zhu lived happened to have only three guest rooms.One room belonged to Wu Sidao, the other room was given to Hu Fenghui, and the remaining room was given to Niu Tai, and there would be no room for one more person.

After tidying up the place, the food and drink had been set on the big round table, and Yuzhu smiled and invited Hu Fenghui and Wu Sidao to the table.

After drinking and eating, Hu Fenghui and Wu Sidao said goodbye together, but Yuzhu didn't bother to keep them, so he sent them out of the main room.

After that day, under Yuzhu's example, the four of them walked to the academy as companions after having breakfast respectively on the fourth watch every day.

Wu Sidao realizes his shame and becomes brave, he refuses to sleep in anymore, and advances and retreats with Yuzhu.

Soon, it will be time for the monthly exam.The teacher in charge of the exam is none other than Qin Benchu, the head master of the academy.

The monthly exam, referring to the model of Jiangnan Township Examination, requires three consecutive exams.

In the first round, try three questions in [Four Books] and four questions in each of [Five Classics].Among the five classics, candidates can choose one classic to answer.

In the second round, try one piece of "Book of Filial Piety", one piece of imperial edict, one piece of imperial edict, one piece of table, and five pieces of judgment.

In the third session, there are five ways to try [Confucianism, History and Current Affairs Policy], that is, to express comments or opinions on current affairs and government affairs in combination with theories of Confucian classics.

Originally, the Jiangnan Township Examination took three sessions and nine days, and each session had to be submitted to the Gongyuan one day in advance, for a total of twelve days.

However, it is impossible for the academy to do this, so it was deliberately compressed into three days.

According to Qin Benchu, students who can't finish the exam questions in one day should not go to Jiangnan Gongyuan, which will tarnish the reputation of the academy
The short time of the monthly exam and the large amount of questions are simply outrageous.

However, Yuzhu, a small-town questioner, spends every day brushing up on the questions, and entering this stressful exam environment is like a duck to water.

After the questions for the first day were sent out, Yu Zhu was not in a hurry to do them. He waited until all the questions had been reviewed and the manuscript was typed before he started writing.

There is no way, even if the exam questions are not completely similar, they are [-]% similar, which greatly speeds up the speed of solving the questions.

Because I have been notified in advance, during the monthly exam, everyone is only allowed to bring dry food and the Four Treasures of the Study.

At noon, Yu Zhu had no choice but to bite the bullet and eat the special salty dry food that the chef ordered.Wu Jiang was very clever. He prepared a large rough porcelain teapot and a large teacup for Yuzhu to ensure that Yuzhu would not lack tea to drink during the exam.

However, there is no need to think about hot tea, only cold ones.

About four hours later, Yuzhu finished checking the test paper again, and was the first to get up and hand in the paper.

Qin Benchu, who was standing in front of the school with his hands behind his back, frowned and stared at Yuzhu firmly.

Yuzhu finished the papers handed in with real skills, naturally he didn't panic at all, and calmly walked in front of Qin Benchu, holding a stack of test papers with both hands.

"Stand still, the old man will judge on the spot." Qin Benchu ​​still didn't say much, but his cold tone was quite lethal.

Yu Zhu was naturally obedient and just stood there without moving.

About a quarter of an hour later, Qin Benchu ​​said coldly, "You can go."

Yuzhu saluted with a long bow, bid farewell to Qin Benchu, and walked away gracefully without looking back.

Guanshi Zhang, who had been guarding the door all the time, could see clearly that even though Yuzhu had gone far away, Qin Benchu's gaze was fixed on him, and he didn't know what he was thinking?
(End of this chapter)