Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 40
The county school office is the most respectable building among the several yamen in the county seat.

Today is June 25, which is the last registration day for Tongkao.From tomorrow onwards, the school government will publish a list for three days and announce the list of people who will be formally referenced.

From the first day to the second day of July, the county's autumn children's examination will be held in the alley of the back hall of this school.

There are not many people in front of the school yamen, because those who want to sign up have already registered early.Few people choose to sign up on the last day.

Huo Bingcheng and Zhang Zhe had just entered the school, and in the restaurant across the street from Xueya, a few people who had been sitting there staring at the gate of the school immediately became suspicious.Among these people, there are not only the shopkeeper of the gambling house, but also the spies arranged by the government office and the Song family. They communicate with each other with eyes full of doubts.

Master Huo's son is already a child, and he participated in the government examination the year before last, why did he come to the school today?What attracted the most attention was the young man next to Huo Yanei, a name was already brewing in their mouths.

God, is that person really coming to participate in this autumn exam?
Someone quickly asked the truth from Menzi, and it was Zhang Zhe and Zhang Xinzhi who came!In the past few days, the title of number one in talent and learning in the county has changed hands from Zhou Zi head-on, and "Zhang Xinzhi", who is excellent in poetry, prose and chess, has been rated as the number one by scholars in the county.

But no one expected that Zhang Xinzhi, who had been living in the countryside of Taowan, would come to sign up for reference on the last day!The spies from the government office and the Song family immediately dropped the money for the wine and left in a hurry.

Something is wrong!Zhou Langjun's talent and learning, Li Langjun's planning, and meeting this "unfathomable" Zhang Xinzhi may not be able to please him.

This person is a reference, can the case be someone else?

Huo Bingcheng led Zhang Zhejin to the first room on the left of the second entrance of Xueya.

There was a scribe waiting in the house, with a half-white beard, about 50 or [-] years old.

"Come, register with my virtuous brother!" Huo Bingcheng was the most casual in all the yamen in the county, and ordered the man to do things at the touch of a fan, but Zhang Zhe gave the scribe a slight salute.

"Zhang Zhe, styled Xinzhi, Nian, from Taowan, is more than ten feet tall (Chinese feet, about 1.7 meters five in modern times), with a white face and no beard."

The clerk took down Zhang Zhe's information, and took out some folded paper from his sleeve.

Huo Bingcheng smiled: "My dear brother, this is the last procedure before applying for the exam, and it is also a formality. There are five Moyi questions here, all of which are the simplest in the book. You only need to answer one correctly to be eligible for reference. Believe it, You can choose one at will."

Zhang Zhe didn't look at the five origami sheets, but looked at the scribe in front of him curiously.

This person has been afraid to look at him since they entered the door, and the hand holding the note is still trembling slightly.

Zhang Zhe's eyes turned cold, and he sneered in his heart.

Someone knew about the things he came to refer to in advance, and tampered with this last formality.

"Are you sure these questions are all Mo Yi's questions?"

Zhang Zhe looked at the scribe with a half-smile, but didn't take the note immediately.

The man still lowered his head and gritted his teeth: "Exactly, the Moyi (fill in the blank or dictation) questions in the twelve treatises!"

Huo Bingcheng finally found out that something was wrong, and was about to step forward to check the notes, but was stopped by Zhang Zhe.

Seeing that Huo Bingcheng was puzzled, Zhang Zhe smiled and pointed to the curtain behind the scribe.

Obviously, someone is behind the curtain!

Huo Bingcheng was furious, this matter was decided by all the officials in the county, who would dare to do this in Taolin County! ?
Just as he was about to go up and pull the curtain, the scribe suddenly changed his face and stopped Huo Bingcheng firmly.

"How courageous!" Huo Bingcheng was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and was about to strike.

At this time, an old man who was panting slightly walked in outside the door. Zhang Zhe turned his head and saw that it was Han Jiaoyu, the head of the school.

"I've seen Master Jiaoyu!" Seeing that the old Jiaoyu was leaving in a hurry, Zhang Zhe knew there must be something hidden in it, so he first pulled the angry Huo Bingcheng to show him to the Jiaoyu.

After Han Jiaoyu came in, he didn't bother to return the gift to the two, but first glanced at the five notes on the table.I was relieved when I found that the five notes were all intact.

"You don't need to be too polite," Han Jiaoyu looked a little worried, and his tone was very blunt, "Accordingly, I am the master examiner, and I can't meet you before the exam. It's just because you came too late. Exhausted, these are a few out of self-examination. Zhang Xinzhi, you wait a moment, and I will call someone to replace it with you."

Zhang Zhe and Huo Bingcheng looked at each other suspiciously, something must have happened before.Han Jiaoyu's expression was definitely not for the two of them to see.

Hearing the words, the scribe breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went to get the five pieces of paper.

Zhang Zhe suddenly had a thought at this time, and immediately took one of the notes.

The faces of Han Jiaoyu and the scribe changed drastically.

"Believe it, don't be reckless!" Huo Bingcheng didn't pay attention and failed to stop Zhang Zhe's move. Seeing that Zhang Zhe took one, he immediately yelled in his heart that something was wrong.

"The ancient method of the sage, once this title is taken, it cannot be replaced! My virtuous brother, you..."

"It's okay," Zhang Zhe glanced at the topic lightly, but his tone was very casual, "I just asked how many things [a gentleman should not do] in Jianzi's three theories?"

Huo Bingcheng almost suffocated in one breath.

Jian Zi was a great sage 400 years ago. He wrote seven classics, among which "Yi Lun", "Xiao Lun" and "Gang Lun" are three compulsory textbooks.But Mo Yi has always used the words of the ancient sages to test questions, who would use Jian Zi's book as Mo Yi's questions?

This is pure embarrassment!Moreover, who would count how many times [a gentleman should not do anything] appeared in the three books?
Han Jiaoyu glanced bitterly at the statues of the three sages of Confucianism hanging in the room, hesitating extremely, but the integrity of a scholar still prevailed, and he did not ask Zhang Zhe to re-election at all.

Zhang Zhe looked around at the three people who all had very bad expressions in a strange way: "This question is very easy, why are you acting like this?"

easy? !
Han Jiaoyu almost gave Zhang Zhe a big jujube, even he couldn't answer this question.Only those scumbags who like to play with words will count such things.

Zhang Zhe rubbed his cheeks leisurely, three times to the left and three times to the right.

The world was black and white, and then shattered.

Back to the modern Zhang Zhe, Shi Shiran sat on the computer chair, turned on the computer, and connected to the private database on the server he rented.

Search, Jian Zi's three comments, [A gentleman should not do anything].

After a few seconds, a total of seventeen records were listed.

In Han Jiaoyu's eyes, he saw that the slightly rash young man just rubbed his cheeks, then took the pen and paper on the table and wrote a full page in one go.

Seventeen places!
Huo Bingcheng looked at it, his eyeballs almost fell out of shock.Good Zhang Xinzhi, what kind of ghostly memory is this!He has no memory of many sources.

Han Jiaoyu took Zhang Zhe's answer, glanced at it briefly, and said, "Forget it, let's go!"

Zhang Zhe smiled and pulled Huo Bingcheng, who was still in disbelief, out of the house. He knew that Han Jiaoyu might have to deal with some personnel matters internally.

When Zhang Zhe and the two left, Han Jiaoyu looked at the scribe with a cold face.

"What is the source of the question in your hand?"

"Master, sir, there are twelve places! This Zhang Xinzhi answered seventeen places, I'm afraid it is, I am afraid it is."

Han Jiaoyu didn't pay attention to this person, but sternly said to the curtain: "Something with no knowledge, how dare you come out to make a fool of yourself and test people with knowledge like you?"

(End of this chapter)