Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 273 Questions About the Township Examination

"Wow, she is really generous, she has five taels of silver."

Du Fangling looked at the silver ingot shaped like an ingot, and was even more satisfied with Mrs. Zhang's knowledge and interest.

For a small family like theirs, even if they have silver in their hands, it is scattered and broken, with different sizes and poor quality.

Zhang's silver ingot was obviously exchanged at the bank, which shows how much she attaches importance to Du Jinning.

Du Jinning smiled: "If I hadn't been admitted to Tongsheng or Xiucai, she wouldn't have such an attitude."

"Bah bah bah, childish words." Du Fangling forced Du Jinning to spit a few times, and then said happily, "Never mind her, now that she is fawning on us to benefit us, let's keep it for now. We'll talk about it later. "

Du Fanghui also nodded repeatedly beside him.

Seeing that the two sisters were not dazzled by the glory in front of them, Du Jinning was still very satisfied.

"As long as you learn the skills, even if I don't pass the examination as a scholar in the future, our life will still be better and better, and we don't need to care about other people's attitudes." Du Jinning said.

"Yes." Du Fangling and Du Fanghui both agreed.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about making dried tofu has brought about earth-shaking changes in the family. They have all seen it and experienced it personally.If they had this ability before, even in Du's house, they would not have such a miserable life.Why is Mrs. Niu so nice to Mrs. Zhang?Isn't that because Zhang's natal family is rich, and she and Du Yunyi have money for Niu's flowers every month?
"So, come up to the mountain with me in two days to learn how to make tea." Du Jinning said again.

"No problem." Both Du Fangling and Du Fanghui were hardworking girls. When they heard that they wanted to work, they didn't refuse at all, and agreed very readily.

In the next two days, Du Jinning prepared a gift, invited Liang Xiankuan and a few students who were selected from the academy, to thank magistrate Liu who was about to leave Lishui County and return to his own county.Then everyone took gifts to thank Guan Lehe, Yuan Xiuzhu and several teachers. They all taught the students of Class A and taught them carefully.

After Du Jinning's visit was over, Guan Lehe summoned her over and asked her, "What do you plan to learn in the next two months?"

This student is smart and very assertive, and has his own set of learning methods. He found that letting Du Jinning teach himself is better than teaching him, so he didn't care about Du Jinning in the end, and let him spend all day in the library read a book.The reason why he supports Du Jinning in this year's science exam is because he thinks that Du Jinning is very mature and not as easy to be impetuous as ordinary children. Secondly, he thinks that it is a waste of Du Jinning to attend classes with the students of Class A in the academy. time.

Now that Du Jinning passed the county examination easily, he didn't intend to force Du Jinning to stay in the academy or attend classes with him.

"When Mr. Yuan is talking about crafting, I want to listen to it. The rest of the time..." Du Jinning raised his head shyly, and glanced at Guan Lehe, "The tea gardens of Liang's and Yan's are able to produce tea. I will teach how to make tea. In our family’s tea garden, I also have to teach my mother and my sister.”

Guan Lehe frowned: "How long do you plan to teach them? After Mingqian tea and Yuqian tea are finished, it will be April. And..."

He raised his eyes and looked at Du Jinning: "You want to learn art, don't you plan to take the provincial examination this fall?"

"Teaching tea making is up to ten days. Even if I go to the tea garden, I will combine work and rest. I will spend more time reading books. When I am tired from reading, I will fry tea with my mother and the others. I will not spend all my time on tea making. As for autumn Wei..." She raised her big eyes and blinked, "I want to try."

Hearing that Du Jinning had a clear schedule for the time, Guan Lehe felt relieved.

Apart from his intelligence, the biggest characteristic of this disciple is self-discipline.As a teacher himself, as long as the homework is assigned, Du Jinning will take time to study and finish it well, never needing him to worry about it.Since Du Jinning said he would spare time to read, he has nothing to worry about.

However, he didn't quite agree with participating in Qiuwei.

"You are still young and your foundation is not stable. It is better to wait three years and take the exam three years later. You will only be 15 years old by then. If you go now, you are too young. I won't necessarily take you."

He paused, but still said what was in his heart: "Actually, the teacher has one expectation, that is, he hopes that you will be the top scorer in the provincial examination and the hospital examination in addition to the children's examination. This is a little selfishness of the teacher. If you After another three years of study, the chances of getting the lead will be much greater. This year..." He shook his head, "Even if your essay is well done, the examiner will not give you the lead. After all, you are too young. "

Du Jinning also knew that what Guan Lehe said was from the bottom of his heart.

If she is a boy, she will definitely delay taking the provincial examination for three years.Sanyuan Jidi, she felt that with her aptitude and knowledge of standing on the shoulders of giants in her previous life, she had a good chance of getting the top case in the provincial examination.

But she's not a boy, she can't afford to wait.

"Teacher, I know that you are doing it for my own good. But I still want to give it a try this year. It doesn't matter if you are the top scorer or not, as long as you win the exam. Only if you win the Juren can you take the exam. The exam is three By the time I can take part, I will be 15 years old. Who can guarantee that I will pass the test? If I fail the test, I will have to wait another three years, three years and three years, when the time comes I am getting old. Therefore, if I can get the honor of being a scholar as early as possible, I am at least one step ahead of others, and the probability of success is also higher than others."

These words really touched Guan Lehe, and completely shook his mind to suppress Du Jinning for three years.

That's right, although Du Jinning has excellent aptitude and is very transparent and intelligent, in the eyes of his teacher, he is naturally good everywhere.He believed that Du Jinning would definitely be admitted to Jinshi.

But there are no absolutes in the world, and how many amazing and brilliant people have fallen on the road to the imperial examination.Not to mention anything else, but one of his own uncles was also a well-known child prodigy back then.The elders in the family felt that it was inappropriate for him to take the exam too early, so he was not allowed to take the college exam until he was 16 years old, and he was awarded the title of scholar.

But two years later, he took part in the provincial examination and was ranked as a bad name, and his performance was abnormal; when he took the examination three years later, he had a high fever in the examination room.This delay amounted to six years.When he was planning to take the exam for the third time, he met his mother who lost his mother, and went home to observe mourning for three years. When he returned to the examination room of the rural examination, it had been 14 years since he was awarded the title of scholar. He was already a middle-aged man of 30 years old. people.After finally obtaining the title of Juren, and taking part in two more examinations, he became a Jinshi at the age of 38.The smug ambitions and ambitions at the beginning have been worn away by the years, and finally I have been mediocre for a lifetime.

Thinking of this, Guan Lehe looked at Du Jinning with great relief.

Du Jinning's ability to say such a thing at least shows that he has not been overwhelmed by the praise of the county chief and everyone, and feels that his future scientific research journey will be smooth sailing.He can foresee the difficulties ahead, and if he is mentally prepared, he will definitely work hard towards the goal firmly, and will not be shaken by temporary gains and losses.

For such a child, he should not suppress him, but should encourage him to move forward bravely.

"Okay, then you can try it this year, the teacher supports you." Guan Le said softly.

Du Jinning's heart immediately relaxed.

With Guan Lehe's words, even if the old gentlemen in the academy have objections, Guan Lehe will persuade them for her.She doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

After reporting to Guan Lehe, Du Jinning came to follow Guan Jiaze and Qi Muyuan every morning to listen to Yuan Xiuzhu's crafting class.

The so-called crafting is writing stereotyped essays.Although it is regarded as the fixed style of the imperial examination in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, it actually originated in the Northern Song Dynasty.Wang Anshi reformed the law and believed that the Tang Dynasty used poetry and prose to select scholars, and it was not practical to be flashy. Therefore, many subjects were selected as one subject for Jinshi, and all subjects were changed to test scriptures.However, some candidates unconsciously use parallelism to write articles similar to stereotyped essays.The imperial examinations in the Yuan Dynasty basically followed the Song Dynasty.

Although Du Jinning passed through the fictional era, it was a continuation of the Song Dynasty.Although the Song Dynasty was not replaced by the Ming Dynasty, the history stretched forward, and the stereotyped essay still appeared in the imperial examination and became an inherent style of the imperial examination.Fortunately, the stereotyped essays at this time were not as fixed in content and rigid in form as they were in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The content discussed in the articles had to be written according to Zhu Xi's "Sishu Jijing" and other books, and free expression was not allowed.In addition to being relatively fixed in form, the eight-part essay at this time was relatively free in content.This made Du Jinning very satisfied.

Apart from listening to art classes, Du Jinning is busy making tea in the rest of his time.

Her time was just right, the whole February was over in the county examination, and the visiting thank-you activities went on for a few more days, and it was time to fry Mingqian tea.Customers come first, she plans to teach the tea masters of the Liang family and the Yan family first, and then go back to fry her own tea.

Yan Songtao took the letter that Du Jinning entrusted someone to bring over, read it through, and smiled at his nephew Yan Xu: "This Du Jinning really has the courage to kick the ball to us to decide."

Seeing the puzzled look on Yan Xu's face, he explained again: "He said that the Liang family will also make tea, and asked which of our two families will come first?"

Yan Xu understood Yan Songtao's meaning, and said in disapproval, "This should be the idea of ​​his teacher Guan Lehe, right? He is a boy with no power, even if he is smarter in his studies, he still dares to play tricks in front of us." No?"

"You don't know this child well, so you say such things." Yan Songtao shook his head, "I have been paying attention to this child for more than a year, and found that apart from his studies, Guan Lehe never interfered in his affairs , He doesn’t need to care about Lehe. This kid, who arranges everything at home and outside the house in an orderly manner, doesn’t look like a kid of this age at all. I don’t know how Guan Lehe found such a good seed.”

(End of this chapter)