Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

After tidying up their things, for a whole day, the scholars didn't bother to go out to play, and sat scattered in the yard to review their homework.

All the food and drink were bought by Wu Laoer from the restaurant outside.

As for the couple here, they were completely intimidated by the sound of the scholars reading, and hid in the room for a whole day, not daring to show their faces, for fear of offending the scholars, who would scold them.

Scholars all have fame and fame, and they are not comparable to ordinary grassroots. If one is not good, he will be slapped in the face, and the slap will be for nothing.

Although Su Mu was confused, he still tried his best to calm himself down.

The day before the big exam, there is no need to do homework or anything else. Tactics in the sea of ​​questions is a usual thing. Now if you plunge into the questions and sharpen your guns before the battle, it is easy to confuse yourself.

Now, the most important thing to do is to take what you have learned in the past in your heart and discuss the gains and losses with a macro perspective.Analyze your strengths and weaknesses, make a plan, what to do if you encounter a topic you are good at in the exam, and how to make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses when you encounter something you are not good at.

Therefore, when he saw that other scholars were grinding ink to write questions, Su Mu expressed this idea to discuss with everyone.

When everyone heard it, they all said yes, saying: "It's rare that Zi Qiao is still sober. I'm so dizzy."The mountain of problems and the sea of ​​problems have passed, why bother to make myself dizzy now and mess up my sense of proportion?

So, all morning, Su Mu sat quietly in the yard, and first recited the sage classics and Zhu Xi's annotations that he had already memorized in his heart.

After lunch, I discussed various styles of writing with everyone.

His shortcoming is the theory and policy writing. When Ms. Wu talked about the theory that she used in "Ma Zheng Ping Bian Po" that day, although Su Mu thought that it was later, she still felt uneasy in her heart, so she repeated the original words.

Of course, Su Mu only said that this was his own opinion. As for Ms. Wu, she is a woman, so it is inconvenient to mention it in public.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Su Mu's words, everyone fell silent at the same time, frowning and thinking.

After a long time, Mu Sheng sighed in admiration, and said: "It turns out that the policy article can be written like this. I used to always think about writing some great strategies that are practical and practical in the article. But a person's talent is limited after all, and his knowledge is also short. , and he can say a good way and a big reason. But after hearing what Zi Qiao said, I realized that I had taken a detour. If I wrote it like this, it would be easy to write. It’s just that I’m luckier than me, and the article I wrote is to the examiner’s liking. But after hearing what you said today, I’m completely convinced.”

The Baoding scholars who came to Tongzhou with Su Mu for reference also nodded in agreement, and then they were humane. In fact, they had asked their teachers how to write this policy question before they came, and it was exactly the same as what Ziqiao said.

It was only then that Su Mu was completely convinced by Ms. Wu, and had to admit that this woman really inherited the Wu family's family traditions. If she was a man, she didn't know what it would be like.

It was a surprising thing in the Ming Dynasty that a woman could read and write, and it was the only one in the Ming Dynasty who was so knowledgeable to such a degree.

Everyone spent the whole afternoon in discussion, and in the evening, everyone put their books aside and kept silent about the exam.Everyone passed the imperial examination in one go. With rich experience in the exam, they naturally know the truth of "big exams for big exams, and small exams for small exams".

The preparations that should be made have been prepared, and it is impossible to improve the quality of learning in one night. Going to read books will put pressure on yourself invisibly.

It's better to relax completely and adjust your mental state to the best.

So, Mu Sheng and the others made an appointment to go out for dinner, and take a look at the street scene in Tongzhou, and then go to the Shuntian Mansion Gongyuan to get acquainted with the examination room in advance.This kind of excitement, Wu Er Er naturally refused to let it go, and with a groan, he rushed out with everyone.

Sun Chen has not recovered from his illness and is still recuperating at home.

Su Mu didn't join in the fun either. After dinner, he sat in the yard with a cup of tea, looked at the stars in the sky, didn't think about anything, didn't sit, and felt that the whole person was empty. I don't know how long it took, but when everyone came back excitedly, they went back to sleep.

After going out and running all night, I was a little tired, so I lay in a mess in the room.

Strange to say, Wu Er Er didn't come back with the others. When he asked, Mu Sheng said that he met an acquaintance on the way, said a few words, and then disappeared.

When Wu Laoer was in Beijing, he often didn't go home for three to five days, and Su Mu didn't think there was anything wrong.Don't think about it, just look at the nose, nose and heart, lying on the floor.

With this state of no desires and no thoughts, he soon fell asleep, but this time he slept very soundly, and it was not until midnight that Ben Wu's second son yelled loudly: "Get up, get up, Go to the Dragon Gate early, go to the Dragon Gate early!"

The birdman brought a bowl from somewhere, rushed into the house, and beat it vigorously with a wooden spoon.

Mu Sheng and the others poked their heads out of the quilt angrily, and cursed one after another: "You are such a nasty fellow, when did you come back? You smell of alcohol all over your body, and it stinks so badly!"

Su Mu rubbed his eyes and took a breath, his nose was full of the strong smell of alcohol.Looking intently, Wu Lao Er looked hungover, his eyes were red like rabbits: "When did you come back?"

"I met a friend last night. Please go and have a drink. The wine is really powerful. I got drunk, so I rested at his place." Wu Er Er's eyes flickered, and then he shouted: "It's almost time, hurry up , get up!"

"Ah!" Some people were already drowsy. Hearing what he said, they remembered that today was the provincial examination, and then they jumped up from the ground and washed their faces quickly.

According to the system of the imperial court, the township examination will officially start at Maoshi, which is four o'clock in the morning Beijing time in later generations.

But generally speaking, you have to get up two hours in advance.

After all, there are more than 2000 candidates, and they have to check their credentials and search their bodies when they enter the examination room, which will take an hour or two.

After washing their face and eating the hot things they had prepared earlier, Su Mu and the others went out with huge exam baskets on their backs. Pedestrians dressed as scholars appeared in twos and threes on the street,

At the beginning, there were not many people, but the closer you got to the Gongyuan, the more people there were, and gradually it became too crowded.

The crowd came in waves, but Su Mu was better. Since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he ran several kilometers every day, and his body was very healthy.Poor Sun Chen had just caught a cold, and after being squeezed for a while, he was a little out of breath.If it wasn't for Su Mu who supported his arm all the way, he would have been trampled to death by the stream of people.

As for Wu's second son, he was still drunk, and was constantly being cursed at by people. When people crowded, he greeted other people's female relatives as usual.

What, Su Mu didn't bother to care, and let him float and sink in the crowd.

In a short while, the kid was squeezed out of sight.

Last night Su Mu wanted to nourish his energy, so he didn't come over with Mu Sheng and the others to familiarize himself with the examination room.When I arrived at the Gongyuan, I looked up and was surprised--the scale is really big!

It is worthy of being at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first benevolent district, the Gongyuan of Shuntian Mansion is not much less than the government offices of a province, in terms of its size and grandeur, it is even worse.