The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 4
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Although Xie Shen is very familiar with "Mencius" and even the Four Books, he doesn't know much about the "Annotations to the Four Books".

This is Xie Shen's fatal weakness. If he wants to make achievements in the imperial examination, this loophole will have to be filled sooner or later.

He hurriedly opened the Annotations of the Four Books, found the annotations of this paragraph, and began to study them carefully.

In fact, this passage can be summed up in one sentence, that is, the emperors of all dynasties in China used "love the people like sons" as the criterion for judging whether they are wise emperors.A monarch who loves his people like his son will live forever
But how to solve the problem?While Xie Shen was worrying, he suddenly thought of a stereotyped essay that later generations read. This article seemed to be written for the section of King Wen's view of the people.

Xie Shen doesn't have any other skills, but he has the unique ability of never forgetting.

He took a deep breath and sighed secretly, I am born with talents that will be useful!

After writing the article, Xie Shen closed his eyes and waited for Old Master Liu to announce that it was time to close the paper.

White Deer Academy conducts quizzes like this two to three times a month, in order to help students master the feeling of actual combat.If they only talk about breaking questions and don't practice Shiwen, most of these students will be confused when they arrive at the county test.

Old Master Liu is a person who has experienced it. Since he wanted to take the exam to the academy, he had to make the details to the extreme.

This batch of students are all going to take the county exam next year, so they have excellent foundations, and there is no problem even when writing big questions.However, what Xie Shen wrote was the essays of the top scholars. To be on the safe side, he deliberately deleted several wonderful twists and turns, leaving flaws.

People, show off when it's time to show off, but enough is enough. If you don't know how to endure, big things will happen.

After an unknown amount of time, Old Master Liu nodded and said, "Close the paper."

A servant handed over the examination papers written by the students to Old Master Liu's desk. As for those who were illiterate and couldn't hold back a fart for a long time, they naturally took a look and ignored them.The boy passed by Xie Shen and stopped for a moment, this detail was naturally noticed by Xie Shen.If there is anyone who is the most snobbish, it is the boys in these academies.After following Old Master Liu for a long time, they can see clearly who comes from a famous family and who is talented although they are from a poor family.To these people they are closer than anyone else, but to others, their attitude is as cold as ice.

Old Master Liu flipped through the examination papers one by one. Some articles frowned after a quick glance, while others took a full cup of tea to read.

Xie Shen's eyelids were twitching, and he secretly cursed in his heart, this old master is too hypocritical, does it take so long to read an article?His article had already been drafted, and it was born out of the No. [-] scholar's manuscript, so he was naturally full of confidence.

This time he won't be the first, who will be the first?Then Old Master Liu, no matter how mediocre he is, he won't be so stupid that he doesn't know good stuff, right?

"Which one is Xie Shen?"

what!Old Master Liu is calling himself?
Xie Shen was excited, looked at Old Master Liu who was not far away, and quickly said: "Students."

"My heart is on the people and the Tao, and I have seen the endless learning of the King of Zhou."

Old Master Liu held the exam paper and walked to Xie Shen's side and asked in a deep voice, "You wrote this essay?"

Xie Shen nodded: "It was indeed done by the students."

"Okay, okay, I didn't expect that the Xie family from the four families has produced another outstanding talent."

In Yuyao County, like other counties with strong imperial examinations, the main imperial examination geniuses are concentrated in a few big families.In the Hongzhi Dynasty, the most powerful families in the imperial examination were the Sun family of Zhuhu, the Xie family of Simen, and the Wang family of Shangtang.

Compared with the other two, the heyday of the Xie family is more due to the great Buddha Xie Qian.Xie Qian was the first in the provincial examination in Chenghua for ten years, that is, Xie Yuan. In the 11th year of Chenghua, he was also the first in Jinshi.Later, Xie Qian's second son, Xie Pi, won the first class and three Jinshi in the 18th year of Hongzhi.But these are things for later, so I won’t show them for the time being.

The four-door Xie family can be called a real family. Its ancestors can be traced back to the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, some of the Xie family's descendants moved to Kuaiji and then to Linhai, and then moved to Yuyao, Shaoxing at the end of the Song Dynasty.

If you really think about it, before the fifth server, my branch was still of the same origin as the four Xie family.

But this old master Liu must have made a mistake, and now his branch will not be classified as the Xie family of the four sects anyway.

"Uh, the student is not from the Xie clan of the four sects."

No matter what, Xie Shen will not do such things as bluffing and deceiving, and it is not that he has no strength, so why bother to cling to a famous family.

"Isn't it the four-door Xie family?"

Old Master Liu was obviously very surprised. After all, almost every family in Yuyao County has children studying. It is not uncommon for children from poor families to give birth to one or two children.

Xie Shen was very helpless, it seemed that Old Master Liu only asked about his family background when accepting students, as long as he presented Shuxiu, he could go to this White Deer Academy to attend lectures.Although this character is a bit poor, his knowledge is still excellent.Xie Shen only hoped that he could pass the Little Sanyuan Examination earlier and become a scholar, so as to escape from Bailu Academy.

"Your article is pretty good, but it's still a bit worse than Sun Ruoxu's."

Old Master Liu stroked the long beard on his chin, and said quietly.Although the voice was very soft, it was so harsh to Xie Shen's ears.

In fact, Old Master Liu is also very speechless. There are so many students in the school, it is impossible for him to know every student's family background thoroughly.This is really a big joke.

He didn't teach Xie Shen for a long time, and he didn't deliberately investigate the family background of this humble student, but from Xie Shen's clothes, he could tell that the young man couldn't possibly be from the direct descendants of the Xie family.But he thought that at least this kid should be a sideline.Although the treatment of collateral children is very different from that of direct descendants, at least one of the Xie family's bright heads is attached to them, which is much better than ordinary children from poor families.

Hearing that Xie Shen didn't even take the name of a famous family, Old Master Liu's attitude took a 180-degree turn. Although he still affirmed Xie Shen's article, he set the first name as Sun Ruoxu, a descendant of the Zhuhu Sun family.This Sun Ruoxu is the eldest grandson of the Zhuhu Sun family, and he is the best educated among the Sun's children of this generation, so naturally he has high hopes.This old master Liu has also put a lot of effort into Sun Ruoxu, hoping that he will succeed all the way and become a high school scholar.

Old Master Liu will be like this for the rest of his life, but if he can teach one or two Jinshi to pass on, it will be a good thing.Old Master Liu completely raised Sun Ruoxu as his own son, otherwise he would not have chosen Sun Ruoxu's article as the number one after hesitation.

(End of this chapter)