Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 93 Examination Quota
Ye Qiongdan wrote Wang Anshi's famous "Ode to Pomegranate Flowers".

"Currently May is peaceful, and the pomegranate poems are in the Zen. The dense green and red are a little bit, and the moving spring doesn't need much." After the vice-principal of Jingde Academy finished reading, he clapped his hands, "Good poem! Another poem What a wonderful poem!"

"I'm willing to bow down!" The scholar readily took out the money.

The vice-principal of Jingde Academy stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Little girl, this old man also has a poem about things, and I want to discuss it with the girl."

"Don't dare to do it." Ye Qiongdan said hastily.

The scholar who had tried with Ye Qiongdan before said: "Vice-principal, please use my pen and ink."

"Okay!" The vice president nodded, and wrote a poem about bamboo with his pen and ink.

The vice-principal is worthy of being a Confucian scholar with a lot of knowledge. The poem chanting bamboo he wrote is of a higher level than the poem chanting pomegranate flowers written by the previous scholar. After reading it, the students around him were even more amazed.

After appreciating the Vice President's poem, everyone looked at Ye Qiongdan expectantly.

After thinking for a while, Ye Qiongdan wrote Zheng Xie's "Ode to Bamboo" on rice paper.

"Don't let go of the green hills, and the roots are originally in the broken rocks. You will be strong even after thousands of blows, let the east, west, north and south winds," the vice president read admiringly, "good one, you will still be strong after thousands of blows, let you Wind from east to west, north and south! The spirit embodied by Miss Ye in this poem is really admired by this old man. This poem, I am not as good as you!"

The other students looked at Ye Qiongdan and couldn't help but become more admirable.

The vice president untied the purse to give money, Ye Qiongdan said: "Deputy president, I dare not accept your money. The spring silkworms will be exhausted until the silkworms die, and the wax torch will turn into ashes and tears will dry. You have devoted yourself to the future of the country, junior It's too late to admire you."

"What a spring silkworm until the dead silk dies, and the wax torch turns to ashes and tears dry, the girl is really talented," a loud voice rang out from the willow tree, "the old man has also become elegant, and I can't help thinking about it." I've had a game or two with the girl."

"The students have met the dean." All the students in the garden saluted the visitor.

"Don't dare to do it." Ye Qiongdan said hastily.

"I drew a picture a few days ago, and I haven't written a poem for it yet. However, I have something in my heart. I don't know if this girl can come up with a better poem based on this painting." Dean Zhao took out a poem from behind. He took out a painting scroll and slowly unfolded it, presenting a lifelike meticulous landscape painting for everyone.

"Little girl dare not show off in front of Dean Zhao." Ye Qiongdan said modestly.

"It's just a discussion," Dean Zhao smiled, and then looked at the talented man who lent pen and ink to the vice dean earlier, "Then I will also borrow your pen and ink?"

"Dean, please." The scholar said quickly.

Dean Zhao picked up his pen and dipped his ink in the ink, and after thinking for a while, he wrote a poem on rice paper.

After reading it, the vice president nodded again and again, and couldn't help admiring: "This poem is really wonderful! It's so wonderful!"

"I don't know if this girl has any ideas?" Dean Zhao looked at Ye Qiongdan.

"There are some," Ye Qiongdan laid out a piece of paper, and read while writing, "The mountains look colorful from a distance, but the water is silent when you see them close up. The flowers are still there in spring, and the birds don't startle when people come."

This is a famous painting poem by Wang Wei.

After everyone finished listening, the audience was silent, and everyone was savoring the artistic conception.

After a long while, Dean Zhao praised: "Good! There are paintings in the poems, and poems in the paintings! Your poem is really wonderful!"

Everyone nodded.

Dean Zhao loves talents, and said: "Miss Ye, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he also made some educational reforms in the Dalong Dynasty. The girls' school funded by the government has been implemented in the south for a year. It has always been prosperous, the style of writing is even better, and the girls there study more, and the implementation of girls' schools in the south is not bad. The Holy Majesty plans to implement this policy in the north after three months. I wonder if the girl is interested?"

"Oh?" Ye Qiongdan raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise.

"Yiling County just happens to have a pilot school for women's government-run schools. The best schools in every county and town in Yiling County can recommend two places for the exam. The old man gave one of the places to his daughter. , intending to give you another test spot. A talent like you really shouldn't be wasted on the market."

"Dean Zhao, can I give this seat to another person?" Ye Qiongdan asked.

"Do you know how precious this quota is? You still want to go out?" Dean Zhao was very surprised.

"To be honest, I still have an older brother, and I want to work hard to earn money for my brother to study, so even if I want to study, I have no power to do so." Ye Qiongdan shook her head, "What's more, I can't hold back my temper, really. It’s not about studying. I have a cousin who is about my age, named Ye Qiongxiang, who is calm and serious, and if she can read, she will be blessed in the future.”

Ye Qiongdan has some ideas about doing business. Ye Qiongxiang is someone she wants to use again. If she goes to a women's school, she can read and write and broaden her horizons in the school, and she will definitely become her right-hand man in the future.

"It's not impossible," Dean Zhao said after deliberation, "It's just that the two places I can give are only the places for the entrance examination of the girls' school in Yiling County. As for whether she can pass the entrance examination, that's up to me." There is no guarantee."

"Thank you, Dean Zhao." Ye Qiongdan said gratefully.

"Come to the study room with me. I'll bring you some books. You must let your cousins ​​read these books thoroughly. These books are all within the scope of the entrance examination in Yiling County."

"The little girl is very grateful, and I will definitely repay you in the future."

"No need, it's just a little effort." Dean Zhao waved his hand.

Dean Zhao led Ye Qiongdan to the study and gave her seven or eight books.

After Ye Qiongdan took the book, she left Jingde Academy with Ye Qinghan.

That night, the Poetry Contest in Jingde Academy was still going on in full swing, but no one had ever written a poem higher than Ye Qiongdan's three poems.

The fact that Ye Qiongdan's four poems amazed the entire Jingde Academy also spread throughout Qili Town, and became a topic of conversation among people after dinner.

Even a storyteller in a teahouse wrote a short biography based on Ye Qiongdan's life, and told it vividly in the teahouse. The exaggerated legendary nature made people fascinated.

"Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night" written by Ye Qiongdan was uploaded from the town to the county, from the county to the county, and from the county to the state soon after, and became a famous poem that everyone in Guazhou rushed to copy.

"Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night" was written by Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu in Ye Qiongdan's last life. It is known as "a single book covers the whole Tang Dynasty".

But these are later stories.

That night, Ye Qiongdan told Xiang girl about the women's school entrance exam. After hearing this, Xiang girl was both nervous and happy.

Even the daughter-in-law of the second room, who has always been mean, pulled Ye Qiongdan to praise her severely, saying that she is a calm girl, if she can go to school to study hard, her future knowledge will definitely be higher than that of Li Xiucai who refused to marry.

If one day, she can meet that Li Xiude again, she must severely humiliate that blind poor scholar!
Here, the people in the second and third rooms of the Ye family are happy.

Over there, Ye Jiwu of the big house was not happy.

Ye Jiwu's arms were twisted by Ye Qiongdan not long ago, and he was dragged to the hospital by Mrs. Ye.

Old man Ye felt that Ye Jiwu had deeply humiliated him, so he left with a flick of his sleeves.

Mrs. Ye took out her private money and asked the doctor in the hospital to connect Ye Jiwu's dislocated arms. She tried her best to persuade her grandson to go home, but Ye Jiwu refused to listen and asked Mrs. Ye for help. After earning some money, he wandered around the town again, looking for some lucrative and easy jobs, and when it got dark, he would live in a classmate's house.

The classmate told Ye Jiwu what happened at the Poetry Competition in detail.

"I didn't expect your cousin to be so talented. Brother Ye, why don't you be a matchmaker and let me meet your cousin? Maybe I can become your cousin's husband," the classmate swallowed, a little greedy. Said bluntly, "Fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, right?"

"If you don't want to be harmed, you'd better stop thinking about it. That dead girl is not a good man, she is vicious and ruthless!" Ye Jiwu snorted coldly.

"I said, you don't mean you look down on me and don't want to marry your cousin to me, so you say that on purpose?" The classmate was a little displeased.

"It's really not true," Ye Jiwu said with a gloomy face, "All the changes in our family during this period were all caused by her!"

The classmate touched his nose noncommittally. He knew Ye Jiwu better. Ye Jiwu's temperament was messy and twisted. Many things were caused by himself.

"By the way, who do you think she will give up the entrance examination places for the women's school?" Ye Jiwu asked again.

"It seems to be called incense..."

"Ye Qiongxiang?"

"It seems to be the name." The classmate nodded.

"I see." Ye Jiwu's eyes flashed a fierce cold light.

Ye Qiongdan, if you don't make it easy for me, I won't make it easy for you either!
You have made me unable to study, and I will also make Ye Qiongxiang unable to take the entrance exam. As long as it makes you feel bad, I am willing to do anything!
And this is just the beginning!

Ye Jiwu took out two coins from his wallet and asked, "Do you know any hooligans in this town?"

"What are you going to do?"

"I want to spend two coins to teach someone who doesn't like it." Ye Jiwu sneered.

"How to teach?" The classmate looked greedily at Yinzi.

"Break her right hand, so that she can't write from now on."

"Male? Female?"

"female."

"Then do you still need to find someone else?" The classmate snatched the money, "It's enough for me and my brother to fight, we two big men, can't we still beat a woman's right hand? Are you familiar with that woman? Can you trick her over here?"

"Yes." Ye Jiwu nodded.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's do it tomorrow!" The classmate reached out and patted the table excitedly.

"She has to get up early every day to go to the market to buy vegetables. You first lie in ambush in a secluded place near the market. After I attract her, you start immediately!" Ye Jiwu said viciously.

"it is good!"

Ye Jiwu discussed some details with him again, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, and the more he looked forward to tomorrow's events.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, the second daughter-in-law yawned and went out with Ye Qiongxiang.

(End of this chapter)