Idle courtiers

Chapter 474
Everyone laughed and said, we are all coolies, what does it matter to you and me who is the master of Jinshi.

However, some people still ask: "Who can win the champion?"

Seeing that someone finally asked this question, the person who spoke before finally felt the itch in his heart, and said with a smile: "Who else can be, of course it is the current Zhongshusheren, the famous Huaian Zhou Zimu."

Everyone was confused: "Who is Zhou Zimu, have you never heard of it?"

The man said: "Even Zhou Zimu doesn't know, he wrote a song, which is very famous." After that, he sang with a straight voice: "Where are the flying catkins and flying flowers? A layer of ice and snow destroys them. Sparse a tree and it’s cold just before dawn. Love him and the bright moon is good, haggardness is also related. The most important thing is that the silk shakes behind, and I turn to teach people to recall the spring mountains. The dream of the skirt is intermittent and difficult. No matter how much the west wind hates, the eyebrows can’t be blown away.”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this song.Unexpectedly, this companion looks so rude, but he has a good voice. This song is really piercing clouds and cracking stones, euphemistically and beautifully.

Another person shouted: "I've heard this song before, and all the girls in the brothel like to sing it. It turned out that it was written by this Zhou Zimu."

"Of course, well done?"

"It sounds good, it sounds good."

"I just remembered that the kao sisters sang this man's song every day, and they all said it was well written." Another person said: "Even the kao sisters said it was good, it's no wonder that this person didn't win the first prize!"

A bearer was puzzled: "You said, this Zhou Zimu is a high-ranking official, and he is going to win the first prize again. How come the poems he wrote are either hate or sorrow, and he is haggard? Big men like them eat and drink, have women, and haggard What's the matter? Even if you want to hate, it's the turn of us poor people!"

The person who sang earlier spat: "You and I are haggard, exhausted to death every day. After drinking and eating, we fall on the kang and sleep like a dead pig. How can there be time to worry and hate? You You have no status, no copper in your waist, and you can't worry about it."

Everyone laughed and said: "Yes, yes, let's worry about nothing, as long as there is wine and meat, let those big shots worry about death!"

After laughing for a long time, someone started singing again.

"Love him, Mingyue is good, haggard is also related."

"If life is just like the first time you see it, what is the Xifeng sad painting fan?"

……

The same scene was staged in other places in the capital, except that some were traffickers, some were ministers, some were scholars of scholars, and some were women from brothels.

Where there is well water, there are Zhou Ci.

Before the Jinshi Ke Chunwei, almost everyone in the capital was predicting who would be worth a hundred times as high as the Dragon Gate in the future, but no matter who it was, they felt that Zhou Nanzhong Jinshi should not be a big problem, it was just a matter of ranking, and whether he could be awarded the Hanlin in the end. question.

Such a grand event is very rare in the history of imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty.The last time was 40 years ago when Yang Shen Yang Shengan wrote "The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wipe out the heroes. Whether it is success or failure is turned around, the green hills are still there, and the sunset is red for several times."

This is also the effect Zhou Nan wanted, and Shi Wenjiang also acted as a push behind.In this exam, Yan Na, the main examiner, will definitely take care of him a little bit.In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Mr. Zhou wanted to let the world form a fixed mindset first: Zhou Nan's Jinshi is a legitimate thing, and it is normal to be a middle school.

However, I know my own affairs well, and my stereotyped essays are only average. If I don't win by then, I will be a bit embarrassed!

I'm afraid that Yan Shangshu made a mistake.

As a modern person with rich experience in the examination room, he also knows that before the big exam, he should pack up his mind, don't think about what he shouldn't, and just concentrate on studying.

At dusk that day, Zhou Nan was immersed in his composition. Seeing that the ink in the inkstone had dried up, he called out, "Soybean, add some water to the master, and grind the ink."

At this time, a slender hand stretched out, took the pen in Zhou Nan's hand, and handed it to Huang Dou who was beside him, saying: "Huang Dou, go and wash the master's pen and inkstone, dry them and put them in the examination basket." The master of the Four Treasures of the Study is used to it, and he couldn’t leave it for a moment, so he brought it in together.”

It was Xun Fang who spoke.

Zhou Nan smiled and said, "It's still early, I haven't finished this article yet!"

"Don't do it if you can't finish it, master, today is the eighth day of February."

"So what... Ah, the eighth day of February, that is to say..." Zhou Nan was startled.

Xun Fang said: "It means that the master will enter the examination room tonight, and there is no point in writing this article now. Let's eat and sleep earlier!"

Zhou Nan suddenly became nervous, and murmured: "The eighth day of February, it's the eighth day of February... I forgot, and I almost missed a big event." He was either reading or writing every day for a while, and his life was dark and dark. The days have been forgotten.But he didn't think that tomorrow Maoshi was the day when he was going to enter the Chunwei examination room.

Xun Fang said: "Master studies hard, but everyone in the family remembers the day of the exam, and I dare not forget it for a moment." She twisted a hot towel and carefully wiped the gums from the corners of Zhou Nan's eyes.

"It's here, it's finally here." Zhou Nan raised his head and looked outside the house, which was still hazy with drizzle.

The sky was getting dark, and the new leaves on the trees were shining green in the light.

This is not the first time Zhou Nan has taken the exam, and everyone in his family has experience.Today's dinner is very vegetarian, and it only made him [-]% full.

Then let him bathe and change clothes early and go to bed.

"Finally I can say goodbye to this damn stereotyped essay. As long as I pass this level, I really don't know what this style of writing means to the world?" Zhou Nan lay on the bed, sneering in his heart.

Not to mention stereotyped articles, no matter how well-written the poems and songs are, the front cannot stop Li Chuang's flashing sword, and the back cannot stop the rolling iron hooves of the Qing soldiers.Usually, he cultivated his hands and talked about his heart, and died to repay the king when he was in danger. In the end, it was just a mouthful of peach blossom blood on the fan.

What's more, he shaved his hair and became a slave of the aliens.

Only with taxation reform can the knowledge of enriching the country and strengthening the army be used by the world economy.

And all this, I'm doing.

Will continue to do so in the future.

The first is to enter the political arena to gain power, let's start with this spring!

Probably because he was a little nervous, he baked sesame seed cakes on the bed for a long time, and he didn't know when he fell asleep.

It seemed that he didn't stare for a long time, and was awakened by Xun Fang's words in the trance.

Xun Fangyu still took a towel and wiped his face, then handed him a glass of warm water: "Open your mouth and rinse your mouth."

When Zhou Nan spit out the mouthwash into the basin, he was completely awake.

It's good to have a good wife, basically he doesn't have to worry about everything.After breakfast, he picked up the test basket that Xu Jie gave him, and as soon as he went out, he saw a group of people had already come outside.

The leader turned out to be Ah Jiu.

Zhou Nan was taken aback: "You came so early, I'm just going to take the exam for nine days, and the exam room is not far away, so I don't need to bother teachers and mobilize the crowd." Chun Weimao will enter the hall, and candidates usually arrive an hour in advance.

Then queue up for roll call, search and enter the venue.

Now it is estimated that it will be like two o'clock in the morning Beijing time in later generations, and the sky is still pitch black.

Zhou Nan: "However, I'm still very touched that you came to see it off."

There was warmth in his heart. If there were not so many people present, he would have stepped forward to hold her hand.

Ah Jiu is a lively person. Seeing Zhou Nan's moved face, he giggled: "Master, it's really rare to see you so nervous."

Zhou Nan: "Am I nervous, haha, I'm not nervous."

"It's clearly nervous. Your hands are shaking." Ah Jiu snorted.

In front of so many people, Zhou Nan was a little embarrassed: "It's cold."

Seeing that her husband was a little angry, Xun Fangyu hurriedly said: "Ninth Madam, sister, stop bickering with the master, come quickly and give the master a hand warmer to warm his hands."

"I brought it." Ah Jiu stuffed the copper hand pot into Zhou Nan's hand: "Okay, don't be angry, do you feel better now and less nervous?"

Zhou Nan couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm not nervous anymore."

Ah Jiu: "Don't worry, go to the exam and finish it. You will lose your name in Sunshan. You can still be your miscellaneous official. What's the advantage of being a Jinshi and a Zhengyin official in the future? Maybe you will be sent to a local place. How can it compare to being free in the capital? You Now he is the grandson-in-law of Chief Assistant, it will not be easy to become a high official in the future."

Having said that, she giggled.

After all her troubles, it was strange to say that Zhou Nan was not nervous at all.

After getting into the sedan chair, he looked back, only to see two ladies waving at him in the lights.

Xun Fangyu wept softly, Zhou Nan wondered, it was just a spring, and it wasn't life and death, so why cry?

As soon as Xun Fangyu cried, Ah Jiu's eyes also had tears shining, this heartless guy would have a day to wipe away his tears!

The examination room for Chunwei this time is still in the Shuntian Mansion Gongyuan. This is the third time Zhou Nan has come here. In addition, he has been here before, and he is already tired of aesthetics.

Like the last autumn, the streets near the Gongyuan were curtailed early, and there were guards everywhere.If you want to go in, you have to check the "examination admission ticket."

There were too many people, more than 1 examinees, including sedan chairs, bearers, and family entourages, there were more than [-] people, and the nearby streets were crowded.

Zhou Nan got out of the sedan chair, verified his identity, and squeezed past with the test basket.

I couldn't walk a few steps, but was squeezed out of sweat.

Looking up, there are surging human heads in front of my eyes, and the white gas from the heads and mouths is connected in the sky, which is magnificent.

After walking a few steps, I heard someone beside me snorting coldly, "What's the squeeze? Could it be that you were not allowed to enter the examination room even a little later? Zhou Zimu is also a scholar after all, wouldn't it be insulting to the gentlemen?"

Zhou Nan turned around and saw that it was Wang Xijue of the Taicang Wang family whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

He was squeezed in the crowd, so naturally he couldn't bow his hands and salute, so he smiled and said, "So it's Yuan Yu, don't you come here all right?" Suddenly he felt a little annoyed, and thought to himself: The classic plot in the time-traveling novel is about to be staged, this plot It's a bit old, it's boring!Besides, I didn't sleep well, and it's crowded here again, but I'm not interested in bickering with you.It takes a lot of effort to win, but it affects your mood when you lose.

(End of this chapter)