Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The county magistrate Qi had not touched the "Four Books" for many years. He was afraid that he might have missed some things when he tried to compare him. So he asked the book boy who was serving around him to take the book, turn a page at hand, and read: "Zi said: ' Ji does not call its strength, but its virtue.'"

This article is from "Xianwen Fourteenth". Not far from where he had just memorized this article, Cui Xie continued to apostatize without any lag: "Ji, in the name of a good horse. Virtue, it means Tiaoliang..."

Qi Sheng interrupted him, flipped back for a while, stopped at random, ran his fingers across the book and asked: "'The nature of this statement. The essence of non-verbal nature.' Which sentence was interpreted?"

Cui Xie replied: "This sentence is what Cheng Zi said. The original interpretation is from "The Seventeenth of Yang Huo". Zi said: The **** is similar, and Xi Xiang is far away..."

"Zilu asks an adult."

"Zi said: "If Zang Wuzhong knows, he doesn't want to be a public proverb..."

"Guan Zhongxianghuan—"

"Guan Zhong Xianghuan, dominates the princes, conquer the world, and the people come to this day and receive his gift. Micro Guan Zhong..."

County magistrate Qi flipped through dozens of pages, suddenly raised his voice to interrupt him, and asked, "Shun married without telling him, why?"

This sentence jumped from "The Analects" to "Mencius". Anyway, Cui Xie only read the four books yesterday with an attitude of trial review. He still had some impressions. He quickly scrolled down a few lines, found the original text and read: "Mencius said: "You cannot marry if you tell me." In the rooms of men and women, the human beings are also..."

The question of the county magistrate Qi seemed anxious. Cui Xie was very nervous, staring at the page and searching for it. When he found a few sentences, he was interrupted, and then he turned to the next sentence without stopping. After completing the test this half day, he looked at the entire chapter of "Four Books" over and over again—just like reading a whole page at a glance, looking for words and sentences read by the other party.

In reality, human eyes cannot see so many words at once, but there is no such limitation in the brain. After reading it over a dozen times, he already has a considerable impression of this book.

The county magistrate Qi didn’t know this, but the sentence in the test was more urgent than the other, and the sentence was faster than the other. After asking the "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" like arrows, he turned to "The University" from the beginning and asked: "'Tang Zhi" "Pan Ming" said: Gou Rixin, daily new, and new again', what's the explanation?"

Cui Xie started from "Pan, bathing pan", and continued to read the word well. This time the county magistrate Qi did not interrupt him anymore, allowing him to read the entire "University" to "Readers can't get close to it and ignore it."

The magistrate Qi closed the book and interrupted his fluent chanting. He looked at him and asked, "You have only read the "Four Books" these years? How much effort did it take to memorize the book so fluently?"

Cui Xie let out a sigh of relief, opened his eyes, and said respectfully: "The student was raised by his grandmother since he was a child. Later, the second and the old became very sick. The student was in the classroom and he could not read the "Book of Filial Piety" when he had time. , Read a few words of "Four Books" with your husband. But if adults want to take a test, they can take any book, and students will be able to remember some after reading it."

County magistrate Qi's eyes were slightly stagnant, and he asked in disbelief, "You said you can remember it?"

Cui Xie lowered his eyes and replied with a smile: "It's just rote memorization, it's not into the mind."

Qi Sheng took a deep look at him and ordered: "Bring me the "Rexiu County Confucianism" that I made a few days ago!" The book boy took an article for a while. Qi Sheng looked through it and handed it over to him. , Said: "Give you a stick of incense and memorize it."

The book boy put on a new fragrance, and the white smoke rose up. Cui Xie took the article and read it carefully. He closed his eyes and confirmed that there were no missing characters. Then he read sentence by sentence: "There is a school in Qian'an County. It was founded in the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. The Xinxue Palace in Zhaojun County. Xiaoyijian, the only prescient county,...because of the ambition. Its years are on the left of Pan Palace."

This miscellaneous note was newly made by the county magistrate Qi, and it has been revised several times carefully, so it is kept in my mind. You don't need to look at the book like you did during the test of "Four Books," but look at the expression of Cui Xie when he endorsed it.

Calm and calm, with smooth speech, it is pleasing to the eye.

He finished the article smoothly, but the county magistrate Qi was not happy. Instead, he showed a look of pity, and sighed in his heart: How can such a qualification come to Qianan until now! If you come a year earlier, no, it will be half a year earlier. As long as you can catch up with this year’s county examination, I will definitely nominate him as the case leader-a 14-year-old county case leader and a 14-year-old student can also be called a child prodigy. Up!

Pity!

It is a pity that this year's examination has passed, and next year will be the year of the Qiuwei Township Examination. There will be no student examination. By the time of the year-end examination, Cui Xie will be sixteen. Fourteen-year-old students are precious, and sixteen-year-olds are not very valuable.

The county magistrate Qi was pitiful and eager for a while, and he wanted to go to Cui Mansion in the capital to ask how his father delayed such a good boy and didn't let him learn to study seriously. But then I think about it again, because Cui Xie didn’t have a good student before because he wanted to serve his grandparents, he was loyal and filial, and it can’t be said to be wrong...

Forget it, learning can be supplemented later, loyalty and filial piety is the big festival. If it hadn't been for a heart of love and filial piety since childhood, how could he become such a loyal and righteous person.

He sighed and said, "Since you live in the county, you will study at ease in the future. Don't live up to the gift that God has given you. Unfortunately, I am a prison student. If I teach you, I will delay you. Find a gentleman to lay a solid foundation, and after the year-end test, I want to push you into the school. The gentleman over there is better."

what? Cui Xie couldn't help but glanced at him in surprise. This is to be sure that he will be admitted to a talent in the next year? Does the county magistrate Qi believe too much in his unforgettable talent, or is he planning to help him...missing questions?

The county magistrate Qi was full of thoughts and didn't pay much attention to his expression. After thinking about it for a while, he noticed that he was still sitting aside, so he gathered up the miscellaneous notes on the table and said, "You have such a good memory. This article is really wasted. There is a set of "Mr. Six Collected Works" by Zou Yangzi in my study. You can take it back for fun, and learn to write stereotypes in Japan. Only when the articles you make are flesh and blood."

Cui Xie quickly got up to thank him, and then reported to him: "The student has received the Saint Grace Form and wants to return to his hometown to pay homage to the ancestor. I don't know if there is any obstacle to the student's case. How long will it take to leave the county?"

case? It's so good that a child prodigy has delayed his age, so what kind of case is he going to care about?

The county magistrate Qi held back the sigh that was about to blurt out, and said calmly: "If you want to go, go, the case is so ironclad that you will not be mentioned in the house. The coachman is fine, and they will investigate when the file arrives at the Criminal Ministry. , It’s more convenient to get evidence from your home."

He asked Shutong to pick up a box of old "Collected Works", and put them on the carriage along with the rewarded silver and fabrics, and let the master and servant Cui Xie go home.

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After returning from the government office, Cui Xie asked the coachman to send a letter back to Cui's house for them. The master and servant packed some household items, brought the original Mongolian script, and hurried back to his hometown to repair the tomb.

The Cui family was a wealthy family who was moved by the imperial court to enrich the north during the Yongle period. His ancestral home should be in Xiangfan, but now it has been separated for a long time, and he has long no longer interacted with relatives of his origin. At the beginning, the army drove thousands of miles to migrate. At the same time, some of the relatives who moved there died on the road, and some moved to other villages. Only the Cui family Gaozu couple moved to Dongjiaxiangtun in Qian'an County.

The descendants of the Cui family themselves are not prosperous, and there are still some dead children and unmarried daughters whose graves cannot be erected. The small graves are surrounded by several tall tombstones, some of which have been beaten to the ground by wind and rain. Until now, Cui Que is the only one.

Cui Yuan bought a wine gift for three sacrifices, lighted the fragrance, and offered them in front of the cemetery. Cui Xie personally brought water, took a rag and wiped the monuments one by one, and he also had a panoramic view of the names of people engraved on the tablets.

The tombstone of his great-grandfather is the most conspicuously built. It is engraved in the center with "Cui, Master Cui first, but in the lower left corner" is engraved with "Unworthy son Cui Yun weeping." About the time when the monument was erected, Father Cui had already passed the test of Juren, and there was an epitaph on the monument, which should have been written by Cui Que, recording the good deeds of the ancestor of the Cui family, his wife and children.

Cui Xie silently memorized the names of his great-grandfather and grandfather, and then walked around the tomb to find a low grave full of weeds beside his grandmother Fang’s grave. The tombstone was engraved with "The Tomb of the Dead Wife Liu," Sheren Cui Queli". This tomb is shorter than the others, and the stone is too old to be cracked. It can be seen that no one has taken care of it for many years.

He knelt silently for the original body in front of the grave for a while, and Cui Yuan murmured and persuaded: "Our master is busy with things, and there is no time to come back to sweep the tomb. I want to come to see the grave and the people are not dedicated..."

Next to the tomb hill is a tomb-keeper's hut. The house is empty, but the people in it are not there. The entire ancestral tomb was not cleaned frequently, and the stele was covered with dust, because the owner did not often come back to visit when he moved into the capital. Naturally, the guards would only be perfunctory when someone came.

Cui Xie knelt in front of the gentle grave, took out the imperial decree and read it word by word, then took out paper and pen to trace a few copies, lit the fire in front of Cui Jiazu’s grave, and at the same time wished them the real Cui Xie’s biological father With the news of the death, I hope that they will take care of this child under Jiuquan—if there is Jiuquan.

After the sacrifice, Cui Yuan and his son helped him up from left to right, and persuaded: "Shall we go now?"

Cui Xie shook his head: "It's rare for us to come back. The guards here are not very dedicated, so I will take advantage of this time to rebuild my mother's cemetery before going back."

He is the eldest son and grandson, and repairing the tomb is also part of his duty.

Near the cemetery, there are masons who specialize in carving monuments and workers who repair the soil. Cui Yuan invited the people, and asked the stonemason to copy the words on the tombstone and re-carve a new one. Cui Xie and the workers discussed how to resurface the tomb soil.

The foreman said: "It needs to be repaired simply by dug out nearby soil and spreading it on the tomb. It can stay for a year if it is compacted. But if there is wind, it won't be enough. The tomb of the son's house is flat by the wind. Even better. It is lime soil, mix it with lime that has been burned in the kiln, and after it is applied, it will be firm and not afraid of wind and rain; the best is naturally sandy soil, but it is expensive. It is better to mix loess and sand with lime. After mixing the good material, you have to keep turning the material. , Smash the glue."

He looked at Cui Xie's body covered in dust but still showing the soft and shiny clothes, and said dryly: "You must not spare such a small amount of money, right?"

Cui Xie looked at the low grave head and the dilapidated stone tablet, with a sad and sarcasm smile, and said lightly: "Don't be stingy, you must be the best. You can invite Mr. Yin and Yang to come and see when the repair is done. Live here, come over and fill the first shovel."

If you repair your own grave, you must repair the best.

He could not set up a tomb for Cui Xie, he could only use the opportunity of repairing his mother's tomb to bury the old things in the original body, so that their mother and son could live peacefully together from now on.

The author has something to say: Qian’an Confucianism is copied from "Loting County Rebuilt Temple" Ming Feng Qi

Zou Yangzi is Zhu You, self-named Zou Yangzi, born in the early Ming Dynasty, "Mr. Six's Collection" is "Liu Jia Wenheng of Tang and Song Dynasties", including the collection of the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasty, three Sus are considered as a family