Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The four newly promoted people returned from the Luming Banquet in Shuntian Mansion, turned around and entered the Luming Banquet in the county again.

The county magistrate, county princes, Dianshi, and teaching officials personally presided over the four new imperial candidates, and the talents who did not pass the exam were also taken to accompany them. Among all the students with backgrounds and fame, they have a white body that can't even be worn by the Confucian scarf. Naturally, they are Cui Xie who was specifically mentioned by the county magistrate.

He was arranged on a small table under the porch as a spectator to eat and drink. The musicians on both sides played "Deer Ming", the county honor and the four Xinju people sang "Yoyou Luming, Shiyezhiping" one by one. The whole process followed the ancient ceremony, and the guest of honor answered. Ceremony, I have to compose poems after singing, and the dishes are almost cold when I have dinner.

Cui Xie was very suspicious that this was because the county magistrate Qi had hosted this small banquet and had been addicted to it without being admitted as a jinshi.

The lord of the county ordered people to take the cup and poured Sanxun wine, and said to Xinjuren: "Of the four jurens, three of them are talents who criticize the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After hearing about this, the county felt it was a coincidence, so he took that eye to eye. The owner of the bookstore who knows the talents was also called to the banquet. Why don't some talented scholars write a poem with his bookstore in commemoration?"

The four Juren and the six accompany students who were not on the list looked at Cui Xie in the corridor. He hurriedly got up to toast, congratulated several people on the guild list title, and thanked the county magistrate Qi for caring, so that his little white body also had the opportunity to pre-deer and sing a feast and sit and drink with the celebrities.

The magistrate Qi nodded, telling him not to be polite and ask the four masters to write poems.

The order of poems is the same as the order of seats at this banquet, and is divided according to the order of prestige. Guo Yong stood up first and raised his glass and said, "Thank you, the adults, for joining me. I also wanted to have a drink with Cui Xiaoyou, but I never had a chance to meet. I was able to pass the exam this time, and I also trusted your book "Six The blessing of "Talents Criticize the Three Kingdoms"-after we entered Beijing, we asked people to be talented scholars too much. For fear of failing in this subject, people would argue that our Qian'an talented scholars are inferior to others, and we are suffocated in my heart and dare not fail the exam.

After talking and drinking, he inscribed a five-character and eight-sentence poem on the spot.

Tang Ning then stood up and said: "What Brother Guo said is that the Six Talented Scholars Book has really added a lot of fame to us, and the soldiers on the tour are better than others in Qian'an. I just need to add a little bit more. ——We also read a lot of Song Confucian interpretations in Cui Gongzi’s library. This time I and Guo brother, Wang brother Chinese style, and Cui Gongzi’s collection of books."

He drank it and sat down blushing after reading the poem.

Among the four Juren, the only king Pu has nothing to do with the Six Talented Scholars, but he also took Cui Xie’s beauty note at Shen Zheng’s Chongyang Poetry Conference, because he smiled: "Then I will thank Mr. Cui for being in Chongyang. The beauty paper at the poem meeting. That Cui Meiren'er paper is exquisitely printed. I was afraid that the handwriting would not be worthy of the drawing paper. After practicing for a long time, I can’t say that this time the Chinese style is also related to the neat handwriting. "

He usually said "Cui Meiren'er's note" casually because he was used to speaking. The county magistrate Qi twitched his eyebrows and looked at Cui Xie subconsciously—he also had a frowning face, his face turned sideways, as if he was not willing to hear the name "Cui Meiren".

I also know that I am ashamed, I have never completely fascinated money, and I am still saved.

Qi Sheng silently retracted his gaze. After listening to the poems of the two kings, Qi Sheng encouraged them a few more words to make the four of them not slacking off, and to try their best for the next February meeting. After that, Tianxian Cheng and Sun Jiaoyu also offered a few words of exhortation, and by the way, they also encouraged the six people who did not have a high school exam, so that they should not be discouraged because of their failure, and they should follow these four people as an example and study hard for three years before they end. .

The four Xinjuren and the six students all sat and listened respectfully, and toasted to thank the three masters for teaching.

After the banquet was over, the county government prepared carts and horses to send the people home, but Cui Xie was led to the flower hall. The book boy brought dried lychee soup to hangover him, and put a bergamot on the case. Alcoholic.

Cui Xie drank the sweet and sour soup, but he didn't understand how the county prince picked the person—it was already an honor to ask him to participate in the small deer banquet that commended the elders. Little Bai Ding down?

Do you want to leave him to teach a few words so that he can study hard, or is the county lord also watching the Three Kingdoms they criticized and urge him to update?

He couldn't think hard, so he had to ask the book boy who was waiting. The book boy leaned over to his chair and whispered: "Your romantic affair has caused people to poke it out. The adults have been thinking about how to teach you for these two days. Be careful."

What romantic affairs do I have...I don't know that my height is less than one meter and seven.

He scratched his head in distress and leaned forward to ask the book boy to say a few more words to him. The book boy first glanced at the door, and asked him enthusiastically, "What is the beauty in your bookstore like? Is there any beauty on the note? Is Diao Chan pretty? Is that really the outside room raised by the Prince?"

Cui Xie said "Hey": "Dare to love her. I have never seen what she really looks like. To be honest, my shop is already rented to her, but I can see other people's concubines. Room? After knowing this, I never approached the bookstore again, and the shopkeeper and the buddies didn't go back. There was no trouble in it. It really didn't matter to me."

He explained bafflingly, hoping that the book boy would help him convey it to the county magistrate Qi, to strengthen his credibility. The book boy smiled thiefly and said: "I said yes for you, and you should also give me some Cui Meiren's papers. I want the new Sanguo papers, either from Emperor Zhaolie, from Wuhou, or from Guan Gong. Don’t care about the people like Cao Thief."

Cui Xie nodded and said: "Then I will ask them to save a set of Shu Kingdom's monarchs and ministers for you. The previous paintings are few, so they can only be divided into civil servants and generals. Later generations will be divided according to the three kingdoms and the Han ministers. Make a set."

He was talking and laughing to coax the child here, but unexpectedly, a county magistrate who wanted to use him as a child to discipline him had already come in. He opened the door and walked in heavily, looking down at him.

The book boy hurriedly went down to serve tea, Cui Xie got up and saluted, and respectfully called "sir". Master Qi nodded casually, sat on the upper armchair and asked, "Do you know what I left you to do today?"

Cui Xie said, "I don't dare to guess when I'm born late. But now it's almost September, and it's only five months before the county exam next year. The adults are staying late to give birth at this time. Maybe there is something to ask about the scientific exam."

The county magistrate Qi asked again: "How is your article written?"

Cui Xie now writes three essays every day, each of which is written in accordance with the eight ratio format, with three to five hundred characters in a regular manner. The content is not too good to say. At least breaking the question is breaking the question, the eight ratio is the eight ratio, the structure The work is stable and tidy, and there is nothing wrong with it.

He got up and asked: "Students have written a few new articles in the past few days. If adults want to listen, I will memorize them."

The county magistrate Qi saw his well-thought-out look, and his anger was slightly calmed, and he said: "No need to recite, I am not here to test and teach you today. It doesn't take too much time. I only have one question, you break it. Come here."

Cui Xie listened quietly, but what he came up with was a small topic, intercepting the sentence in Chapter 33 of "Mencius Li Louxia" "Qi people have one wife and one concubine", but there is no obvious one. This is a single-sentence question in the sub-problem, cut off the relevant sentences in the upper and lower parts of this chapter, and leave this sentence alone which is vague and does not show the true meaning of Mencius.

However, when breaking this kind of cut-off question, you can only answer with the question itself, and you can't touch up and down. Use the words in the whole text that are not given in this sentence. That is to say, the meaning of "Qiren", "wife" and "watching" cannot be written, and we can only dig deep into the meaning of suspicion implied by "there is no obvious one".

He found the eye of the question, then he clasped the main theme of "doubt" and "have not come", and replied with careful consideration of words and phrases: "The one you hear will not be seen. The longer you wait, the more suspicious the heart will become."

The county magistrate Qi’s expression became more relaxed. After savoring the problem for a while, he sighed, “It’s not like someone who has just learned to write for a few months. I have seen those students writing essays. , Especially for these small questions that are waiting for the upper and lower cuts, which are either connected or touched. You are not like a person who has only learned to write for a few months. It is a rare talent..."

The county magistrate Qi did not expect that he was really someone who had written articles for more than a decade, and had been reading and comprehending for so many years, and refined the central ideas and themes of the articles. In the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, only three to five hundred-word short essays were required, but later primary school students began to write three-hundred-word essays in the third grade. The high school entrance examination requires 600 words, the college entrance examination 800 words, and after college, it is necessary to write essays with tens of thousands of words...

Even those who were admitted to Juren had not undergone so many years of professional reading and composition training.

He just has a little difference in the foundation of classics and ancient prose. In the past few months, he has studied hard and has enough vocabulary and classics to fill in the frame of the article. The articles he writes appear sophisticated and well-organized, unlike his age. Something written by people.

The county magistrate Qi couldn't help sighing again in his heart: A good prodigy——

At the beginning, I sighed, and suddenly remembered the reason why I left him this time. The breath was stuck in his chest, and then he sighed. A child prodigy didn't know how to raise expectations, and he made those flimsy names.

His eyebrows were raised, and he taught: "It is not only important to examine the job, but also to have good character. The reputation of the romantic talent, you scholars, finds it interesting. It is frivolous and frivolous in the eyes of the examiner; it is not in the eyes of Shangguan. Prudent and dignified, how can such a person be useful?"

Cui Xie quickly got up and defended himself: "I don't dare to be born late. The late birther has always been clean and self-conscious, and I really never did those things."

County magistrate Qi shook his beard, and said faintly: "What do you think I said? I'm talking about your book—printing is also an elegant act for readers, but you can sell books. I read the ones you printed. Color pictures and drawing papers are all excellent things. Why do you want to be named Cui Meiren again? In case you get it in the future, people say that a county student Cui Xie pretends to be Cui Meiren for business. Does it sound good?"

...What wrong! Feishhuang in June!

Cui Xie stood up and argued: "My lord, this is really not the original intention of being born late, it's a misunderstanding—"

He took Wanning's drawing notes at the Chongyang Poetry Meeting and distributed them to the scholars, because Guo Yong named him Cui Jian because the drawing notes had not yet been named. But because the painting was a beauty, it was passed on somehow, and after it was sold, it became Cui Meiren's paper. The color-printed things in his family were also called Cui Meiren's paintings and calligraphy outside...

All misunderstandings!

The scholar wronged me!

It is no wonder that Emperor Taizu Hongwu forbids the students to discuss politics, the students are really unreliable!

County magistrate Qi sat and listened for a long time, and asked, "Sure enough, it's not because of the Wang's outside room behind your bookstore?"

Cui Xie said helplessly: "It's really not. My lord, think about it, my bookstore has been given to his home after 17 years of flooding. There have not been rumors about it for a long time, but it came out after the drawing notes were printed. The first time I heard about this, it was two or three days after the Chongyang Poetry Club printed the drawing note and gave it away. It was because the drawing note was printed on the drawing note and the name was named Cui Jian by Guo Juren. Those who have seen the drawing note People just screamed, and they came up with a name named Cui Meiren."

At the beginning, he asked the man and the prince to refute the rumors. Later, the rumors became more and more intensified and spread directly into the capital, but it is not known whether it spread to the south.

This is the trio of Shihu and Zeng Shen who killed people, and passed him a good old man into a beauty!

Cui Xie was full of grief and indignation, and the county magistrate Qi was also dumbfounded. He originally thought it was Cui Xie's reputation that would be ruined if he lived in the store, and told him to change the house and he would be fine; but he didn't want the rumors to spread to other places, even if the owner had to refute the rumors in person.

Originally, such rumors ran faster than those who refuted the rumors, and there were many people who believed, not to mention such glamorous rumors. Even though I have spent great efforts to refute rumors everywhere, others still have a deep impression of "Cui Meiren", and they will inevitably think of him when they look at him again, and they have a bad reputation for him.

Qi Sheng couldn't think of a way for a while, so he said, "Then you don't use a house with that woman anymore. I have found another shop for you. You can open a shop in another place."

Cui Xie said: "It doesn't need to be... The prince said that he was going to Yongpingwei the day before, and was working under Uncle Anshun, and that she would take that girl to Yongping Mansion. Then my shop would be vacated. There is nothing taboo about opening a business."

The county magistrate Qi frowned: "How can the neighborhood know if she has lived there for so long? The shop naturally has scented traces. You should not be a scholar. Since she can't live anymore, you simply call the bookstore official. It's sold, and the county is in charge. I can find you a shop on North Street and let you open a new bookstore cleanly?"

Cui Xie thanked me and said, "This is a man who cares about me. Isn't Cui Xie the person who doesn't know good or bad? It's just that the shop is a dowry left by the first concubine, and I can't bear to sell it. Since I don't use it anymore, I think I want to tidy up its room and put books in different categories so that people can go in and sit and read a few books."

The county magistrate Qi asked subconsciously: "Do you want to keep it as a library?"

Cui Xie said slowly: "Not only is the collection of books, anyone who loves to read allows him to see it, it can also be read in the library, and it can also be borrowed. I am not able to do so now, and there are not many books in the shop, but I just save it for a few years. It will increase gradually. By then, the Confucian scholars, schoolchildren and ordinary people who know a few words in Qian'an will be able to read poetry and books without spending a few words. How can the style of writing in our county be prosperous?"

Before he crossed, he was also a librarian who was about to join the job. There was no place before, but now he has a ready-made yard. Why not transform it into a library and continue his unfinished business?

Moreover, although the rumors spread quickly, they are also quickly forgotten. As long as the library is open for two or three years, everyone’s deepest memory of this place must be that they can read books for free. By the 23rd year of the test in Chenghua, the traces of Yueniang who once lived in the courtyard and sold Cui Meiren's papers will be very light. Even if someone turns out the old account, the reputation of this collection of books can be whitewashed. bad side.