[Red Chamber] Madam's wishes come true

Lin Kou's proposal received everyone's response.

Although I have never heard of this type of book, but just hearing the name, I know that many readers will buy it.

After all, which scholar can refuse such a simple and straightforward "book" with rich connotations?

The few girls quickly finalized the matter of publishing the book, and distributed their respective incomes within a very short period of time——

They are responsible for all the examination questions of the county examination and government examination, so only a few of them need to be considered for profit distribution.Because after the exam questions are finished, the Lin family is responsible for both printing and selling, and Daiyu is also responsible for writing the questions, so she gets the most share, directly [-]% of the profits; [-]% of the profit is shared, Baochai is on the first floor, and the other girls on the remaining floor are distributed according to their work.

As for the examination papers such as the college examination and the township examination, because the Lin family has them ready-made, the girls are also worried that they are not knowledgeable enough, so they don't plan to write the questions themselves.

Lin Kou decided to ask Lin Ruhai for a part, and then reorganize the rest from the existing examination papers of the Lin family.

Lin Kou came up with the idea, Daiyu and the girls handed over the matter directly to Lin Kou, and in the end the profit sharing was also not prepared to participate——

After discussing, they decided that the Lin family would make [-]% of the profits, and Lin Kou [-]%.

As for selecting a part of the heavy questions and difficult questions to publish a book, several young girls are required to be responsible together, so the profit sharing directly refers to the profit sharing of the county examination and government examination.

In this way, all profit distribution methods have been negotiated.

After the discussion, everyone started to get busy with these "examination books".

Lin Kou, on the other hand, was busy breaking up and reorganizing the questions of the examination paper.

But this job was really too troublesome. Lin Kou felt impatient after doing it for a while, so she found Jia Min and spent money to get those servants who could read and write to copy the questions.

Copying the questions is also very particular. One question is a small note, and one person is responsible for the questions in the same order in all examination papers.

For example, Lin Kou took the initiative to copy the last two questions of all the test papers. She would copy the last two questions of each set of test papers onto two small slips of paper.

Others agree.

Lin Kou also asked people to make several wooden boxes, and the copied same question would be thrown into the same wooden box. After copying all the questions of all the test papers in the township examination, Lin Kou took out a copy For white paper, take out a small note from the shaken wooden box in order and stick it directly on the white paper.

After taking out all the wooden boxes, a complete set of test papers appeared.

According to this method, Lin Kou shuffled and reorganized all the examination papers in less than a month.

When she appeared in front of Daiyu and other girls with the test paper, Daiyu and others were shocked: "How could it be so fast?"

Lin Kou smiled and said his method, which drew a crowd of exclamations.

Xiangyun was annoyed: "This idea is not bad, why didn't I think that I could draw lots directly?"

Xichun suddenly realized: "Sister Kou's method is too convenient. I never thought that I could copy the topic onto a small piece of paper."

Baochai laughed, "Because Sister Kou is smart."

Tanchun has already thought of how to use this method to reduce his burden: "In fact, we can also use this method. Since Sister Bao, Sister Lin, and Sister Kou are far more knowledgeable than us, I will leave the problem to you Three people are in charge, and a few of us who are not very good are responsible for the simple dictation of the scriptures, and the efficiency of the question will be greatly improved."

Baochai nodded in agreement: "When the questions are all done, follow Sister Kou's method, smash the questions into a wooden box and shake them well, and then directly select a set of test papers, which can save a lot of trouble."

Daiyu was pleasantly surprised: "We will be able to finish the questions soon, and maybe we can take the test papers to print together."

Lin Kou nodded with a smile: "I can't tell. There are too many exam papers here, and they must be printed and sold in batches. But how many exam papers should be produced in one batch, how should the exam papers be printed, and whether we should give Standard answers and other questions need to be discussed.”

Daiyu laughed: "Since the exam papers have been handed over to my sister, it is natural for my sister to think about these questions. We are still busy writing the questions, sister, you should do your own work."

Lin Kou flicked Daiyu's forehead, dumbfounded, "You girl, you really don't deserve the slightest loss."

But Baochai understood the reason, and just laughed along——

It was because they thought that Lin Kou's job was too easy, so they deliberately reassured them by laughing.

Those who understood the intentions of the two sisters, like Baochai, either laughed or joked, but Xichun and Shi Xiangyun, who didn't understand, wanted to give Lin Kou an idea.

Baochai said with a smile: "Sister Kou took the many shares, this job is what she should do. You are not allowed to help even if you are grey-haired."

Xichun and Xiangyun immediately understood, and stopped saying anything to help.

In fact, Lin Kou has already made a plan, and he really doesn't need the help of others.

You don’t need too many exam papers at a time, ten sets of questions are almost enough; because this is a long-term business, almost as long as the imperial examination system for selecting talents is not banned, these exam papers can be sold for a long time, so it is natural that woodblock printing is the best ;As for the standard answer... Except for the scriptures, laws and arithmetic, there is no standard answer at all.

The examination questions of the imperial examination began with the rural examination, and there were many more subjective questions.

As we all know, there is no standard answer to subjective questions.

If not, those candidates would not have tried their best to inquire about the character, preferences and political views of the examiner on the article before the exam——

Because the more the answer is in line with the appetite of the current examiner, the greater the possibility of being admitted.

And once you touch the examiner's thunder point, no matter whether your answer is meaningful or not, you can only get a result of being dismissed in the end.

In many cases, if a candidate who has learned enough talents lands repeatedly, it is very likely that he has encountered examiners who do not like his answering style many times.

It can only be said that in many cases, the imperial examination really depends on luck.

But the examiner likes this thing...

It varies from person to person, and there is no standard answer.

Candidates can find the answers to the scriptures by themselves in the book at home; arithmetic problems in this era are also easy for Lin Kou, and it is not difficult to attach a reference answer at the end of the test paper——

After all, you only need to give the answer to let people distinguish right from wrong, and you don't need to give the steps.

The hard part is the answer to the law question.

At this time, the legal examination does not examine legal provisions, but only verdicts.

however……

Lin Kou was almost completely ignorant of the law at this time, and had absolutely no experience in settling cases.

After thinking about it, Lin Kou found Lin Ruhai.

Although Lin Ruhai had never been a parent officer, he still had some understanding of the law and judging cases. Moreover, he could seek help from his colleagues in the Ministry of Punishment. So it didn't take long for Lin Ruhai to give the answer to Lin Kou.

In addition, a few sets of questions that Lin Ruhai took the time to solve, and a few math problems that Lin Kou helped out...

That's it!

Finally everything is ready, just waiting for printing.

After finishing the exam papers, Lin Kou went home and got the questions from Zhen Fu, and handed them to Daiyu.

Together, Daiyu and Baochai were responsible for sorting all the exam questions into categories, removing some of the exam questions that were repeated too much, and filling in the missing parts, and then imitating Lin Kou's way of putting the exam questions into a wooden box and taking them out in order. Set of questions.

Because the county test and government test did not involve arithmetic and law questions, Daiyu and the others didn't need to give an answer at all, so when they came up with nearly fifty sets of questions, they finished it in about the same time as Lin Kou.

Although Lin Kou finished all the test papers directly, while Daiyu and the others only produced fifty sets of questions, their efficiency still surprised Lin Kou.

She had never taken a scientific examination, so she simply asked Daiyu and the others to copy all the fifty sets of examination questions, and was going to take them home and hand them over to Zhen Fu to test the difficulty of these examination questions by the way.

Unexpectedly, when Tanchun found out about this, he said, "Sister Lin, can I ask the servants of the Lin family to copy three exam papers for me?"

Others looked at Tanchun one after another.

Tanchun was a little embarrassed: "Baoyu and Lan'er are studying. According to the master, both of them have some talents. If they take the next exam, there is an [-]% chance of being a child, and a [-]% chance of being a scholar. I just thought about it and copied a copy." Go back and let them try it in advance, see..."

Yingchun and Xichun looked away in an instant, their expressions a little pale.

Xiangyun almost lived in Jia's house during this time, and her relationship with Baoyu got better and better. Jia's mother even revealed that she wanted her to develop a relationship with Baoyu so that they could grow up and get married.

Therefore, Xiangyun was very happy with Tanchun's proposal: "Sister Lin, just agree to Tanchun."

Daiyu was puzzled: "It's not impossible. It's just that even if Baoyu and Lan'er each have one share, they only need two copies. Sister Tanchun, what do you want three copies for?"

Tanchun became more and more embarrassed: "Although my younger brother is not good enough, he is a little sober now. I just want to ask Mr. Huan to do a test to see if he has the talent. If so, I can persuade him The old lady sent Huan'er to study too."

Tanchun used to think that his mother and brothers didn't want to see him well, and they would hold him back from time to time, making him unable to hold his head up in Rongguo Mansion.But after Mrs. Wang was arrested, Tanchun discovered that Huan'er was indeed jealous, but Aunt Zhao's temperament was not what she showed.

At least, not so out of tune.

But Jia Huan is young and his temperament has not yet been finalized, so he can still break it.

Yingchun looked at Tanchun instantly, and said only one sentence: "Huan'er is indeed a good one, better than Baoyu."

Lin Kou glanced at Yingchun, and it took a lot of effort to pull out a detail from the depths of his memory: In the original book, because Tanchun disliked Jia Huan as a younger brother, Jia Huan was not close to her.But Jia Huan, the little frozen cat, has a very good relationship with Yingchun, the Ermu, and Jia Huan often goes to Yingchun's house to play with her.

The two of them did not avoid other people when they came and went, and Tanchun obviously knew about it.

She was not jealous, but said: "Huan'er is good, and Baoyu is also very good. Although he is still muddled, he already knows how to study. When he fully realizes the changes in the family, he will definitely be able to shoulder the responsibility of the family."

Although the relationship with Jia Huan has improved, after more than ten years of getting along, the relationship between Tanchun and Baoyu is naturally better.

Yingchun glanced at her and didn't say much.

As long as Tanchun didn't forget about Jia Huan, she would be very happy for Jia Huan.

Daiyu nodded with a smile: "I will ask the servants in my family to help me copy it, but I don't have to pay for it. The Jia family now...you keep your private house, it will be useful someday."

Tanchun couldn't help looking at Lin Kou.

Lin Kou smiled and said, "My dowry, the dowry that the royal family compensated me, and all my husband's money are with me. Tanchun doesn't need to look at me."

Only then did Tanchun thank Daiyu.

She really wanted to spend generously, but even when the Rongguo Mansion was not collapsed, she didn't have much money, let alone now?If she paid the rewards of the servants of the Lin family, there would really be nothing left of her private house.

So even though he felt it was inappropriate, Tanchun accepted Daiyu's kindness with the cheek to accept it.

But Baochai thought of her elder brother.

However, thinking of Xue Pan's temper...

Baochai sighed and shook her head, but did not ask for the test paper.

The exam papers are all ready, and several people are busy with the selection questions again.

Lin Kou said before that she wanted to find out the difficult problems and key points from these test papers and write a book. The other girls felt that this matter was very promising, so while the servants were copying the test papers, they began to choose from the sea of ​​questions.

As before, Tanchun and the others were simply responsible for finding out the frequently repeated questions in the examination papers, while Lin Kou, Baochai, and Daiyu were responsible for finding out rare problems.

When Lin Kou and Tanchun took the exam papers home and handed them over to Zhen Fu, Jia Baoyu and others, the book had almost taken shape.

After classifying the exam questions according to the books, a book is almost enough.

After collecting the examination papers of the four of Zhen Fu, out of trust in Zhen Fu, Lin Kou drew out Zhen Fu's examination papers.

Lin Kou was used to judging questions, and in less than an hour, Zhen Fu's exam papers were judged.

The accuracy rate is as high as [-]%.

It can be fully explained that Zhen Fu's sea-of-the-sea tactics during this period had outstanding effects.

At least, when Zhen Fu did not enter the examination room, there were no major problems in answering the questions.

Do a period of time to consolidate the test questions, and then she can proceed to the next treatment step, which is the most difficult step of entering the examination room.

Until then, she'd better get everything done.

In order to improve efficiency, after judging Zhen Fu's answer papers, Lin Kou handed them over to Daiyu, Baochai and the others, and let them be responsible for judging the other exam papers.

For a while, the whole garden became quiet.

After Lin Kou finished judging Zhen Fu's exam papers, the other three's exam papers were almost finished.

After all, it was a test paper for five people to judge three people.

Except for Zhen Fu's 100% correct rate, which was the best among several people, among the other three test papers, Baoyu had the highest correct rate at 70.00%, followed by Jia Lan at 60.00%.

Jia Huan's correct rate is a bit horrible, even less than 40.00%.

But considering that Jia Huan had never systematically read books at all, this accuracy rate seemed very high. At least Tanchun took it back to show the old lady, and it would never be embarrassing.

For a time, everyone was happy.

Baochai's eyes fell on Baoyu's answer sheet, and she was silent for a while, not knowing what she was thinking.

Daiyu didn't pay attention, but Xiangyun suddenly became nervous.

She grasped Baoyu's answer sheet almost instinctively: "If the old lady knows how much she loves her brother's reading, she will be very happy."

How smart is Baochai?He could see through Xiangyun's nervousness and defense almost at a glance.

In fact, she didn't think too much about her nervousness and defensiveness.

Because Baochai did consider the possibility of continuing the golden jade relationship after seeing Baoyu's potential.

but……

She just smiled, completely ignoring Xiangyun's nervousness and defensiveness.

Because Baochai knows very well that although Xiangyun and Baoyu have childhood sweethearts, and the old lady does intend to match them up, it is not the old lady who can really make decisions about Shi Xiangyun's marriage, but Shi Xiangyun's two uncles and aunts.

When the Rongguo Mansion was still there, Baochai had heard about their deeds from Xiangyun.

But different from Xiangyun's view, Baochai thinks that the two historians, Mrs. Hou and Mrs. Hou, are not bad towards Xiangyun, and will definitely find a better marriage for her——

If possible.

So if Baochai really wants to continue the golden and jade marriage, Xiangyun is not an obstacle.

But after some thought, Baochai directly denied this possibility.

Because Lin Kou was a butterfly flapping its wings, Baochai hadn't lived in Rongguo Mansion for a long time. When Rongguo Mansion ransacked his home, Baochai had just been rejected from the selection of talents and praises, at least less than a year.

The rumor of a golden and jade marriage has not yet spread to the Rongguo Mansion, and Baochai has not had time to develop too much affection for Jia Baoyu.

Under such circumstances, Baochai looked at Jia Baoyu more calmly.

So she easily came to a conclusion——

Baoyu was not the best choice for her.

Without the blessing of family background, Baoyu is not much different from other scholars.And with the Xue family's current wealth, it is not difficult for her to marry a scholar who is comparable to Baoyu.

Maybe even marry a better choice than Baoyu.

After all, she came from an official family, and her upbringing methods are much better than ordinary girls. If she wanted to, she would still be very popular among those young scholars who passed the exam.

So Baochai quickly withdrew her gaze, and turned her attention to Zhen Fu's examination paper: "Brother Kou's examination questions in the county examination are almost free of errors and omissions, and must have returned to the level of a scholar, and may even reach the level of a juren." Right? Brother-in-law Kou, is she ready to take the imperial examination?"

Lin Kou smiled helplessly: "Not yet. But if all goes well, you may be able to take the provincial examination in a year or two."

Baochai nodded, "Brother Kou will definitely pass the exam."

Lin Kou laughed, "I owe you a good word."

After seeing the results of several people's answers, Lin Kou deliberately showed Lin Ruhai the test papers of several people to read them again.

Lin Ruhai gave the answer: "Although the level of these test papers is uneven, some of them are a little simple, and the other part has reached the level of the hospital test, but the difficulty of the county test and government test is different in different places. The part of the test paper you produced can satisfy the candidates. needs."

Lin Ruhai said so, obviously there is no problem with these test papers.

So not long after, Lin Kou and others came up with collections of questions such as "Five-Year National Examination and Three-Year Palace Examination", "Five-Year Rural Examination and Three-Year Court Examination", "Sprinting for Children", "National Examination/National Examination/Hospital Examination Key Problem Collection" and so on. It's all printed.

Lin Kou actually wanted to go to the Lin family to wait for the results, but she didn't want Zhen Fu, who had been "alone with the vacant house" for several months, to quit.

He was a little unhappy: "You have been going to Lin's house almost every day for the past few months, and you will not come back from dawn until it is dark, but you have a business that you can't get away from, so I didn't say anything. But You don't need to go to Lin's house now, why do you want to go?"

Lin Kou was stunned for a moment, and when he turned around and saw a trace of grievance flashing in Zhen Fu's eyes, he couldn't help laughing out, "What? Are you lonely all alone during this period of time?"

Zhen Fu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Lin Kou was taken aback: "Are you really lonely?"

Zhen Fu was embarrassed to sit in her usual exam seat, coughed twice and said, "I'm not lonely, I just feel that there is no examiner to invigilate the exam, and there is no one to tell the time, I just feel not used to it."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the quill and buried himself in the questions.

but in fact……

Examiner proctor?tell the time?Not used to it?

In the real imperial examination, in order to prevent the examiner from affecting the candidates, the examiner should not hang around the examination room too frequently; and no matter what the test is, it will only announce the time near the end of the test on the last day to remind the candidates to pay attention to the time , and the same reason as the previous one, frequent time reporting may also affect candidates.

After Lin Kou knew these two points, he consciously began to reduce the frequency of reporting the time and himself——

From the accuracy of Zhen Fu's answers when he was away, it can be seen that he is actually used to exams without time tellers and examiners.

It could only be that she felt that she hadn't been home for too long.

Lin Kou laughed, and simply leaned on the table and looked at Zhen Fu: "Then I will stay at home with you?"

Zhen Fu's eyes flickered: "Don't accompany me..."

"Then I'm going to find Daiyu!" Lin Kou started to get up.

Zhen Fu pulled him back: "By me, I want you to accompany me."

Lin Kou paused and laughed out loud.

When Zhen Fu came to his senses, he blushed instantly and buried himself in the questions in embarrassment.

Lin Kou had had enough of laughing. Looking back on his actions during this period, he had to admit that he hadn't gotten along well with Zhen Fu for several months.

So she asked Baishuang to send a letter to Daiyu at Lin's house, while she stayed at home.

Zhen Fu's mood improved visibly to the naked eye, and when he was thinking, his hands and feet would even shake left and right involuntarily.

Lin Kou thought, my husband is quite cute!

Daiyu also knew that Lin Kou had already married. Although she was a little disappointed that she didn't go to Lin's house, she nodded understandingly.

It was Bai Shuang, who came back with good news: "Bai Lu's marriage has been decided, she is the son of Housekeeper Lin, and the wedding date is set for next month. The maidservant and Bai Lu grew up together, and I hope that I can go to the Lin family by then. to her wedding."

Lin Kou naturally would not refuse.

At the same time, she thought of another question: "Bai Shuang, Bai Lu should be the same age as you, right? Bai Lu is married, what do you think?"