The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

Before the sun set, Xiao Lian clutched her hungry, rumbling stomach and hurried home listlessly.

She ate snacks in the town at noon, only drank a bowl of chicken soup when she got home, and ran a few laps outside in the afternoon, and now she was extremely hungry.

After returning home, I happened to see Mrs. Zhang standing in the kitchen, trotting all the way over, blinking a pair of watery eyes, shaking Zhang's clothes, "Grandma, I'm so hungry."

Mrs. Zhang patted the little girl's head, and said distressedly: "Little Lian, you must be starving. Grandma will cook right away. Let's have an early dinner today."

Xiao Lian nodded heavily, then turned around and went to play in the water at the gate of the yard.

When dinner was ready, Mrs. Zhang called Xiaolian a few times.

The little girl washed her hands and happily rushed to the table, planning to have a big meal, but she was dumbfounded when she saw the food on the table.

On the table was a bowl of bran cakes, and a soup made of dried wild vegetables, but nothing else.

"Ah?" She tilted her head in bewilderment, and looked around at the expressions of the adults around her. Seeing that everyone looked normal, they didn't dare to speak, and sat down obediently.

She was really hungry, so she quickly reached out for a piece of wheat bran cake, took a small bite, chewed, and found that it was too harsh to swallow.

So he picked up the wild vegetable soup in front of him, took a sip, and wanted to take it easy.

Unexpectedly, the wild vegetable soup was bitter in the mouth, so Xiao Lian couldn't hold back and vomited it out.

She has been eating pasta for the past few months, and just this morning, she just ate delicate snacks. The first time she drank this soup, she couldn't swallow it at all.

The little girl is sensitive, thinking that something happened at home, last time when my uncle was sick, the family also ate like this for a while.

She didn't dare to ask, so she could only force herself to drink it, but the wild vegetable soup was bitter and astringent, and she couldn't drink it.

Seeing everyone staring at her, she couldn't hold back her mouth, tears streaming down her face.

Those huge teardrops hit the hearts of everyone present.

His sister-in-law hurriedly hugged him into her arms and coaxed him, "Little Lian, don't cry~"

Being coaxed by her own mother, the little girl's tears fell even more fiercely. She hiccupped and choked, "Mom, is our family going to have no food again?"

His sister-in-law couldn't say anything, so she turned her head to one side.

The little girl turned her attention to Mrs. Zhang again.

Mrs. Zhang's heart was also very sour. She suddenly felt resentful towards Lu Dafu who was in the back room. Have a taste of this too.

Mrs. Zhang squatted down, "Little Lian, please help me deliver the rice to grandpa."

The little girl nodded, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, picked up the plate on the table, and walked into the inner room.

Lu Dafu didn't know what happened just now. Seeing Xiaolian walking in with red eyes, he hurriedly asked concerned: "Why is Xiaolian crying? Did your father beat you again? Grandfather will help you teach him a lesson!"

Xiao Lian shook her head, put down the plate in her hand and asked sobbingly, "Grandfather, do we have no money again?"

Hearing this, Lu Dafu panicked, did Mrs. Zhang tell the outside about the money?

Looking at Xiaolian's pure eyes, he couldn't help but retort, "Who said our family has no money! Our family still has a lot of money."

After hearing this, the little girl asked suspiciously: "If you have money, why don't you buy meat?"

Lu Dafu was stuck, did the family have no other money besides what he borrowed?Facing Xiaolian's question, he felt inexplicably guilty.

Seeing that Lu Dafu didn't speak, Xiaolian pouted her mouth in grievance, and tears fell down, "Grandpa, I don't want to eat wheat bran cakes, I can't eat them, my throat hurts..."

Tears are a child's greatest weapon.

Seeing Xiaolian crying, Lu Dafu was very distressed. He wished he could quickly get two catties of meat for Xiaolian to eat, but he had no money.

He patted the edge of the bed anxiously, and shouted to the outside: "Mother, come in!"

After a while, Mrs. Zhang walked in, stared at Lu Dafu without speaking.

Lu Dafu was frightened again in an instant. He glanced at the wheat bran cakes placed beside him, swallowed his saliva, and asked tentatively, "Xiao Lian can't eat it. Is there any food left at home? Make her some pasta."

Mrs. Zhang pointed in the direction of the kitchen, "Most of those rough noodles have been replaced with wheat bran, and they can barely last half a month if mixed with them. Where can I make pasta?"

Lu Dafu was in shock when he heard this, the family has come to such a point? "Apart from what my mother took away, you didn't hide any private money anywhere else at home?"

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she became angry, "Lu Dafu, listen to what you said. I have never shunned you from giving money, but you secretly told your mother where the money was hidden, and your mother gave the money to you." Take everything away, you have the nerve to ask me if I have any more?"

"Isn't that what the elder brother's family is in a hurry to use? Look at the old padded coat that mother is wearing. The elder brother's family has no money now. They are all brothers. It's a matter of helping..."

Mrs. Zhang sneered, "Help me? You've got the whole family involved! If your mother really had a conscience, wouldn't she leave some food money for you? She's done everything right now, and you still speak for her. Why don't you go to town and follow your mother!"

"What are you talking about! I can't leave your mothers behind!" Lu Dafu was anxious, "Wait, let me think about it, the method is all thought up by people, there must be a trick."

Seeing Lu Dafu's appearance, Mrs. Zhang felt annoyed, "When I really can't eat anymore, I will take the whole family to the town to find your elder brother and see what his family is urgently needing money for. It is so serious that the younger brother’s family will starve to death and have to raise money.”

"Nonsense! That's not a shame!" Lu Dafu retorted without thinking.

Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel again, Xiao Lian wowed and cried.

"Grandfather and grandmother, stop arguing! Xiao Lian doesn't eat meat anymore! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

Only then did Lu Dafu realize that he shouldn't be arguing in front of the children.

He stretched out his hand and pulled Xiao Lian to sit on the edge of the bed. Seeing the little girl crying, her eyes were swollen, and he couldn't help being irritable. For the first time, he felt angry and resentful towards his own mother.

His mother is too much, just take the money, at least save some food!He and Zhang's two other sons are adults, so it's fine to eat wheat bran for grievances. Xiao Lian is so young, how much offended she will be.

Lu Dafu couldn't help but blame himself.

Xiaolian cried for a while, raised her head and looked at Lu Dafu as if she had made up her mind, "Grandfather, it's really not possible, you sell Xiaolian to be a servant girl, Xiaolian doesn't want her grandfather to starve to death."

Hearing this, Lu Dafu felt a pain in his heart.

How old is Xiao Lian, to say such things for him.

Thinking about what happened in the morning, he kept doubting himself, did he really do something wrong?

If his mother really cared about him, she would definitely not take all the money away and let their family fall to such a state.

Taking a step back and thinking about it, in his short life, it seems that he has never received his mother's attention.

What he has heard most since he was a child is to work hard and make money for his elder brother to study.

Later, the eldest brother changed to do business, and his mother said that the eldest brother needed money to do business, and continued to take money from him.

When the big brother's business grows bigger later, he will directly separate the family and cut off contact. I have nothing but this old house. The land in the family is bought by myself with hard money later.

There has been no contact for several years, but this time when his mother came home during the winter solstice, she thought she really cared about him and came to visit him.

But her mother knew where the money was hidden, and left after taking the money. Could it be that the other party really didn't have any affection for her?Could it be that he has been lying to himself all these years?

Lu Dafu, who wanted to understand, turned his gaze to Xiao Lian, who was hugged by Mrs. Zhang and kept comforting her.

The corners of Lu Dafu's eyes were red, and his heart was overwhelmed. He couldn't help but clenched his fists and hammered the wall, making up his mind that he would never be so impulsive again.

After eating the most difficult dinner, Lu Xiuyuan lay on the bed and began to think about life.

What happened during this time made him finally make up his mind.

People are kind and bullied by others, and only if they are strong enough can they not be trampled by others.

He is now relying on writing scripts to barely eat and clothe himself. In order to cope with possible future crises in advance, he has to continue taking the imperial examination to improve his social status.

To prevent problems before they happen, having a sword in your hand and not using it are completely different things.

He thought for a while, the township examination is held every three years, and it is the official examination in the Zi, Wu, Mao, and You years, and the Enke in the celebration.

It happens to be the exam in August next year, and it will take more than half a year to prepare for it.

The township examination is generally divided into three sessions, and each session takes three days. All three sessions need to enter the examination room one day in advance, that is, enter the examination room on the eighth, eleventh, and fourteenth day of the lunar new year, and leave the examination room one day after the examination.

Did he panic when the time was so short?

It seems to be a bit.

For Lu Xiuyuan, the Juren Examination, the Four Books and the Five Classics, the Poetry Poster, and the Five Questions are really unfamiliar.

However, the original owner has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and he is good at making meanings and making test post poems.

You must know that the Four Books and the Five Classics are not one book. They include four works: The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius, and Mencius, while the Five Classics are the Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, and Zhouyi. , "Spring and Autumn".

Among them, "Chunqiu" is usually published together with "Zuo Zhuan", "Gongyang Zhuan" and "Guliang Biography" which explain "Chunqiu" because the text is too brief.

The ancient prose is short and concise, and these books alone have a word count of more than 60, and it takes years to memorize them, not to mention the need to integrate all the knowledge in them and apply them.

The original owner had taken the prefectural examination before, and although he hadn't passed the first place, he was still among the best in the examination once, and his level was naturally very high.

Since Lu Xiuyuan decided to continue the exam, the most urgent thing is to read the book again, combine the memory of the original owner, and transform the knowledge into his own.

After arranging the study plan, he closed his eyes and thought about the precautions for the imperial examination, and his consciousness gradually fell into sleep.

In the next few days, Lu Xiuyuan shut himself in the room, found the original owner's previous book and read it repeatedly.

When you get tired, just write a storybook and change your thinking.

Once Lu Xiuyuan made up his mind, he would go all out.

From the moment he decided to study medicine in his previous life, he never relaxed himself, studied hard for several years, passed through the dark third year of high school, and finally entered a certain university in the capital as he wished.

After five years of undergraduate and three years of postgraduate studies, eight years later, he has been accompanied by books and has never relaxed himself.

But now, after time travelling, he managed to live a retirement life, but there is an unknown danger not far away.

He had no choice but to show his enthusiasm for the college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination, and continue to study hard.

Although the difficulty of the imperial examination is a few blocks lower than that of the college entrance examination, no matter how difficult the exam is, you have to try it first, instead of blindly fearing the difficulty and retreating on your own.

The author has something to say: Shocked!Honest people suddenly wake up!Is it that the prodigal son turns back and the money does not change, or is the country easy to change and the nature hard to change?

Also, the money will come back, and the old lady will be punished_(:з"∠)_

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The imperial examination rules and reference books in this article are from Du Niang.