The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

When his sister-in-law came back from outside, Lu Xiuyuan asked her to stretch out her wrist, "Sister-in-law, let me take a look for you."

His sister-in-law lifted up her cuffs anxiously, and Lu Xiuyuan put his fingers on the three parts of cun, guan and chi respectively, carefully feeling the changes in the pulse condition.

The whole family stopped at the same time, staring nervously at the faces of the two.

He lowered his eyes and felt it carefully. The pulse of the other party was smooth, and he could feel the image of beads rolling on a jade plate with his fingertips.

In order to prevent misdiagnosis, he carefully examined the patient for a while before notifying the other party of the result.

"Sister-in-law, it's a good omen for a smooth pulse. Do you feel tired recently? Is your body different from before?"

Mrs. Zhang's expression suddenly changed when she heard this, "No wonder Xiulan has been so depressed recently, so it's a happy event!"

His sister-in-law thought about her recent physical changes, and she seemed to be similar to when she was pregnant with Xiaolian. She couldn't help but exchanged glances with Lu Xiuwu, both of them couldn't hide the surprise in their eyes.

"Can you tell how old it is?" Zhang asked.

Lu Xiuyuan thought about it for a while, "It's been almost two months, if I pay more attention, I won't be able to figure it out."

"It's still a month." Mrs. Zhang took his sister-in-law's hand and kept stroking it. "Stop cooking these days, Xiulan, and rest at home. You should pay more attention in the first three months."

"What kind of happy event?" Xiao Lian couldn't understand what the adults were talking about, so she could only look at them in confusion, "Grandma, what are you talking about?"

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help scratching Xiaolian's nose, "Your mother is going to give birth to a little brother for you, so don't provoke your mother recently, do you hear me?"

"Mother wants to give birth to a little brother for me?" The little girl's big round eyes flashed a light, so does this mean that she will have a brother to bully in the future?However, "What if it's my sister?"

Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "It's good to be a younger sister. You two grew up together. Would you like to share your toys with your younger siblings?"

Xiao Lian shook her head, and said what she really thought in her heart, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, why don't you buy two copies of toys in the future?"

Hearing this, his sister-in-law couldn't help poking her on the head lightly, "You don't know who to follow, you really can't suffer at all!"

"Haha, that's pretty good, no one will dare to bully us Xiaolian in the future." Lu Xiuyuan took Xiaolian into his arms and rubbed the little girl's head, "Right, Xiaolian."

The little girl nodded, with an expression of approval, and even stretched out her fist, "I will beat anyone who dares to bully me!"

Lu Xiuwu next to him frowned and knocked on the table, "Come down quickly, look at you, how can you still look like a girl?!"

Xiao Lian pursed her lips, got down from Lu Xiuyuan's arms aggrieved, and sat back at the dinner table.

"Brother, Xiao Lian is still young, it's good to be more lively." Seeing the little girl looking sleepy, he couldn't help but persuade her.

"Erlang, you just spoil her all day long. You're not a kid. You'll still be like this when you get older. What if you can't find your husband's family?"

Lu Xiuwu and his wife are both honest people, so seeing such a naughty daughter, they always feel bad everywhere.

"Who said women should be gentle and pleasant," Lu Xiuyuan retorted: "There are so many people in this world, maybe there are people who like Xiaolian who is lively."

"Okay, well, sons and daughters are blessed with second daughters, so don't fight between you two brothers." Mrs. Zhang came out and interrupted: "Today we have a double happiness, Xiaolian, go to the room and bring out the wine and let's have a drink."

By the time the family had had dinner, it was getting late.

Lu Xiuyuan didn't turn on the lamp to read at night, but took a good rest after washing up. Tomorrow is the official start of the challenge, so he must recharge his energy.

In the middle of the night, the village was completely silent, and occasionally a dog barking was heard, and after a while, it fell into silence again.

Lu Xiuyuan was awakened by the barking of dogs in the middle of the night, scratched his hair, turned over on the bed, and fell asleep again in a different position.

In the early morning of the next day, due to the long days and short nights, the sky was bright before the hour of Mao.

Lu Xiuyuan went to bed early last night, and changed his schedule accordingly, getting up early to exercise his body and practice calligraphy.

After eating the breakfast carefully prepared by Mrs. Zhang, he and his elder brother led Xiaolian, and the three of them went out together, walked to the entrance of the village, and bid farewell to Xiaolian. The two brothers got on the ox cart and went to the town together.

His elder brother went to the town this time and wanted to find a new part-time job to start. Lu Xiuyuan was also a little worried when he heard it. It's not worthwhile to go to the town to work part-time after the busy farming. It's tiring and earns little money.

Looking at the dark and honest face of the other party, his elder brother's character is not suitable for doing light and small business, and he is easy to be deceived.

After thinking about it, he decided to wait until he was admitted to Juren, buy more land and put it under his name after tax exemption, and then hire others to farm the land with a small amount of grain. Be a small landlord and enjoy a leisurely life.

With a plan in mind, Lu Xiuyuan couldn't help but sighed, everything he encountered now was bad, and the only way to change it was to be admitted to Juren, which made him not work hard.

Sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed, he waited until he reached the entrance of the town, and was separating from his elder brother.

Shifu is not in the same direction as the book shop, but he heard Shi Yunchen tell him before that it's on the street of Ping'an Hall, not too far away, so it's better to take advantage of the morning to go to the bookstore, After that, I will go to Dr. Xu's side in the afternoon.

Walking deeper and deeper along the street, he finally arrived at the destination, notified the concierge, and Lu Xiuyuan looked at the courtyard in front of him.

Before he could take a closer look, the door was opened from the inside, Shi Yunchen poked out, and gave Lu Xiuyuan a stinky look.

"Lu Erlang, did you do it on purpose? Did you ask the concierge to report you when you came here?"

It's the first time to visit the door, so it's not good to go in directly, Lu Xiuyuan thought to himself.

Shi Yunchen scolded the concierge, "Didn't I tell you before that if you call Lu Xiuyuan over, you can just bring him in. Why did you forget this time?"

The porter lowered his head and said nothing.

Shi Yunchen simply pointed at him and introduced him to the porter, "See, he is the only one who can be let in without notification in the future. Understand?"

The concierge shrugged his shoulders and said yes again and again.

Seeing this, Shi Yunchen couldn't help but sighed, "Forget it, let's go in first, Lu Erlang."

After the two entered the Chuihua Gate, Lu Xiuyuan whispered: "Maybe it's because I reported Lu Xiucai when I came here just now, so the concierge didn't react?"

"That's probably it." Shi Yunchen shook his head, "It's a pity, this concierge was quite clever before, but a wind and cold accidentally burned his brain, and then he became like this."

"The concierge doesn't need to be so flexible and changeable. Wouldn't it be more reassuring to use a straight-forward one like this?"

"That's right, so the other servants in the courtyard think that this young master is a great kind person who misses the past." Shi Yunchen said with a proud expression.

Lu Xiuyuan didn't reply to him again, but concentrated on looking at the yard in front of him.

At this time, they had arrived at the second entrance courtyard. According to the size of the corridor and the side rooms on both sides, he could probably deduce that this was a three entrance courtyard with at least [-] square meters.

With such a big place, would Shi Yunchen be afraid to live alone at night?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but cast a glance at the other party. Unexpectedly, Shi Yunchen also happened to look over, and the two of them met their eyes.

Lu Xiuyuan cleared his throat, and couldn't help but look away, looking at the large water tank in the middle of the yard, where there was a water lily floating on it.

"I'll take you directly to Big Brother's study." The other party broke the silence first, and led him to the side room next to him.

"Uh, isn't your eldest brother at home?" Lu Xiuyuan asked tentatively.

Shi Yunchen turned his head and raised an eyebrow at him, "What? Are you glad my elder brother is not at home?"

"No, no, nothing," he subconsciously waved his hand in denial, regardless of whether he heard what the other party said clearly.

Shi Yunchen was amused by his appearance, and simply took Lu Xiuyuan's hand, "Let's go, there is no one at home, who are you showing such a serious look to?"

Can I show you?He answered in a low voice.

Feeling the delicate touch of the skin from his fingers, Lu Xiuyuan took a deep breath, trying to calm down his mind, and don't think about things that have nothing to do with the exam.

When the two came to the study.

Lu Xiuyuan was shocked by the scene that caught his eyes. There were four or five rows of bookshelves stacked neatly there.

He stepped forward to observe it, and Shi Yunzhang carefully made classification annotations on it, similar to the classification of modern libraries.

Shi Yunchen stood on the bookcase next to him and waved at him, "Lu Erlang, come here quickly and see if these are the country test questions you need?"

He hurried over to take the booklet and flipped through it carefully. The first page noted the names of the last rural examination questions. In addition to the top ten included articles, there were even articles written by Shi Yunzhang himself.

Then I found a few other books, all the papers of the township examinations from previous years, and even those who will take the exam...

Seeing the back, Lu Xiuyuan felt complicated.

Shi Yunzhang has always said that he hates the court and those who are officials, but judging from his book collection, he is also a book addict. It seems a bit cruel for such a person to give up books and go into business?

Seeing that he was in deep thought, Yun Chen couldn't help knocking on the bookshelf, "Don't be in a daze, hurry up and see what you can use, and take it to the study outside."

"Oh, good." Lu Xiuyuan came back to his senses, and counted forward according to the year of Dingyou, and took out all the questions of the first six provincial examinations, including those of the scientific examination, and some other information books.

After tidying up, he looked at the thick stack on the desk, and hugged it tentatively. It seemed a bit heavy, but he could hold on.

Seeing his strenuous look, Shi Yunchen couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help reaching out to take it, "Let me carry it for you."

Lu Xiuyuan just watched the other party leave with the paper lightly, and he couldn't help wiping the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead.

This is exhausting.

The two of them came to the outer study room with the papers, and Lu Xiuyuan sat on the chair and began to review the current study plan.

Before he went to the border, he had already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics backwards. Coupled with the review during the border period, the collection of Zhu Xi's annotations also made him memorize by heart. The scope of the imperial examination is these few books. He has already memorized them all. What is lacking now Just practice.

There are four books and three questions in the rural examination, four scriptures, and five policy questions. In addition to the annual scientific examination questions, these papers are enough for him to hone.

Lu Xiuyuan decided to write down all these questions first, and then start writing from the earliest year. After he finished writing, he would compare the top ten papers of that year to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

However, as soon as he picked up the pen, he felt a cold fragrance coming from behind him. Lu Xiuyuan turned his head and saw Shi Yunchen approaching him and handing him a cup of tea, "I put a lot of tea in it. I'll read a book later." to be more energetic."

At this time, the young master's concern was a kind of torture to him.

"Are you bored?" Lu Xiuyuan asked.

"It seems a little..." Shi Yunchen nodded.

Hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan couldn't help sighing, Youdao is the most difficult thing to accept a beauty's favor, in order to prevent the other party from affecting his study, he decided to act first.

He got up and pulled the chair next to him, helped the young master to sit on it, and then handed over the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, "Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle, why don't you copy down the questions of the local examinations from these years, and I can answer them directly in a while gone."

"What?" Shi Yunchen pointed to himself in surprise, "Copy the title? I copy?"

"Yes," Lu Xiuyuan nodded seriously.

He placed the paper in front of the other party, then took the writing brush next to it and stuffed it into the other party's hand, "If you feel bored after copying the questions, we can do the questions together."

The young master held the brush and looked at Lu Xiuyuan incredulously.

"Lu Erlang, be yourself!"

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