The Jade in the Red Chamber is the Royal Courtyard

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one knew what the second test was about, so they could only focus on the staff member of Tonghua Academy.

"Hahaha, I know that everyone is confused, so let me remind everyone. Youdao is a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, and this farmer is standing behind a scholar. Go down to the soil. Who knows the Chinese food? Every grain is hard work!' This second test is to test how much everyone cherishes the Chinese food. It is a pity that except for the students at the table under the shade of the tree, all of them passed. Qualified, you five respect and love each other, help each other, even people who have never used such crude food before can eat with relish, this old man is very touched, you five can go to the third level through that building." Tong The staff of Hua College said with a smile, but the current staff has suddenly changed, and his temperament is completely different from the usual state.

"He, he is the examiner of this test?" The remaining students looked at each other, and they were even a little dumbfounded.

"Hehe, I am the examiner of your second pass, and now I will give you a remedial measure, that is, you smashed the eggs on the thick pancakes on the ground, dumped the pickle sticks @zi on the table, and sprinkled them everywhere. I have finished eating all the rice soup according to the regulations, and I will let you pass the test. There is also a rule in Tonghua Academy that all students who enter Tonghua Academy can only go home once every seven days, and the time to go home must not exceed For two days, the rest of the board and lodging will be in Tonghua College, and there will inevitably be such rough pancakes every day, if you don’t want to suffer this kind of crime, you can leave quickly through the corner door next to it!" The staff member of Tonghua College Speaking loudly, the originally cloudy eyes immediately became clear, and the voice changed from being neither humble nor overbearing just now to the toughness now, the change is also surprising.

"What... what?" All the geniuses were surprised.

"These things that can't be eaten?" Jia Baoyu looked at the things on the table in a daze and muttered to himself. When he got to the side, he only took out the words that were in his purse and put them in his mouth to get rid of the taste.But I didn't expect that the second level of the exam turned out to be about this thing.

"Are we here to go to school?" Jia Baoyu continued to mutter to himself.

"You're right, we're here to go to school, not to eat something that's not as good as a pig or a dog!" A handsomely dressed kid stood up and said righteously.

"But, we want to protest, we want to protest!" Another dude immediately stood up and shouted loudly.

"Do these sons and cousins ​​Lin also eat?" Jia Baoyu continued to mutter to himself.

"What cousin Lin?" Someone beside him heard Jia Baoyu's muttering.

"It's the one who went in directly, the one who didn't pass the exam!" Jia Baoyu said hastily.

"This examiner, do all students in Tonghua Academy have to pass the exam?" The student who heard Jia Baoyu's words immediately stood up and asked loudly. The person who eats the most food is afraid that someone will talk about the vulgar food he eats, but he does not know that his family is already poor, and even this vulgar food is not something that can be eaten every day. That is to say about his kind of person.

"Of course, Tonghua Academy openly recruits students for the purpose of selecting useful talents. The conditions for recruiting students this time are that there is no limit to the age and talent. Anyone who can pass the three tests can enter Tonghua Academy. "The staff of Tonghua College replied loudly.

Don't think how easy it is for the scholars in the past to pass the provincial examination. Fortunately, scholars can pass the examination as long as they are in their teens, but since ancient times, there have been very few scholar boys in their teens. Don't talk about the boy juren or something, even if Tang Jieyuan, the head of the four great talents of the Ming Dynasty, opened the history books to check, he was not admitted to Jieyuan until he was in his 20s.

Someone said that Tang Yin disdained fame, but how many great talents like Tang Bohu are there in the world?

Therefore, there were many people in ancient times who became scholars at the age of [-] or [-], or who were admitted as scholars at the age of [-] or [-].

Today, the people who come here are generally between the ages of 12 and 16. These people have actually begun to be enlightened, but they have not yet passed the childbirth test.

Of course, there are also some gifted children, between the ages of eight and nine to 12 years old. These children are just the beginning of enlightenment, but the registration place for these people is separate from the so-called teenagers of these children. Of course, most of the content of the assessment It's all the same, just a little less intense.

"But why did this young master say that his cousin from the Lin family can enter without taking the test?" the commoner scholar continued to ask with his head held high, as if he had grasped the big handle of Tonghua Academy.

The staff of Tonghua Academy glanced and saw Jia Baoyu sitting there with his head down, but he was also silent.

"Huh! Not to mention that his cousin Lin is only a seven-year-old child this year, but that the seven-year-old child passed the childbirth test at the age of six. What else can you say? Besides, what you have experienced before That young master Lin has already experienced these things when he was five years old, otherwise, how could he be able to enter the Tongsheng Examination after only two years of hard study?" The staff of Tonghua Academy said coldly, and said again After the fact that Jiang Yu is actually a scholar.

"Hmph! Why don't you leave it up to you?" The commoner scholar didn't seem to want to stop there, but wanted to start a conversation.

"I've finished the matter, you can leave, Tonghua Academy will not admit you." The staff of Tonghua Academy said with a cold glance at the commoner scholar.

"Wh... what? I'm..." The scholar was overwhelmed. He is a child of the Han family, but his parents dote on him very much. They always cling to him when there is something delicious. Already sixteen, but his reading is not bad, even the husband once said that this person will definitely be a Jinshi talent in the future, so he has the nickname "quasi-jinshi".After the prospective Jinshi's parents left, they only relied on their own wife to sew and wash there and earn a few hard-earned money to support the family. It can be said that the "quasi-jinshi" family didn't even have overnight food.

However, this "prospective Jinshi" is used to being extravagant, and there were people who saw him as pitiful and often helped him, but he threw them out and said that he was "underestimated by him, and a man will not eat what he comes!" His neighbors are no longer taking care of him, and life at home is even more difficult. Now that he heard that Tonghua College recruits students, and they do not charge tuition fees and even provide board and lodging for good performance, he is desperate and forced himself The lady picked up three times as many guys and rented a set of slightly better clothes to come to Tonghua Academy for the exam.

He wanted to give up at the first pass, but when he thought about going home without food for the night, he gritted his teeth and held back. When he saw the real thing in the second pass, he was overjoyed and wanted to gobble it up. Among the group of masters such as Baoyu, how many of these masters can eat such things?But after smelling it a little bit, he threw it away, but he didn't feel like eating it. Instead, he blatantly attacked Tonghua Academy for ruining the good food all over the floor.

So the "prospective Jinshi" was immediately dumbfounded when he heard that he wanted to pick up the spoiled grain and eat it.

Hearing Baoyu's muttering in a low voice, it was like grabbing a straw, but he didn't expect that it was not a straw at all, but a big knife that decapitated.

"Me, why? Why do you want to drive me away? You haven't even passed the essay..." The "prospective Jinshi" murmured with his eyes a little blunt.

"Why did you drive you away? Why do I want to drive people away from Tonghua Academy? It's still the same sentence that if you want to come to our Tonghua Academy, you have to abide by the rules of Tonghua Academy, otherwise what do you think of Tonghua Academy? Is it a charity hall?" ?” The staff of Tonghua Academy smiled coldly.

"Isn't it just to eat these coarse grains? I eat, I eat!" Like a lunatic, the quasi-jinshi casually picked up the coarse grains that were still on the table and swallowed them in big gulps. There were even some that had already been thrown away. Egg whites, at this moment, the prospective Jinshi has never felt that the food is so sweet.

While eating all kinds of coarse grains thrown on the table, with the other hand holding a large porcelain bowl and slurping sweet millet porridge, the "quasi-scholar" feels refreshed when the food enters his stomach It was much better, and the grievance on his surface was still the same. He stared at the examiner of the second pass of Tonghua Academy, and there seemed to be endless humiliation and grievance in his eyes.

"Have you eaten enough?" the examiner of the second level asked coldly.

"Uh!" The "prospective" Jinshi didn't understand what the examiner meant.

"You can leave after eating and drinking enough. You still fail this exam. What we Tonghua College want are not pretenders. You can eat as much as you can, and you can leave if you can't. No one will say that you are knowledgeable. Not good, but this is the rule of our Tonghua College." The examiner continued to speak calmly.

"I..." The quasi-jinshi looked at the examiner stupidly.

"And you, the second son of Jia's mansion, you can leave too. You failed this exam. A 14-year-old boy is competing with a seven-year-old boy, but you are promising." The examiner gave Jia Baoyu a cold look and said indifferently.

"I, I!" Jia Baoyu never expected such a thing to happen.

"I, our family took 10 taels of silver!" Jia Baoyu shouted without thinking.