Dress to be a celebrity

Since then, Song Shi has actively devoted himself to both reading and thesis.

In fact, it is not too difficult to learn, it is nothing more than memorizing and writing traditional characters.In this era, there are no cellphones, computers, and those goblins who hook up with people, and he can't play with the children around him who have shaved heads and only a few pimples of eye hair. High in the forward sprint.

But within two years, he memorized all the Mongolian books.The older the two elder brothers of the Song family felt that he was talented, they couldn't help but take him to show off in front of their neighbors, friends, and Tongnian.

Both of them are scholars in the pilot test, and most of the people who come and go are also scholars. I heard that there are child prodigies, of course they have to be tested.This exam gave Song Shi a bit of fame.

Not only can he endorse books, but he can also write sour poems on a few pairs, and tell people stories from past dynasties.Especially when it comes to the history before this dynasty, he remembers everything written in "Mengqiu" firmly, and he knows a lot of things that are not there. When asked by others, he can even answer the relevant historical facts and characters.

——Let’s not talk about exams before this dynasty, if he hadn’t traveled to this dynasty that he hadn’t seen before, he would still be able to recite Yuan, Ming, Qing and modern history, and write a sesame seed song for Liu Bowen.

Outsiders naturally didn't know that he used to study history, and thought he was really a child prodigy.This reputation became more and more famous, and finally attracted a new Jinshi Mr. Huan who passed by Baoding Mansion when he returned to his hometown to exhibit the tomb. After the school examination, he was to be accepted as a disciple.

Jinshi's disciple!What an honor!The Jinshi's father was still a Hanlin editor, so wouldn't their son be able to be instructed by the Hanlin in the future?

Song Juren and his two talented sons, Yu Yourongyan, happily packaged him up and sent him to Mr. Huan.

In the Song Dynasty, he went to Beijing with his husband and lived in Huan Mansion with him. From then on, he bid farewell to his bald childhood and studied with the primary school students in Huan Mansion.After reading the four books, he studied "Spring and Autumn" with his husband, and passed the Tongsheng exam after learning.It's a pity to go to the government to take the test. Xuezheng thought that he was too young, and feared that he would easily develop arrogance and laziness if he was a scholar too early, so he deliberately suppressed him.

Mr. Huan is serving as the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is a colleague of Xuezheng, so he naturally knows the reason, so he is not in a hurry to let him take the exam again. He is the son-in-law.

Mr. Huan is the censor, and his father is the editor of the Imperial Academy. This marriage was set up in the Song Dynasty, which is enough to envy the poor students all over the world.But compared to the smooth progress of his studies and major life events, the progress of Jinjiang's thesis was much more bumpy.

His essays ranged from Enlightenment to "Four Books" to "Spring and Autumn" and "Zuo Zhuan". —The handwriting input method he used on his mobile phone before the time travel. After the time travel, he couldn't switch pinyin. He could only use his fingers to swipe on the screen. After writing an article, his wrist would break!

But he worked so hard, the ancient stereotyped essay teachers let him pass the boy's test, but the modern thesis editors don't pass him the manuscript.

He was rejected so many times that Song Shi couldn't help but give up on himself. He dropped his thesis and went out to play with his classmates a few times, and wrote a short article on popular science about Cuju - when he wrote it, he converted the year name of the Zheng Dynasty according to the AD. It is written in the Ming Dynasty, insisting that it is about the Cuju movement in the Ming Dynasty.

This short article was unexpectedly approved, and the website sent him a 30 yuan virtual recharge card in the background.

30 yuan!

For so many years, he has only three yuan in his account, and he can't even buy journal articles of more than six pages. Now he has a full 30 yuan!Can afford a dissertation!

Song Shi could no longer hold back his longing for many years, and proudly bought a ten-page journal article - "Research on Indigenous Insecticides".

Gone are the days when you can only let mosquitoes buzz in your ears without repellents or insecticides!

He would rather be soaked in the pesticides of the industrial society and die than live in the green mountains and green waters where insects and ants are flying around!

Full of excitement, he opened the online preview, and read it word by word, but the more he read, the more he felt that there were many difficulties: Although it is said to be made by indigenous methods, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are also various industrial equipment and chemical preparations. Yes, this is still on the timeline of the early Ming Dynasty or not?Pyrethrum, neem, tobacco, eucalyptus, spearmint... Have these plants spread to China now?How to separate plant essential oil?It's not easy for him to do experiments with great fanfare in Huan's house. If he can't get essential oils, just use powders, infusions, and decoctions, will it work?

Regardless of whether it works or not, let's do it first, the time has come to test the scientific research level of their tour guides!

Song Shiheng made a concerted effort to pick out mint and Millae vine, which can be bought right now and have obvious insect repelling effects, and searched out journal articles introducing how to use them to repel insects, and bought them for six yuan.

Boiling dried mint with alcohol and peppermint oil can repel mosquitoes; mash and soak the rhizome of Millipeda spathifolia and add soap flakes to kill a variety of pests, and it is very effective against larvae and flies.Currently living in the Huan Mansion, he doesn't have a complete set of materials and tools, so he can only simplify and simplify the recipe. He uses mint water to make shochu, dips spaghetti directly into the juice, and even makes a few large buckets, spilling it all over the house and yard. , Winning entirely by quantity.

Miracles come out of local methods.

That night, he didn't hear much mosquitoes and flies in his room, and there were few small insects flying under the flowers and trees in the yard. When he woke up early the next morning, there were insect corpses in the shade of the flowers and trees.The only disadvantage is that too much medicine is sprayed, the yard is full of cool and irritating smell mixed with slightly fishy medicine, and the flowers and trees are all wilted.

Brother Huan Xiao, who lived in the same hospital with him, was also exhausted from the smoke, covering his nose and begging him not to spray so much medicine in the future.Song Shi practiced kindness, sprinkled the rest of the medicine in his house, and memorized these three articles in the safe smell of insecticide.

This is a small step for him personally, but it is a big step for cultural exchanges between the two worlds!

In order to promote the original world's understanding of this era, and to promote the development of science and technology culture in this time and space, Song Shi resolutely went deep into the young children of the Huan family, followed them to play football, play bombs, shoot and guess balls, throw pots and arrows, climb trees and climb over walls... Experience the daily life of elementary school students, and submit manuscripts full of reality one after another.

Later, Mr. Huan died of illness, and he buried his mentor with him. When Huan's family sent him out of the capital, a huge sum of more than 180 yuan had been saved in Jinjiang's account.

After returning home and settling down, Song Shi immediately purchased papers on distilling essential oils, alcohol, and handmade soap-making techniques. He asked people to customize the distiller according to the sketches in the papers, and then directed his family to make peppermint oil and Toosendan oil. , fennel essential oil, and spaghetti soap flakes and other high-grade insecticides.

He is the youngest son of the family, he was favored in the first place, and his father and brother respected Mr. Huan as a censor, thinking that his insecticide was a private fragrance from Huan's mansion. The elegant taste of a famous scholar, just let him torment the yard with the smell of pesticides.

Not only the Song family, but the entire alley is almost free of mosquitoes.

The neighbors and guests who came to Song's house were all impressed by the identity of Song Shi's censor's disciple and the effect of the insecticide. They asked their house for a small bottle of essential oil and sprinkled it on their bodies when they went out.When someone asked about it, he boasted that it was made by the disciples of the censor himself, and it was the evil dew from the Hanlin Mansion in Beijing.

The smell of this flower dew is not really good, but those who have used it and smelled it, and heard about its origin, would pinch their noses and praise the fragrance as pure and elegant, which is different from the vulgar.

Song Shi did not dare to borrow the name of the Huan Mansion casually, and only vaguely said that an old Taoist priest who sold fragrant medicine in Beijing sold it to him-if someone asked why there was no such thing in Beijing, it would be that Taoist priests only sell predestined people, He left after that.

Only then did Song Juren and his son know that Xianglu Fangzi did not belong to the Huan family, but was bought by his son with money.If that's the case, then this recipe belongs to the Song family, and they can make more floral dew and give it to others or even sell it for money.

Zheng Chaoyan learned the business customs of the Song people, and did not regard the status of merchants as particularly inferior. There are also several shops under the name of the Song family, and there are dedicated housekeepers and shopkeepers to run them.Song Juren built a workshop on a village in the countryside to distill and refine plant essential oils, renamed it "Taixiao Pixie Xianglu", and sold it in shops.

This kind of fragrant dew is very expensive to sell, and a small bottle costs ten taels of silver. There are still many literati and township eunuchs who pay for it in the name of "personally tuned by the disciples of the censor".Among them, peppermint oil is the most popular-because it can repel mosquitoes and refresh the mind. It is hot summer now. When you read a few drops of peppermint dew on your temples, you will feel refreshed and open your mind.

The two elder brothers of the Song family were even extravagant to the point of using mint dew as toilet water. There was no bitter summer all summer, and they felt energetic when reading and composing.This year happened to be the turn of the autumn exam, and the two of them went to Beijing refreshingly, and took the exam in high spirits. In late August, the autumn exam results were released, and Uncle Song Song Xiao actually won the 130th place.

The Song family celebrated together, beaming with joy. Song Shi took the opportunity to interview his brothers about their experiences in the exams, and compared the thesis topics on Jinjiang Online to consider his new topic.

Although the second master Song Yun failed the list, he didn't feel disappointed, and he could joke around to comfort his family: "I didn't get it before because I lacked someone to guide me. In the future, there will be two people in my family who will guide me. Is there anything I can't win? Besides, I'm going to take this step slowly, when next year or so the official is selected as a scholar, our brothers will go to Beijing together and win the same list, it will be a good story."

The three brothers were happily thinking about the future exams. The old father Song Juren looked at their young and vigorous faces, but was touched, and quietly made a decision:

He didn't want to take the Jinshi exam anymore.

He is already at the age of five and six, the eldest son has already won the exam, the second son is about the same, and even the youngest son has hope for a future, so what is he doing in the examination room with the children?That is, if he can really pass the exam, can the court still use him a lot for a person in his 60s or [-]s?

He decided to select officials as a candidate—even if he could only serve as a lecturer and teach a few talented students, it would be better than spending his entire life in the examination room without accomplishing anything.

Song Juren is a very stubborn person. At the beginning, he had to take the exam for three to forty years. Now it is said that the election of officials will be elected immediately, and he will not even take the exam in the spring of the next year.After the Double Ninth Festival, he took advantage of the high weather and clear weather to go to Beijing with his family to vote for election in the Ministry of Officials.A group of the Song family brought four to five hundred taels of silver to the Ministry of Officials to deal with, and Brother Song took the way of being a teacher in the township examination.In this way, there was no need to follow the order in the Ministry of Officials, so he appointed a magistrate of Rong County, Guangxi that month.

After being selected, they must take office within half a year.

When Song Juren returned home, he hurriedly wrote letters to the same year and friends asking about experience and looking for reliable staff.The two older sons also asked relatives and friends everywhere.When the women in the back house heard about Guangxi, they felt that it was a place full of severe epidemics. They rushed to buy medicines for him, asked divination, and went all over the local Buddhist temples and Taoist temples to burn incense and pray for him.

Song Shi saw that the whole family was so busy that they were dizzy, but they seemed to be a little lost, so he thought of going to Jinjiang to find the experience of the predecessors.He changed a few keywords in a row, flipped through hundreds of pages of search results, and finally cut the meat with pain, and downloaded a copy of "Research on the Qing Dynasty's County Official System", which costs as much as 25 yuan, to learn what county officials should do for his father.