Dress to be a celebrity

The main examiners of the rural examinations are applied by Tixue every year, and people are sent from Beijing to the provinces to take the exams, while the examiners of the fourteenth room are selected by Tixue from Jinshi officials and well-known Confucian scholars in the province.However, because Fujian is a remote area, the officials below the prefecture and county level are mainly Juren officials, and the Jinshi officials are mostly concentrated at the prefectural level, and the magistrates and Tongzhi cannot leave their duties lightly, so the selection of co-examiners is mainly based on local celebrities.

In previous years, the promotion of academic officials had to test the talents and learning of local celebrities. It was necessary to go to various prefectures to meet people and test schools in person, and it took a lot of time to compare their talents and learning.And since this lecture conference attended by celebrities from all over Fujian, talented people from all over the province gathered together to give lectures, and everything they said was printed in black and white in the book, so he could select talents without going to the scene in person.

Of course, what Fang Tixue trusts most is the three famous experts who have seen him give lectures with his own eyes.

In late May, when the two chief examiners from Beijing were leaving, Huan Ling also received a post from Fang Tixue, inviting him to be a fellow examiner in the provincial capital in early August—

He has three identities as an in-service general judge, a 20-year Jinshi in Xintai, and a well-known bachelor in the province. If he is not invited to be a house teacher, it will be a real failure of academic and political investigation and a misplaced talent.

When the mansion received the official letter, Zhu Fuzun, Xing Fuzun, Wu Jingren and other officials in the mansion first congratulated him for being favored by Fang Tixue, and he was given this honorable job.Although being an examiner in the provincial examination is not as good as an examiner in the general examination, the scholars in Zhongju have to call him "Mentor", and they have been regarded as teachers and students since then. present.

Naturally, he also had to spend some money to order a restaurant for a banquet for everyone to spread the joy.After eating until the night sky was completely dark, several adults returned to the government office from the restaurant.

It was already past the second watch when they returned to the yamen, but the door of the general judgment court was still half open.Lanterns were hung on the edge of the rooms on both sides, and the courtyard was full of brilliance, and his sweetheart was sitting in the brightest place.

Song Shi, who was supposed to be studying hard by the lamp in the study, sat at the entrance of the main hall and waited for him. There was a small stove for boiling medicine by his side, and he was shaking a hut in his hand, fanning lightly at the mouth of the stove.He was wearing a light yellow banana cloth, a local specialty. The light cloth swayed with the cool night breeze, and the light from behind the hall door seemed to flow from him. The scene was so beautiful that Huan Ling couldn't bear to break it. .

The light of the horn lamp in Huan Ling's hand was suppressed by the bright light in the courtyard. His footsteps were light, and Song Shi didn't notice him entering the door. Humming an unknown tune.

The drunkenness all over his body seemed to have dissipated a bit, looking at the bright room and the person who was waiting for him at the door and making medicine for him, it was vaguely like returning to his youth.At that time, his father was out for entertainment, and when he came home late, his mother would ask someone to simmer the sober soup and wait for his father to return in the room with a lamp on.

And now, he has such a person waiting for him until late at night...

He almost wanted to rush up and hug Song Shi, but when he stretched out his hand, the horn lamp was separated between the two of them, and the dazzling candlelight shone from the lamp above, waking them up from their own thoughts.Song Shixian regained his senses, looked up at him, a smile leaked from the corners of his brows and eyes, and cupped his hands and said, "Congratulations, brother, for taking up the post of co-examiner in the township examination. If I can pass this subject, I won't be able to call you a little boy in the future." Brother, I have to call Teacher Huan."

Hey, did he slip up and call Little Senior Brother just now?Forget it, anyway, he didn't just miss this time, his senior brother didn't care about it, he just pretended he didn't say anything.

Song Shi continued to salute him calmly, Huan Ling put down the lantern, raised his hand to support his junior, and said with a smile, "You usually are so reluctant to call senior brother, and you want to add the word 'small' in private, don't just because If you don’t want to call me a teacher, why don’t you deliberately not take this subject?”

how come!Although becoming his student means that his seniority has been lowered by one level, but if you don’t take advantage of your senior brother to be a room teacher, if you are unlucky in the future, you will not be liked by the next examiner if you catch up with the papers, and you will be wasted like Fan Jin What can I do for half my life?

He himself complained: "I am a student of the Huan family whether I pass the exam or not, and it doesn't make much difference if I say it."

Although Huan Ling recalled the sadness of his deceased father, he couldn't help laughing when he heard him say this. He slid his hands up his sleeves, staggered behind his back, and patted him lightly: "That's right, your late father is your father." Your scripture teacher, I will be your room teacher again in the future, you and Huan... have a very close relationship."

Song Shi told him to hold him in his arms so openly, his head was GAY loudly, his mind was full of the forum pages he loved to visit in his previous life, and he just wanted to post a post online immediately to ask for help-whether my senior brother was drunk and hugged casually, or was it true? Interested in me?

But his senior brother was really just hugging, and there was nothing wrong with sticking to him.

It seems that his senior brother got a good job with a lot of face, and he was able to support his senior brother in the exam, so he cheered up and hugged him, it wasn't that complicated.

It must be that he is being self-indulgent again.

Song Shi relaxed in his heart, and those hands that had been in the air for a long time finally came together to pat Huan Ling's back, and persuaded: "Brother, I'm afraid I drank a lot of wine when I came late, and drinking will hurt your liver. I'll boil it for you." I ordered Fugehua Hangover Soup, drink some before going to bed."

Huan Ling finally let him go, raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes, and nodded with a smile: "I'll drink it later, you stayed up so late for me, you yawned until tears came out, go to sleep. "

Are there tears in the corners of his eyes?How did the little brother at night see it?Song Shi touched the corners of his eyes in puzzlement, turned around and went back to the room, walked into the hall, and then turned around and instructed: "You drink the medicine and close the stove lid, be careful of fire."

Huan Ling nodded silently, and watched him go back to the bedroom on the west side. He poured out a bowl of medicine with a cloth towel on the casserole, let it cool a bit, and drank it.

I don't know if there is honey or sugar in this medicine, and the bitterness returns to sweetness, and that bit of sweetness seeps into the heart from the tip of the tongue, which is enough for him to savor it carefully for a long time.

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Since there were only two months left before the provincial examination in early August, Huan Ling refused to take Song Shi with him when he was on duty at the Yamen sooner or later, and only left him a few questions to practice on his own, and then he would correct them when he went back at night.

Song Shi's articles were taught by his father when he was a child, and the writing style of his brothers was already similar, and after more than a year of hand-in-hand training by him, the art articles he wrote were almost exactly the same as his. , it can be considered a masterpiece in the eyes of the examiners.

The high-intensity review lasted for more than two months. However, after August, he stopped urging Song Shi to review. Instead, he took him out of the city to enjoy the scenery, climb mountains, play football, and had fun for two days.

The exam was on the ninth day of August, and the sixth day of Huanling was about to enter the curtain. There was an official ship provided by the government along the way from Fucheng to Fuzhou, so he took Song Shi on board by the way.There is no need to review on the boat. Huan Ling takes him to fish on the deck every day, or plays chess and promotion pictures in the cabin, and tastes the fresh fish and shrimp made by the boat mother. If you are too nervous, you will not perform well.

Song Shi couldn't tell whether this state was more like the week before the college entrance examination, or more like the two were dating more.But anyway, he himself is tall and burly, he is not the fashionable young girl and handsome boy, his senior brother probably won't fall in love with him...

wrong!He is a big man, how can he think about the same sex not seeing him all day long?This way of thinking is not straight!

While Huan Ling was having dinner at the Tixue Yamen and meeting the chief examiner and fellow examiners, he reflected deeply in the inn for a day, and finally adjusted his mood to a state where there was no sorrow or joy before the exam, and he was completely enlightened.

After the dinner, the examiners would go to the Tribute Court to retreat and write the questions. Song Shi also dug out the questions that Huan Ling had assigned to him in the past, and read them from the beginning.His reading speed has always been fast, and because he has been memorizing papers since he was born, the efficiency of memorizing papers is also extremely high. After reading each article, he has memorized them all, and his memory is quite solid. From head to tail.

In the early morning of the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, when he went outside the gate of the Gongyuan with his basket, he could still see many students holding books and studying hard, rushing for the last bit of time to review, but he didn't want to read at this time.Firstly, I feel very nervous before the exam, and I can’t see it in my head, and secondly, it is easy to dilute old memories. It is better to take advantage of this time to adjust my mood, enter the arena calmly, and give full play to my strength after getting the questions.

The dragon gate was wide open at the fifth watch, and he followed the flow of people into the tribute courtyard, passing by the official hall where the examiner was, he couldn't help but stop and take a look.

His senior brother should be resting in this official office, and when the examinee's papers come in, all the papers from the Spring and Autumn House will be transferred to him and the other two examiners.

The little brother must be looking forward to reading his paper, so he should answer quickly, hand in the paper early, and tell him to get down early.Song Shi smiled, found his own test number, climbed up and down the ground to set up the awning, cleaned the tables and chairs, and sat in to prepare for the test.

When the sun was rising, the inspector held the question board and turned it over and over again in the examination room.He looked it over carefully, and found that the three questions about four books and the three questions about classics and righteousness all avoided the questions that the teacher had asked at the Fujian Lecture Conference.However, it is easy to avoid the questions asked by the teacher, but it is unavoidable for students to ask questions about the true meaning of the sages behind the scriptures, such as the debate of nature and rationality, and the thinking of rationality.

In the first question, "a gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness", it means that a gentleman follows the principles of heaven, so he has a heart of righteousness and the study of righteousness. "Righteousness" is to act according to reason, and it can also lead to the debate between heaven's law and human desire.

The most talked about in the first lecture conference was how to preserve the principles of nature and get rid of human desires. This topic is based on the fact that the nature of a gentleman is in line with the principles of nature, and the heart does not allow the existence of things outside the righteousness, so the essentials can be broken.

He didn't think about it any more, he picked up his pen and wrote down a sentence that was extremely concise and could explain the debate of reason and desire——

"A gentleman's heart knows righteousness."

Next, it is to introduce reason from righteousness, explaining how a gentleman's behavior of keeping righteousness is in line with the law of heaven.

"Gai Junzi, who is purely rational, what is there to do besides self-righteousness?" He seemed to be still discussing scholarship generously on the rostrum in Wuping, with his own clear voice ringing in his mind, reading out fluent sentences sentence by sentence. Think again, just hold the pen in your hand and record the sentences that come out of your heart.

He buried his head in writing quickly, but he didn't notice that one examiner after another deliberately patrolled in front of him to read his papers: Fang Tixue, who was the supervisor, and Zhou Buzheng, who was the supervisor, and Shao Yacha, the supervisor of the examination. The deputy envoy of Guanxian, Li Qianshi...

Some officials who had known Song Shi for a long time, or those who hadn't seen him for a long time all took the opportunity of inspection to see him a few times, and discussed in front of the hall, they couldn't help but feel deeply moved.

It doesn't matter that he is young, but he is still so beautiful.It doesn't matter if he was born well, but when he writes articles, Yuan Hu has the tendency to rely on a thousand words. He seems to write without thinking at all, and the articles he writes are even more thoughtful than others.

No wonder this student is so arrogant that he dares to take the provincial examination in Fujian!

Fang Tixue knew the truth about the fact that he was going to take the exam in Fujian, but because it involved Huan Ling's family affairs, and the relationship between their brothers and sisters was close, he didn't want to say too much in front of others, which would embarrass the two of them, so he just said lightly: " He is talented and knowledgeable, and he has a karmic connection with this place in Fujian. Perhaps it will be easier for him to pass the test by taking advantage of the local style of writing. I just read a few sentences written by him, and the words are in line with the principles of Taoism. I think they are the two chief examiners from Beijing. There is no one who does not love."

What's more, with his senior brother around, how could a senior brother fail to recognize his senior's paper?I will never teach him that the pearl is covered with dust.

The author has something to say: Righteousness means doing what is right

The author of this question is Zhang Wei, a Sichuan Juren in the 43rd year of Jiajing