To The Land of Nevernight

The southeast corner of Zhenbao Pavilion is near a small river.The meandering creek made the sound of rushing water, the carved windows were opened, and the dazzling sunlight shone down along the window sills and reflected on a tall nanmu tree frame.

Phoebe is inherently expensive, even for Mrs. Wang's family background, she thinks it is extremely precious.However, it is placed in the store like this.On this nanmu high stand are silks and satins of Su brocade, top-quality handkerchiefs embroidered by the top embroiderers of Gusu Mansion, layer by layer, and a clear jade bowl is placed in the center of the handkerchiefs .

In the jade bowl, there is a bowl of intoxicating essential oil.

Jewelry inlaid, flower petals embellished.Anyone who looked at the objects in this corner would feel that they were extremely expensive.Most of the girls who entered the store saw it and avoided it, fearing that it would be accidentally broken.Many people didn't know what it was and asked the guy who was standing by.

"This thing is called golden wisp, and it has a similar effect to aromatherapy, but it doesn't need to be so cumbersome. Put a drop on clothes and jewelry, and the fragrance will last for a day."

The shopkeeper clapped his hands, and two guys came out from behind the counter immediately. Each of them held one end of the scroll and slowly opened it.

Mrs. Wang read out the words on the scroll: "Moth snow willow golden strands, laughter filled with fragrance. People searched for him thousands of times, but when I looked back, the man was in a dimly lit place. People searched for him thousands of times... so good He was searched thousands of times in the crowd! Hey, the inscription is actually Mr. Liang Bowen, Mr. Liang!"

"It turned out to be the words mentioned by Mr. Liang."

"This is Mr. Liang's new work? Eh, no, it's the work of a poet named Xin Qiji. Moer Xueliu's golden thread, is this the golden thread you're talking about?"

The shopkeeper asked the staff to mount the scroll on the wall of the lobby. At the same time, the wives and girls of the Gusu Mansion were already crazy about the golden thread.

The crowd searched for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in a dimly lit place!

The girls were ashamed as they read this sentence.Customers who can afford gold strands are originally from wealthy families, and usually hire teachers to teach girls to read at home.And this poem, even if you are only literate and don't read the Four Books, you will feel drunk when you read it.

All of a sudden, the expensive golden strands were snapped up by the girls of Gusu Mansion.

The shopkeeper was a little skeptical: "Could it be that I marked the wrong price, the price of this golden strand is wrong?"

Of course he was right.

A peerless poem that can be passed down through the ages, plus Liang Bowen's inscription.If you don't sell it at a good price, you will be sorry for Tang Shen's marketing campaign.What's more, he also personally went to the Treasure Pavilion to design the binding and display of the essential oils.

In the Zhenbao Pavilion, the wives and ladies of rich and noble families are eager to enjoy the golden wisps of gold, while those from lesser family backgrounds can only look at the essential oil in the jade bowl and hesitate.Soon, however, they found a light pink paste-like object placed next to the essential oil.

"Hey, what is this? It looks delicate and smooth, and it is also placed on Su brocade. Is it as good as a golden thread?"

The shopkeeper immediately came over and said with an apologetic smile, "Ma'am, the name of this item is soap..."

The Zhenbao Pavilion was newly opened, and there was a huge flow of people.

Although the lady in the boudoir is literate, her research on poetry is not that deep.They were intoxicated by the romance of suddenly looking back, but no one noticed that the poem was only half written.

Tongde Lane, Gusu Mansion, Liang Mansion.

Tang Shen carried a box of soap, essential oils, and a book basket, and entered the gate of the Liang Mansion with a bitter face.

Liang Song has been waiting for a long time.

Tang She gave the soap and essential oil to the housekeeper.

Liang Song: "Today, Tang Ju's makeup shop opened again?"

Tang Shen nodded: "That's not true. Sir, when the kid came, I heard from Yao San that the whole Gusu Mansion had gone. When they saw the words you inscribed, Teacher, they were all dumbfounded. They passed on word of mouth and never forgot."

Liang Song glanced at him: "If you didn't blackmail the old man, you have to write the words to tell the title of the poem, the old man would not write for you."

Tang Shen blinked innocently.

That's right, Liang Song is one of the four Confucianists in the world, with a brilliant literary name.For an ordinary person, let alone ask him to write an inscription, even if he asks him to give some pointers, it is as difficult as climbing the sky.Song Dynasty's attitude towards merchants was not bad. Scholars can go into business, and merchants can also participate in the imperial examination, which is not as strict as later generations.But Liang Bowen would not write an inscription for a cosmetics shop.

When Tang Shen had the audacity to ask Liang Chan to write an inscription, Liang Song almost kicked himself, an old man (the only student he accepted after he was old), out of the study door, preferably into the pond in the yard.

"You can't be more promising!"

But what a thick-skinned Tang Shen is. In his previous life, when he was scolded by his boss for submitting his thesis late, he always said sweet things to fool him.He directly took out Xin Qiji's words, and as expected, Liang Song's eyes lit up when he saw the words.

"You wrote this?" Just after finishing speaking, he said, "Impossible, you rascal can't write such works."

Tang Shen, who just wanted to be humble and not be a writer: "..."

Liang Chan tasted the poem carefully, and said: "This is only a half-queue, and there are still half-queues. Where did you get this work from?"

Tang Shen had already made up a lie, saying that it was a word given to Zhaojia Village by a down-and-out literati who had traveled the world by chance and drank his family's fruit juice, and used it as money to buy fruit juice.

Liang Chan: "Looking back suddenly, the place where the lights are dim... Only great Confucians who have experienced the vicissitudes of life and death can write such words and sentences. It's just a pity, I don't know which colleague Xin Qiji is who sees through the world, but his reputation is not obvious. Never heard of it."

In order to get the first half of the words, Liang Song inscribed the Tang family's Zhenbao Pavilion.

When Tang Shen came to the Liang Mansion, he was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to visit the Treasure Pavilion, but he wasn't worried about the sales of essential oils and soaps.He took out the two Zhiyi articles he wrote yesterday from the bookcase and handed them to Liang Song for review.

Crafting is stereotyped essays, ranging from children's examinations to palace examinations. In ancient times, stereotyped essays were indispensable for every examination.

However, this eight-legged essay is not as easy to write as the later generations think. The structure alone is divided into eight parts: breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture, starting, starting the section, middle section, back section, and closing the section.

The topics of stereotyped essays all come from the Four Books and Five Classics. It stands to reason that as long as you are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, it should not be difficult to solve the questions.But how can it be so simple, there is a very difficult interception question in the topic of the stereotyped essay, which is to disassemble two irrelevant sentences and put them together, and directly use them as the topic.

In the previous dynasty, a county magistrate came up with a superb interception question in the children's examination, which stumped all the students in that session.His title was "Mizi's Wife and Zilu".This sentence is the original sentence from "Mencius": "Mizi's wife and Zilu's wife are also brothers." As a result, the last five words were removed, and all candidates were dumbfounded.

Miko's wife and Zilu...

How do you write it like an extramarital affair, you have to dip into a pig cage!

Tang Shen originally wanted to take the test casually.Gusu Mansion is a place where talents from all over the world gather, sending a large number of Jinshi talents for each palace examination.If other barren mountains and wild mountains dare to come up with such weird intercepting questions, Gusu Mansion can't do it.Gusu Mansion is similar to the big provinces of the college entrance examination in later generations. It is nothing to stump the students with questions, but it is afraid that these students will become high-ranking officials in the future and embarrass the people who made the questions at that time.

Therefore, the exam questions are destined not to be too biased, and Tang Shen has a mastery of back and forth, so it is definitely not a problem to take the county exam.With only three months left, he planned to study hard, but he didn't plan to study hard.

Liang Song could see at a glance his apprentice's "craving for pleasure", so he didn't say a word, and took him directly to the examination room of Mingsui County Examination.

This is a ten-zhang-square yard, just behind the Gusu Prefecture Government Office.

Tang Shen looked around at his future examination room, and didn't think there was anything wrong.

Liang Songdao: "Each county in Gusu Prefecture has set up its own examination room. Now that you have arrived in the prefecture, you will take the examination in the future. Last year, 150 people applied for the county examination. Do you know what this means?"

Tang Shen was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized: "So many!"

The examination room is only about 30 meters wide and 30 meters long, and it will accommodate more than 100 people for the examination?

Liang Song looked at him, and said quietly: "Many? If I told you, these people enter the examination room before dawn and can't go out until dusk. There is no toilet in this examination room, and all things must be done in the examination room. Heh, you roll your eyes, you little rascal, but you want to hand in the test in advance?"

Tang Shen's face had already turned green.When he heard the words "no toilet", he realized the seriousness of the matter.

"It's okay to hand in the papers in advance, but after you hand in the papers, your papers will be put aside. No matter how good your writing is, and you have the talent of the champion, it will be very difficult for you to take this test."

Tang Shen: "Then... where to eat?"

Liang Song was surprised: "Eat?" Then, his voice was calm: "I heard that more than ten students passed out last year and failed to take the exam."

"Did you faint from hunger?"

"Smelly dizzy. There are also hungry dizzy because of the smell."

Tang Shen: "..."

Whoever loves this exam will take it!

Think about it, a place the size of a small square will be used to dance square dances for aunts after a thousand years, and now more than 100 people are going to take the exam.From morning to night, eating, drinking, and lazards are all in it.No matter how good your stomach is, you still have to go to the toilet after a day, right?Anyway, I have to eat.

Just imagine, you are eating the shriveled flatbread that you brought, which is already too bad to eat.At this time, the person next door suddenly took the jug and started to shit.This distance is even closer than the squatting pits of later generations!

What a flavorful sentence!

Tang Shen's mind wandered too far, and he felt bad all over.

Liang Song suddenly said: "The children's exam is divided into three rounds, the county exam, the prefectural exam and the college exam. The old man seems to have remembered something. The top ten in each exam will be brought up in the next exam. Take the exam in the room. It's better to be in the room than outside." He pointed to the lobby of the county government office.

Tang Shen's eyes lit up.

Liang Song said with a smile, "How you rank in the exam, Xiao Tang Lang, is up to you."