A powerful minister of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 60 This is not the poem you wrote

"what."

"Hahaha."

After hearing the words "It's none of your business", someone finally laughed out loud.

Zheng Jian's reply to Song Xuan was also unexpected.

This doesn't seem like a scholar's response, and it seems extremely rude.

However, this student took the initiative to come up and cause trouble, but was made to blush by what the other family said. He was too concerned about his own face.

Zheng Jian was sure that his head was buzzing and he wanted to kill Song Xuan.

"hehe."

Han Zhixuan looked at Song Xuan waving a paper fan in front of him, and his eyes flashed with great anger:

"You probably didn't know that your good brother took out the poem you wrote when you were eight years old and used it, saying it was his own work."

After saying this, Han Zhixuan breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Song Xuan with considerable pride.

Song Hao, who was watching the fun from the side, suddenly had a look on his face. Which scholar has no shame?
But what he did was shameless.

He wanted to refute, but his relationship with Song Xuan was not good, so he really couldn't say it.

Zheng Jian became excited again after hearing this revelation.

Someone around started to ask:
"Brother Han, it's that poem. It was actually written by someone when he was eight years old. We are both students in the academy, how could he use it?"

"It's the poem about the frog."

Han Zhixuan also saw Song Hao standing in the crowd and pointed it out bluntly.

"Oh."

The students of the academy naturally knew the value of Song Hao's poem about the frog.

It is truly an existence that makes everyone look up to it.

Since the Yingtianfu Academy resumed teaching, many people's poetry and prose have not been very good.

This is also the focus left over from the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty.

It was not until Fan Zhongyan's reforms that people began to think about increasing the weight of policy essays.

Because at that time, people focused on parallel prose and it was extremely gorgeous, rather than the style of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song dynasties.

The imperial examinations in the Northern Song Dynasty mainly tested four subjects: classics, essays, policies and poetry.

Even if Su Shi could improvise an allusion in his essay, making the examiner think that he had not read enough and had never seen it before, he would still think that this boy was very talented.

However, Su Shi, the representative of the bold and unrestrained school of poetry, failed the palace examination in poetry and prose.

Who dares to believe it?

Su Shi took the B exam and his ranking was not high.

There were 388 students who passed the imperial examination that year. Generally, only those who ranked around the fourth class would be granted the position of county chief clerk, which would put them outside the top 300.

As for his father Su Xun, he failed the imperial examinations many times, mostly because of his poor performance in poetry and prose, so he devoted himself to cultivating his two sons' attention to ancient Chinese literature.

It happened that the chief examiner that time was Ouyang Xiu, who helped Su Shi. Except for the essay, which ranked second, Su Shi performed averagely in the other three subjects.

Ouyang Xiu also failed the exam twice before he passed.

This shows how crazy the poetry and prose requirements in the imperial examinations were, and many people could not rely on them to rank high.

Song Hao's poem about frogs.

He is a well-known figure in Yingtianfu Academy.

No matter how hard everyone tried to come up with poems and essays about frogs, they couldn't surpass him.

Now, hearing Han Zhixuan openly say that this poem was written by Song Hao's younger brother when he was eight years old, looking at the young man in front of him, all of them showed an expression of disbelief.

"Brother Han, is what you said true?"

Han Zhixuan stared at Song Xuan and said, "This is absolutely true. All the students at the Song family private school in Lema Town know about it!"

Song Xuan raised his brows slightly. He had not expected this to happen.

It turns out that the reason why this person suddenly attacked was not because of him, but because his good elder brother was so outstanding that others envied him!
This person happened to know that the poem about frogs was written by him, and it seemed that he had been educated at the Song family private school. His move was not to clear his own name, but to take the opportunity to discredit Song Hao.

Song Xuan quickly sorted out the contradictions during this period.

Yes, after all, the hope of the third generation of scholars in the Song family lies on the eldest brother Song Hao.

It's hard for him not to be envied.

Song Xuan shook his head helplessly. How did the conflict between them lead to him?

"He, Song Xuan, has been studying in a private school. He is very smart, but his father is a gambler and his mother remarried."

"For so many years, he has been degenerating in the private school and has never cherished the opportunity to study.

As a result, we all passed the entrance exam to the academy, but he had to wait until the private school's rules stopped teaching him when he turned sixteen, and then he could come out to take the exam."

Han Zhixuan looked at Song Xuan: "Am I right?"

Song Hao was very conflicted. If he was exposed, he would not be able to stay in the academy anymore.

He really cared about the poem about the frog written by Song Xuan, and was always a little worried.

Han Zhixuan is such a hateful person!

The Song family was grateful for taking him in to study, but now that he has passed the imperial examination, he turns the tables and wants to cut off all ties with the Song family!

Zhang Fangping originally wanted to stop his twelfth brother from beating him, but when he heard this man openly expose his twelfth brother's tragic family background, he clenched his fists.

I've been with Brother Twelve for a long time, and I know a few punches and kicks, so I wouldn't beat anyone to death!
If you dare to talk any more, I will beat you up!
Bao Zheng stood in the crowd, looking at the scene in surprise.

And Song Xuan's life experience just now surprised him even more.

This means that all his previous inferences were wrong.

Bao Zheng was afraid that Song Xuan would get angry if his inner wounds were exposed. He was trying to squeeze forward when he heard:

"Do you understand me?" Song Xuan continued to fan himself slowly.

"I don't even remember who you are, and you're introducing yourself to me right away."

"I was thinking of getting into Yingtianfu Academy and giving a speech as a representative of the freshmen, but you revealed everything to me."

"If you are ill, I can take your pulse to prevent you from losing your mind in the heat."

"Hahaha."

Song Xuan was so calm and composed, coupled with Han Zhixuan's desperate shouting just now.

However, he won praise from some students who did not get into the academy.

In the eyes of some people, it is just a scene of old students bullying new students who have not yet enrolled.

Seeing that Song Xuan still wanted to deny it, Han Zhixuan immediately read out:

"Sitting alone in the pond like a crouching tiger, resting under the green shade of the tree. If I don't speak first in spring, which insect dares to make a sound?"

"Song Xuan, do you dare to tell everyone that this poem was not written when you were eight years old?"

"Oh oh oh."

Most of the people listened to the poems recited by Han Zhixuan and savored them carefully.

What a great poem.

But when it comes to what someone did when they were eight years old, they are still skeptical.

After all, if he could write such good poems at the age of eight, he should have been treated as a child prodigy and taken the boy's examination, instead of staying here with them and thinking about entering Yingtianfu Academy to improve himself.

Even Zhang Fangping, who was about to beat someone up, hesitated when he heard this.

This poem was of course written by the twelfth brother, so how come it has now become his eldest brother's?

His elder brother is such a fraud.

But the person in front of him also harbors evil intentions.

I'm definitely not a good person who wants to seek justice for Brother Twelve!

(End of this chapter)