Take the imperial examinations with the red envelopes of the writers

Some of the waiters looked up at Zhang Xinsi and knew that he was a candidate taken in by a well-meaning employer.

However, seeing Zhang Xinsi's haughty face and high self-esteem, she turned her head away in displeasure.

I don't know whether I will pass the exam or not, so I treat myself as a scholar.

One of them was a young boy with a baby face, called Chen Qi, who looked under twenty, with his hands behind his back, his legs shaking to and fro, as if he couldn't sit still.

Chen Qi looked enviously at his companion and said: "I really envy these candidates! If only my parents could have cruelly squeezed out some money to send me to study! It's a pity that I have a lot of family members. If they sent me back then When I go to study, it will be difficult to eat at home.”

The companion beside him didn't answer, just smiled.

Chen Qi's young face was covered by melancholy for a moment, but then he smiled like the sun shining on the dark clouds, and then showed a lively and cheerful look, and continued: "Maybe I am not a student, like Xiao Shan every day. Teach me this time, I always go in one ear and out the other." He shrugged helplessly.

"It's Dashan, you are really good! Your memory is also really good. Xiaoshan taught you the words, and you will memorize them in a short time. Dashan, if you go to take part in the scientific examination, you might be able to become a scholar."

The one called Dashan was a man who looked honest and honest. He glanced at Chen Qi: "You are also smart, but you can't bear your temper and don't want to work hard to endorse."

Chen Qi rubbed his head in embarrassment, and then jokingly said: "Dashan, you are one of the rare cultural people in our Liufu Inn. After Xiaoshan passes this subject, you will be a master scholar! You can also be regarded as the lintel of glory!"

"Don't worry, Xiao Shan is still young. This is his first time to take the talent test. It doesn't matter if he fails." Speaking of his younger brother, Da Shan's eyes softened a lot.He has confidence in his younger brother, but he also knows that the scientific examination is not an easy task. There are very few people who pass the test at one time, so he doesn't want to put too much pressure on his younger brother.He made a plan early on and saved a lot of silver for his younger brother to study and take exams.

"Don't mention this in front of him, for fear of putting pressure on him." Da Shan looked into Chen Qi's eyes seriously and warned, the two brothers lived in the same room with Chen Qi.Chen Qi is a good person, and he takes good care of Xiao Shan on weekdays, but his nature of talkativeness is hard to change, and he keeps talking all day long.Dashan is dull and not good at speaking, and he usually talks with his younger brother in caring and exhorting words, but does his younger brother Xiaoshan communicate with Chen Qi?

"I know! I know!" Chen Qi hurriedly nodded, and then continued: "Yes, Xiaoshan is still young, but at the age of 15, he will pass the examination for talent, and his homework is so good, sooner or later he will have a bright future."

"En." Da Shan didn't say much, he believed in his younger brother, Xiao Shan studied diligently and persevered, and there would be rewards in the end.He has been a waiter in this inn for many years, and he has also seen all kinds of scholars who have been taken in by the kind store. Seeing that some of them have graduated from high school, and some have failed the exam, he can more or less see the quality of studying and studying.Few of the candidates taken in by the store this time are likely to pass. They are all impetuous and have high self-esteem.

"Oh, by the way, do you know?" Chen Qi thought of something again, approached mysteriously and whispered: "Last night, the most luxurious private room in the store was booked by some young masters in silk and satin." I don’t know why a group of sons who seem to be from a wealthy family came to our remote small inn for their consumption. Why don’t they go to Tianxianglou. You know they ordered a lot of expensive dishes, and there are several pots that the shopkeeper pressed Good wine at the bottom of the case. The owner made a fortune last night."

Chen Qi said gossipingly: "When they came out, they were all drunk and muttering something. When we went in to clean it, it was really a mess, and it took a long time to clean it up in the back kitchen. Among them There was also a son who threw down a coat that was accidentally stained, and was taken away by Aunt Yuan in the back kitchen, intending to wash it clean and give it to his grandson to wear in the future."

They came to this remote Liufu Inn, probably because they wanted to hide their eyes and ears.Dashan thought to himself, but didn't say it out loud.

Chen Qi had already started to count the rich families he had seen in the past, and Da Shan was listening silently.

*****

When Zhang Xinsi returned to the room, seeing that his roommate was still there, he couldn't take out the Chengxintang paper, so he continued to pretend to read the book.However, although his eyes were fixed on the book, he kept thinking about the piece of paper of Chengxintang in his heart, and he didn't know where his mind had wandered for a long time.

"Brother Zhang, why is there a smell of rotten vegetables on your body?" A candidate surnamed Li in the same room suddenly turned to Zhang Xinsi and asked.

Zhang Xinsi was taken aback suddenly, and cursed inwardly, what a dog's nose.

He tried his best to suppress the surprise on the bottom, and replied as if nothing had happened: "I just went to the back kitchen to eat, and the back kitchen is cleaning, maybe it was stained there."

The candidate surnamed Li didn't say anything after seeing this, but just covered his nose with his sleeve.

Zhang Xinsi rolled his eyes.This piece of paper must be disposed of quickly, he sighed secretly.

In the middle of the night, he sneaked out of the house and came to the yard, hoping to use the moonlight to see what was written on the Chengxintang paper.

Zhang Xinsi paced around in the yard, looking for a place with the best moonlight, because he looked down at Chengxintang Paper, and didn't notice that he bumped into a fleshy wall.

He was shocked, raised his head, looked at the man in the waiter's clothes in front of him, he was relieved, and whispered angrily, "What are you doing here?"

Dashan was on night shift tonight, and he was not angry at being robbed of his lines, so he replied, "I am keeping watch today, why are you sneaking around in the yard?"

Zhang Xinsi didn't expect this, but he immediately calmed down, thinking that he was just an illiterate servant, so he took out the Chengxintang paper and held it up in front of the mountain, and said proudly: "Look, I This is when I can't sleep at night to study my homework."

Dashan looked at the Chengxintang paper in front of him with some doubts.He also bought the Four Treasures of the Study for his younger brother, so even though he doesn't know how good the Chengxintang paper is, when he sees the smooth paper, he knows that this kind of paper is rare, and only wealthy people can afford it of.If the examinee could afford this kind of paper, he wouldn't be so downcast that he would be taken in by the store.

Dashan is literate and has an excellent memory. He glanced at it and secretly memorized the content on the Chengxintang paper.

Seeing the man in front of him with no expression on his face, and never showing any envy, Zhang Xinsi felt that he was boring himself for a while, so he ignored Dashan, took back the Chengxintang paper, and read it carefully.

This is indeed a contemporary question, which comes from the Four Books, and it is still difficult.For some reason, Zhang Xinsi had an inexplicable hunch in his heart that he must think about this question well.

He thought about how to answer this question, but he didn't have any better ideas, so he decided to go to the bookstore tomorrow to look through the collections of Chen's essays, looking for similar questions.

Zhang Xinsi thought of this in his heart, so he ignored Dashan who was still standing aside, and went straight back to the house.

He was also very careful when he returned to the room, he walked lightly, trying not to make any movement, but the candidate surnamed Li still turned over.

"The hut in this inn is really not clean." Zhang Xinsi muttered intentionally, and then got into bed.

In the past few days, Zhang Xinsi ran into the bookstore early in the morning every day and looked through Chen's anthology, which indeed allowed him to find a lot of ideas and materials that could be used to answer this question.

He was so triumphant that he didn't even care that the examinee surnamed Li deliberately ridiculed him for knowing that he was hopeless and depraved.

On the third day of August, it is advisable to go to school and attend meetings.

The Jiangling Mansion Court Examination has begun.

The author has something to say: make a short foreshadowing _(:з」∠)_

Thank you for reading patiently~mua~

Tomorrow Yanyan will be on stage!