Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

The matter of Deng Yuming's family came to an end.

As always, Meng Zhen shuttled back and forth between the county and school at home, and the New Year's Exam was coming soon. In the past few days, everyone was so focused on studying and brushing up the questions, that there was less time to chat together.

The annual examination is hosted by the Xuezheng, and it is held every three years, usually in the first year of the Xuezheng's term, and the place of the examination is in the prefecture, prefecture, and county school of each province (capital).

At that time, all students must take the exam. In case of illness, Ding You, and overseas scholars, they can be temporarily exempted from the exam, and the rest cannot avoid the exam.

Even students who are sick and study abroad have to make up the exam within three months. If they deliberately avoid the exam, once they are found out, they will be dismissed as scholars.

There are two exams at the age of [-], the first one is the main one, one essay in four books and one poem in five characters and six rhymes.In the second re-examination, one of the five scriptures will be tested, and one policy question will be asked.Exam questions are generally not too difficult.

Xuezheng judges the merits of candidates according to their grades, and decides on rewards and punishments.Those with excellent grades will be recognized and rewarded by academics and politicians, while those with the lowest grades will be removed from the title of scholar.

Therefore, some students who pretend to be numbers on weekdays have been suffering a lot in the past few days. Even if they are cramming, they have to pass the year-old exam.

Otherwise, if the year-old exam is passed, it’s okay for me to feel uncomfortable. The key is that I can’t hold my head up in front of family, relatives and friends, and I will be ridiculed.

Meng Zhen has no worries about this. Although he is old and started late, he is good at studying, and his qualifications are not bad. Whether it's trying to post poems or discussing strategies, he can do it well, and he is often praised and praised by the instructor.

November [-]th, the day of the annual examination.

Qin Xuezheng came to the county school early in the morning to test all the students in Xianghe County. They took four calligraphy essays in the morning and five-character and six-rhyme poems in the afternoon.

Xuezheng is in charge of the academic affairs of a province (capital), and the government affairs are relatively busy. Since the day he took office, various prefectures, prefectures, and counties have been inspected back and forth, mainly to investigate the quality of the school's instructors and the laziness of the students.

In addition, the academic examinations held twice every three years, the yearly examinations held once every three years, and the scientific examinations were all presided over by Xuezheng.

The Shuntian Mansion where Mengzhen and the others are located is not bad. Shuntian Mansion governs two prefectures and seven counties, and the academic administration is relatively relaxed during the term of office compared to the academic administration in charge of a province.

Because a province has several prefectures, prefectures, and counties under its jurisdiction, the three-year tenure of the Xuezheng is basically busy and does not touch the ground. Relatively speaking, it is very hard.

The first test was completed on the [-]th, followed by the second test on the [-]th.The second round is a re-examination, with one test of five scriptures and one policy question.

These are the questions that are often done and practiced on weekdays, and it is not difficult for most students.Meng Zhen also felt the same way, he felt that the exam questions in this year's exam were much easier than their college exam.

On November [-]th, the exam results came out, and Mengzhen got the second class, which was appreciated by Qin Xuezheng.Qin Xuezheng praised him for his commendable spirit. Although he is old, he is knowledgeable and eager to learn. He should be a model for scholars in the world.He also posted his annual examination results on a list of the county school to encourage more students to work hard and be positive.

When Chen Qiushi passed by this list, he looked at the name of Mengzhen, who was higher than his own name, and didn't take it seriously. There are more students who are better than Mengzhen in the exam, but Xuezheng only praises him because Is he really old and scarce in school?

Chen Qiushi has been at odds with Meng Zhen for a long time, and no one in the school knows about it except Deng Bowen.There are clear regulations in the county school: students are not allowed to talk behind their backs, to abuse or be rude, not to fight, and not to form gangs with each other. Once found, the school will report to Xuezheng, and Xuezheng will give him a scholar if the situation is bad. delisted.

Everyone has worked hard to get through the exam, and no one wants to be dismissed as a scholar.Therefore, except for the occasional heated debates in academic exchanges, the atmosphere in most cases is relatively harmonious.

The same is true for Chen Qiushi. His family is not well-off, and he was admitted as a scholar after all his hard work. He can't be dismissed as a scholar for violating school regulations.

Therefore, no matter how much unhappiness he and Meng Zhen had before, he had to restrain himself a lot after coming to the county school, and there was no turmoil between the two when they met as before.

However, although Chen Qiushi appeared to be calm on the surface, he was still ignorant of the truth in his heart.When Mengzhen was giving lectures on Daoism to the students in the school, he said after listening to a few words below that it was "to catch fame".

In the archery class, Mengzhen got the No.1 result. He thought it was just because Mengzhen was lucky and got the first place by fluke, and he didn't really have that strength.

In his opinion, Meng Zhen is just an ordinary old man, how can he compare with the young students in the school.So no matter how outstanding Meng Zhen's achievements in any aspect, in Chen Qiushi's eyes, these are just a means for Meng Zhen to show off.

"Hmph, didn't you just get on the Honor Roll once, what's so great about it." Chen Qiushi glanced at Mengzhen's name on the list, snorted, and walked away without paying attention.

Of course, Chen Qiushi didn't know the truth of these thoughts, he only thought that Chen Qiushi was afraid of the relevant regulations in the school, and he didn't dare to trouble him as soon as they met as before.Moreover, he never took Chen Qiushi seriously, but he was just a competitive young man, so how could he catch his eyes.

A few days passed like this, and soon it was the holiday again.In the early morning of November 25th, during the rest day as usual, Meng Zhen called Meng Che over to check his homework routinely.

Meng Che's homework is very solid. After Meng Zhen memorized a few articles from him and asked a few related questions, he asked him to accompany him to read and write the articles.

Meng Che was also willing to write the homework assigned by his master next to his father.Not long after I wrote this, Meng Hong walked in from outside covered in snow.

Since last night, Xianghe County has experienced the second snowfall since this winter, and it has not stopped until this morning. The outside is completely white, and the house is very warm because of the burning charcoal fire.

After Meng Hong came in, he warmed his hands on the stove before taking off the cloak he was wearing, and then took out a letter and handed it to his father, "Father, my eldest brother has sent a letter, saying that the business over there is in trouble, and I'm afraid it was a year ago." Not coming back. We don’t have to wait for him, just take care of my sister-in-law.”

Meng Zhen put down the pen in his hand, just when an article was finished, he blew on the wet ink marks on the paper, took the letter from Meng Hong, looked at it for a while and said: "Understood, you can press your letter." What brother said means, take good care of your sister-in-law."

Wang Xinyu is now almost eight months pregnant, and will give birth in one month.These days, Meng Hong has been taking care of her, but thinking that her elder brother might not be around when her sister-in-law gives birth, Meng Hong feels uncomfortable.

In the past few days, my sister-in-law has been whispering in his ear, asking when his elder brother will come back, and the Chinese New Year will be in a month, so he should be back soon.

Meng Hong received a letter from his elder brother today, saying that he may not be able to come back years ago, if he told his sister-in-law about this, she would feel very uncomfortable.

But this is something that can’t be helped. This is how business is done. There is no fixed number, and it cannot be controlled by people.

Meng Hong received the letter back from his father, and said helplessly: "Okay, I'll go to my sister-in-law's room and say something, and it will also give people a sense of confidence, so you don't have to worry about it every day."

Meng Che quickly stood up and said, "Second Brother, I also want to go with you."

But Meng Hong said: "What are you going to do, you should study hard with Dad, it's very cold outside, don't run back and forth." He took the cloak he took off just now and put it on again, and came out of his father's room.

As soon as he left the gate of his father's courtyard, the maid in Wang Xinyu's room ran over.The servant girl looked a little flustered, and she came over and said: "Second Master, the eldest and youngest mistress is not well, sitting in the room and crying all the time, we can't persuade him no matter what."

Meng Hong asked in shock: "What's going on, why are you crying?"

The servant girl said: "We don't know either, just now the eldest mistress was sleeping in the house, and we were guarding outside, when we heard someone shouting loudly, we ran in quickly and shook him for a long time before shaking him awake. Then the eldest mistress just sat there and cried all the time. , We asked for a long time and couldn't find out why, so we hurried to find the second master. Second master, you should go over and have a look, and persuade the young lady, crying too much is not good for the child in the stomach. "

Meng Hong's heart was full of ups and downs, Wang Xinyu woke up from sleep and kept crying, he must have had some bad dream, could it be related to his elder brother?

Meng Hong held his heart tightly, and ran towards the east courtyard three steps at a time.

The author says:

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