"Zhu Pingan, you can come in, but that dead fat pig is not allowed in."
Just when Zhu Pingan looked at a certain fat man with a red nose with a painful look on his face, the door of the study room opened, and the sinister girl Li Shu poked her head out of the door, reluctantly pouted and shouted to Zhu Pingan
He said it with a look of reluctance on his face.
"If dad hadn't told you to keep the study for your use before he left, I wouldn't have let you in!" The sinister girl pouted and rolled her eyes at Zhu Pingan.
A certain fat man whose head was caught by the door heard this, and his wretched little eyes flicked back and forth between Zhu Pingan and the dark-faced girl with bright and inquiring eyes.
"Then you wait outside for me."
Originally, Zhu Ping'an didn't want to leave the fat man in alone, but after seeing the fat man's behavior, he immediately left a word, patted his butt and left. Although the sinister girl had a stinky face, she was good-looking.
Ah, it's much better than seeing the fat man's wretched face, not to mention that he is here to return books and borrow them, so it's better to be practical.
Zhu Pingan went into the study to return the books, and quickly borrowed two more books. When he was about to leave, he was stopped by the sinister girl.
"Is something wrong?" Zhu Ping'an looked at the dark-hearted girl and asked.
"Nonsense, why should I stop you when you have nothing to do!" The sinister girl said with contempt, "Next time you come to borrow a book, you must bring me a story of 5,000, no, at least 6,000 words. If you want to copy it, the font must be neat.
, just think of it as practicing calligraphy for you.”
After the sinister girl finished speaking, she looked at Zhu Pingan without blinking, waiting for Zhu Pingan's answer.
"Okay, I'll try my best." Zhu Pingan nodded.
"What does it mean to try your best? It means to be certain!" The dark-hearted girl was dissatisfied and showed her little fangs.
On the way back to Zhu Ping'an's house from Li's house, the fat man's face was full of gossip. He kept asking why the study was the place for your tryst, and what have you been doing in the study for so long...
"You were really born in the wrong era." Zhu Pingan glanced at the fat man with a face full of gossip and said lightly.
"Huh?" The fat man was puzzled.
"It can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words." Zhu Pingan shook his head, pretending to be mysterious.
"Oh, you are just changing the subject. You are in the study room..." The fat man started gossiping again.
The sound of frogs, birdsong, and the fat man’s gossip echoed all the way...
In the evening, Li Zheng from Xiahe Village led two young people into the gate of Zhu Ping'an's house carrying rice, noodles, oil and meat.
"Li Zheng, what are you doing?" Zhu's father heard the sound and came out of the room. He was very surprised to see Li Zheng and the two young men carrying things.
"Brother Zhu, this is not what I want to do. It is the county's regular subsidy for junior students allocated to your second son."
With a smile on his face, Li Zheng waved to the younger generation behind him to put things in the yard of Zhu Ping'an's house.
"There are so many things." Mother Chen came out of the room and looked at the rice, flour, oil, meat, etc. carried by the two young men. She couldn't help but click her tongue. There was a bag of rice, a jar of oil, a small bag of flour and so on.
A big piece of meat is enough to last you a long time.
Zhu Ping'an, the fat man and his eldest brother Zhu Ping'an then walked out. When Li Zheng saw Zhu Ping'an, he smiled and congratulated, "I haven't congratulated Mr. Zhu yet. Your Majesty Long En opened Enke with great force, Mr. Zhu can't
Let’s try our skills.”
"Oh, I almost forgot, this was sent to the town from the county. The town asked me to hand it over to Mr. Zhu as well." Li Zheng said, patted his head, and took out a cover sheet from his sleeve.
The red paper with the seal was handed to Zhu Pingan.
"Thank you, Li Zheng." Zhu Pingan took the red paper and thanked him.
"Where. It's just a matter of chance." Li Zheng waved his hand, with a smile on his face.
Li was chatting in the Zhu family yard for a while and then left. Zhu Ping'an opened the red paper in his hand and found that it contained detailed information about Enke. In the front was a lot of Qilin la and other words of praise, followed by
The specific time of Enke is the fourth day of November.
The fourth day of November?
At first glance, Zhu Pingan was a little confused when he saw this time, because the number four has always been an unlucky number in our country and is very taboo among the people, let alone the court. However, in
After thinking about Emperor Jiajing's character, Zhu Ping'an felt relieved.
Emperor Jiajing was fond of refining elixirs and cultivating immortals. He also liked to ask gods and immortals about good and bad luck. The method was also very special. He wrote the questions on paper and sealed them. An eunuch gave them to the Taoist priests, who burned them to the immortals. Then he burned them to the immortals.
Two branches were set up on the sand table, and two eunuchs pressed the branches with their fingers. When the gods appeared, the two eunuchs closed their eyes and pressed the branches on the sand table to scribble on the sand table. Then Emperor Jiajing studied the gods according to the "Book of Heaven" displayed on the sand table.
's will.
Maybe, this is how the fourth day of November came about.
When the fat man saw the time, he felt like his butt was on fire and screamed, "Why is it this year? I thought it would be early next year. Then I have to go back to prepare for the scientific examination?"
The scientific examination mentioned by the fat man refers to the examination in the year of the competition, um, that is, the year before the provincial examination, where students, supervisors, etc. are presided over by the Ti Xue Guan to select students to participate in the provincial examination. Generally, it is held after the annual examination.
The academic officer presides over the scientific examination, but Zhu Ping'an and the others are special in that they are students this year, so they only need to take the scientific examination. The scientific examination grades are divided into six levels. Generally speaking, academic officers are given more than three grades, and those below the third grade are given more
There are very few, or even none. Only those with first or second place in the scientific examination can participate in the provincial examination.
The reason why the fat man is so nervous is because there are quotas for the first and second classes in the scientific examination. Each county and prefecture has a fixed quota. If I remember correctly, it will take about five or six years for this dynasty to be based on previous years.
The number of places admitted to the provincial examination is limited proportionally.
There are about 2,340 people in the entire southern Zhili, and they are allocated to each county. There are only about ten people in each county, not much. Each county has at least hundreds of talents, and only those who can take the provincial examination can
There were no more than ten people.
Even the qualifying test for the provincial examination is difficult, isn't it? But according to the usual practice, it is safe to pass the scientific examination and participate in the provincial examination.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan is not very worried about this.
Soon, the nurse who sent Fatty to Xiahe Village the day before yesterday also arrived with a horse-drawn carriage. He had received the news that Fatty's family in Fengyang Prefecture had delivered overnight, telling Fatty to go home quickly to prepare for the scientific examination.
Fatty reluctantly left the Zhu family...
"Godmother, those pickled cucumbers..." I have to say that the way the fat man reluctantly parted was also very special.
"My godmother, I'll give you a whole jar." Mother Chen took a freshly marinated jar from the yard and put it on the fat man's carriage. She also really liked this chubby godmother who had only lived in Zhu's house for a few days.
son.
"That's so embarrassing..." The fat man said this, and his hands were not slow. In three strokes, he pulled the jar of pickled cucumbers that his mother Chen put on the carriage into the carriage.
"What's wrong? I can pickle it again in a few days." Mother Chen waved her hand nonchalantly.
"Godmother, those dried mushrooms..." The fat man pointed to the dried mushrooms in the yard and reluctantly left them. The chicken soup made by my godmother with mushrooms last night was so delicious.
"My godmother, I'll put it on for you..." Mother Chen was very generous.
"Godmother, then..." The fat man collected the mushrooms and reluctantly got up...
"Whether it's over or not, leave some for me!" Zhu Pingan stepped forward and pushed the reluctant fat man into the carriage.
Zhu Pingan's actions made Mrs. Chen laugh and scold him. She also picked up a lot of Fatty's favorite food from home and stuffed them into Fatty's carriage, making Fatty happily wink at Zhu Pingan.
"You're childish, don't waste time eating and sleeping, read more books, it will save you the shame of taking the provincial science and technology examination."
Zhu Pingan complained disdainfully about the fat man's childish behavior.
"Fat Master will be embarrassed? Just wait and see him with admiration." The fat man raised his fat face and roared away in the carriage. (To be continued...)