At this time, the national power of the Suzaku Empire had dropped from the strongest among the four empires to the bottom.
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Let's get back to the subject. If you want to get ahead, in the Suzaku Empire, most people have two choices.
Warrior: Pass the martial arts examination, enter the court as an official, and honor the ancestors.
Literati: Passing the imperial examination shows one's abilities.
But here we don’t talk about the martial arts examinations, only the civil service examinations for literati.
There is a saying that, "Ten years of studying hard in a cold window will make you leap to the top of the dragon gate." What they are talking about is the imperial examination for literati.
If you want to take the Yuyuelongmen imperial examination, you must first obtain the qualification - scholar. Scholarship includes county examination, government examination and college examination. Only after passing these three examinations can you become a scholar and take the next examination - provincial examination.
The examination, the palace examination.
The rural examination is a local examination held by the southern and northern Zhili and various chief envoys. The rural examination is also called the rural examination, and the examination venue is called Gongyuan. The examination period is in autumn and August, so it is also called the autumn examination.
Feng Ye is not old, but he was admitted as a scholar at the age of eleven, and he is also a genius in the eyes of people in this small town.
Feng Ye studied hard in order to one day leap over the dragon gate and be able to glorify his ancestors. Of course, Feng Ye still had self-awareness and was not arrogant enough to think that he would successfully pass the Qiu Wei, become a Juren, then take part in the examination, become a tribute scholar, and finally participate in
After passing the palace examination, he jumped over the dragon gate and became a Jinshi, a disciple of the emperor.
What Feng Ye wanted to do was to participate in this three-year Qiuwei competition. Even if he couldn't pass the examination and become a civil servant, he could still accumulate some experience.
Feng Ye's parents also agreed with Feng Ye's idea, so they asked Feng Ye to take the exam before August in the golden autumn.
It is said that Feng Ye went to take the imperial examination. Although he started from home, the villagers around him still heard about it.
Everyone only knew that Feng Ye went out to take the exam, but they didn't know that he had just finished the exam. He received a letter from his family that his mother was sick, and he hurried back home without even waiting for the exam results to be announced a few days later.
As soon as Feng Ye returned home, the whole family was picked up by horse bandits.
The horse bandits killed people, stole money, and set a fire to burn the people to ashes.
As a result, the villagers all thought that Feng Ye was still thousands of miles away.
Because of this, when Ye Xue, dressed in men's clothing, brought her book boy Zhou Chaowen and maid Luomei, she appeared at the door of the Feng family's house that was burned to pieces by the fire, crying sadly.
The villagers looked at Ye Xue's handsome face like white jade and asked tentatively if Ye Xue was Feng Ye from the Feng family who was rushing to take the exam.
Ye Xue naturally said 'yes'.
Ye Xue, Luo Mei, and Zhou Cha were in tears. Who could doubt that they had nothing to do with the dead Feng family?
Ye Xue introduced the identities of Zhou Zaitu and Luomei to the villagers, saying that they were bookboys and maids bought on the road.
Although the Feng family was in decline, the conditions were still good, and the villagers did not doubt it. They even thought that someone like Ye Xue, who was just over thirteen years old, would be judged for his reading genius and be paired with a maid, and a book boy had wronged Ye Xue.
A fire burned the Feng family's house. The enthusiastic villagers worked together to extinguish the fire. In the end, only a few bones were found from the ruins.
The villagers collected the bones, swept away some ashes, and put them in jars.
Ye Xue took the ashes of the three members of the Feng family from the hands of the villagers. She invited a monk from outside the city to recite sutras for three days to save the souls of the dead, and then buried the ashes of the Feng family in the Feng family's ancestral grave.
We also held funeral wine to invite the folks who had helped a lot.