With the help of the store owner, Hou Yao chose a set of high-end Confucian shirts sold by some prodigal in just one stick of incense.
It's almost like new, with no visible flaws on the outside, just a little bit of yarn worn off inside the collar.
It is absolutely perfect to find such clothes in a ready-made clothing store. Hou Yao chose them decisively.
Zhou Yu's side was having a difficult delivery. After choosing for more than an hour, she still couldn't decide which one she wanted.
Hou Yao saw that it was getting later and later, and he still had a lot of things to do.
Therefore, she can only forcefully interrupt her entanglement, and the best way is to buy them all.
Zhou Yu was overjoyed and called out to his ancestors for his blessings, finally having someone to rely on for the rest of his life.
After leaving the clothing store, both of them had a lot of luggage.
Hou Yao took Zhou Yu to the Moxiang Inn. He stayed here for two days when he went to Fucheng to attend the college examination last time.
That time he lived in Tongbu with a group of students. This time with Zhou Yu, it was impossible to live in Tongbu, so he asked for two herringbone rooms.
Of course I can afford a better room, but it’s just too wasteful and unnecessary.
After arranging Zhou Yu's residence, Hou Yao began to prepare invitations and gifts for the visit.
…
Zhizhoufu
He Jianbai was sitting in the study with his head on his hands, feeling a little depressed.
The New Year is about to begin again, and my term is shortened by another year.
In two years, after completing his nine-year term, he will return to Beijing to take the General Examination for Foreign Service Officers, which means he will have to give a work report.
Whether you can continue to be an official depends on this.
Since he was placed in a place like Yazhou, his relationship network was not reliable.
The only thing that allows him to continue to be an official is political performance.
It’s just that over the past few years, everything else has been fine, such as public security, taxation, construction, etc.
Not to mention how brilliant it is, but it is still to the point, at least it can fool people.
Only the cultural and educational matter made him frown deeply.
This place in Yazhou is difficult, too difficult.
Although the entire Nanhai Prefecture is not good at culture and education, other states can occasionally produce one or two candidates.
Only Yazhou has no hair. It’s not that Yazhou doesn’t have literati, it’s just that Yazhou can’t retain literary names.
In fact, both state schools and county schools have produced many good scholars.
Daxia Kingdom stipulates that only children of official families who have committed serious crimes such as rebellion are not allowed to participate in the scientific examination.
The crimes committed by officials with other crimes will not affect the imperial examination qualifications of the family's children.
Many of these people have family backgrounds, but although these people studied in Yazhou,
But in the end, when I took the scientific examination, I would definitely try my best to refer to other places.
This cannot be blamed on Zhizhou, a parent official.
After all, Yazhou has been a place of exile for nearly a thousand years and has already become famous.
Naturally, no one who is capable would be willing to refer to it in the name of a Yazhou student.
This is also human nature. If you don’t believe me, you can ask He Jianbai.
Is he willing to let his son participate in the provincial examination on behalf of Yazhou?
After you pass the exam, no one will ask you doubtfully: What crime did your ancestors commit?
Regardless of whether he is the son of a criminal official or not, he is not willing to wear such a hat.
This is the dilemma of Yazhou culture and education.
He Jianbai is worried, but what can he do?
At this time, a soft call came from outside the door:
"Sir, there is a scholar outside who claims to be your student and has sent a greeting card."
He Jianbai was slightly surprised. Usually the people who came to the house to see him were children who needed to take the college examination.
The scholar has passed the college examination,
For the higher-level provincial examination, the help he can give is very limited.
They don’t know as much as the academic officials in the state.
Therefore, it is indeed very rare for a scholar to visit his family.
"Bring the invitation card in."
The doorman sent the greeting card in.
After getting the greeting card, I scanned it, opened it and scanned it.
The greeting card stated that he wanted to come and thank him. When he saw the name at the back, he immediately remembered who this person was.
Half a year ago, I personally led the team and took the students from the prefecture to Fucheng to participate in the college examination.
While waiting outside the examination room, I saw a candidate in the team falling asleep directly in the examination room, which almost pissed him off.
Later, he found a way to ask the examiner to help wake him up.
Thanks to this name, there was one more scholar in the state.
Now it makes sense that this scholar would come to pay his respects.
I am indeed kind to him,
There is also a gift poem in the greeting card,
A gift to my mentor He Zhizhou
The sun is setting in the majestic sorrow of separation, and the whip is pointing eastward to the end of the world. Falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect the flowers.
After reading the gift poem, He Jianbai's eyes suddenly lit up,
This is definitely a rare masterpiece, no less famous than any contemporary scholar's masterpiece.
Before, he actually didn't think much of this scholar named Hou Yao.
A person who can fall asleep in the examination room cannot be liked by others.
But now with this gift poem, it’s different.
A person who can write such a poem has an 80% chance of winning the imperial examination, let alone Jinshi.
The imperial examinations in Daxia were divided into three types: regular examinations, formal examinations and military examinations.
The liberal arts major is an examination for selecting professional talents. Generally, people who feel that there is no hope for regular majors will switch to the liberal arts major.
Being a technical officer is better than failing the exam all the time.
For example, officials such as the county government's history officer, chief registrar, etc. all came from the system department.
For martial arts, military attaches are selected. Even if military attaches do not have military merit, even if they do well in the exam, it is actually of no use.
Only the regular subjects receive the most attention and are also the key exams to obtain a scholar.
Competition pressure is also the greatest, and cultural and educational achievements are mainly reflected in this subject.
The main examinations of the regular subjects are: poetry, classics and meanings, theory and policy.
As long as any one of these four courses can reach a very high level,
So as long as the other subjects are passable, basically those who pass the exam will be fine.
He Jianbai gradually became excited. Next year will be Qiuwei. If this scholar can be prevented from going to other places for reference,
Isn’t it very likely that Yazhou will have a candidate?
The center immediately made up its mind to find a way to keep him in Yazhou no matter what.
"Come, please go to Moxiang Inn to reply. I'll ask Young Master Hou to come over and have a chat tomorrow."
…
Hou Yao visited the magistrate's mansion with many gifts.
I didn't expect He Jianzhong's unexpected enthusiasm, without any pretentious behavior at all.
After the two exchanged pleasantries, it felt like they had a teacher-student friendship for many years.
He wondered why He Jianzhong, a dignified magistrate, was so affectionate to a scholar like him.
He immediately decided to wait until he found out why He Jianzhong was so affectionate to him.
"Jieqiu, this poem of yours is the best gift I have ever received as a teacher. With such talent, do you want to participate in next year's 'Autumn Festival'?"
Jieqiu is Hou Yao’s character.
According to the etiquette of Bactria, ‘name’ is given by parents when they are three months old and is only used by elders. Calling one’s name shows humility.
The "zi" is given by the teacher after the crowning ceremony at the age of 20, and is used by others in the society to call it.
Of course, only scholars are particular about these things, and ordinary people will not care about them.
Hearing He Jianzhong mention "Autumn Wei", Hou Yao was keenly aware of his urgency.
So he hesitated for a moment and shook his head:
"Replying to my mentor, the student may not participate."
He Jianzhong said slightly disappointed:
"Oh, are you not confident in your homework?"
Seeing He Jianzhong's appearance, Hou Yao suddenly felt that this might be a good opportunity:
"Returning to my mentor, I still have some confidence in my students in terms of homework.
Whether it's poetry, classic meaning, or policy theory, the students' level is passable, but..."
He Jianzhong subconsciously thought that Hou Yao wanted to leave like other students.
He immediately interrupted him a little excitedly and said:
"You want to go to another state to take the exam? You are a student in our state, how can you do this?"
This moment completely exposed his true thoughts,
Hou Yao immediately explained:
"My mentor has misunderstood. Yao is not going to Beppu to participate in the 'Autumn Siege'.
But I was unable to participate in the ‘Autumn Week’ due to some other reasons.”
When He Jianzhong heard this, a glimmer of hope suddenly ignited in his heart:
"What does Jieqiu mean by this? There is no academic problem, and there is no plan to go to other provinces to participate in the 'Autumn Siege'.
Is there anything else that would make you not even bother to participate in the ‘Autumn Festival’?”
Hou Yao pondered for a while and then decided to take a gamble.
He suddenly fell to his knees with a thump and cried:
"Teacher, please forgive me. My student has embarrassed you..."
He Jianzhong's face darkened, and instead of helping Hou Yao up, he said:
"I know something must be wrong with you, otherwise you wouldn't come to my house. I just don't know what kind of big thing it is.
How can you be affected by something as big as the 'Autumn Siege'? Please explain it carefully to my teacher."
Hou Yao lowered his head and said:
"The cause of the matter was that the student secretly fell in love with a dark and thin fisherman girl.
Because he was afraid of being laughed at, he secretly took the woman to a desert island in the sea and lived there for a while.
After calming down, I felt that since I had identified her in my heart, I shouldn’t be afraid of other people’s strange eyes.
So I wanted to take the girl home to meet her parents again.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I got home, I saw Bai Tao, the village chief, and two neighbor elders, intending to insult my mother.
The student was so angry that he lost his rationality and hurt Bai Tao.
After I rescued my mother, I found out that a big change had occurred in our family, and it was all caused by Yao Chuang.
Because of the student's willfulness, he left without saying goodbye,
Everyone in the village said that I was captured by pirates.
Then the bully leader has been coveting my family’s property and my mother’s beauty for a long time.
Then they took action against my family. First, they put my father in jail on the charge of disrespecting the court.
Then he forced my mother to sell the family property, and finally wanted to openly do evil things to her.
The student really has no choice. I came here today just to ask for help from my mentor to save my father from prison.
As for other things, students are willing to shoulder the responsibility."
He Jianzhong slapped the case and said angrily:
"Why are you so confused? How is it growing there now? How serious is the injury?"
Hou Yao cried:
"The student only knew that he blinded one of his eyes and then fainted.
Later, Bai Tao got entangled with a group of thugs and beat me up at my house. In order to protect me and my mother, my girlfriend used a knife.
There were so many people and so many hands, so they didn't know how to attack, so they cut off one of his hands.
Later I found out that the county government official was Bai Tao's brother-in-law. I was afraid things would not end well.
The student had no choice but to bring his mother to Zhoucheng and ask his mentor for help.
I just want to protect the safety of my parents, and the student is willing to accept the punishment."