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The fourth Ming Sutra.
The Ming Jing examination resulted in ten chapters from the Analects of Confucius and ten chapters from the Spring and Autumn Annals or the Book of Rites. This might be a bit difficult for ordinary Jinshi, but for Zhang Yue, who was born in various disciplines, he was extremely familiar with it.
Familiar.
After the fourth exam, the provincial exams are all over, and the results are waiting to be released.
The provincial examination starts from the eighth day of the lunar month and lasts four times over seven days, so the completion of the fourth exam happens to be the Lantern Festival.
The Shangyuan Festival was held with great ceremony in the capital, and Zhang Yue took Guo Lin and Huang Lu to Zhang Shi's home to celebrate the festival.
Needless to say, Zhang Shi is very hospitable. He was as close to Guo Lin as his nephew, and now he loves Huang Lu as much as he loves him.
After the exam that day, Huang Lu brought a bottle of wine to the door, which made Zhang Shi feel strange.
Now Zhang Yue, Zhang Shi, Yu Shi, and Zhang Qiu are eating Yuanxiao at the same table, which is quite lively.
The three of them inevitably drank a few more drinks that day.
Then Zhang Yue took the jug to the pavilion and the three of them were drinking and chatting. Zhang Yue suddenly asked: "Senior brother, why was it so late when we had the first match that day?"
Guo Lin was stunned when he heard this, and then said a little cryptically: "It snowed heavily that day... I was blocked by the wind and snow?"
Zhang Yue said: "Brother, don't say that. I know you are cautious by nature. If there is a sudden heavy snowfall, how can you not be prepared at all? Is there another reason?"
Guo Lin hesitated for a while and said: "Sanlang, to be honest, I already knew it was snowing in the middle of the night that day, and I asked my classmates to go to Gongyuan early the next day."
"In the end, I went back to my room for some work and asked this classmate to wait for me in the carriage for a while. Unexpectedly, when I returned, they had already driven away in the carriage."
Zhang Yue and Huang Lu looked at each other and realized that Guo Lin had been framed.
Guo Lin continued: "Afterwards... I also asked him afterward, and he said that someone told him that I had boarded the carriage of someone I knew well. As a result, I had no choice but to run all the way from the house to Gongyuan, and I went to ask the person.
The man said he didn't say it, and I don't know who was lying."
"Senior brother, can't this matter be settled like this?" Zhang Yue asked in a deep voice.
Guo Lin waved his hand and said: "That's all, I don't want to pursue it anymore. After all, we were classmates in Nanjing for three years. Besides, I didn't fall behind in the end."
Zhang Yue shook his head and said: "Senior brother, these people have harmed you so much, how can you let them go like this?"
Guo Lin smiled bitterly and said: "Hey, there are not many people among us who study the classics. They are all transferred from various disciplines. They study the classics in large numbers. As a Fujianese from the south, I will inevitably be excluded. Now I just ask
If you pass, don’t ask about anything else, and don’t argue with others on these trivial matters. Junior brother, let it go..."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that he had heard a lot about Jinshi subjects stumbling upon each other, but he did not expect that the same was true for Ming Jing subjects.
Senior brother must have suffered a lot while studying in Nanjing these years.
Huang Lu winked at Zhang Yue and said, "Brother Guo is right, you are hiding in the salt truck now, but when someone appreciates you, things will be different in the future."
Guo Lindao: "That's exactly it."
Speaking of this, Guo Lin suddenly burst into tears and said: "But since I came to Nanjing to study, I have not seen my wife, children, and parents for three years. I have not seen my son yet. I am suffering alone in a foreign land, surrounded by
Do you have any close relatives and friends... If I fail this subject, I really don’t know if I can endure it, and when will these endless days come to an end."
Speaking of this, Guo Lin couldn't help but burst into tears.
Zhang Yue and Huang Lu were all sighing after hearing this.
Zhang Yue turned to look at Huang Lu, only to see that he was also crying.
Zhang Yue asked: "Anzhong, do you miss your family too?"
Huang Lu sighed and said, "You must know that I have a childhood sweetheart in my hometown."
"I know."
"I got it from another classmate last month. She was very ill and had been bedridden for half a year. She was barely surviving on soup and medicine. But she didn't mention it to me in her letter and only told me
Read with peace of mind, just like when we first got along. It was when I wrote poems, she looked up the rhymes for me, I wrote lyrics, and she harmonized them with music. We were childhood sweethearts at that time, and now I think about what happened back then..."
Having said this, Huang Lu drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp, and then looked towards the south. The melancholy in his heart could not be concealed, and finally turned into tears and fell into the wine cup.
Zhang Yue looked at Guo Lin and Huang Lu and didn't know how to comfort them. He could only pour wine into their glasses and said: "Eat wine, eat wine."
It was said that there were still some days before the announcement of the results, so Zhang Yue took the two of them to visit Zhang Heng the next day.
Huang Lu and Guo Lin both admired Zhang Heng very much, and when they saw him, they felt happy about the number one scholar.
The three of them were led to the hall by servants, and saw Zhang Heng chatting happily with another man.
This man was only in his mid-twenties, and he looked very familiar. He smiled as soon as he saw Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue suddenly remembered, wasn't this person Lin Xi?
In the second year of Jiayou's reign, Lin Xi and his younger brother Lin Dan passed the Jinshi examination together. When the palace examination came, Lin Xi was likely to win the top prize.
However, Lin Xi's article was read by the officials, and they felt that the sentence "Heaven's Prison is not far away, and the people's hearts can be known" was a bit abrupt. On the contrary, Zhang Heng's article contained the sentence "The fortune of the Yuan Sage, the heaven comes to herald the people", so in the end the official
Finally, Zhang Heng was selected as the top pick.
So talking about luck is also very mysterious.
As for Lin Xi, not only did he not win the first prize, he did not even get into the first grade. He was demoted to the second grade and became the chief of Jing County.
Why are you back in Beijing now?
But no matter how you say it, when this person was in sociology with Zhang Heng, Zhang Yue was deeply impressed by Fang Zhong's high-spirited attitude when he explained the Yuan Dynasty.
After Zhang Yue and Lin Xi met, Lin Xi looked at Zhang Yue and said to Zhang Heng with a smile: "Ziping, I have told you before that this son is not a thing in the pond. Now we will not meet again in the capital."
Zhang Heng naturally wanted to speak modestly for Zhang Yue: "Hey, it's too early to say anything. It's better to wait until you pass the Jinshi exam before saying anything."
Lin Xi shook his head and said, "I don't think we should wait any longer. This year will be just right."
"How do you know that I don't even dare to say that?"
Lin Xidao: "You Pucheng Zhang family are full of talented people, almost every subject has a Jinshi. In the second year of Jiayou, you passed the first place, and in the fourth year of Jiayou, you got the fifth place. Now of course it is your turn to pass."
Zhang Heng laughed after hearing this.
Zhang Yue's face was filled with glory after hearing this.
Nowadays, although the Zhang family is scattered all over the world, the prosperity of the family is like this. It relies on the relay from generation to generation. How dare you not try your best?
At that moment, Zhang Yue introduced Guo Lin and Huang Lu to Zhang Heng and Lin Xi.
Several people immediately sat down and chatted, and Zhang Yue just learned that Lin Xi had been recommended as a collation of pavilions and now worked in Beijing.
Zhang Yue learned that Lin Xi had many contacts in Beijing, not only with Zhang Heng, but also with Chen Xiang, Zeng Gong, Zhang Dun, Su Shi, and Su Che.
When Lin Xi learned that Zhang Yue was under Chen Xiang's sect, she was so happy that she almost danced and said with a smile: "You and I are one of our own."
It turned out that although Lin Xi did not have the friendship between teacher and student in front of Chen Xiang, he still regarded himself as half a disciple, so he became even more cordial when meeting Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue also lamented, what is guanxi? His circle of friends is also expanding step by step.
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