Chapter 5 The protagonist's halo and golden finger are no match for the root bone and qualifications
On March 28, the birthday of Emperor Dongyue, Zhao Ran and the Taoist priests from Heyuan set up an altar in front of Sanqing Hall to offer sacrifices.
There are many festivals in Taoism, and from a general perspective, there are hundreds of them officially announced by Fu Zhao. There are relatively few festivals in March, such as the birthday of Tanzu Changzhen on the first day of the lunar month, the Christmas of Xuantian God, and the birthday of Xuantian God.
The Empress’s Christmas, Heavenly Master Zhang Da’s real person’s Christmas, God of Wealth Marshal Zhao Gong’s Christmas, Sammao Zhenjun’s Enlightenment Day, Emperor Zhongyue’s Christmas, Wangzu Yuyang’s real person’s Christmas, Queen Houtu’s Christmas, Sun Xingjun’s Christmas, Descendants’ Empress’ Christmas, Queen Mazu’s Christmas, Ghost
Christmas for Master Gu, Christmas for Emperor Dongyue, etc.
Almost every festival is a festival. If Taoist priests offer sacrifices one by one, they will be busy celebrating the festival all day long and do nothing. Therefore, different palaces have different leaders of sacrifices, such as Wujiyuan.
There is a jungle in ten directions, and in March, only the birthday of Master Tianzhen, the birthday of Emperor Zhongyue and the birthday of Emperor Dongyue are celebrated. As for the other gods, it is embarrassing - we as Taoists can only remain silent
Bear it in mind.
Dongyue is the first of the five mountains, and it governs life and death. Therefore, pilgrims who want to live longer or pray for longevity for their elders have been arriving in front of the Sanqing Hall one after another. They are waiting for the Taoist boys in the Wujiyuan Sutra Hall to sing.
After they finished, they rushed forward, lit incense and presented donations. At this time, everyone was waiting in the living room and dianzhuo room, not caring about the affairs of the sutra boys - they would face the monthly examination this month.
This is Zhao Ran's first time to take part in the Jingtang monthly exam. While he is curious, he is also a little bit apprehensive.
All twenty-three chanting Taoist boys returned to the sutra hall and each sat on a futon. A small table equal to shoulder width was placed in front of each person's futon for studying ink answer sheets.
There are only four Taoist boys who have been in the Sutra Hall for less than three years. Zhao Ran and Zhu Meng are two of them. Their test papers are B-level. The assessment content focuses on the "Tao De Zhen", "Nan Hua Zhen Jing", "Chongxu"
On top of the "Four Sons True Scripture" such as "Zhi De Zhen Jing" and "Tong Xuan Zhen Jing", the format of the examination questions is similar to that of secular imperial examinations, with nothing more than affixing to scriptures, ink scriptures, interpretations, etc.
Zhao Ran was confident. He roughly browsed through the questions, picked up his pen and started to answer. In less than three sticks of incense, he had finished answering. He looked back carefully and found that there were no mistakes or omissions, so he stood up and handed in the paper. He thought he had answered the questions by himself.
He should have been the first to hand in the paper so quickly, but when he stood up, he realized that there were already two empty tables - they had already finished answering and went out. One of them was Ma Zhili, and the other turned out to be Zhu Meng who lived in the same room.
, Oh, he should be called Zhu Zhimeng, but Zhao Ran is still used to calling him Zhu Meng.
Liu Jingzhu collected Zhao Ran's test paper, flipped it back and forth, nodded, and without saying much, waved him to the side room on the east side of the Sutra Hall to wait for the interview - this was the second level of the monthly exam. Test paper and interview
If the results of the interview are consistent, it will be the grade of the monthly examination. The test paper part must be posted immediately in front of the scripture hall, so as to ensure relative fairness. If there is fraud in the interview and a first-class evaluation is obtained, the test paper will not be
If the answer is appalling, then the fishiness will be obvious at a glance, so the interviewer will basically not do such stupid things to slap himself in the face.
Zhao Ran came to the east wing, lifted the curtain and entered. Sitting on the bench in the outer hall was Zhu Meng.
"Junior brothers, you are very fast. Are there too many questions that you can't answer, so you are embarrassed to continue answering them?"
"Junior Brother Zhao is a little slow. It took so long to answer such a simple question. I still have to work hard to learn from it in the future."
The two of them started to fight each other as soon as they met, which seemed to have become a habit.
After waiting for a moment, Ma Zhili came out of the inner room, nodded slightly to the two of them, and stepped out. Zhu Meng got up and entered the inner room to be interviewed, leaving Zhao Ranku sitting and waiting.
After a while, when there were five or six Taoist boys sitting next to Zhao Ran, Zhu Meng came out of the inner room after the interview, raised his chin high, gave Zhao Ran a roll of his eyes, and walked away immediately, as if he had won the battle.
The little cock is average.
Zhao Ran sneered and entered the inner room, where he saw today's examiner, Jiang Gaogong.
Zhao Ran was able to accept the ultimatum, and Jiang Gaogong played a big role in it. But Zhao Ran paid a huge sum of money, so in the end, no one owed anyone, and this kind of thing always needs to be forgotten afterwards, so the relationship between the two
No one mentioned anything. But after all, they had such a fate, and Zhao Ran felt that Jiang Gaogong was quite friendly.
Jiang Gaogong's attitude towards Zhao Ran was indeed very cordial. He inquired in detail about Zhao Ran's study progress in the past three months. His earnest advice and dedicated guidance were far more meaningful than the exam, which made Zhao Ran feel warmer. Afterwards, Jiang Gaogong casually nodded.
Let him explain the content of "King Mu of Zhou" in the "Chongxu Zhide Zhenjing".
This passage tells the story of King Zhou Mu, a super travel enthusiast, driving around in a luxury car. While strolling around, he wandered to the Yaochi, where he had a banquet with the Queen Mother of the West and sang poems in harmony. When Zhao Ran read this paragraph
, I deeply admired him and said to myself that this is a model with good qualifications. He can become an immortal by eating, drinking and having fun. How can we, the general public, be embarrassed?
After retelling this story, Jiang Gaogong asked Zhao Ran what he thought the story told. Zhao Ran pondered for a moment and then replied that King Mu of Zhou was the emperor, but he was not bothered by state affairs and was not fettered by beauty.
It is the true virtue of overcoming the emptiness, so it is free and happy, which coincides with the way of heaven and man.
After listening to this, Jiang Gaogong nodded and ended the interview without saying he was right or wrong.
Turning around, Zhao Ran rushed to the Sutra Hall excitedly and saw that the grades for this monthly exam had been posted in front of the Sutra Hall. There were seven people in the first class, thirteen in the second class, and three in the third class. Zhao Ran
He was not disappointed. He found his name in the first grade, and he was a little excited when he said it. But then he was a little disappointed, because he also saw the word "Zhu Zhimeng" in the first grade.
, feeling very unhappy.
Zhao Ran, who was unhappy, wanted to check his opponent's test paper, but when he carefully read it from beginning to end, he found that there were no mistakes in Zhu Meng's test paper! This is a bit unacceptable. I have worked hard to study day and night.
The scriptures also added a golden finger, and you were wandering around learning and playing at the same time, and in the end you actually got a perfect score like me. Is this even justified? It’s really irritating!
When he turned around, he saw that Zhu Meng had arrived in front of the sutra hall at some point. He was also frowning and looking at Zhao Ran's test paper. After reading it, he gritted his teeth and yelled: "This is unreasonable!"
He was unhappy, but Zhao Ran also felt helpless. The legendary foundation and qualifications really made sense. If he hadn't had the golden finger to help improve his physique, plus studying hard day and night, he might still be in trouble.
You really can't do it compared to Zhu Meng. If you don't pay attention or slack off in studying the scriptures, you might be surpassed by this guy. Then this guy will definitely ridicule and ridicule you in every possible way.
In addition to the panic, Zhao Ran studied even more diligently. In addition to constantly consolidating the existing scriptures, he also picked up various commentaries, compilations, interpretations and other books and read them desperately, trying to understand several important classics.
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While he was working hard, he also secretly observed Zhumeng. Zhumeng was also much more diligent than before, but he still didn't have as much time to read scriptures as Zhao Ran. At the same time, he also socialized a lot, so he had to take a rest every ten days.
Those who go down the mountain will occasionally ask for leave to go out.
On the other hand, Zhao Ran, the group of pyrotechnical laymen who worked in the clean house and the private house wanted to invite him to visit Guyang County many times, but he politely declined them all. The second brother Guan even had objections and went to Zhao Ran.
Ran's residence, and asked him if he looked down on everyone after becoming an ultimatum Taoist priest, and if he planned to have no contact with everyone from now on.
Zhao Ran had no choice but to spend a special holiday and pay for Guan Er and others to go to Guyang County to drink Huihua wine before giving up.
Except for Guan Er and others, he also went to see Yu Zhiyuan much less often. Fortunately, Zhiyuan seemed to be very busy recently and didn't have much time to talk to him, so as not to cause misunderstandings.
In the following three monthly exams in April, May and June, Zhao Ran and Zhu Meng were ranked first. From the ranking point of view, among the four monthly exams, Zhao Ran's name was only ranked in front of Zhu Meng once, and the other three times were all ranked first.
After Zhu Meng, although there was no difference in order between the same levels on the surface, the differences were known to everyone. This also made Zhao Ran very distressed, and he did not dare to relax even a little when studying.
Thanks to yangzhigang and brother Billlee for the reward!