"Just brag. You brag that you are the number one scholar, and you brag that all your disciples are the top three. Then why should I hold the imperial examination? I will just give the number one and second place to your master and apprentice!"
"It's not impossible!" Li Mu chuckled and said, "It saves trouble."
"What a hassle!" Li Shimin suppressed his smile, raised his hand and knocked Li Mu, and said: "Don't give me a playful smile, I tell you, you must get at least one of the two number one champions for me, otherwise I won't be able to spare you!
You can afford to lose someone, but I can’t afford to lose you! For the Jinshi test in the afternoon, you can’t hand in the paper in advance no matter what, give it to me to take a good look at it, check it carefully, and don’t live up to my expectations!”
Li Mu also became honest: "I obey the order."
"I'm leaving. Remember, take the exam well."
Eunuch Gao also said: "Zhuluhou Jinban!"
Li Mu nodded with a smile, watched the two of them leave, and then continued walking towards Sun's carriage.
"Mom!" Li Mu got into the carriage, pushed Li Zhien aside, and sat next to Mrs. Sun. Mrs. Sun glared at him angrily and said, "How old are you? You are still acting like a child. Zhien is yours."
You have a daughter-in-law, and my mother still expects her to have a baby. It’s better for you, because you feel sorry for your daughter-in-law, and you can’t bully her just because she is young.”
"Mom, how can this be called bullying? The kid just wants to sit next to Mom. Mom, the kid is just taking part in the imperial examination. There is no need for such a huge effort. You are even asked to come here and wait for the kid to finish the exam.
Naturally, I will go and pay my respects to my mother."
"Isn't Mom worried about you?" Mrs. Sun took Li Mu's hand and said with emotion: "Mom, I heard before that the county magistrate of our hometown in Mayi was a man who knew the law and became an official. You didn't even know that.
How envious Mom is. But our family is too poor to hire a husband, and we can’t teach you how to read or read. I didn’t expect that my son is smart. He learned to write by himself, and now he has taken part in the imperial examination. My son, if he passed the imperial examination, it would be great.
Are you more knowledgeable than our county magistrate?"
Li Mu smiled bitterly, and Li Zhien explained for him: "Mom, what do you call the county magistrate now? A small eighth-grade county magistrate cannot rely on my husband. My husband is the minister-in-charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the third grade, and you are his
Mother, your status is even higher. If you call that county magistrate now, I'm sure you'll scare him to death and he won't dare to answer."
"Yes," Mrs. Sun said with a smile, "Actually, it's not that Mom doesn't understand this truth, she's just used to it. You've never seen Zhien before. That county magistrate is so majestic."
"Mother, isn't your son majestic now?" Li Mu said ostentatiously, "Who dares to mess with your son in Chang'an City now?"
"You mean, you just asked your Majesty to kick you, right?" Sun looked at Li Mu's butt and stretched out her hand to rub it. Li Mu quickly hid back; "Mom, it doesn't hurt, it's okay. Your Majesty can kick her."
A kick, what an honor this is, most people don't get this treatment."
"You're getting shy. Is there anything in your body that I haven't seen before?"
"Oh, my son has grown up, hasn't he?" It would be fine if he didn't know that Sun was not his biological mother. After knowing it, Li Mu felt very uncomfortable with such physical contact. But he deliberately didn't want to show it.
, afraid that Mr. Sun would think too much.
"Mom made wontons for you this morning." Mrs. Sun turned sideways, took out a food box, and opened it to find a bowl of wontons. It could be seen that she had been holding them in her arms all the way, and the soup of the wontons was not spilled.
: "We don't have enough time, so my mother has arranged for you to eat alone. You can eat. You will go in for the exam later and we will find a place to eat."
"Mom, we're not in such a hurry." Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's find a restaurant, you order, and I'll eat the wontons made by my mother. Otherwise, you'll all be hungry and I'll be the only one eating. Can I eat it?"
Besides, Qiaoqiao is still pregnant with a child."
"Oh, look at my memory." Ms. Sun smacked her forehead regretfully and said quickly to Qiaoqiao: "Daughter-in-law, it's not my fault that I only care about this boy. Hurry up and find a place to eat. Don't go hungry.
My grandson."
“Mom, I’m not hungry”
"You can't do it even if you're not hungry! You have to eat on time even if you're not hungry. If your body is damaged by hunger, my eldest grandson will no longer be strong."
Qiaoqiao had no choice but to say nothing and follow Sun's arrangement. Li Zhien was listening next to her with a pout on her face. Li Mu saw this and patted her arm, which was regarded as comfort.
After eating my mother's love wontons and chatting for a while, Li Mu walked into Gongyuan again to take the Jinshi examination.
The Jinshi subject is the most important part of the imperial examination. It mainly tests a specific topic, and then writes poems and rhymes based on this topic, which is somewhat similar to the proposition composition in Li Mu's Chinese language examination in his previous life.
Among them, "poetry" can test the students' language proficiency and also reflect their literary talent. Fu, as the mainstream literary style from the Han Dynasty to the present, best reflects a person's humanistic qualities. He must not only make the meaning clear, but also use beautiful words.
, it is a generally accepted common sense that people who are not talented cannot be gifted.
Of course, this refers to the Jinshi Department in the Tang Dynasty, but by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Jinshi Department had changed its flavor. From expressing one's own ideas to "making statements on behalf of the saints", it was extremely particular about format and formed the "eight-legged" style.
Abnormal structure, this change stabilized the rule, but also imprisoned people's thinking and lost the original intention.
This year's Jinshi examination is different from the last one. In order to prevent Li Shimin from revealing the questions to Li Mu, officials from the Ministry of Rites adopted the 'question method', that is, before the exam, dozens of questions were drawn up and then
After the exam starts, another topic will be drawn. In this way, even if Li Shimin reveals the topic to Li Mu, Li Mu will not be able to prepare dozens of poems for the topic in a short period of time, which greatly reduces the possibility of cheating.
The gong sounded and the exam began. The examiner drew out two questions about poetry and poetry, asking them to write a poem based on "Unrecognized Talent" and a poem based on "Rise and Fall".
These two topics are difficult to say, but not difficult at all. Anyone who has read the book feels that they have not been recognized for their talent. And the rise and fall of the Sui Dynasty is not difficult. It was less than twenty years after the fall of the Sui Dynasty. It can be said that participating in this event
Most people who took the imperial examination have experienced the "rise and fall" and feel the same way.
But the questions are not easy to answer, because the scope is too broad, so it is difficult to stand out. And if you can't stand out, even if you answer, it will be in vain. This is like the mathematics of the college entrance examination. If the last two big questions are extremely difficult, they will be easy.
can widen the point difference, but if it is not difficult, it will be difficult to widen the point difference. If you want to widen the gap, it will be even more difficult. This is also the question maker's strategy. They know that Li Mu has good literary talent and deliberately let him pull the gap.
Don't open a gap.
But to Li Mu, it didn't matter at all. Anyway, when he took the poetry test, he was just copying characters. The only difference was who he copied.