Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The most nervous thing about this deer banquet is to compose poems. After the poems are finished, you can enjoy the banquet with peace of mind.

Cui Xie panted well, first caught a chopsticks to steam the fish and calmed down, eating while listening to the poets behind. The ninth at the table behind him did not write four words, and directly chanted a seven-character poem "The holy dynasty snatched all the heroes"; the latter one wrote a four-character poem, also "The jade tent is open, the group of heroes is Yong Yong, the brand It's a newcomer, and it's the first time to show up." In this way, it is changed from Qiyan, and it is not much stronger than him.

Cui Xie felt more at ease, ate the fish, and put his chopsticks on other dishes.

Roasted lamb is a lamb leg produced outside the mouth. The skin is crispy, the fat is white as curd, and there is charcoal fire underneath to keep it warm. The fat is forced out on the bottom of the plate. The lean meat is moisturized, fresh and tender. No smell. Venison is not as tender as mutton, but it is grilled on an iron plate with sauce. It has a fragrance that mutton does not have. The meat is more lively, firmer and has a good taste. Stir-fried chicken tastes like Sichuan and Sichuan. The oil is red. The stir-fry is mixed with sesame pepper and the spicy oil of Zhuyu pickled. The taste is spicy and slightly sour. It tastes quite nostalgic.

He couldn't help but ate a few more chicken chopsticks, drank rice wine, and listened to the chanting of poems. Whenever someone chanted a good poem, Fu Yin and the examiners also toasted it, drank a good sentence, and even personally cut it.

Shuntian Township tried one hundred and thirty-five candidates. Among them, some were talented and quick to sing good works, and many lacked dexterity and were unable to change poetry. There were even a few who were purely mixed food and drink. Then, I didn't even prepare a poem beforehand, and it was my turn to just get up and say "ashamed" and "not enough poetry."

Cui Xie was amazed to see, only to realize that not all of Daming's talents can be exported into chapters and enjoy poems. He is not the bottom, he didn't give the people of the celestial dynasty, he didn't shame his teacher!

He became more at ease, and he raised a glass to persuade the two people in the same seat to drink.

After eating a few wine tours and a soup, an official from outside the courtyard suddenly came in and reported that the palace had given imperial wine and dishes. The examiners hurriedly got up and led the new recruits out to thank you.

The **** in the palace passed the imperial decree, and gave the palace dishes such as white fried goose, ice duck, white roasted pork, lychee pork, orange stuffed crab, grapes, small kumquats, dates, pears, red and white soft seeds and large pomegranates. The wine is fresh and fruit, and another palace person is carrying several loads of royal wine tied with safflower.

The waiter who came to deliver the decree watched as people picked up a few big dishes and sent them to each examiner's bench. The rest was ordered to be distributed by the table, but specifically pointed out a fried goose that was the same as the examiners and sent it to Cui Xie's table with a smile. Advise him: "Cui Juren's grievances are known in the palace. The emperor has high expectations of you and hopes that you will succeed in the future. I hope you will keep your duty and don't get lost because of your temporary ranking."

Cui Xie didn't know what he was wronged, but if the emperor could say this, he had to give thanks quickly, and promised to his servant: "Cui Xie must study hard and live up to the gift of God."

The waiter nodded and smiled: "Cui Juren is good. If we go back, we will reply to the emperor."

After the palace people left, if all the eyes of everyone were falling on him, Teacher Li gave him a look of approval, and after returning to the position he said loudly: "Today's gift shows that the emperor's grace is majestic, and everyone will be more in the future. You should study hard and work hard, and you will live up to the grace of the court and what you have learned!"

Therefore, I will not write Luming poems afterwards, but will instead write thank-you poems!

Cui Xiesheng was lucky to have escaped, eating the fried goose bestowed by the emperor with ease, watching the talented people behind contemplating squeezing new poems.

Juren at the same table and the next table had no thoughts about listening to poems, so they poured wine to congratulate him and praised him as "Jane is in the emperor's heart." Cui Xie told them to drink several glasses of wine, humbled a few words, and sighed helplessly-what a low-key person he is, but the emperor wanted to spoil him so much, so embarrassed.

After Lu Ming's banquet was over, his fellow Lu An and several other people took him to congratulate him, and then bid him farewell, saying that he was away from home for a long time, and he would like to return to Beijing next year.

Cui Xie earnestly stayed for a long time, and Lu Juren finally spit out the truth: "There is a deer banquet on the fifth day of the county, we are rushing back, everything is simple. Anyway, we will try next year and we have to come. Get together again."

This reason...too sufficient. Cui Xie couldn’t persuade him any more, but he caught Shen Zheng and Xu Liyan and asked, "Can the two brothers come together during the next year’s test? Our "Six Talents Criticism on the Three Kingdoms" has come to an end. I want to invite six brothers. We will hold a poem inscription meeting together, and it will be based on you, so that readers who love our version of the Three Kingdoms will see you and write a poem for them... Also known as foreign talents and celebrities, we also know that we have moved out of six unscrupulous people. The talent of Jiangnan?"

Poem meeting?

Just, let the six of them write poems for others?

It's okay for a real talent like Guo Yong, how can they write so many amazing poems!

Lu Anlue calmed down, but Xu and Shen shook their heads and waved their hands unconfidently, feeling that they could not be compared to Jiangnan talents.

Cui Xie persuaded: "It's not used for much. It's just to write the poems about the Three Kingdoms on the title of the book "Three Kingdoms" they bought, and write them in the same way. Readers just want to collect a copy of your calligraphy. Those who have read Six Talents' Commentary on the Three Kingdoms are looking forward to seeing their elder brothers. It’s so rare that my brother is often asked before him in the Imperial Prison!"

The students and people who came with him were not too big to watch the excitement. They also tried to persuade the three talented scholars together, and persuaded them to have some activity in their minds, but they did not dare to directly agree.

Those three Juren will have to go to Beijing for a test next year. As long as the two losers are willing to come, the matter will be half done.

Cui Xie has seen the dawn of success in one eye, and said passionately: "A talented person must have a high reputation, and our Qian'an people are not weaker than others. Otherwise, how can we get so many people into this year? For ourselves, we have to look back on our reputation as the scholars in Qian'an!"

Everyone told him to speak with enthusiasm, and he decided to enter Beijing one month in advance in the coming year, and he would stay at Cui's house to prepare for the exam and prepare the poem session.

After the matter was agreed, Cui Xie went home and asked someone to hire a cart and prepare to wrap up the road dishes that the Lord could put away. The next day he went out of the city for ten miles and sent his fellow villagers home.

For some reason, they didn't see each other overnight, and everyone's expressions were a bit wrong. Here, Cui Xie eagerly urges everyone to take care of their health. When they come early next year, those people in turn persuade him to let go of his arms and don't let his unhappiness in his heart.

Cui Xie asked wonderingly: "I'm not displeased, brothers, what's the matter?" He had a good conversation with him, and he was going to be happy. He just took the eighth exam in the national examination. What else can he do? happy?

Everyone saw that he did not look like hiding his grievances, so they tentatively asked: "You really don't know, the ranking you will try should be higher than Ou Shizhen, only because you are a disciple of Xueshi Li, you are suppressed. of?"

Because of the special dishes given by the emperor, the **** was also called to send a message, and he said "grief". The people who attended the banquet went back to ponder the night and figured out this inside story. It's not just the talents in Qian'an who had this idea, they also listened to the analysis of the neighbors of the inn, and after the analysis, it spread out.

Ou Zheng, who overwhelmed Cui Xie and became Fang Jingkui, also felt the pressure of Xie Qian. Sadly, he also lives in Beijing like Xie Qian. He can't go back to his hometown to hide from shame. He will come back in half a year, so he can only study behind closed doors at home.

And after Cui Xie heard about this, he was also a little embarrassed-he is not a famous article writer like Wang Huan, and the first publicly recommended by the examiners, aren't those two articles still controversial? Ou Zheng's article may be better than him!

You must find out the articles of the township examination and print them into this year's latest and most fashionable collection of essays, and return brother Ou Nian to be innocent!

He resolutely denied this, sent his fellow villagers home, and immediately talked to Teacher Li his thoughts. Teacher Li immediately saw through his true meaning and smiled: "Aren't you just printing a set of ink collections to match your set of notes? Go to Shuntian Mansion's concierge to copy the papers by yourself, don't have to be so righteous!"

Cui Xie's face was not red and heartbeat, thanked the teacher, and said that he wanted to participate in the test next year. Li Dongyang said: "It's okay to go to the temple, but whether you participate in the palace exam depends on your article's popularity at that time. Otherwise, my disciple of Li Binzhi will fall into the top three, and your future will be difficult, and I will be ashamed."

Although Teacher Li was afraid that he would be ashamed, but being able to say that he was afraid he would fall into the top three, didn't he think that his article would pass the test?

People must learn to see the essence through the phenomenon!

Cui Xie smiled happily, and thanked him: "The student will do more policy questions in the future, and strive to test in one fell swoop. I am ashamed of not teaching me as a teacher."

When he got home, he wrote a few letters and reported the good news about his mid-term test to his father and grandfather’s family. He also called the treasurer to allocate money, hired someone to copy the ink from the concierge of Shuntian Mansion, and printed it in a hurry. Published an article selected by the two for Ou Zheng to wash away his grievances.

Because of the rumors in Beijing, this year’s autumn test was very good. Even those who didn’t need these papers either bought or copied them, studied and discussed their articles, and divided them into Cui Dang and Ou Dang. , Pinched hard for a few days.

Ou Zheng went to school behind closed doors, and was not involved in this turmoil much, but Cui Xie had to study at the Imperial College, and he couldn't avoid it. Just after returning from the instructor's duty room at noon, I heard a voice shouting from a distance: "Cui Hezhong!"

He subconsciously responded and looked up, but several scholars were arguing with the book, and there were many people outside.

With his promise, the onlookers all looked at him, and a few others shouted "Cui Hezhong is here", "He came just right", "Tell him to tell him"... rushed over and grabbed him and asked him Comment for yourself which article is better between him and Ou Zheng.

From his own point of view, of course he wrote it well, but in front of others, he still has to comment on the advantages of the two articles, and then be modest, saying that Ou Zheng’s article "Strong pen Lingyun, alone Rao Yingqi" , I have to learn from him.

He made a few words of humility, quickly persuaded all his classmates to disperse, and returned to the Chengyi Hall with a few classmates who were arguing for him. Among these people is Zhang Zhaichang, who is in his forties. Regardless of his age and weaker body, he is particularly active in quarrelling with others to maintain their reputation as a sincere talent.

Cui Xie pushed Ou Zheng first. He seemed to have suffered a loss. He commented on two articles and patted his shoulder, "No matter what others say, I think your article is the best. With the law, he might be able to pass the exam this time because he read the imperial examination you got."

Several classmates who tweeted his article said that. Cui Xie was a little embarrassed and a little proud, and said sullenly: "Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second. The examiner has his own standards for picking up articles. The result is slightly lower, it must be slightly worse in that respect."

The eighth place is as high as he could not have imagined. It should be noted that the annual meeting test will be forthcoming and will be admitted to the Jinshi when the time comes. Who cares about his ranking?

He was able to think about himself, and he was able to put down his body, this discussion gradually subsided, but it gave him a generous reputation.

Zhang Zhai looked for him alone afterwards. He first praised him for his good writing and reading, and he said that the book he compiled would be kind to scholars all over the world... As he said, he suddenly asked, "Hey you Can you please call me those two unscrupulous children? They have been in school for a long time, and they are clever and all, but they are a little stubborn and refuse to study hard."

Cui Xie actually doesn't have time to teach students by himself, but he has some experience in managing Xiong's children. After pondering for a while, he asked, "I don't know which book the two have learned. Mr. Is usually strict?"

Zhang Zhaichang sighed slightly: "I was afraid that even a supervising student would not be able to hire a good teacher, so I sent them to study in the Cuiwei Academy outside the city. I have often persuaded them to work hard for the past two years, but they didn't know how to use it in the Academy... "

It's not just that he doesn't know his heart, but he doesn't like reading even more than his father. Anyway, he was admitted to the scholarship, after so many years, Kogon entered the Imperial College, and entered the Imperial College before starting to mess around; the two children had never loved reading since they were ten years old, and they have never touched the Four Books and Five Classics. .

Listening to the age of the two children, Cui Xie touched the tip of his nose and said, "That’s not too late. My brother and I didn’t like to read when we were young. We didn’t learn until the 14th Five-Year Plan. I really like to read, and I can do problems without being supervised."

A child like Cui Heng has been detained for two or three months and he will be honest, and now he can study consciously. If you don't understand, there is an attitude anyway. But this is someone else's child. He didn't dare to attack him directly, so he tentatively asked: "How does Brother Zhang teach his children?"

He recalled the usual scenes between father and son, frowning, and sighed helplessly: "Their mother and sister are guarded strictly, how can I manage them? Besides, I study in prison on weekdays, and they are in the college again during the rest days. , I couldn't meet even if I wanted to control it, those two boys were spoiled by the back house women!"

Cui Xie also has the same grievances: "The child really can't make the mother used to it. You have to ask your husband, father and brother to fight more...to be successful by teaching."

He gave a clear cough and said solemnly: "Don't be concealed from Brother Zhang, I am very strict with children. Those who are disobedient will be locked up at home and told him to copy books. Sometimes they make them cry and I will not let them go. If Brother Zhang is willing, he will send the children for a few days during the New Year, and I told them to study with my brothers."

What's so strict about copying books in a closed room? Playing with a big stick is also my husband's care and guidance! Zhang Zhaichang immediately turned his sorrows into joy, bowed his hands to him, and bowed a deep bow: "As long as he is willing to teach the two children, he will be killed, and I will only blame them for not growing! Another day... this is it. In a day or two, I called those two ignorant boys back to the city to come to your house to apprentice!"

Cui Xie quickly declined, thinking that he was too young to be a teacher. Zhang Zhaichang said very firmly: "I have only taught them a word to be a teacher, not to mention that teaching character is much more important than teaching. You have to decide on the name of teacher and student, and you can also fight... ahem, okay Teach them!"