The Analects of Righteous Father’s Collapse

The news that Jiangliu was going to participate in the county test soon spread throughout Qingyang Village, and even people in some nearby villages heard about it.

Although the imperial examinations do not have a clear age limit for the candidates, generally speaking, all the people who participated in the county examination are teenagers in their twenties and twenties, and occasionally under the age of ten to participate in the imperial examinations, that is also a big family or a reader Carefully cultivated Koro.

The son of the ordinary widow’s family only read a book for more than a year.

Not only people outside the village waited to read the joke, but even their native names were very puzzled.

It's no wonder that others underestimated Jiangliu. After all, the concept of difficult imperial examinations has long been popular among people. I haven't seen a bunch of scholars in the village who have tried many times. Although Jiang Fangzheng often praises Jiangliu as a student, he is also a talent. How much can he believe in what he said.

"Yun Niang, don't you persuade your family Dalang, really let him waste money with his nature?"

In the early morning, Meng Yunniang washes her clothes on the edge of the river beach, and a group of good women from her past kindly persuaded her.

You should know that the exam is not the case. There are three procedures in the imperial examination report.

The first two items are very simple. The confession is to fill in the candidate's age, birth place, physique, and appearance characteristics. In addition, fill in the three generations of direct blood relatives. Mutual insurance is the mutual writing of the insurance policy between the candidate and the five candidates who participated in the exam. Five people sat together.

The first two do not take much trouble, the trouble is that the last one is binding.

The so-called binding is to ask the students in this county to have insurance, to ensure that the candidates do not impersonate, do not hide, do not substitute, no pseudonyms, to ensure that the candidate's net worth is innocent, there are not many students who can be guaranteed, and there are risks in making insurance. It has become a default practice to give Linsheng compensation when asking Linsheng to make a guarantee.

Generally speaking, if you ask a student to take a guaranty, you will have to spend at least one or two dollars at a time. During the county test every year, she can make a small fortune. However, for candidates who have failed many tests, the cost of guaranty It's hard to bear.

Everyone thinks that Jiang Liu took the exam just like playing, purely wasting money, so out of kindness, I want to persuade Meng Yunniang.

"Dalang is quite confident. I'm just such a son. He wants to take the exam. I have to support my belt."

Meng Yunniang has confidence in her son, and her Dalang is the best in the world. The other party said that they are sure to be admitted to the childhood, and even want to be a talent, Meng Yunniang naturally has to support it.

"Loving mothers are many defeats."

Her ideas are so correct, and others are not good to say anything. She can only sigh that the son raised by the widowed mother is really spoiled. She is afraid that Meng Yunniang will be so spoiled, and she will spoil an unfilial child in the future.

Su Panyun listened to the conversations of several people while hammering the winter jackets on the other side, and then hurriedly passed the jackets over the water and returned home nervously.

"I heard that the boy in Dafang was going to participate in the county test. If he was lucky, we counted the mother of Xiu Cai's father, would there be any trouble."

Su Panyun was a little flustered, that Liu Guanshi was of course the steward of Wang Ju's family, but that was only a minion. He had never heard that a minion could still accept Xiu Cai's mother as a young girl.

"Oh, the patriarch elders are confused, and you are also confused, I believe a seven-year-old toothless child can be a talent in the exam?"

Jiang Erchun also heard the rumors and talks of this time, but he did not take this matter to heart at all: "Look at me, this time he was already very lucky to be a child in the exam. Forget it."

The gap between Tong Sheng and Xiu Cai can be widened. The so-called Tong Sheng, killing ten readers and maybe seven or eight are all childhood. When the scandal comes out from his mother, it is not necessarily whether he can study or not. What are you afraid of? .

"A woman is a woman. She looks forward and back. I tell you that this time is a good opportunity for us."

Jiang Erchun heard about it. During the time that Jiangliu took part in the scientific expedition, Meng Yunniang would also leave and go to the county, and then they would have a chance to do something.

Jiang Erchun narrowed his eyes, full of fierce looks.

*****

To prevent accidents, candidates set off ten days in advance, and Jiang Fangzheng led the team to the county.

One night, after everyone was asleep, two sneaky shadows appeared in front of the Jiang family's old house.

"You work hard."

Su Panyun stepped on Jiang Erchun's shoulder and whispered to him.

"What you eat is so fat, sows are better than you."

Jiang Erchun couldn't help complaining, no wonder he couldn't hold the mother-in-law's waist while on the kang.

Su Panyun wanted to do theory with him, but he was worried about waking up his neighbors. He had to swallow this anger and wait until he had a good theory with him.

After a lot of effort, the couple finally turned over the wall and touched the outside of the house.

Jiang Erchun took out a thin copper wire and directed it at the keyhole where the door was locked for a while, stirring about it. About Mo Yiyi's kung fu, when both of them were impatient, the copper lock should be born.

"Don't move valuable things, anyway, those are ours sooner or later."

Jiang Erchun feared that his wife's eyes were shallow, and whispered a word.

"I know."

Su Panyun also cared about the man saying that she was like a sow, and answered quite impatiently. She walked straight to Meng Yunniang's bedroom and opened the closet to rummage through it.

"This Sao fox has a decent appearance, and he's almost violent in his bones."

Su Panyun pulled a peony embroidered bellyband and gritted his teeth.

The embroidered pattern of this apron is too serious, the shoulder strap is thin, the fabric is not much bigger than the slap, embroidered with big red peonies, Su Panyun made a gesture to himself, this apron can't hold the woman's chest One can imagine the flirtatiousness of the two groups of meat.

It didn't look like a widow's clothes at all. Su Panyun used to remember hating Meng Yunniang's appearance. Now that he saw this apron, he consciously found a handle. He wished to throw this apron on Meng Yunniang's face now.

But men and women had very different ideas. Jiang Erchun fantasized about the look of this apron when he was worn on his sister-in-law, and suddenly the lower body burst into flames. When she thought that such a beautiful sister-in-law would be cheap to outsiders, she suddenly felt a little bit distressed.

However, compared to the beauty, for Jiang Erchun, silver and tofu recipes are more important.

"On this one, how many more will you get?"

They came here today to find some of Meng Yunniang's personal clothes. By then, these things appeared in the hands of people other than his dead brother, Meng Yunniang, even if he jumped into the Yellow River, he could not wash it.

"On this one is enough, then Meng Yunniang dare to say that she is innocent, the girl in the kiln is not likely to wear such a chest pocket."

Su Panyun squeezed the apron tightly, and she naturally did not miss the greed and lust that flashed through the bottom of her man's eyes, and hated and poisoned the sister-in-law in her eyes.

"Now that you have found it, go quickly."

Jiang Erchun was afraid that someone might find out their whereabouts for a long time, and hurriedly urged him.

Because the sky was dark, the couple didn't take a closer look at the apron, but even if they looked closely, I'm afraid they couldn't see the mystery here.

After hearing her husband's words, Su Panyun hurriedly grouped his apron randomly into his sleeves.

When they left, under the moonlight, the apron cloth exposed from Su Panyun's sleeves showed two very small figures, and I didn't know what was written.

******

There are four county tests. The first one is the main field. The scope of admission is wide. As long as the handwriting is correct, the article can be admitted smoothly. This time, nine candidates of the Jiang clan passed the first test.

There is a day between each exam. This day is used to announce the admission list of the previous exam. When the last exam is over, there are six candidates from the Jiang clan who survived. For Jiang Fangzheng, this It was already an unexpectedly good result.

In particular, Jiang Liu, who had high hopes for him, insisted on the last game. Jiang Fangzheng paid special attention to his ranking in this game.

In the examination room, the examiners are also arguing about this time.

County test, government test, college test, only those who pass the college test can get the merits of the talent, but don't underestimate the initial county test.

The first name of the county test, also known as the head of the county case, means that this time the most outstanding talents in the county are tested. Generally speaking, there is no special situation. The head of the county case does not need to go to the college exam all the way. You can directly enter the school and get the merit.

In other words, the head of the county case is actually equivalent to being a talent in the exam.

Of course, according to the situation in previous years, very few county case leaders went directly to school, but gave up the next two exams, because the first person who can take the test will not be a waiter, they have higher requirements for themselves, and the goals are often They are all college students, but even so, the value of the representative of the county case cannot be ignored.

Therefore, the examiners are also extremely rigorous about the judgment of the head of the case.

In fact, before the opening of the Mifeng, the examiners had already judged the head of the case. The problem was after the opening of the Mifeng.

"Is the seven-year-old county case leader too ridiculous? At this moment, it seems that his pen is slightly weaker. Although his writing is fluent, he is slightly inferior to the second and third candidates in calligraphy."

Before the removal of the Mifeng, the examiners were still very satisfied with the first case judged by them. The basic skills were solid, and the strategy was right. Although the poems written lacked a certain amount of spirit, they can be rhyme enough, and they are not bad. The work can also be called a small boutique.

The problem is that this candidate is too young. The seven-year-old child, if passed on, will people think they are unfairly judged by these examiners.

"I don’t think so. The results were set by us before we opened the seal. That is to say, we recognized the value of the paper. Now we are deprived of his first name because of his age. The original second is the county’s case leader. For us How can this little prodigy talk about fairness."

Some people helped Jiang Liu speak, anyway, after the results were announced, the top three papers will be announced together. Whether they are favoritism, naturally all the readers will jointly judge.

No one on both sides could persuade anyone, so he turned his attention to the county magistrate who had never spoken.

The county magistrate at this time has long been in deep thought.

In the case of the seven-year-old county, the examiners struggled with whether they could serve the crowd at this age, and the county magistrate thought more.

At the age of seven, for most people, this is still the age of playing mud or enlightenment, and the county under his jurisdiction has already had a prodigy who may not be able to meet a prodigy for thousands of years.

The seven-year-old county case chief is not only the other party's glory, but also his county magistrate's achievements. If the other party can break through the road, even winning three yuan in the government and college tests, I am afraid that even the one in Beijing can be shocked. .

By the end of the year, he would write up his merits, and his position could not be moved up.

The more I thought about the more beautiful, the county magistrate no longer hesitated and decided directly, the first case this time was the seven-year-old prodigy.

The county magistrates have spoken, and the two sides of the original dispute naturally stopped fighting, and quickly entered the list of candidates who passed the county test, and the case will be launched tomorrow morning.

*****

As the sky was bright, many people were already guarding outside the county bulletin board. When the red list came out, it was even surrounded by water for an instant.

"It's over, I'm over!"

"Master, I didn't see your name."

"Why didn't you see my name? You hurried over and read it again, maybe you missed it."

Some people rejoiced and others were worried. Jiang Liu was so suffocated by these words that he sat on the wonton stall with the beautiful lady and called two bowls of wontons.

Jiang Fang was seeing him like this, and he felt that he was not something in the pool. This temperament alone was not something that an ordinary seven-year-old child would have. It is because he was more than 20 years old, and he was one generation older than him. Endurance is not as good as him.

"Why is the head of the case a seven-year-old child at this age?

"Is it wrong? Is it seventeen, not seven?"

Another round of discussion reached the ears of several wonton stalls. Jiang Fang stood up and rushed towards the bulletin board.

Seven years old!Seven years old!

He heard correctly, even though he had high hopes for Jiangliu, he never thought that the other party could lead the case in Zhongxian County.

But he knew that the seven-year-old child who took the exam this time was only one of Jiangliu. It was no accident. The county leader in everyone's mouth was the Jiangliu of their Jiang family.

Jiang Fangzheng's heart was fiery. He took the candidates who were crowded in front of the bulletin board one after another, and then aimed at the first name of the red list. He carefully checked the origin, name and age of the other party.

"Yes, yes!"

He kept saying a few words, and their Jiang family might be about to rise.

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Fangzheng was so happy, "I saw it, the county case was only seven years old, and my family, he was weaned and still eating ravioli."

Grabbing a person, Jiang Fangzheng had to say a few excited words.

Jiang Liu, who was watching the whole process, looked at the steaming wonton in front of him, and suddenly lost his appetite.

He raised his head and was about to say a few words to the beautiful lady, but he realized that he did not know when the opposite mother had burst into tears.

The author has something to say: The procedures for county, government, and college tests refer to the regulations of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but on this basis, a little change, such as the interval between the three tests is shorter, here is to serve the plot, Don’t be more true.