In front of the Forbidden City is a large square, representing the majesty and vastness of the empire. It is next to the alley in the square, called Jiangmi Lane, and it is also the longest alley in Yanjing City... The so-called Jiangmi is called glutinous rice in the southerners. In fact, during the Yuan Dynasty, it was indeed a street for grain trading.
When Cheng Zuye expanded Yanjing City, this Jiangmi Lane was also expanded exponentially, becoming a long street in the city. Later, Qipantian Street was built and it was cut off from the middle. The west part was called Xijiangmi Lane; the east part was naturally renamed Dongjiangmi Lane... There is a way to get the moon first when the tower is close to the water, because it is closest to the emperor's house, and even the emperor's old man could hear it immediately. So the yamen rushed here to move, for fear that it would be farther away than others.
In the Mi Lane of Xijiang, there are the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, the Imperial Hospital of the Imperial Hospital, and the Mi Lane of Dongjiang are the Zongren Mansion, the Ministry of Rites, the Honglu Temple, the Shuchang Hall, the Siyi Hall, the Hanlin Academy, the Dazi Hall and the Huitong Hall. However, because the Zongren Mansion, the Hanlin Academy, the Shuchang Hall are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, the Siyi Hall, the Huitong Hall, and the Dazi Hall are all under the jurisdiction of the Honglu Temple. Therefore, it can also be said that in the long Dongjiang Mi Lane, there are only two yamen, the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple.
In the important yamen area of ​​Qingyishui, the atmosphere is naturally different from the bustling chess and panoramic streets. It is usually neat and solemn, and a little deserted. But today, Dongjiang Mi Lane is different from usual, and it is full of people. There are many scholars dressed up, and there are more scholars and followers. These people gather outside the screen wall of the Ministry of Rites, waiting anxiously for something.
There is nothing else, now I will give you a test and say.
This also makes it cheaper for teahouses and restaurants near the street. Candidates with a little money will not lose face in front of the same year. They will sit in the restaurant, either asking for a pot of fragrant tea, a few snacks, a meticulous wait, or a sumptuous banquet, and let go of food and drink, and a rough wait. The north and south are indeed unique.
In the largest restaurant on the south side of the street, the hall was filled with pickets from all over the place, including those who sat on Qionglin Tower that day, especially those talented men who showed their faces, almost all of them were present.
Zheng Tang, the Fujian scholar who was in the limelight that day, enjoyed the treatment of stars as if he were full of stars, especially his fellow Fujianese people, who were even more generous. If it weren't for being suppressed by Xu Wenchang that day, he would probably have made him the number one talent in the Ming Dynasty.
But because Xu Wei didn't give face, he could only be said to be the second talented man in the Ming Dynasty... However, this did not affect Zheng Tang's good mood. After all, it was really not embarrassing to be overwhelmed by the famous Mr. Qingteng. Moreover, this time, his performance was as helpful as God, and he wrote an unprecedentedly wonderful article, not to mention that there was double insurance, so he would definitely be at the top of the list this time!
At the unanimous request of everyone, he wrote down the first article of his examination and let the students in the hall circulate it. As expected, the students were amazed. They all said that the students were the only ones in the current academic year.
Zheng Tang was very humble, but he still couldn't hide his pride. He shook a Zhuge Yu Fan and said, "This time, there are many experts in the spring exam. It is impossible to say who will win the championship, but in this article, it should be okay to be among the five leaders." A kind of Fujian scholar said that he was too modest and said he had never seen a better article than him.
The Fujian scholars bragged themselves as if no one was there, which naturally made the scholars from the imperial examination province unhappy. However, with the lessons learned from the last time, they were embarrassed to refute loudly, but they just cast dissatisfaction eyes and whispered.
"Brother Bing Zhong, your article is excellent." On the table where the Zhejiang Juzizi looked at a calm young man and said, "I also wrote down the Fujian guys who don't know the world."
'Brother Bing Zhong' shook his head and said, "There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. You said mine is better than him, but they can determine that his one is better than mine, and they cannot win a result."
"Oh," everyone sighed when they saw that he was unwilling to stand out: "When I was in the last Bingchen Certificate, the glory of the whole world was wiped out by the Qionglin Seven Sons in Zhejiang. Why did it take two sessions to steal the limelight?"
But then Bing Zhong's brother Yu Youding shook his head and said to everyone softly: "The hero is the one who laughs to the end. If the yellow list is not released, it will be useless to say anything." Everyone said that he was a cooked duck, and his mouth was stubborn, so Xiaoxiao passed.
But I didn't know that Yu Youding was not talking nonsense, but was indeed a little enlightened... It was said that Shen Mo promised to hold a banquet after the exam, and entertained the scholars' promise. Sure enough, three days after the exam, his guards took invitations and went to the major halls to invite all the talents who fought wits on the Qionglin Tower and students who were in Suzhou with Lord Shen.
As a fellow villager of Lord Shen, it goes without saying that most of the other students attended the banquet happily, and Shen Mo's students were even more unabridged. Even Yang Shiqiao from Jiangxi arrived, but Zheng Tang from Fujian was not seen... However, the banquet that day was full of stars, and no one cared about him not coming.
Among the mythical Qionglin Seven Sons, except for the two officials who were outside the office, all five of them arrived in Beijing. They drank and talked with the students and asked about their well-being, which made the descendants who had always regarded him as an absolute idol flattered and excited, and kept wondering that they were dreaming.
During the meal, the students who were nervous about their future took out their silly answer sheets and asked the five seniors to comment. They knew that experts who wrote eight-legged essays were often also masters of review, hoping that they could help them predict their grades and feel a little more at ease.
Shen Mo and the five were about to become famous, and they transformed from talent to authority. Naturally, they would not refuse. They commented on these outstanding candidates one by one, and found more than twenty papers and said, "These are not big problems, they should be on the list." They selected five of them and said, "It should be among the top ten."
Among them, Xu Wei praised Yu Youding's article and bet that if he could not enter the top three, he would no longer review the test paper. At the end, he asked Shen Mo: "What do you think?"
Of course, Shen Mo would not be as unruly as Xu Wei, but he also smiled and said, "It's almost the same." Xu Caizi and Shen Liushou jointly praised Yu Youding, which gave Yu Youding a strong confidence, so he dared to say that.
There were two other people here that day, Rumo and Brother Yuan Yu who were muttering in the alley. The two of them did not come up with an article to ask for comments; outsiders only thought that their level was too poor and they did not dare to show their ugliness, and they did not take it to their hearts.
Only Suzhou's scholar understands that as Lord Shen's favorite disciple, the articles of the two must have been commented on a long time ago, so why do you have to wait until now?
That's true. The day after the exam, Yuan Yu and Ru Mo prepared a gift and went to the teacher's door to apologize.
The silent ones didn't mean to blame them at all, and said, "You come to see me, it's too late to be happy for your teacher, so how could you get angry?"
The two of them then let down their hanging hearts. They were silent and asked to prepare meals in the kitchen. They had to drink two cups with their two disciples. Naturally, they were more respectful than obedient. The space for preparing the seats below, and the silence allowed the two to write down the first articles of the test. Because the time for marking the papers was limited, the examiner could only focus his energy on the first article, so as long as the level afterwards did not fluctuate much, you could only estimate the final results by looking at the first article.
The two of them quickly wrote it out and handed it to the teacher respectfully. Chen Mo looked at Yuan Yu's first, nodded and put it aside; Ru Mo's again, after reading it, he asked him, "Is the same in the original text?"
Ru Mo said with tears in his eyes: "Well... it's not bad."
Silent smiled and put his article aside. The two of them were extremely itchy and wanted to get comments from the teacher, but they were silent and asked him about it. After asking about their situation after coming to Beijing, they learned that they lived in the inn, and said enthusiastically: "I have a big place here, and your master's wife and junior brother have returned to Shaoxing. Old many rooms are empty. If you don't dislike it, move here."
Although the two were one or two years older than Chen Mo in terms of age, they were still very immature in their experience and did not know what the teacher’s request meant. They all agreed and were ready to move over when they went back.
Then he was silent and still did not comment. Until the meal and the two were about to say goodbye, Yuan Yu finally couldn't help but say, "Teacher, can I win that paper?"
He looked at him silently and quipped and said, "If you are worried too, then will all the candidates this time be scared to death?"
"Haha," Yuan Yu said with relief when he heard this: "Then I won't ask." He said, looking at Ru Mo with his head hanging from his side, "What about him?"
"Ru Mo, that's not bad," Chen Mo smiled and said, "but it's worse than you."
"Student, student..." Rumo murmured: "I heard that there is a saying of getting through joints."
"What do you do if you care so much?" He waved his hand silently and said: "The law of heaven is clear, and retribution is unhappy. Good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded!"
After receiving the affirmative evaluation from the teacher, Yuan Yu and Rumo returned to the inn in a happy mood and explained the situation to their classmates. Then they packed their bags in the envious eyes and prepared to live at the teacher's house.
Unexpectedly, he annoyed Tang Song. He grabbed Rumo and said, "You can't go!"
"It's hard to disobey the teacher's order," Rumo said a little embarrassedly: "Brother Tang, please let go."
"Yeah, I can't tell you that you are so respectful to your teacher?" Tang Song stared at him and said, "Why didn't you even dare to fart when I scolded your teacher so hard that you didn't even dare to fart?" Rumo's face suddenly turned purple and black, and he sank into the abyss.
The onlookers buzzed, and their eyes at him changed in an instant... If it was true as Tang Song said, then Rumo would be too dirty and despicable. In this era, deceiving his master is equivalent to destroying his ancestors. If he calls his brother and brother to the person who curses his teacher, he will definitely be drowned by the son of the surname Spider.
Although Tang Songfeng's reputation was not good, everyone had seen him two of them calling him brothers and brothers, and they had no choice but to believe it. Moreover, in their eyes, Rumo was a problematic guy, and it was not surprising that he did such a thing.
Ru Mo then heard the people around him talking, "Sure enough, those who forget their ancestors will never know what ethics are." "Yes, I think his grandfather can do nothing about his ancestors. It's so normal for him to betray his teacher now." "It turns out that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and rats's sons can dig holes!" "How can such a person live in the world with shamelessness? If it were me, he would have died a hundred times." Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, as if his ancestors were raped by him a hundred times and a hundred times.
In an instant, Rumo's world collapsed. Those fellow villagers who were originally kind-hearted at this moment were not hesitant to attack him with the most vicious words, pouring dirty words on his head, leaving him with nowhere to hide, his skin was blooming, and he could not hold on in the end, and his eyes became dark and he fainted.
Yuan Yu hugged him, glared at the condemnation and said, "How can you force people to the dead with the one-sided words of Tang? How can he pull together two of them, different ice and charcoal tools?"
Everyone looked at Tang Song without saying a word, thinking yes, although Xu's innate character was poor, he gave everyone the impression that he was always a hard-working nerd. How could he get involved with a playboy like Tang Song?
Tang Song was a sloppy man who was careless. Seeing that everyone didn't believe him, he was so angry that he said loudly: "Don't you believe it? Because he knew that I could get through the joints and wanted to get words by currying about me!"
Everyone was in an uproar again, thinking that you really dare to say it. Although this is no longer a secret, how can you tell it to outsiders? But this young master Tang not only said it, but also said it with pride and righteousness. I wonder how shameless it is?
Ru Mo was dizzy, and Brother Yuan Yu spoke for him and asked Tang Song: "Listen to Mr. Tang, can you get through the joints?"
"Hmph," Tang Song said: "You don't have to worry about this." He was not completely stupid, and he knew that some things should not be said randomly.
Brother Yuan Yu refused to give in and said: "I have to take care of this matter, because according to Mr. Tang, Brother Rumo cursed you to get through the joints. This involves whether you have the ability to do this! If not, his suspicion would not be valid, it is your slander for him!"
"Nonsense!" Tang Song was angry and said, "Why don't I have this ability? Tell you, there are people above me, you can't imagine it."
Brother Yuan Yu sneered in his heart: 'Isn't it just a Yan Party?' But on the surface, he still said stubbornly: "There is no basis for empty words."
"I can win the Jinshi!" Tang Song screamed when he was squeezed and pointed at his nose, saying, "You also know that I don't like writing, but I will definitely win this time. Can't this prove that I have someone above me?!"
Seeing that if he blocked him again, Tang Song would bite him, Yuan Yu nodded and said, "How do you prove that Ru Mo has also connected the joints?"
"Hmph!" Tang Songxin said, "If you don't know the trick, you can't help but raise these little maids!" Then he sneered, "He can use it at the end of the first article; he can only use it at the end of the second article. If it is true, what else do you have to say?"
"It's really gone." Yuan Yu said: "If his article is really as you said, and he uses these nine words at the end, then he must have been connected, and I have nothing to say."
"It's already!" Tang Song said proudly.
"Listen to me to finish my words." Yuan Yu waved his hand and said, "What if the papers come out in the future and there are no nine words on his paper?"
"Then I'll eat everything I said today." Tang Song said: "I won't cause trouble for him from now on."
"Okay, it's a matter of determination!" Yuan Yu nodded, ignored him, and helped Rumo who fainted and returned to his original room... Although the teacher asked him to live in his house, now that the scandal that Rumo did was exposed, what face would he have to live in the teacher's house? Although "Brother Yuan Yu" was chaste, he couldn't bear to see Rumo staying here alone, enduring all the criticism and cold eyes alone.
"Brother Yuan Yu" was very glad that he knew that things had come to this point and could not be covered up anymore. The teacher had to let him know and ask him to decide. So after settling down on Rumo, he immediately wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it to Qipan Hutong quickly.
The silence replied quickly, so that they were less anxious and did not worry too much, and that everything had their own.
That night, Ru Mo woke up, but he didn't eat or drink, staring at the basket of quicklime on the table, his mind was filled with Yu Shaobao's "Song of Lime": You are not afraid of being broken into pieces, you must keep your innocence in the world.
It was only now that he finally understood what the teacher meant - for a person who wanted to be upright, innocence was more important than anything!
In the next few days, Rumo was so thin that he had lost his eyes, but there was no regret medicine in the world. The consequences of the current story were all planted by him yesterday, and now he can only endure the boundless pain.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day when Zhang Bang was about to come. Yuan Yu went to Rumo's room early in the morning and saw him lying facing the wall, not moving at all, and not saying a word.
Yuan Yu pushed him twice before he turned his head and said with a haggard expression: "What are you doing?"
"I'm posting today, let's look at the list together." Brother Yuan Yu pulled him up and said.
"If I don't go, what's the point of going?" Rumo said listlessly: "Anyway, I'm destined to be a despised guy..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a "slap" sound, and he was slapped by Brother Yuan Yu.
Covering his hot cheeks, Ru Mo laughed without anger and said, "When you fight well, you fight again!"
Chapter completed!