Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 194 The Last Sprint

Second Uncle Fan Tiege and Ming Ren have been traveling around the capital for the past two days, and Fan Ning's father Fan Tiezhou's young apprentice A Qing also came with him. Of course, he also came to the capital to play.

There were only three days before the imperial examination, and Fan Ning had no time to take care of them, and let them travel around the capital by themselves.

However, there were no inns to live in in the capital at this time, and even the temples and houses were full of scholars from all over the country who came to take the imperial examination.

Although Fan Tiege didn't want to disturb Fan Ning and the others, he had to live together with them. Su Liang moved to Fan Ning's study and vacated his room for Fan Tiege, his son and A Qing to live in.

The thousand pieces of Tianhuang stone brought by Mingren can only be stored in the warehouse. There are many such warehouses in the capital to store goods for foreign merchants.

The three of Fan Tiege tried their best to go out early and return late, so as not to disturb the three of them for the final sprint review.

The Cheng brothers and sisters were basically outside during the day, and they were busy looking at the houses outside the city during this time. Cheng Ze's great-grandfather originally had a house in Bianliang. A mansion in the capital was sold.

Now their family regretted it very much, and wanted to buy a house in the capital. Houses in the city were too expensive, often costing tens of thousands. They couldn't afford it, so they could only consider houses outside the city.

These days, their brother and sister have been looking at the house outside, and Su Liang has no time to accompany them.

In the last three days, Li Dashou seemed to be insane. He only slept for one or two hours a day.

Calligraphy is easy to get started, but it is difficult to improve it to a certain level. It mainly depends on the individual's understanding. Li Dashou's understanding is poor. Although he has practiced hard day and night for the past few months, his calligraphy is still limited. Almost hot.

He is taking the adult imperial examination, and only one person is admitted out of 200 people. The pressure is too great. This requires that no matter whether it is a strategy essay, an argumentative essay, a silent scripture or a poem, he must perform at a high level before he can be admitted. Be eliminated.

Of course, the first step to be eliminated is calligraphy. In the Chaoyu Academy, there are special personnel responsible for copying the papers. Those with poor calligraphy or too many changes on the paper will be picked out, and the examiner will judge whether the calligraphy and the paper are good. qualified.

Generally speaking, as long as the papers that are picked up in the plagiarism court are basically sentenced to death, there are [-] test papers, and it is impossible for the examiners to read every paper carefully, and if they find a flaw, they will be eliminated.

Li Dashou didn't want his papers to be taken out in the copying academy.

In the room, Su Liang wailed while reciting "Song Xingtong", "Fan Ning, I am already very familiar with "Song Xingtong", why do I recite it again? I think I will look at other things in the next two days. Otherwise, I'm not sure!"

"Stop talking nonsense, recite it for me, I must recite "Song Xingtong"!"

Fan Ning didn't give him a chance to appeal, and threw a thick copy of "County Magistrate's Encyclopedia of Cases" in front of him, and said viciously: "I will start to read this book again tonight, and I have to read every case. Overripe."

The two lived together, and Fan Ning discovered that Su Liang did not strictly endorse the book according to his own requirements. He spent most of his time in a relationship with Cheng Yuanyuan, and reciting "Song Xing Tong" was entirely for himself.

Fan Ning was really annoyed. There were only three days left. He forbade Su Liang to meet Cheng Yuanyuan again.

However, compared to Li Dashou, Su Liang performed better. At least he recited it. Li Dashou didn't read these two books at all, and they piled up on the side full of dust.

Fan Ning was really disappointed. Now it was too late for Li Dashou to read these two books, so Fan Ning simply ignored him and concentrated on making up for Su Liang's missing parts in three days.

"Fan Ning, how do you know Countermeasure Wenzhen will test the county magistrate?" Su Liang asked unconvinced.

"I asked you to recite the book, so you just memorize it honestly. How can there be so much nonsense, do you think I want to control you? If it wasn't for fear of not being able to explain to your parents, I wouldn't bother to control you."

"But you kid can really guess the questions. You have guessed all the answers. This time I will listen to you. If you don't take the law test, you will never let me—"

"Shut up and endorse!"

Fan Ning yelled angrily, and Su Liang muttered a few words, so he could only put his mind away and concentrate on reciting the book.

Fan Ning did not ask him to memorize all of them. There are more than a dozen volumes of "Song Xing Tong", how could he memorize them all? Fan Ning narrowed the scope for him, only memorizing hundreds of detailed rules about the contract.

Fan Ning himself was also reading "The Encyclopedia of County Magistrates' Judgment Cases". He selected a dozen related cases from it, and he memorized them by heart.

When it was almost noon, Fan Ning put down his book and went to the next window, and heard Su Liang humming and chirping in the room.

He asked outside the window: "Xiao Su, what should I do with the molds and copper coins that were seized privately? What should I do with the meat of cattle and horses that were privately killed?"

Su Liang replied casually: "Molds and copper coins are not allowed to be reused, they are all destroyed, and the meat of privately killed cattle and horses is not allowed to be eaten, and it is also destroyed."

Fan Ning nodded in satisfaction, "Go ahead and memorize, I'll go buy lunch!"

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The Cheng brothers and sisters returned to their residence at dusk. Cheng Ze was in a great mood and insisted on inviting Su Liang and Fan Ning to have a drink.

In the Yangzhou restaurant in front of the gate of the old Caowazi, the four of them found a window seat on the second floor and sat down.

Cheng Ze ordered more than a dozen dishes, and ordered a jug of good wine. He wanted to pour wine for everyone. Su Liang grabbed the jug and poured wine for everyone. He smiled at Cheng Yuanyuan: "You drink less!"

Cheng Yuanyuan pursed her lips and smiled, and moved away the small hand that was covering the wine glass, letting Su Liang pour herself a glass.

"Fan Ning, you only have half a glass, I'll fill it up for you!" Cheng Ze filled Fan Ning's glass with a smile on his face.

Since the last brothel incident, Fan Ning has never been able to let go of Cheng Ze.

It wasn't that Cheng Ze went to the brothel itself, Fan Ning didn't dislike it, but he didn't like Cheng Ze. After dating for a long time, he gradually found that Cheng Ze's character was not very good.

Cheng Ze is a braggart, liar, greedy and lustful. He had these bad problems when he was still young, and these problems will become more serious as he gets older.

Fan Ning has always had a clear distinction between likes and hates, and he generally doesn't make friends with people he doesn't like.

But for Su Liang's sake, he tried his best to tolerate Cheng Ze, at least on the surface.

Fan Ning said with a faint smile: "It seems that there is a happy event today. Could it be that there is a fancy house?"

"That's right, it's a deal!" Cheng Ze said with a smile.

When Su Liang heard that they bought a house, he immediately asked curiously, "Where did you buy the house?"

Cheng Ze wished they would ask more questions, so that he could boast. He said triumphantly, "I bought a five-acre house near Hongqiao for two thousand yuan. What's the price?"

Su Liang shook his head, "I don't want to understand housing prices, and I don't know whether the price is expensive or cheap."

"Of course it's cheap!"

Cheng Ze widened his eyes and said, "The five-acre house in our Yangzhou City costs two thousand guan. It's five thousand."

“The price is okay!”

Fan Ning picked up his wine glass and smiled slightly: "In the outer city, a five-acre house costs [-] guan, and in the inner city near Daxiangguo Temple, a five-mu house costs [-] guan."

Fan Ning is quite clear about the housing prices in the Song Dynasty. It is still the era of Song Renzong, and the housing prices have just risen. Wanguan, the ten-acre mansion is worth 30 Guan.

However, the housing prices outside the city did not rise sharply. Cheng Ze bought a five-acre house for [-] yuan now, and it was worth [-] yuan at most in the Song Huizong era.

Cheng Ze sighed pretentiously: "Our family originally left the capital, and returning to the capital is the dream of several generations of us. If this dream finally comes true, we can also comfort our ancestors."

Hearing his hypocritical words, Fan Ning couldn't help curling his lips secretly. If it was really to fulfill the long-cherished wish of his ancestors, he should buy a house in the city. Which dignitary lived in a house outside the city?
The city gates are closed after dark, and it is not convenient to have a drink in the city at night.

Although he despised him, Fan Ning didn't say much, just smiled and drank the wine in his glass.

At this time, someone beside him suddenly said: "Infinite longevity, the benefactor has such beautiful eyebrows!"

(End of this chapter)