The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 375 Review
As the county examination approached, the atmosphere in the Yongxing Hou Mansion, where the two girls were referring, became tense.

Sheng Yuan also changed her usual behavior of being invisible, and obediently stayed in the yard shaking her head and reviewing her homework.

As the first exam of the three children's exams, the county exam can be called the highlight.

There are five exams in total, the first one is called the main exam, which is the most important and the most lenient for admission.

The exam after the main session is called the re-examination, and not everyone has to take the re-examination.

As for whether to continue to refer to it, it depends on the candidates' own ideas.

After the last exam is over, the prefecture and county will rank according to the results of these exams. If they can get the title of No.1 "County Case Leader", they can basically be sent to the hospital for admission.

"I don't think too much about the title of the chief of the county." Sheng Yuan talked about the exam with his sister who also took reference, "As long as I can get the title of scholar!"

Speaking of the exam, she looked at her sister enviously: "The treatment of the students of the Imperial College is good. You don't have to go to Luo County to sign up. The master of the Imperial College will help you."

Hearing what she said, Sheng An felt quite amused: "Don't you usually like riding horses and parading through the streets? Isn't it as common for you to go out of Beijing with a guard as to eat and drink water? It just so happens that you can go out and let the wind go. "

As a girl who is almost 20 years old, Sheng An's pressure is much greater than that of her younger sister.

She is sure to get the fame this time, otherwise, she is afraid that if she fails the ranking, she will talk about marriage later.

"The empress dowager said that the emperor is going to be drafted this fall, and all the noble girls from Kyoto will participate in the election." Sheng Yuan recalled the news he heard from the empress dowager a while ago, and chatted to her sister with great heart.

Sheng An didn't know about this, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

I just wanted to talk to my sister, but when she turned her head, she saw the little girl gnawing on the fruit: "..."

"Speaking of which, you are also a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, so don't you worry?" Sheng An angrily poked Sheng Yuan's forehead with her finger, "Since all the ladies are going, I'm afraid you will also participate!"

"Participate, just participate, anyway, I know you well in the palace!" Sheng Yuan waved his hand indifferently, "I made an agreement with Aunt Qi, and then I will walk through the scene, watch the excitement, eat and drink so as to make up the number .”

Sheng An: "..."

But she forgot that this girl could not be lost walking around the palace with her eyes closed.

Sheng Yuan suddenly thought of something, sat up immediately, looked around like a thief, and saw that the adults were not in front of her, then she leaned into her sister's ear and whispered: "I asked the Queen Mother and the Emperor for grace, and I will marry you in the future." I have the final say, I have a crush on someone, and if they give me a marriage, if I don't like anyone, they won't urge you."

"..." Sheng An felt a little difficult to breathe.

Looking up at this beautiful little guy, she felt fortunate that she was not stupid, and knew not to tell her parents, otherwise, she was afraid that the child would go to the examination room with a limp.

"That's how you told the queen mother and the emperor?" No rhetoric? !

Sheng Yuan nodded as a matter of course: "Then what else should I say? Of course, say what you want!"

Sheng An took a breath, and suddenly realized that he didn't have to worry too much. With such an uneasy person in front of him, his parents might be easily satisfied.

Forget it, forget it, don't worry about the draft, just focus on the exam in front of you.

Speaking of exams, Sheng An was concerned about his sister's review.

"It's not bad!" Sheng Yuan puffed up her chest, very confident, "It's nothing more than choosing a topic from the Four Books and Five Managers, plus a five-character six-rhyme rhythmic poem, I can do it!"

Speaking of which, she had to thank Jing Hedi, who was still the prince, for sending a large number of real questions. She hadn't touched the questions of the rural examination yet, but she had done a lot of questions for the third test of the Tongsheng Examination.

These examination questions spanned the three dynasties of Yan, Chen, and Chu, and spread across hundreds of states and counties in Dachu. She wrote with tears in her eyes, and the calluses on her fingertips that she kept trying to remove were silent proofs!
Therefore, she is now extremely familiar with the types of exam questions.

"It's just that it's a little tiring to write rhythmic poems." Sheng Yuan has passed the time when he is extremely passionate about writing poems.

Rhythmic poems refer to poems with lines above ten lines.

Because the rhyming requirements of the test post poems are a bit special, this is not very friendly to Sheng Yuan who likes to write but is too lazy to revise.

Of course, this kind of unfriendliness is only Sheng Yuan's unilateral feeling, Mr. Academy is quite satisfied with the works she has written.

Sheng An listened to her sister's complaints, and patted her head amusedly: "You can be content with it, and the children's examination requirements are loose, just write six rhymes, and when it comes to the provincial examination, you need eight rhymes."

The rhyme mentioned here refers to the upper and lower lines.

Therefore, six rhyme poems have twelve lines, and eight rhyme poems have sixteen lines.

When it comes to eight-rhyme poems, we must also pay attention to breaking the topic, pointing the topic, antithesis, rhyming, beginning and ending, and so on.

The difficulty is several times higher than that of six-rhyme poems.

"As long as you want to pass the exam, you still have to face it in the future!" Sheng Yuan scratched his head.

"But that's something to consider in the future. If you take three exams, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the rural exam." Sheng An felt that his little sister was still young, so he might not be able to pass the exam consecutively.

On the contrary, she needs to do it in one go.

Before Sheng Yuan arrived at Jiji, she couldn't understand her sister's mood at all, and she was happily thinking about whether she could go out to study like her elder brother.

"I can go to my brother's place!" Sheng Yuan thought about the encouragement letter her brother sent not long ago, and began to dream about following her brother to fight the bandits.

Sheng An: "..."

Somehow, she began to worry about her parents.

With such a brother and sister, she is too embarrassed to make adults worry.

"Are you sure you want to study abroad?" Sheng An glanced at her, "I remember someone said that there will be a draft in the future, so you don't need to practice etiquette?"

"I'm just going through the motions, no need." Sheng Yuan felt that he had learned enough from Aunt Qi before, but was even more curious about official etiquette. "The academy will not teach until after getting the qualification to take the provincial examination."

Saying so, Sheng Yuan sighed: "The academy requires the adults in the family not to be good at teaching. It's a pity that our family has two ready-made court officials!"

When Sheng An heard this, he couldn't help laughing when he thought of the source of this rule.

The reason why the official school issued such regulations is also because during the Chen Dynasty, an official did not learn the rules well, and only passed the bottom two exams. In order to find Hua, he almost made a joke at the Lu Ming Banquet.

Although the emperor was not angry because of this, he clearly ordered the official school to require students not to learn official etiquette in private.

The two sisters smiled and sighed for a while, and were about to take the test each other, when they heard the noise coming from outside the house.

"What's the matter?" Sheng Yuan jumped out of the chair curiously and ran out.

Sheng An, who just wanted to stop him, had no choice but to chase him out.

In the yard, Xiaoyao and Zhiyu were arguing lively with the maids in the elder brother's yard.

"Why are you doing this?" Sheng An asked before his sister.

(End of this chapter)