Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

On the tenth day of March, in late spring, Cheng Yan and Gu Yunqiao got married and officially became husband and wife.

Regarding the matter of the two's heirs, on the one hand, Gu Yunji couldn't bear to have his friend hurt his body, on the other hand, he was worried that his sister would change her mind and regret it in the future. After much deliberation, she still didn't give Cheng Yan the medicine for extinction, but gave it to Gu Yunqiao.

Whether or not to use this method for contraception and sterilization, whether or not to let Cheng Yan drink the anti-infertility medicine, and when to drink the anti-infertility medicine are left to the couple to decide, Gu Yunji chooses not to intervene, and does not ask.

On the day of the wedding, the Cheng and Gu families were decorated with lanterns and festoons, the guests were noisy, and everyone was full of joy. The level of excitement was no less than when Gu Yunji and Xu Shuhua got married.As the bride's elder brother and the groom's best friend, Gu Yunji had mixed feelings when he watched the two of them worship and get married.

There is both the joy of the younger sister getting married to a good home, and Cheng Yanmi's gratification of knowing the person she loves. After a second thought, thinking of the little girl who used to follow behind her to call her brother and brother, but now she has grown up and married as a wife, her heart is full of tears. Suddenly there was a deep sense of melancholy.

Gu Yunji struggled with various emotions in his heart for a whole day, but in the end, his elder brother's love and affection prevailed.Especially when the banquet was over and he was about to leave the Cheng family, Gu Yunji's reluctance for his sister reached its peak, and he even didn't want to leave, but Xu Shuhua persuaded him to go back in the end.

After returning to Gu's house, looking at the courtyard where Gu Yunqiao lived, everything was furnished as usual, but the people living in it were gone.Gu Yunji's heart was empty, and he couldn't adjust for a while, so he could only ask Xu Shujing for his experience, and asked him how he got out of the depression of being separated from his sister.

However, Xu Shujing is not very experienced. He is more than ten years older than Xu Shuhua, which is equivalent to bringing her up by himself, and his reluctance towards his younger sister is even more serious than Gu Yunji.Back then, he personally carried his younger sister out of the house and sent her to the sedan chair, but now that his niece is almost two years old, he still hasn't come out completely.

At this time, seeing that the bastard who "abducted" his sister dared to ask himself this, Xu Shujing was so angry that his teeth itch, and the old account was revealed, and he scolded Gu Yunji for bewitching his sister while he was away, and said that the law of heaven is good for reincarnation. Gu Yunji also has today, so he should let him have a good taste of it.

All in all, Gu Yunji failed to gain experience, but after the fight with Xu Shujing, he felt much better.

Seven days after Cheng Yan and Gu Yunqiao got married, Jingfeng's eight-year examination officially ended. Before Gu Yunji's feelings about his friend and sister's marriage faded away, he was "arrested" to review papers and locked up in the Ministry of Rites for several days. Day, you can't go out until the end of marking.

There are mainly three types of officials who mark the papers, namely, the same examiner, the assistant examiner and the chief examiner.The same examiner is in the first stage of marking the papers. They should conduct a preliminary screening of the test papers of the candidates, select excellent answer papers from them, mark them with a blue pen and indicate the reasons, and then recommend them to the assistant examiner.

The assistant examiner should screen the papers for the second time, select the better ones from the ones recommended by the same examiners, and recommend them to the chief examiner.The chief examiner has the greatest decision-making power. Among the papers recommended by the assistant examiner, if he thinks which one is better, he can directly decide on it, and the candidate corresponding to the answer paper will be admitted.

The general marking process is like this. It is quite a workload to select 300 of the best answers from [-] to [-] answers.The selection of which [-] people will be admitted is not finished, because the rankings have to be determined.

In the link of determining the ranking, the examiner, assistant examiner and chief examiner all have the same power. Each of them reads [-] test papers in turn. cross.After the circulation is over, the ranking will be determined according to the number of crosses on each paper. Those with more circles and fewer crosses will be ranked first, those with fewer circles and more crosses will be ranked last, and those with more disputes will be discussed additionally.

As the saying goes, there is no first thing in literature and no second in martial arts, and being given up by a certain examiner does not mean that the answer to this test is not good.In order to avoid missing talented people, the imperial court stipulated that each answer sheet must be judged by at least two fellow examiners. As long as one of them thinks it is good, it can be recommended to the deputy examiner and enter the next round of screening.

After the [-] accepted answer sheets are confirmed, the chief examiner and the assistant examiner will also randomly review the rejected answer sheets to check if there are any excellent papers that have been missed.If there is, after discussion and discussion, it can be added to the admission list at any time.

It can be seen from the marking process that the imperial court has tried its best to ensure the fairness of the examination, but due to the limitations of the examination method and the technology of the times, the subjective wishes of the marking officers are greatly affected, and it is impossible to guarantee 100% fairness.

Gu Yunji is the same examiner, who seems to have the least power, but he can directly contact the examinee's test papers in the first place, which is the link that is most likely to breed fraud in the imperial examination.Candidates' answer sheets are re-transcribed by a special person, and the names and seals are blurred. The personal information of the candidates cannot be seen, but there are endless means of fraud.

Some candidates bribed the same examiner who marked the papers before the exam, and agreed to use specific words when answering the papers. The same examiner found out his papers based on the words and recommended them to the assistant examiner, so as to increase the probability of being admitted.

However, this also requires candidates to have a certain level of strength. After all, if the answer is really bad, even if the same examiner strongly recommends it, the assistant examiner will not admit it.Therefore, in order to ensure that they are admitted, some candidates simply "one step in place" and directly bribe the examiner who has the final decision-making power.

For example, when the dynasty was first established, a certain year of the imperial examination, several scholars from the same hometown as the chief examiner visited his home, asking him to be accommodating and give some "guidance" to the younger generation of the fellow.However, the examiner was furious when he heard the words, scolded "Pixiuzai" and left in a huff.

A few scholars thought they had hit a wall and were very discouraged, so they didn't bring up the matter again.However, a few clever people could hear that there was something in his words, and used the word "Pixiuzai" when answering questions in the subsequent meeting.The final result is that all candidates who wrote "Pixiuzai" were admitted.

Later, in order to avoid similar fraudulent behavior from happening again, the imperial court stipulated that when the papers were checked, the reviewers could not whisper to each other.In particular, the chief examiner and assistant examiner can only read the test papers recommended by the subordinates, and cannot directly consult the test papers of the candidates. They also sent flying fish guards to watch the whole process and supervise the behavior of the test examiners.

Gu Yunji didn't think too much, just judged the papers diligently, recommended the papers, tried to be fair and upright, and minimized the influence of his subjective preferences.

Seven days later, all the papers were judged and reviewed, and the same examiner left first. The chief examiner and the assistant examiner left their name seals, proofread the candidates' information, and drew up the final admission list.However, after seeing the prepared list, the examiners dared not present it to Emperor Jingfeng.

After reading the list over and over several times, Cai Zhichuan, the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites at the time, rolled his throat, and couldn't believe it: "Among the [-] tributes admitted...how come there are so few scholars from the north?!"