Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Looking back, it turned out to be Mu Sheng and Sun Sheng, two cram school classmates I met yesterday when I entered the examination room.

Unlike other examinees who stayed up all night doing questions, with red eyes and a tired look, these two were actually well-dressed and flushed.

The two grabbed Su Mu, and Sun Sheng smiled and said, "Zi Qiao, how did you do in the exam? Although you are only at the bottom of the middle class in our cram school, and your foundation is a bit weak, but Mr. Shao said that you are the most agile, and you are the most intelligent. The articles are always very new."

Mu Sheng kept asking.

It seems that these two people came to find Su Mu for a confrontation.

Su Mu smiled: "It's still a little bit, but I'm a little dissatisfied with the poems in the last test post."

Mu Sheng was startled and said, "Zi Qiao, you are the best poem writer in my house. The song "Dongfeng One Night" is popular among thousands of people, and most people call it Su Dongfeng. Why are you not satisfied with this poem?"

Sun Sheng also laughed, and asked, "Is a test post a poem?"

Mu Sheng touched his forehead: "That's the truth."

While talking, the three walked to a corner of the small square of the Gongyuan, recited the poem they had written to each other, and then discussed with each other.

In fact, there is no difference in quality between the test post poems written by these two people and Su Mu's poems. They still use the method Mr. Shao used in class. It's a bit boring, but it's a properly high-scoring paper.

The three of them communicated for a long time, and they all felt that there were no loopholes in each other's papers, so they breathed a long sigh of relief, showing a satisfied look on their faces.

Suddenly, Sun Sheng slapped his thigh: "Hey, why did I only focus on discussing test post poems, but didn't talk about those two stereotyped essays?"

Mu Sheng said coldly, "Is there anything else worth discussing about those two questions?"

All three of them laughed, there was indeed nothing to discuss.

That Sun Sheng was laughing so hard that he suppressed himself for a long time and said in a low voice: "Leave aside the first question, I have done it before. The article I wrote was rated as the first question by Mr. Shao." Excellent, I have been proud of it for a few days. This composition has long been memorized and mastered word by word. Since this question came up in the college exam, the late student was lazy and just copied it directly. One question, one is enough to recommend me on the list. Brother Mu, Zi Qiao, how about you?"

Mu Sheng also held back his laughter, and replied: "That article was written well at the beginning. However, I couldn't remember it all, so I made a new one according to the meaning of the original article. However, I feel that it is better than before. It's better to score three points."

He sighed, with admiration on his face: "Speaking of which, Xiao Ke was full of complaints about Mr. Shao's inscription on mountains and seas, but now he knows Mr. Shao's painstaking efforts. If Mr. Shao hadn't been there this time, Wansheng might not have been sure of this one." Scholars, you really have a great teacher's kindness, and you can't repay it!"

After finishing speaking, he asked Su Mu: "How about you, Zi Qiao?"

Su Mu didn't answer, just smiled and said: "By the way, Brother Mu and Brother Sun, in this test, the gentry used to make friends with the chief examiner, but have you ever guessed a question?"

He was still concerned about how Su Ruisheng did in the exam. If this kid really guessed the question and won the honor of a scholar, he didn't know what his tail would be like.

Su Mu hated the villain's complacent look the most.

It was fine if Su Mu didn't ask, but when he asked, Er Sheng's face turned red with a smile.

"What's the matter?" Su Mu felt strange and hurriedly asked.

Sun Sheng shook his head and said with a nasty smile: "Speaking of which, the chief examiner is really narrow-minded, but he put us Baoding gentry together. For example, when he first arrived in Baoding, the gentry held a banquet and got him drunk, and then discussed stereotypes. Zhiyi, asked the examiner which sage classic he likes to study on weekdays. The examiner replied that he liked "The Doctrine of the Mean" the most, and discussed it with everyone on the spot."

"Thus, everyone paid attention and memorized every sentence that the chief examiner said, and firmly believed in these sentences that the topic of this academy examination is among these sentences."

"In a few days, there will be another banquet, and the couplets will be a play. During the banquet, most of the examiners will use summer as the theme. The sound of cicadas and the endless green of the lotus leaves are all Song quatrains. Therefore, everyone thought This is the scope of the undergraduate test post poems, so the Song anthology has been selling very well in the past few days."

"But I don't want to. When I entered the examination room, the first question was from "University", and the second question was from "Mencius". As for the extra test, it was even more ridiculous. It turned out to be Li Taibai's "Midnight Wuge". You missed it! Wan Sheng thought about it just now, and suddenly realized that the examiner is simply pretending to be drunk, deliberately diverting the topic to one side, and fooling everyone."

Hearing what he said, Mu Sheng couldn't help nodding, and said: "The master examiner has worked in the Beizhili Xuezheng Yamen for more than ten years, and I don't know how many exams he has presided over during that time. The local candidates are very clear. , how could you be fooled by this?"

Both Mu Sheng and Sun Sheng are the elite figures among the young students in Baoding Prefecture, they are arrogant, and they both disdain the behavior of using tricks to formulate questions from the chief examiner.

Sun Sheng was even more admirable: "The examiner is upright, he is really a model for scholars of my generation!"

Mu Sheng: "That's right. We are lucky to have such a mentor."

In ancient imperial examinations, once a candidate passed the examination, the examinee automatically became the examiner's student.In the minds of the two of them, they already regarded themselves as scholar tribute students, and with their true standards, they did have this confidence.

Su Mu was also overjoyed, and unconsciously said, "It's fine if you don't guess right, it's fine if you don't guess right."

As soon as the words were spoken, Su Mu regretted for a while. He had read the sage books for a few months, so why did he gloat when he heard that other people failed to guess the exam questions? This is against the sage's way of benevolence and forgiveness!

But after thinking about it, the man has a clear grievance.Su Ruisheng failed to guess the question, and was under a lot of psychological pressure. He probably failed the exam.The enemy is unlucky, and I am naturally happy.

The sage said: Repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue?When complaining directly.

This is the way. I, Su Mu, have read the books for the past two months, and I have read myself pedantically.

After talking for a long time, Su Mu was so hungry that he was about to ask Yue Mu and Sun to go to the restaurant to wash the dust, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice from the side: "Little beast, how is the exam?"

It was the voice of Master Su San.

Su Mu thought he was asking himself, and at the same time he was shocked, but also anger rose in his heart.

He suddenly turned his head to look over, but smiled: I was thinking wrong.

It turned out that from a few people away, I saw Master Su San asking about Su Ruisheng's exam status.

Master Su San was dressed in a green skirt, dressed as a scholar, and five or six children of the Su family came with him, surrounding Su Ruisheng in the middle like stars holding the moon.

Third Master Su had a serious face, but he could vaguely see a trace of anxiety in his brows. It is estimated that he had also heard about the questions of the college examination and knew that he had typed the wrong questions.