The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 612 Expectations

It is said that the Tongsheng test is one out of ten, but when Chen Sheng took the test, he found that the questions were surprisingly difficult.

However, Chen Sheng was not worried about whether he could pass the exam. In the college, he was rated as excellent in every test, and ranked first in the three subjects of language, mathematics, and Taoism.

It is not difficult for him to choose one out of ten.

It's just that he knows his teacher and Chen Yu's expectations for him, and he doesn't want to disappoint those who have hope for him.

Ge Zhou is his mentor, the mentor who enlightened him, and the teacher who preached and taught him.

And Chen Yu is his guide, the person he admires the most now, and also his other teacher.

If it weren't for Chen Yu, it would be absolutely impossible for him to study and go to school in this bright and clean school.

He later learned that Taiping Daomeng Academy stipulated that only children aged seven to 13 were admitted to school. He was already over 13 years old at that time and had no chance to enroll.

If Chen Yu hadn't admitted him exceptionally and included him in the list of students when recruiting road construction workers, the admissions officers who came later would not have let him enroll.

If it wasn't for Chen Yu, he would definitely not have been in the school, and he would have no way to see the splendor in the book.

There is fire when hitting a stone, and there is no smoke if you don't hit the yuan.People learn to know, not to learn unnatural.

Everything depends on one's own luck, he is not my virtuous.You must be young early, how can you grow up young.

This is an exhortation poem hanging in the school building. The person who wrote this poem seems to be the great virtuous teacher Xu An.

The first time he sat at the bright and clean desk and stroked the book with the fragrance of ink, everything seemed like a dream.

He never thought that he could actually sit here, in the fields, year after year, day after day, facing the loess and back to the sky, doing countless corvees and endless farm work.

Precarious, difficult to plan, the rice and grain at home are pitiful, every night falls, almost go to sleep hungry.

Chen Sheng couldn't help crying while eating the corn and rice from the school. He never imagined that he would be able to live such a life.

Chen Feng came to the eldest son city several times, always with the caravan and engineering teams, and Chen Sheng also learned about the situation at home from his father.

The family has land distributed by Taiping Road, and the land tax is not heavy. In the past two years, the family has also had some surplus money. Although it is still not rich, the land is new and not fertile, and the output is limited.

But compared to when they were in their hometown in the past, it is not known how many times better. At least, they no longer have to worry about losing their lives, worrying about rampant bandits, and worrying about arrogant and rude local tyrants.

Every time his father, Chen Feng, came and talked about the family, he always said that everything was fine.

Reporting good news but not bad news, Chen Sheng knew his father well, he knew that his father would never tell him about the difficulties at home.

A long time ago, when they were still in their hometown, they lacked clothing and food. At noon, Chen Feng was taken away by the officials, and it was already dusk the next day when they came back.

Chen Sheng always remembered what he saw that day. After Chen Feng came back, he smiled and brought him and his little sister two wild vegetable cakes.

At that time, he didn't know what happened, he was just happy for the wild vegetable pancake he got.

It wasn't until the next day when he was doing farm work in the field that he discovered that his father's knees were covered with dust, and the scars all over his body could not be covered by the tattered clothes. Every time he lifted the farm tools, it was extremely painful.

Chen Sheng clutched the corner of his clothes tightly, lowered his head, and stared at the water glass on the desk.

The rich don't have to buy fertile land, there are thousands of millets in the book.

If you are admitted to the county school and the national school, you can become an official of Taiping Road. Like his teacher Chen Yu, you don't have to worry about making a living, you can wear clean clothes, eat the fragrant corn and rice, and don't worry about it anymore. Eat that bitter weed...

He will never forget his father's scars all over his body, and he will never want his father to kneel down and beg from house to house.

He was going to be admitted to the county school, he was going to be admitted to the Chinese school, graduated from the Chinese school, and became the highest and highest candidate.

No longer need to go hungry or cold, no longer need to bow your knees, no longer need to work hard for the next meal, and no longer let your father, mother, and little sister live that miserable life.

The square and the courtyard in front of the government office were full of people waiting for the announcement.

A group of schoolchildren of different ages stood in the cold wind. They were wearing thin clothes and their faces were flushed by the cold wind, but all of them turned their eyes to the eldest son Chengfu, staring Looking at the gate of the government office.

Their respective parents followed them and stood in the cold wind, holding their hands tightly.

Chen Sheng glanced at Chen Yu who closed his eyes and meditated.

At this time, Chen Yu's eyes were slightly closed, he pressed the table with one hand, and put his other hand on his knees, looking quite calm, but the heaving of his chest made Chen Sheng understand that his teacher was actually not at peace.

Ge Zhou stroked his gray beard, and looked at the government office from time to time. In fact, he was not calm.

Chen Sheng clenched his fist again. His two teachers had no relationship with him, but they taught him almost without reservation. He really didn't want to let them down, he was afraid of seeing their disappointed eyes.

"Boom————"

A loud drum sound spread throughout the square, instantly attracting the attention of everyone in the square. It was a signal to release the rankings.

This time in the eldest son city, there were more than [-] schoolchildren who participated in the children's entrance examination, one out of ten was selected, and a total of more than [-] students were selected.

In addition to the parents of those school children and some spectators, there are now thousands of people gathered in the entire Fuya Square, and it is almost full of water.

Fortunately, the square of the eldest son Chengfu Yawai has been expanded several times, and in the surrounding stores, there are still so many people barely squeezed.

Chen Sheng looked at the schoolchildren accompanied by their parents, and a trace of complicated emotions flashed in his eyes.

At this time, his father should have fallen asleep somewhere in the official engineering team camp.

The male college was getting married, and he knew that his father worked so hard just to raise money for the marriage.

At the gate of the eldest son's city government office, a thousand household official wearing a crimson eagle wolf uniform walked out slowly. A group of yellow scarf soldiers with their helmets on top of their armor came out with knives on their shoulders and walked down to the steps of the government office. The team stood and maintained order.

Everyone's eyes were drawn by the thousand-household officer of the Eagle Wolf Guard, and the people in front of the mansion were all staring at the roster in the hands of the thousand-household officer.

"call out------"

A sharp sound rose into the sky, and the last noise on the square dissipated.

In front of the government yamen, the Thousand Household Officer of the Eagle Wolf Guard slowly unfolded the roster in his hand.

"The eldest son, Zhao Kang, the second class of Jiazi Academy, 268 students, can be promoted to the county school!"

Chapter 612

As soon as he said a word, the noise suddenly rose from all around.

"Zhao Kang, the second class of the Jiazi Academy in the eldest son city, 268 students, can be promoted to the county school! Please come closer."

A louder voice sounded, and a dozen or so Tiqi of the Eagle Wolf Guard loudly repeated the report of the Thousand Household Officer.

"My Kang'er won the prize!"

A middle-aged man covered in dust and wearing short brown clothes knelt down on the ground, hugged a young man in front of him, and laughed loudly.

The pale young man's face was still a little dazed at first, he hadn't figured out the situation, and then his brows also relaxed.

"I won, I won..."

The boy was held in the arms of the middle-aged man, muttering to himself.

"I won..."

The original joyful voice turned into a whimper in his mouth.

No one knows the hardships better than him. For three years as one day, he did not dare to neglect for a moment during these three years. He knew that he was not as smart as others, and he knew that he was stupid, so he did not dare to neglect.

He didn't expect that he would actually be admitted to the county school, and tears flowed down his cheeks. For the past three years, all the bitterness that only he knew about came to his heart. He couldn't hold back his emotions anymore, and burst into tears.

In the Meng School, everyone is studying hard. Few of their families are rich, and most of them are poor. Even if the taxation of the Taiping Road is much lower than that of the Han Court, the conditions of a family are not It will get better in a year and a half.

Some of them are used to living in poverty, even if they have saved some money and some surplus food, they dare not use it indiscriminately, and their lives are still tight.

Although the criteria for recruiting students in Meng Xuetang is from seven to 13 years old, the students selected in Meng Xuetang are generally in their teens, and rarely under ten years old. After all, admission is based on merit, and older children have more competitive advantages.

When they were more than ten years old, they all remembered the hardships they had experienced.

It is the hardships experienced in the past that motivate these schoolchildren to study hard for three years like a day.

"I got it, I got it..."

The father and son embraced each other and wept. Graduates who pass the Tongsheng Examination can be called Tongsheng, and are officially recognized by the Taiping Road. Once they become adults, they can go to various township pavilions to serve as officials.

Becoming an official can improve one's conditions a lot, not only with a salary, but also with a certain amount of tax-free land.

Chen Sheng raised his drooping head and followed the sound to look at Zhao Kang who was crying not far away.

He knew Zhao Kang, who was his first friend in the workshop.

Back then when he came to the academy alone, Zhao Kang was the first person to talk to him.

Zhao Kang told Chen Sheng that his hometown was in the Taihang Mountains, and his ancestors seemed to have lived in the Taihang Mountains for generations.

Although life was difficult at first, it was still manageable, but when the Taihang gangsters broke out, everything changed.

Zhao Kang's mother died in the bandit chaos in Taihang. His father took him to hide in Tibet and joined the team of Taihang Yellow Turbans. He also entered the relatively safe Banyun Valley.

Later, many things happened, many things that Zhao Kang didn't know about, anyway, in the end he followed his father and the Yellow Turban Army out of the Taihang Mountains, and settled down in the eldest son city.

Zhao Kang's father, Zhao Yuan, was originally a soldier in the Yellow Turban Army. It seems that when he was conquering Yang Feng, he was seriously injured.

If the screening was done according to the regulations, Zhao Kang would have decided that he would not be able to enter the Meng School, but after all, the Meng School was run by Taiping Dao. Even if those wounded soldiers who fought for Taiping Dao were retired and turned into field soldiers, Xu An did not forget .

As a child of a military household, Zhao Kang entered the Meng School in this way.

Zhao Kang, who entered the Meng School, is the hardest person in the whole school.

Chen Sheng sighed in his heart, he was happy that Zhao Kang's efforts had achieved results, and he knew how much effort Zhao Kang had put in behind his back.

Although it is the last of all the winners, it is a good thing to be able to win.

The voices of reports sounded again and again. Although there were many people in the square, the voices of the reports were not low, and each person who reported was not only the Yellow Turban soldiers who were in charge of delivering the message, but also the people waiting in the square.

The position where everyone stood was also an area that had been designated by the Yellow Turban Army in advance.

Therefore, whenever a student's name was mentioned, the Ti Qi of the Eagle Wolf Guard could quickly locate the student's location, and then take him to the open space set aside in advance in front of the government office to wait.

The reporting is still going on, and joy, anger, sorrow and joy are being staged everywhere.

The schoolchildren whose names were not read and their adults were frowning and disappointed, while the schoolchildren whose names were spoken were overjoyed and elated, and many of them cried with joy.

"Qian Jin, the first class of Tunliucheng Yizi Academy, 157 students, can be promoted to the county school!"

"Eldest Son City C Character Academy..."

……

The sound of the report keeps ringing, and after a while, the top [-] have been read

"Meng Zhu, No. 30, No. [-], Meng Zhu, the second class of the Jiazi Academy in the eldest son city, can be promoted to the county school!"

In the academy, he has two friends, one is Zhao Kang, and the other is Meng Zhu.

Chen Sheng searched through the crowd, and finally found Meng Zhu among the crowd.

Meng Zhu was riding on his father's neck, and his father laughed happily, but Meng Zhu, who was riding on his neck, was looking in the direction where Chen Sheng was.

It seemed that Meng Zhu had spotted Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng saw Meng Zhu raised his hand and waved it towards him.

Chen Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. Both of his friends passed the exam, and he was relieved.

Meng Zhu was an outstanding person. Although he was smart, he was not as hard-working as Chen Kang. Chen Sheng was really worried that Meng Zhu would fail the ranking. After all, Meng Zhu had learned from the past.

There are 200 students in each workshop after enrollment expansion, divided into four classes, with about 50 students in each class, and exams will be held every semester.

Meng Zhu used to get only middle grades in the exam for two consecutive semesters. Based on this grade, it is absolutely impossible to go to school in the county. However, this semester, Meng Zhu also seemed to understand that it can't go on like this, and started to study hard.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhu has now passed the No. 30 exam.

"...No.10, ranked second, can be promoted to county school!"

Chen Sheng's heartstrings were always tense, the registration was coming to an end, and he had already begun to read the top ten candidates, but he hadn't arrived yet.

Sitting beside him, Chen Yu's complexion gradually became solemn, and Ge Zhou was not as calm as before.

"Du Shi, No. 3 in the first class of the T-character Academy in Gaodu City, can be promoted to the county school!"

Chen Sheng clenched his fists tightly, he didn't believe that he would fail...

"The Firstborn City Jiazi School——"

Chen Sheng suddenly raised his head, he heard his own workshop.

"The first class, Tian Guang, No.2, rated as the second class, can be promoted to the county school!"

Chen Sheng's heart skipped a beat. Tian Guang was a student who was on par with him in Jiazifang. He entered school a year earlier than him, and he had already learned the content of the county school.

"Chen Sheng, the second class of the Jiazi Academy in the eldest son city, the first case of the high school, rated as the first class, and entered the county school!"

"it is good!"

Chen Yu slammed the table and stood up abruptly, his face flushed and his body trembling.