Aoyama Chronicle

The spring is cold, the earth is still frozen, the new year has just begun, and the whole year has not had time to spread out, and the Zhong family's house in Zhongjia Village has been getting up and working since before dawn.The servants all know that their main master is about to go out to participate in this year's scientific examination. If they can win the list in one fell swoop, they will be servants of the official family. Not to mention their reputation, if the master is happy, he can directly avoid them How can you be unhappy with such a prospect.

Zhong Yiwen and Qin Fei got up early in the morning and went to the ancestral grave with the offerings.When going out this time, Zhong Yiwen intends to take the general examination if he passes the provincial examination. If he fails to pass, he is not in a hurry to go home. Zhong Yiwen is going to take Qin Fei to have a look around, and hand over to Chen Yi for inspection The business that Nuo took care of.

Steward Fu waited at the door early, and when he saw Zhong Yiwen and the others coming back, he immediately greeted him: "My lord, my lord, the carriage has been packed and all the things have been put in the car, sir, do you want to check it?"

"No need, I don't worry about your work!" Zhong Yiwen's words made Butler Fu smile excitedly and narrow his eyes.

Qin Fei walked a few steps, turned around and asked, "Is Xiaochen awake?"

"Return to the Lord, the young master hasn't woken up yet, the weather is too cold, and we dare not ask the young master to wake up too early!" Steward Fu respectfully replied, "Why don't you go eat something to warm up first, my lord. Just ask Ah Mo to wake up the young master so that the travel time will not be delayed."

Qin Fei nodded and asked Steward Fu to do it.

Zhong Yiwen is going to participate in the scientific examination this time, and there are other arrangements in the future, so he plans to bring Qin Fei and Xiaochen together. It can be regarded as a whole family outing. There are also two boys, Aqi and Amo, and the two boys at the end of last year. The three nursing homes that Chen Yinuo brought back.

Last year, Chen Yinuo finally returned home before the New Year, and brought back five men and a brother, all of whom were hidden masters, especially the 30-year-old brother, who was inconspicuous in appearance, but was six years old. The mightiest of men.They are all friends that Chen Yinuo knew in Yongzhou. Two of them are nursing homes that Chen Yinuo used in his own home before. .

Zhong Yiwen directly dialed two men to Chen Yinuo. He would always encounter troubles of all sizes when he was away alone, so he could feel relieved with helpers around.This time they are going to take the brother named Meizi with them, and two other men named Dafang and Amu.Meizi is responsible for taking care of Qin Fei and Xiaochen, and Dafang Amu is the one who integrates groom, coachman, errands, and bodyguard.Fortunately, both of them are relatively simple and honest, and they were born as bodyguard masters. In the past, it was more difficult to guard the body than this. This time it is much easier than before, so naturally they will not have any objections.What's more, Zhong Yiwen really didn't lose money to them, and he definitely gave them a lot of money.

"Housekeeper Fu, we are not here, so I will leave all the family affairs to you. You must establish a good relationship with the people in the village. If there is anything you can't handle, you can directly ask Mr. He, or ask Xiaofang for help." Zhong Yiwen considered the family All the power was given to Butler Fu.He Jianghai and Xiao Fang, another nurse who stayed behind, can basically guarantee the safety of Zhong's family when they are away.This little Fang is Da Fang's brother that Zhong Yiwen and the others are going to take away. He is only in his early twenties, smiling and jumping up and down all day long, and he is a bit too lively.Zhong Yiwen can only keep him at home, if he is taken outside, who knows if he will be lost.

Qin Fei hugged Xiao Chen who was still drowsily asleep and got into the carriage first, followed by Zhong Yiwen.The three of Aqi, Amo and Meizi got into the carriage behind, and the two men, Dafang and Amu, were in charge of driving.Facing the rising sun, the two carriages left Zhongjia Village one after the other.

At the same time, there was a frail young man Zhong Yilang who left Zhongjia Village early in the morning.

Last year, after the third uncle was taught a lesson by Zhong Yiwen at Zhong's house, he was deeply irritated. He fell seriously ill when he returned home, and passed away not long after.This is the case when this person is getting older, maybe one day he will suddenly stop coming up.Zhong Yiwen didn't expect that the result of the matter would turn out like this.

However, Li Zheng said that before the third uncle passed away, he called several of their close nephews, including Xiao Lang, to the bedside, and warned them that he had nothing to do with Mr. Xiucai no matter what. go down.In addition, his husband and brother came to his dream every night to cry, he knew it was his fault and he was sorry for them.If he hadn't arbitrarily rejected his elder brother's marriage with a farmer and forced his elder brother to stay at home to recruit a relative, how could a good family become like this.All the faults come from himself, and he is grumpy and unreasonable.As for Xiao Lang, the third uncle kept saying that he was sorry, and let Li Zheng help Xiao Lang a lot based on the relationship between the two families.If Xiao Lang still wanted to study, he asked Li Zheng to help him talk to Mr. Xiucai.He only had such a relative left, so he naturally hoped that he could shine in the family in the future. It was because he couldn't figure it out and was unreasonable in the past that delayed Xiao Lang for so long.

It is said that a person who is about to die speaks kindly. The third uncle was domineering and irritable all his life, but when he was dying, he became sober for a while.It's just that Zhong Yilang still didn't say that he wanted to continue studying, which made both Zhong Yiwen and He Jianghai feel a little bit, that a good seedling was wasted.

However, Zhong Yiwen never thought that Zhong Yilang would be so courageous that he would secretly leave Zhongjia Village alone.It turned out that Zhong Yilang never gave up studying at all, otherwise he wouldn't have secretly studied by himself for so long under the eyes of his third uncle.It's just that he doesn't want to accept Zhong Yiwen's kindness. Although he knows that his family's affairs have nothing to do with others, and his grandpa also said that it has nothing to do with Mr. Xiucai, how can he let it go so easily.If it wasn't for him wanting to study and secretly going to Zhong's house to participate in Mr. He's consideration, how could his grandpa make trouble at Zhong's house, get his scars uncovered by Mr. Xiucai, and finally leave him without love.Grandpa is his dearest person in this world, Zhong Yilang is a bit hard to accept, but he doesn't want to give up studying easily, so he thinks of leaving alone.

A few years later, when Zhong Yiwen and Zhong Yilang met again, their identities were already very different from what they are now. After all, Yan Guo will cause countless disturbances because of these two who should have become good brothers.

Yan State’s scientific examination arrangement is different from the ancient times that Zhong Yiwen knows. The biggest difference is in this time. Although it is also held every three years, the provincial examination and the general examination are arranged in the same year. The rural examination is in spring, and the general examination Scheduled for fall.Moreover, the township examination here is combined by the three states, and each state capital takes turns to be the examination room for the current year.

Yangzhou, where Zhong Yiwen is located, and Qingzhou and Xuzhou, the two state capitals to the north, belong to the same examination area, which is called the Eastern Examination Area. Students here are also called Eastern Students after leaving the three states.There are only three examination rooms in the upper and lower nine states of Yan State for each township examination, which greatly facilitates the unified management of the country and reduces the occurrence of malpractice for personal gain.Although this is very unfair to candidates who are not in the state, many students have jointly protested, but it is still used today.This year, the township examinations of Xu, Qing, and Yang were arranged in the capital of Qingzhou, which is why Zhong Yiwen will leave early after the year.

Although the township examination is scheduled for April, it will take at least half a month for Zhong Yiwen and the others to go slowly all the way, and it is already early February when they get there.Afterwards, he has to adapt to the environment, communicate with other students, and it is best to have a good reputation among the students. These are He Jianghai's experience.He also told Zhong Yiwen that in the past, few students who passed the provincial examination were unknown, and the better the reputation, the higher the popularity, and the greater the possibility of passing the exam.Otherwise, those examiners from other state capitals don't know anyone, and they can see someone and let you enter the list just based on your paper, then you are against the sky.Of course, there are also some truly talented people, such as those who write really brilliant articles, or those who get full marks in mathematics, etc. Others may also make it to the list as long as they are not bad, but are such people really unknown?

Zhong Yiwen was a scholar in the [-]th exam, and he was considered a minor celebrity in Yangzhou's prefecture, but now it has been five years, and he has been living in Zhongjia Village for the next two or three years, so how many people remember him.After Zhong Yiwen became a scholar, the most recent rural exam, that is, the last rural exam in the eastern exam area was in Xuzhou.Zhong Yiwen gave up taking part right away. One was because Zhong Yiwen knew his name, and the possibility of winning the exam was almost zero. The other was also because the Xuzhou prefectural capital was far away. It's cold, the land has just melted, it's really inconvenient.

Therefore, in the rural examinations, the eastern examination area has always had the most people in Qingzhou, followed by Yangzhou, and the least in Xuzhou.The situation in the central and western regions is similar. The state capitals in the north have fewer candidates and the ones in the south have more candidates. The number of candidates in the middle will increase sharply.Some officials called them the year of the big exam and the year of the small exam, but it was generally recognized by the people of Yan.This year is the exam year.According to this situation, the country also changes the number of people admitted accordingly, which of course means that more people will be admitted in the middle of the big exam year.But this does not mean that you will be able to win the exam, after all, the base number is also scary, isn't it.

Scholars who have a good reputation and have considerable confidence in themselves will choose to take the provincial examination in the big examination year. This is not only a time to prove their strength, but also a good opportunity to become famous.After all, the sense of accomplishment and psychological satisfaction is completely different between passing a high school in front of thousands of people and going to high school in front of tens of thousands of people.There are also some people who choose to take the provincial examination in the quiz year, not to say that they must not be good at learning, but they like this tradition of going against the trend to show their position and style.

Therefore, some people say that the year of the big test produces talents, and the year of the small test produces ghosts. As for the ordinary test year, it is mediocre.Of course, this is also a joke and will never be officially recognized.