[Red Chamber] I just want to be a dummy

"Gah." Jia She stopped crying abruptly, looked up at Jia Jing, and then a snot bubble came out of his nose.

"Brother, did you skip class? Didn't you get hung up and beaten?" Jia Amnesty circled around Jia Jing a few times, trying to find traces of being beaten for skipping class.

"Okay, that's all you want to hear that I'm being beaten?" Jia Jing laughed and pulled Jia She, who was circling around him and wanted to pull up his clothes for a closer look, and asked.

Seeing Jia Jingjian's healthy appearance, Jia Amnesty realized that he was deceived by these two unscrupulous adults, and immediately looked at Jia Fu and Xu Yi with accusing eyes.

Jia Fu and Xu Yi looked at the sky and the ground. They were both usually not deceiving, but who would have expected that this was the first time they encountered such a scene.

Before they coaxed Jia Amnesty, who would have thought that Jia Jing would suddenly appear and there would be such an embarrassing scene.

Jia Amnesty was originally a person who didn't like to study, but this time he was exposed on the spot, so what face would he have to put on airs of a teacher in front of him in the future.Xu Yi thought a little bald.

Jia Fu thought about how he was in front of Jia She, he was a gentle and reliable cousin, now...

Jia Fu couldn't help being angry with Jia Jing, why did he come back from class at this time when he was studying hard?

Then, Jia Fu couldn't help thinking that when the little bastard in front of him was studying ethnology, he would hug his thigh and cry in order to skip class, and he would burn the books his father had finally obtained from the top scholar in the past.

"Brother, I didn't skip class for nothing." Jia Jing quickly explained seeing his own brother's eyes getting worse and worse.

"I went to the East Palace today to see the little emperor's grandson." Jia Jing obviously wanted to make a fool of himself, so he just said this sentence without beginning or end.

However, since his younger brother just started studying, Jia Fu, who has watched his younger brother start to find excuses to skip class, inevitably believes that the reason why his younger brother skipped class today is: after meeting the little Huangsun, he thinks that the little Huangsun looks beautiful. Xue is cute, so she skipped class and came out to describe it to him.

Jia Fu felt that his hands were a little itchy, the kind that would take a beating to stop itching.

Because he was afraid that he would be too cruel to beat his younger brother later, which would bring a psychological shadow to Jia She, who was still young next to him. Of course, he was also afraid that his image of a gentle and good brother would completely collapse in Jia She's heart.

Jia Fu also deliberately dismissed Jia She and said, "Xie'er, you haven't finished writing your big characters yet, go to the next door and write big characters."

Seeing that the face of the originally gentle and amiable big brother tended to turn black, Jia She felt that maybe they hadn't lied to him just now, so skipping class should not be punished?

But instead of being hung up and beaten by the guards in the palace, he would be beaten by the big cousin.

Adhering to the idea that a dead fellow Taoist would not die a poor one, the cowardly Jia Amnesty did not dare to intercede with Jia Jing, so he quickly packed up the pens and papers and went to the next door to practice calligraphy.

Be good, the big cousin's face is really dark.

The big characters must be written well, so that the city gate does not catch fire at that time, which will bring disaster to the fish in the pond.

Seeing Jia Amnesty left, Jia Fu showed a smile that was not a smile, and asked, "Did you come out specially to describe the appearance of the emperor's grandson to my brother? You are really a good brother of my brother."

The three words "good brother" were read out by Jia Fu with the feeling of gnashing his teeth.At the moment, Jia Jing didn't dare to hold back any more, and if he continued to hold off, he was afraid that he would lose his ass, so he quickly explained the imperial examination in detail.

"Since the Crown Princess revealed this news to Brother Jing, I think it must be about [-]% accurate." Jia Fu pondered for a while and said.

"If the heirs of officials above the fourth rank are allowed to take the exam in Shuntian Mansion, that would be a good thing for you, Brother Fu, at least you don't have to wait for two more years." Xu Yi said seriously.

"What's more, to participate in the examination as a supervisor, it must not be justifiable to participate in the examination as a juren."

There is also a chain of contempt among people of Jinshi background. For example, first-class people look down on second-class people, and second-class people look down on fellow Jinshi.But they will all look down on those who take part in the imperial examination as supervisors.

Therefore, if he could pass the orthodox imperial examination, Xu Yi certainly hoped that Jia Fu would pass the orthodox imperial examination and pass the imperial examination.

"If the emperor really intends to grant this grace, then come to think of it, there will be an imperial decree in two or three months. We can take advantage of it if we know about it in advance."

"No, no, no, originally your homework was based on the annual and general examinations of the Guozijian. Now that you have to start from the children's exams, you have to reschedule your homework. If it doesn't work, I have to find the previous county exams. Go with the exam questions."

Xu Yikao's talent examination was still a matter of the late emperor's time, and he had almost forgotten it a long time ago.Although Xu Yi also believed that Jia Fu's knowledge would be no problem for a scholar, but if he didn't even know what the test questions were, Jia Fu would be in a daze when he entered the examination room.

"Cousin, wait a minute. We were originally going to Jinling for the exam. We are naturally worried about their fate, but now in Shuntian Mansion, look..." Jia Fu motioned Xu Yi to look at Jia Jing and the neighbor next door. Jia amnesty.

This is not impossible, although Jia Jing and Jia She look a little younger, it is not difficult for Tongsheng to try.

In Shandong or Jiangnan, where the style of writing is prevalent, a child prodigy will appear every few years, and he will pass the examination as a scholar at the age of eight or nine.

Coupled with Xu Yi's surprise tutoring, they will need two or three months longer than others. Jia Jing and Jia She are really likely to be born as scholars.

Of course, it doesn't matter if they fail the exam, the most important thing is to let them see the world.

"I can't, I won't go." Jia Jing didn't expect that when he came to report a letter, the flames of war would burn on him.

Jia Jing has almost reached the point of ptsd for the imperial examination. Although now because of Jia Fu's health, Jia Jing looks normal on the surface, but deep down Jia Jing still feels that as long as he has participated in the scientific examination, he will be killed. brother.

When Jia Jing said that I won't go, his voice trembled a little. As an elder brother who knows his younger brother well, Jia Fu couldn't feel it.

Jia Fu patted Jia Jing's shoulder and comforted, "It's not that you must pass the exam, but you are just asked to take the imperial examination."

"No, I won't go." Jia Jing reacted a lot this time, and started to cry after shaking off Jia Fu's hand.

Jia Fu has seen Jia Jing cry without shedding tears because he is unwilling to go to school because of cheating, and he has also seen Jia Jing cry after being beaten, but this is the first time Jia Fu has seen such silent tears.

Suddenly Jia Fu was at a loss.

Xu Yi always thought that Jia Jing was a person who saw things very clearly. Looking at Jia Jing's performance, he automatically figured out the reason for Jia Jing, and persuaded Jia Fu:

"It's good that Brother Jing doesn't want to take part, after all, any prince accompanying you is the way to become an official through the imperial examination. If Brother Jing goes to take the exam, the emperor will feel that your family is dissatisfied with Brother Jing being the accompanying student of the Eighth Prince. That's not pretty."

In essence, Jia Fu is still an elder brother who loves his younger brother without thinking. He wants Jia Jing to participate, but he just thinks that Jia Jing's academic performance was very good before.

Seeing that Jia Jing didn't like it so much and Xu Yi's analysis, Jia Fu gave up.

"Okay, okay, then Jing'er won't go." Jia Fu hurriedly coaxed Jia Jing.

Seeing that Jia Jing stopped crying, he laughed again and said: "It can be seen that the imperial examination is fiercer than a tiger. Brother Jing, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, sometimes shed tears because of the imperial examination."

"But, brother She can really try." Xu Yi stroked his chin and began to think about Jia She's future course arrangements. Now, Xu Yi has already planned every day after Jia She.

Now Mrs. Xu is getting older and her health is getting worse. This month alone, she has invited the imperial physician twice.

In Rongguo Mansion, except for the protection of Mrs. Xu, Jia She's mother prefers the son she raised.

Jia Daishan is not partial, he treats his two sons equally, but with the appearance of Shi's overt and covert defense of Jia Zheng and suing Jia for amnesty, Jia Daishan can't help but be partial to Jia Zheng.

And Xu Yi himself can't protect Jia She for a long time, if Jia She can get a name in the exam, even if it is a useless child, it can make Jia She stand up by himself.

Jia Amnesty: People are sitting in calligraphy, homework comes from heaven? ? ?

Shuntian Mansion is under the foot of the Son of Heaven, so it is naturally not like other prefectures, so it is definitely impossible to send Xuezheng here.

Then in the county examination and the government examination, the county magistrate and Shuntian prefect must have more say.

There is no fixed scoring standard for policy theory, and it has always been written so that the examiner likes it, so the possibility of being admitted will be greater.

However, some examiners like articles with gorgeous rhetoric and majestic reading, while some examiners like articles with plain words and meaningful words.

Therefore, as a candidate, it is natural to cater to the preferences of the examiner.

It's easy to inquire about the examiner's daily life. The Jia family is originally a rich family. As a colleague, just inquire directly with their superiors.

Of course, there is another way.

Nowadays, literati like to write books and write biographies, which will be passed down through the ages in the future. They have written some articles and poems, and like to engrave them out of their own pockets and sell them in bookstores.

Of course, unless the writing is exceptionally good, these are basically not very sold.

Therefore, as long as you know where they are going to take the exam and who the local magistrate is, go to the bookstore to try your luck, buy a collection of poems written by the examiner, and understand the examiner's style of writing, that would be the best.

Come to think of it, if one wanted to choose a county seat as the examination place for those officials' children, since Grace could take the exam in Shuntian Mansion now, then naturally they would not choose a county seat far away from the imperial city, so as to embarrass the examinees.

Then it is natural to choose a small county near the outskirts of Beijing.

Xu Yi secretly calculated the small counties around the capital, and after he had a good idea, he greeted everyone: "Let's go, let's go to the bookstore as well."

"Brother Xi, don't practice big characters, let's go together."