Qing Jialu

When Shen Jia woke up, the sun was already high.He rubbed his aching head, vaguely remembering what happened yesterday.He seems to have written a poem, and chatted and drank with a group of people?

Just when Shen Jia was in a daze, the emperor brought a bowl of hangover soup and entered the bedroom.

"Drink this, sober up." Xiao Yi said, "Do you have a headache, are you still dizzy?"

Shen Jia supported his head with one hand, and held the soup in the other, "I'm a little dizzy, the Tusu wine in this store has really strong stamina."

Xiao Yi snorted coldly, "Knowing that you can't drink enough, you just picked up the jug and drank it directly to your mouth. Do you really think you are Li Bai?"

"Really? I don't remember." Shen Jia couldn't remember for a while.

"Then do you still remember that you said you were rushing for the exam?" Xiao Yi asked again.

Sure enough, Shen Jia showed a sluggish expression, "What, I said I was rushing for the exam?"

"Yes." Xiao Yi continued to make up his sword, "You also said that you are going to the Zhuangyuan Building to learn from the candidates."

"Hey, oh, it's wrong to be drunk, it's wrong to be drunk." Shen Jia put down the empty bowl, hugged her head and called out, "It's over now, it's too embarrassing to be an official with them at the same time."

"Why wait until you become an official in the same dynasty, I'm afraid I'll meet you in the examination room." Xiao Yi gave Shen Jia another blow.

"Won't that be more embarrassing, wait..." Shen Jia suddenly reacted, "Don't you want to choose me as the main exam for this year's Chunwei?"

Xiao Yi stared at him with a half-smile, "You and Han Chang have just entered the cabinet, and it would be great to be the chief examiner of the imperial examination."

The chief examiners of the general examination have always been selected from the cabinet or the six officials.The chief examiner in the first year of the Qing Dynasty was Cheng Ge, and now Xiao Yi wanted to choose one of them, which was reasonable.

"I'm too young, please ask Han Ge's senior magistrate to give me a tribute." Shen Jia hastily pushed back.

"It's okay, but you can't escape." Xiao Yi let Shen Jia off lightly, "After three years, you will be the examiner."

However, Shen Jia didn't realize that Xiao Yi directly skipped Zhang Cifu without even mentioning it.

A few days later, Shen Jia remembered the agreement with his son Du Huan and others.Although he agreed indiscriminately when he was drunk, but the gentleman said that it was hard to chase, so he had to go as promised.

Shen Jia originally wanted to drag Xiao Yi along, but Xiao Yi refused: "You literati gatherings are very verbose, so I won't go."

Shen Jia thinks about it too, if she wants to recite poems again, what kind of music will she make.Xiao Yi's poetry level is far inferior to that of literati.

When seeing Du Huan again, Shen Jia was a little bit at a loss.On the contrary, Du Huan was very enthusiastic. He ordered a table of food and wine in the Zhuangyuan building, and called several other scholars to chat and eat wine together.

"We have been waiting for Brother Shen for a long time." Du Huan said, "We are afraid that Brother Shen will get drunk and forget about us."

"How come, how come." Shen Jia said so, knowing in her heart that she almost forgot.If Xiao Yi hadn't helped him remember, he might not have remembered Du Huan's name.

"We read Brother Shen's poems, it's wonderful." Another toasted to Shen Jia, "Now we finally see the true face of Mount Lu. Cheers, Brother Shen."

"Okay, okay." Shen Jia couldn't refuse, so she frowned and drank it, really afraid that she might get drunk again this time.

It was Du Huan who was winking, and stopped everyone from toasting Shen Jia after seeing Shen Jia had a few drinks.He suggested: "What's the point of just drinking? We're jurors, not drinkers. You all want to learn from Brother Shen. How can you learn from each other when you're drunk?"

"Brother Du is right. When we saw Brother Shen happy, we were so happy that we forgot."

Seeing this, Shen Jia secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and finally stopped drinking.Compared with drinking, studying and learning is nothing.

The imperial examinations in this dynasty did not examine poems, prose, and scriptures, so the examiners were very pragmatic and did not recite poems, and they also studied stereotyped essays.Some people have already prepared their own articles and would like to ask Shen Jia for advice.Some people want to read Shen Jia's stereotyped essays, but they don't know how good he is at solving and inheriting the questions.

After all, people who write good poetry may not necessarily write boring and serious stereotyped essays.

Shen Jia hasn't written stereotyped essays for a long, long time, and now looking at it gives her a headache.He had roughly read a few articles and felt that it was acceptable to break the topic, but it was far from meeting the standards for imperial examinations.

"Didn't Brother Du bring the article?" Shen Jia was a little curious about this person's level.

Du Huan smiled, "Of course I did, please advise."

After that, he took out the article hidden in his sleeve.

Sure enough, Du Huan's article was much better than the ones he had read before.Shen Jia nodded and said: "Brother Du is a good article, he solves the topic well, accepts the topic, starts the lecture, and is quite satisfactory."

"It's just... well-behaved?" Du Huan heard what Shen Jia meant.

Shen Jia nodded, "It should be no problem to be in the list, but there are still some shortcomings in wanting to be in the top two."

Shen Jia himself is the eleventh in the top two, and he knows that it is impossible to get a good ranking without something new in the article.

Upon hearing this, Du Huan cupped his hands and said, "I've been taught."

However, some people at the dinner didn't think so. He defended Du Huan and said, "Brother Du's literary talent is one of the best in Zhejiang. You are just from Fujian. How dare you criticize Brother Du like that?"

Shen Jia was taken aback for a moment, he almost forgot that he was a "juezi" now, but just now he spoke to Du Huan in the tone of a senior.No wonder, some people are not used to it.

"Brother Shen is outspoken, he just pointed out something to me from his heart, and I'm too late to be grateful." Du Huan looked at the person who spoke, clearly trying to defend himself against injustice, but actually testing Shen Jia's level.

After all, Du Huan was already very good at writing among this group of people. If even Du Huan was at the middle and lower level of the second class, then they might lose their reputation.

Brother Xue, who had met before, also said in a suspicious tone: "I have inquired about Jie Yuan from Fujian, and it seems that his surname is not Shen."

Everyone's attitude towards Shen Jia suddenly changed.Someone asked, "I don't know how many candidates will be admitted in Brother Chen's hometown exam?"

"I was lying." Shen Jia smiled indifferently, "I can read articles, but I can't write articles. Everyone, I will take my leave."

After Shen Jia finished speaking, she bowed hands with everyone, turned and left.

Du Huan looked at Shen Jia's back, ignored the others, hurriedly chased him out, and finally stopped him at the gate of Zhuangyuan Building.

"Brother Shen, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." Du Huan apologized for those people, "I'm also to blame for being rude, and called so many people to drink. Brother Shen doesn't want to see them, and I will never call them again."

"Brother Du, your article is actually very good." Shen Jia knew that Du Huan stopped him, and wanted to ask for advice again.He shook his head and smiled, "I have nothing to say."

"No, I just want to make friends with you now." Du Huan's eyes showed sincerity, "Brother Shen, you can tell my problems in one word, while others will only flatter each other. It is my honor to get to know Brother Shen." fortunate."

Shen Jia also smiled, "Okay, I would like to make you as my friend."

The author says:

Shen Jia: People are very addicted to food, so I dare to drink it next time!