The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

As soon as the first month passed, Lin Daiyu went to Chunwei to take the entrance examination, and soon the school announced the admission list for this year, and Lin Daiyu's name was indeed the first.Lin Ruhai has raised his beard when he goes to work these few days, what's the matter!Your daughter didn't go to Chunwei until she was eleven or twelve years old, and my daughter was only nine years old when she got the first place in the exam!

Lin Ruhai loves her daughter like her life, so she naturally urged her to prepare the things for the big girl to go to school. Aunt Meng said, "When you think about it, the day lily is cold." His older sister Mrs. Xu also laughed that he was busy with nothing, Lin Ruhai blushed, and without getting involved, she turned her head and urged Xu Yang to go to school quickly.

Xu Yang is a stubborn person, with 10,000+ words in the Four Books and Five Classics, he insisted on memorizing them all in more than two months. Of course, this is also related to his past background. He also pays more attention to the study of ancient culture, so 10,000+ words seem to be a lot, but he actually needs to memorize less than one-third of them.

Don't think that it's just that the ancients just learned these few books all day long, and just memorized them without mentioning the understanding of meaning. How many ordinary people can buy all the four books and five classics?How much does it cost for pens and paper a month?Anything with the word "learning" is not cheap!So Jinshi is really a big wave, and a man is also a dragon and a phoenix among people, but the most basic first level of being a scholar, on some levels, is really fighting for fathers!

The scholar examination in this dynasty seems to be really not difficult just by looking at the content, that is, posting scriptures, poems, and stereotyped essays are only tested in the final court, and no one asks a young student to write such a deafening article, which is basically reasonable Just have evidence, of course, but it depends on the quality of your article and luck.Reading through the four books, posting scriptures and stereotypes can generally be dealt with.As for poetry, don’t think it’s so difficult for the ancients. “If you’re familiar with three hundred Tang poems, you can chant them even if you don’t know how to recite poems.”

Therefore, it may be more difficult to take the exam than to pass the exam, but the amount of knowledge required is really not as great as our current college entrance examination, and it is not difficult to repeat those things over and over again.But if you really think that it is just a difficulty of taking an undergraduate course, you are wrong!For poor students, the difficulty can catch up with the civil servant exam!

Why is it so difficult?Quite simply, insufficient resources.It sounds like the test is not deep, and there are only a few books, but for the poor, do you buy all those books?Do you have money to buy paper and ink to practice calligraphy?Can you ask Mr. Qi to explain it to you?It is even more exaggerated that the scholar who makes sentences behind closed doors does not explain or speak, and when encountering unfamiliar words, the dictionary may not be able to get them!These are not problems that can be solved by studying hard in the cold window.Therefore, as long as the rich children are willing to work hard, they will not succeed twice, not twice, and have teachers to guide them. Unless they are very young, it is really not something to be proud of to be admitted to the scholar.But children from poor families can’t get all the books together, how can they memorize them all?If you pass the exam once or twice, who will support the family if you don’t work after the exam?Therefore, for poor students, it is more difficult to be a scholar than to be a civil servant.Or how to say it is to some extent a fight for father!

Lin Daiyu said that Xu Yang took the exam to be a scholar in three to five years, but she really thought that it took so long because of bad luck.This thing really depends half on strength and half on luck. Xu Yang's strength, don't look at him not learning the content of the imperial examination according to the rules in the past, but the foundation is not lacking at all!Looking at his study progress in the past two months, Lin Daiyu thinks that if her brother is lucky, another year will be more than enough for the scholar exam!

In fact, Xu Yang has been called a child prodigy since he was a child, and it is because he hangs around with Lin Daiyu all day that he is compared to being so invisible.Scholars are the foundation, and they are not as demanding as juren. Xu Yang is not good at poetry, but the little genius's head is there, and he will write crooked poems in just a few days. It is estimated that the poems he will make when he takes the exam next year are not good. Speaking of a good work, it's okay to look decent (well, this is purely Sister Lin's wishful thinking).I have finished memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics now. It is enough to practice breaking the questions and making essays in one year. After another year of study, I can try my luck. Even if I am unlucky, I will definitely succeed in another year of exam at most!Not to mention that there is Lin Ruhai, the former Tanhua, as a guide, who can guess the questions, and the rest depends on luck.Not only Lin Daiyu, but also Lin Ruhai secretly took a deep breath: "My daughter was admitted to Chunwei at the age of 9, and my nephew will never fail! He must be a scholar next year!" Yes, this is more than his daughter, anyway Lin Daiyu was thinking that if she was really unlucky, she would take another year of the exam!

Poor Xu Yang believes that his great ambition is to work hard for three to five years to be admitted to the show. Who knows that his uncle Tanhua and the talented cousin are not in the same band of thinking as him... The little prodigy meets the old prodigy and the super young prodigy, The days I lived were extraordinary hardships.

To be honest, the Lin family's father and daughter took it for granted. To Lin Ruhai, being a scholar was naturally at his fingertips. If Sister Lin was a boy, she would really not consider it difficult to be a scholar.Taking a step back, if Xu Yang had been wearing Lin Ruhai's real nephew since he was a child, he wouldn't have regarded it as too difficult... For example, taking the Tsinghua University exam is a dream for ordinary people, but for the whole city Is it a dream for a god who ranks first in the unified examination?It is a reasonable request at all!Apparently, both the father and daughter of the Lin family are of this type...

The tragedy is that Xu Yang used to be this type, but now it's obviously not the right professional!Crooked poems can be made, but if you ask Xu Yang to write a poem, you have to express the artistic conception?Go ahead and dream... So Xu Yang's path to becoming a scholar cannot be as easy as the Lin family's father and daughter imagined! ! !

This year, on the fourth day of the second lunar month, spring cakes are naturally eaten in the beginning of spring. This is very similar to that of later generations. Of course, the spring cakes of the Lin family are very particular, but it is a pity that Lin Ruhai cannot eat them together at home, because of court rules, all officials have to dress neatly It's a pity that Xu Yang has just started to learn how to ride a horse these days, and he hasn't ridden to such a high level outside the city, so this excitement can't be seen, and because Mrs. Xu can't be a filial piety until the end of the year, she can't They took them to watch the spring festival in the outskirts of the car, so Xu Yang and sister Lin could only eat spring pancakes at home.

The inner thighs of Xu Yang who practiced horseback riding for the past few days are all torn, which is very pitiful.Mrs. Xu is a dignified person, and she really loves him, but she really hasn't been a mother for a few days, even when her own child is around, she is also served by nurses, so why worry about her?Besides, she was busy with Lin Daiyu's affairs these days, so she didn't notice Xu Yang's awkward walking posture.When Aunt Meng saw it, she asked Xu Yang in detail. Although Xu Yang was embarrassed, he was really not the one who was suffering and kept silent. He complained quickly and begged Aunt Meng to sew him a thigh protector.

Aunt Meng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and poked him with her finger: "Your maids can't make up for it? If they don't notice, you won't say it? Why don't you just tell them to do the work? How can there be such a master as you! I didn't ask you, do you wait until your legs are bloody before confessing!" Xu Yang screamed when he was poked, and Aunt Meng turned around and gave a lesson to all the maids who served Xu Yang.It was really Xu Yang's fault, he was used to laughing and joking with the maids, except for serving tea and cleaning the house, he never ordered anything.

The more Aunt Meng asked, the angrier she said, "Could it be that the people in this yard aren't maids? They're a group of ladies? Which girl in our family can just serve tea and water? Not to mention the big clothes, the master wants to use them." Since when are small things not made by girls who are close to you? Your young master has a good temper, if you don’t order you, you will all be lazy!" He blamed himself for not taking good care of these girls.

In fact, I really can't blame Aunt Meng for this matter, and I can't blame the maids entirely.Since the maids were given to Xu Yang, they were naturally Xu Yang's maids, so Aunt Meng couldn't come here all day to point fingers.

Originally, the rules of the Lin family were like this. The big clothes are naturally made by the embroiderer. This is too professional. A large number of handkerchiefs and purses are also made by the embroiderer by the way, and the occasional small items and underwear around the master are indeed for the side. girl do.But Xu Yang came to the Lin Mansion suddenly, who had the time to make his clothes slowly at that time, just at that time the mansion invited embroiderers to make clothes for Lin Daiyu, Aunt Meng ordered more embroiderers to make clothes for Xu Yang in one go I bought more than N sets from the inside to the outside, and I made a lot of small things, which can be used for several years... As a result, Xu Yang came here for a few months and basically did not do any sewing. His maids still have this function, so they thought his maids were just serving tea and water to deliver news or something, and even complained behind his back: "It's really a good job to be a maid these days! High salary and leisure, and the uniform is beautiful ..." Xu Yang is also thin-skinned. If his health is better, he won't allow the servant girl to take care of him. His leg hurts like hell, but when he walks outside, he pretends to be fine. How would the servant girls know that he was injured?It was because he relaxed a little in front of Aunt Meng that he was accidentally discovered.

But no one would say that it was Xu Yang's fault.As a servant girl, if you didn't realize that your master has suffered such a crime, then it's your fault!Aunt Meng talked about Xu Yang behind her back, but in front of the maids, she naturally scolded them bloody. She has always had a good temper, and she is also gentle when she teaches her servants. This time, she was really angry. He also deliberately put on a bad face to discipline Xu Yang's servants, because Xu Yang has a really good temper.

She said that these jobs should be done by girls, but Aunt Meng made her own leggings that covered her thighs with muslin. She made two sets overnight and sent them to Xu Yang the next day.Aunt Meng would not specifically tell Mrs. Xu about these things to make her feel distressed, and in a few days Xu Yang has become proficient at riding a horse, and his legs don't wear much when they are clamped tightly. , The rubbing is not strong anymore, of course, the thickening of the skin is probably another reason.

Xu Yang was indeed not An Sheng, so he ordered the maids to make a pair of leggings within a few days, and then gave it to Lin Daiyu, and kidnapped her to practice horse riding.The result was naturally scolded by Mrs. Xu.Unexpectedly, when Lin Ruhai came back, she was in favor of it: "What's so good about riding a horse? There are a lot of girls here who ride horses for outings. My sister grew up in the capital when she was young, and her brother-in-law is more conservative. I don't know the customs in Yangzhou. It’s also fashionable for girls to ride horses! How many girls even play polo!” Xu Yang was baffled by what he heard, he always thought that this world was completely like in the Dream of the Red Chamber, and the girls had never been out of the stories he told for several years. At home...Xu Yang was afraid that Sister Lin's health would continue to deteriorate, so he wanted her to exercise. On the other hand, he also felt that the little girl's entertainment was too little and they were all indoor activities.

Xu Yang was also fooled by Lin Ruhai.He overlooked one point. If you want to care about Lin Daiyu, who can surpass Lin Ruhai?For the sake of his daughter's health, he did not know how many times he had nagging with Imperial Physician Qin behind his back. He annoyed Imperial Physician Qin and finally uttered foul words: "I said earlier that your girl is just weak and there is nothing wrong with it. What! Just let her bask in the sun and move around more! Take some medicine!"

These days, Lin Ruhai was thinking about how to make her daughter who likes to read books more active, but when she got off work, she heard that her sister lost her temper because her nephew had kidnapped his precious daughter to ride a horse in the back yard.Lin Ruhai realized it all at once, isn't riding a horse very good!Get a docile pony for my daughter to ride, and enjoy the sun and exercise again, how wonderful!As for the fact that girls riding horses are popular in Yangzhou, it is definitely his fault for Mrs. Xu. This is not the Tang Dynasty, and girls riding horses are still quite rare.But anyway, if Mrs. Xu doesn't go out, she will shake it a little bit!

Although Mrs. Xu still didn't agree with it, but since the father agreed, she didn't say much, but told Lin Ruhai to find a docile pony, and of course hire a female jockey.He also warned: "Even if horseback riding is more popular, Yu'er must honestly go by car when Chunwei starts school in a few days!" Lin Ruhai couldn't help wiping off sweat with Xu Yang. live!

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The author has something to say:

Why do I have to write about women's studies so seriously?Moreover, in order to prevent the existence of female students from conflicting with the original world of Dream of Red Mansions, such a long explanation and setting were specially made.

I still don't think that Sister Lin is someone who loves wealth and honor. The happiness she wants is definitely not being served by a group of maids, flattered by a group of women, being well-clothed, being an imperial order, or entering the royal family...

Really, maybe Sister Bao would like this kind of life. I'm not belittling Sister Bao, it's just the fact that everyone pursues different ideals.I also want a bigger house and make more money!

But unlike us little people, money has never been a problem for Sister Lin.And according to her personality, more glory is meaningless to her.She's actually a bit of a romantic girl.She is a little arrogant, a little bit loves to be top-notch, but her arrogance and love to be top-notch are all due to her conceit of her own talent, not power and wealth.

Her heart yearns for freedom.So, I give her freedom - as far as is acceptable in this society.

And I can only do so much for her. Society has always been harsh on women, no matter ancient or modern.

Don't be born as a daughter, happy and bitter smiles are all up to you.

It's hard enough being a woman, so I won't add any more restrictions to a woman's life.

But I am a realistic author, not a fantasist, so I can only outline a relatively beautiful environment within the limits of my ability.That's why I designed the existence of women's studies, and I will make Lin Ruhai's tolerance in society appropriately enlightened-this is the way I love Sister Lin.

This is my heart, thank you for listening to me patiently.