I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

Ji Zihe led his big buffalo out the door. The villagers were quite surprised when they saw him, and asked him why he was admitted to be a scholar and still herd cattle?

Jingui is a scholar these days, and there are only twenty or so places in a county's children's examination. Their town has produced a scholar like Ji Zihe in a few years, and the last scholar was Ji Zihe's cousin Ning Caichen.

In the past, Ji Zihe was fine with herding cattle, but if he was admitted as a scholar, he would be considered famous. He didn’t need to kneel when he saw the county magistrate, and the court would distribute food every month. He would definitely be very promising in the future. Are you willing to let him do this tiring work?

Ji Zihe didn't think it was a big deal, he was just doing some work for the family, so what the heck.Although scholars pay attention to everything being low-grade, only reading is high, but Ji Zihe feels that helping the family with some farm work will not waste much time, and he feels quite relaxed being admitted as a scholar.To put it bluntly, he has always thought that his head is very smart, and he almost has a photographic memory, so it is okay to relax a little bit.

Of course, the reality will soon give this bloated little scholar a severe slap in the face.

When the sun rose, Ji Zihe tied the cattle under the shade of a tree, and went home to eat by himself.He originally thought that when his aunt came today, the family would definitely prepare a lot of delicious food, but what he didn't expect was that the guests came, but there were a lot of them.

My aunt was busy in the kitchen, and my uncle and his eldest cousin Ning Caichen took care of the guests in the house.Most of these people Ji Zihe was a bit unfamiliar, he stood at the door and didn't know how to move his feet for a while.

In the end, Ning Caichen found him, pulled him into the house, pushed him in front of everyone, and introduced to him that this is your first cousin and that is your second cousin's.In addition to these relatives who didn't seem to have met, the mayor also came, but he didn't plan to eat here, he just came to ask Ji Zihe about it, after all, this time there was only one scholar in their town, Definitely have to express it.

Originally, Old Man Ji didn't plan to hold a banquet, he just wanted to be happy, so he just invited his daughter and son-in-law to have a family dinner and celebrate together, who knew that there were so many uninvited relatives here.People came to the door with their belongings, and they all came to congratulate Ji Zihe, old man Ji couldn't just drive people out with a cold face, right?

Afterwards, Ji Zihe found out that these relatives came to congratulate him on being admitted as a scholar. It was obviously premeditated, and they took a fancy to his share of the [-] acres of land that did not pay taxes.Old man Ji's family doesn't have that many acres of land. According to them, they are still letting it go anyway. They are all relatives of their own. They might as well help out. The land is still planted by them, but in name they will transfer their own land to Ji Zihe's name and let it go first. That way, you don't have to pay taxes.And they don't ask for help for free, and favor fees will also be given.

It is not difficult to help, but it is obvious that so many people have come, let alone [-] mu, even if it is doubled, that is not enough!Those who are looking for work naturally know, otherwise they would not pick up Ji Zihe and come to the door after he comes back. Isn't it just because Ji Zihe is young, so he is easy to coax!

Ji Zihe was a little overwhelmed. The table full of dishes cooked by his aunt did not move, and he only took a few bites of the rice. He was anxious to go out to herd cattle, but Ning Caichen didn't stop him.

After all the guests left, Ning Caichen specially asked the old man from last season to have an in-depth conversation.No one knew what they were talking about. By the time Ji Zihe rode his big buffalo home at night, all the guests had left.During dinner, Old Man Ji told him that he would buy him a maid and a bookboy.

"Why buy people? I don't need them." Ji Zihe said.

"I've had this idea for a long time. It's important for you to study. Buy a maid and book boy to make it easier for you to study." Old man Ji said.

"You don't know me. I have a good brain, and I can easily read books. I can help with the housework, and I don't need to support anyone." Ji Zihe adhered to his usual thrifty style, and even made things worse.

The resignation of the Zhong family still had an impact on him. He just refused to admit defeat and insisted on marrying a daughter-in-law with better conditions than Miss Zhong. Let them see that Ji Zihe was not uncommon at all.But he is still clear-headed, a girl with better conditions than Miss Zhong is so easy to marry, first of all, he must have power, and secondly, he must have money.After being admitted as a Jinshi, you will have power when you become an official. As for money, you still have to rely on daily frugality. Who told you that the salaries of officials in this dynasty are not high.

Ji Zihe is sometimes quite strange, obviously the salaries of officials are not high, but no matter whether it is a corrupt official who is secretly tricked by others or a commendable good official, all of them seem to be not short of money.

Just like the county magistrate of Lu, he took out 100 taels of gold as soon as he said he would. Ji Zihe was very puzzled. Officials are not allowed to do business. Where did their money come from?I'm afraid he can only know this after he becomes a Shangguan.Now he can only earnestly save his wife's capital. Last time, he shared half of the 100 taels given by Mr. Lu to Ning Caichen. Now he has 50 taels of gold, which is a huge sum of money for Ji Zihe. Now he is worried about whether to hand over the money to his grandfather or save it by himself?

"You don't have to worry about this, I've already planned it. By the way, Chen Chen asked me to give it to you. He said it was a test question for the previous township examination. He asked you to try it." Old man Ji took out a WeChat account The folded paper was handed to Ji Zihe.

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Ji Zihe knew very well that if he wanted to get the right to speak, he had to get something to prove himself.

Although I haven't formally contacted the provincial examination, I have heard the master lecture on some test questions, and even got a few compliments.Now that I am in the expansion period, I am naturally full of confidence. I took the paper and went straight to the study.

In the study room, Gu Gu sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated. Seeing Ji Zihe suddenly barging in, he greeted him with a guilty conscience.

But Ji Zihe didn't notice at all, he just wanted to write the article quickly, so he couldn't think of other things.He randomly rolled up the dragon picture spread out on the desk and stuffed it into the box, then put the scroll on it.

After touching the paper, Ji Zihe began to write.The test questions of the township examination were still quite difficult, and he almost stayed up all night revising and correcting them. Early the next morning, he excitedly took the completed papers to show to his grandfather.Although the old man Ji can read a few words, he can't comment on the quality of any articles.Fortunately, Ning Caichen had already made arrangements, so old man Ji took out some more papers.

"Your cousin said, let you compare it yourself. This picture was made by a certain Hanlin in the dynasty when he was eight years old in the country examination."

Looking at other people's articles, Ji Zihe could only think of one wonderful word.The excitement on his face was gone, and his whole body was like a flower short of water, with his head lowered and listless.

Looking at the academic papers of the Imperial Academy, and then looking at himself, Ji Zihe felt that the articles he wrote were like stinky stones in the ditch.At first he thought that his article was well written, but now he can only feel ashamed of himself.My own little cleverness is nothing, and I am complacent when I get some honor and others praise it a few times, but fortunately no one finds out, it is really embarrassing.

Ever since, Ji Zihe finally showed some signs of arrogance, and was ruthlessly strangled to death in the cradle.