Ask Sword

  Chapter 23 Abandoned Exam

  Sha Saburo, do you know that you advanced the term "pure passerby" by a thousand years?

   Li Ang listened to Sha Sanlang's enthusiastic advocacy with a face of embarrassment. It felt like meeting the only reader who came to support him at the signing.

  So embarrassing that you can dig out a two-bedroom and one living room with your feet.

   Fortunately, Sha Sanlang didn't stay for too long. With the bright fireworks blooming in the southern sky, the dragon chariot team and crowd on both sides of the river quickened their pace.

   "The dragon boat race is about to begin,"

  Sha Sanlang cupped his hands apologetically, "Your Majesty Li Xiaolang can't accompany you. After we win the championship, we will bring the prize to the security hall to thank you."

   "No, no, let's go, before it's too late."

  Li Ang waved Sha Sanlang to leave, turned around and picked two hairpins from the jewelry booth, bid farewell to the unknown mother and daughter, and walked south to the dragon boat competition site with Chai Chai.

  A whistle sounded, and hundreds of boats and thousands of sails raced. Amidst the warm cheers and cheers from the people of Weizhou on both sides of the strait, the dragon boat champion fell to the Shipbuilding Association, and Sha Sanlang and his fellows unfortunately won the third place.

  The members of the Shipbuilding Guild were beaming, presenting zongzi, bacon, and candies along the street, and Li Ang also went to get a pack of caramel, feeling happy.

  After the fireworks display celebrating the championship ended, Li Ang's first Yu country festival after awakening his memory came to an end.

  ——

  “.Remember not to let the plaster get wet when you go back.”

  Ten days later in the security hall, Li Ang casually instructed a patient with a fracture, and watched the other person disappear at the door of the shop.

  During this period, the number of patients who came to him also increased.

   It may be because of the news about Gan Er's family that day, subsequent patients all asked Li Ang to use the best plaster bandages for them, regardless of the type of injury and had to pay additional costs.

   There are even shopkeepers who come to Baoan Tang to ask whether they want to provide plaster of paris regularly in the future.

  Chai Cuiqiao, who was wiping the table with a rag, complained: "Why do these people want to use the best medicine, and it's not too expensive."

   "Safety comes first. After all, in this environment, a minor illness may develop into a serious illness at any time. As long as conditions permit, it is better to use the best wound medicine from the beginning."

   Li Ang took a sip of tea, looked at the sky, turned around and asked, "By the way, what's the date today?"

   "Number 16."

   "The spring break of the school in that state should have passed."

  Li Ang put down his teacup talking to himself, stood up and said, "I'll go to the state school later, and cancel the application for the provincial exam."

   "What about the recommendation letter from the academy?"

  Chai Cuiqiao nodded, "The store?"

   "Same as before, put a sign outside saying I'll be back in the evening."

  Li Ang went back to the back room, took the money bag and went out, rented a carriage with a little extravagance, and went to Weizhou to study.

  The spring break of Hezhou State School is from mid-April to mid-May. During this time, the farming is busy. Some farm students from poor families can take advantage of the holiday to go home and help with some farm work.

   Now that the holiday is over, the bustle of the state school has resumed.

  Li Ang jumped out of the car, took out two ten coins from his purse and handed them to the coachman, then turned and approached the gate of the state school.

   There is no evil holiday homework. The classmates who haven't seen for more than a month are standing in the courtyard and chatting casually. The content of the discussion is naturally the state examination in half a month.

   "I heard that the invigilator for this provincial exam is Xuanzhou Confucian Wei Yuanlong. He admires Yuefu in the Han and Wei Dynasties the most, and likes Bai Letian and Yuan Weizhi's poems. It seems that Brother Yingbo is sure of everything this time."

   "Hey, what's safe and secure, Zhengping, you don't know, I'm good at Ci Fu, but my claws are numb when I encounter problems with cursing. This provincial test, I have to look at Brother Shaoyuan and Brother Yiming."

   "By the way, brother Yiming, you went to Chang'an last year, can you tell us about it? What does the academy look like?"

  Li Ang didn't know the group of classmates who were talking very well, so he didn't go to join in the fun, but when they heard them talking about the school, he still stopped and listened silently.

   "School Palace"

  Zhai Yiming, another influential figure in Weizhou State School, was also a young student who went to Chang'an last year and passed the first round of the school's preliminary examination.

  He thought for a while, then said hesitantly: "Compared with Yunzhou, the difference is huge.

  The people there, what they say, do, think, talk, temperament, realm, are completely different from ordinary poor children.

  As long as I enter there, even if I just visited it, I don’t want to leave again. "

   "Is this so?"

  Looking forward to the faces of the surrounding students, Zhai Yiming added: "However, it is as difficult as climbing the sky to enter the palace.

  Yu State has 400 million people and 600 state capitals. Each state capital only takes ten people for the provincial examination every year.

  Passing the provincial test and going to report in Chang'an, you have to pass a preliminary test and two rounds of re-examinations.

   A round of elimination means that all previous efforts will be wasted, and they can only come back next year.

  Once over eighteen years old, there is no hope of entering the palace in this life.

  If it weren’t for this, there would be no saying in Chang’an that ‘all Guozijian are all rejected students from the academy’, and the disciples of Guozijian would no longer be privately hostile to the academy. "

   "Guozijian"

  The students around were silent for a while. Those who were able to study in the Imperial College had passed countless exams, read poetry and books, and had outstanding literary talents. Among them were the children of princes and the best overseas students.

   It is very difficult for these students from Weizhou to be admitted to the Imperial College.

   "Born, born."

  One person shook his head and sighed bitterly: "Students from Chang'an who are the same age as us were born in Chang'an City. They have been able to get in touch with the textbooks and ideas of the Academy since they were young, and they have seen and even known the professors and teachings of the Academy.

  The difficulty of entering the entrance palace is much lower than we don't know. "

   These words did not elicit much response, because the same words, these students complained countless times in private banquets.

   After listening for a while, Li Ang felt that it was almost done, so he planned to leave quietly.

  As soon as he turned around, he heard Song Shaoyuan's happy voice from the corner of the courtyard, "Risheng? You're here too?"

   "Brother Song."

   Li Ang turned around with a wry smile, and cupped his hands at Song Shaoyuan and his companions.

   "Come and sit down, the professor of state studies will not be here for a while."

  Song Shaoyuan warmly greeted Li Ang to sit down, "How is the preparation for the provincial exam in half a month? You are busy these days, if you don't have time to read the preparatory exam questions, read this book first.

   After my classmates and I knew that this year’s examiner was Wei Yuanlong, a great Confucian in Xuanzhou, we stayed up all night to compile the booklet according to his preferences.

  There are poems, policy questions, and prediction topics of scriptures”

  Song Shaoyuan always treated Li Ang as his cousin, and he didn't care about the slightly resentful eyes of the classmates next to him—this group of people stayed up all night to make up the book predicting the test questions, and it always felt uncomfortable to give it to an outsider like Li Ang for nothing.

"this."

   Li Ang scratched his palm in embarrassment, and said embarrassedly: "Brother Song, I don't plan to take the provincial exam this year."

   Friendship push book, "Full Attribute Imperial Spirit Master"

   There is aura in the world. Human beings cultivate good fortune, have the ability to control the sky and control the sea, and beasts have the ability to enlighten spiritual wisdom and have the power to move mountains and fill the sea.

   However, human life is short and limited by its laws, and it is difficult to control the sky unless it is the sky. The longevity of the beast is limited by its age, and there is no way to move the mountain unless the mountain falls. There is a magic method, humans and beasts cultivate each other, learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses, and it is an adventure for each other.

   As a result, landslides, sea cracks, and sky fall! Thus, the Imperial Spirit Master came into being.

  (end of this chapter)