Free-spirited Illegitimate Son

"Daddy, I'm back."

After returning from the county seat, Ye Chunqiu was in a good mood, the county seat was not his home after all, and seeing Ye Chenliang dangling in front of him every day was really annoying.There is also Ye Juncai, since he failed the exam, he always has a resentful look on his face, which makes Ye Chunqiu feel worried.

Ye Jing had already come out of the wing room, and when he saw Ye Chunqiu who was saluting, although he couldn't hide his joy, he still pretended to be serious: "How did you do in the exam?"

"not bad."

Ye Jing looked like I understood, and sighed, knowing a son is better than a father, his son said it was good, but he was definitely not humble, and the suspicion of bragging was even greater, so his eyes narrowed, revealing the inscrutability that only his son can understand, Patted Ye Chunqiu's head: "Next time, keep working hard, the road is long and far away, you should search up and down."

can't communicate...

Ye Chunqiu shook his head in his heart, am I really that weak?

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But at this time, in the county town, it was another scene.

Speaking of the county examination, it is actually only the lowest level of the imperial examination, so the marking is not too formal, and even the children's examination does not need to be vague at all.

Even so, the magistrate Wang of this county did not dare to slack off on this. At this time, in the shack of the Houya, the magistrate Wang sat behind the files and made the final decision on the articles selected by the edicts and scribes.

County magistrates are often born as Jinshi, and the level of stereotyped essays is extremely high, which makes him uninterested in dealing with these test papers. The essays in the children's examination are often good and bad. In the articles, there are barely a few that are passable, and one of them, Ye Chenliang's "study is not to be despised as an official, but to seek excellence" is also refreshing, but in the eyes of the county magistrate Wang who was born as a Jinshi, it is only It can be regarded as an upper-middle level, barely able to pass the hospital examination, and it will not be easy to go up.

Although Ningbo Mansion is located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, its people are fond of doing business, the spirit of philistines has grown, and the style of writing is not at its peak, so the county magistrate Wang is now a general among short people.

"It seems like this is probably the case this year." County magistrate Wang thought in his heart, the last few articles fell on the copybook, he picked up one at random, just looking at the running script of this article, it doesn't look particularly outstanding, But then, County Magistrate Wang was attracted, and then his eyes lit up, he was holding the test paper fondly, his lips moved slightly, and unconsciously began to chant softly along with the article.

After a long time, all the articles have been reviewed. There are [-] candidates who participated in the children's examination this year, and more than [-] children were selected. After the county magistrate Wang made the final decision , So he took all the test papers and went to seal them up. After a while, the scribe went back to reply, and the county magistrate Wang just nodded: "The list will be published the next day, on the third day of March, and the top ones will be appointed to the hall."

These are all old rules, the scribe nodded in agreement.

As soon as the scribe left the hut, he saw a servant secretly waiting in the corridor.

The officer smiled obsequiously and said, "Liu Shuli, what's the matter?"

The scribe scolded him angrily, "You idiot, what are you doing in such a hurry?"

The guard smiled wryly and said, "If you're not in a hurry, how can you grab this hi."

It turns out that there is an unwritten rule in the county. Generally, when the rankings are released, people will go to each family to announce the good news, and the families who pass the exam will often give generous wedding money. It's just that Ningbo Prefecture is full of philistines, so the people who announce the good news are like people crossing the river. Crucian carp, if everyone comes to announce the good news, where can there be so much money as a reward? Naturally, whoever arrives first will get the reward.

The guards in the county thought of a way. If they wanted to win the first place, they would inevitably report the good news before the ranking was released.

The scribe didn't chatter with the servants anymore, but stroked his beard, and said slowly: "Qingtang Zhao family, one person; Hexi Ye family, four people, the strange thing is that the case is also from their family..." The scribe only said There are a few people in the middle school, but the names of the high school people are not revealed. This will not delay the announcement of the good news, but also prevent the county officials from pursuing it.

Hearing that there are four people in the Ye family and that a case has been found, the guard's eyes lit up: "What happened to the Ye family this year? It's such a big luck."

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At this time, Ye Chunqiu did not put too much thought on the matter of the county examination. As usual, he still got up early to practice calligraphy. This practice of calligraphy is not light and requires a lot of physical strength and perseverance, so he searched in his optical brain. I came up with the best plan for morning exercise. After morning exercise in the hospital every day, I sweated and went to take a shower before I started writing in comfort.

This morning was different from the past, but seeing several servants hanging lanterns everywhere, Ye Chunqiu felt strange, even Ye San was called to help, seeing Ye San climb up the tree to decorate the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, Ye Chunqiu stood Under the tree, he asked curiously, "Ye San, what are you doing?"

Ye San fluttered and tied the red silk to the tree branch, and said, "Master, the old lady is going to have a big banquet today, oh...it's called a teacher appreciation banquet, don't you know, master? People from the yamen came early in the morning Good news, it is said that our Yejia County has won four people in the test, and even the capital of this county's case came from our Yejia, many people got the news and came to celebrate. The other children are also striving for success, so we have to hold a banquet to entertain relatives and friends, and we also want to thank Mrs. Zhou. Our Ye family has not been so lively for a long time. Back then, except when the elder was selected as a scholar, there was a big fanfare once, tsk tsk, even us The servants all eat pig's head." Ye San swallowed, thinking of the days when he ate pig's head.

It's not that the rankings haven't been released yet, so why did the results come out?

Ye Chunqiu was suspicious in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "The chief case is Ye Chenliang? What about the others?"

"I don't know about that. I only know that I won four of them. The case must belong to Young Master Ye. After the Young Master came back, he silently copied out the articles he had written in the county examination and showed them to the old man and Mrs. Zhou. The old man and Mr. Zhou The master said it was a good article, and it must be among the best, but now he said that the case is in our Ye family, isn’t it the young master? The old man was very happy, and immediately rewarded the second lady with a set of red gold jewelry inlaid with gems, saying yes The second wife is good at teaching children. The eldest young master is very proud now, and the second master is also very happy. Now he is ordering people to send out invitations. Young master, when will you take the exam for a child student? If you pass the exam, I will follow suit .”

Ye Chunqiu suddenly felt a burst of anger rising in his stomach, this guy is eating inside and out, nakedly boosting others' morale and destroying his own prestige.

Ye Chunqiu said angrily, "Didn't I take the exam?"

Ye San originally wanted to say, although the young master went for the exam, he would not pass the exam, but he swallowed his words, he dared not say it, if he offended the young master, the young master would be angry.

The whole Ye family was really busy with the teacher appreciation banquet. Ye Chunqiu heard a lot of news very quickly, and sent out invitations to people in all four villages and eight miles. The old grandpa planned to make a big fuss.

During lunch, Ye Jing looked gloomy and in a trance. Ye Chunqiu ate a simple meal and muttered in his heart: "There will be a banquet tonight, so I will only eat wild vegetables at noon. This is the rhythm of making everyone go hungry to eat a big pot of rice." Ah." I was thinking again in my heart, is there any part for me in this pilot test? That article should be a must.

But it's hard to predict if the result doesn't come out. Just as he was thinking about it, Ye Jing suddenly sighed, Ye Chunqiu raised his head and said, "Father, what's wrong?"

Ye Jing hurriedly shook his head, and said, "Oh, it's nothing, it's nothing."

He paused, sighed and said suddenly: "Chunqiu, you are still young, you still need to sharpen, there are talents from generation to generation, and you will definitely win in a few years."

Uh……

Ye Chunqiu looked at Ye Jing, not knowing what to say.