You need to know which of the talented people who can pass the exam is not a talented person who has passed three levels.
Although they may not have high attainments in poetry, they still have the ability to identify poetry.
Faced with this song of drinking alone under the moon, even the most bitter and picky scholar can only say in admiration: "Brother Mingrui is very talented."
After this banquet, due to the copying of many scholars, the song "Drinking Alone under the Moon" was widely circulated. Especially whenever scholars and children held literary gatherings, they would take out the song "Drinking Alone under the Moon" to appreciate it alone.
Of course, the original manuscript of the poem written by Fang Xiaoyue was collected by the county magistrate Cui Changshou.
No way, even if Fang Xiaoyue was the poet herself, she still couldn't win over a shameless county magistrate.
But Cui Changshou still fulfilled his promise. After the banquet, someone gave Fang Xiaoyue a small box.
There are 10 taels of silver inside.
This is not a small amount.
Even for a seventh-grade county magistrate, his annual salary is only 50 taels of silver and 25 dans of stipend.
Of course, no seventh-grade county magistrate would rely on this salary to make a living.
In three years of clearing the county, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver were earned. Although this is a bit exaggerated, it can also be seen how rich the income of the magistrate as the head of a county was under the feudal system.
Not to mention anything else, the filial piety of those businessmen and the filial piety of the officials below each year is not a small amount.
But for a newly minted scholar like Fang Xiaoyue, ten taels of silver is indeed a lot.
Although in the next three years, as a top-ranked scholar, he could enjoy the money and food allocated by the government every year, the money and food combined would only amount to four taels of silver and some rice and noodles a year.
Of course, this money and grain, plus the tax-free farmland, can barely support a family of three.
It can be seen that 10 taels of silver is really a lot.
Early the next morning, Fang Xiaoyue returned home accompanied by Zhang Jutai and Zhang Yuanming.
Of course, my uncle and cousin also brought a lot of things with them this time.
Pork ribs, fatty meat, etc.
After all, Fang Xiaoyue is now a scholar and her status is different, so she will definitely have a big banquet when she returns home and treat her neighbors to a good meal.
This is considered a custom.
Mrs. Fang Zhang was so excited when her son came back that she immediately hugged her son and cried a lot.
At noon, with the help of Zhang Jutai and Zhang Yuanming, Mrs. Fang Zhang organized a few tables and invited everyone in the village.
Fang Xiaoyue wanted to help, but was kicked out of the kitchen by her mother.
Zhang Yuanming also said that the gentleman is far away from the kitchen, which made Fang Xiaoyue quite dumbfounded and had to go to the entrance of the courtyard to receive the villagers who were arriving one after another.
Every villager who came had gifts in their hands, either chickens, ducks, fish, vegetables, etc.
And when they saw Fang Xiaoyue, they would show a bit of respect on their faces and call him Xiucai Gong.
This is not surprising, for villagers, scholars are already the highest-level intellectuals they can come into contact with.
In such an era of feudal dynasty, it is no joke that everyone is of low quality but only good at reading.
There is a gap in treatment between those with fame and those without fame in many aspects.
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Take lawsuits as an example. Scholars can meet officials in the lobby without bowing to them in order to maintain the dignity of culture and education, but ordinary people have to kowtow three times to the magistrate in a polite manner when they go to the lobby to show their official status. of majesty.
To put it simply, because scholars have more contact with ordinary people among the people, they are not like most civil servants who have become officials, so they have a higher reputation and higher status.
In everyone's eyes, scholars are the real scholars.
And when it comes to writing or reading letters, people like to ask scholars for help.
Even the notices posted by the government when going to the countryside were interpreted by the scholars for the common people.
Therefore, scholars were an indispensable part of the ruling system of the feudal system.
This is why, in many cases, scholars are the leaders or strategists of rebellions.
Besides, the number of scholars in the entire Kuangluo County is only seventy or eighty in total.
This was scattered to every township and town, and the number of scholars was no more than two or three.
As a result, Fang Xiaoyue's family's status in the village suddenly rose significantly.
Not only did the village chief come to Fang's house as a guest, but the chiefs of several nearby villages also came to send gifts.
As for Yang Sanwa, who pushed Fang Xiaoyue down in the rice field, she hid far away, not daring to appear in front of Fang Xiaoyue, for fear that the scholar would take action against him.
Not to mention, Fang Xiaoyue really wanted to deal with Yang Sanwa.
After all, this Yang Sanwa killed his predecessor.
If you punish them, the completion of your main mission will inevitably increase.
It's a pity that during the past few days when he returned home, there were too many people visiting him, and he didn't have time to trouble them.
And when he was free, there were only two months left before the provincial examination.
Generally speaking, the transition from the county examination to the college examination in Daze Country ends in early May, the provincial examination in mid-July, the golden autumn examination in mid-October, and the palace examination at the end of October.
In this way, Fang Xiaoyue can only seize the time to review her homework, and there is still time to deal with Yang Sanwa.
After all, Fang Xiaoyue doesn't have enough power to do anything to a scoundrel like Yang Sanwa, so he can only use tricks to deal with him.
But in this case, too much time is consumed.
It's better to wait until you pass the exam and then find a way to deal with it.
Therefore, in the following time, Fang Xiaoyue declined everyone's visits on the grounds of preparing for the provincial examination.
Squatting in the study all day long, reciting the Four Books and Five Classics, writing the Four Books, and occasionally copying one or two famous poems from the original world.
But peaceful days are always short-lived.
Time has entered June, and the temperature is getting higher day by day.
In the evening that day, the weather was so sultry that Fang Xiaoyue had to take off her gown and practice hard in the study, shirtless.
No way, just looking at the fields outside, you can tell how hot it is today.
The water in the rice fields is almost drying up, the rivers are drying up, and even the cicadas on the trees are feeble when they sing.
There is no air conditioning these days, so the most you can do is take a shower with river water.
It's a pity that in order to maintain the dignity and status of the scholar, Fang Xiaoyue cannot jump into the river to take a bath like those young villagers. In that case, the girls and wives washing clothes will stare at him with wide eyes. , but his reputation in the countryside may also be damaged, and he is rumored to be a scholar who dances in the water and plays a village girl.
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In that case, when he goes to take the provincial examination, he may be in some trouble.
Don't underestimate the power of the Daze Kingdom's surveillance over those below.
It is said that one year, a certain scholar was extremely depressed because he repeatedly failed in provincial examinations. After drinking, he wrote an anti-poetry.
Although he immediately destroyed the anti-poetry written on the wall after he sobered up, he was eventually stripped of his title by the local government two months later and was arrested and imprisoned.
In short, he still didn't want to take risks before he understood the specific situation of Daze Country.
Not long after practicing, there were waves of deep thunder from the horizon.
Groups of dark clouds gathered, and the originally blazing sunset quickly became extremely dark, as if night had fallen.
It was obvious that a heavy rain was coming, which made Fang Xiaoyue happily close the study window.
No way, if there is a heavy rainstorm or strong wind, it will easily mess up the books and papers in the study.
While waiting for the heavy rain to fall, Fang Xiaoyue checked her skills.
After nearly a month of studying hard in the study room, his current level of Four Books and Five Classics has been improved to level 14.
Poetry has reached level 16.
Four calligraphy classes are at level 15 and calligraphy is at level 9.
This is not surprising. The Four Books, Five Classics and Four Books require constant recitation and practice to improve.
As for poetry, you only need to copy famous works from the original world, and you can easily improve with one poem a day.
As for the Four Books and the Five Classics, which are one level higher than the Four Books and the Five Classics, this is mainly because Fang Xiaoyue spends more time practicing the Four Books, because practicing the Four Books can practice calligraphy at the same time.
Level 9 calligraphy is barely enough even in the provincial examination.
Of course, if possible, Fang Xiaoyue still wants to upgrade calligraphy to a higher level.
After all, the examiners for the provincial examinations were appointed by the imperial court and approved by the emperor. They were imperial envoys who came from the capital and had a higher vision.
Suddenly, there was a strong wind and thunder, and after a burst of explosions, the raindrops were mixed with the strong wind and crackled down, splashing clouds of dust on the dry mud floor.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue did not continue practicing, but opened the back door and came to the backyard, feeling the strong wind that kept blowing.
This feeling was much more comfortable than the previous stuffy heat. Fang Xiaoyue felt cool all over her body, and the previous stuffy heat disappeared.
The vegetable patch in the backyard seemed to be cheering in the rainstorm.
The heavy rain lasted for more than half an hour before it slowed down.
When Fang Xiaoyue returned to the study, it was still stuffy and hot. He had to open the window to let in the cool breeze from outside.
After dinner, I went to sew a short shirt for Fang Xiaoyue to wear in summer.
Fang Xiaoyue returned to the study. When he was about to pick up his pen and practice calligraphy, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow in the corner of the study.
"who is it?"
Fang Xiaoyue immediately pulled out a butcher knife from under the desk!
He asked his grandfather, Butcher Zhang, for this pig-butchering knife.
To say that a scholar should use a sword.
It's a pity that when Daze Kingdom was first established, the first scholars were still equipped with swords. But today, more than two hundred years after the founding of the country, scholars rarely wear swords. Probably because they felt that it was associated with martial arts and was not elegant.
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Butcher Zhang had used this pig-killing knife for more than ten years. After that, the edge of the knife was too damaged and he put it away.
After Fang Xiaoyue got it back, he polished it well with a whetstone. Although there were still some gaps, it was at least useful for self-defense.
After passing the exam to become a scholar, Fang Xiaoyue's literary energy continued to gather in him. At this moment, as he roared loudly, his literary energy moved toward the black shadow.
The black shadow jumped out in shock, and rushed towards Fang Xiaoyue's face in shock.
To say that the speed of this black shadow is very fast, if it were an ordinary person, it would not be able to react at all.
But Fang Xiaoyue now is no longer the Fang Mingrui she was before.
Seeing the black shadow coming towards him, he immediately drew his sword and swung it.
The literary energy around him poured into the butcher's knife in one swing, and then mixed with the murderous aura left over from long-term killing of pigs by the butcher's knife and rushed out, making the black figure freeze in mid-air in an instant.
Fang Xiaoyue showed no mercy with this knife and instantly cut the black shadow in half.
When he took the candle and looked closer, he saw it was a weasel.
However, this weasel was somewhat different from the weasels he usually saw. Its size was more than two circles larger than the ordinary weasels, and it had a small bunch of silvery white hairs on its tail.
There was a hint of coolness on this silvery white hair that touched Fang Xiaoyue's heart.
The entire weasel exuded a black aura that disgusted him.
This is probably what is commonly known as a monster in this world, right?
Fang Xiaoyue looked at the body that was still twitching even after being chopped in half, and sighed at the tenacity of the opponent's vitality.
The next morning, he got up early and went to a Taoist temple about three kilometers away from Yangjiacun.
This Taoist temple is called Wude Temple, and it mainly enshrines the statue of Wude Xingjun.
However, the surrounding villagers did not care about whether the Wude Xingjun had relevant abilities. Instead, they would go to this Taoist temple to offer incense and worship the gods, whether it was for weddings, weddings, weddings, or other matters such as asking for money or a child.
Because this Taoist temple is the only Taoist temple in the surrounding areas.
When we arrived at the gate of the Taoist temple, a little Taoist boy was holding a bamboo broom and sweeping away the fallen leaves. The heavy rain last night had knocked down countless leaves.
"Sir, do you have something to do?"
Seeing Fang Xiaoyue wearing a blue robe that only scholars can wear, the little Taoist boy had seen countless people, so he hurriedly put down his broom, made a Taoist movement with his hands and asked.
"I have something to look for, Taoist Master Guiguan, and please ask the little Taoist boy to report it."
Fang Xiaoyue rubbed the little Taoist boy's head with a smile and said.
This little Taoist boy, who was only six or seven years old, looked like an adult in front of him, which made him look a bit cute.
So Fang Xiaoyue stretched out her hand to tease him.
The little boy blushed and said, "Sir, please wait for a moment."
After saying that, the little Taoist boy ran into the gate.
After a while, there was a sound of footsteps.
A middle-aged Taoist priest came up to him and said, "I asked why the magpies started chirping when I got up. It turns out that a scholar has arrived. A distinguished guest has come to visit. He was not welcomed from afar to atone for his sins."
Fang Xiaoyue stepped forward hurriedly.
When the middle-aged Taoist priest learned that Fang Xiaoyue was the top one in the college examination, he was even more enthusiastic.
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He invited Fang Xiaoyue into the temple, and asked the Taoist boy to make tea and bring it to him. He spread out the paper and asked Fang Xiaoyue to write a poem as a souvenir.
This is not surprising. Even if this Taoist temple has some ability, the status of Taoist priests in this world is actually not high.
Even though the scholar does not have an official status, the mere fact of his fame is enough for Daze Guo's dragon energy to protect him.
After Fang Xiaoyue exchanged greetings with the Taoist priest named Qingyu for a while, she probably understood.
Although there are Taoist magic and other strange arts in this world, there are even monsters, but in fact dragon energy dominates everything.
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