It is almost September now, and the ears of rice in the fields have already bent their heavy waists. The grains hanging above are round and full. A new harvest season is about to usher in.
As usual, every time at this time, the private school will give everyone a half-month field leave, which means a busy farming holiday.
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Chapter 69 Cherishing Talent
Since it is the busy farming holiday, I naturally have to help the family collect food and do farm work.
Therefore, when Lin Yuanqiu went home this time, he didn't bring back much rice paper for painting. He just wanted to paint a few paintings when he was free from work in the field.
Nowadays, most of Lin Yuanqiu's works are ink landscapes. After all, the reason why his paintings have a good market is due to the freedom and eclecticism of freehand landscapes. This is still very different from the soft ink-colored meticulous landscapes. .
Nowadays, most literati like a bold and free spirit, and are used to exquisite and delicate brushwork. When they suddenly see this kind of painter who can paint complex landscapes with just a few strokes, they naturally can't put it down.
So Lin Yuanqiu planned to save more money before everyone's freshness wore off.
By the way, he now has nearly forty taels of silver notes tucked away in his Analects of Confucius book.
Lin Yuanqiu has already made up his mind whether he can pass the college examination or not. In the next few years, he plans to consolidate what he has learned and accumulate experience, and will not take the exam for the time being.
Because this college examination made Lin Yuanqiu understand that society is different in different eras. Although I lived for more than thirty years in my previous life, the gap between generations is like another day. In this society of this dynasty, my understanding of many things is still just a novice.
Therefore, in order to no longer be passive in his career in the future, he must first let himself have active knowledge reserves.
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Both Lao Lintou and the Wu family were extremely opposed to the idea of their little grandson going to the fields to help collect grain.
In their words, the first priority for scholars is to study. There is no point in dealing with mud and clods. Besides, there is no shortage of manpower to work at home, so there is no need for the help of the grandson.
It's no wonder that Old Lintou and Wu thought so. In fact, the few scholars they met usually wore straight green shirts and long sleeves, and they were completely incompatible with the people working in the fields.
Not to mention the distance, when Lin Youzhi was learning, he had never been seen going to the ground.
And Dafang, because their family has a lot of paddy fields, they directly hire part-time workers to help with the harvesting every time they return to the busy farming season.
As for Wen Yan and Wen Qing, they were all staying at home reading.
According to Jin's opinion, this is called being of inferior quality and being a good scholar.
Wu felt that although she had nothing to do with Jin, her words sounded quite reasonable.
Besides, if scholars are too muddled, they may lose their literary spirit.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Wu couldn't help but say, "In the distant autumn, you can stay at home and read a book, or you can go to the thatched shed. On a hot day, it's cooler in the mountains."
Lin Yuanqiu smiled and shook his head, "Hey, the reason why Master gives the students a field holiday is because he doesn't want us to just focus on studying, and then we will become useless people who are not diligent in all aspects of the body and cannot distinguish between grains and grains."
If you don't work in the fields, you will become useless. Now Lao Lintou and Wu will not stop them.
However, the two of them did not let Lin Yuanqiu do the same job of harvesting rice as his eldest and second brothers. They only let him and Chunyan Chuncao pick up the ears of rice that fell on the ground.
Lin Yuanqiu didn't try to be brave. The scythe was almost as long as his arm. Don't accidentally hurt your hand. It would be troublesome then.
When working on hot days, villagers usually arrive in the fields at dawn, so that they can do more work while it's cool.
When the villagers saw Lin Yuanqiu carrying a large basket on his back and bending down to search for rice ears in the field step by step, they were all stunned for a moment. How come this young master was also working in the fields?
Seeing that everyone was looking at him as if they were looking at a Western scene, Lin Yuanqiu didn't pay attention and just lowered his head to carefully pick up the ears of rice in the field. These grains have been grown with great hard work by my grandfather, uncle, father, and cousin, and they cannot be wasted.
Yesterday, Lin Yuanqiu specifically asked his father about the harvest of sixteen acres of paddy fields. Lin Yuanqiu was surprised when he learned that the ten acres of paddy fields farmed by his family only received 30% of the food. Unexpectedly, in addition to paying the tenant rent, his family also had to bear the land tax.
Therefore, the ten acres of paddy fields farmed by his family are just as his father said, and the food he gets is just enough to fill his stomach.
Thinking of Tian Fu, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but do the math in his mind.
If I can pass the scholar examination this time, I will naturally not have to pay the land tax at home.
In this way, the six acres of paddy field alone can produce a lot of extra food, and the extra food is not much different from the 30% of food obtained from the tenant farming paddy field.
At this time, if the family buys a few more acres of paddy field, even if it only increases to three or four acres, then even if the family does not share ten acres of paddy fields from others, the food at home will definitely be enough to eat.
And in this way, the grandparents and uncles at home can save a lot of effort in farming.
It’s really beautiful just thinking about it.
Just thinking about the way Master Zhou shook his head when he silently showed the policy for the college examination to Master Zhou, Lin Yuanqiu understood that he was afraid that he could only think too well.
Even if he beat Lin Yuanqiu to death, he would not know that Zhou Xiucai shook his head at that time, not because he did not answer the question well, but because he felt that he was not sure whether a policy article with such arguments was good or bad.
Here, Lin Yuanqiu was thinking about the college examination and looking for the fallen ears of rice. After a while, he had a small handful in his hands.
The villagers who originally looked at him strangely soon saw another group of people walking on the field ridge not far away. But it was Lin Jincai and a few newly hired day laborers, as well as the two brothers Lin Quanhe and Lin Quanjiang. And walking slowly at the end of the team were none other than Lin Jincai's grandsons who were studying in the town.
Looking at their attire in short shirts, they must be working in the fields.
Ouch, what kind of precious wind is blowing today? Why is it blowing all the scholars to the ground?
Here, Lao Lintou and Mr. Wu also saw Wen Yan, Wen Qing and the others, and wondered, how could Dafang be willing to let his grandchildren go to the ground this year?
What the two of them didn't know was that Lin Jincai had a lot of trouble at home in order to let his three grandchildren work in the fields.
It turned out that Lin Jincai felt uncomfortable after seeing Lin Yuanqiu helping the family with work in the fields yesterday. Yes, anyone who sees a child who can read and is sensible will feel envious, not to mention that this child is from the second brother's family.
Thinking about the busy farming season now, not only are the grandchildren at home unable to help at all, they even have to ask them to eat three meals. If there are some results, Lin Jincai will not complain.
But now, the eldest grandson is going to get married in a few months, and Wen Qing also married a daughter-in-law this year. The two of them are about to get married and become fathers, and they didn't even pass the exam. Comparing it with the child in the second bedroom, if you don't think it's irritating, you'd be a fool and an idiot.
So early this morning, Lin Jincai urged his grandchildren to come and work in the fields. His original words were, "All the children are busy working in the fields."
When she heard that her precious grandson should be sunbathing in the fields, Jin certainly did not agree. If he was sunburnt, he would not look like a scholar.
Lin Quanhe and Lin Quanjiang did not speak, while Zhang and Xu frowned, obviously unwilling. In their opinion, the family already hired part-time workers, so why bother with several children?
However, Lin Jincai seemed to have made up his mind, and he yelled, "Whoever doesn't go to the fields won't have to read his book!"
After all, he is the head of the family. When he heard what the head of the family said, no one, including the Jin family, dared to say anything.
In fact, Mrs. Jin really wanted to say, didn't our family just build a grave for our parents? With our parents protecting us underground, Yan'er and the others will definitely be admitted to Tongsheng next year.
It turned out that in June, Lin Jincai took the initiative to build the graves of his parents.
As for why he thought of building a grave, it was because Lin Jincai heard many villagers say that Lin Yuanqiu must have been blessed by his ancestors because he passed the exam as a child student.
Lin Jincai absolutely believed this, because it made sense why the second brother's grandson had such an ability to study at such a young age.
Thinking of this, Lin Jincai felt very uncomfortable, wondering if his parents had forgotten that his family was the eldest son and grandson, and mistakenly transferred the feng shui to his second brother's family.
So after a few nights of tossing and turning, Lin Jincai finally decided to repair his parents' graves.
When the tomb is repaired, I will have a good talk in front of the tomb to let my parents know my filial piety.
It was a good thing to build the graves of his parents, so Old Lintou naturally had nothing to say, but when he came up with his share of the money, Lin Jincai pushed him back and said he didn't want anything.
He also said that since he was the eldest brother, their eldest brother should come up with the money.
This left Lao Lin confused for a moment. In his memory, his brother had never been so generous.
If Old Lintou knew that his eldest brother had spent more than two taels of silver on his own in order to let his parents protect their eldest family, he might not have laughed out loud in anger.
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At this time, in the examination booth in Fucheng, the chief and deputy examiners were busy grading papers.
The examiners have not left the examination booth since the day when the college examination started, because the college examination will not be truly over until all nearly 2,000 test papers have been read and the rankings on the list are determined.
Compared with county examinations and prefectural examinations, the marking of college examinations is much more cautious and slow. The purpose of doing this is, of course, to pass the final test of the college examination as well as possible.
In order to prevent collusion and collusion, the nine chief and deputy examiners all stayed in the same room to mark the exams.
The weather in August is not ordinary hot. But compared to the unbearable heat, what made the examiner Qin Yu's eyes dazzle the most was the colorful and meaningless policy articles.
According to regulations, all answer sheets that have passed through the hands of the eight deputy examiners must finally go to the hands of the chief examiner.
So at this moment, there are two stacks of answer sheets piled up in front of Master Qin.
Mr. Qin is also a bachelor, so he starts reading each set of test papers directly from the final policy article. In his opinion, if the policy theory has not been written yet, there is no need to read the previous ones.
Following this method, many test papers were quickly picked out.
It's just that if you read too many flashy articles, your mood will definitely not get much better.
Qin Yu really couldn't figure out why it was just a simple public security policy question written by so many students in such a wild and far-fetched way. However, some articles that have already figured out the way are just words on paper and full of nonsense, which is really annoying to read.
Qin Yu couldn't help but sigh when he thought that in this college examination, he might have to choose the taller one from the short ones.
Alas, it seems that the overall talent and knowledge of Jiangzhou Prefecture students this year is not optimistic.
However, his idea quickly changed when he saw a newly picked up policy paper.
The article talks about how to curb the increasingly rampant theft.
The most attractive thing is the method of containment mentioned by the candidate. As mentioned in the article, the thief is escorted directly to the place where he lives, and then he is made to confess himself in front of his relatives, neighbors and neighbors. of theft. Finally, let him be responsible for cleaning the streets near his residence, once in the morning and once in the evening, without any mistakes.
In this way, the thief cleans the streets every day, and pedestrians passing by will definitely ask why, and they will naturally laugh at him when they find out. It must be humiliating and unbearable to be scorned in front of everyone every day.
As time goes by, the thief will never have the intention to steal again. And at the end of the article, it is written that if a repentant thief wants to get rid of the dilemma of sweeping the streets, he must find another thief like him to replace him. If you can't find it, you can only keep scanning.
It’s really scary to think about it.
Qin Yu couldn't help but nod. This was a plan that was meaningful and could really come in handy.
Thinking of this, he flipped the question paper forward again. Well, he also wrote a few seven-character poems well.
When he saw that there were several circles marked by other examiners on the paper, Qin Yu put this question paper together with the small stack of papers.
Like the prefecture examination and the county examination, the results of the college examination are also released ten days after the end of the examination. Before the rankings were released, they naturally ranked in the middle of the rankings.
At this time, the test papers of the fifty successful students were placed on the examiner's desk.
Qin Yu dipped his pen in ink and was about to start filling it out in order, but when he saw his age of nine written on the place of birth at the top of the test paper, he paused for a long time.
He remembered the strategy on the answer sheet. He originally thought that the candidate was already in his prime, but he never thought that he was still in elementary school.
Thinking of the ancient examples of hurting Zhongyong, why not be a person who appreciates talents today?
Thinking like this, Qin Yu counted several spaces and then filled in his name with a pen.
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After picking rice ears for more than ten days, Lin Yuanqiu became tanned a lot, and then his appetite increased.
