Officials in the Jing Dynasty took a day off every ten days, which was a ten-day break. And Mr. Qin just said that today is the second day after he takes a rest, which means that in eight days, it will be time to take a rest again.
Therefore, in the past few days, Lin Yuanqiu planned to select a few policy questions from past question papers and write a few policy essays, especially those topics for which his own evidence base was relatively weak.
Lin Yuanqiu feels that sometimes it is necessary to strike while the iron is hot.
Only if you take it seriously, others will not feel that your good intentions have been let down.
Otherwise, if someone is not related to you, has not eaten from your family, and has not used anything from you to cultivate, why should they waste their efforts giving you pointers on articles?
Before going back to the dormitory, Lin Yuanqiu turned around and went to Zhou Zixu's place. It would be the Youshi hour in half an hour, and he didn't know if his policy had been written yet.
Just as he was thinking about this, he saw Zhou Zixu rushing towards the entrance of the courtyard as if he were flying. Looking at what he was holding in his hand, it was the written policy document.
Seeing Lin Yuanqiu coming over, Zhou Zixu knew that he must come over to see if he had written the policy, so he said, "It's done, it's done, it's done. Brother Lin, I'll go to Dehui Hall first, wait." I’ll meet you when I get back.”
After that, he ran away.
It's not an exaggeration to say that he was running at full speed. Seeing Zhou Zixu's explosive power, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but think of the scene where his father was chased around with a big broom.
Thinking of his father, Lin Yuanqiu quickly remembered the letter from home he received yesterday.
The letter was from my cousin. It was a thick letter. When I opened it, I found that inside the envelope, there were also letters written by Chunyan and Chuncao to him.
From the words written in the family letter, one can clearly feel the tone of voice of his grandfather. I think the content of the letter was dictated by his grandfather and copied by his cousin.
The letter first talked about spring plowing.
Now, except for the original six acres of paddy field, all other fields in the family have been leased out. The grain harvest from the tenant fields was split 50-50 with the tenant farmers. This share ratio was considered to be a very preferential treatment.
In addition to the rice that has been sown, several new bayberry trees were also planted on the mountain this year. Lin Sanzhu bought these saplings after seeing them when he went to town to hand in embroidery.
In addition to these, the cousin also mentioned the bookmark sales in the letter. Before going out, Lin Yuanqiu spent a few days drawing a batch of patterns.
Just like before, they are all in one series, and whether it is a picture of a lady with a poem attached, or a variety of autumn chrysanthemums and bamboos, or a few wintersweets inserted in a blue and white porcelain vase, these are all interesting to those who love to collect. Students, the enthusiasm remains undiminished.
Nowadays, in addition to shopkeeper Gao's bookstore in the town, the county town also often rushes for goods. Before coming to the capital, Lin Yuanqiu specifically told his family not to work too hard while doing embroidery, and not to neglect his own health just to catch up on the embroidery work. Although my mother and uncle never lighted an oil lamp to keep their eyes open at night, sitting like this all day long will definitely have an impact on the body over time.
In a word, you can't make enough money, but your health is the most important thing.
Seeing her thoughtful look at that time, I thought that when my mother and the others started doing embroidery again, she would definitely be staring at it.
At the end of the letter, he asked Lin Yuanqiu to help him name his newborn nephew. In late February, the third sister-in-law gave birth to a son successfully, and both mother and child were safe.
Seeing the news that the third brother had become a father, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but remember the time when he was a child and followed the third brother and the fourth brother, and the three of them secretly beat persimmons with bamboo poles to eat.
At that time, the three of them were seven and six years old, and Lin Yuanqiu himself was only five years old, still at the age of a little kid.
But now, time flies by, and more than ten years have passed by in the blink of an eye.
Finally, Lin Yuanqiu read Chunyan and Chuncao's letter again.
The two sisters asked a lot about the capital in the letter, such as how big the capital is? is it fun? Also, do the dresses and flowers in the capital’s hair look good?
Lin Yuanqiu planned to go shopping at the hair flower shop when he had free time. If he saw fashionable and beautiful hair flowers, he would buy some for Chun Yan and Chun Cao.
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When Zhou Zixu came back from Dehui Hall, it was almost time for dinner. The two of them did not go to the dining hall, but asked Shu Yan to bring it over to eat.
Seeing that Zhou Zixu was smiling and in a good mood, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but ask, "Brother Zhou has just been praised by Master Qin?"
Praise?
"No, no, no." Zhou Zixu shook his head, "Master Qin said that my argument was too ordinary and needs to be improved."
Need improvement?
Lin Yuanqiu was about to ask, since you didn't get compliments, why are you still looking in a good mood? As a result, I heard Zhou Zixu say, "I only made one mistake, but others made many mistakes."
Therefore, I have made some progress compared to before.
Lin Yuanqiu cleared his throat and said, "Master Qin, if there is anything I don't understand in the future, I can just go to the Qin Mansion and ask him."
"What?"
Zhou Zixu was a little incredulous, thinking that he had heard wrong, and quickly repeated it again, "Master Qin asked Brother Lin to go to the Qin Mansion and ask him if he didn't understand something?"
"Yes." Lin Yuanqiu smiled and nodded.
"Great, great!" Zhou Zixu was excited, clapped his hands and said, "Brother Lin, do you think Master Qin wants to accept you as his disciple?"
Lin Yuanqiu shook his head, thinking that this possibility was unlikely. After all, accepting a disciple was not a casual matter.
He and Mr. Qin had just met for the first time today. They didn't understand each other, so how could they accept him as a disciple rashly.
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Chapter 113 Going to Qin Mansion (1)
Tonight may be the first time Lin Yuanqiu has suffered from insomnia since coming to Dajing Dynasty.
Although he kept urging himself to go to bed quickly, otherwise he would definitely be sluggish when he got up in the morning, but he still couldn't control the distraction of his brain cells.
No, Lin Yuanqiu's brain has been scratching his head since he lay down on the bed. He wanted to see which types of policy essay questions he was least good at. After he was ready to sort them out, he would write one for each of these types. Here comes a policy article. Then when Lord Qin takes a rest, he can show it to the other party.
The reason for this plan was because he remembered Lu Mansion's refusal to ask Zhou Zixu for advice, which made Lin Yuanqiu suddenly feel that his opportunity would be as bright and fleeting as fireworks.
I was really worried that after I went to the Qin Mansion, the other party would suddenly say, "You don't have to come here again."
Therefore, what Lin Yuanqiu was thinking at this moment was how to take advantage of this rare opportunity to present his shortcomings in knowledge to Master Qin all at once, so that he could help him clarify them.
This way, even if I don’t have to go next time, I won’t feel too sorry.
In fact, Lin Yuanqiu also knew that his ideas were too shrewd, but what should he do? Students like them who had no connections and could not be more ordinary than ordinary students sometimes had to rely on being thick-skinned to solve their lack of knowledge.
Moreover, Lin Yuanqiu felt that there was no reason to live without calculation in life. Therefore, as long as you behave uprightly and never do anything that violates your conscience, there is no harm in it.
Besides, who doesn’t want to live a noble life, but high status requires capital as a prerequisite. A high status without nobility and famous status will probably be just poor in the eyes of the world. No, ordinary people don't have the scope of "the world". At most, they only have "the people around them" or "the people around them".
It was really uncomfortable tossing and turning, Lin Yuanqiu stopped lying down, sat up and started to put on clothes.
Since I can't sleep, I might as well take advantage of my increasingly clear brain to write a policy essay. By the way, just write the policy essay questions that I just thought of.
There was a well in the dormitory yard. Every day after dinner, Lin Yuanqiu would go to the well to fetch a bucket of water and keep it in the house for washing up the next morning. So at this moment, Lin Yuanqiu directly washed his face with the water in the basin. After making himself more awake, he started to add water to the inkstone to grind the ink and prepare to write a policy essay.
Because he had just sorted out the ideas of the article, he didn't feel any lag when he started writing now. Soon Lin Yuanqiu wrote several pages of paper eloquently.
Then it was time to revise and polish the text, and then copy it. By the time I was done with it, it was almost midnight.
Thinking that there were still three or four hours before the morning reading class, and he would definitely not be able to do it if he didn't sleep, Lin Yuanqiu put down his brush, went to the basin to wash off the ink on his fingertips, and then went back to the inner room and lay down on the bed.
Perhaps because he had already converted all the thoughts in his mind into words, Lin Yuanqiu fell asleep very quickly this time, falling into a deep sleep in less than half a quarter of an hour.
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Every day after that, Lin Yuanqiu would insist on writing one or two policy articles.
The titles range from "Policies for Public Security" to "On Punishments and Rewards for Loyalty and Filial Piety" to "On Accumulation and Storage" and "On the Theory of Animating the People and Strengthening the Army". The topics involved include people's livelihood, governing the country and ensuring the country, as well as farming and water conservancy. And rule the land and so on.
One policy article has five or six pieces of paper, and twelve articles means six or seventy pieces of paper. It is almost half a finger thick in the hand.
Looking at these policy articles, Lin Yuanqiu was a little confused as to whether he had written too much, but he read these articles over and over again several times and felt that he did not want to miss any of them.
So, how about taking them all?
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Eight days passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was Master Qin's day of rest.
Because he was worried that the temporary search for the Qin Mansion would take a lot of time, Lin Yuanqiu went to the west of the city as early as noon the day before yesterday, and then determined the specific location of the Qin Mansion based on the address Master Qin wrote to him. Come down.
Now that we have explored the road, there is no need to wander through the streets and alleys when we return to the west of the city.
After passing Huajin Street and passing through two alleys, Lin Yuanqiu soon arrived at the gate of Qin Mansion.
Like other mansions I saw along the way, the Qin Mansion also has two vermilion doors with ancient charm. On the top of the door, there is a log-colored plaque with the words "Qin Mansion" written in thick official script. "Two words.
Different from the large gilded characters in other houses, the Qin family's characters are in ink, which looks simple and unpretentious, which is particularly comfortable.
There is a single small door seven or eight meters away from the main door. This should be where people in the mansion usually go in and out.
Lin Yuanqiu did not carry the suitcase today. He had packed a few policy articles into the bag and was holding it in his hand.
Before preparing to knock on the door, Lin Yuanqiu's hand habitually touched Cewen inside through the furoshiki.
Lin Yuanqiu had done this action countless times on the way to the Qin Mansion, but none of it felt as strong as at this moment.
Is this too thick?
Lin Yuanqiu suddenly felt that if he brought such a thick pile of money into the Qin Mansion, Master Qin would probably kick him out of the house because of his shamelessness.
After all, who would give people more than a dozen articles for advice at one go.
Therefore, just to be on the safe side, Lin Yuanqiu finally walked to the wall, squatted down, put the bundle on his knees, opened it, and then counted out the two articles "On Punishment, Rewards, Loyalty and Filial Piety" and "On Accumulation and Storage". Then he gathered up all the remaining articles and put them neatly into his clothes.
Fortunately, today he was wearing a cross-collar robe, and the body of the robe was wide. With such a large stack of paper stuffed in, there was nothing wrong except for the slight protrusion of his chest.
However, in order to avoid falling off, Lin Yuanqiu finally tightened his belt.
Obviously, Mr. Qin had already explained it to the concierge, so after Lin Yuanqiu knocked on the door and reported his name, the concierge quickly called a boy who was about twelve or thirteen years old, and then directly asked him to lead people to the courtyard. Go inside.
Looking at the boy leading the way, Lin Yuanqiu, who was originally worried that he would be turned away, breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time regretted it. As for what he regretted, there is no need to say. Naturally, he regretted stuffing too many articles into his clothes. Inside.
Lin Yuanqiu felt that Master Qin's special notification to the servant showed that the other party had kept in mind what he wanted to ask for advice. Therefore, it shouldn't be a big problem to write one or two more articles, right?
It's a pity that it's too inconvenient to take it out by yourself now. Don't scatter it all over the place and let the wind blow around the world.
So, it’s better to be patient and wait for next time.
Turning around the screen wall is a corridor. Judging from its length, it can be seen that the Qin Mansion is not small.
However, Lin Yuanqiu didn't look around. He still understood the rule of "being objective and not looking at the house".
After half a cup of tea, Lin Yuanqiu followed the boy to a courtyard. Apparently, this was the location of Master Qin's study.
Lin Yuanqiu saw that there were several crabapple trees planted in the yard. It was the season when crabapple flowers were in full bloom, with peach-pink buds standing on the branches, coupled with the densely trimmed calamus beside the rockery. The whole courtyard looks particularly simple and quiet.
The boy went to the study to report, and then Lin Yuanqiu heard a powerful voice, "Come in quickly!"
It sounded like he was in a great mood.
Without any time to think, Lin Yuanqiu hurriedly walked into the study. When he saw the position of the desk clearly, and was about to salute, he heard Mr. Qin laughing loudly:
