Everyone did not squint, and soon gathered at the Jiying Hall. After they stood still, they heard the sound of drums, followed by the eunuchs shouting and singing. Although the human voices were mixed with the drums, the tributes could not hear them clearly. What the eunuch was singing was, but everyone knew that it was the Holy Emperor coming over.
The tributes knelt down and shouted, "Long live my emperor!"
"Flat body!"
With a majestic sound, all the tributes slowly stood up. No one dares to raise their head at this moment, otherwise the accusation of offending the holy face will definitely make you suffer.
After paying homage to the emperor, the next step is to hand out question papers.
Lin Yuanqiu stood in the front row, and was naturally the first to receive the test paper. After receiving the paper and thanking him, the eunuch stepped forward and led Lin Yuanqiu directly to his seat in the palace.
Only then did Lin Yuanqiu dare to raise his lowered head slightly.
After all the question papers have been distributed, the palace examination will officially begin. After Emperor Jingkang walked around the palace, he went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for the morning.
He would only come over to continue supervising the examination after he retired from the court.
The Imperial Examination, also known as the "Imperial Examination", requires that the tribute candidates only need to pass the Cewen exam.
The same is true today.
But when everyone opened the question paper and saw the three words "Water Control Strategies" above, they couldn't help but take a breath.
Isn't this exactly the policy issue of the last imperial examination?
Why are you taking this test again this time?
Lin Yuanqiu also had such questions in his mind.
But who can guess the emperor's thoughts?
Fortunately, although he had not prepared any strategies for water control during this period, he was still very familiar with the methods of water control.
Lin Yuanqiu scooped a few spoonfuls of water into the inkstone, and soon began to grind the ink while thinking about an eye-catching policy question.
When the clear water in the inkstone gradually turned into black and oily ink, Lin Yuanqiu had already figured it out in his mind.
After putting the ink strip aside, he picked up the brush and began to list out the water control plan on the draft paper.
Planting trees, building embankments, dredging is worse than blocking, discharging, diversion, channeling and impounding, yes, there is also dredging and sealing...
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Lin Yuanqiu, who was conscientiously making plans in the Jiying Palace at the moment, didn't know that thousands of miles away, on the driveway leading to Xiaogaoshan Village, there were two horseback guards galloping towards Xiaogaoshan Village one after another. go.
Judging from the red wedding clothes they were wearing, they must be sending good news.
Moreover, these two people were just official servants from the county town.
No, on the official road leading from Fucheng to Hengxi Town, there were also two officers in red soap uniforms. They raised their riding whips from time to time and rushed forward very quickly.
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"Old man, do you think we, Yuanqiu, can become Shangguan masters this time?"
In the east room, Mrs. Wu was rubbing the twine in her hands, her eyes full of expectation.
Old Lintou took a puff of dry cigarette, and wanted to say that he should be able to do it, but when he thought that this was his first time taking the college entrance examination in Yuan Qiu, it would not be so easy to pass it.
Chapter 143 Announcement
April is the time when peach blossoms are in full bloom.
There are more than ten peach trees, large and small, in Xiaogaoshan Village. They are all in bloom now, and the one with the most blooms grows on Lin Dagui's mountain.
Lin Dagui is Lao Lintou. When he bought this mountain, this peach tree was already growing on the mountainside. It was a wild peach tree, and the peach fruits it produced were hard and astringent every time. During the flowering season, my family never stops the villagers who go to the mountains to pick peach blossoms.
In order to provide additional safety when picking flowers, Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong specially used wooden slats to surround the peach tree with a half-person-high wooden fence, so that they would not be afraid of accidentally slipping into the grass when picking flowers. Go inside.
This is what Wu proposed.
In Wu's words, our peach tree can't bear delicious fruits anyway, so we might as well let people pick some flowers and bring them back, so as not to waste them in vain.
With Wu's words, the little girls in the village, like the bees and butterflies smelling the fragrance of nectar, happily went up the mountain. Especially in the past few days when the flowering period is at its peak, they didn't even know they were going to run up the mountain. How many times.
Today, Wanqing and Wanying are among them. The two cousins, who have broken off several branches, are holding peach blossoms and preparing to go down the mountain so that they can be inserted into porcelain vases.
At this time, I heard Xiangye shouting loudly, "Look, there are people on horseback coming to our village!"
After everyone heard this, they hurriedly looked down the mountain, and sure enough they saw a horseman dressed in red.
Wanqing knew that her uncle was going to take the official examination. In the past few days, she often heard her father and mother talk about announcing the good news. Now that she saw the man on horseback, she naturally connected them.
Thinking that her father and grandfather were working in the yard on the mountain, the little girl raised her neck and shouted loudly toward the mountain, "Dad! Uncle Qing'er has been admitted to a high official!"
There is still quite a distance to the top of the mountain from here, and when we first built the courtyard, we were worried that wild animals would break into the courtyard, so we specially built the courtyard walls higher. Therefore, Lin Dazhu and the others who were making wood chips in the main room could not at all Wanqing's shouting was not heard.
Wanying was a smart girl. Seeing no response from the mountain, she hurriedly called out to a few playmates, "Xiangye, Jin'er, Osmanthus, can we all shout together?"
Xiangye and the others listened and nodded hurriedly, "Okay, okay!"
As a result, a crisp chorus of voices soon sounded from the mountainside, "Dad, my uncle has been admitted to a high official position!"
After shouting several times in a row, Xiangye and the others realized something was wrong. How could they follow suit and call them daddy? They had to call Uncle Yuanfeng.
Then he changed his mind and said, "Uncle Yuanfeng, my little uncle has been admitted to a high official position!"
In the main room, Lin Dazhu and Lin Erzhu were using knives to scrape the small burrs on the wood chips. This thing was to be wrapped in embroidery cloth. If they were not smoothed, the bookmarks made by then would definitely be prickly.
Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong used wood planers to push the wood. Since the bookmarks became more and more popular, they added a wood planer to the house so that the wood chips would not be out of use.
As for Lin Yuanhuai and Lin Yuanbai, they were using saws to cut the planed wood into thin slices of similar size.
"Dad, why did I hear someone shouting?"
Lin Yuanbai listened carefully and found that there was indeed a sound. He quickly put down the saw and said, "I'll go out and take a look!"
Lin Yuanfeng also heard it. The fifth brother went to take the general examination, so the past few days were an unusual time for their family. Lin Yuanfeng put down the wood planer and prepared to go out with him to take a look.
But before he even reached the entrance of the courtyard, he heard Lin Yuanbai's excited voice, "Hurry, hurry, let's go home quickly, the news official is here!"
What! Is the messenger coming to announce the good news?
Upon hearing this, not to mention Lin Yuanfeng who had already run out quickly, Lin Dazhu and Lin Erzhu also quickly put down their work and rushed out quickly.
Lin Yuansong and Lin Yuanhuai followed closely behind.
When they saw that there were indeed horse-riding servants wearing wedding clothes in the village, several people could be said to have run directly down the mountain.
At this moment, the small mountain village has already exploded.
After the villagers heard the news from the two guards, their open mouths never closed.
What, what, what! Will the top spot win?
God, he, he, they heard it right, if you can take the first place in the exam, isn't this the same as being admitted to a high official position?
Lin Dong's wife slapped her thigh and said, "Oh, how come Yuan Qiu's head is so smart?"
The big cowgirl on the side followed closely and echoed, "No, if you ask me, this Wu family is really lucky to give birth to such a promising grandson."
"Not only the Wu family, I think their family is very lucky. Look at how comfortable they have been in the past few years."
After hearing this, everyone nodded hurriedly. It means that the whole family is in good luck. Look at their granddaughter-in-law, they all wear gold hairpins on their heads.
Speaking of which, their family's life has been getting better day by day since they started studying in Yuanqiu. I really don’t know how Yuan Qiu studied and how he became so good. Every time he took an exam, it was like a joke and he passed the exam easily.
The villagers hurried to the west end of the village as they talked. For such a happy event, they must go there to feel happy.
Clan Chief Lin had already walked out of the house. When he saw several clan elders being supported by his juniors and walking tremblingly towards the west end of the village, Clan Chief Lin couldn't help but his eyes turned red. "Uncle, did you hear that?" , Yuanqiu boy has passed the exam again, and this time he is still the first in Huiyuanli!"
Although several clan elders have limited legs and feet, they are always in good spirits. After hearing the words of clan leader Lin, they could not help but nod their heads.
Ever since they learned that Yuan Qiu would take the Chunwei exam this year, they had been looking forward to good news.
I originally thought that it would be Spring Festival in early February, but as of now there is no news, so the hope of making the list is slim, but I didn’t expect that good news came today.
This is really great.
Also, after the spring period, there will be the imperial examination for the emperor, so Yuan Qiu should have met the emperor, right?
Thinking that after passing the palace examination, Yuan Qiu would be an official, the clan elders couldn't help but burst into tears.
Now, their Lin family may become famous in the entire Jiangzhou Prefecture.
Thinking of this, the clan elders' originally staggering steps seemed to become much more brisk.
"Let's go to Dagui's house quickly!"
Before the word "look" could be heard, a burst of crackling firecrackers was heard from the west end of the village. Obviously, the two messengers who announced the good news have arrived at Dagui's house.
These firecrackers must have been ordered by the officials.
The clan elders were about to say, let's walk faster, but they heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the entrance of the village again.
Patriarch Lin was stunned. Could it be that he also came here to deliver good news?
Before he and the clan elders could react, he saw two guards in festive uniforms running over on horseback. Then as they passed by the clan leader and clan elders, a loud voice sounded:
"Congratulations to Mr. Lin Yuanqiu for ranking first in the high school entrance examination!"
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It would be no exaggeration to say that the Lin family today is a bustling family.
First, two groups of policemen came to deliver the good news, and what was delivered with the good news was the money allocated by the government to build the Huiyuan Archway.
Then there are the rewards for passing the examination, twenty taels for the county government and forty taels for the government office.
Also, I don’t know where the wealthy families in the town got the news.
Not long after the messengers left to announce the good news, many wealthy families arranged for their housekeepers to come to congratulate them.
After being refused several gifts, the housekeepers also learned a lot. Often before Mr. Lin could react, they would put down the gift list and gifts, get on the carriage and run away without a trace.
Looking at the piles of silk and satin cloth, tea and snacks, as well as silver coins and real estate deeds, Lao Lintou and Wu really had a headache. They had just returned from the congratulatory gifts when they were elected in the late autumn, and now they have sent so many more. , but there is really nothing we can do.
Old Lintou told Yuan Feng to keep clear accounts.
As for these gifts, let Yuan Qiu make his own decision after he comes back.
After all the villagers left, the clan leader and elders discussed building a memorial arch with Lao Lintou.
