Chapter 81 The Beauty of April Is Gone (First Order Requested)

Just when Chen Heng was about to follow Master Xue out to broaden his horizons, the Lin Mansion sent a servant to tell him that the master had caught a fish today and asked him to go home to eat fish soup in the evening.

Chen Heng had no choice but to let Xue Ke owe him another meal, and then he smiled and sorted out the things and went out. All the way to the Lin Mansion, to this day, Chen Heng no longer needs a door sticker when he comes here.

The servant standing at the door greeted him with a smile as soon as he saw him coming, "Why did the eldest master come back just now? When the master came back, he told me that the eldest master could go directly to the study to find the master."

Chen Heng blushed slightly, nodded shyly, and went straight to Lin Ruhai's study.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw Lin Ruhai pulling Lin Jue to test his homework. Lin Jue, who is now eight years old, has a much better complexion than when he first met him, but his figure is a little thinner than his peers. However, the figures of the Lin family are similar, and they are probably the type that can never gain weight no matter how much they eat.

"Brother! Why are you here just now?" Lin Jue ran up to Chen Heng with joy when he saw him. I don't know if he was thinking of skipping class.

Lin Jue is the same age as Shuangxi, so Chen Heng treats him as his younger brother. He smiled and pointed out his thoughts, "Don't think about sneaking away. You still have to recite the texts you should recite."

When Chen Heng pushed the door open, he just heard Lin Jue reciting the Analects. Lin Jue started to learn late, and because he was in poor health when he was a child, Lin Ruhai didn't really ask for his academic progress. He only taught him a section of the Four Books and Five Classics from a distance.

However, the Lin family's family tradition is to learn, and Lin Jue is smart and clever. Under the influence of his family, his progress in reading is not slow at all. It's just that Jia Shi was reluctant to send him to the academy, and wanted to keep him at home and take good care of him for a year or two.

"Heng'er is right." Lin Ruhai nodded with a smile and pointed to the empty chair, "Where did you recite just now?"

Lin Jue moved to the chair step by step and sat down, saying bitterly, "Yong Ye Chapter. Confucius said: If the quality is better than the culture, it will be wild, and the culture is better than the quality, it will be history. Only when the quality and culture are in harmony can one be a gentleman."

Lin Ruhai glanced at Chen Heng, indicating that he would find something to do, and said to Lin Jue: "Continue to recite."

After saying that, Lin Ruhai picked up the article on the table and listened and read at the same time. This ability to do two things at the same time, if he was not very confident in the Four Books and Five Classics, he would never dare to do so.

Chen Heng himself was not idle either. He walked around the small bookshelf in the study for a few times. He picked up a book "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" and found a seat by the window to read the book.

This is a collection of notes and novels about Chang'an in the Han Dynasty. Most of the records in the text are anecdotes, which is just right for killing time at the moment. After all, when Lin Jue finishes reciting the book, it will probably be Chen Heng's turn.

Sure enough, just as Lin Jue finished reciting, Lin Ruhai called another unlucky guy to him.

"Your policy essay has improved a lot." Lin Ruhai nodded with satisfaction. Chen Heng had immediately improved the problems he had pointed out before.

When discussing academics, Chen Heng's expression was very serious, and he just listened to the following words silently. After waiting for a long time, he didn't hear the rest of the text. He raised his head in confusion and saw Lin Ruhai smiling at him.

"Uncle, so my policy essay is done?" Chen Heng said happily.

"What I can get from the book is almost the same." Lin Ruhai smiled and put down the policy essay in his hand, "Do you also want to take the college entrance examination?"

"Yes." Chen Heng nodded seriously. Cui Youdao and Du Yunjing, who had taken the Tongsheng exam with him, had already become scholars. Chen Heng was not inferior to others in skills, so how could he not be restless in his heart.

"Heng'er, wait a little longer." Lin Ruhai advised patiently.

He himself had gone through this stage, so how could he not understand Chen Heng's thoughts. Of course, he was not the kind of person who deliberately suppressed Chen Heng's arrogance as described in the opera. Every age group should look like every age group.

Young people should be confident and energetic. If they are not confident and high-spirited, they are still not young people. Middle-aged people should be calm and composed, not startled in the face of changes, and hide their talents.

Lin Ruhai did not have the habit of speaking half and hiding half. He told the other party what he was thinking about Chen Heng. As for whether he could accept it, it all depended on Chen Heng himself.

"Now that Leyi Academy has been promoted to an official school, you should have seen the scholars taking the annual exams."

Facing Lin Ruhai's question, Chen Heng nodded quickly. After becoming a scholar, you can't just study at home. On the official school side, the academic official will preside over the annual exams twice every three years.

Only if you pass the exam can you get the qualification to continue to take the exam for a juren. How long will such an exam last? It will last until you pass the exam for a juren.

Moreover, many academic officials, in order to show off their knowledge and literary talent, especially like to come up with some interpolated questions. Take half of each of two sentences that are completely unrelated, or combine a few words together, and use them as exam questions.

Unlike the provincial examination, the questions of the provincial examination are strange because they have to be reported to the Ministry of Rites, but they can still be traced.

Once the questions of the annual examination become strange, it is really like a line of egrets flying in the blue sky and two orioles singing in the green willows.

Lin Ruhai suffered this loss, so he hoped that Chen Heng could take the examinations in the academy and the township, and not waste his good time in endless annual examinations.

This is why it is easy to be a scholar but difficult to take the annual examination. Chen Heng sighed in his heart, and then asked quietly, "Can Brother Cui and Brother Du pass the examination this year?"

"It's not a big problem to pass the examination, but it's hard to get a good ranking in the joint examination." Lin Ruhai said bluntly, "If you can't make a concerted effort from the juren to the jinshi, it's easy to slack off because of a stable life."

It is said that gold promotes people and silver promotes scholars. Once the life of a poor scholar settles down, it is easy for him to fall into a gentle land of marrying wives and keeping concubines, where he is sensual and sensual.

In comparison, it seems that only in the childhood stage, I have the time and energy to work tirelessly towards an unknown destiny. Chen Heng gradually understood why Lin Ruhai asked him to wait a little longer.

"Heng'er, the one who takes the best will get the other. Do you understand what uncle means? And..." Lin Ruhai continued to talk, "By next year, you will be thirteen years old, and you can follow uncle to the government office. Come on, you can only really master what you learn in books after using it.”

Feeling Lin Ruhai's care for him, Chen Heng did not hesitate for a moment, stood up from his position, saluted and thanked: "Heng'er understands, uncle, I will listen to your arrangement."

Lin Ruhai took his hand and sat down, pointing to a low-hanging peach branch outside the window, and said: "The beauty of April in the world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are beginning to bloom."

"Heng'er, don't be anxious, it's not your time to bloom yet. My uncle would like to ask you, if you have a choice, do you want to be a Jinshi, or be born with a Jinshi."

Need to ask? Chen Heng's eyes lit up and he blurted out: "Of course I will be a Jinshi."

"Since they are all Jinshi, why don't you think about winning the first prize in one fell swoop and becoming the top pick in high school?" Lin Ruhai asked with a smile.

Chen Heng was startled. He didn't expect that he would drink chicken soup at Uncle Lin's place after traveling through twelve years.

"Are you less talented than others? Or are you not diligent enough?"

Lin Ruhai made the final decision: "When you go to high school, you can make up for the time you spend now in the officialdom."

"Yes." Chen Heng's eyes flashed and he nodded solemnly.

Seeing Lin Ruhai finish chatting with Chen Heng, Lin Jue also came up to the side and asked curiously: "Dad, can Jue'er also get Jinshi in the future?"

"Of course you can." Lin Ruhai also encouraged, "Jue'er, as long as you study hard like your brother and keep working towards it, you will definitely be able to do it."

"I understand, Dad, the kid must work hard."

Chen Heng suddenly realized that Uncle Lin was a bowl of chicken soup shared by two people.

After leading Lin Jue out of the study, Chen Heng stopped in the courtyard. April is a day when flowers are dazzling. Beside the path paved with bluestone, the freshly blown petals are still on the green leaves.

Lin Jue was at a lively and active age. When he saw two butterflies flying out of the flowers, his attention was immediately attracted. Chen Heng followed him silently. On the other side was a small pool, so be careful of the mud monkeys.

"Brother."

Suddenly there was a delicate oriole chirping behind me.

Chen Heng subconsciously turned his head and saw a familiar figure standing in the corridor in the distance. There was a patch of blooming peach branches between the two of them. Before Chen Heng could see it clearly, the other person had already walked down the steps and came towards him with graceful bones.

The girl is wearing a lavender half-sleeved lady's skirt, with a few light plum blossoms embroidered on the neckline and placket, and a white silk bamboo leaf collar underneath. Only a few light cyan bamboo patterns can be seen on the sleeves. A lavender corset outlines the girl's slim figure.

The clothes are light and elegant, and the temperament is noble.

Chen Heng couldn't help but flash eight words in his mind, and his eyes finally fell on the other person's smiling face. It is true that people are seven points more delicate than the spring sun, and their peach is one point less delicate than others.

Before Daiyu could stand still, Lin Jue had already rushed in front of him.

"elder sister."

"Let sister see if you are sweating." Daiyu ignored Chen Heng for a moment and asked her younger brother to raise his head first and let her check carefully before feeling relieved.

When Daiyu looked at her brother again, he was standing two steps away, smiling softly under the branches.

"Brother, what are you laughing at?" Daiyu was a little curious.

"Suddenly I understood the meaning of 'human face and peach blossom complement each other'." Chen Heng praised sincerely.

"Cui Hu's poems are not good." Daiyu blushed slightly, "Brother, it's better to think of something else."

Chen Heng turned his head and thought about it, then picked up the poem Lin Ruhai had just told him: "Then the beauty of April in the world will be over, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple will begin to bloom."

Daiyu pursed her lips noncommittally. As she grew older, her temperament became more and more earthly. It's just that unlike the loneliness in other books, which is like the coming of winter, the girl's eyes are full of spring-like vitality at this moment.

The two of them can be considered childhood sweethearts, and even now they don't have to be too shy about etiquette. As they walked together in the courtyard, Daiyu asked Lin Ruhai why she was looking for him.

Chen Heng told her the conversation in the study with a smile. The girl immediately reacted and glanced at her brother, "Okay, brother, you are borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha."

"Who said Cui Hu's poems are not good?" Chen Heng spread his hands helplessly, showing an innocent expression.

Lin Daiyu finally suppressed her laughter, held Lin Jue's hand, and after walking for a while, she remembered to inquire about something with Chen Heng: "By the way, brother, I think Sister Baoqin has been a little unhappy recently, but when their family met What's the difficulty?"

"I can probably guess what happened." Chen Heng smiled and explained Mei Shengjia's matter clearly in a few words.

Daiyu frowned as she listened, "So, last month he begged Mei Xuezheng to take him to the Xue Mansion?"

"Yes." Chen Heng nodded and explained to his sister, "The Xue family has been having a hard time recently."

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