Zhouzhuang is just outside the south gate, and it takes about ten minutes to walk. Zhouzhuang is close to the county town. In addition to the early Zhou people living together, foreigners gradually moved in, making Zhouzhuang a large village dominated by business and farming as the auxiliary. Zhou Shixiong roughly estimated that there were at least 300 households in Zhouzhuang. He walked along the brick and stone roads of the village to the middle of the village. Most of the houses on both sides were built with blue bricks, and only a few were wooden houses.

Zhou Zhizhu's home is a three-entry mansion. In addition to the Zhou Mansion sign above, there is also a small plaque of the Jinshi Mansion on the plaque. It seems that Zhou Zhiji's father and his younger brother are not separated.

"Lao Wu, ask the kitchen to make a table of wine and food. Master, I want to have a good drink." When Zhou Zhizhu walked into the house, he shouted to the old man who was guarding the door, and then pointed at Zhou Shixiong and said, "Don't leave first, call everyone in the family over later and pay homage to my elder brother's son, your young master. Go quickly."

Zhou Zhizhu never stopped smiling along the way, and kept asking about Zhou Shixiong's affairs in Guangxi. Even if he heard Zhou Zhiji's family die of the epidemic, he just sighed, "Brother has a tough temper and will have to take this lawsuit sooner or later. I just feel sorry for your mother to suffer with him and die of illness."

"I don't remember my mother's appearance, but my nephew remembers that my mother was very peaceful when she went there." Zhou Shixiong wanted to play a person whose parents died at the age of a year. He basically made a point of two or six things about childhood, and he didn't know about it. This was Liu Wang's performance time, which vividly described Zhou Zhiji's image of the country, people's resentment and eunuchs.

Of course, Liu Wang had this feeling. He just used Zhou Zhiji's mouth to say what he wanted to say. There is no need to mention the infectiousness, it is directed to the hearts of the people!

When Zhou Zhizhu heard Liu Wang's words, he immediately changed the subject and asked about Zhou Shixiong's study. Zhou Shixiong began to perform an endorsement. Zhou Zhizhu was so excited that he praised him repeatedly. His nephew's talent could be completely passed by the county government office. It seemed that a scholar didn't want money.

Sitting in the main hall, the old man at the door came in with a dozen servants to pay homage to the future head of the family Zhou Shixiong. Then Zhou Zhizhu took Zhou Shixiong to the clan temple to kowtow to the ancestors of the Zhou family, and then put Zhou Zhiji and his wife's tablets into the clan temple. As for the ashes, they first put them in the clan temple, and wait for Zhou Zhizhu to pick a zodiac auspicious day before they were buried.

After experiencing these etiquettes, Youshi's former father-in-law Zhou Gongyi had already come to the Zhou family. In addition to returning the booklet, he also brought an registration form. Zhou Shixiong filled out the registration form in public, and Zhou Zhizhu and Zhou Gongyi praised his calligraphy again. Such beautiful regular script could not be written without more than ten years of hard work. Liu Wang knew clearly that the young master's calligraphy had not been written for a year.

Originally, Zhou Zhizhu wanted to be drunk with his nephew, but when he thought that his nephew would enter the examination room tomorrow, he gave up this idea and asked the housekeeper Lao Wu to deliver Zhou Shixiong's registration form and letter of protection to the county government. He and Zhou Gongyi accompanied Liu Wang to drink slowly.

"Two uncles, Mr. Liu, I want to go to bed first, otherwise I won't have a mental exam tomorrow." Zhou Shixiong had enough food and drink, but he didn't want to accompany a few old men here to feel sad about the spring and autumn. He stood up and said goodbye. Zhou Zhizhu agreed and asked his servants to take Zhou Shixiong and Zhou down to rest.

At the fourth o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhou Zhizhu woke Zhou Shixiong up, and his group boarded the prepared cart and rushed to the county government. In the car, Zhou Zhizhu introduced Zhou Shixiong to Zhou Shixiong's examination examiner, and the county magistrate, and stood up his hair. Because this Lord Sun was very famous and famous, he was the Sun Chuanting who fought with Li Zicheng to death!

Of course, Zhou Shixiong was not clear about Sun Chuanting's detailed deeds, but throughout the late Ming Dynasty, Lord Sun had been fighting on the front line of bandit suppression and had never finished it. He didn't expect to see a historical celebrity so soon. In fact, Zhou Shixiong had already met a historical celebrity, and Chen Yongfu from Zhennan Pass was also the one who made his fortune by suppressing bandits and getting promoted and left his name in history.

With the mentality of seeing celebrities, Zhou Shixiong walked to the county school gate next to the county government office with empty hands. More than a hundred people were waiting in front of the door. It seemed that these were the students who took the county exam. Originally, Zhou Shixiong thought that he should be considered old when taking the exam for the child exam at this age, but the two old men with white beards made him understand what it means to take the exam until old age.

"Line up and check." A yamen runner knocked a few times with a gong, asking the students preparing for the exam to line up. At the entrance of the county school, a middle-aged man wearing a seventh-rank official uniform stood out and looked out. Zhou Shixiong guessed that this person was Sun Mingren. He looked in his thirties, about 1.7 meters tall, thin and solid, with a cluster of beards half a foot long floating on his chest. What caught Zhou Shixiong most was that Sun Mingren's eyes were bright and sharp, and should be considered as Eagle Vision.

Zhou Shixiong's height is outstanding among this group of people, and Sun Mingren's eyes cannot be ignored. Therefore, Zhou Shixiong and Sun Mingren's eyes quickly met. Zhou Shixiong bowed his head slightly and saluted. Sun Mingren was stunned. He thought that this student knew him, but he could not remember it.

The students were divided into three rows to check and release the order. It was Zhou Shixiong's turn soon. Sun Mingren stepped forward to take over Zhou Shixiong's examination, which is the registration form. After looking carefully, he confirmed that he did not know him. He frowned and put down the form and walked back to the county school. Zhou Shixiong received the license plate and found his single room. He saw that the examination room was covered with dust and spider webs, and people could enter there. He could only frown and find the yamen runner who led the way and borrowed a broom and rag to clean it.

Zhou Shixiong used to read time travel novels, and everyone said that he would take him with him when he entered the examination room, but when he asked Liu Wang, Liu Wang looked at him strangely and asked him who he heard. It turned out that there was no way to bring anything in the exam in the Ming Dynasty, and all paper, pen, ink and inkstone were provided by the government, and the food and drink were requested by the government, and the bedding used for sleeping was also responsible for the government. The government was very busy and said.

The students came in one after another, and when they saw the situation of the examination room, they all learned to learn from Zhou Shixiong to find someone to borrow tools. But several young students had done such a thing, and they couldn't even lift water, so they could only watch the examination room silently and shed tears. Zhou Shixiong didn't know if the students could speak, but when he saw a few little kids urinating, he couldn't help but sigh. After cleaning up the examination room, he helped these children bring some buckets of water, and then taught them to clean.

Zhou Shixiong took the lead, and several older people also learned to take care of younger students. The cleaning work in the No. 1 exam area was completed quickly. When Zhou Shixiong walked back to his room exam, several young men respectfully saluted him and thanked him repeatedly for his help.

"Don't be polite, let's go to the office to take the exam better." Zhou Shixiong's words were definitely auspicious words. The students of Number A responded in a stack of voices, "Go together."

Sun Chuanting was going to resign when he returned to Beijing to report his work, but the county examination was about to be held. He resigned when he thought about finishing this matter. After all, he was also a Jinshi and could not make the county examination unable to be held because of his own behavior. But he was angry and didn't pay much attention to the issue of the county examination venue. When he arrived at the examination room, he found that the entire examination room was dirty, but even if he wanted to make up for it, he could only wait until the students entered the examination room before thinking about a solution.

Unexpectedly, the students of Number A did their own cleaning, while the students of the other three numbers complained and complained that no one would do it. Sun Chuanting had a tough temper. He originally thought that he wanted to make up for his dereliction of duty, but now he was criticized but aroused his temper. He called the head of the yamen runners in charge of the examination room and asked him to give each examination room cleaning tools. If those people refused to clean, they would make them dirty.

The county exam takes four days, if you are dirty, it is better not to take the exam. Because the paper will be invalid if it is dirty and the grades will be cancelled. It is not easy to not get the paper dirty in such a dirty test room.

As a result, those students who only complained were forced to clean the exam, and those young people ignored it, and it was so miserable. Fortunately, even if Sun Chuanting had a temper, even if most candidates had finished cleaning, they would send yamen runners to help the younger candidates clean the exam room. Naturally, this behavior once again brought about complaints from the students.

The county exam requires three exams, one is to post scriptures, which means to write dictated according to the requirements of the question, the second is essays, that is, to write prose, and the third is policy theory, similar to current affairs comments.

The requirements for posting the sutra are to pass the three classics and to pass the five classics to complete the five classics. However, there are more than ten questions. In addition to the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects of Confucius, there are also a lot of self-selected items such as the Book of Rites Zuo Zhuan and the Book of Songs. However, our abnormal Zhou Tongshao doesn’t care about this, and we spread out more than a dozen papers one by one, and we don’t write drafts. We grind the ink and lift the pen and write it. More than a dozen papers are a day’s quantity, and we can pass the Five Classics to full marks. His reading of the Fifteen Classics is only full marks.

During lunch, Zhou Shixiong rang the copper bell in the examination room, stuffed fifteen papers to the yamen runners who rushed over, and started having lunch. Sun Chuanting also had to stay in the examination room with the students. After having a few bites of lunch, the head of the class walked in with a bunch of papers. "Why, some people are not taking the exam?" Sun Chuanting's idea was normal. Generally, the scriptures that each paper had to be written in dictated were hundreds to thousands of words. Even if the students finished writing the draft and copied it on the paper, it would not take so little time, let alone checking, and it took more time.

"Sir, it's not that I won't take the exam, but I'm handing in the paper." The Ming Dynasty's examination implemented a miscellaneous name system, but this requirement was only for the level of the prefecture examination and above. The county examination did not have this requirement, because even if the county examination was passed, it was only qualified to participate in the prefecture examination. There was no fame or reputation, and it was useless to cheat.

"Oh, let's see." Sun Chuanting put down his chopsticks, walked to the desk to clean his hands and wiped it dry, and then picked up the paper. "Strange, how could such a person take the county examination?" After looking at it for a while, Sun Chuanting had a clear understanding of Zhou Shixiong's knowledge. Beautiful calligraphy is second to the next. He answered all the fifteen papers correctly, without even a typo. This level should have passed the county examination and the government examination. Sun Chuanting felt that if this person could write his strategy well, let alone a scholar, he could get it even if he was a juren.

After reading Zhou Shixiong's paper, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but start copying. The small calligraphy was really delicious and it felt comfortable to read it.

ps: I’m very sorry, I’m drinking outside. I borrowed someone else’s computer to send it. I’ll continue drinking it. I wish you a New Year greeting and congratulations on getting the red ticket for getting rich!
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