Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

Chapter 58: Government Test

Zhao Ning was a guest in Gu Jingyun’s house for half the night. The next day, everyone who knew him knew about Gu Jingyun’s origin. It didn’t take long for the scholars in the inn to know that Gu Jingyun’s wife was not only his childhood sweetheart, but also his classmate. .

Although he is brilliant in writing, he is not very knowledgeable about the world. Although he is aloof but not arrogant, and because he is the youngest, everyone is accustomed to giving in when they get along with him.

Looking at Li Baolu, who never leaves him, is not so unpleasant anymore. The two children are inevitably afraid of leaving their hometown, and it is understandable to rely on them more tightly.

The age of Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu is too deceptive, not to mention that Li Baolu is only eleven years old, even Gu Jingyun is only thirteen years old.

In addition, Li Baolu’s chubby face was full of childishness, and she wore a double bun, which made her look even smaller. In addition, Gu Jingyun’s face was full of arrogance. When everyone looked at this young couple, it was really hard to think about the wretchedness.

Everyone just opened their eyes and closed their eyes as if they couldn’t see the rudeness of the two. Later, when Gu Jingyun habitually took Li Baolu’s hand away in public, a few adults would read two love poems and laugh. However, Gu Jingyun was not shy, and instead replied with a sentence or two.

As time went on, many people found that Gu Jingyun didn’t bring a book, but he could pick up everything they talked about. What shocked them the most was that Gu Jingyun not only picked up on the Four Books History Collection, but also talked about them. Miscellaneous books can interface, read widely, the abundance is shocking.

They are twice his age, some are more, but they are far inferior to him. Some people are dissatisfied or envious of him, and they know that they cannot offend him. Such talent, as long as he can live, he will always succeed. one day.

Based on this, many people are happy to curry favor with Gu Jingyun and have a good relationship with him.

Zhao Ning had a good impression of Gu Jingyun, and after seeing his potential, he managed the relationship more carefully. Gu Jingyun also had a good impression of him, so he was the closest to Zhao Ning in the entire inn.

Gu Jingyun’s reputation quickly spread among the candidates. Many people took the opportunity to ask questions to watch Gu Jingyun, and some people deliberately embarrassed him with his schoolwork. Gu Jingyun was most afraid of this kind of embarrassment. Even the prefect of Guangzhou knew that among the candidates for the prefectural examination this year, there was an amazing student.

“Is this really okay, what if the people in the capital find out?” No wonder Li Baolu was worried, Gu Jingyun made too much noise, and now many people know that there is a genius in Guangzhou.

Gu Jingyun said calmly: “Guangzhou and the capital are separated by half the Great Chu, and the news flow is lagging behind, how would they know? My father probably doesn’t even know my name.” He added: “Don’t worry, as long as Guangzhou No one in the government knows that I am from the Zhongyonghou Mansion in the capital. Who would deliberately spread the news to the capital? Guangdong is too remote, and the prominence of essay writing is far less than that of Shandong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There are more geniuses from those two places, and I am almost fourteen. Come on, Guangdong is a juvenile genius, let’s talk about it in Shandong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, hey, a lot of geniuses of seven or eight years old are caught.”

On the contrary, Li Baolu had also heard people talking about geniuses in other places in the inn. The most famous ones were Xu Jiuyan from Zhejiang and Qi Lekang from Shandong.

Xu Jiuyan was qualified as a child at the age of eight. He passed the exam as a scholar at the age of nine. He was the current desk leader. He is sixteen years old this year. It is said that he will take the township examination next year.

Qi Lekang is also not too much. He also passed the exam at the age of twelve. He is also a desk leader, but he is most praised for his good handwriting.

He is only 18 years old this year, but he has been able to develop another typeface from his face style. Some famous Confucian scholars have read his handwriting and concluded that he will become a great master in the future.

In addition to his own fonts, his face and style are even more impressive. When Xu Jiuyan’s teacher Yan Daru met him, he said, “In ten years, no one will be able to surpass him.”

You must know that Yan Daru is recognized as the best contemporary scholar in Yan and Body, and even he said that, which shows the greatness of Qi Lekang.

And Gu Jingyun’s current reputation is really not worth mentioning compared with these two people, because he became famous too late, in addition to solid schoolwork, extensive reading, and outstanding literary talent, everyone has not found his other advantages.

So his fame was only passed on among the young scholars in Canton Prefecture.

Li Baolu felt relieved, and continued to sit in the corner leisurely, guarding Gu Jingyun as if she did not exist.

Everyone doesn’t know why this young couple wants to be together anytime and anywhere, it’s like they can’t be separated. Saying that Gu Jingyun goes out to talk about history, you are a woman and wait in the room, why do you have to be a follower?

Gu Jingyun knew that Li Baolu was trying to protect his safety, so he did not understand all the subtle advice to everyone, and insisted on taking Li Baolu with him wherever he went.

And Li Baolu is a martial arts practitioner, and she often follows her master into the mountains to hunt. As long as she wants to, she can quickly reduce her sense of existence to the maximum extent. Over time, the scholars simply do not realize that they are talking about history and talking about Taoism. When they were blushing over an article, or when they spoke ill of someone behind their backs, Li Baolu sat in the corner, remembering everyone’s expressions and words clearly.

Li Baolu didn’t want to remember, but because her memory is too good, she couldn’t help being curious, so she accidentally wrote it down.

In the evening, Gu Jingyun, who had ears full of gossip, said: “…”

And just when Gu Jingyun’s reputation was getting bigger and bigger, the government tried it.

The prefectural test is a little harder than the county test, but for Gu Jingyun, it’s almost the same, the same simple, this time he still didn’t hide his clumsiness, he still wrote and checked it early and handed it in.

Even the examiners couldn’t help but look at him, and the prefect read his examination papers directly. After reading it, he couldn’t help but stunned, “I didn’t expect that there would be such great talents under my rule.”

“It’s just too arrogant,” the deputy examiner shook his head and said, “I only spend half a day in the examination room every time. I’m so arrogant, I’m afraid I won’t go far.”

Confucianism pays attention to the mean, and depending on how talented you are, it is difficult to make people feel good about such a maverick.

The    prefect smiled and stroked his beard and said, “A talented person must be arrogant. I heard that he is not even 14 years old. I can’t find one such person in Guangzhou for a hundred years.”

The deputy examiner knew that the prefect wanted to focus on cultivating him, so he could not help being silent.

Naturally, Gu Jingyun’s literary talent has nothing to say, his answers are all right, his words are good-looking, and his scrolls are neat and tidy, but because he is too arrogant, the deputy examiner and several examiners have discussed giving him the third place, which is almost the same. his arrogance.

But the prefect said so, they could only mention him first.

As soon as the results were released, the shopkeeper of the inn immediately returned the rent paid by Li Baolu, saying that he had fully covered their accommodation, and only hoped that Gu Jingyun could write inscriptions for his inn when he left.

Li Baolu counted their money, took the money bag decisively, patted the shopkeeper’s chest and said, “Don’t worry about the shopkeeper, I’ll let him do the questions when the academy exam is over.”

The shopkeeper knew that Li Baolu could be Gu Jingyun’s master, so he left with a smile.

Gu Jingyun stood behind Li Baolu and asked faintly, “Are your words only worth twenty taels?”

“It’s not bad if it’s worth twenty taels now,” Li Baolu happily counted the money and said, “Now you write a word and sell it. If you can sell one tael, it’s just to please you. We want Staying outside for three years, only can’t get in, can’t you save some money? This month, you have spent 12 taels for dinner. This is not counting our food this month. I will pay for it in two days. Going to the pharmacy to buy some regular medicines will cost a lot of money.”

Gu Jingyun frowned and said, “After a while, Qiongzhou should be able to deal with a sum of money…”

Li Baolu shook her head, “It’s better to rely on yourself, even if there is money to be dealt with, let Zhang Yiyan save it, don’t forget that uncle and the others are still there, my mother’s health has always been bad, we can’t take care of it outside, but we can’t Save more money? If something goes wrong, even if you throw money at it, you can make a way out, but if you don’t even have any money…”

Gu Jingyun nodded, “I understand, you can keep the money.”

Li Baolu put the money in the robe and hid it.

They exchanged large sums of money for banknotes and hid them close to their bodies, but they also brought a lot of change, and it was not too light.

House exams will be held three days after the government exams are released, so all candidates who passed the government exams stayed in the inn to hurry up to review, hoping to memorize more.

Some of the candidates who did not pass the government exam immediately checked out and went home, while most stayed in the inn to wait for the hospital exam, so that they could get more news.

It’s just that they fell off the list, and they couldn’t help but drink alcohol to relieve their worries.

Gu Jingyun had no books to read, so he just stayed in the room and played chess by himself, instead of going out to find someone to play as usual.

He did very well in the exam. At this time, he went out to see all the people who failed the exam. Isn’t he looking for hatred?

Zhao Ning came to him with a book in hand. Seeing him sitting leisurely at the table playing games with his left and right hands, he couldn’t help but twitched the corners of his mouth and said, “You are leisurely, I’m almost dying of nervousness.”

“Your ranking is not low this time, why are you nervous?”

Zhao Ning smiled bitterly, “There are still candidates who haven’t passed the previous year. I may not be able to make it on the list, so I came to talk to you. Do you think I should read the manual in these three days?”

Zhao Ning brought a lot of scriptures, which he bought at the bookstore, and some were even bought by family members.

Gu Jingyun was silent for a moment and said: “You have read all of these, and it is useless to read them again. After all, these scriptures belong to others, and you can’t copy them. It’s better to find the four books and read them again. Just remember the meaning.”

Zhao Ning’s eyes lit up, he decisively returned to the house with the book in his arms and exchanged a bunch of them. He smiled at Li Baolu and said, “I also ask my brother and sister to make it easy and find a place for me to review my homework in the house.”

Li Baolu glanced at Gu Jingyun, then pointed to a chair beside the desk and said, “Brother Zhao, if you don’t mind, just sit there.”

Zhao Ning quickly grabbed the chair and took out the book to read. The four books have already been read, but the depth of each reading is different, meaning, allusions, word meaning, background, influence, no one knows what will be tested.

And he always had something he didn’t understand, he just hoped that Gu Jingyun could give him a word or two when he had doubts.

Gu Jingyun has never been stingy here. He will always answer any questions. Zhao Ning is quiet and has little influence on him. Although the person on the opposite side is not Baolu, he will be a little uncomfortable, but after immersing himself in the chess game, he will not mind.