() In troubled times, emphasis is placed on martial arts, while in prosperous times, emphasis is placed on literature.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was vast and vast, with a population of tens of millions. In the sixty-three years since the founding of the country, three generations of emperors worked hard to govern. During the reign of the fourth emperor Zhu Zhen, Emperor Baode, it was prosperous and prosperous, and it can be called the prosperous age of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Emperor Bao De admired liberal arts and vigorously promoted education throughout the country. At present, a three-level education system has been formed such as county official schools, state academies, and central yang Imperial College. All boys who reach the age of twelve must be forced to enter official schools to receive education.

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"The book has its own house of gold, the book has its own beauty like jade, the book has its own thousand bells of millet, the book has its own chariots and horses. As long as you pass the examination as a scholar, the imperial court will distribute lumi every month to subsidize your life.

I guarantee that you will have no worries about food and clothing during your three years in the academy. In the future, when you graduate from the academy, you will be superior to others and do decent work, and you will not have to face the loess and back to the sky like some of your parents."

The old but powerful voice echoed in the air above the spacious classroom of less than fifty square meters.

The one who made the sound was the gray-haired old scholar Kong Congzu.

He had a three-inch long gray beard, a short stature, and a slight stoop. His small eyes, which were almost narrowed to a slit, stared at the thirty-something schoolchildren in front of him without blinking.

These young students are all around fifteen years old. They are all students in Class A of Zike. This year is their graduation year. One month later, an exam called the college exam will be held that will determine their fate.

take an exam.

"Han Li, are you confident that you will be admitted as a scholar?" In the back row of the school, his friend Wang Yuan spoke quietly to Han Li.

"How can it be so easy to pass the scholar exam?" Han Li shook his head, "We have more than 200 students in Tushan County, who dares to say that we can win nine times out of ten? Moreover, my grades are not excellent. It is difficult to pass the scholar exam!

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"If you fail the exam, don't I have no hope?" Wang Yuan muttered.

"At the beginning of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, we paid attention to the six arts of etiquette, music, she, imperial edicts, calligraphy, and mathematics, and promoted both civil and military arts. But now we only test the three arts of etiquette, calligraphy, and mathematics, which reduces the burden of the exam. But for you,

It's not necessarily a good thing." Although Kong Congzu was thin, his voice was loud and every child in the school could hear it, "Why? Because many of you are hunters, and your hunting and archery skills are passed down from your ancestors. If you don't test your shooting skills, you

It’s one less advantage.”

Kong Congzu squinted his eyes and glanced at the students in the classroom: "Etiquette, calligraphy, and mathematics are the three arts. Among them, calligraphy can best represent a person's academic performance, and it is also the most likely to be valued by the examiner in the college examination. There is a saying that practice

Being good at calligraphy is like having one foot in the door of the academy."

"Zhang Duo!" Kong Congzu's eyes fell on a handsome young man wearing green silk in the front row, "Your calligraphy is the best in Class A, even in our county school.

Write a few words and show them to everyone."

"You will be at the top of the mountain, and you will have a panoramic view of all the small mountains."

Running snakes and scorpions, rugged bones, first-class good words.

After writing, Zhang Duo threw the brush in his hand on the table and smiled coldly: "Sir, calligraphy is an art for the superior people, and it requires a pair of skillful hands. Those of them who only know how to work with bows and arrows are careless and will never be able to do anything in their lives.

Don’t even think about writing any good words.”

"Zhang Duo is so disgusting!" Wang Yuan said angrily.

"He relies solely on his family's money." Han Li said with some disdain: "I heard that in order to practice calligraphy, his family spends one hundred taels of silver every month to have famous scholars in the county tutor him. I heard that his family has spent more than ten thousand.

"Two, if you can't write good calligraphy like this, you're just like a pig or a dog."

"That's right, if we don't have to pile up money, this guy is worse than us!" Wang Yuan nodded: "But his calligraphy is really good, maybe he can really be admitted as a scholar."

"What kind of awesome is he? His overall score in the county school is in the high teens." A schoolboy who couldn't stand Zhang Duo cursed in a low voice: "Last year, only twelve people in the county school passed the scholar exam. This year he may not be able to pass the exam."

superior."

"Yes, you can only be considered capable if you are admitted as a scholar."

"Keep your voice down, if Zhang Duo hears it, he will cause trouble for us. His father is a rich man in our county, and his uncle Cao Jun is the head catcher of our county government. Even if Zhang Duo beats us, we can only swallow it with gritted teeth.

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Many students in the school were discussing quietly.

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The official school ends very early. Just after midnight, the school bell rang "ding ding ding". People as old as Han Li are already a good labor force in the family. After class every day, most of them go home.

Or help your parents pull the blower or do some chores. Or go down to the kitchen to prepare dinner for your parents. Only some wealthy families like Zhang Duo will spend a whole day reading and practicing calligraphy.

Han Li's family is relatively poor in Tushan County, so every day after school, he would choose to go hunting in the mountains to supplement his family income. For Han Li, hunting in the mountains is much more interesting than staying at home doing chores or reading.

Tushan stretches for tens of miles and tightly surrounds Tushan County. There are countless wild animals living in Tushan, such as wolves, argali, red deer, foxes, etc. Among them, the most valuable one is the fox, and a good one is the best.

The fox skin can be sold for ten taels of silver at the market.

After walking for only a quarter of an hour, there were gradually more trees around, and from time to time one or two hares were escaping in the grass. They were so fast that Han Li could only sigh:

If only my archery skills were better...

As he went deeper, Han Li also skillfully increased the speed of his travels, and the scenery quickly retreated.

"I heard from the old people that the reason why there are so many foxes in Tushan is because Tushan is the hometown of the Fox Fairy, and the foxes here are all descendants of the Fox Fairy! If I can meet the Fox Fairy, I will definitely ask him to let me pass the exam to become a scholar.

Guangzong Yaozu."

Han Li had a young mind after all, and people would inevitably have some doubts about unknown things. Although the old people emphasized that this was just a legend, Han Li couldn't help but pray.

I don't know if Han Li's prayer had any effect, but suddenly a fox with pure white fur poked its head out from behind the bushes. Han Li immediately took a deep breath and said, "It's actually a pure white fox. If we can catch it,

, a piece of fur is worth at least one hundred taels of silver."

Just when Han Li's eyes lit up, the fox turned around and dived into the jungle, turning into white shadows and jumping back and forth in the woods.

"Don't run!" Han Li held up his strong bow, took off his thick-backed hunting knife from his waist, and chased in the direction where the fox was escaping.

Unknowingly, Han Li had deviated from the direction he had taken when hunting in the past.

Although it is summer, the sun at Shenshi is not harsh and just drives away the coldness in the Tushan forest.

The fox dodged into a sky canyon and disappeared into the thorn forest. Such thorn forests are also very common in other places in Tushan. However, the thorns are covered with thorns, and the thorns are as hard as iron and extremely sharp. Hunters in Tushan County

No one wants to come within their realm.

"Is this fox's lair located in this thorny patch of thorns? That's right. Only in such a hidden place can it be difficult to find."

Han Li carefully opened the thorns in front of him, and the journey was extremely difficult. After half an hour, he reached the end of the thorn forest. In front of him was a cliff covered with thorn vines.

Han Li hesitated for a moment, then used a broad-backed hunting knife to poke at the thorn vines in front of him. Soon, after pushing aside a few dense thorn vines, a cave entrance more than two meters high suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Is this cave the white fox's lair? It seems to be naturally formed. I wonder if there is any danger inside? Forget it, it's already here, so you can't go back empty-handed. Go in and have a look. Even that fox is not afraid.

What am I afraid of?"

The cave was very deep. Han Li walked along the rather large cave passage for more than a hundred meters before reaching the end. At the end of the cave passage, there was a huge stone cave that was more than ten meters high and dozens of feet wide. At a glance,

The walls of the cave are very smooth. The smooth walls are covered with various patterns.

A beam of sunlight hits the stone cave from nowhere, illuminating the stone cave extremely brightly. Under the sunlight, the lines on the stone wall are constantly flashing along the lines, and a comfortable heat flow is constantly flowing.

Circulation in the cave.
Chapter completed!