Brother Wen went to Yuan's house. In the following period, he rarely even used the funds he applied for to go out of the city. Every time he just went to the fields with his grandfather when he left the city, and called friends to pull weeds. Digging ditches or something.

During most of his free time, he went to Qiu's house to proofread manuscripts.

Qiu Jun is currently in charge of collecting books. Almost every day, he comes across one or two books that he has never read before. It is inevitable that he must stay up late at night to read them. When he is inspired to read at night, it is time to pick up the pen and write two entries.

At first, Brother Wen went over every ten days to do the proofreading work. As he continued to do it, he found that something was not right and the workload was really shocking.

When they learned that Brother Wen was going to co-write a book with a pavilion elder, everyone was amazed. Even the idle men who were responsible for escorting him to Qiu's house every evening held their heads high and said that they were also working for the little prodigy and Qiu Ge. A man who has done his best!

These days can be said to be lively or lively, and they can be said to be calm or peaceful. It's the end of July in a blink of an eye, and it's only a ten-day period before the autumn of Hongzhi's fifth year.

Considering that his brother was nervously preparing for the exam, Brother Wen went to his field from time to time to collect wolfberry leaves in the past few months, and asked Lao He to cook "Sanjidi Soup" for Wang Shouren to drink.

According to Lao He, "Sanjidi Soup" is the name from the south. It uses wolfberry leaves, pork, pork liver, and pig rice intestines. It is said that this is both wolfberry and liver. It must clear the liver and improve eyesight. I can't believe it. It’s hard to get a three-yuan grade!

Wang Shouren hesitated to speak after hearing this, and then drank all his brother's thoughts.

Apart from the candidates at home, what worries Brother Wen the most is of course the peppers that have grown.

Since the peppers have bloomed, Brother Wen has to count them one by one every time he goes to see how many flowers can produce peppers. When the small green peppers grow, he will count them every time he goes there. The little pepper counted them one by one, and kept counting them from green to red. He didn't feel that his counting behavior was boring at all.

When the first batch of peppers grown in Laoqiu's house were all red, Brother Wen began to actively harvest them.

Seeing this long-lost red pepper, Brother Wen was so excited that he went to the kitchen to cut open the pepper and carefully save the seeds.

Qiu Jun originally didn't want to talk to him, but when he saw that the other person was looking at him and wanted to use a knife on the peppers because he was not taller than the cutting board, he really couldn't stand it, so he put down the new book he just got and went to get the pepper seeds for him.

"You have to be careful not to touch your eyes. It is much spicier than ginger and pepper." Brother Wen said, "You can eat the chili pepper after taking the seeds! We can eat fried meat with chili pepper, and we can even dry it if we can't finish it. After drying, you can make chili sauce and spicy oil! But you may not be used to it when you try it for the first time, and your mouth will be burning."

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He picked up a red pepper and looked at it for a long time, and then squeezed it gently. He felt that it was empty inside. It was different from a small wolfberry, and it was also different from a large eggplant. It was hard to imagine that their seeds looked so empty. almost.

Qiu Jun didn't take Brother Wen's words lightly just because he was young. After observing the shape of the pepper, he cut it open and took out the pepper seeds inside.

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Brother Wen was impatient, so he moved a low stool and stood beside it to count the tiny seeds he dug out.

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Look, one chili seed can turn into hundreds of chili seeds this year, and hundreds of chili seeds can turn into tens of thousands of chili seeds next year. Why worry about not having chili to eat in the future!

Brother Wen was so excited that he started to memorize the book next to him with great interest: "A son has sons, and a son has grandsons, and there are endless descendants!"

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This is both the child and the grandson. It’s as if he was performing a dissection on Chili to remove the child. Don’t you think it’s scary?!

Even though he hadn't tasted the chili pepper yet, Qiu Jun felt the power of the red chili peppers. If he hadn't remembered what Brother Wen said, he would have raised his hand to wipe his eyes several times.

After Qiu Jun had cut open all the twenty or thirty ripe red peppers, Brother Wen also counted the pepper seeds he took out. One pepper has about thirty or forty seeds, and each pepper plant can produce many, many seeds. Chili pepper!

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Brother Wen carefully took the pepper seeds and spread them out under the sun to dry. He felt that next year he would be able to hang strings of red peppers on his grandfather's bamboo pavilion, or use a bamboo sieve to spread them out one by one to dry!

When he thought of the red peppers all decorated inside and outside the house, Brother Wen really wished that all the peppers would turn red overnight so that he could dry out all the seeds and collect them.

By night, both the Wang family and the Qiu family had tasted the chili pepper.

Wang Shouren, a quasi-provincial examination candidate, was already a little confused when he was studying, but when he tasted this, he immediately felt sober.

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The whole family was more or less so spicy that their noses turned red.

Wang Hua was caught off guard and choked on it. After coughing a few times, he glanced thoughtfully at Brother Wen who was laughing sullenly beside him, knocked on the table and said: "Children have a weak spleen and stomach and cannot bear such spicy food. You won’t eat too much from now on, just take one or two bites.”

After Wang Hua finished speaking, he personally changed the position of the chili fried pork so that it was far away from Brother Wen and never within Brother Wen's reach.

Brother Wen:?????

Brother Wen accused his father with his eyes.

This is the pepper he grew! He grew it!

Wang Hua said: "It's useless to look at me. I'll wait until you grow up."

Of course, he would definitely not be taken advantage of.

So when Brother Wen followed his grandmother to visit the abbot, he praised him and said that with such a person in the temple, he would not have to worry about the lack of incense.

It's now time, and it's too late to improvise, so I can only seek some ethereal metaphysical comfort.

Even under the persuasion of a fat monk, he bought Wang Shouren a "qualification charm", which was said to be the kind that had been blessed by eminent monks.

Even Mrs. Zhao, the stepmother, accompanied Mrs. Cen to Daxinglong Temple to worship the Buddha.

After sending Brother Wen and his party away, the host immediately asked people to catch the fake monk and clean up the house.

Brother Wen thinks that the apprentice of the old Taoist priest who set up a stall to poke trouble should learn from him. His ability to adapt to changes is simply amazing.

Brother Wen watched from the side as Wang Shouren listed items one by one, and he didn't feel boring at all. After his brother had selected all the contents according to the format, he eagerly asked: "Brother, when are you going to Shuntian Mansion to hand in the paper?

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Thinking that he had asked Lao He to cook "Sanjidi Soup", Brother Wen didn't worry anymore, and Pidianpidian followed his grandmother and his mother around Daxinglong Temple.

This thing is handed over to Shuntian Prefecture for printing test papers. Each of the main papers has twelve pieces of paper, and there are requirements for size and paper quality.

He only went to participate in the excitement of grading papers in the palace examination, and didn't quite understand the process of the provincial examination.

After the two brothers argued for a while, Brother Wen stopped disturbing Wang Shouren to review his homework and paced back to his residence.

He said he had the talismans and seals he made up casually. Do you really think he is a stupid boy who doesn't understand anything?!

Fortunately, now I can only pick out a few and put them on the ground. It doesn't taste pleasant at all, and it's not particularly uncomfortable not being able to eat.

Brother Wen was a little disappointed when he heard this. He hummed twice and said: "What's so great, I can also hand in papers in the future!"

Brother Wen didn't know for a moment whether he should complain about the monk selling talismans or whether he should complain about the eminent monk consecrating the talismans and seals.

Brother Wen had long heard that people had to prepare their own paper for the imperial examination, but this was the first time he saw the real thing. He couldn't help but pick it up and look around. In fact, it was all neatly cut white paper, and there was nothing interesting about it!

Nationally speaking, "Book of Rites" is not a popular choice for the reason mentioned earlier: it and "Spring and Autumn" have too many words.

Their majestic capital temple actually sneaked in a swaggering monk who sold fake talismans and seals!

It’s really unreasonable, they themselves don’t dare to sell talismans to make money, but he, a fake foreign monk, dares to use their name to defraud the pilgrims into their own pockets!

Wang Shouren generously took out the grass scrolls and main scrolls he bought and showed them to Brother Wen.

The host turned blue after hearing this.

Wang Shouren said: "Yes, everyone has started to prepare papers these days." While chatting casually with Brother Wen, he wrote his name, year, place of origin, three generations and the subject he chose to take the exam at the beginning of the paper.

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Wang Shouren was tutored more by Wang Hua, and the book he selected for this book was the same as Wang Hua's, the Book of Rites.

Today he happened to go with his classmates to buy some papers, so he could show them to Brother Wen to take a look at.

Brother Wen was dumbfounded when he heard this. He didn't expect anyone to be so ridiculous. He asked again: "Then do you have a tall and fast talisman here?"

However, Wang Hua, a master of Yuyao Duozhi's "Book of Rites", also used it as his textbook to win the first prize. Wang Shouren naturally followed his father in choosing subjects.

Finally, he ran to ask the monk who was selling talismans and seals to pilgrims: "Aren't the talismans and seals painted by Taoists? How come you monks are selling them too?"

Brother Wen looked at his little arms and legs and could only eat other dishes in frustration.

Mainly I want to know how the provincial examination is taken.

He also knows that there are many things that children should not eat in large quantities. Isn’t this because he has been looking forward to it for months and is very greedy!

Wang Shouren said: "Shuntian Mansion is right next to the Imperial College. I can hand it over directly after I return to the Imperial College. Do you still want to follow me?"

Seeing that he was young, the monk lied: "You don't understand this. You must know that in everything, 'do as the Romans do in the country'. Even the Buddha who came from the West had to use our seal script to save all sentient beings. Let me tell you,

Our talisman is blessed by gods and has been illuminated in front of the Buddha. It is a double blessing and will definitely be effective!"

He hasn’t been to Shuntian Mansion yet!

At the beginning of August, the autumn atmosphere in the capital was already very strong. Most of the operas performed on the street were changed to "Zhuangyuan Opera", and various "Jidi shirts", "Jidi fans" and "Jidi pens" were also sold in the streets and alleys.

” and other auspicious objects.

As for the monk who deceived his grandmother into buying amulets without knowing the truth, Brother Wen thought that his eloquence was very good.

When he grows more peppers in the future, he can make fish head with chopped peppers and boiled fish. A plate full of red peppers will be so heroic!

Brother Wen finished his dinner and went to provide pre-examination care to his brother.

The monk smacked the talisman and thought it was a good talisman. It sounded quite unique. The talisman can only be sold every three years. Couldn't this "grow up quickly" be sold to pilgrims who have children?

Brother Wen sighed with emotion: "No wonder the business at the study shop has been very good recently. All I dare to do is the business of you exam candidates."

The monk took out the Zhang Fu from his pocket, opened his eyes and told lies to coax the child: "Of course there is, this is it. Do you want to buy one, little official?"
Chapter completed!