Although I was tortured so hard last night that I almost fainted, but when I woke up, I fell in love with the person in front of me even more, and I felt reluctant to let go when I saw Lin Yi was leaving.
"Sir, will you come to see Peach again in the future?"
Lin Yi pinched her cheek.
"It is rare to see a beauty like Yang Yuhuan like you. I will definitely come to see you in the future." He said and walked away, with Pitao following closely to see her off.
But I met two people halfway.
It was Ruyan and his maid from last night.
When Ruyan saw Lin Yi, she thought of the voice last night and felt a little angry. It was this man who made her unable to rest well in the middle of the night.
But because of Lin Yi's characters, the more she reads them, the more she likes them. When she ran into Lin Yi here, she had to say hello.
"Ruyan has met Mr. Lin." After speaking, he bowed slightly.
"It's Miss Ruyan, what a coincidence. I wonder how the conversation with that young talent Shen Jing, Mr. Shen went last night?" Lin Yi said with a smile.
Ruyan's face looked a little dark.
"That Mr. Shen didn't promise last night."
Lin Yi was stunned.
"Escape from the bill?"
Ruyan had never heard of the word evading the bill, but she understood the meaning instantly, "Yes, Mr. Shen evaded the bill."
Lin Yi chuckled, "Why bother? It would be too embarrassing if the price is not fulfilled. How can he play in a brothel again in the future?"
Ruyan did not continue this topic, but talked about another thing: "Mr. Lin, your calligraphy is round, beautiful and full of character. It is really the only good calligraphy Ruyan has seen in his life. Ruyan also loves to write, I don't know. Can I ask Mr. Lin for advice?"
"Asking for advice, no problem, you go back first, I'll look at my classmates and then I'll find you." Lin Yi agreed.
"Then Ruyan is waiting for you to cook tea," the woman said.
Lin Yi was amused in his heart. Others were charging 200 guan for a cup of tea, but there was a fool who asked for 1,000 guan. He didn't have to spend any money, yet he still begged to go.
Lin Yi came to the main hall and found that his classmates were sitting in the hall drinking tea. When he saw Lin Yi, he quickly stood up and said, "Dongyang, we are all waiting for you."
Lin Yi smiled and called the steward to settle the accounts. The eight of them spent a total of 200 yuan last night, which in modern times is 200,000 yuan, which can be said to be a huge sum of money. Lin Yi took out a stack of handouts to pay the bill. Several classmates saw it. Swallowed.
They came to take the exam, and it was good to have twenty or thirty guan with them, which was enough for a month's expenses and travel expenses. Unexpectedly, last night, each of them spent a month's living expenses.
"It really costs Dongyang money." Someone said embarrassedly.
Lin Yi waved his hand, "I originally agreed that I would treat you. Okay, you go back to study first. I just met Miss Ruyan on the way, and Miss Ruyan invited me to have tea and chat."
Several classmates raised their thumbs together.
Arriving at the backyard again, Ruyan's maid was waiting at the door with her fragrance in her mouth. Seeing Lin Yi approaching, she quickly saluted and led Lin Yi into Ruyan's small courtyard.
The small courtyard is quiet and elegant, much better than the courtyard where Lin Yi lived last night. In the room, Ruyan, dressed in plain casual clothes, was cooking tea on the small stove.
Lin Yi looked at her outfit like this and felt that it looked better than her gorgeous outfit yesterday, mainly because it was comfortable.
Lin Yi sat across from him unceremoniously.
"The tea is ready, Mr. Lin, please taste it." He poured a cup for Lin Yi with a hand pot.
The tea of the Song Dynasty is very different from modern tea. The tea of the Song Dynasty is called tea soup, and the preparation is very complicated. The tea leaves are first ground into powder, and auxiliary materials are added, such as white pine nuts, walnut meat, various petals, spices, Medicinal materials, etc., go through more than a dozen processes, and finally brew into tea soup.
Because of the many combinations, tea soups with different flavors have been derived. Ruyan is a master of tea soup, and even has her own special tea soup that can only be drunk here.
Lin Yi took a sip and nodded.
Then put it down.
to be honest,
I'm not used to drinking, I don't like drinking.
Pan Jinlian had prepared this tea soup for him at home, but he didn't like drinking it. Later, he made some green tea and drank it.
The two chatted, and Ruyan asked: "Yesterday's poem, although the language is straightforward, I felt emotional when I read it. I don't know why it is like this. Can Mr. Lin help me solve my doubts?"
Lin Yi thought for a while,
"If I tell the story behind this poem, maybe you can understand it better." Lin Yi said.
"Master, please let me know." Ruyan said in a pleading tone.
This woman,
He is also a master at seducing men.
It's just that it's not as obvious as a peach, you can feel it with your hands, her seduction is more advanced, and it gradually enters your heart like a thread.
Lin Yi tells the story of "you and me".
certainly,
Now this story has been tampered with by Lin Yi.
To put it simply, there was a poet from the Southern Dynasties who married a smart lady. At first, the two were very affectionate. Later, when the poet saw someone else having concubines, he also had an idea and expressed his thoughts to his wife.
My wife doesn’t cry or make trouble, she only talks about husband. I only have you in my heart. This heart will never change. When we first got married, we were only fifteen or sixteen years old. How loving we were. We secretly played with mud together and made clay figurines. What do you think?
It was just the two of us. Later, the clay figurine broke, so we put the clay together again and kneaded it again. You said that now you are part of me and I am part of you.
He also told me that from now on, we will be covered with a quilt when we are alive and in the same coffin when we are dead.
After the lady finished speaking, the poet suddenly came to his senses and never mentioned the matter of finding a concubine again.
"It was after I heard this little story that I composed this poem, so when reading this poem, you must look at it from the perspective of the lady." Lin Yidao.
Ruyan listened to the story, her expression was a little dull, she had obviously been brought into the story, and a tear fell from the corner of her eye for a long time.
"After listening to Mr. Lin's story, I felt that this poem instantly became so beautiful. Thank you Mr. Lin for clarifying my doubts." Ruyan bent down slightly.
The two chatted for a while, and Ruyan asked Lin Yi if he could write one or two more words so that she could copy and learn from Lin Yi's handwriting.
Come to the desk.
The maid held the incense and spread the paper, holding it like a cigarette with her wrist to study the ink. Lin Yi picked up the pen and thought about it before starting to write.
At first Ruyan thought that Lin Yi would write one or two poems by his predecessors, but unexpectedly when he read the beginning, he realized that he had never seen them before.
My heart moved.
Could it be that it's a new word? I started chanting it unconsciously.
“If you don’t miss lovesickness in your life, you will only miss lovesickness, and it will harm lovesickness.
The body is like floating clouds, the thoughts are like flying catkins, and the breath is like gossamer threads.
A wisp of lingering fragrance is here, I hope the rich wanderer will do it.
When the syndrome comes, it is exactly when the lamp is half dim and the moon is half bright."
Ruyan can naturally understand the meaning of this poem. The girl is lovesick and can't extricate herself. Her emotions are ups and downs, and she can't love her, but she loves her most painfully at night.
Ruyan was temporarily crazy.
Such beautiful words,
It goes straight to the deepest part of people's hearts.
After finishing the poem, Lin Yi didn't stay long, said goodbye and left like smoke. He watched Lin Yi's back disappear for a long time without looking back.
In the following days,
Lin Yi stayed at the inn honestly, reading and preparing for the imperial examination. Unexpectedly, the two poems Lin Yi gave to Ruyan were adapted into music by the woman, and she sang them for several nights in a row.
Someone asked who wrote these poems, and Ruyan naturally told him, "These are poems by Master Lin Yilin of Qinghe."
Lin Yi's name spread all of a sudden in Enzhou City.
In the past, when people heard my songs, they thought they were too straightforward, but after Ruyan told the story tactfully, the lyrics immediately became more sophisticated. Instead, they felt that they were very artistic and should be written like this.
Although it is commonplace for people in this era to go to prostitutes and keep concubines, they still yearn for the most sincere love in their hearts.
Pure and beautiful.
It is everyone’s pursuit.
Someone saw the original manuscript written by Lin Yi at Ruyan's residence, and was immediately shocked by the exquisiteness of Lin Yi's calligraphy. This incident spread, attracting more people to Ruyan's place. In addition to chatting with the beautiful woman, they also wanted to take a look at Lin Yi's calligraphy.
Poems and words.
Lin Yi smiled softly when he heard the news and looked at it. The effect had begun to show, but he was not satisfied yet. That night, he came to a storyteller's house and tried to trick the storyteller and add money to make him behave.
Kneel down and swear an oath to the Lord.
the next day,
This storyteller began to tell the story of Lin Yi, a talented man, and the beautiful oiran from Baihua Pavilion in restaurants and teahouses, making it known to more common people, and his two poems became more widely circulated.
Do marketing.
Lin Yi is from a major.
Moreover, he does not have the so-called lofty character of a scholar, and he always looks down on him no matter what he does.
A few more days.
Finally it’s time for the state exam.
Lin Yi got up early and carried the test box to the examination room. Several of his classmates, Zhu Zhu, Yang Nandou and others, had already arrived. When Lin Yi appeared, they immediately waved hello.
Someone came out of the yamen and beat the gong and shouted, asking everyone to line up, and then they could enter after being verified and checking their belongings. Now in the Song Dynasty, the inspection was much simpler than in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, people really took off their clothes to watch.
, Nowadays, literati have a high status and cannot do anything that is disgraceful to politeness.
Finally came in.
First they worshiped Confucius collectively, and then met the examiner. The imperial court stipulated that the state examination should be presided over by the general judge. The general judge stood on the high platform and personally read out the examination rules, how to punish cheating and other regulations. After the reading, everyone was allowed to enter the examination number.
The exam lasted for three consecutive days.
The first session is about three major classics, one each for "The Analects" and "Mencius".
The second session is a poem, a poem each, and sometimes a test of lyrics.
The third scene is a piece on the history of Zizi and a piece on current affairs.
To put it bluntly, argumentative essays accounted for most of the scores, which was also the result after Wang Anshi reformed the imperial examination.
Every time a paper was handed out, Lin Yi carefully reviewed the questions and began to think carefully. He had a photographic memory and could quickly construct an article in his mind. If it was not good, he would immediately overthrow it and start over again. If he had any reverie, it would be in his mind.
Revise.
This method of answering questions is countless times faster than writing on draft paper and making slight corrections. Lin Yi answered the questions seriously. Although he did not dare to say that every question was brilliant, he was definitely above the standard.
He writes in standard Zhao style small regular script, with neat and beautiful fonts, steady brushwork, powerful yet beautiful, dignified yet agile, which makes people happy at first glance.
Lin Yi's writing is very stable, without any mistakes or omissions.
As for poetry, the main thing is to test the rhyme and solve the problem. For example, you are asked to write a seven-character and six-rhyme poem with "heart" as the rhyme.
"The holy Lord inherits the treasure and the water is deep, the universe and the universe are merged into Yao's heart, the yellow carriage is thicker and thicker, and the vegetation grows, and the day shines brightly from afar."
It's a very vulgar poem, but the rhyme is absolutely right.
Three days finally passed. Even if Lin Yi was in good health, he not only felt tired, not to mention those scholars who had no strength to restrain themselves. Some of them were even carried out.
Many people have servants and maids coming to pick them up.
Lin Yi was all alone.
He did not go back to the inn, but went directly to Baihua Pavilion. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Where is Peach, let him come and receive her."
When Mi Tao heard that Mr. Lin was coming, she hurriedly ran out. When she saw Lin Yi, she immediately smiled and said, "Young Master Lin, you are here. Have you just finished your exam?"
All the other women came out to see Lin Yi. Now Mr. Lin's reputation in Enzhou has spread. In addition, Mi Tao later described it to his sisters, and they knew that Mr. Lin was not only good at literature, but also in great health and extremely talented.
Let these girls be fascinated.
"Well, I just finished the exam. I haven't taken a shower for three days. I feel uncomfortable. Please boil some water for me to take a shower and go to the backyard." Lin Yi ordered.
"Okay, Mr. Lin, I'll have someone prepare it right away." Mi Tao responded quickly.
rich,
You can live comfortably wherever you go.
So what if there is no book and a maid?
The service in this brothel is more professional.
in the bathroom,
Pitao wiped it carefully and waited on her attentively. Lin Yi took a hot bath and changed into a loose robe. He lay down on the bed feeling very uncomfortable.
Ruyan's maid returned and told her girl that Mr. Lin was here.
"Where?"
Ruyan's originally lazy expression immediately became energetic.
Sister loves to be pretty.
Ruyan loves talent,
Lin Yi possesses all of them, and Ruyan naturally has a very good impression of Lin Yi. It can be said that he is the most attractive man she has seen in all her years in the industry.
One day in a dream,
I also dreamed about the scene where I met Lin Lang, and I felt very sweet when I woke up.
When the maid heard that Lin Yi was here, she was naturally happy.
"I was right next door. I asked Sister Mi Tao to wait on me. She said that she had just come out of the examination room and hadn't taken a shower in a few days. So she asked Sister Mi Tao to take a shower."
Ruyan paused for a moment after listening.
"Hanxiang, help me dress up." Ruyan sat in front of the dressing table.
Hanxiang hurried over to help.
But just as she was combing her hair into a bun and inserting the hairpin, she heard a rustling sound coming from the next door. When she heard it, she knew it was coming from peaches. Ruyan suddenly felt a little disgusted and threw the hairpin away.
in the box.
"Sister, aren't you going to dress up?"
"What else are you doing? Didn't you hear the sound? That bull-like person might have to work on it for how long."
Finish tossing the peaches.
Lin Yi felt comfortable from the inside out.
Tell the steward here, "Go and get the gifts from my inn, and the inn will be cancelled. I will stay in this small courtyard before I leave."
The manager was naturally happy. This was a wealthy and wealthy guest, and he must be well served. He immediately ordered people to do it, and soon he brought all Lin Yi's gifts.
As for the small courtyard, Lin Yi appointed Mi Tao to serve, and Mi Tao was extremely happy.
The next day,
Ruyan asked Hanxiang to invite Lin Yi. Lin Yi went to the appointment and said with a smile: "Others want to drink Miss Ruyan a cup of tea, but it costs 200 guan. I saved another 200 guan."
Ruyan looked at Lin Yi.
"Master Lin, if a woman is willing to devote herself to you wholeheartedly, are you willing to treat her wholeheartedly?"
Lin Yi didn't think anything.
"I don't want to."
This answer stunned Ruyan.
Because she felt that no man would answer like this, but the man in front of her said so, and he said it so simply and surely.
"Why don't you want to?" Ruyan was dissatisfied.
Lin Yi chuckled, "I am a romantic person. Now I have several maids at home, and I have many good friends. I will marry a wife in the future, and I will be attracted to beautiful women. How can I be single-minded? Since I can't do it,
I never promise."
"But your poem?"
"Poems are poems, and people are people. You can't tell the character from the poems," Lin Yidao said.
Since this meeting ended,
Ruyan never invited Lin Yi again.
Lin Yi was too lazy to play any emotional games with women. He thought peach was very good and he could just use it if he liked it without having to worry too much about it.
Three days later.
It’s time to release the results.
get up in the morning,
Mi Tao helped Lin Yi wash and dress, and kept saying, "Young master will definitely go to high school this time, I have a hunch."
"Haha, if you win, I will give you a big red envelope when I come back." Lin Yi said with a smile.
After breakfast, Lin Yi went out.
side yard,
Ruyan was also looking forward to it, and after thinking for a while, she called a servant: "Go outside the examination hall and see how many people are on the list this time and who they are. Copy the list back."
The servant hurried away.
Lin Yi came outside the examination hall. A lot of people had gathered here. Several of his classmates were also here. When they saw Lin Yi, they immediately greeted him.
A few people chatted about how the exam questions went.
Finally, the entrance to the examination room opened, and the guards began to post the list. People crowded forward, wanting to see it first.
When the list opens,
Someone in the crowd suddenly cheered.
"I got it, I got it, I'm on the list."
But more people are frustrated.
"Hey, since I don't have my name, we can only fight again in three years."
Lin Yi and several classmates also squeezed in, and suddenly Li Ying called out, "I see Brother Dongyang, Brother Dongyang, you are third, third!"
Several classmates congratulated him one after another.
But the next few people were frustrated because their names were not on the list.
This is normal,
cream of the crop,
There are less than 2,000 candidates in Enzhou.
There are only sixteen people in total on the list, and their qualifications are mediocre. How could they get their turn?
For the third place, Lin Yi had already mentally prepared himself. In this exam, he was pursuing a stable character, and there was nothing overly talented or brilliant about him. However, in this state, it was easiest for him to get on the list.
"My classmates, don't be sad. If you can't fight this time, we can fight next time. Why don't I invite a few of you to enter Baihua Pavilion again?" Lin Yi suggested.
Several people suddenly felt much better.
"The matter is a foregone conclusion. It is useless to be sad. It is better to cheer up." Someone said.
"Yes, if you drink two more drinks tonight, you'll be fine."
Return to Baihua Pavilion.
A large group of girls rushed out and congratulated Lin Yi Senior High School, "Master Lin, Lin Juren, you are so happy that you have to give out red envelopes to celebrate."
Lin Yi smiled.
"Red envelopes, small things."
After saying that, he went back to the house, took out a bag of silver from the house, handed it to Mi Tao and said: "Each girl will receive a small ingot, and the other maids and servants will receive a hundred coins."
There are only one or two small ingots.
Everyone cheered immediately.
As for the peach, Lin Yi promised to give her a big red envelope and gave her a large ingot worth ten taels of silver. The peach happily accepted it.
That night,
Lin Yi and several classmates gathered again at Baihua Building. After a lot of trouble that night, they forgot about their failure in the imperial examination the next day.
The next day they discussed going home and asked Lin Yi if he would come back. Lin Yi said that he would stay in Enzhou for a few more days. Li Ying said: "Now that Brother Dongyang has passed the exam, he will go to the provincial capital to take the provincial exam next spring. Today
The candidates who are on the list for the first time always get together so that they can take care of each other."
This is indeed the truth.
At noon that day, Lin Yi received an invitation. This time, Xie Yuanqiu Gu, a candidate for the state examination, organized a party. He was a natural friend because he was a candidate in the same class, so Lin Yi happily accepted the invitation.
Ford House.
The best restaurant in Enzhou City.
A table was opened in the private room on the third floor.
Sixteen undergraduate candidates gathered together. Those who passed the state examination in the Song Dynasty were called candidates, and the first place was named Jieyuan. However, this candidate was not a lifelong candidate. It was just a qualification to participate in the provincial examination next year.
If you pass the provincial examination again, you will be qualified to participate in the imperial examination. If you fail the examination, your qualification as a candidate will be lost and you will need to re-examine your status as a candidate after three years.
From here we can see the difficulty of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty.
And if you pass the provincial examination and take the palace examination, it is basically certain that you can become an official, because the current palace examination does not remove people.
At that time, a candidate named Zhang Yuan entered the palace examination, but was rejected. Zhang Yuan ran away to Xixia with resentment, and became an enemy of the Song Dynasty from then on, which caused the Song Dynasty to suffer a lot. From then on, the rules of the palace examination were changed to only those who entered the palace examination.
As for the regulations on conferring officials.
To avoid brain drain.
After everyone got to know each other, Xie Yuanqiu Gu smiled and said to Lin Yi: "Brother Lin has become very famous in Enzhou recently. Everyone knows that those two poems are quite talented."
Lin Yi waved his hand.
"It's a matter of love and love, but it's a joke."
What everyone talked about the most after that was naturally the provincial examination next year, studying who the examiners were, what their preferences were, recent current affairs and politics, what questions the court would ask, etc. It was actually no different from modern examinations.
After the banquet, everyone made an appointment to meet again in Jeju, the provincial capital in the spring.
Lin Yi walked to Baihua Pavilion, thinking that he would return to Qinghe in the next two days, but when he was walking along a road, he heard the sound of shouting and drinking coming from a large door. It was obvious that a group of people were exercising.
Lin Yi looked up at the plaque.
"Enzhou Royal Boxing Gym".
Song Dynasty,
In addition to the prosperity of literature, martial arts was also very popular among the people.
After all, they have been fighting for years and are surrounded by powerful enemies. With the situation in danger, the people are eager to increase their force to save their lives.
Therefore, many martial arts schools emerged among the people.
There are almost all major cities such as Kakusha, Jinbiao Society, Eirosha, martial arts associations, etc. The so-called Kakusha is sumo wrestling, Jinbiao Society is for practicing crossbow shooting, Yinglue Society teaches guns and sticks, and the most famous martial arts association is
Definitely Zhujiazhuang.
I heard that there is a Jingcheng Imperial Boxing Gym in the capital, which is a government-run organization. What is going on with the Enzhou Imperial Boxing Gym?
Could it be a local branch of the Beijing Imperial Boxing Gym?
Lin Yi has been practicing boxing and kicking skills, but a large part of it is what he learned from books and the memory of the original person. However, the original Lin Yi hired a boxing master who could only be regarded as a third-rate boxer. After all, Qinghe
It's just a local county, so it's impossible to have very good masters.
He has always wanted to learn martial arts from an expert.
In order to learn martial arts, he competed with those mountain bandits and water bandits, but those guys' martial arts skills were mediocre. He had the blessing of physical enhancement, and his strength, speed, endurance, and reaction were far beyond ordinary people. Those guys were no match for him.
So you can't learn anything from them at all.
Now seeing this 'Enzhou Royal Boxing Gym', Lin Yi was very happy. He wondered if there were any good masters here. If there were good boxers, he would be happy to spend a sum of money to learn some real kung fu.