Chapter 74 That spring, I cut a pound of peach blossoms (3)
Chapter 74: That spring, I cut a pound of peach blossoms (3)
Because he had lived a very hard life since he was a child, Ning Que was very good at controlling his emotions, or in other words, he was good at pitifully suppressing his inner emotions, turning the dark night into sunshine on his face, rarely hurting the distant worldly scenes that flashed across his face.
, However, when he entered the academy and entered the examination room today, looking at Taoxing outside the window, and listening to words such as comprehensive mathematics that rang around him, he couldn't help but think about the hard life of studying both arts and sciences during the cold and summer.
However, due to his hard life, this question on the ink scroll was not difficult for him. After the answer quickly flashed in his mind, he couldn't help but sigh in a low voice: "This question is too damn stupid.
Bar?"
It's really quite two, because the answer is two.
Ning Que dipped his hand in ink and pen, and wrote his answer on the paper very carefully: "Master drank two pots of wine and chopped off all the peach blossoms in the mountain."
In the pavilion by the roadside in the distance, the Taoist looked at the black and white pieces on the chess board. He stretched his right hand in the air and kept plucking it, as if he was playing the piano or playing with the spring breeze. Suddenly, his index finger paused slightly, and followed by
With this action, a matte black stone jumped out of the chess urn next to the chessboard, and fell into the chessboard with a snap, right at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal lines.
As the leader of the South Gate of Haotian Dao and the national advisor of the Tang Empire, it is not surprising that Li Qingshan performed such a skill easily and gracefully. What is strange is that his eyebrows were frowning very sharply at this time, as if he was a little afraid of the monk opposite him.
The monk named himself Huang Yang and is now stationed at Wanyan Pagoda Temple in the southern city of Chang'an. According to rumors, this monk once traveled to an unknown place in the wilderness and was able to practice supreme Buddhism. A few years ago, he met the emperor of the Tang Dynasty by chance and became a couple.
From then on, the brothers inside and outside the threshold became known as the imperial disciples of the Tang Dynasty. However, this monk practiced asceticism and spent his days sitting in the Wanyan Pagoda, chanting sutras and translations, and rarely interacted with people outside the temple.
Monk Huang Yang looked at the chess pieces on the chess board quietly. He blinked his eyelashes slowly. A white chess piece slowly rose from the chess urn, slowly came to the chess board, and then slowly fell down without making any sound.
It was extremely soft. The white piece fell and sealed a certain air hole. I didn't see him move. I just moved his eyes lightly and a captured black piece moved outside the chessboard. There were seven or eight pieces there.
Naturally, no one dared to disturb the Imperial Master of the Tang Dynasty while he was playing chess with his younger brother. The monks were far away from the path and had no chance to see the two masters playing chess. Otherwise, if they were allowed to see such a wonderful scene,
You will be greatly admired.
Li Qingshan looked at the black and white pieces on the chessboard, shook his head, and said: "When your Majesty is in the palace, one person will be left behind. When your Majesty leaves the palace, there will be two waiting for you. When did this become a rule? In this world,
Who else dares to do anything unexpected to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty? What's more, His Majesty is going to the academy today, how could anyone dare to cause trouble in the academy?"
Huang Yang smiled slightly, looked at him and said, "I don't know."
Li Qingshan said sadly: "You must have heard about Chao Xiaoshu, right? It's a pity. If he could advance to the realm of knowing fate more than ten years ago, why would we two guys have to follow His Majesty as bodyguards every day?"
Huang Yang shook his head and replied: "Without these years of experience in the world, and the chance to realize this while watching the lake in the palace, who would dare to say that he would be able to know his destiny, even if he is extremely talented?"
Li Qingshan shook his head and said: "You should have been chopping firewood and burning fires in that temple in those years, so I don't know the specific situation. Chao Xiaoshu had a chance to be admitted to the academy. With his talent, he would definitely be able to enter the second floor. If he could enter
On the second floor, I am lucky enough to have the master’s personal enlightenment. How difficult is it to know my destiny?”
Huang Yang was silent for a long time and responded softly: "It would be a blessing indeed if you can enter the academy and get enlightenment from the Master."
Li Qingshan looked at his clean face and suddenly laughed at himself and said: "Both the government and the public call you and me Qingshan Boxyang, but we don't know each other. How could we know that we and the academy really can't meet each other."
The two monks and Taoists in the pavilion are the guardians of the orthodox mountain gate of the Buddhist sect and the leaders of the south gate of Haotian Dao. No matter what they think in their hearts, their status is destined that they will not step into the academy. It is just like the emperor of the Tang Dynasty leading his ministers to attend the opening of the academy today.
During the ceremony, the pair of most respected outsiders in the Tang Empire could only sit quietly and play chess in the distance.
"When will Master leave?"
"I will leave Chang'an after school starts."
"Thank you for your hard work, Master."
Monk Huang Yang looked at the Imperial Master Li Qingshan quietly and said, "I still want to know how tall Master is."
After Li Qingshan was silent for a long time, he said: "My master once said that Master is as tall as several floors."
Monk Huang Yang was startled for a moment, and a sincere smile slowly appeared on his face. Then his lips slightly opened and he sighed. The sigh was like a spring breeze blowing through the willows. It was unclear what the meaning was: "The second floor is already very high.
Master is actually as high as several floors... That's really high."
In the literary test in the morning, mathematics and etiquette were followed immediately by calligraphy and etiquette. Ning Que, who had been feeling complacent and proud before, was immediately dumbfounded - Sangsang's worries were very reasonable. He was busy eating sour food all day long.
Spicy noodles and omelette noodles, chatting with girls at Hongxiu Recruitment, going to Chunfeng Pavilion to kill everyone in the rain, worrying about how many taels of silver he earned today and how many legs he will be able to hold tomorrow, he really doesn’t have time to put those sets into the hospital for a trial
It's useless to memorize the ink scroll of the real test questions. It's useless for a guy who has lived in the mountains and grasslands for many years. How can he know those things? If he is asked to write the Taishang induction chapter silently, there will be no problem at all, but there is no need to think about anything else.
think.
Ning Que didn't intend to be the hero of the blank paper. That would be too pretentious, just like the imperial disciples in the pavilion outside the academy, so he honestly changed the pen and wrote the two test papers from cover to cover very seriously.
As for whether the content of the answer had anything to do with the question, that was not within his scope of consideration. He only hoped that the beautiful and neat paper would allow the academy teachers to give some sympathetic points.
In the process of answering the questions, he also thought carefully, because he knew that his only advantage in these two subjects was that his handwriting was much better than others, so starting from the mathematics subject, he put all his attention on it.
On top of the pen and ink, and...he deliberately used the hairpin small regular script that he wrote least.
The use of hairpin flowers in small regular script is not to hide anything, well, it is indeed to hide his gender. He wants the teacher to think that the owner of this examination paper is a beautiful idiot and an official lady who is good at reading, so he can give some unspeakable scores.
The bell rang again and the literary test was over. Ning Que walked out of the examination room with some disappointment. He spread his hands in front of Sangsang who was full of expectancy, showed an innocent expression, and ate hastily with Chu Youxian who was looking for him specially.
Have lunch prepared by the academy, and then start preparing for the martial arts test in the afternoon.
Ning Que was extremely confident about the afternoon exam for the three music subjects, so facing the eager eyes of the academy teachers and the examiners from the Ministry of Etiquette, and facing the room full of musical instruments, he did not hesitate to choose... give up.
I'm not a violinist in the Red Sleeve School. How could I know how to play the flute? He was annoyed and thinking about these damn words. He followed the flow of candidates to the large lawn outside the academy. I don't know when someone brought someone to the lawn.
Dozens of military horses and the captain in charge from the military headquarters stood aside, looking indifferently at the students who were eager to try or looked pale.
Sheke means archery, while Yuke is free to choose whether to ride a horse or drive a car. Of course, Ning Que chooses to ride a horse. In these years on the Weicheng grassland, he has been dealing with horses and arrows, and I believe he will be no worse than anyone else.
Beside the lawn in the distance, Sangsang held up a big black umbrella and clenched her little fists to encourage him.
He smiled, cheered up and walked towards the venue.
When the candidates for the admission examination were taking the last three subjects of the martial arts test, in a spacious and clear room in the academy, the teachers were gathered together to grade the papers of the three subjects in the morning. Most of the teachers were already gray-haired and did not know what they had experienced.
How many times have I been in this situation, naturally I am not nervous, holding a teapot and a cigarette in my mouth, leisurely wandering around, looking up from time to time to grade, and chatting with my peers. A teacher commented on the difficulty of today's test paper and said:
"This year's admission test was given by my senior brother. Since he has a gentle temper, it won't be too difficult. If it was still the second senior brother who asked the question like last time, who knows whether there will be a large number of people crying in the examination room today?"
"The Book of Etiquette is just a matter of course. This question of Mathematics is just for free points. Everyone knows that the Master is an alcoholic. He can turn half of a pot into a drop of wine. Do you think the Master is going to turn that drop of wine with his sword?"
Cut it into half a drop? So many candidates got the wrong answer to such a simple math question. I really don’t know how their brains work!"
A teacher asked out of curiosity: "It's not easy to say it's simple, but what I'm more concerned about is, how many bottles of wine did Master drink when he first entered Xiling Mountain when he traveled to China? How many kilograms of peach blossoms were chopped off?"
Someone laughed and said: "Master drank seven large pots of wine that spring and plucked all the peach blossoms on the Xiling Mountain."
"But there is a legend that it was the Master who was drinking, but there was someone else who pulled out all the peach blossoms in Xiling. It was the young master's uncle who traveled with the master. I also think that the master's elegant nature is more suitable for the violent temper of the young master's uncle.
"
When the words "little master uncle" were mentioned, the teachers were silent for a moment and then returned to normal. Someone said with a smile: "But those peach trees on the lawn of our academy were planted by Master himself. The old Taoist priests in Xiling Haotian Hall every
When I came here for the first time, my face was even worse than my dead mother. I really felt that the master was very bad!"
The academy teachers in the marking room burst out laughing, mocking the most sacred Xiling Temple in the world. For them, it seemed like a daily routine entertainment activity, and the laughter seemed very arrogant.
I must say that the academy in the south of Chang'an City is really a wonderful place.
The teachers gradually stopped laughing and began to concentrate on marking the papers. One teacher looked at the ink scroll in his hand and read aloud: "Master drank two pots of wine and chopped off all the peach blossoms... The answer is correct. I noticed it before.
This candidate named Ning Que has the fastest answer and can be ranked in the first class."
"There is no objection to Class A, but I have a question. Why did the candidate answer "Two jugs of wine" instead of "Two jugs of wine?"
"Or is this his personal habit? Or is there something special about this word? It's really puzzling."