Chapter 220: Marry a child and go to school, return empty-handed
Should we write the character 耑?
The poem contains more than 360 words. When Zhang Yue wrote it in Taixue, he usually kept it within 400 words.
Copying more than 300 words was just a cup of tea for Zhang Yue.
The number of words is not long, but...
In the blink of an eye, one candle was almost extinguished. Zhang Yue calmed down and lit a second candle, and finished the test before midnight tomorrow.
But Zhang Yue was still thinking.
That’s all, quantum mechanics is about being indecisive when faced with problems... No, it’s just about falling asleep without being able to make decisions when faced with problems.
Zhang Yue once again offered up this all-powerful magic weapon.
Immediately, Zhang Yue put the paper that still lacked the "Greatest Goodness Like Water" into the roll bag and put it under his pillow, then blew out the candle and lay down on the bed.
It rained heavily that night, and the wind lanterns in the examination room were swayed left and right by the autumn rain, and the swaying lights swayed on the oilcloth.
It was a bit cool on the autumn rainy night, so Zhang Yue tightened the thin sheet around his body.
Zhang Yue suddenly realized that he, who used to fall asleep instantly with his head on the pillow, actually suffered from insomnia...
Zhang Yue tossed and turned in bed. Although he tried his best, he just couldn't fall asleep.
All kinds of worries come to mind, and I can't suppress them no matter how hard I try.
Elder brother, sister-in-law, Zhang Dun, Zhang Qiu, Zhao Yasi, Peng Jingyi, Guo Xuexue, Shi Niang, Guo Lin, Zhang Youzhi, Zhang Wangzhi, He Qi, Huang Haoyi, Cai Que, Xiang Qi, Liu Zuo.
These people are now in different places in the south and north, but they all turn around like a revolving lantern before Zhang Yue's eyes.
Zhang Yue was irritated and sat up in a rage. It was her mother's miracle that she actually had insomnia one day.
Did you encounter a mysterious force? Did you lose control at a critical moment?
Zhang Yue put on his clothes and opened the oilcloth covering the window. The light shone into the examination room. Looking further into the distance, it was difficult to distinguish the iron tower. The black night, like ink rain, soaked between the sky and the earth.
Zhang Yue looked at the night rain and recalled old friends, and for some reason he remembered a poem by Huang Tingjian.
“Peach plums and spring breeze, a glass of wine, and a rainy night in the rivers and lakes for ten years.”
While Zhang Yue was deep in thought, he suddenly heard a compliment from the side: "Good sentence, a glass of wine in the spring breeze, a lamp in the rainy night in the rivers and lakes for ten years."
Zhang Yuedou couldn't help but be startled when he heard this. He himself didn't want to copy the poem, but people were eavesdropping everywhere. What's the point of squatting in a corner?
The man squatting in the corner continued: "My brother's voice sounds like he is young, how could he say such a deeply sentimental poem?"
This is not the first person to buy noodles with money yesterday. Zhang Yue said: "It's just something I feel in my heart, not deliberately."
The other party smiled and said: "It's not that I made a mistake, it's just that this poem touched on my feeling of 'getting married as a child and returning home empty-handed'. I remember that many of my old friends studied together from all over the world, but now I am the only one who still doesn't know what is good and what is good.
Seeking this fame, it is really lonely and embarrassing to think of being alone."
When you marry a child and go to school, you return home empty-handed.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel melancholy.
While talking, an official held up a lamp and said, "Who is talking here? No whispering is allowed in the examination room."
At this moment, Zhang Yue withdrew his thoughts and lit the candle again.
The sound of rain stirred up his thoughts bit by bit. Zhang Yue took out the roll of paper from the roll bag and spread it on the table. After a while, he calmed down and picked up the pen to write down the poem.
All gifts given by fate have already been marked with a secret price.
In other words, why should you cheat if you can pass the exam?
Of course, cheating is more likely, but you cannot bear another price just to avoid taking this risk.
At this time, there was a sudden movement in the examination room not far away, and a bystander said: "It's not good, it's not good, this person is ill."
The man on the side opened the door with a curse, and several people entered the examination room together with the medical officer.
The rain had subsided, and I don’t know how long it had passed before a door panel served as a stretcher and was carried out of the examination room.
The man carrying the stretcher at the back cursed: "What are you doing here at such an old age? Even if you become a Jinshi and become an official, how many days will you have to live?"
The gentleman carrying the stretcher in front said: "He is also a scholar after all."
“What are you afraid of? Bullying the old but not the young.”
The white-haired examinee on the stretcher shook his head, tears dropped from the corners of his eyes, and then wiped away the tears with his hands like dead wood.
When Zhang Yue saw the old examinee, he once again thought of the words, "If you marry a child and go to school, you will return empty-handed."
However, Zhang Yue was not distracted and soon finished writing a poem of several hundred words based on the draft he had already made.
After finishing writing, Zhang Yue felt extraordinarily refreshed, and the clear thoughts came straight to his mind. Finally, Zhang Yue dried the ink stains, put the paper into the paper bag and put it under the pillow, put on his clothes and went to sleep.
I fell asleep immediately.
In his sleep, Zhang Yue saw many stories.
At dawn, I heard a knock on the door outside the examination room: "Wake up, wake up, the examination room will be cleared in another hour."
Zhang Yue opened his eyes, tidied up the examination room, neatly arranged the incense burner sheets, and sat down at the table to wait.
Half an hour later, the sound of unlocking the door from the examination room was heard. An examiner walked into the examination room. When the examiner saw Zhang Yue, he bowed his hands and Zhang Yue also bowed deeply.
The examiner said to Zhang Yue: "Name?"
Zhang Yue said: "The son of the state has taken custody of Zhengzhai Zhang Yue!"
The examiner nodded and said, "I have heard about you. Where is the paper?"
Zhang Yue immediately offered it with both hands.
The examiner glanced at Zhang Yue, and then looked at Zhang Yue, the serious look on his face turned into appreciation.
“I am Li Dalin, please clean up and come out!”
After saying this, the examiner took the papers and went out.
Zhang Yue carried the test box on his back and walked out of the examination room. When he reached the gate, Zhang Yue paused for a moment, turned around and bowed to the examination room where he had stayed for three days, and then left calmly.
The rain outside the examination room has stopped long ago, and the ground is a little wet. Candidates who have completed the examination in each room are packing up and preparing to leave.
Zhang Yue saw Huang Lu walking out of the examination room and asked, "How?"
Huang Ludao: "It's a foregone conclusion, why bother talking about it anymore, we'll just look at the rankings when the time comes."
Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Okay, everything will depend on fate."
The two of them laughed together, and then walked out of the examination room together, walking very briskly. At this moment, the rain had passed and the sky had cleared up. The iron tower was on the side, and the sun broke through the gaps in the clouds, casting golden light on the two of them.
The two of them walked out of the examination room and waited for a while. They saw He Qi and Wang Junmin walking out of the examination room with cheerful faces. When Zhang Yue looked at them, he saw that He Qi also immediately saw him.
Zhang Yue and He Qi were each facing each other from a distance.
“Anzhong, what do you think of He Qi?”
Huang Lu said: "It seems straight but it is straight, it seems straight but it is straight. Even if you try to find some tricks to pass the interpretation test, what will happen when you get to the provincial test?"
Huang Lu's meaning must be cheated and pass the level, and there is no play in the provincial test.
Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Those who know me don't take shortcuts."
“Ran Ye.”
After a while, Sun Guo also stepped out, with a gloomy look on his face.
Zhang Yue and Huang Lu saw that Sun Guo didn't say a word, so it was hard to ask again.
Half a day later, Guo Lin also walked out. His expression did not change much. He was almost the same before entering the examination room and after leaving the examination room.
After Guo Lin greeted Zhang Yue and others, he left together with his classmates in Nanjian.
After returning to Taixue, the officials’ children who participated in the other examinations also returned to Taixue.
All twenty-two classmates in Yangzhengzhai are here.
Zhang Yue looked at this scene and was very emotional. In the past, after the provincial examination results were released, these people had different joys and sorrows. Their fate was either up or down, and their future situation would never be the same again.
Just like Liu Zuo and Xiangqi, a pair of best friends turned against each other. But now the list has not been posted, no one is higher or lower, we are all still classmates.
After Zhang Yue suggested going to a wine shop for a drink, most of his classmates responded. Sun Guo and others seemed to be in no mood, but did not refuse.
After arriving at the wine shop, Zhang Yue gathered with his classmates, but saw that everyone's faces were still solemn.
After a few glasses of wine, everyone relaxed a lot.
The scene of arriving at Taixue two and a half years ago is still vivid in my mind.
Zhang Yue raised his glass and said to all his classmates: "Some of my friendships with you are long and some are short. We are all classmates after all. After today's drink, some of you may leave Taixue and never see each other again in this life."
“But I have something to say to you, and it was also given to me by others. In life, you should go with the circumstances, cherish them, and not cling to them.”
Hearing Zhang Yue's words, all the students put down their wine cups and thought about Zhang Yue's words.
Fan Zuyu, who had always been silent, stood up and said: "The chief said well, what is meant by fate, we are classmates here. It is a fate that we get along. If we get along, we will get along. If we don't get along, it will be the same as old age and death. Because we are classmates in the same house,
There is no need to deliberately make friends.”
Han Zhongyan said: "Then let me tell you, we cherish our fate. We are all commoner friends, classmates, and have never experienced any interference from the officialdom. No matter what happens in the future, this love and meaning will remain in our hearts forever. Since we are close friends, we should cherish it.
There is no need to cut off ties at every turn. Even if they are casual acquaintances, when they meet in the mountains and rivers, it is a pity that they can sit down and drink with each other over the matter of youth."
“In the end, we just don’t cling to each other,” Huang Lu said with a smile. “…From now on, everyone’s status will be very different. Some people are ranked third grade, and some are just ordinary people. It’s fine if we don’t disturb each other when we meet. This is not clinging to each other.”
Everyone laughed after hearing what Huang Lu said.
Zhang Yue also smiled, raised his glass and said: "Things of fate come and go according to fate. We, classmates, are waiting for you here. It's fate. It's fate. Let's go with it. It's just right. Every point is more."
No, not even a single moment of leave."
"Therefore, friendships that do not come by chance are inevitably mixed with the desire for gain. They are both gathered and dispersed by the desire for gain. As for the friendship that comes by chance, it is really impossible and cannot be retained. Even if we are here according to fate, if we do not hesitate
Fate, no matter how good the fate is, will become distant and fade away in the future."
All the students raised their glasses and drank together.
Zhang Yue felt deep in his heart that the best time for friendship is the reunion after graduation, but it is different when the classmates reunite a few years later.
There is a feeling of superiority among classmates, and when they talk about a billion-dollar small project, something feels wrong.
The beauty of youth is only sealed in memory. When it returns to our eyes, reality will crush it.
Zhang Yue felt a little sad, and he remembered the sentence "When a child enters school, he returns home empty-handed."
When they first entered Taixue, everyone had the ambition to succeed in their studies. Why did they end up empty-handed after many years of wasting their time? If they had known this, why would they have spent their best years here?
The classmates who we studied with from private school and county school are now scattered. Are you like yourself, full of melancholy when facing an empty wine glass, or have you ever been bent down by the heavy reality?
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue and everyone drank heavily.
Ps: Face covering, that’s all. Just let it happen!