The pickles were eaten by the bedmates in just a few bites, and everyone couldn't help but be unsatisfied.

The little fat man Zhu Xiangwen nibbled three light cakes in a row, and said with envy on his face: "Yanchao, your family is so good to you!" ”

Lin Yanchao smiled, picked up the letter sent by Lin Qianqian, and read it from the beginning, not to mention that the beacon fire lasted for three months, even if he left home for two months, the family letter was worth ten thousand dollars!

Juanxiu's handwriting, with a slightly coquettish tone, and a little concern, hoping that he would study hard, Lin Yanchao seemed to see Lin Qianqian in front of him, nagging from one to five.

Damn, I miss my home a little, the uncle who is afraid of guilt, the third uncle who loves to play small abacus, the confident little cousin, and the grandfather who is a new official, must be very majestic.

Lin Yanchao pressed the family letter under the pillow and lay down.

After a while, Xu is light cake stimulated, Zhu Xiangwen somehow remembered home, and then cried loudly.

"Mother, I'm so miserable here, you know?"

"I'm going home! I want to go home! ”

Here again, everyone shook their heads, this little fat man is going to come here every once in a while, who doesn't feel a little homesick? Everyone was too lazy to persuade them, so they all lay down and went to sleep after the lights were turned off.

Seeing that the little fat man was still crying, Lin Biqing couldn't help yelling at him at first, but the little fat man didn't dare to cry anymore and wiped his tears on the bed.

Huang Biyou, who was on the side, couldn't help but comfort him and said: "If you have to suffer hardship, you will become a master!" ”

This is just a small episode.

The next morning, Zhu Xiangwen was laughing with everyone again.

There was a little rain and snow in the air, and the wind swept through the rain, and even if you were wrapped in a quilt on the bed, you could feel the cold chill. Everyone was reluctant to get up, but they had to get up, and their movements were a little slow.

Yu Qingzhou took an umbrella and shouted outside the house: "Yanchao, hurry up, let's go together!" ”

"Great!" Lin Yanchao hurriedly put on the winter clothes given by Lin Qianqian.

Yu Ziyou said sourly: "You two have been doing well recently." ”

Yu Qingzhou and Lin Yanchao both laughed twice and went out with umbrellas.

"Brother Yu, Brother Lin, wait for me, let's go!" Zhu Xiangwen also joined the two in a hurry.

Two days later, the second monthly class arrived, and this time Lin Yanchao memorized all the relevant analects, universities, and moderation in the "Four Books of Big Topics and Small Titles".

Well, there's a sense of accomplishment.

This time the monthly class is still five hours, two and a half hours.

The time has not changed, but the amount of questions has increased.

The art questions have been increased from three to five, and the time for five questions is very tight, and the first day of the township test is only seven questions, plus a poem with five words and eight rhymes. Of course, the intention of the academy is also to let the disciples practice how to compress their time, so as to adapt to the difficulties of the imperial examination in the future.

This amount is quite large, so the disciples of the outer house are all stunned when they read the topic, and they don't dare to think about it for too long, so they just pick up the pen and brew on the draft. Generally, the time of the exam is spent on solving the questions, and whoever can break it quickly and accurately at this time will be able to win.

Lin Yanchao saw that the first four articles were all ordinary big and small questions, and he had memorized them, and the last one happened to be the truncated question that Lin Liao had been talking about a few days ago.

There are countless combinations of these, there are too many, but this interception question is not too biased. does not appear, the last sentence is taken from the four books, and the next sentence is taken from the Five Classics without explanation, this kind of question is not inferior to 'the bright moonlight in front of the bed, and the villain is often relative'.

After getting the question, Lin Yanchao thought about how to answer. You can't copy all the questions, and you have to do one or two questions yourself, otherwise you won't be able to practice your hands. Well, pick the most confident one of the four questions and answer it yourself, as for the other three questions, just copy the sample essay.

Lin Yanchao was full of confidence, looked left and right, and the classmates on the left and right all bowed their heads in repentance, and some almost bit the pen head, looking bitter and hateful, among the people, only Ye Xianggao, Yu Ziyou and other disciples were the ones who worked hard to write books.

Haha, this kind of contrast, with a foiling exam, it seems that you are cool.

Lin Yanchao did not copy the book by memorization first, but chose the art essay that he was most sure of, and began to do the questions when he had just started the exam and his thinking was the clearest.

Even so, it took almost an hour to finish the article. Lin Yanchao wiped his sweat, thinking that he had been doing his best articles for so long, not to mention the others, if he really took the test, even if he could answer all of them, the exam time would not be enough.

In the following three questions, Lin Yanchao didn't think twice, picked up the pen, and Fan Wen naturally came to his mind, and he wrote it without adding points.

Sure enough, the speed of dictation was much faster than writing the questions himself, and the first question he answered by himself took an hour to write, and these three questions only took an hour to write.

Lin Yanchao looked left and right, and some of his classmates had just written the topics written on the manuscript to the answer sheet. Lin Yanchao couldn't help but think about writing this, where is the time.

Lin Yanchao shook his head, and finally began to write the truncation question, damn it, this kind of question can kill countless brain cells.

After the exam in the morning, when everyone had lunch, it was another life.

However, there were a little more people who complained, saying that there were too many questions in the exam this time, and many people missed one or two questions.

The little fat man Zhu Xiangwen wiped his tears there, and the people in the house were all on the side to persuade him.

"Don't be sad, everyone didn't do well in the exam, and the question was not completed." Yu Qingzhou persuaded.

"I'm miserable, I definitely won't be in the top ten this time, my father and mother must be disappointed in me." Zhu Xiangwen cried.

"Then next time, there's always a chance!" Huang Biyou persuaded.

"I'm stupid, and it's the same way I read, sometimes my brain is so confused that I can't read books." Zhu Xiangwen continued to cry.

"Then eat, too, I'm full." Lin Shibi saw that Zhu Xiangwen kept crying, and said impatiently.

"You eat, I don't."

Lin Yanchao said: "Brother Zhu, we know your mood, if you want to cry, keep crying, but you can't eat your favorite oyster omelette, and this vermicelli mixed with shredded tofu, boiled in brine, but it's chewy, and you can't eat it......"

Zhu Xiangwen raised his face, and the tears on his chubby face were not dry: "Brother Lin, then I'll eat for a while, and then cry later!" ”

"That's right, when you're full, you have the strength to cry!"

Zhu Xiangwen nodded and pulled the food box over. Everyone was relieved and gave Lin Yanchao a thumbs up.

Not long after lunch, the list was released, and it was crowded.

Lin Yanchao did not squeeze into the crowd, but sat in the study room to read the papers, and soon Yu Qingzhou ran in and said, "Brother Yanchao, you took the third exam this time!" ”

All the classmates looked at Lin Yanchao in disbelief.

"Third! Got it. Lin Yanchao continued to read.

"Why are you so calm, could it be that this time the topic was guessed by you again." Huang Biyou also came over and asked.

"Pretty much."

Lin Yanchao fell into a question again.

But this time, everyone was not in a hurry, and there were also people who compared the topics on Lin Yanchao's paper with the topics on the Wenfu.

This time, after the comparison of the five questions, everyone analyzed the results, Lin Yanchao had two questions that were copied comprehensively, one was 'heavily borrowed', one was written by himself, and the last question was intercepted, and there was no place to copy it.

Everyone was in an uproar, in other words, Lin Yanchao was blinded by two questions this time, one question was half blinded, one question was not covered, and another question was not blinded if he wanted to.

"Four questions are two and a half, what is this and luck?"

"It's such shit luck that he was blinded again."

Compared with the last time when they talked about it behind their backs, this time everyone was familiar with Lin Yanchao, so they directly surrounded and asked: "Yanchao, what is the trick to Meng's question?" ”

"Yanchao, you run to Lang all day long, are you peeking at the exam questions?"

Of course, the most people still said: "Brother Yanchao, tell me the trick of your question, wait!" ”

"Ask for advice!"

"Please advise!"

"Don't be stingy!"

Hearing this, Lin Yanchao patiently explained: "There is no trick, only endorsement, everyone, there is a diligent path in the book mountain, and there is no end to the hard work of learning the sea, everyone encourages each other!" ”

"Cut!"

The crowd booed.

Later, Saifu posted the ranking of the disciples of the outer house, and Lin Yanchao's results were still good in the ranking.

Ye Xianggao's two synodic classes, the monthly class is the first, and the first place in the outer house is beyond doubt, and Yu Ziyou is the same as Lin Yanchao, two monthly classes, the two of them each won the second and third, but in the results of the Shuowang class, Lin Yanchao is not as good as Yu Ziyou, so Yu Ziyou is temporarily ranked second, and Lin Yanchao is ranked third.

Therefore, all three of them have the opportunity to be promoted to the middle house after the quarterly class.

"Congratulations to Brother Lin, it's such good luck every time." As soon as the rankings were released, Yu Ziyou first congratulated Lin Yanchao.

Lin Yanchao pretended not to understand the ridicule in the other party's words, and said with a smile: "Where, I'm still far inferior to Brother Yu!" ”

Yu Ziyou said with a smile: "You have just entered the dormitory, it is quite difficult to get this result, as a classmate and a fellow sleeper, I am really happy for you." ”

"I still didn't do well in today's interception question, it may be the first time to contact it, I have no experience, and I will ask Brother Yu to give me more guidance in the future!" Lin Yanchao said modestly.

"Really? What does Brother Lin mean, if you have the experience and do a good job of intercepting the problem, then this time the second place in the outer house is you, not me? Yu Ziyou sneered.

Lin Yanchao spread his hands and said, "Brother Yu, I'm too worried." ”

Yu Ziyou chuckled and said, "Brother Lin, this time everyone enters the middle house, how about the dispute between the two of us as gentlemen?" ”