Although Lin Yanchao was wearing a shallow gown that had just been made for him, when he looked at the fabric, it was not very expensive. It is inevitable that Saifu will have some opinions about being well-dressed.

"You want to go to the academy?" Zhaifu looked Lin Yanchao up and down.

Lin Yanchao said: "Exactly." ”

The other party asked again: "Your surname is Lin, so you are a disciple of the Lianpu Lin family?" ”

"It's not."

"Not? Is there someone in your house who is an official in the court? ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Sort of." ”

Saifu said with a relieved look on his face: "It turned out that after the official eunuch, disrespectful, disrespectful, dare to ask what the official position is, not to take the liberty of inquiring, but I always have to record it, and report it to the mountain chief to know." ”

Lin Yanchao said empathetically: "Of course, my grandfather is the ambassador of the local river station. ”

Zhaifu's expression stiffened and said, "How many products is the ambassador of the Hebo Institute?" ”

"Miscellaneous duties, don't go into the stream."

Hearing this, Saifu couldn't help but smile and asked, "The only thing can only be that your family is rich?" But it doesn't look like it. ”

"Before my grandfather became the ambassador of the river, the family barely had enough food and clothing." Lin Yanchao replied truthfully.

Zhaifu nodded, and immediately took Lin Yanchao's letter of recommendation and looked at it carefully for the third time.

Lin Yanchao opened his mouth and said, "Dare to ask if I can still enter the academy to study?" ”

At that moment, Zhaifu said: "The ambassador of the Hebo Institute is nothing, and you are almost a child of a poor family, logically speaking, the academy will not accept a child of a poor family, but unless you are too good in your studies, or you have a recommendation written by an elder of the clan." ”

Lin Yanchao looked at the recommendation letter in the other party's hand and asked, "But is my recommendation okay?" ”

Zhaifu said: "I'm surprised, as a child of a poor family, you are actually qualified to let Lao Shangshu Xianggong personally write a letter of recommendation to you, this is really incomprehensible!" ”

Lao Shang Xianggong???

Before Lin Yanchao came, he carefully probed the details of the Lin clan in Lianpu. The Lianpu Lin clan has produced four scholars, in addition to two who have passed away, two are still alive.

One is Lin Tingji, the former Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, who is now at home, and the other is Lin Xian, the current Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry. Lin Xian is now in Nanjing, it is impossible for him to write a letter to recommend himself.

So it can only be Lin Tingji, who is recuperating at home. Lin Tingji successively served as the supervisor of the Nanjing Guozi Priest Wine, Taichangqing, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and finally the official to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites.

Lin Yanchao couldn't figure it out, but he could only admire Lin Chengyi because he was too powerful. He said that he asked the clan elders to enter Lianjiang Academy to study, but he didn't expect it to be asked Lin Tingji, and his thighs were inevitably too thick.

Just when Lin Yanchao was complacent, this Zhaifu spread the letter paper on the table and said: "But the old Shangshu is a prince, he just said in the letter that he would give you a chance to enter the academy for an interview, but he didn't say that he would admit you. ”

"What do you mean?"

Zhaifu laughed twice and said: "That is to say, although you missed the registration time, for the sake of Lao Shangshu's face, I will apply for you, but after three days, whether you can pass the recruitment exam or not depends on your own ability." Otherwise, outsiders still think that our Lianjiang Academy can be read by anyone. ”

In the end, I still have to take the exam, but it's okay, at least Lin Chengyi has at least given himself a chance to take the exam.

At that moment, Zhaifu took the pen and ink to Lin Yanchao and said: "Write down your name, place of origin, year of Geng, how old you are to be Mengmeng, how old you are to read the scriptures, what books you have read in Mengxue, and what scriptures you have cured, and in the other three days, take another article that you are most proud of, by the way, you must attach a question to the speaker, what you don't understand is a question, I will tell you later." After I finish writing, I'll take you to dinner, and then I'll find you a room in the village to stay in first. ”

Lin Yanchao asked while writing: "Dare to ask what will Lang test me in three days?" ”

"You care so much, we Lianjiang Academy accepts students, and we also have our own set of regulations. In short, if you are talented, you don't have to worry, if you are not talented, leave as soon as possible, and don't waste your efforts. ”

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but scold a few words.

After writing, Saifu read it and said, "Okay, I'll take you to dinner first." ”

The man led Lin Yanchao through the school hall to the cafeteria of the back bed, and asked a chef, "Is there anything left at noon?" ”

The chef said, "There are some dried oyster powders." ”

"Let's just do it first." With that, Saifu walked out the door.

Seeing that Lin Yanchao didn't say anything, the chef immediately scooped a large bowl of dried oyster powder from the bottom of the pot and gave it to Lin Yanchao, and then went out to get busy.

Although it was leftovers, and the noodles were dry, there was no soup base, but Lin Yanchao was already hungry, so he picked up the chopsticks and put them in his mouth, although it was a little cold when he ate it, it still tasted very good. The celery flavor inside is just right, and the oysters are fresh, but if there is a little old godmother, it will be happier.

A few shhhs, and half a bowl of noodles dried in.

"Eat slowly, the powder is dry and bad for your stomach!"

Didn't Zhaifu come back and kindly persuade him, Lin Yanchao smiled, slowed down and picked up celery to eat, and still asked with a little ointment: "Don't you all have peppers here?" ”

Pepper is also chili, and it should have been introduced to China at this time.

Lin Yanchao asked, Zhaifu, and Chef shook their heads together and said, "I've never heard of it." ”

Lin Yanchao finished eating a bowl, raised the bowl and said, "Another bowl." ”

The chef on the side also shook his head and said, "I've never seen a schoolboy like you. ”

Lin Yanchao laughed twice, and finally ate with a full stomach, and only stopped after eating and wiping it off.

Zhaifu, who had been waiting for a long time, looked at it from the side and said angrily: "Let's go!" ”

Three days later, Lin Yanchao came to Lianjiang Academy again.

It was drizzling, and last night the autumn rain hit and laid a lot of dead leaves on the ground.

There was a layer of moss hanging on the pool in front of the attic, and on the steps of the academy, several servants were cleaning, and Lin Yanchao climbed the stairs.

There is a quaint taste everywhere here, the academy was built in the Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Xi came to Fuzhou to give lectures in the Southern Song Dynasty, preaching in the academy, and creating Fujian studies.

After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Shijie and Lu Xiufu escorted the Song Emperor to land in Fuzhou, using it as a palace, and the academy witnessed the sunset of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty, the dynasty was established, and Lianjiang Academy followed the glory of the Lin family, with eight Jinshi and four Shangshu.

Zi said: "If you are respectful and rude, you will work, if you are cautious and rude, if you are brave and rude, you will be chaotic, and if you are straight and rude, you will be hanged." If a gentleman is devoted to his relatives, the people will prosper in benevolence; If the old is not left behind, the people will not steal. ”

But I saw that the small building that was empty three days ago was already full of students.

The sound of Lang reading aloud came, and through thousands of years, countless scholars had hung beams and pierced their heads here.

Lin Yanchao stopped outside, and couldn't help but have a little respect in his heart.

Walking to yesterday's ear room, the Zhaifu who received him that day saw Lin Yanchao there and said, "Wait for you for a while, come with me!" ”

"Yes."

Lin Yanchao immediately followed Zhaifu to bypass Lin Yanchao from the side of the small building, and said to the small building: "This is Wenchang Pavilion, where Zhu Zi gave lectures back then. ”

Then he pointed to a room and said, "This is the right room, where Zhu Zi lived back then." Lecture Lang is taking the exam inside, so you wait in the wing room for a while. ”

Saying that, Zhaifu walked into the wing, Lin Yanchao looked left and right, but saw that on the platform in front of Wenchang Pavilion, there was a stone mortar similar to a pen wash, and the front of the stone fence on the side was engraved with the four big characters of Wenguang Shooting Bucket.

Every scene and object here is full of the atmosphere of the academy and the long-term inheritance.

When no one heard of it, Wei compiled three uniques, read and forge ahead, when the country was in danger, he put pen to paper to report the country from Rong, and said that scholars mistook the country, and when the country was in trouble, such as Wen Tianxiang's generation of readers, how could they not run for the country and die in the community.

Since the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, it is the scholars and the Son of Heaven who share the world, and the country selects scholars by the imperial examination.

Holding an umbrella, it was raining lightly, and the sound of reading echoed in his ears, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but say: "The sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of family affairs, national affairs, and everything in the world cares!" ”

This sound provoked several students passing by to stop.

Lin Yanchao secretly lost his words, and actually stole the famous words of Gu Xiancheng, the leader of the Donglin Party.

Lin Yanchao immediately turned around, pretending that nothing had happened, and looked around.

Just then the door to the right compartment opened, and sobs came from inside, but I saw a boy about my own age, walking out.

On the side, a Confucian in his forties wearing a round-necked shirt said to a middle-aged man in a silk shirt: "Ling Lang's foundation is quite solid, but he still needs to polish it again, go back to study, and try again when spring begins next year." ”

The boy cried even more sadly, and the man in the silk shirt next to him said, "Thank you for your advice." ”

After speaking, the middle-aged man led the boy away, and at this time, the man on the side pointed to Lin Yanchao and said, "Mr. Lin, this is a student from Hongtang Township." ”

Lin Yanchao knew that this person was Lin Liao, the lecturer of the academy, who was born as a tribute eunuch, but he saw that he was wearing a jade-colored cloth cloth, wide sleeves and soap edges, and a soap strip on his head. This is a standard student shirt, and it is often worn by prisoners.

In this era, a talented person may have the level of a master of Chinese studies in later generations.

Lin Yanchao saluted Lin Liao and said, "Lin Yanchao has seen the speaker. ”

Speaking Lang Lin Liao, he nodded and said to Lin Yanchao: "Come in!" ”