. Hearing this, Yu Ziyou's face was a little pale, and the internal students in the inner house had three yuan of silver per month, which was a lot of money for the children of the poor family, but it was not in his eyes.

The family spent so much money to send him to Lianjiang Academy to study, and he had a good score to give an explanation to his family, but even if he failed in the county test, he couldn't make up for it in the outer house for three years, which really annoyed him.

The aura of Lin Yanchao's great master and disciples in the outer house couldn't help but be discussed, Lin Yanchao was still the same every day, and after memorizing the lecture notes, he handed over the lecture notes of the previous days to Lin Liao in the evening.

Before school on the second day, Lin Liao was about to return the lecture notes to himself, and said that he would show them to him every five days. Lin Yanchao took back the handouts and read them, and the handouts were corrected by Lin Liao with a red pen from beginning to end, not only correcting the mistakes and omissions, but also correcting the typos and inappropriate grammar for Lin Yanchao.

After feeling this meticulousness in Lin Liao's study, Lin Yanchao also felt that if he didn't work hard, it would be difficult to repay Lin Liao for cultivating him.

In this way, Lin Liao talked about the seven chapters of Mencius for a full 14 days, and Lin Yanchao also memorized the lecture notes for the 14th, and memorized the entire book of Mencius and Mencius's collection of notes.

After the lecture on the 14th, half a month has passed, that is, the synodic class of the first half month.

Although the results of the Shuowang class are related to the ranking of the three rounds, although they are only promoted once every three months, for the disciples, it is a matter of importance.

On the evening of the last day before the exam, it was almost the third watch, and the outer room was still full.

Everyone is reading with Mencius, and Lin Yanchao is also reading the handouts of the past few days.

The fellow students of the outer school were also full of envy and jealousy, Lin Yanchao was already a disciple of the great grandmaster, why did he still work so hard.

On the second day, before the exam, the disciples were already gearing up.

Soon Lin Liao walked into the book room and sent the scroll down. The scrolls of the Shuowang class are made by the mountain chief and the forest, which is called the teacher's class; The monthly and quarterly classes are all asked by the professor, the prefect, and the prefect, which is called the official class.

The examination time is from the beginning of the morning to the noon, that is, from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., five hours.

There are ten questions on the scroll, five questions on Moyi, and finally one on the art and literature.

First of all, there are ten questions about the scriptures, and the first one, Mencius saw King Xiang of Liang. out, the speaker said: "I don't look like a human king...... Leave white space at the back.

Lin Yanchao wrote without thinking...... And it is not seen and feared. "He asked, 'Is the world evil?'

Lin Yanchao kept writing, taking a breath, and wrote ten times in a row. For Lin Yanchao, who is familiar with Mencius's books, this is not difficult at all.

But if you want to come to the other students in the outer house, you won't answer this kind of question incorrectly, the scripture question is the most basic, if it is a schoolchild in the general rural social studies, you may still make mistakes, but for the disciples of the academy, if you write a mistake, you really have to use it to spank.

Here are five Moyi questions, and here is a bit of a start to pull scores.

Lin Yanchao carefully reviewed the papers, and the first question, King Qi Xuan saw Mencius in the Snow Palace. The king said, "The sage also has this pleasure? ”

Mencius said, "Yes." If you can't, it's not your thing. It is not possible to be the one who is not above, and it is not; Neither is he who is for the people and does not rejoice with the people. Those who are happy with the people, the people are also happy; Those who are worried about the people, the people are also worried. Happy to the world, worried about the world, but not the king, there is nothing.

Those who are happy with the people, the people are also happy; Those who are worried about the people, the people are also worried, this sentence is the source of Fan Zhongyan's "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world".

Lin Yanchao remembered Zhu Zi's interpretation of this sentence in Mencius's commentary, and wrote at the moment that if the people can enjoy with the people, then everyone will have this happiness; Otherwise, those who can't enjoy it will have the heart of the king. The wise man should be happy with the people, and he should not make people have something that he can't have, but only with the sage.

This is the ready-made answer, and it is best not to change a single word. Of course, this is also the content that Lin Yanchao has memorized in the past fourteen days, and with his memorization of two points zero skills, there is no difficulty at all.

After writing the five Moyi questions, Lin Yanchao wiped his hands, it took less than an hour, and there was a lot of time left to make art questions.

The problem is, the people have to do the opposite.

When Lin Yanchao saw this, he quickly thought that this sentence came from His Majesty Liang Hui. The original text was to the effect that the Zou and Lu states fought and many officials died, but the people were indifferent. The king of Zou wants to punish, Mencius said no, how you treat others, how others treat you, the people just treat the officials who originally treated him, and take revenge on the officials, so the people have to do the opposite now. The next sentence is that the monarch has no special words, and it is Mencius who asked the monarch not to blame the people.

This kind of topic is a small question, in the format of eight strands, and the four-book essay is limited to more than 300 words.

Lin Yanchao could only hold the volume and smile bitterly, the eight-strand essay is like this, the title comes out of the four books, the answer to the question is speaking on behalf of the sage, and it is explained from Zhu Ziji's notes, this can be done by reading and endorsing books, but how to solve the problem in the first step of writing an essay is not based on knowledge accumulation, but on personal understanding.

Lin Yanchao didn't do a dull look of meditation, he simply lay there and squinted his eyes and slapped his belly. After squinting for more than half an hour, Lin Yanchao almost thought about it in his heart, so he picked up the pen and sharpened the ink and began to write.

After the exam, everyone asked Lin Yanchao how he did in the exam, but Lin Yanchao just said: "I didn't do well in the exam, and I will be at the end of the list." ”

Everyone listened to the belief and didn't believe it, of course, most of them still didn't believe it, and everyone said: "Brother Yanchao, you are being humble again." ”

"Look, Brother Yanchao, this is humble and ......"

Lin Yanchao smiled and went out for lunch.

In the afternoon, the list will be released, according to the rules of the college, the quarterly class will be enlarged, the monthly class, and the Shuowang class will be put on the small list. The small list is the internal ranking of each house, and the large list is the ranking of the entire college.

Before the release of the list, everyone talked about it.

Lin Yanchao heard two classmates who were one or two years older than him talking there.

"I didn't do well in the exam this time, and I had to finish after fifteen. Mom and Dad found out and didn't know how to scold me. ”

"I'm also miserable, I missed the topic when I broke the question, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to comment on the art and literature."

"This time, the competition is much fiercer than before, if I can't get into the top 10 this year, my parents will not approve of my hard work in the academy, and I'm afraid I will have to go home and study hard behind closed doors."

"You're okay, after all, you haven't given up your career, my father may let me go to the yamen to be a small official, and I won't be in the clear stream in this life."

"It's out!" I don't know who arrived, and everyone went to see the results.

Lin Yanchao squeezed through the crowd, looked up from the bottom, and suddenly saw his name in the penultimate third, the twenty-eighth place in the outer house.

Lin Yanchao knew it in his heart, and he was not too surprised, so he calmly returned to the desk and sat down to read. Many people with a heart looked at Lin Yanchao together.

"Brother Yu, this is the protégé of the Great Grandmaster? Stop teasing me. Chen Xinggui said with a smile.

Yu Ziyou said: "I didn't expect him to be so pustular, maybe he was too nervous for the first exam." ”

"I'll take a look at the papers later?"

"Okay, let's see what he says."

In addition to Chen Xinggui and Yu Ziyou, other classmates were also interested, they had expected Lin Yanchao to do well in the exam, or average, but they didn't expect Lin Yanchao to do so badly.

"Brother Yanchao?" A classmate who had spoken a few words on weekdays asked a little gloatingly.

Lin Yanchao was immersed in reading a book when he heard, "Huh? ”

"Brother Yanchao, why did the Great Grandmaster take a fancy to you and accept you as a protégé?"

"Good luck."

"Did you play out of shape this time?"

"No! It's normal! ”

"But you just took the test, twenty-eighth."

"That's right, the twenty-eighth place is the end of the list, it's not bad with what I said, why don't you play abnormally!"

"This." The classmate was speechless.

Another person was unwilling to ask: "Brother Yanchao, this time you took the twenty-eighth place in the waishe, why don't you feel annoyed at all?" ”

Lin Yanchao poked his head out of the back of the book, and said casually: "You are ashamed of not being first, and I am ashamed of being annoyed by not being first." ”

The person who came was startled, and said in his heart that the realm of these words was really Gao Er's admiration, and he reluctantly smiled and said: "Brother Yanchao, you will really find yourself under the steps, hehe!" ”

Lin Yanchao also smiled and said, "Yes, hehe! ”

The ancients also knew the truth that chatting stopped at hehe, and the people who came to accept it with a look of regret and returned in vain.

The disciples were talking.

"Isn't this person pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

"Or is it really hidden?"

Classmates speculated that after lunch, Lin Liao graded the papers.

According to the practice of the outer house, the three best papers, Lin Liao won the first volume of the outer house, which was Ye Xianggao. Ye Xianggao is also a classmate of the new house, but his grandfather is a famous Confucian, and his father is a tribute eunuch, and his articles are indeed well done, so although some people are unhappy, they can't criticize it.

"Daxian forgives Zou Min's complaint, and sees Zou Chen's self-infliction!"

After listening to Ye Xianggao's first sentence of breaking the question, Lin Yanchao had a feeling of enlightenment, it turned out that he had been thinking hard about solving the problem, and he could still break it like this. The great sage refers to Mencius, and when solving the problem, he cannot call the sage by his name, Confucius uses the sage instead, Yan Huizi Sizengzi Mencius uses the great sage, and Confucius's disciples use the sage instead.

This is a sentence that combines the context to say that Mencius understood Zou Min's idea of complaining, and realized that it was the Zou officials who caused themselves. And if the problem is broken, the people will have to do the opposite, and the people will only take revenge on the officials who originally treated him.

This problem alone is enough to take the first place in the house.