"If your pen is ugly by three points, you won't even be able to get a middle or bottom. Master Mengzhen glanced at Duan Shaojun's handwriting with disdain. Tell me what kind of calligraphy you have."

"I think my word is very childlike, so I named it childlike body." Duan Shaojun's face thickness is really not covered, such a brazen statement really made Master Mengzhen stunned, and finally saw super cheekiness.

And Duan Shaojun soon heard the snickering laughter of the two bad friends, turned around viciously, glared at the two guys who were in schadenfreude, and looked at his own calligraphy, and could only be speechless.

"You kid don't talk nonsense to the old man, and you're still childlike." Master Mengzhen glared at this guy with a smile and a smile. "Even if it's a schoolboy, it's not much worse than you."

"So, from today onwards, in addition to the daily exam, you still need to write a thousand words to the old man every day. Poorly written, start over. Master Mengzhen's face turned pale, and Chong Duan Shaojun commanded.

"Uncle Shi, you want to play with me to death for a thousand words, how long do you have to write" Duan Shaojun almost knelt, no, he was kneeling on the futon.

"Your words are so stinky, even those two guys can't compare, don't let you practice more at this time, do you think that when you enter the examination room, you will still have the opportunity to practice" Master Mengzhen hated iron at all.

This guy's Moyi stickers, to be honest, is more than enough to take the middle and top, but this word is really a little unbearable to witness.

So, Duan began to practice calligraphy hard. It can be described as a year, and every day my wrist looks like it's about to be broken, but it's a lot better than the original.

However, Duan Shaojun is still very interested in the childlike writing of his past, and it is really named childlike style, in exchange for everyone's uniform white eyes, but this guy is not tired of it, I remember that there is a font called this in the font library of later generations, and his own calligraphy is also called so

On this day, Xu Xiangjun came to find Duan Shaojun, saying that Cao Zhongde's house came to visit. Hearing that this talented man with alcohol poisoning was coming, Duan Shaojun hurriedly put down his pen and got up to greet him.

When he arrived at the atrium, he had already seen Cao Zhongde walking slowly, and after seeing Duan Shaojun, Cao Zhongde straightened the whole crown, saluted Duan Shaojun respectfully, and was so shocked that he hurriedly turned sideways. "Brother Cao, what are you doing, you have to torture the little brother."

"Brother Xian, you saved my aunt's life, can I not thank you for my brother" Cao Zhongde let out a long breath of turbidity, looked at Duan Shaojun with a happy face, and said very gratefully.

"Are you saying that the old lady Cao of the Evergreen View is your aunt and grandmother" Duan Shaojun grinned and said, Well, the world is really wonderful, and the biggest enemy of his master is Zhao Linfu.

And Shizun and this Cao Zhongde are old friends, Cao Zhongde and himself are brothers, and Mrs. Cao is this guy's aunt and grandmother, and Mrs. Cao is also Zhao Linfu's mother.

Nima, the relationship is a little messy, Duan Shaojun shook his head dizzily, threw the relationship form aside, and hurriedly invited Cao Zhongde into the hall to serve refreshments.

Seeing the tea, Cao Zhongde smashed his mouth tastelessly. "Brother Xian, you are too inauthentic, right, come to visit for your brother, you actually take tea to entertain, do you dislike your brother's inconsiderate hospitality in the past?"

Duan Shaojun smiled helplessly and hurriedly asked the maid to remove the tea and replace it with wine. Cao Zhongde turned his anger into joy, and poured the pot into the cup, three in a row, and then he laughed out loud in good spirits. "This is my good brother Cao, haha"

"Brother, you are not afraid that you will not be able to do anything in a day if you drink like this early in the morning," Duan Shaojun said helplessly.

Cao Zhongde stroked his short beard and smiled. "Don't worry, what a lot of wine I have for my brother, a thousand cups are not drunk, not to mention this mere three or five catties of wine."

Duan Shaojun felt like he saw a cow flying in the sky, well, he was blown up by Cao Zhongde, forget it, don't worry about this kind of perennial sperm poisoning, in case he gets excited and has a cerebral hemorrhage, what if he has no skills, and no assistant, but he can't afford to do a craniotomy on him now.

Cao Zhongde seems to have rested well these days, and he is not as haggard and withered as when he stayed in the green building of Lanting. It seems that during this time, Jingshi really came to do business, not to look for flowers and willows.

"Brother Tai came to look for my little brother today, won't it just to thank me on behalf of your aunt and grandmother, then again, Brother Tai, your whereabouts are really fluctuating, little brother, after I asked your cousin, I inquired in many ways, but Jingshi heard Brother Cao everywhere, but I don't know where Brother Cao slept at night." Duan Shaojun touched his chin and squeezed his eyebrows at this old buddy.

Cao Zhongde couldn't help but blush, well, after this guy arrived in Beijing, he didn't live in the inn for a day, and he lingered every day in the major green buildings and pavilions in Beijing.

"The virtuous brother is talking nonsense, and his brother has exhausted his thinking during this time, and he has no choice but to linger in those places to find a confidant in order to seek inspiration." Cao Zhongde said with some smirk.

Duan Shaojun threw away a smile and nodded with a sympathetic face. "What Brother Tai said is, I don't know how many confidants I have found during this time"

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm here for my brother today, but I want you to have something to discuss. The first thing, this time all the talents of the world gathered in Beijing, for my brother as the representative of the Jiangnan realm, I came to find reinforcements today. Cao Zhongde hurriedly changed the topic, he had deeply understood the poisonous tongue of this virtuous brother, and let him keep complaining that he had the ability to complain from this morning to tomorrow night without repeating it.

"Brother Reinforcement, you've found the wrong person," Duan Shaojun looked at this guy with a stunned expression. "Little brother, I am studying day and night, preparing to go to the imperial examination, and now you actually want me to go with you to find flowers and ask Liu this, this is too unscientific."

"Is that kind of person for my brother?" Cao Zhongde glared at the goods angrily. "I'm not joking with you, I want you to go to the poetry party. If you can win the top three in the poetry conference in one fell swoop, then the imperial examination will be of great help to you. ”

"It's really fake, if you take the top three of this poetry conference, you can be able to win it" Duan Shaojun was really interested at this time, sat up straight, and raised his hand to signal Cao Zhongde to continue.

"It's nature." Cao Zhongde waved his hand confidently, very heroic. "Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, nearly 100 imperial examinations and enke have been held, and the number of people in each imperial examination is not less than one or two thousand, and the number of people who can climb this single-plank bridge is less than one percent."

"And since 70 years ago, Mr. Kong glaze proposed in the year of the imperial examination, since the establishment of this poetry meeting, the talent has doubled, at the beginning, by the court in front of a group of candidates between the game, but this event, inherited to the early days of the abolition of the emperor, has become a great event after the imperial examination. Starting at the beginning of July, all those who consider themselves to be outstanding in poetry can submit their manuscripts to the Spring and Autumn Society, the First University of Beijing Normal University, and then, by the 100 chief judges selected by the Spring and Autumn Society, these excellent works will be reviewed, and after the final ranking, they will be published all over the world. ”

Hearing this, Rao is self-confessed to talking about fame and fortune, and Duan Shaojun, who regards fame and fortune as dung, can't help but blush a little, when there is no fame and fortune, he will naturally despise fame and fortune, and treat it as dung, in order to show his innocence, but when fame and fortune may fall on his head, Duan Shaojun, a reserved and humble gentleman, was also moved.

The important thing is that, according to Cao Zhongde, in the past 20 years, as long as the people who have won the top three imperial examinations in the poetry conference will definitely be able to win. In the past 20 years, no scholar who has ranked in the top three in the poetry conference has failed the imperial examination, and it seems that this has become an iron law.

"Then with the great talent of Brother Tai, the name of the top three, you should be able to catch it, but why don't you join the ranks" Duan Shaojun asked curiously.

Cao Zhongde scratched his scalp a little embarrassed. "It's a shame to say that nine years ago, my brother was among the best, but unfortunately on the day of the imperial examination, he was hungover and couldn't wake up, so that his name fell to Sun Mountain. After that, Cao no longer had the mind of the imperial examination, and always felt that being an official needed to cry blood, beware of others, and had to climb up vigorously, too tired, it was better to continue my current life, so he didn't think about going to the imperial examination again. ”

Duan Shaojun looked at the secret revealed by Cao Zhongde in a daze, and after a while, he could only give this guy a thumbs up convincingly to show his admiration. Niu Ren is worthy of being a world-famous Jiangnan talent, and he can even do such a thing as being hungover and not waking up on the day of the imperial examination, which is enough to imagine that this is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

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