Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 95
Jia Qiong finished her morning exercise and it was already bright. It was time for Wang Yuyan to serve tea to the elders.

Jia Qiong returned to the room and planned to wake his wife up, but saw that Wang Yuyan had already gotten up and was sitting in front of the mirror, being dressed up by her personal maids Xing'er and Li Rui.

He walked to his wife, picked up a stick of Shidai and said, "Madam, let me draw your eyebrows."

The two maids consciously stepped aside. Wang Yuyan nodded shyly, turned towards him, and closed her eyes slightly.

Jia Qiong first held her face and kissed her, which made her very embarrassed, and then he gently started painting on Wang Yuyan's pretty face.

However, Jia Qiong had never painted a woman's eyebrows in his previous life, so as he painted them, he felt something was wrong. Why did the eyebrows become a sword eyebrow?

Jia Qiong said bravely: "Madam, this is my first time to draw someone's eyebrows."

Wang Yuyan thought he was talking about love, so she said shyly: "Thank you, sir."

"...No, I mean that the first time you drew it was not very good, you should fix it yourself."

Wang Yuyan then turned to look at the mirror, and her eyes widened instantly. What kind of painting is this!
Just as he was about to settle the score with Jia Qiong, he found that he had already escaped, and only Xing'er and Li Rui were laughing next to them.

Wang Yuyan didn't have the intention to chase her, so she quickly asked the maid to fetch water so that she could wash her face again.

She put on her makeup again, and Jia Qiong appeared at the right time as if nothing had happened, followed by his rescuer Xu Weirui.

Wang Yuyan was really angry and funny, so she had no choice but to give him a blank stare.

Jia Qiong pretended not to see it and said to her cousin: "Weirui, take your sister-in-law to serve tea to grandpa and the others.

Yuyan, I have to see off my classmates, so I won’t have breakfast with you. "

Wang Yuyan was familiar with the Jia family, so naturally she didn't need Jia Qiong to accompany her. She nodded and said, "Okay, you can go."

Jia Qiong has too many things to do about her wedding this time, and there is not enough room at home to allow her classmates to live at home.

They are all staying in a nearby inn and are leaving today.

Jia Qiong sent everyone away one by one. Some of them rode horses and some took boats. They all went their separate ways, waiting to be reunited one day.

As a newlywed, Jia Qiong feels that just a few days after her wedding, the day of the hospital examination has arrived.

The difference from the previous two times is that now the wife of the Jia family has become Wang Yuyan.

So all the preparations this time were handled by Wang Yuyan, but this felt no different to Jia Qiong.

The academic examination is a hurdle in the imperial examination. If you pass this hurdle, you will have the status of a scholar.

With the status of a scholar, he can be exempted from hard labor, the scholar can not kneel before the official, and the county magistrate cannot torture the scholar.

Among the scholars, the group with the best grades are called Linsheng, the group of people who vouch for the candidates in the county government examination.

The state will distribute lumi to these people, which is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl.

This is nothing to Jia Qiong, but to ordinary people, it is very tempting.

It is precisely because there are so many benefits to being a Chinese scholar that so many people flock to it.

Many poor families live frugally to support their children's education, just hoping that a scholar will come out of their family.

There is a saying in the examination room that eighty-year-old students are born, and twenty-year-old students are the top scorers. It means that many people have been taking exams for a lifetime, but they can't pass this hurdle.

Jia Qiong didn't see the gray-headed old man during the county examination, and almost none during the government examination. But when it came to the college examination, he found a lot of them, and there were a few people who looked like their grandfather and grandson went to the examination room together.

The college examination is organized by the academic administration of each province. It is not an examination for the whole province, but one for several prefectures and then the examination for other prefectures.

In addition, in order to take the college entrance examination, you must have the qualifications of a child student, so the number of students is relatively small.

Therefore, the number of people taking the exam was not as large as that of the government exam. Jia Qiong saw that there were only more than 2000 people.

After going through the same process, Jia Qiong entered Nanjing Gongyuan for the third time. It can be said that he is familiar with the road.

This time the invigilation was more stringent than the previous two times, and the local police officers were replaced by soldiers transferred from outside, just to prevent the local police officers from helping cheat.Jia Qiong was the head of the government examination case, so he once again enjoyed the treatment of being mentioned in court and sat in the Zhigong Hall again.

He thought to himself that after passing the college examination, he would have to take the provincial examination here. This place would almost catch up with his home.

The number of questions in the college examination is smaller than that in the government examination. There are only two questions on the Four Books, one question on the Five Classics, one question on poems and one question on the form.

After Jia Qiong got the test paper, he glanced at the questions: Use them to act, discard them to hide them.

He knew at a glance that this was from the article "The Analects of Confucius·Shuer".

The original text is: The Master said to Yan Yuan, "If you use it, you will do it; if you throw it away, you will hide it. This is the husband I have with you."

The meaning of this sentence translated into vernacular is that Confucius said to Yan Yuan that when you are valued, you will go out to do things, and when you are not valued, you will hide it. We are the only two people like this.

For such a simple question, Jia Qiong was able to solve the problem without thinking. He immediately picked up a pen and wrote on the piece of paper: The sage's best way to hide is to show it to those who can do it.

Jia Qiong was the first to write and answer, and he could see Jinling Academic Affairs after the court case at a glance.

He knew Jia Qiong, and when he saw him starting to answer so quickly, he thought that he was indeed a quick thinker.

Immediately, Sun Tixue fell into deep thought. Before he took up the post of academic administration in Jinling, he was the left counselor of the General Affairs Department.

After resigning from the academic administration this time, if I am lucky, I will be promoted to a fourth-rank official.

Not long ago, one of his colleagues wrote him a letter.

The letter mentioned that Zhang Ge, the chief assistant, had mentioned to others many times that it was inappropriate for Jia Qiong, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, to have such a high reputation.

Although it was not stated explicitly in the letter, Sun Tixue vaguely sensed the purpose of the letter, fearing that the Fujian Party hoped to use his own hands to suppress Jia Qiong.

He has been struggling these days. If he pretends not to know, he may be targeted and suppressed by the Fujian Party, and there may be no hope of promotion.

If he really does it, he may be promoted and reused, but there is also a huge risk.

Jia Qiong is not an ordinary student with no foundation. Behind him are two big trees, the Four Kings and the Eight Gongs and the Wang Family.

The Tixue master struggled in his mind for a day, and until Jia Qiong handed in the paper, he had not made up his mind.

This time Jia Qiong was the first to hand in his paper. Logically speaking, he should review it in class and then tell Jia Qiong how his article went.

But after Sun Tixue took the paper, he signaled to Jia Qiong that he could leave. This abnormal behavior made Jia Qiong immediately aware of the abnormality.

He did not leave, but instead raised his hands and said, "Master Sun, if the student wants to listen to the teachings in person, please come and read it."

Sun Tixue didn't want to offend Jia Qiong, so he could only open his paper and read it, but the more he read it, the more he felt a headache.

Such an article would be top-notch even if it passed the examination. How could he be dismissed?

He read it several times, trying to find errors and omissions in Jia Qiong's article, but unfortunately he couldn't find them in the end.

It was just an ambiguous letter in the same year, not even a verbal promise.

He felt that there was no need to take risks and insisted on deposing Jia Qiong. He did not think that the Fujian Party would protect him if something happened to him.

He thought it would be better to take Jia Qiong away, but if he was not given the position of head of the case, the Fujian Party would have an explanation.

Thinking of this, Sun Tixue immediately made up his mind, put on a smile and said: "You are worthy of being a world-famous little poetry fairy, you have won this article.

You don’t have to come to the second game, just wait at home for the results to be released. "

"Thank you sir."

Jia Qiong solemnly thanked him, and then Shi Shiran left the Gongyuan.

After Jia Qiong was sure that he had passed the exam, he didn't care about his ranking.

(End of this chapter)