Bachelor

Chapter 11 I'm Sorry It Should Be Me
Hearing these words, a warm current suddenly rose from Sun Dan's chest.

He had been single before and had no girlfriend, so he was used to being lonely.Now I suddenly have a family, and I can't accept it emotionally for a while.But seeing this gentle and considerate woman in front of him, he suddenly realized that he was her fiancé, the head of the family, and a man.No matter how much he resists this kind of feudal arranged marriage, it is not a reason to shirk his responsibility.

"There's nothing I'm sorry about." Sun Dan got up from the bed, walked in front of Zhiniang, carefully looked at this woman who was still very strange to him, and said softly: "Actually, the one who is really sorry is you. Let you eat These three years of suffering are due to my incompetence, and I am responsible. Let me go to the cloth shop, you were tired last night, take a rest first, and wait for me to return for rice."

After finishing speaking, he grabbed the piece of cotton cloth Zhi Niang put on the floor and rushed out.

"Hey, let me go, or let me go, you big man..."

"So what about a big man, a big man also wants to eat." Sun Dan smiled heartily, straightened his body, and walked far away.

As long as Sun Lang doesn't have a stooped back like in the past, he really looks like a tall and straight pine tree.

Looking at Sun Dan's back, Zhi Niang suddenly felt strange.She lived with Sun Dan for three years, although she had no physical relationship, and even though Sun Dan suspected her father of taking away the property of the Sun family and had a deep resentment towards her, the two stayed together for a long time and became very familiar with each other.In Zhiniang's view, Sun Dan in the past was just a big kid who didn't know what to do.But today's Sun Dan, whether speaking or doing things, is calm and calm, with the demeanor of a mature man.

Thinking back to Sun Dan's hug when the sandstorm happened earlier, recalling his strong masculine aura, and thinking that her father-in-law's funeral is over, and she will soon marry Sun Dan as a formal couple, Zhiniang can't help feeling a little crazy .

Relying on his memory, he went to the shop that belonged to him, but now belonged to Wan Tuhu's prospective father-in-law. Sun Dan handed over the piece of cotton cloth and exchanged it for 20 Wen wages.Twenty Wen is not much, relying on the purchasing power in the mid-Ming Dynasty, and then converted into Renminbi of later generations, it looks like [-] Yuan.But this little money can buy ten catties of rice, which can feed his Zhiniang for three to five days.

It can be seen that the owner and staff of the cloth shop are very sympathetic to Sun Dan, the former landlord, and are also very polite to Sun Dan.

Sun Dan didn't care too much, it was just a small shop, and when he won the Juren and got the fame, I'm afraid that the ten thousand butchers would rush to deliver the title deed to his door.When the time comes, I, Sun Dan, will be an official, and Butcher Wan will be a citizen, so it's too late to flatter me.

With food in hand, no panic in his heart, and twenty copper coins in his pocket, Sun Dan felt much more at ease.As he walked towards the rice shop, he was thinking about his next step.

It is now the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, just after the new year.And this year is the 15th year of Zhengde, at the age of Gengchen.If you decide to take the imperial examination, it will be against you in terms of time.

That's because there will be no imperial examinations this year, and there won't be any in the next year.

Scholars in the Ming Dynasty had to go through four steps in order to become an official through the imperial examination: the boy's examination, the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination.

Among them, the rural examination is the most important, held every three years in the provincial capital where the candidates are located.People who pass the exam are called juren. As the name suggests, they are talents who are recommended by the local government to enter the city to take the exam.

Of course, even if they fail the general examination, ordinary candidates are still qualified to be officials.According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the son can see that the official does not kneel, and can enjoy the privilege of being exempted from all taxes and corvee.At that time, most people would call him Lord when they saw him, and he could be regarded as a figure in the system, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty.

Juren's identity is so important, and the exam is taken every three years, and the number of places admitted each time is also very limited.This shows how difficult the rural examination is.But once you pass the exam, even if you were poor before, you will change and become an idol that everyone looks up to.

Because of this, there is a saying that thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge.

Sun Dan was not worried about the exam.From elementary school to university, and finally to the civil servant exam, it can be said that he has to take the exam three or five times a year, and his on-the-spot experience is much richer than that of ordinary Ming Dynasty scholars.Besides, he has a lot of information in his head.The most useful of them is that he collected thousands of eight-legged essays from the Ming and Qing dynasties. From the 13th year of Zhengde to the last imperial examination in the Guangxu year, he collected the questions and sample essays of each exam.

With this powerful cheating device, if nothing unexpected happens, it will be a smooth journey to the palace test.

But the problem is that it is now the 15th year of Zhengde, and there is no imperial examination this year.

If you want to be successful in the short term, you have to wait two years to change your life.The past two years have been tough for Sun Dan.

However, it is better to wait two years before taking the exam.If there is no accident, Emperor Zhengde will die in August this year, and Emperor Jiajing should inherit the throne next.When the new emperor ascends the throne, Enke is required as usual.

The significance of Enke is very great. Once you get a Jinshi, you will be called a disciple of the Son of Heaven, which will be of great benefit to your future.

Well, from the looks of it, I can only bear with it for the time being and rely on a scholar first.

Scholars, a special title for scholars who have studied the Four Books and Five Classics.To obtain this qualification, one must be admitted in the Xuedao or Tongzi Examination.Regardless of age, those who should be tested by Tongzi are called Tongzi.The boy's test is held once a year in March of that year.Only those who have passed the examination can be qualified for the examination.

There is not much opportunity, and if you want to pass the customs all the way, it is impossible to directly pass the Jinshi examination.

You have to eat food one bite at a time, and you have to walk step by step on the road. First, you have to be a scholar, and you can feel the atmosphere of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Dan is full of confidence in the future, and the current difficulties in life are nothing worth mentioning to him.

There is still more than a month between now and the first boy's test, and there is still time to prepare now.

Of course, as a cautious person by nature, Sun Dan felt that he was still facing two problems.First, he can't write traditional Chinese characters, he can recognize them, but he can't write them.This requires a lot of practice, otherwise once you take the exam, you will write all simplified characters and it will definitely be treated as a typo.The imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty did not have any requirements for calligraphy, but once there were typos in the examination papers, they would be brushed down immediately.Don't let the horse stumble and capsize the boat in the gutter.

It seems that in the next month, I will start to practice writing a lot.

Before that, you have to find a dictionary and compare the two.

The second question is actually more pressing——Sun Dan was illiterate in the past, but now he can write and draw suddenly, and he even took the imperial examination.If it spreads out, it will definitely be regarded as a monster.Even if you are a child prodigy, you still have to find a teacher to get started, and learn "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Surnames" and so on for a few years.Well now, is it not abnormal for a big illiterate to suddenly write stereotyped articles overnight?
The purpose of Sun Dan's imperial examination is to change his life, he doesn't want to become a monster.Calm and calm, moderate and peaceful are his life principles.

Moreover, scholars have a circle of scholars, and there are certain rules.Even if he wanted to take part in the boy test now, he couldn't sign up.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that a scholar who wanted to take the Boy's Examination needed to find five scholars to guarantee each other, and also had to find a recommendation from a granary student to obtain the qualification for the exam.

This rule is not a problem for ordinary scholars, anyway, it is enough to drag four students to sign up together.As for the recommenders, most of them are their teachers, and most of the teachers who can be private school teachers are at the first level.

Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi.

This is the level of readers.

For Sun Dan, he must study in a school within a month or so, and break into the circle of scholars.Then use this month to finish all the subjects taken by scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and pass the exam as a scholar.

(End of this chapter)