binnovel Chapter 312 Ancient Farmer Scholars 4
Chapter 312 Ancient Farmer Scholars 4
Although the Liu family currently only has four masters (one adult and three children), the household has a considerable number of servants: steward, cook, purchasing agent, servants, coachman, wet nurse, embroiderer, and maid.
Aside from the lack of pretty maids, the main reason is that the Liu family has only one son per generation, so the children in the family are taught from a young age to cultivate their character and temperament. What if they ruin their health and lose their only son?
After spending half a day exploring with Mo Qing, Liu Yuxi also gained a certain understanding of Fengzhou Prefecture.
After buying the gifts to bring for tomorrow's visit, and also some snacks and children's toys for the three little ones at home, I returned to my residence.
This world is fictional, and the social environment is similar to that of the Ming and Tang Dynasties. There shouldn't be any other time-traveling predecessors, because there are still no corn, potatoes, or sweet potatoes as crops. Of course, tomatoes and strawberries are also absent. However, peppers and cotton have appeared as ornamental plants.
Remember this, it will definitely come in handy later. Right now, his social status is still too low, so he can't keep the credit.
Since he'd thought of crops, he naturally couldn't leave out the "essential items for time travel": soap, glass, and cement. Glass and cement were hard to come by, but buying a shop to sell soap was possible. However, all of that would have to wait until after he finished the academy exams.
The next day, Liu Yuxi took his three sons to visit Master Zhao. After exchanging pleasantries, Liu Yuxi explained his purpose. Knowing that he wanted to participate in the provincial examination, Master Zhao began to test him.
After a series of questions and answers, Master Zhao nodded and said, "Your knowledge is quite solid. As long as you don't go off-topic in this year's examination poem, you should have no problem passing the county-level exam. As for the matter of the guarantor, I will arrange it later."
"Thank you, Master. I also wanted you to see my three children today. I wonder if they would be fortunate enough to study under you?" After finishing the discussion about the academy examination, Liu Yuxi brought up the matter of his three eldest sons.
"Zimu, Zilin, Zisen, come and greet your master!" He had already taught the children proper etiquette before they came, so the children behaved quite well.
"Hey Liu Zimu!" "Hey Liu Zilin!" "Hey Liu Zisen!"
"Greetings, Master!"
"Good, good. Your master will test you. If you answer well, you can go to school with your father later."
"Yes!"
Children this age will at most be asked questions about the numbers three, one thousand, and one hundred (the three characters refer to the Three Character Classic, the Thousand Character Classic, and the Hundred Family Surnames), and maybe even the Primer for Young Learners, so the testing time is very short.
After inquiring about elementary education, Master Zhao asked Liu Yuxi, "Have you started learning the Four Books?"
"I only studied the 'Xue Er' chapter of the Analects!"
"Alright, let them study with Class C tomorrow!"
"Yes! Then this student will take his leave!"
"Go!"
"Yes!"
Master Zhao's private school divided students into four classes, A, B, C, and D, based on their learning progress:
Class D, also known as the introductory class, is where students progress to Class C after completing all the elementary education.
Class C students mainly study the Four Books: The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects, and Mencius.
If you can memorize all four books, for example, if Confucius gives you the phrase "be loyal and trustworthy," you must know that this phrase comes from the "Xue Er" chapter of the Analects.
The preceding text is "A gentleman who is not dignified will not command respect, and his learning will not be solid." The following text is "Do not befriend those who are not as good as yourself, and do not hesitate to correct your mistakes."
Once you've mastered the material to this level and can provide a full analysis of the text, you can advance to Class B.
Class B mainly studies the Five Classics, namely: the Book of Poetry, the Book of Documents, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.
And the various writing formats used in the imperial examinations, which included the county examination, prefectural examination, academy examination, provincial examination, metropolitan examination, and palace examination.
Passing the prefectural examination made one a student, passing the provincial examination made one a scholar, passing the metropolitan examination made one a licentiate, passing the provincial examination made one a licentiate, passing the metropolitan examination made one a tribute student, and passing the palace examination made one a scholar. Of course, these are all general terms, and there are some sub-categories.
These exams would test knowledge of the Four Books, classics, regulated verse, classical texts, miscellaneous essays, examination poems, eight-legged essays, policy essays, and more. They would also need to memorize over a hundred characters from the "Imperial Edicts and Extensive Instructions."
All of this knowledge needs to be learned in Class B. As for Class A, all the students there are beginners. Liu Yuxi will enter Class A when he returns to the private school tomorrow.
Instead of taking a car, I took the three kids shopping, bought them candied hawthorns, windmills, and sugar figurines, and then had lunch at a restaurant before heading home. Come to think of it, these kids have never been shopping before, which is quite pitiful!
The following days were the four of them learning. Every morning, Liu Yuxi would lead the children to squat in horse stance for half an hour. Of course, this was the total time. First, they would build a foundation, and then they would practice internal skills and moves.
Then the children would wash up, eat breakfast, and go to school. Lunch was usually delivered to the private school by the family's grandmother. After school in the afternoon, Liu Yuxi would sometimes take the children for a stroll, and sometimes they would go straight home.
After dinner, the group gathered in the study in the front yard to study. Liu Yuxi was working hard to review his excellent exam papers from previous years. Some of these papers he had collected from various bookstores, and some he had borrowed from Master Zhao.
After he finished writing the article, he would bring it to Master Zhao for review, and then Master Zhao would point out the areas that needed improvement.
After all, time was running out, and the provincial examination was about to begin. He was planning to take the county-level examination again after passing the county-level examination this year.
Before he knew it, the day of the provincial examination arrived. Liu Yuxi got up in the middle of the night. He wasn't worried about food; he could just bring some crushed snacks, not whole ones, since they would be crushed during the inspection anyway. If all else failed, he could always smuggle them out from his spatial storage.
He wasn't worried about being assigned a bad number; he could just send oxygen directly into his nasal cavity from the airway.
What embarrassed him most was that he really had to be completely naked when entering the examination room for a medical check—she was a woman, even though her current body was male. To him, what difference was there between that and running naked?
The problem is that this isn't a one-time thing; he has to go naked every time he takes the test. He was careless; he was so focused on how interesting the scientific expedition was that he forgot about this crucial step.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of self-brainwashing, he has now abandoned this sense of shame. Anyway, no one knows that her soul is female, and they are looking at the original owner's body. What does it have to do with her, Liu Yuxi? Yes, that's the gist of it.
Fortunately, he wasn't assigned a bad number, which was some consolation. He carefully filled out his personal information and then began to read and answer the questions.
There's no correction fluid or transparent tape here, so you have to answer the questions on scratch paper first, then revise and confirm the answers before carefully copying them onto the exam paper.
Three days later, she took the second test. When the list was posted, his name was indeed on it. Unfortunately, he was not among the students receiving stipends, but at least he was a student who was not a student who was supplemented in his rank.