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Sitting in the number room, I closed my eyes and rested for a while, someone began to distribute the test papers. ●⌒, the papers were handed in from the number window, rolled into a barrel, and waxed outside was sealed.

Cheng Qian secretly praised the Li family for their rigorous work.

Remove the sealing wax and spread the test paper.

The first exam was the scriptures. The simplest one, and the most basic one. Chengqian got the paper and read it before and after, and he already had some idea. The Li family's scriptures exam was different from those of the court. The court's scriptures exam had to take several exams, and each exam was only one or two sutras, or the third sutra or the third sutra. However, the content of the scriptures exams in the scriptures of Li family included nine sutras. He even discovered just now that in addition to the nine sutras, Mencius and others also passed the exam.

The Tang Dynasty was reigned by the Sui Dynasty, and stipulated that the Three Literatures and Three Biography, together with the Yishu poetry, were the Nine Classics, the Three Literatures were the Zhou Literature and Etiquette Book, and the Three Biography was the Zuo Zhuan Gongyang Zhuan and the Guliang Zhuan.

However, the Li family’s postscript examination was not limited to these nine sutras. Not only did a postscript examination include all the nine sutras, but it also tested Confucian classics such as the Analects of Filial Piety and Mencius.

This is a bit difficult.

In this era, reading was not easy, especially before Li Chao improved papermaking and invented the woodblock printing technique, books were very precious. Only those scholars had many books. It was difficult for ordinary people to read, so they had to borrow books and copy books. They might copy the wrong books or borrow the wrong books.

It is time-consuming and laborious to copy a book, and it is difficult to borrow it. Even some gentry dare not say that they have a complete set of Nine Sutras, let alone those annotated books of Nine Sutras. It is very rare to learn Confucian classics after reading and learning them.

Therefore, at that time, many scholars mostly specialized in one sutra or two or three sutras. Very few of them read all the sutras thoroughly and thoroughly studied them.

Anyone who can study one or two thoroughly can be considered a great scholar.

Although Cheng Qian was young, his conditions for studying were excellent. He started reading since he was a child. Not only did he have various accurate classic books, but he also read a lot of annotations left by the sages of the previous generations. He also had contemporary great scholars as his teachers and explained them to him personally.

In addition, since the emergence of the Wude Dictionary and the Zhenguan Dictionary, it is much easier for people to read now. Sometimes self-study is also a way, and they will not only read books without knowing it.

For many candidates, the Li family's post-book exam is very difficult, and they don't know many questions. After all, those who come to take the Li family exam are scholars who want to go to Duke Zhao, and those who are willing to leave the Central Plains and go to the border are basically few of the children of famous families. Most of them are poor children, or some of them have bad backgrounds, such as traitors who have children with maids or those who commit crimes after committing an official position.

Many people have a good literary talent, that is, they can write and calculate. There are very few who are really talented.

Many people were a little stumped when they looked at these questions.

However, these questions did not stump Prince Chengqian.

He thought these questions were very interesting, and all the classics were included. What was particularly rare was that the questions were all the essentials of each classic.

He was not in a hurry to do the test paper, and continued to read it several times.

Then put down the paper, closed your eyes, and began to ponder.

After about half a cup of tea, Cheng Qian opened his eyes, then smiled on his face, began to pour water into the inkstone, then picked up the ink strips and started grinding slowly.

The ink was thick and dark, so he picked up a soaked brush, dipped it in ink, and started answering the questions.

The scriptures are the easiest. As long as you have read the questions, fill in the blanks is not a difficult problem.

Answered one by one question and completed it in one go.

When the last question was answered, Chengqian found that it took less than half an hour for a total of 100 questions. After checking them again, Chengqian pulled a wrench in front of him.

This is a small mechanism. After turning it, a sign will be raised in the window of his room.

When the staff in the examination room saw the sign, they came to collect the papers.

Because the prince was present today, the butler and other officials rushed over in person. In the entire examination room, only the official and the official in the examination room knew the identity of the prince. Everyone was wondering why the official in charge of the examination today was still in charge of the examination.

Butler Li had long remembered the exam number and number shed of Prince Chengqian. He was a little surprised to see that the prince was the first to hand in the paper.

After the paper was collected, the housekeeper took a few glances first, but he was only a rough understanding of the text and did not understand the meaning of the scriptures at all. After a few glances, he only saw that the paper was neat and the words were well written. He didn't know the rest of the right or wrong.

Someone has come over there and started to paste Chengqian’s papers.

Butler Li wanted to mark the prince's test paper, but he was a little hesitant. He was worried that if he missed the name and when the paper was reviewed, no one knew that this was the prince's test paper. If he gave a low score and bad review, wouldn't it make the prince very embarrassed?

But when so many people look at him, he can't openly marking, which is against the rules. If he makes marking, everyone will definitely ask the reason. I can't tell you, Your Highness, the Crown Prince, is taking the exam in our examination room.

In the end, Butler Li gave up the idea of ​​marking the prince.

Among the people supervised by the Li family, there are people with good literary talent.

Those people were also a little curious about the fact that someone handed over the paper so quickly. After they followed the rules, they picked up the paper and looked at it.

“This is a good word.”

"Well, this seems to be a new Zhang style."

"How can this new Zhang style feel deeply rooted in the prime minister's true teachings?"

When Zi likes Feibai today, many officials and scholars also studied Feibai calligraphy and could see Feibai fonts everywhere. But now a scholar uses the new Zhang style from the prime minister, and this word is deeply rooted in the essence of the new Zhang style, which is surprising.

The handwriting is well written and the surface is very neat.

After closer inspection, I answered all the questions very accurately.

"A word is good!"

"I didn't see any mistakes."

"Our test paper contains thirteen Confucian classics. This scholar actually dabbled in all of them, and he was not bad at all. He was really talented."

"It's amazing. If it weren't for the rules, I really want to ask this talented man to come out and see his true face now and have a good talk with him about the meaning of the scriptures."

Mr. Li was inexplicably happy as the enshrined guests at home talking about the prince’s test papers.

Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so young. These disciples were all famous Confucian scholars from all over the world. If they were not for the prime minister and a great tycoon of the Wenzong generation, they would not have been willing to come out easily, let alone become disciples from the Li Mansion.

They came here to exchange and visit Li Xiang's literary name.

Now they are unanimously praising the prince's reputation, and that is definitely nothing wrong.

In the room there.

Chengqian's test has been handed over, but he can't go out. The Li family's examination rules are very strict and they have to finish the exam in three days and nine games in one go before they can go out.

Even if the paper is handed over now, I still have to stay in the room and can't make loud noises or anything else.

After a rumbling sound, Cheng Qian realized that he was hungry.

But this is not difficult for him. Although he is the dignified prince, unlike ordinary princes, he was born in the deep palace but was not completely grown up by women.

After following Li Chao for so long, he not only became a standard foodie, but also learned a lot of cooking skills from Li Chao. Anyone who can eat is generally more capable of making it.

Scan the lower room.

There is a small stove and a small basket of charcoal.

The stove is well-bred, and there is a fire inside. There are pots and steamers, ready-made cold buns, frozen buns, flour and current noodles. On the other side, there are a few pickles, two salted fish, and a piece of bacon.

Both oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are available.

The preparations are quite complete.

Cheng Qian first fed some water from the bucket next to him, washed his hands, and then looked at these guys and thought about what to eat for the first meal.

I'm a little hungry and I'm too lazy to make trouble. Let's cook a bowl of noodles first.

This side is produced by the Li family noodle shop. This side of the Li family is very famous. The noodles made are very thin, but the middle is still empty. They call the best part of the noodles in the tribute camp, called the dragon beard noodles. Other noodles are sold for sale, called the longevity noodles.

Because this kind of noodles is hung and stretched after being prepared, it is also called a dough.

The noodles are considered fine food, and most people cannot eat them. After this noodles are released, they are quite popular with rich people, especially those merchants.

When I go out, I don’t have much time to knead noodles or make noodles. It’s very convenient to bring noodles with me. Once the water boils, I pump a handful of noodles into the water, knock two eggs or throw some vegetables, add some oil, put some sauce, and add some minced ginger, garlic, and chopped green onions. Just a bowl of fragrant and delicious noodles.

The Li family also has a more unique noodles, which are fried noodles, known as instant noodles.

As long as the water boils, the noodles can be eaten after soaking in it, and there is no need to worry about cooking. Moreover, the instant noodles tastes particularly fragrant. With the Li family’s seasoning bag, it is really fragrant.

Cheng Qian washed the pot, set the pot to the stove to boil water, then cut some bacon, cut it into small diced pieces. He took another cabbage, peeled a few leaves, and cut it into shreds.

Without onions, ginger, garlic, etc., Cheng Qian will not be picky.

When the water boils, the bacon is added and cooked. When the soup becomes thicker, he holds the noodles into the pot. Watch out for the heat, the noodles are floating. Cheng Qian then puts the shredded cabbage into the pot, stirs for a few times, adds salt, and then adds some sauce.

Get the pot and put the bowl.

A bowl of steaming noodles is already filled with a bowl, and the fragrance is scented.

Sitting in the small room and eating noodles alone, Cheng Qian felt that this side was a unique feeling.

A bowl of noodles was filled with whispers for a while, and the remaining half of the bowl of noodle soup with oily flowers was left. Cheng Qian picked up the big bowl and drank it in one breath.

Put down the bowl, Cheng Qian wiped his mouth, and couldn't help but sigh that he had eaten many noodles and had eaten all kinds of seasonings, but he felt that the noodles were not as delicious as today's bowl.
Chapter completed!