The system was ultimately just the sum of data, and he had no chance to transform into a human form to experience this world. So he didn't say anything more.
Afterwards, Mu Erpang continued with special training in poetry and prose.
Wei Shu and Cui Fei also used various connections to collect poems and articles circulated by the academician and used them as review materials.
Mu Erpang thought that the poem question with a trap that Mei Ruochu asked earlier was tricky enough, but he didn't expect that Wei Xi, who was usually quiet, would come up with a more unconventional question - he used elements from Liu Xuezheng's poems and essays to make the question.
The so-called "cutting and connecting" means splitting up the sentences and cutting off the content that you don't want to talk about at all and using it as test questions. For example, if the previous sentence is "The moon shines brightly before my bed", the next sentence is "Red palms stir the clear waves".
Just thinking about the test questions made Mu Erpang's head buzz.
Generally speaking, questions of this difficulty will only be found in provincial and metropolitan examinations.
But it is also for his own good, and it can also test whether Mu Erpang has memorized Liu Xuezheng's works in such a short period of time.
Of course, it is not enough to just do the exercises. You also have to accumulate some less common poems and allusions and use them as allusions - after all, the allusions and famous quotes used in Liu Xuezheng's own poems are not well-known. It can be seen that the commonly used allusions were not his favorite.
So Mu Erpang still had to recite poems, and Chen Cui also helped him by finding two poetry collections from the [Book Collection] for him to recite.
So when he saw leeks during meals, Mu Erpang would mutter, "Cut spring leeks in the night rain, and cook yellow rice in the new rice cooker." When he ate shepherd's purse, he would say, "Shepherd's purse is so fragrant and sweet that it feels like I'm in Emin." Even when Chen Cui was practicing needlework, he would suddenly say, "A loving mother sews clothes for her son."
After a month, his reserve of poetry and his reading volume increased at a visible rate.
At first, Chen Cui felt a little distressed when she saw his mysterious look. Later, Ren Shun and Zhao Xiuwen came to the academy as guests to discuss the matter of guarantee in the future.
He Qing and Zhang Zian failed the exam, so there were two fewer candidates for the college entrance examination.
Fortunately, Wei Shu and Cui Fei had really worked hard when they helped select the candidates. There were ten people in the booklet, and except for the two of them, six of the other eight passed the exam.
Among these six people, there were some who were in similar situations as them. Those who had sponsored each other in the provincial examination had failed. It was not difficult to get together and find someone else, so there was no need to look for someone else.
After the discussion, Ren Shun and Zhao Xiuwen stayed for less than two quarters of an hour and immediately asked to leave.
Chen Cui invited them to have some snacks before leaving, but the two declined, saying that they had to work hard on poetry and prose when they got home!
It can be seen from this that the candidates of the same year have already found out about Liu Xuezheng's likes and dislikes, so they are all trying hard to improve their poetry and prose skills. Shen Cui no longer thought about persuading Mu Erpang to take it easy.
Later, the two "information experts" Wei Shu and Cui Fei were also busy. They found out some poems written by candidates of the same year in the previous county examination.
The poetry topics in the county examinations are generally relatively simple, consisting of original sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics, and do not allow for much creativity.
But even with such topics, some people write poems with great talent and elegance, which are eye-opening.
Just like Chen Aoshuang, who ranked second in the provincial examination and lived up to his name, the poem he wrote on the spot during the county examination was particularly good.
If Mu Erpang, who had not yet taken the marrow cleansing pill at that time, had taken the exam in the same county as him, it would have been unlikely for him to get the first place.
Therefore, there is no room for slacking off, and the intensity of Mu Erpang's special training has only increased.
In the blink of an eye, it was late April, and Chen Cui received a letter from Zhou from the capital.
The content of the letter was naturally the good news that Mu Yunchuan had won the first place in the spring examination in February and was already preparing for the final palace examination.
Zhou had sent this letter in early March. Perhaps it was delayed on the way due to something, so it took almost two months to arrive.
Counting the days, the palace examination is actually already in progress. Maybe next month, she will receive a letter from Mu Yunchuan, the top scorer in the imperial examination.
Shen Cui already knew this information, so she roughly calculated the days in her mind, passed them once, and did not explore further.
She was mainly watching other content. In fact, she was still afraid that Zhou would be wronged by Mu Yunchuan, or be subtly influenced by some broken rules and become a tool who only knew how to make sacrifices.
However, Zhou's letter said that everything was fine for her in Beijing. When they first arrived in the capital, they just rented a house in a civilian area, in a small courtyard that was a little noisy.
Even though she had saved dozens of taels of silver and did not spend it on the road, and Mu Yunchuan also had money on hand, but land in the capital was extremely expensive and one could not rent a good house even if she had money.
That place was a mixed bag with all kinds of people, which was definitely not conducive to studying, so Mu Yunchuan went to live in a temple outside the city to study.
She had just arrived in the capital, a strange place, and was separated from her family again. She was left alone. If it were the old Zhou, she would definitely have been so terrified that she couldn't sleep at night.
Now Zhou doesn’t think about those things anymore and regards the mixed living conditions as a favorable factor.
She spent a month or so interacting with her neighbors and observing the fashionable clothing styles in the capital. By the time she wrote this letter, she had already started tailoring clothes for others again.
Apart from other things, Mu Yunchuan had one good point. He did not feel ashamed of his poor family background. He also did not think that he was about to make a name for himself and pass the exams, so he should maintain his status and restrain Zhou from doing her own thing.
Of course, it is also possible that he just didn't have the energy to take care of such trivial matters. In short, he did not interfere with Zhou's family.
Zhou usually doesn't use her status as the wife of a juren scholar to make things difficult for others, but when she encounters a customer who deliberately makes things difficult for her, her status can come in handy.
Although there are many dignitaries in the capital, the weight of the Juren title is not very important, but for ordinary people, it is still very impressive. So the small business is doing pretty well.
Things changed until recently, when Mu Yunchuan won the imperial examination. Zhou's orders surged, and some people offered extremely outrageous prices. Suddenly, several houses in good condition were delivered to the door for sale at low prices.
At that time, Mu Yunchuan was still studying in a temple outside the city, preparing for the final palace examination.
Before this, Zhou definitely didn't know how to deal with it, for fear that she would not be able to judge the scale well and offend the people behind those people.
Now she had her own ideas, and she said directly to others: "Although this house is small, it was rented by my husband. Now he is not at home, and although I am his wife, I cannot make the decision on my own."
If Mu Yunchuan was mentioned, those people would not know his whereabouts, and they just wanted to flatter Mu Yunchuan, so they could not instigate Zhou to bypass Mu Yunchuan and make their own decisions.
Then they turned to ask Zhou where Mu Yunchuan was. Zhou acted as if she knew nothing and said that she was a woman and didn't know what was going on outside.
Chen Cui looked at the letter and a smile appeared on her face.
Then I thought about it and realized that this operation seemed familiar. The way she came up with was exactly the same as when someone offered to buy Cuiwei before!
She is truly the daughter-in-law that I have brought up!
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In May, Cui Wuniang had some free time and made a special trip to Cuiwei.
Although the two of them had a good personal relationship, Cui Wuniang was busy all year round and was rarely seen. Except for the time they met when she delivered New Year's goods at the end of last year, they had been in touch through correspondence in recent months.
The purpose of Cui Wuniang's visit this time was to personally congratulate Cuiwei on having a new student. Who knows, once the imperial examination is over, there will be one more scholar.
Secondly, they came to renew the contract. They signed the contract during the college entrance examination last year, and it will expire in a month, so it is time to sign a new contract.
If Cui Wuniang hadn't mentioned it this time, Chen Cui would never have thought about it.
She apologized, "Time flies by so fast. I've been counting the days with my children's exams lately. I didn't expect that I've already been in the capital for almost a year. You're so tired of coming here in person for such a small matter."
Cui Wuniang waved her hands. "I originally wanted to come here to congratulate you in person. Signing the new contract is just a matter of convenience. And there is one last thing I think I need to inform you about. It's about A Fei..."
During this nearly one year, Cui Fei has been losing weight at a steady rate of ten to fifteen pounds per month.
At first, a tailor had to measure him to see how much his dimensions had decreased.
Now, nearly a year has passed, and he has lost more than 100 pounds. Anyone who is not blind can see the earth-shaking changes in him.
"My family has decided to arrange a marriage for A Fei."
Hearing this, Shen Cui, who was drinking tea, was really stunned. After all, in her mind, the young men in the academy were still children on the road to study, and marriage was still a matter for the future.
Especially Cui Fei, his mental age is definitely much younger than his actual age, about the same as his fat son.
But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it made sense. Cui Fei was almost nineteen years old, and at this age, it was already considered late to get married.
Moreover, the Cui family knew that Cui Fei had wasted several years, and it would be a luxury for him to pass the imperial examinations or become a Jinshi in a short period of time. They couldn't wait until he was in his twenties or thirties to arrange these things for him.
Now that he has lost some weight and is in better health, the issue of marriage is on the agenda.
There is also a saying nowadays that if a boy gets married early, he will be more focused and it will also help with his studies.
Cui Wuniang actually didn't believe this statement, but she didn't have the final say in this matter. Although she was the head of the family, there was order of seniority, and it was not her turn to make decisions on the marriage of her younger brother. It was still Grandpa Cui's decision.
"This is a good thing!" Shen Cui congratulated first, and then said: "Then after Ah Fei gets married..."
The system does not allow the purchase of 'Marrow Cleansing Pills' now. The academy can only be regarded as temporarily blocking the power of the law. If Cui Fei leaves the academy, I am afraid he will return to his previous state.
Fortunately, Cui Wuniang immediately said, "Let's meet this year. If the meeting goes well, the wedding date should be set next year at the earliest. And even if they get married, his family wants him to stay in the prefectural school and Cuiwei on a daily basis, and he can go home when the prefectural school is closed."
Shen Cui nodded, "It just makes his future daughter-in-law suffer."
The newly married couple were about to be separated, which made Shen Cui think of Zhou who had just written to her.
However, she felt that Cui Fei must have explained more than Mu Yunchuan, and would not fail to tell his wife about everything. Moreover, the rest days of the provincial school were determined according to the rest days of the officials, with a rest day every five days. In addition, there were five days off each for the summer solstice and winter solstice, and three days off for the emperor's birthday. This means that the young couple can be together once every five days, which is much better than Zhou's situation at the time.
Cui Wu Niang nodded and said, "Of course I feel a little sorry for her, so when we meet, my family will make this matter public. Besides, I am still the head of the Cui family, so I will definitely not treat her badly."
This time, Cui Wu Niang did not sit for long. After she finished talking about the matter, she re-signed the one-year contract, left some snacks and fruits, and left.
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