Chapter 180 Enke period is out

"Zhu Ping'an, you can come in, but that dead pig is not allowed."

Just when Zhu Pingan was looking at a fat man with a red nose, the door of the study opened, and the black-bellied girl Li Shu poked her head out from the door, pouted and shouted at Zhu Pingan reluctantly. With a sound, his face was full of reluctance.

"If Dad hadn't told you to use the study tightly before leaving, I wouldn't have let you in!" The black-bellied girl pouted and rolled her eyes at Zhu Pingan.

A certain fat man whose head was caught by the door, heard this, his wretched little eyes sparkled and searched back and forth between Zhu Ping'an and the black-bellied girl.

"Then you wait outside and I will meet you."

Originally, Zhu Pingan didn't want to leave Fatty and go in alone, but seeing Fatty's behavior, he immediately left a word, patted his **** and left. Although the black-bellied girl has a stern face, she has good looks, which is much better than looking at the fat man's obscene face, not to mention that she is here to return and borrow books, so it's better to be realistic.

Zhu Ping'an went into the study and returned the books, and quickly borrowed two more books. When he was about to leave, he was stopped by a black-bellied girl.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Pingan looked at the black-bellied girl and asked.

"Nonsense, why stop you if you have nothing to do!" The black-bellied girl looked contemptuous, "Next time you come to borrow books, you must bring me a story with five thousand, no, at least six thousand words. If you want to copy, the font must be neat , I will practice calligraphy for you."

After the black-bellied girl finished speaking, she looked at Zhu Ping'an without blinking, waiting for Zhu Ping'an's answer.

"Okay, I will try my best." Zhu Ping'an nodded.

"What do you mean by doing your best, you must be sure!" The black-bellied girl was dissatisfied, showing her small canine teeth.

On the way back from Li's house to Zhu Ping'an's house, the fat man's fat face was full of gossip expressions. He opened his mouth and kept asking why the study was where you had a tryst. What have you been doing in the study for so long...

"You really were born in the wrong year." Zhu Pingan glanced at the gossipy fat man and said flatly.

"Huh?" The fat man was puzzled.

"It can only be understood but not expressed in words." Zhu Pingan shook his head, pretending to be mysterious.

"Heh, you are just changing the subject, saying that you are in the study..." The fat man began to gossip again.

Frogs, birdsong, and fat man's gossip sounded all the way...

In the evening, two young people from Xiahe Village were leading two young people into the gate of Zhu Ping'an's house carrying rice noodles, oily meat and so on.

"Lizheng, what are you doing?" Father Zhu came out of the room when he heard the sound, and was very surprised to see what Lizheng and the two young men were carrying.

"Brother Zhu, this is not what I want to do, it is the maternity subsidy allocated by the county to your second child."

Lizheng was smiling all over his face, waving his hand to signal the younger generation behind him to put things in the yard of Zhu Ping'an's house.

"There are quite a lot of these things." Mother Chen came out of the room, looked at the rice, noodles, oil, meat, etc. carried by the two young children, and couldn't help clicking her tongue. There was a bag of rice, a jar of oil, a small bag of flour and so on. A big piece of meat is enough to last for a long time.

Zhu Ping'an, the fat man and his elder brother Zhu Ping'an came out afterwards, and when Li Zheng saw Zhu Ping'an, he smiled and cupped his hands in congratulations, "I haven't congratulated Young Master Zhu yet, the Holy Lord Long En opened Enke mightily, and Young Master Zhu can Try your skills."

"Oh, I almost forgot, this was sent from the county to the town, and the town asked me to pass it on to Mr. Zhu." Li Zheng was talking, slapped his head, and took out a cover letter from his sleeve. The red paper of the seal was handed over to Zhu Pingan.

"Thank you, Li Zheng." Zhu Pingan took the red paper and cupped his hands to thank him.

"Where is it? It's a matter of going along the way." Li Zheng was shaking his hands with a smile on his face.

Li was chatting in Zhu's yard for a while and then left. Zhu Pingan opened the red paper in his hand and found that it contained specific news about Enke this time. The specific time of Enke is the fourth day of November.

The fourth day of November?

At first sight of this time, Zhu Ping'an was a little confused, because the number four has always been an unlucky number in our country, and it is very taboo among the people, let alone in court. However, after thinking about the character of Emperor Jiajing, Zhu Ping'an was also relieved.

Emperor Jiajing loved alchemy and cultivating immortals. He also liked to ask gods and gods about some good and bad things. Two tree branches were set up on the sand table, and two eunuchs pressed the branches with their fingers. When the gods appeared, the two eunuchs closed their eyes and pressed the branches to draw on the sand table. Then Emperor Jiajing studied the gods according to the "Book of Heaven" displayed on the sand table. will.

Maybe, this is how the fourth day of November came from.

When the fat man saw the time, he yelled like his **** was on fire, "Why is it this year? I thought it would be the beginning of next year, so I'm going back to prepare for the scientific examination?"

The scientific examination mentioned by the fat man refers to the year of the Dabi, um, that is, the year before the provincial examination, which is presided over by the promotion officer to select students, supervisors, etc. to participate in the provincial examination. The academic officer presides over the scientific examination, but Zhu Ping'an and the others are special, they are this year's students, so they only need to take the scientific examination. The scientific examination grades are divided into six grades. Generally speaking, the third grade is more given to academic officials, and there are very few or even none below the third grade. The first and second grades in the scientific examination can take part in the provincial examination.

The reason why the fat man is so nervous is because there are places for the first and second class admissions in the scientific examination. Each county and prefecture has a fixed number of places. If I remember correctly, it will take about five or six years for this dynasty to limit the number of people admitted in proportion to the number of people admitted in the township examinations in previous years.

There are about 2,300 to 400 people in Nanzhili, and they are allocated to the counties. There are only about ten people in each county, no less. There are at least hundreds of scholars in each county, and only about ten of them can take part in the provincial examination.

Even the qualification examination for the rural examination is difficult, isn't it? But according to the usual practice, the case capital is safe to pass the scientific examination and participate in the rural examination.

So, Zhu Ping'an is not very worried about this.

Soon, the nursing home that sent Fatty to Xiahe Village the day before yesterday also came with a carriage. He got the news that Fatty's home in Fengyang Mansion sent him by horse overnight, and told Fatty to go home and prepare for the scientific examination.

Fatty left Zhu's house reluctantly...

"Mother, that pickled cucumber..." I have to say, the way the fat man is reluctant to part is also very special.

"Godmother, I'll give you a whole jar." Mother Chen carried a freshly marinated jar from the yard and put it on the fat man's carriage. son.

"That's so embarrassing..." The fat man said so, and his hands were not slow, and he dragged a jar of pickled cucumbers that his mother Chen put on the carriage into the carriage.

"What's wrong, I can pickle another pot in a few days." Mother Chen waved her hand indifferently.

"Mother, those dried mushrooms..." The fat man pointed to the dried mushrooms in the yard and was reluctant to part again. The chicken soup stewed by the mother with mushrooms last night was so delicious.

"The godmother will pretend for you..." Mother Chen is very generous.

"Mother, then..." The fat man took the mushrooms and was reluctant to let go...

"It's not over, so save some for me!" Zhu Pingan stepped forward and pushed the reluctant fat man into the carriage.

Zhu Ping'an's action provoked Chen to laugh and curse, and picked up a lot of fat man's favorite food from home, stuffed them into the fat man's carriage, and made the fat man wink at Zhu Pingan happily.

"Childish, don't patronize eating and sleeping, read more books, and save the science and township exams."

Zhu Ping'an complained disdainfully about the fat man's childish behavior.

"The fat man will be ashamed? You wait to be impressed." The fat man held his fat face up and roared away in the carriage.

(end of this chapter)