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Chapter 37 The Finals Are Coming

‘Dang!’ The cloud board sounded and the two teams of students entered the venue.

Today's reviewers have grown strong. In addition to the three old scholars, there are seven officials in other positions. The magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, chief clerk, and chief clerk of Tangyin County are all in place, just because Li Kui, the magistrate of Xiangzhou, came to Tangyin County to observe today's Boys' Trial Finals.

Li Kui sat in the middle of the review seat like stars holding the moon. If Li Yanqing saw him, he would be shocked. This Li Kui was no one else, but Master Li who had treated him yesterday and changed his medicine.

In addition to Li Kui, there is also the Zhou Xuezheng Yang Xin. He was sitting next to Yao Wannian, and the two were whispering.

Of course, there is another person indispensable, that is Li Kui's youngest daughter Li Jiuzhen. Li Kui gave birth to eight sons, and his eldest son Li Gang was 27 years old. However, he himself got a daughter in middle age. He cherished him as a pearl and would bring this precious daughter with him wherever he went. This time, he attended the visit to the boys in Tangyin County. He came here in a private capacity. Yesterday, he was in a light car.

The adults were chatting, while Li Jiuzhen, who was sitting next to her father, opened her black eyes and looked for the injured little boy yesterday.

At this time, the students were in their seats one by one, and Li Jiuzhen saw Li Yanqing at a glance. It happened that Li Yanqing was also looking here and also saw her. His eyes suddenly opened wide, and his face was full of astonishment.

Li Jiu smiled proudly, and she liked to look at Li Yanqing as if she was a little fool.

At this time, Wang Gui also saw Li Jiuzhen and hurriedly pulled Tang Huai, "Old Tang, look at that little girl..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yue Fei knocked him on the back of his head, "Be serious, this is the final!"

Wang Gui grinned in pain and turned around and glared at Yue Fei.

Li Yanqing saw Li Kui again, and then he realized that the Master Li he met yesterday turned out to be Li Guanren of the Prefecture. He couldn't help but secretly glad that he had not said anything out of place yesterday.

At this time, Li Kui also saw Li Yanqing and smiled and nodded to him. Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed to him.

Everyone was surprised. Guanren Li actually knew Li Yanqing? Several officials with quick thinking thoughts thought that they were all surnamed Li. Could it be that Li Yanqing was a junior of Li Guanren's family? County Ma was even more scared and sweated. Li Daqi must not be a relative of Guanren!

"Officer Li knows this student?" Liu Zhixian asked with a smile.

Li Kui smiled, "It's just a chance to meet."

Even though that is said, everyone does not believe it very much. After all, in the officialdom, it should not be taken too seriously.

'when--'

The bell rang at the beginning of the finals, and Li Kui also sat upright. He was very interested in Li Yanqing, "A Tathagata in the Kingdom of Heaven." Li Yanqing's couplet made him look at him with admiration.

Yue Fei drew a question ticket, and they asked, and the other party answered. Yue Fei stood up and read the question: "Our first question is to ask a poem. Please listen to a good question. In which year did the poet Du Fu write about the three officials and three distinctions? What is the specific background? Please recite it in full."

The title is not difficult, and it is even a little simple. The imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty advocated Du’s poems, and Du Fu’s poems generally required to be able to recite them all, which is also a basic skill.

But such a simple question shocked the four students in the School of Wuli Town. The information they received was that the other party should have asked Wang Wei how many songs he wrote before he was thirty and recited twenty of them. They stayed up all night to prepare, but the other party’s problems were completely different.

The four of them looked at each other, and they were fooled.

After discussing for a moment, a student stood up and said, "The three officials and three separate persons were written in the second year of Qianyuan. The background is what the Tang army was defeated in Xiangzhou and the poet's saint returned to Huazhou from the eastern capital."

The students immediately recited "Xin'an Literature", "Shihao Literature", "Tongguan Literature", "New Marriage Farewell", "Getting Old Farewell", "Homeless Farewell", and memorized it without any word.

With a crisp sound of the chime, the School of Guanli Town was the first to get a point.

Then the school in Wuli Town asked a question.

"Our title is the silent scripture. Please recite the two articles of "Meng Qiu Ji" in "Lüshi Chunqiu" "The Storm and Condolences".

Li Yanqing and the other two finally realized the shamelessness of the Wuli Town School. "Lüshi Chunqiu" itself is very biased. If you ask some common sense questions, it is in line with the difficulty of the first question, but they will be asked to memorize the two most dry articles, even the third question is not as difficult as it is.

But before Li Yanqing and the others could object, the presiding officer shouted: "Change the question!"

County Magistrate Liu whispered to explain the rules to Li Kui, and Li Kui nodded. He also felt that the question was too tricky and not very kind.

Helplessly, the School of Wuli Town had to take out a backup question and asked: "It is still "Lüshi Chunqiu", please tell me how many volumes and articles "Lüshi Chunqiu" are in total, and memorize one of them at will."

The question was a little simpler. After everyone discussed it, Li Yanqing replied: "This book is divided into twelve classics, eight books, six theories, twelve volumes and one hundred and sixty chapters."

Immediately afterwards, Li Yanqing recited "Lüshi Chunqiu. Chajin", ".........The Chu people had crossed the river and his sword fell from the boat and immediately set up his boat, saying, "This is where my sword fell." The boat stopped, and went into the water to find it. The boat had already gone, but the sword could not work. Isn't it a confusing to ask for the sword if it was like this?..."

‘Dang!’ The chime sounded, and Lushan Town School also received one point.

.........

Because there was an magistrate who observed the situation, in order to make Li Kui clearer the rules, he rested for a quarter of an hour after the two rounds. At this time, the two rounds had already finished and the battle between the two sides became a draw.

In the rest room, the four of them were discussing the third question, but Li Jiuzhen sneaked in. When Wang Gui saw her, he immediately smiled, "Miss, are the books good?"

"Good! I finished reading it last night. Is there any next one?"

Zhu Jiuzhen was also fascinated by the viewing and was about to ask for another one. Wang Gui scratched his head, "It's not sold yet!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "The next book is called "The Great Sage's Monster Hunt: Flame Mountain", which will be printed next spring."

Wang Gui and Tang Huai asked in unison: "How do you know?"

"Didn't I go upstairs in the bookstore that day? The author Lu Shan Xiaoxiaozi is also here, so Manager Luo introduced him to me."

When he heard that Lushan Xiaoxiaozi was upstairs that day, Wang Gui stamped his feet and beat his chest, and was extremely regretful. He pulled Li Yanqing and asked, "Brother Qing, when will he come again?"

"He lives in Daming Mansion. I don't know when he will come, but what are you doing with him?"

"I...I want to appear in the book so that everyone knows my name."

Li Yanqing immediately laughed, "Maybe I can bring you a message, who do you want to be in the book?"

Wang Gui patted his chest, "General Wang Gui, the Cavalry."

"no!"

Li Yanqing said angrily: "At most, you can be a little demon, and you can do it or something."

"Okay!" Wang Gui immediately compromised, "Then call it...Pengboergui!"

Tang Huai also jumped out, "And I, my name is Benboer Tang!"

"And I! And I!"

Li Jiuzhen was so anxious that she jumped up, "I am their sister Benboerzhen."

Li Yanqing laughed, "Okay! I'll write to him when I go back."

At this time, Yue Fei asked softly, "Miss Li is looking for us, is there anything else?"

A word reminded Li Jiuzhen, and she hurriedly said, "Dad asked me to ask Brother Qing, how is the wound?"

"It has completely swelled and scabbed. Thanks to your father yesterday, thanks him for me."

At this time, the bell at the beginning of the third round rang, and Li Jiuzhen whispered to Li Yanqing: "My father is going to write a seven-character poem for everyone to describe the customs and customs of his hometown. Whoever writes it well will win."

After saying that, she ran away.

...........

Yang Xin, the academic officer of Xiangzhou, hinted that Liu Magistrate, and Guanren Li was very interested in coming up with a winning question.

County Magistrate Liu immediately understood and told the presiding officer that he would arrange the third question to the prefect to give the question.

At the beginning of the third round of the competition, the presiding judge announced the new rules.

"The third question of both sides is ready to be written, but this is the final decisive battle. In order to be fair and convince everyone, we decided that the third question will be given by the reviewer. Only one question will be given, and the best one will win."

Li Yanqing remembered what Li Jiuzhen said just now. This should be the question given by her father Li Kui. At this time, a thought suddenly popped up. Perhaps this was an opportunity to tell his father the grievances, and he won the favor of Li Guanren. Please listen to his father's grievances.

The presiding judge announced the title, "Everyone can write a poem or lyric to describe the scenery of their hometown or the people's livelihood and conditions. The time is half an hour, and it begins!"

The topic is very broad and the poems are available, which gives students full display of their talents, but there are also hidden opportunities for cheating.

The four students in the School of Jingli Town were ecstatic. Their master wrote more than a dozen poems describing the scenery of Jingli for them to refer to. Each of them could choose one from them.

The four people in Lushan Town School were also very excited. Everyone wanted to show their best talent in front of the magistrate and wanted to be favored by the magistrate.
Chapter completed!
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