On the second day, Chu Ci still asked Zhang Wenhai to read "The Analects of Confucius" first, then put yesterday's test paper on the table, while he wrote something on the paper.

Zhang Wenhai no longer dared to be distracted, and read the book very seriously. He read each sentence first and then memorized it again, trying to make sure that when he closed his eyes, this line of words would appear in his mind accurately.

After reading for about two-quarters of an hour, Chu Ci stopped.

"This is today's question. Just take it and write it. It will still take half an hour to finish." Chu Ci handed him the test paper.

"Yes, Brother Chu." Zhang Wenhai took the test paper respectfully and did not rush to answer the questions. Instead, he read the entire test paper from beginning to end. After he had a clear idea, he picked up a pen and circled the serial numbers in front of several questions.

Come out and answer as quickly as possible.

"Brother Chu, I'm done." Zhang Wenhaizhi stopped writing with great satisfaction. This time he did everything Chu Ci said yesterday. He no longer spent time thinking about difficult problems, and his speed increased by half compared to before.

"Oh? So fast?" Chu Ci held "Mencius" in his hand and was looking for flaws in his translation based on the annotations. When he heard Zhang Wenhai speak, he seemed to be stunned for a moment.

"Brother Chu, please review." Zhang Wenhai personally came forward with the test paper and stood next to Chu Ci, waiting for his review.

Chu Ci raised his eyebrows. The young man was very confident! He picked up the ink pen and began to change it with a "swish".

Looking at the red ticks one after another on it, Zhang Wenhai felt extremely happy. He looked at the "Mencius" on the table and thought to himself, he would probably be able to meditate on "Mencius" tomorrow.

Who would have known that after Chu Ci revised the entire paper, he did not immediately give him a score for the question. Instead, he pointed at a gap with a red pen and asked: "Why don't you do this question?"

"This question is not from The Analects of Confucius. It must have been used by Brother Chu to test what I learned yesterday, so it is left here."

This question is "Yeng Gong Ke Ke Yi", and there are two horizontal lines after it, indicating that this question requires the next two sentences silently. Zhang Wenhai saw it and knew that it was not in "The Analects", so he immediately circled it and did not do it.

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"Don't know how to do it?" Chu Ci raised his eyebrows, "You can recite "Shang Shu·Yu Shu·Yao Dian" to me and listen to it."

This "Shangshu" is also called "The Book of Books" and is one of the essential books for scholar examinations. Zhang Wenhai recalled this article and immediately began to memorize it with confidence.

"In the past, when Emperor Yao was a man of clever writing and thought, he was the master of the world... He was respectful and restrained, and he was governed by four expressions." Zhang Wenhai's smile disappeared, and his voice became softer, "Yeng Gong was restrained... and he was governed by four expressions.

…the grid is up and down.”

He stared at the blank space on the test paper, suddenly feeling particularly dazzling.

"Fill in the remaining blank questions one by one, and then come back." Chu Ci said.

"Yes..." Zhang Wenhai wilted again.

He sat back with the test paper, then thought carefully, and slowly wrote out the questions he had just circled.

"Brother Chu, I've written it."

Chu Ci didn't look at the test paper, but looked into Zhang Wenhai's eyes, "Tell me what you experienced."

Zhang Wenhai looked ashamed and said: "I... took it too much for granted, thinking that you would test me in the same way as yesterday, so I skipped the questions without even thinking about it. Later, I was even more worried because I had so much free time.

I felt complacent about the time and never thought of checking it out again, which I really shouldn’t have done.”

Chu Ci smiled happily: "I'm very pleased that you can gain something. Remember that you need to be rigorous in your studies and don't be clever."

"Brother Chu is right!" Zhang Wenhai admired in his heart. Chu Ci's endless methods made him full of confidence in his county examination this time.

In the next ten days or so, Zhang Wenhai spent time posting scriptures, and Chu Ci wrote all the important sentences in those books. In the last few days of writing, Chu Ci wrote all mixed topics, and Zhang Wenhai unexpectedly

I can also answer them as quickly as possible.

When Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang noticed their son's progress, they were very grateful to Chu Ci. Not only did they take care of his three meals a day, they also went to Mifangzhai to order pastries and delivered them to Chu Ci three times a day.

Chu Ci pinched the soft white fat on his belly, and suddenly felt a sense of crisis. If he continued like this, he would probably say goodbye to the words "gentle, handsome, and graceful" and transform into a rich, round, fat head and big ears.

Already.

So Chu Ci got up just after dawn that morning. He didn't wear much, so he warmed up in the room before going out and played a piece of Wuqinxi in the open space outside.

There are many old men living in the community where Chu Ci's family lives. Among them is an old Chinese medicine doctor who is very good at Wu Qin Opera, and many old men follow him.

Chu Ci felt that both his grandfather and father had a standard Zhan Wu Zha constitution, and he was afraid that they would spend all day studying the bad effects of sitting for a long time, so he was not ashamed to squeeze in among the old men and learn the complete set of Wu Qin Xi.

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It's a pity that his grandfather and father were too busy, and they didn't teach them all the Five Animals Opera after all...

Chu Ci was beaten until he was sweating all over, and then he stopped. He went into the room and sat quietly for a while, then changed his clothes.

"Brother Chu, I heard that you are practicing in the garden today, can you teach me?" Zhang Wenhai now sees that Chu Ci has his own beauty filter, and wants to follow him no matter what he does.

Especially after hearing that Chu Ci bowed like a tiger and was as agile as a deer, Zhang Wenhai believed that Chu Ci was actually a man of both civil and military skills.

"You?" Chu Ci looked at Zhang Wenhai for a long time and found that he had a slender body with no trace of fat on his body. He still wanted to lose weight, which shows that the man also has a lot of love for beauty.

"Wait until I come back from home. Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. Even though it is not a full birthday, as a child, you should be by your side to serve you. So today I came to ask Brother Zhang for a three-day leave." Chu Ci said.

"What about asking for leave? Just do whatever Brother Chu wants to do. Since it's your birthday, I can't easily come to bother you, but when you leave later, Brother Chu, remember to take the gift I gave to your ma'am, and you'll count me in it.

It’s a little thoughtful.” Zhang Wenhai really wanted to get close to Chu Ci’s house, but he made it clear that he just wanted to celebrate as a family, so he might as well forget it.

"Thank you, Brother Zhang, for being kind to Jiasi, but the journey is far away and I might not be able to afford it, so let's forget it." Chu Ci quickly declined. If Zhang Wenhai wants to give a gift, it must be more than just a little. He is a weak scholar, how can he give it to him?

Bring things back.

Zhang Wenhai thought that Chu Ci was embarrassed, so he said, "How can I let Brother Chu carry a heavy load? There are carriages and horses waiting at the door. Please don't worry, Brother Chu."

Chu Ci recalled the fear of being dominated by the carriage a few days ago, and couldn't help but turn pale and sour water came out of his mouth.

"How about forget it..."

"Oh, brother Chu, please don't refuse. With the relationship between you and me, why do we need to be so open-minded?"

Chu Ci smiled bitterly. Isn't this a matter of staying out of sight?

"Does Brother Zhang have an oxcart at home?" Since he can't push it, it's better to choose a slower one. At least it will be less bumpy on the road.

Zhang Wenhai was confused. Their farm was not in the town, so where did the cows come from? After understanding Ci's concerns, he couldn't help but laugh loudly. He thought Chu Ci was omnipotent, but who knew he would be afraid?

Take a horse-drawn carriage?

"Brother Chu, don't worry, I will send someone to the cattle and horse market to buy a cow."

Chu Ci quickly stopped him. Although Zhang Wenhai didn't care, for him, it was a favor that was hard to repay.

Xiao Chengzi watched the two arguing and spoke carefully from the side: "Young Master, Mr. Chu, although there are no cattle in the house, there is a mule. Is it okay?"

This is a horse mule, the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Speaking of which, Master Zhang has been angry for a while because the mare has always been loved by Master Zhang and he feels that he likes to ride it.

He was ruined. On weekdays, he occasionally went to the backyard and cursed several times when he saw the mule.

"Okay, let's just use mules. They are slower than horses and faster than oxen, so I won't bother Brother Zhang to send people to buy oxen." Chu Ci breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Wenhai was also satisfied, as long as he could send Chu Ci back to please him, it didn't matter whether it was a horse, an ox, or a donkey or a mule.

After Chu Ci got on the mule carriage, he discovered that there were a lot of things piled in the carriage. It turned out that Zhang's mother had also given a gift after hearing about it.

That's all, he just tutored Zhang Wenhai well in the past few months and helped him pass the exam to become a scholar, so he repaid the favor.

Chu Ci saw that the gifts were complete and there was no need to buy any more for food. He asked the coachman to divert to the Hanmo Bookstore and decided to spend some money to buy some jewelry for his mother.

Shopkeeper Lu was in the store today. When he saw Chu Ci, he immediately came up to him with a very enthusiastic attitude.

Chu Ci thought: When you are polite to others, you must ask for something. It seems that shopkeeper Lu has something to ask of him.

The two of them went back and forth, and after several confrontations, shopkeeper Lu finally stopped beating around the bush and said, "Chu Xiucai, I have had the seal carved in duplicate, but one is a square seal and the other is a round seal.

.The square seal is given to you, and the round seal is used to print on the illustrations in the book. What do you think?"

"Good, just do as Shopkeeper Lu says." Just to say this?

Shopkeeper Lu gave the seal to Chu Ci, and then said: "Last time Huzi told me that Chu Xiucai was unwilling to show his true colors, so I immediately pushed that person away. It's just..."

"Shopkeeper Lu, if you have any difficulty, it doesn't matter."

"It's just that the man was very clever. He actually got in touch with a steward in the county bookstore and invited me to meet him. He said that it was okay if he couldn't meet him, but he hoped that you could help him draw a painting." Shopkeeper Lu

He looked embarrassed. He knew the character of a scholar, but he didn't like that person's behavior either.

Chu Ci looked slightly cold. The county bookstore is equivalent to a modern printing factory, and the steward is the manager of the printing factory. Although the power is not great, it is very important for a bookstore like Shopkeeper Lu. This is forcing him to submit.

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But Shopkeeper Lu was innocent. In such an embarrassing situation at that time, without Shopkeeper Lu's help, their life would have been very difficult.

Shopkeeper Lu looked at Chu Ci's face turning from gloomy to clear, and felt confident that it was done. He made up his mind to negotiate a good price for Chu Ci.

"What painting did the man request?"

"The embroiderer in the biography of the embroiderer needs to be painted as tall as a person. The eyes need to be rounder, the body needs to be taller, and by the way, two more dimples need to be added to the face, and the rest is the same."

Chu Ci laughed. Could it be that this person is a crazy fan and would ask to draw this? Chu Ci thought of the otakus in the Neon Kingdom in later generations who collected goddess figurines and so on. They were no different from this person.

"Okay, I will deliver the things in five days."

Shopkeeper Lu was very happy. He paid Chu Ci three taels of silver for this month, and then prepared all the things needed for painting and sent them to the mule cart.

Shopkeeper Lu was curious when he saw many gifts piled up on top. After asking Chu Ci repeatedly, he got the answer. It turned out that it was Chu Ci's mother's birthday. For a while, he had nothing to give, so he sealed five taels of silver with red paper.

, he persuaded Chu Ci to accept it.

Chu Ci was helpless, the reason he hid it was because he was afraid of this.

But shopkeeper Lu had an expression that said he would fall out if he didn't accept his offer, which made it difficult for Chu Ci to refuse, so he had to thank him again and again.
Chapter completed!