It was the end of the year, and Chu Ci and the two agreed to meet again on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and then they were separated.

Chu Ci went to Hanmo Bookstore first, handed over the illustration template of the last time, and talked with Manager Lu about the printing of the question collection, and then left with the money he had received.

Because he bought a lot of things and went home last time, when he asked about the price, he seemed to have bought a few more money, so Chu Ci was deprived of his right to shop. Moreover, it was already the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the New Year's goods at home should have been long overdue.

All ready.

After returning home, I was busy for a few days. This was the first time Chu Ci celebrated such a New Year atmosphere. Whether it was sweeping the dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets and window flowers, or eating freshly fried meatballs with Chu Xiaoyuan, it was all the time

It's so fresh.

In the past, when his family celebrated the New Year, the family went to a hotel to ask for a New Year’s Eve dinner. After they finished, they started chatting. As they chatted, they would turn to their respective fields and then turn into fierce discussions.

Sometimes Chu Ci would think, maybe they hope that the students sitting next to them are their students. In this way, they can write down what they just discussed and participate in their topic without any obstacles.

In fact, Chu Ci was also very good at science when he was in high school. He chose liberal arts to have more topics with them. Fortunately, although he didn't have more topics later, he gradually fell in love with liberal arts while studying.

Now the family is sitting together, looking at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, drinking some wine, telling two jokes, and looking forward to a bright future. How great is it.

After the New Year, I visited relatives and friends in various ways. The Chu family has a simple population. On the second year of the lunar month, Aunt Chu brought her husband and children to pay New Year's greetings. Chu Ci heard him nagging again. What he said was still so irrelevant and always

Don’t forget to show off how much you know.

The Chu family was used to it, including Chu Ci's cousin and cousins, all of whom went in and out of the right ear, and they were obviously annoyed. The Chu family treated their family with good tea and food, and then sent them away politely.

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Their family went to my uncle's house in the third year of junior high school. The two aunts also arranged a large table of dishes to serve. Although they were not expensive, they tasted very good.

In the fourth day of the lunar month, Chu Guang took Shen Xiuniang and Chu Xiaoyuan to the Shen family to pay New Year's greetings. They would stay for a few more days. Chu Ci should have gone to Master Qin's house to pay New Year's greetings, but Master Qin stayed at Yue's house in Fucheng every year for the New Year, and he had already said

After Chu Ci's new year, he went to the county school to see him.

So today, there were only two of them, mothers and sons left in the family.

Chu's mother made a wide range of friends, and followed a large group of old ladies to take advantage of the New Year to sit in this and that she would leave Chu Ci behind.

Chu Ci actually wanted to communicate with young people in the village, but after searching through his memories, he couldn't find the friend the original owner made in the village, so he could only give up. Fortunately, Qin Zhao, the boy, came to their village to pay New Year's greetings.

So a few days later, he followed Qin Zhao to run all over the mountain.

Most of the animals in winter are clumsy. After Chu Ci followed him for a few days, he even beat a hare back with his own hands. That night, the hare was eaten by their family.

In a blink of an eye, it was the tenth day of the first lunar month.

Chu Ci bid farewell to his family, stepped onto the mule cart that came to pick him up, and went to the Zhang family.

When Zhang Wenhai and Fang Jinyang saw Chu Ci, they immediately came up to meet each other. The three of them bowed each other and chatted for a long time. After entering the study, Zhang Wenhai wanted to say something, but then he heard Chu Ci say:

"Brother Kuozhi and Brother Jinyang, let's take out the lessons assigned before now. If you haven't seen each other for more than ten days, I believe you will definitely make great progress."

Zhang Wenhai's smile froze on his face. He looked at Fang Jinyang unconsciously and found that he had gone to get his homework. He couldn't help but whine in his heart, and walked to his desk and brought a stack of paper.

Chu Ci took Fang Jinyang's homework, then flipped through it page by page, and then smiled with satisfaction, "Brother Jinyang is indeed very hardworking. All these studies have been done well. It's here, I need to avoid it and use the next word.

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In ancient times, when writing articles, you need to "tag for the respected ones, taboo for the relatives, taboo for the wise ones." If you do not pay attention to avoiding taboos, you will cancel your fame and reputation at the least, and you will fall into a literary inquisition and will not be able to escape.

Your Majesty’s taboo is now, and there is a sentence in Fang Jinyang’s article, “It’s as bright as the light of the moon”. Perhaps it’s because it’s written smoothly and I forgot to avoid it for a while.

Fang Jinyang looked scared, "Thank you Brother Chu for your advice. I almost committed a big taboo. It's really not worth it!"

"No problem, just remember the names of emperors of this dynasty in history."

After checking Fang Jinyang's homework, Chu Ci gave him another question for him to ponder, and then began to read Zhang Wenhai's.

While watching, he unconsciously buckled the table with his knuckles, and Zhang Wenhai's little heart also jumped "bang bang bang" with his knock.

After Chu Ci finished reading it, he showed a warm smile at Zhang Wenhai.

"Brother Kuozhi's poems about plum blossoms and snow are really well written, especially this sentence "The spring breeze cannot help but feel the lovesickness of snow", which seems particularly affectionate. I guess it is a good thing to be near."

Zhang Wenhai smiled awkwardly. He was already in his prime and his family began to look for a wife's house for him. He "blue old trees" and he couldn't help but feel a little rippling.

"However, what do the few sentences appear in this article mean? Can you please explain it to me in the following?"

Chu Ci circled several places with red pens, and these are all places that quote allusions. Perhaps 90% of them were all nonsense by Zhang Wenhai himself, because Chu Ci had never seen them anywhere.

Just like when his former students wrote essays, they liked to quote famous quotes in the first sentence. Later, "Wozkissud" came out, and sometimes they could get away with it, which was really ridiculous.

Zhang Wenhai stammered and couldn't speak. There have been many people in the family these days. Every time he wanted to work hard, he would be interrupted. So he could only write quickly and had no time to be careful.

Think about it.

What appeared inside, "Meng Gong lying on the couch in the past, suddenly saw a big white-browed worm" and so on, were actually all dreams of...

"Let's do this, it's enough for Brother Jinyang to complete that article today. Brother Kuozhi, you only need to complete three articles. How about it?"

Zhang Wenhai felt relieved and nodded immediately. When he took over the question handed over by Chu Ci, he almost burst into tears.

They were all split and intercepted questions! And they were very different! He clearly saw that Jinyang was a big question, which was a passage that directly intercepted the article.

It seems that Brother Chu has no intention of forgiveing ​​him, alas...

When Chu Ci finished checking the homework of these two people, he also began to complete his own poem every day assigned by Master Qin, who had never slacked off.

At first, his poems were filled in the rhyme before he began to copy them. The poems he wrote looked decent, but in fact they were pretentious and nonsense.

But after writing too much, he actually got some inspiration. The one or two sentences he could pick up occasionally, the more he tasted it, the more he tasted it. On the day when he was most inspired, he wrote three poems in one breath, all about folk customs and habits.

Although it looks simple, it has a lot of meaning.

The poems he wrote today are also inspired by feelings, which are about children who are playful and fighting wits and courage with their husbands. Of course, the prototypes in the poem are naturally Chu Xiaoyuan and Zhang Wenhai.

A few days passed after a few days. When the Lantern Festival was in the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chu Ci brought all his relatives to the town and visited the lantern festival for a night.

He declined Zhang Wenhai's invitation and opened three rooms in the inn and got together again.

The next day, Chu Ci sent them out, and returned to the Zhang family and happened to meet Hu Zi, a friend from the bookstore at the door.

"Siucai Chu, you are back. The shopkeeper has something to ask you for help. Come and go with me." After that, he was about to rush out.

"What's so anxious?" Chu Ci wondered, what was the matter in a hurry? Could it be that someone wanted a large illustration again?

"You will know when you go with me. This is a good thing!"

Chu Ci felt something in his heart, so he accelerated his pace, followed Hu Zi, and came to Hanmo Bookstore.

"Siucai Chu, please come on the second floor."

Chu Ci stepped onto the second floor and saw several people in the room. He didn't know anyone except Manager Lu.

"Chu Xiucai, you are here. Let me introduce you to Zhang Shuban, the subordinate of the Wenshu master, these two managers Huang and Qi from the county bookstores. This is Mr. Xu who bought illustrations last time."

Chu Ci frowned secretly, what are these people coming here for? Especially Zhang Shuban, if he joins forces with the modern officialdom, he is probably the kind of office director. How could he come to such a small bookstore? There is also Huang Guanjun

If you are in charge of the business, you have to be the manager of the publishing house. Only the small bookstore holds their share, how could they come together?

The strangest thing is that Mr. Xu kept staring at him, with deep meaning in his eyes.

Of course, what I thought in my mind was just a moment. In the eyes of everyone, after hearing the introduction of Manager Lu, the scholar immediately bowed and greeted everyone. He was neither humble nor arrogant, and acted humble and politely. It was indeed the person who could write that collection of questions.

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"Sure enough, a hero is a young man. After reviewing the collection of documents, you immediately exclaimed and said that only those with great talent can come up with these questions. I was curious and took the initiative to come to my house, hoping that you don't mind."

"Zhang Shu has given the award, but he is not talented, but he just accepts the words of the wise men into a volume. He is really not a great talent."

"Haha, you are too humble. After reading the question book, the master of the clerk presented it to his parents. His parents were from Jiayou for 38 years and were from the same Jinshi period. Even he had agreed, how could it be wrong?

What is the reason? I came to my house today to discuss something with you.”

"It's okay to say it, boy listen carefully."

"Old parents were deeply worried about the students in this county. Looking at the entire Ganzhou Prefecture, there were endless talented people, and the number of scholars and juren has increased year by year. Only in Yuanshan County, the number of scholars who passed the exam has decreased year by year.

Whenever I think about this, my parents will cry secretly, saying that they are incompetent in the county, so that talented people can be buried among the crowd.”

Zhang Shuban sighed, and the others looked sad, as if they were all sad about the county magistrate's words. Chu Ci also looked sighing. He really wanted those modern people who think they can blow rainbow farts to see him.

At a glance, what is a real old workplace fry?

"But a few days ago, my parents read your collection of questions and felt very comforted, saying that if there were more talents like you in the county, why worry about Yuanshan County not rising? Just put this question on

If the students join the county, the students will definitely be very happy, and the number of scholars this year will definitely increase."

Zhang Shuban's face was sunny, and others were like a rainbow after the rain. Such face-changing skills made people admire him.

After hearing this, Chu Ci finally understood that it was the county magistrate who liked his collection of titles. He wanted to publish it across the county, and he might also want the right to name it.

Because if the students are really lucky enough to pass the exam for the scholar after they have finished the test, they will naturally be grateful. If they look through the book again and see the name of the county magistrate appearing in the editor-in-chief's column, why worry about people's unhappiness?

Chu Ci thought about it carefully and felt that this matter was beneficial or harmless to him. At most, he ranked the name among the editors. The head of a county would never completely erase his contribution. Moreover, the county magistrate published it himself,

At that time, the publication fee will definitely be endless.

Chu Ci said seriously: "It is a blessing for the boy to be able to share the worries of the old parents. This collection of questions will be handled by the old parents with full authority, and the boy will have nothing to say."

He means, you can take it away all the time. I promise that the tone is very tight and will not reveal any news.

Zhang Shuban and the others smiled at each other. If they were so sensible, then things would be easier.

"I heard that you gave this collection of questions called "Cihai"?"
To be continued...