The three general examinations are over, and if you pass the test or fail, it will be decided. The general exam is the last knockout round, and the palace exam after that is a qualifying match. As long as you can enter, you will be guaranteed to be a jinshi. There is no need to study hard like before the general exam.
Most of the candidates are ten years, twenty years, thirty years... After the cold window, they don't have the kind of spirit to be a jinshi, or at least a jinshi. As long as I can pass the exam quickly and end the three-yearly, endlessly long ordeal.
Even a young man like Cui Xie wanted to let go of himself, and Lu Juren even went home and changed his clothes in a hurry, then went to find a place to drink with his fellow villagers, and went away with his life. Some of the Qian'an students also went to celebrate with their fellow villagers after they finished their exams. Some had not yet left the exam room. Mrs. Cui asked someone to prepare a few tables of good banquets for them, but they couldn't get together. , the dishes are all hot on the stove.
Cui Xie took Xie Ying home, and those good dishes finally had their place.
He asked people to set up a small feast in his courtyard, and brought some good dishes to his grandparents and younger siblings. He also asked the big kitchen to keep more stews and soups so that those who came back late could eat them when they got home. superior. Most of what he wanted was appetizers, and he asked someone to open the altar of the good wine that Xie's family had sent before, folded it into a small pot and warmed it up, raised the pot in anticipation and poured two glasses with his own hands.
Xie Ying raised his glass to him: "Today, my virtuous brother is a candidate, and my foolish brother will give you a toast first. I wish you a success in the palace exams and a title on the gold list."
Cui Xie happily raised his head and drank a cup, then raised the jug to pour the wine, and raised the cup with both hands: "My brother also wishes him good luck and a bright future."
He almost didn't care about eating, and looking at Xie Ying, he could drink a few glasses of wine. Xie Ying put a chopstick of steamed fish into his bowl, and told him to pad his stomach so that he wouldn't drink the wine in a hurry. Xiao Songyan, who was serving on the side, hurriedly took the chopsticks to put vegetables on both sides, and said nervously: "It's up to the young to serve the adults and the young master to eat the vegetables, how can you ask the adults to do it!"
Xie Ying held the chopsticks and was not busy eating. She smiled and said to Cui Xie, "You little servant, I remember that your family holding inkstone was at such an age, so diligent and sensible, right?"
Cui Xie shook his head: "He is even younger than when he was holding the inkstone. He has little body and no strength, so I can't bear to ask him to work." He smiled when he saw Xiao Songyan hurriedly preparing vegetables Laugh: "There aren't many tables in total, so don't make trouble for Mr. Xie here. It's cold at night. You go to the kitchen to ask for two bowls of steamed double-skin milk, and then go and burn a brazier."
The living room is naturally not as warm as the inner room with the heated kang, but unfortunately the Cui family has many eyes, and it is not convenient for him to let the guests into his bedroom...
Cui Xie thought for a while with the wine cup in his mouth, suddenly spit out the cup, and said with a smile, "Our family didn't expect to welcome distinguished guests, and we didn't invite anyone to sing, so we had to use the article to serve the wine. We'll eat almost the same thing later. Now, how about you go to my study and send wine with articles?"
His study usually does not allow people to enter. If you want to talk about doing some private things in this house, it really is the most convenient in the study. After a while, ask someone to set the stove leading to the kang in the study, sit on the kang warmly, and read comics and articles, isn't it good
Xiao Songyan finally knew what to do, and walked out of the courtyard with stiff steps, looking for someone to get food, a brazier, and set a kang in the study. Cui Xie became an attentive host, persuading Xie Ying to eat and drink with vegetables and wine. Master Xie also understood that he had just finished the exam, was tired and hungry, and did not give him less food.
The kang in the study was done burning, and the two of them had almost eaten, so they carried a pot of wine and picked out a bunch of boxes of fish vinegar, dried meat, dried fruits, rice cakes, etc. The slightly condensed double skin milk went to the study to read.
The study room is also similar to the layout he had in Qian'an: a heated kang under the north window, a large bookshelf on the east wall, and a countdown board for the exam on the opposite side. Under the bookshelf is a sofa with soft sand and feathers, and there is a small coffee table in front of the sofa. The food is placed on the sofa, and it is very comfortable for people to go to the kang or lie on the sofa.
The trial is over, the date on the timing board has been wiped off, and there is no longer that kind of heart-wrenching feeling. Xie Ying swept across the board, and walked to the bookshelf to read the books on it—from the Four Books and Five Classics to the Tongjian, from the Tang and Song Dynasty Collections to the Examination of Ink... Except for the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the imperial books, he was familiar with them. Just looking at it makes me dizzy.
He smiled, looked at Cui Xie and said, "If Cui Juren asked me to read these articles, then I'd better look at the people who wrote the articles. I can't read the articles, but I can see that they wrote them. The article lives well."
He is usually dignified and solemn, and when he says such words suddenly, it really makes people tremble.
Cui Xie was looking through the drawings in the cabinet door under the bookshelf. Hearing him praise himself, he didn't even look for anything. He looked at him with bright eyes. Even the dark circles under his eyes from the exam days made his smile fade. With a radiant face, he said, "Brother Xie, just watch it. If you don't have enough time, why don't you just stay and watch it at night? Abandoning the few fellow villagers who have lived more recently, there are no other guest rooms. Why don't I live in the study room and vacate the bedroom for you? live?"
"It's inconvenient for you to be here after all. At night, when your fellow villagers come back from exams, or come back from a drink, why don't they come to talk to you? Are you going to stay with me without seeing people all night, or just go out to meet them?"
Xie Ying shook her head, walked to the front of the cabinet, bent down to hug him from behind, and slowly tightened her arms: "Still go to my place. My new house is not yet occupied, so you don't have to go to study in Sinology on the first day of next month? "
National Studies!
That's right, Guozijian can only be out of school in five years, and he has to go to school quickly after finishing the exam! Although he took the jinshi exam in advance, he was still a student of Sinology for one day if he didn't pass the exam. Before, I just thought that I could let go after the exam, but I didn’t expect that this exam would not be a college entrance examination but a proficiency exam. After the exam, I had to go to school and wait for the final exam...
Thinking of this, Cui Xie's eyebrows drooped down. He took out a pile of scripts and drawings of comic strips from the cabinet and asked Xie Ying, the invisible hero, to look at them.
He tucked himself into the sofa and didn't want to do anything.
Xie Ying didn't get on the hot kang, but went over and picked him up and told him to lie on his lap.
Those manuscript papers were afraid of being dirty and oily, so they couldn't be placed on the coffee table, so Xie Ying held the manuscript in one hand and twitched the pages he had read with the other to the bottom. When he was eating, he took off his official robe and changed into the long sleeves that Cui Xie usually wears. The wide sleeves dragged back and forth on Cui Xie's face, making his face itchy, and he couldn't lie down, so he simply got up. , leaning against Xie Ying to read the manuscript with him.
The manuscript for March has already been sent to the press, but it will not be sold until the eighth day of March. The script for April is also in his hands. He has just drawn a few pages and split the mirror, and he is still there because of the exam.
Also because of the exam, the two-month drafts are really drafts. The figures are only drawn with bald heads and no clothes, and the poses have to be designed by him. The background is only roughly drawn with a few lines, and the words "courtyard", "inner room" and "tree" are written. Only a few lines are used on the face to define the orientation angle and the position of the facial features. The names of the characters are written on the body.
When he first painted Xie Ying, he thought that he couldn't stop when he started to paint, and there were too many angles and expressions. Later, he didn't have time to paint by himself. He remembered that those people could set up drafts, and tried to let Cui Qi on the drafts. According to the drawn face, draw the corresponding clothes along the contour of the body.
It doesn't look too bad.
A beginner like Cui Qi can draw it, and a skilled craftsman is not a problem.
He simply took some time to draw the faces and expressions of the thousands of households who appeared most frequently, and asked the painters and handymen to practice sketching according to the drawings.
Slowly, everyone realized the benefits of setting the drawing according to the standard.
It's really fast, accurate, and hassle-free. Cui Xie just made the roughest draft, and it took a few minutes to get one. Each of the craftsmen divides a draft, and draws a picture against the corresponding character, and they can draw a picture with good skills. And those engraving masters are also well-carved and embroidered, and they only need to add two color pictures in front and back, and it doesn't take much effort.
Now he only needs to give a crosshair when he is typing, and the craftsmen at home can draw the facial features with almost no distortion according to the benchmark. Even if there is a slight difference, readers will not be able to see it. They will only regard it as a result of changes in posture and expression. They will not know that the comic strips they are watching are produced by the division of labor between many painters and the advanced methods of modern comic studios.
Xie Ying heard him introduce the advanced mode of his study, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Can you still draw like this? I also read three books in your family, and I wondered where you invited such a person to paint quickly and well. The artist didn't even see that each page was made by different people!
Cui Xie was a little proud, but also a little embarrassed: "Actually, I only started to draw pencil sketches, and asked Cui Qi and the others to draw and color it, but it was not as tight as it was when they were able to try... In fact, this is fine, in the future. Whatever I want to draw, I can just make a draft and give it to them to finish, and it will save me time."
Xie Ying hugged him from behind with pity, and rubbed his fingertips against his slightly blue eyes: "You should save some time and rest. Have other scholars worked so hard like you? It doesn't matter, at the beginning, "Six Talents Commenting on Three Kingdoms" was stopped for so long, and everyone who watched it was willing to wait?"
He lowered his head and glanced at the names of "Wang Qianhu", "Lu Qianhu", "Japanese Bandit Four", "Japanese Bandit Ten" and other names on the picture, and affirmed: "Anyway, everyone is just anxious to see how An Qianhu seduces the Japanese bandit. After the painting is over, don’t worry if you don’t paint others.”
Then how can you not worry, An Qianhu is not the protagonist, the protagonist is Xie Zhenfu! I haven't painted the picture of Daming Town Master Fu Xie leading fourteen super thousand households to the battlefield. The reader is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry!
He leaned his head and looked at the stack of drawing papers, took out the outline he wrote from it, and pouted at Xie Ying: "Look, Xie Zhenfu's plays are all going to Zhejiang to fight Japanese pirates in the back, and the front ones are all 14,000. It doesn't matter if there are scattered stories from households, the main event will come later."
Xie Ying really looked from the back, not seeing how An Qianhu divided the Japanese pirates with beauty, and he and the big and small Xu Qianhu had seized a sea-going boat; nor was Wang Qianhu, who was about to be sent to the south of the Yangtze River to track down the thieves, was arrested. Miss Japanese pirates took a fancy to Shi Meinan's plan to copy the story of the sea route map; she did not see that Lu Qianhu, Shi Qianhu and others found out in Fujian and Guangdong that Japanese pirates colluded with local profiteers to smuggle silk and porcelain, how to deal with them, in one fell swoop Breaking its roots on land...
He ignored all these, and only saw how he mobilized the Jinyiwei army to go to the south of the Yangtze River secretly after he got the route map.
When Cui Xie wrote this, the more he wrote, the more excited he became. He almost called Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu as the bosses for decades. Xie Ying couldn't help blushing when she saw it herself, coughed lightly, and whispered against his face: "We Jinyiwei can't go out to fight so easily, it's just for etiquette, not really capable..."
Cui Xie stole a kiss on his face, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, anyway, I painted the first year of the Tang Dynasty. The Jinyiwei in the Tang Dynasty is different from our Daming. And there is no Japanese pirate who can reach Daming like this. soil of."
During the Cheng and Hong years, Japan was still fighting a village chief-level battle on Xiaopo Island, and there were not many pirates who could harass China. As long as this comic can plant this seed in people's hearts, prevent the small and the gradual, and don't have so many traitors colluding with Japanese pirates to kidnap Daming, those ronin alone won't be so easy to wreak havoc in the country.
Xie Ying looked at the brilliance in his eyes, couldn't help but smiled along with him, pulled him to sit on his lap, cupped his hands and said, "What you're saying is that the Jinyiwei of Datang can only take advantage of Elephants can repel the pirates, and they can also take a boat to clear their island, and bind their king to Beijing as a prisoner. Unfortunately, the warriors of Jinyiwei do not understand Japanese. We can add Cui Hanlin here to help Xie Zhenfu and them translate Japanese. , and help him hit the island."
This article is no good, the outline has been handed over to the Hanlins, and they can only write until the battle at the seaside, and they have agreed to write the Tatar in the next article, so they can only wait for the third article. Fortunately, comics can be serialized indefinitely if they want to be serialized. In the future, I will draw slowly, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can understand the era of great navigation and the development of science and technology outside...
Even if he draws comics, more people read it and less believe it, what's the big deal? Now, as long as he paints the future world as a fairy tale story, it will be confirmed by future generations that what he painted and what will happen in the future will know how big the world is and how fast the outside world is changing. Perhaps this will allow Daming to develop together with the outside world while he is still capable of development, so as not to repeat the history he knows
With unrealistic hopes in his heart, he looked up at Xie Ying and said with a smile, "Then Cui Hanlin, a weak scholar, how could he help Mr. Xie to pacify the Japanese pirates? You Jinyiwei have martial arts, and I can only use them as a scholar. Firearms, you have to arrange for me the tactics of people who use firearms?"
Xie Yingyuan was just joking with him, but he didn't think he really wanted to add himself, and he stood side by side in the picture book.
The insinuation of this picture book is very strong, and each of the fourteen thousand households corresponds to each other. If Cui Xielu included a character alluding to himself in the book, and was still with Xie Zhenfu, then the relationship between the two of them... at least the friendship, was really known to the world.
But he couldn't refuse as easily as when he said this, because Cui Xie did not promise him lightly, and his attitude and expression were very serious.
He had always felt that Cui Xie was young, and because he was young and often in difficult situations, he couldn't tell whether he was grateful or liked for a little benefit, and he was willing to give back with heart and soul. But he didn't want to take favors in return, so he always wanted to push Cui Xie away and let him live the serious life that a scholar should have.
It was not until these years that he gradually realized Cui Xie's sincerity, and he couldn't bear to use reasons like "for his own good" to destroy his heart. No matter how reluctant he was, he just sighed deeply: "We don't usually use firearms, and we can't think of it for a while. We have to ask others and think about it. I'll look back and see if there are any books with firearms drawings. I'll give you an idea. You get a copy. You scholars are usually hard to see, and I'm afraid you won't be able to draw them. It's easier to have a map for reference."