Weiyang of the Red Mansion

"Uncle Hong, my nephew has just returned to Suzhou, and there are still some trivial matters in the old house, so my nephew will leave first."

Seeing that Lin Lang was determined to take part in this year's Tongsheng Examination, Lin Hong sighed inwardly, "Okay, I'll ask Xuan'er to take you back."

"Don't bother Brother Xuan, the little nephew can go back by himself."

Lin Hong shook his head and said, "Now that the spring is cold, I'd better ask Xuan'er to take you back."

Seeing that Lin Hong seemed to have made up his mind to let Lin Xuan see him off, Lin Lang stopped talking, thanked him and left.

Lin Xuan sent Lin Lang back to the mansion, Lin Lang invited Lin Xuan to sit down for a while, Lin Xuan also had many questions in his mind, so he was invited into the old house of the Lin family.

After entering the door, the two sat down in the main room. Without Lin Lang's order, Liang Dong called someone in to serve tea, and then left.

"Brother Xuan is now past the age of weak crown, when do you plan to take the exam?"

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "Last year, the teacher resigned from the school, and now I haven't found a suitable teacher to teach. My father also wants me to accumulate for another year or two. Besides, your sister-in-law was injured during childbirth last year, and she was sick from time to time. I There are also young children under my knees who need to be taken care of, and I really can't get away from it."

Hearing this, Lin Lang was stunned.

His elder brother got married in the year when his grandfather Lin Ji died of illness. Two years after the marriage, he gave birth to a son named Lin Xuan. Last year, he got another daughter named Lin Shiyu. .

"Brother Xuan has both sons and daughters now," Lin Lang praised, and then said, "I heard that Brother Ji also got a daughter last year?"

"That's right, the first day of February will be a week. Since you are in Suzhou, you can't miss it."

Lin Lang raised his forehead, "This is as it should be."

"Brother Lang intends to pass the Tongsheng Examination in one go?" Lin Xuan pondered.

The Tongsheng Examination includes the County Examination, the Government Examination, and the Academy Examination. Lin Lang came to Suzhou like this and paid so much attention to it. Obviously, he would not give up after passing the county examination.

"Brother Xuan, what suggestion do you have?"

Lin Xuan shook her head slightly, "I don't have any suggestions, I'm just worried that you won't be able to bear it. My father said that you had a serious illness last year, so I don't know if you are in good health. The county examination is in February, when the spring is cold. Can your small body handle it?"

"Brother Xuan, don't worry, if you really fail, I won't insist on finishing the exam in vain." Lin Lang laughed.

Hearing this, Lin Xuan was relieved.

Lin Lang looks much more stable now, he doesn't look like a liar, he chooses to believe Lin Lang.

After getting accurate news from Lin Lang, Lin Xuan didn't stay long, and left after drinking tea.

The next day was the first day of February, Lin Ji’s eldest daughter’s Grasping Sunday. Lin Lang brought gifts to the door early in the morning, and when the Grasping Week was over, he went straight back to his old house in Suzhou and stopped going out, declaring that he was preparing for the upcoming county. try.

The county examination came as scheduled. In the first examination, there were two four-character essays and one five-character six-rhyme test post poem. The title, poem, and writing style all had a certain format.There are still four more games to follow. Lin Lang is very well prepared. When the list is released, he occupies the first place one after another. Coupled with his young age, he is very eye-catching.

After the final exam, Lin Lang won the first place in the county exam without any suspense.

Lin Xuan and Lin Ji were ordered to pick up Lin Lang outside the examination room. He thought that Lin Lang would not be able to persevere, but he did not expect that he would persevere for five consecutive exams. He was worried that Lin Lang would hold on, but in the end, Lin Lang's face was ruddy and he was full of energy. When he came out of the examination room, he was in sharp contrast with the pale-faced other students beside him.

"Brother Xuan, Brother Ji, why are you here?" The two elder brothers of the Lin family are all dragons and phoenixes, with imposing looks, standing out from the crowd, why can't Lin Lang see it?

Looking at the rosy-faced Lin Lang, Lin Xuan couldn't say any more words, cleared her throat, and Lin Xuan said, "The master was worried that you would not be able to bear it, but now it seems that we have underestimated you. Jianlang. I was already 16 years old when I took the Tongsheng Examination. Even so, after passing the county examination, I lost half my life. Speaking of it, my body and bones are not as good as Langdi you."

"Brother Xuan was joking. You also know that I was seriously ill last year. My Lin family title was lost when I came to my father. Even my father was able to enter the imperial examination, let alone me? The difficulty of the imperial examination is actually because I am too weak. I can't bear it, a strong body is indispensable to successfully pass the imperial examination, and I have exercised a lot this year, but Big Brother Xuan doesn't know."

Lin Lang's words were tantamount to deceiving ghosts, and these words also deceived the two brothers Lin Xuan who didn't know anything about it. Instead of Yunxiu and Bichun serving by his side, his lies could be exposed in a blink of an eye.

"Strong physique?" Lin Xuan thought for a while, then smiled, "That's the reason."

"Okay, big brother, Brother Lang, let's go back and talk if we have anything to say." Lin Ji interjected.

Lin Xuan and Lin Lang looked at each other and smiled, "Okay, let's go back first."

Lin Lang followed Brother Lin Xuan back to meet Lin Hong. Lin Hong saw that Lin Lang looked good and healthy, and finally there was no reason to stop Lin Lang from participating in the children's test.

I have passed the most difficult county exams, not to mention the government exams that started in early summer and the college exams in late summer.

With the passage of time, the government examination in April came as scheduled soon. There were three government examinations, the first two were for one day each, and the last one was for two days.

When Lin Lang returned home after the exam, he ran into Liang Dong who was full of joy, "Master, you have returned home after the exam."

"Grandpa Liang's face is full of red, what good thing happened?" Lin Lang teased.

"Hey, what happened to this old slave? It's our Lin family's luck." Liang Dong said without making a fool of himself. Before Lin Lang could ask, he smiled and said, "I have a letter from Beijing. My wife gave birth to a daughter safely, oh, yes, this is a letter from the master to the uncle." He took out the unopened envelope from his bosom and handed it to Lin Lang.

Lin Lang was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately beamed with joy. He took Liang Dong's letter and opened it to read.

In the letter, Lin Ruhai mentioned his younger sister, whom he had never met. In the letter, he said that he named his younger sister Daiyu, and asked Lin Lang if it was a good name. He also mentioned the exam in February, saying that he had finished the exam, but not yet. After posting the list, he asked Lin Lang if he was safe during his stay in Suzhou. He mentioned a lot of trivial matters in bits and pieces. It was not difficult to see between the lines that his father was not displeased because his mother gave birth to a younger sister. Even Lin Lang could I can see the joy of my father between the lines.

"Daiyu..." Lin Lang read out the baby name of his younger sister that Lin Ruhai had mentioned in his heart, and couldn't help laughing, "Master seems to like my younger sister very much."

Liang Dong laughed and said, "Master has only a few cousins ​​in the next room in this life. Although the wife failed to give birth to another unicorn for the master, it also adds to our family. It is also a great joy."

"It's indeed a happy event, but it's a pity that I'm far away from my hometown in Suzhou, so I can't see my sister. When I return to Beijing, I have to wait until the exam results are released." Lin Lang has always been an only child, and it's rare to have a younger sister. Not happy?

Leaving aside the step-wife eldest aunt of my grandmother's family, the second aunt is really amazing. At the age of 40, she can still give birth to a son for the uncle. There are two sons and one daughter under her knees, all born of this second aunt.

Seeing that cousin Zhu has younger brothers and sisters, he is also envious.

But now, he also has a younger sister.

"It's more than half of April now, and it's just another four or five months before I can return to Beijing. You don't need to be in a hurry."

Now in Suzhou, who doesn't know that the late Wenyuan Hou Linji had a child prodigy grandson who won the county examination when he was only ten years old. Lang's government test is mandatory?

In addition, the news that the masters in Beijing will be the first in the high school passed back to Suzhou. Now everyone knows that there is a successor to the Lin family.

Lin Lang raised his forehead slightly, and immediately remembered something, and said, "I remember that a few years ago, I got a piece of uncarved warm jade with my father in Suzhou. You can take it to Master Lu in Dongcheng to help carve jade pieces. I will return to Beijing at the end of the year. To give to my sister."

"Yes, sir, this old slave will go now."

Liang Dong was ordered to retire, and Lin Lang returned to his study to continue his studies.

The county test and the government test were not difficult for Lin Lang. He easily won the first place in the county test. Although the results of the government test have not yet come out, Lin Lang is still very confident in his ranking.

But the college exam...he didn't dare to assert that he would definitely get the first place, and those who passed the county and government exams were capable people.

What's more, if he won the first place in the Zhongxian Examination and the Prefectural Examination consecutively at the age of ten, if he meets an examiner who loves talent in the college examination and tries to suppress his talent, he will be finished...

No matter what the situation is, Lin Lang has to take into account that in the next hospital examination, he must not give anyone a chance to overtake him, and there must be no slack in letting anyone overtake him.

If he didn't pass the exam, and a talent was taken away by the system, no matter what kind of talent it was, it would be very obvious. If it fell into the eyes of others, it would mean that he couldn't bear the blow, and he didn't know how the picker outside arranged him. .

It's just that he doesn't care about these gossips, and he doesn't want to be a joke after dinner.

For the next college examination, Lin Lang seldom went out, and when he went out, he only went to visit Lin Hong's house. As for those poetry fairs in Suzhou, Lin Lang had no interest at all. He participated in the children's examination just to complete the task, not to Become an official.

Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, there was news from Beijing that Lin Ruhai Palace had won the test.

When Lin Lang got the news, the members of the Lin family naturally got the news too. In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Xuan and Lin Ji came to congratulate her, accompanied by Lin Xuan and Lin Ji's two cousins, Lin Jin and Lin Shen.

Both of them are Lin Lang's clan brothers, just like Lin Xuan's two brothers. Lin Jin is eighteen years old, nearly nine years older than Lin Lang, and Lin Shen is fifteen years old, five or six years older than Lin Lang.

"Brother Lang, Uncle Hai is now in high school. After all, you are Uncle Hai's only son. Don't you plan to return to Beijing?"

Lin Lang lowered his eyes and murmured, "Since I have come this far, there is no reason to give up halfway."

"I know that you have passed the county examination and the government examination, and you will have to take the court examination next," Lin Xuan said with a frown, "but the chief examiner for this year's court examination in our provincial capital is Yuan Qian, the Minister of Rites. One year he was appointed by the emperor to serve as the school administrator of Zhejiang Province. In that year, there was also a young student who became famous at a young age and passed the county and government examinations, and won the first place. Your Excellency has always loved talents, although not everyone knows it, but as long as you are dedicated to the imperial examinations, you will know this Lord Yuan, even if you pass the courtyard examination this year, you may not be able to get the first place."

Lin Xuan watched from the sidelines during this period of time, why didn't she know that Lin Lang intended to take care of Sanyuan?

But now it seems that this may be a little difficult.

After all, Lin Lang is too young. He is a few years younger than the student who took the first exam in Lianzhong County in the past. For Lin Lang's future, there is a [-]% chance that Master Yuan will not let Lin Lang get the first place. name.

Hearing this, Lin Lang pursed his lips and remained silent.

In fact, he somewhat dislikes these people who hurt others in the name of loving talents. If you love talents, can you deliberately deprive others of the honor they deserve?