Chapter 95 The Most Glorious Moment in Mei Xuezheng's Life

Not long after, Chen Heng showed his policy paper to Jia Yucun. However, his policy paper had always been personally guided by Lin Ruhai. After reading it for a long time, Jia Yucun could only say "good".

"Looking at your writing, there must be a master behind the scenes to guide you." Jia Yucun put down his teacup and said with great satisfaction.

Chen Heng thought for a while, but still kept the matter of Uncle Lin hidden, and only made some excuses, "The headmaster has privately advised me many times. If I can't write well again, I'm afraid I will be punished."

Jia Yucun laughed when he heard this. He saw that Pei Huaizhen could let Chen Heng go out for so long, which showed that the headmaster was taking extra care of him. He nodded again and said, "Remember to be cautious and not slack off."

Chen Heng nodded immediately, and Jia Yucun waved his hand to let him leave.

Watching the other party leave step by step, Jia Yucun lowered his head and looked at Chen Heng's article again.

As a farmer, if he had a good place like Leyi Academy and a famous teacher like Pei Huaizhen when he was a child, would his life be better now?

This question only stayed in Jia Yucun's mind for a while, and he waved it away.

It's useless to think too much. Now that he is a Jinshi, can he go back to his childhood and take the exam again?

Jia Yucun shook his head and laughed, raised his hand to find a leisure book from the bookshelf, sat back in a chair, and quietly enjoyed the afternoon.

Time flies. After Chen Heng and Xue Ke finished the make-up exam, there were only a few days left in June.

In the last two days, Mei Xuezheng, who had left the academy for many years, suddenly visited Leyi Academy again.

As the head of a school in Yangzhou Prefecture, who manages the academic achievements of scholars and students, there are many students and scholars in the academy, who are very enthusiastic about his arrival.

Chen Heng knew the news because Xue Ke, who was out halfway, came back angrily to tell him.

"So, you met Mei Shengjia on the way?"

Chen Heng called the other person's name very impolitely. Although he had no hatred or resentment towards the other party.

However, the other party was someone Xue Ke hated. If he was too polite, it would chill his friend's heart.

There was nothing to be ashamed of. The friendship between men also needed such childish maintenance.

"That's right. I thought he was just waiting halfway and deliberately showing off in front of me." Xue Ke was still a little unconvinced.

It is said that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being fat. Now that Mei Xuezheng has been promoted visibly, even Mei Shengjia has become arrogant in the academy.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Chen Heng also laughed secretly. He didn't know what the other party said to make the honest gentleman so angry. "What did he say?"

"He asked me if I could come to the mansion to play in a few days when I was off." Xue Ke rolled his eyes, not even caring about his manners, and pulled a bench to sit next to Chen Heng and fanned himself.

Chen Heng smiled and said no more. The second branch of the Xue family is now somewhat out of power. After all, their family is not very close to the now prominent Wang and Jia families.

All these relationships fall on the eldest branch of the Xue family, so what does it have to do with them?

However, after a few years, when Xue Zhen, who is in charge of the newspaper industry, becomes prosperous, it will be hard to say who is more powerful.

Chen Heng thought so in his heart, and asked again: "Why did Mei Xuezheng come here this time?"

"The annual examination." Xue Ke shrugged, "Next year, it will be the time for Mei Xuezheng to step down. You must take this opportunity to make more money so that you can go to Beijing to seek an official position."

Chen Heng nodded, and it must be said that Mei Jin's luck in recent years is really good.

The annual examination is held twice every three years, and the academic officials of each province and prefecture generally have a term of three years. The reason for such frequent changes is that the court is worried that some academic officials will accept bribes and suppress students from all over the country.

The former can be tolerated, but the latter is easy to cause trouble.

In previous years, there were also cases where academic officials in other provinces asked students for money and made trouble with the court.

The most recent one was 20 or 30 years ago, when a new academician came to Jiangxi. This academician was from another province, and probably didn't know the way through. He not only took money from Jiangxi students, but also wanted to show off his power, secretly manipulating the quota of the Imperial College and the qualification for the provincial examination.

Jiangxi students would never tolerate him, and a few bold ones caught the academician and trapped him in the academy. Those with good writing skills wrote articles on the spot, and those with wide connections went out to call for help, and the matter was brought all the way from the government office to the court.

Let's not talk about the punishment of the students by the court afterwards, this academician must be finished.

Among the academicians of various provinces, the most honest one is the academician of Shandong. This place is also the place that most academicians don't like to go to the most.

Probably because they are polite and rule-abiding, and they can't win over Shandong people.

Two years ago, when the first term of Academician Mei expired, the court argued for several days in a row for the post of academician of Yangzhou. In the end, it was the honest and obedient Mei Xuezheng who got the upper hand, and he was re-elected for three years for nothing.

But no matter what, it was certain that he would return to Beijing at the end of this year.

The annual examination was too far away from them after all, so Chen Heng and Xue Ke quickly shifted the topic to other places.

Xue Ke and Chen Heng were not the only ones who were giving the Mei family a headache.

At this time, Jia Yucun also had a cold face, following behind Mei Jin, touring the academy.

Behind them were the academicians of Meihua, Anding and other academies. They gathered here today because of the second annual examination in September, also known as the imperial examination.

In August this year, Yangzhou had a provincial examination. Because the number of students in Yangzhou City has increased in recent years, the expansion of the original Gongyuan is imminent. As soon as the provincial examination was over, the government decided to close the academy for expansion, and also built a Confucius Temple by the way.

At that time, the imperial examination venue could only be moved to Leyi Academy. This was originally a good thing, after all, it would allow more people to be proud of being admitted to Leyi Academy.

But Mei Xuezheng didn't know what was wrong with him today. He kept calling Jia Yucun "Jia Xuezheng". He also pulled the Xuezheng of other academies from time to time, pointed at the flowers and trees in the courtyard and said: When and under what circumstances did I plant these?

He was afraid that others didn't know that Jia Yucun took over his position.

Some people were happy to see the joke of Le Yi Academy, and secretly passed on the message to Mei Xuezheng.

In other words, Mei Xuezheng knew that there was a senior official sitting in the academy, so he didn't dare to act too rashly. In addition, Jia Yucun's own Qi cultivation skills were sufficient, so he could still hold on until now.

However, when Jia Yucun thought about how he, a second-rank Jinshi, was bullied by a third-rank fool, he couldn't help but get angry.

He held his lowered hands tightly in his sleeves. No matter how angry Jia Yucun was at the moment, he had to hold his breath and follow Mei Xuezheng step by step.

After a while, Mei Jin finished inspecting the academy, and then he smiled and asked the academicians in front of him: "I think this Yueyi Academy is suitable for the imperial examination."

This is like taking off your pants to fart, it's an unnecessary question. Many academicians nodded, but they kept complaining in their hearts: We are here for a long time, isn't it because of this matter, otherwise who would see you showing off here for a long time.

How could Mei Jin not guess their thoughts, but does he care? This is the feeling he wants.

The taste of power is so wonderful.

The academic official of a prefecture can be so glorious, how can Mei Jin give it up.

Thinking that he will set off to return to Beijing to report on his work in the winter of next year, it's really unwilling to think about it.

No, he has to get in touch with the second branch of the Xue family as soon as possible.

Mei Xuezheng made up his mind in his heart. He knew his family background, and the eldest branch of the Xue family looked down on his son, so he had to set his sights on Xue Baoqin.

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Chen Heng and Xue Ke didn't know what was going on outside. After Mei Xuezheng left, Xin Suzhao just returned to the academy, and Mei Shengjia hid somewhere again.

In the evening, Chen Heng received a message from Lin Meimei, saying that her family would have a small gathering on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. She invited Xue Meimei, and wanted to invite Chen Heng and Xue Ke to accompany them.

Chen Heng asked Xue Ke what he thought, and when he saw that he had no problem, he wrote back to Lin Meimei.

"Is the sixth day of the sixth lunar month a festival?" Chen Heng asked curiously.

Xue Ke was also confused, "I've only heard of the Clothes Drying Festival, but generally not many people celebrate it. I think it's your sister who is in a playful mood, so let her go."

"If you two have nothing to talk about, don't be idle there, come and help us pick out articles." Jiang Yuanbai looked at the two of them with resentment. The articles picked today will be sent to the newspaper shop tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

He was so anxious that these two were still discussing what the Clothes Drying Festival was. They were simply brainless.

Chen Heng and Xue Ke laughed and quickly stood up to apologize. One sat next to Jiang Yuanbai, and the other moved to Qian Dayou's side, and worked as a laborer.

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. Chen Heng and Xue Ke packed up a little and got on the Xue family's carriage to the Lin family.

With Chen Heng's face, the two naturally saved the trivial matter of door stickers.

The servants led them all the way to the Lin family courtyard. There were already three or five figures in the pavilion in the distance.

"Big brother." Lin Jue's eyes were the sharpest. When he saw Chen Heng, he shouted and ran towards him with a smile.

Jue's complexion was better than before. Chen Heng smiled and pinched the other's face, introducing him to him: "This is your brother from the Xue family, you should also call him brother."

"Hello, Big Brother Xue." Lin Jue was very sweet.

"Hello, Brother Lin." Xue Ke had learned from Chen Heng that Sister Lin had such a brother, so he naturally brought gifts when he visited her for the first time.

Lin Jue happily accepted it and asked Chen Heng, "Brother, did you bring me a gift?"

"Of course I did." Chen Heng smiled and took out a custom-made exercise book.

"Brother, you also gave me this last time!!!" Lin Jue was also amazed.

Chen Heng continued to maintain a kind smile, "Don't worry, don't worry, there will be some in the future."

"Hahahahaha."

Lin Daiyu, who came over at some point, covered her mouth to hold back her laughter and finally covered her stomach. She couldn't help stamping her feet and said, "Brother, you are too bullying your younger brother."

"That's what I said. I gave the same to Shuangxi and Jixiang. As a brother, you should treat them equally." Chen Heng waved his hand shamelessly. Even though his two younger brothers were far away, he would send back all the things that should be sent back.

What Lin Jue had, Shuangxi and Jixiang naturally had to have too.

They were all younger brothers, and he loved them all.

"Hello, Miss Lin. This time my sister and I are here to bother you." After Chen Heng finished speaking, Xue Ke greeted Miss Lin.

"Brother Xue is too polite. My relationship with Sister Baoqin is no worse than yours." Lin Daiyu wrinkled her nose and pulled Baoqin out from behind her.

Two fairy flowers from the world, one elegant and noble, the other bright and magnificent, each with its own style.

"Hello, Miss Xue." Chen Heng also saluted.

"Hello, Brother Chen." Baoqin bowed slightly, and for some reason, she hid behind Miss Lin again.

Miss Lin took Baoqin's hand and said to the three people in front of her: "Let's go, let's sit in the pavilion and chat."

Halfway through, Lin Daiyu suddenly smiled at Chen Heng: "Brother, I heard that you were scolded?"

Oh, how can I have such a caring book friend. I was really touched. The book friends in the group told me to take care of my body, not in a hurry to update, and have a good sleep first.

Wow, so touched. You guys are so kind. But the three updates in a row have really drained me of my last drop of energy. I'll take a break. Brothers, don't wait any longer. I'll slowly make up for it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.