Chapter 10 Her Brother Won a Prize in the Exam!

[I don't know how my brother is doing? ]

After lunch, Xiao Chuchu lay on the small bed, held by her mother and watching the rain outside the window.

But after a while, her mind drifted to the study room.

[Did my brother review that chapter well...]

[If the article is poorly written, he will be publicly executed in front of the emperor. This afternoon, several cabinet ministers were discussing matters with the emperor. ]

Liu promised to hear this and looked a little worried.

But she soon let it go and patted her little daughter's arm.

She had just hinted at her son with the grandfather's test.

Although her son was serious, he was smart.

Hearing the strings, he knew the sound.

And he always did what he said. Just now, he said that he would go back to the study room to study hard and review his lessons, and he would definitely do it.

Liu promised to have confidence in her son. After all, she had secretly asked Qiuli to inquire about the fifth prince in the past, and she knew her son very well.

"Chuchu, are you thinking about your brother?"

"Your brother is probably studying. He has been smart since he was young. He can't say he has a photographic memory, but he is always quick at memorizing."

"When he gets out of school and the weather clears up, he will come to play with you."

Liu promised to coax her daughter softly.

Looking at Chuchu's small body, she couldn't bear to see the child's worried pout.

Liu promised to think for a moment, and then asked Qiuli to grind ink and spread paper.

"Chuchu, can mother teach you to read?"

Xiao Chuchu: "..."

Reading so early?

No!

She is still a baby.

She spread her hands, looked at the big characters, and nodded her head. Soon she fell asleep.

Liu promised to not know whether to laugh or cry, and could only take the paper and ink.

"It's almost noon."

"Has the exam started?"

She looked in the direction of the study room and thought.

*

Qianqing Palace.

Three cabinet ministers were drinking tea and resting in the compartment, waiting for the emperor to summon them again.

Then they heard the report from the master of the study room, Lu Xueshi.

"Your Majesty, please take a look at the essays submitted by the princes today."

Emperor Xiao Yunzhou, wearing a dragon-patterned brocade casual clothes, was in his early thirties but still handsome.

He took the seven pieces of rice paper presented by the eunuch holding the pen and unfolded them one by one.

"Give Lu Xueshi a seat. "

Lu Zhen is already sixty years old, with gray hair.

He is not only a university scholar of the Hanlin Academy, ranking third grade, but also the lecturer of Xiao Yunzhou when he was the prince.

Xiao Yunzhou knew that Lu Zhen had real talent and always respected him.

When his sons grew up, he still asked him to teach.

Xiao Yunzhou was also taught by Lu Zhen in the Prince's Mansion. He was well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics and read a lot of books. He was more knowledgeable than several editors in the Hanlin Academy.

When he saw the prince's article, he smiled and nodded, "Is it the "Xianwen"? "

"Zhu Xi said that a virtuous person accumulates harmony and brilliance. "

"Good, the eldest prince talked about the virtue of the words in this article, and people should cultivate the book in their stomachs. The explanation is very correct."

Xiao Yunzhou showed appreciation.

The eldest prince is eleven years old this year, but he uses a lot of allusions in his article.

"The eldest prince usually works hard. ”

Looking at the second prince again, his answer was not biased, but it was just right.

“Not bad.”

If it were an ordinary child, it would be good.

But the prince had a Hanlin university student personally lecturing on the sutra, so the article was too simple.

When he turned to the two pictures of the third and fourth princes, Xiao Yunzhou couldn't help but frown.

“One is nine years old, the other is eight years old, and Zhu Zi's interpretation was written wrong.”

One's own teacher knows best.

It is impossible to explain the sutra without explaining the interpretation.

“Your Majesty, calm down. The third and fourth princes are young after all.”

Xiao Yunzhou frowned, “I know, and I don't ask them to write beautiful articles. They just wrote down what the master in the upper study said, and they couldn't do it, which really disappointed me. "

Recently, the Tartars have invaded the border and the Yellow River has burst its banks, and he is in a bad mood.

Seeing his son write his homework carelessly, he gets angry.

Especially the third and fourth brothers, who are already rubbish, how can the homework of the next five, six, and seven be acceptable?

Xiao Yunzhou felt a little depressed when he thought about it, and glanced at the old scholar Lu who was sitting below.

Master, you are here to irritate him today, right?

There are seven princes listening to the lecture in the upper study room, and only two of them have acceptable homework?

"Mr. Lu, don't worry about my face."

"Those who don't study hard should be punished! When the late emperor was here, you hit my palm without mercy!"

Xiao Yunzhou glared at the old scholar unhappily.

Lu Zhen stood up immediately, "Your Majesty is wise, and I will obey your orders. "

Xiao Yunzhou shook his head, ready to just flip through the homework of his three younger sons.

But he didn't expect that on the next page, the Fifth Prince's corrected writing would come into view!

This article swept away the mistakes and omissions of the previous two articles.

The article starts with virtue and words, ends with benevolence and courage, and is well-balanced, not inferior to the Second Prince at all.

After the fourth prince's homework, which he even recited wrong, it seemed particularly meaningful and clear.

Full of righteousness!

This article, from calligraphy to content, gave Xiao Yunzhou a sense of comfort.

"Good!"

He couldn't help but pat the table to praise.

After looking at the signature, he praised even more, "I remember that Xiaowu is only seven years old this year. Mr. Lu taught well. Come, give Mr. Lu three new snow frog pastes!"

Lu Zhen lowered his eyes and immediately stood up respectfully, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that sometimes luck is really important.

In fact, the fifth prince's article is not better than that of the eldest and second princes. After all, they are much older, and their pen holding strength and reading books are three or four years behind.

But the fifth prince was lucky and was born at the right time, ranking behind the third prince who was not good at writing and the fourth prince who was greedy for fun.

After reading their extremely poor articles, and then looking at the fifth prince, his article is really rising from the ground!

"I am ashamed to accept this."

Lu Zhen thought about it and breathed a sigh of relief.

Thanks to the hard work of the fifth prince, he had been taught by Xiao Yunzhou since he was the crown prince, and he knew the emperor very well, knowing that he had already shown signs of anger just now.

He had endured the two crappy articles of the third and fourth princes. If the third article was not readable, Xiao Yunzhou would definitely punish him severely!

Fortunately, the fifth prince studied hard, otherwise he would have to bear the emperor's wrath.

"Huh? The sixth prince also learned well?"

Xiao Yunzhou was now in a good mood, and when he turned the page again, he was surprised to find that the sixth prince had also written the interpretation correctly at the age of six.

Although he could not write anything else except the interpretation.

But considering his young age, he turned a blind eye.

Xiao Yunzhou nodded, "Give the eldest, second, fifth, and sixth princes a pot of mutton soup each."

"Third and fourth princes, Master, give me a slap on their palms!"

Compared with their younger brothers, these two seem even more stupid!

Xiao Yunzhou put down a pile of articles.

"Three days later, the winter festival, these two are not allowed to go, copy books in the room for me!"

*

Go to the study room.

Several princes, either looking straight ahead or sitting on pins and needles.

"Fourth and fifth brothers, how are your articles?" The third prince obviously didn't answer well, and wanted to drag someone else to take the blame.

The fourth prince cleverly found the worst one and looked at the sixth prince teasingly, "I'm sure I answered better than the sixth brother. The sixth brother, let alone writing an article, probably can't even recite the meaning, right?"

The sixth prince puffed up his face. He had been at the bottom of most of the tests before, but he didn't like being criticized.

Besides, he was taught by his fifth brother to review today!

The fourth prince was amused to see him angry, and he looked at the fifth prince Cheng Gan, "And fifth brother, your mother had an accident this morning, you must not have listened to the morning class seriously."

"Hey, the teacher in the study room is really cruel. He chose this time to test us, what can you do, fifth brother?"

"I saw you were reading at noon, you are not as good as the eighth brother who just started, right? Hahaha!"

The eighth brother did not even enter the study room.

This is obviously a ridicule.

The fifth prince Cheng Gan lowered his eyes, expressionless.

The fourth prince is the son of Concubine Li, and he is often squeezed by him.

"Fourth brother, what nonsense are you talking about!" The sixth prince stood up angrily. He had just received instructions from his fifth brother, and now he has unknowingly stood on the side of his fifth brother.

"Why are you laughing at the fifth brother and bullying us?"

"Asshole! When did I bully you? How dare you talk to your brother!" The fourth prince was furious.

"Sixth brother, you are not allowed to be disrespectful to your elder brother." The third prince also frowned.

Cheng Gan grabbed the extremely angry sixth brother.

He glanced out the window.

The figure of Lu Xueshi was reflected on the window grille of the upper study.

"Third prince, fourth prince, why are you making noise!" Sure enough, Lu Xueshi admonished as soon as he entered the upper study.

"I, the old minister, have brought a three-inch ruler by the order of the emperor. The third prince and the fourth prince, 30 feet each!"

The third prince and the fourth prince were stunned.