novelhk Chapter 303: Number One
Chapter 303: Number One
When the family returned home, Fang Nanzhi suddenly became serious. She went to her room, took the pulse pillow, and asked her brother to sit face to face with her and put his hand on it.
The little girl was very serious, and Qin Yan, as her brother, was also very serious. He sat there without talking or moving.
Fang Nanzhi pressed the pulse point on his wrist with her index, middle and ring fingers, and both of them suddenly calmed down.
When taking a patient's pulse, the doctor must also keep his mind calm, because he needs to feel the strength and thickness of the pulse under his fingers. If he is too anxious or rough, it will affect the results.
After a long while, Fang Tong beside him became anxious: "Girl, can you do it?"
As a result, our Doctor Fang looked at him with a frown.
"Dad, why are you so ignorant? Don't you know that you can't interrupt a doctor while he's treating a patient? You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Is seeing a doctor something you can't rush?"
Fang Tong was speechless.
Hey, his daughter is also picking up Fan?
Fang Nanzhi took a while to let go of her hand, and imitated her husband, Dr. Zhou, with a calm look and cleared her throat.
"Ahem, it's nothing serious, so I won't prescribe any medicine for you. You're young and in good physical condition, but your legs haven't been walking for a long time, so they're a little uncomfortable. Plus, you've been putting a lot of effort and energy into it these past few days. Rest well and eat well, and your body will slowly recover."
After listening for a long time, there is nothing wrong.
The whole family was speechless, only Qin Yan suppressed his laughter and nodded seriously: "I understand."
Fang Nanzhi thought that her brother's attitude as a patient was quite good, and she was very satisfied.
After dinner that night, Qin Yan went to bed early, but he couldn't help reading for half an hour before going to bed.
He has been accustomed to studying for many years. Although he doesn't have to study as hard every day as before an exam, if he suddenly doesn't read anything for a whole day, he will feel uneasy and can't sleep well.
The final results of the county exam will not be announced for another two days. The whole family decided to wait until the results are announced before returning to the village. Anyway, the rent for the house has not yet arrived.
The next morning, Fang Tong and Qian Fengping each had work to do. Today should have been the day for the little girl to study medicine, but she was now in the county town and had already made an agreement with Mr. Zhou to continue her studies when she returned.
As for Qin Yan, the academy gave them a day off after the county exam, but the brother and sister had no choice but to stay at home, so they decided to bring some delicious food and go to the academy to chat with the teacher.
Mr. Zheng was old and didn't like sweets very much, so they brought fewer cakes. Instead, Qian Fengping prepared more dried meat for her son.
They brought some dried meat and other food to the academy.
At this time, students from other classes in the academy were already in class, and Mr. Zheng was in his own courtyard.
He was quite surprised to see two students coming. He thought they were looking for something, but he didn't expect them to come and have a meal with him. He was a little amused.
"Sir, come and try it, my mother's cooking is amazing!"
The master and his two disciples sat under a tree, eating and chatting, feeling very comfortable.
"I've heard from others that you've topped several exams. You'll definitely have no problem passing the county exam, and you shouldn't take the upcoming prefectural exam lightly either."
Qin Yan nodded to show that he understood.
"It's a good thing that you're here today, so I'll tell you about the prefectural exam. Calculating the date, the county exam is in two months. Then you can go to the prefectural city to take it."
The last time the prefectural exam was held was in the county, but the circumstances were unique: the famine hadn't completely subsided, and there was unrest among refugees in the prefectural capital. Fearing that something might happen there and they couldn't control the situation, they temporarily moved the exams to the counties, but the exam papers were the same in each county.
Although the examiners of the prefectural examinations changed from time to time, the only people who could come up with good answers in the prefectural city were the same ones. These great scholars all had some preferences in the selection of topics.
"The provincial examination questions tend to focus on the Classic of Filial Piety and the Analects. You should have seen the questions in recent years, such as the one from the year before last..."
Qin Nian listened attentively, and Fang Nanzhi also listened with great interest while eating.
The three masters and apprentices spent the day like this.
The second day was a long-awaited leisure day. The brother and sister went shopping and bought a lot of things.
Their days were easy, but the adults who were marking the papers for the county exam were their busiest.
When marking and grading papers, sometimes we would have endless arguments over a single paper.
After finally finishing the screening, they handed the sorted papers to the county magistrate, who took one last look at them.
The papers were all placed on the long table. The county magistrate reached out and took one, starting from the last one. After reading them, he frowned slightly and seemed not very satisfied.
Look at the name again, Fang Jin.
"Why does this seem familiar?"
The clerk beside him whispered, "Sir, regarding the cheating incident last year..."
The county magistrate remembered and there was even more disgust in his eyes.
Because of the cheating in the imperial examination last year, people in the city were beheaded, imprisoned, and several people died.
He lived in fear for several months, fearing that he would be punished later.
Their place is usually far away from the emperor, but the cheating in the imperial examination happened here and it is well-known.
He almost lost his official position!
When he was investigating a case, he was reprimanded by his superiors in the prefecture. Later, when a new group of people arrived in the county, he was reprimanded every few days. After the matter was settled, he received several letters reprimanding him.
Although so many years have passed and I am sure that I didn't lose my job because of this incident, I still feel unhappy.
He glanced through the papers of the bottom ten, but found them uninteresting, so he simply walked to the front to look at the paper of the first place student.
This is really an eye-opener.
"This is really well written. Not only is the handwriting beautiful, but it also has substance."
There was also debate when the papers were being reviewed this year, but he had heard that they were always ranked at the bottom, and it seemed that everyone thought this paper should be ranked first.
Another clerk at the side whispered, "Sir, isn't Qin Yan too young? Should we put him at number two this year to suppress him? After all, there's still the prefectural exam later, so it won't affect anything."
The county magistrate said nothing, but walked to the second-place paper and picked it up to look at it.
He looked at it for a long time before shaking his head and putting the paper back.
"Forget it. The first and second place papers were really bad. If it weren't for the first place, the second place would be acceptable. But since there's an obviously better one, why do we have to choose the second place?"
"And there are so many talented young people who have made great achievements at a young age. In the past dynasty, there was a sixteen-year-old who won the top three places in the imperial examination, and no one dared to suppress him. Why should we suppress him in a county exam? If Qin Yan can also do well in the prefectural exam, maybe our county will have another young genius."
The clerk then stopped talking.