This year, the Fuxue School still only accepts 150 students. Of course, it is impossible for the King of Yizhou to read all 150 papers as thick as 150.

What's more, the academic officials handed in 180 copies, and they wanted to select 150 from them.

So he only flipped through the top few. This was the top one. After flipping through it, he asked: "Is it a controversial article?"

The academic officers looked at each other and said: "Reporting to the prince, we simply ranked the papers. Everyone has different opinions on each paper, so it is normal to have disputes."

King Yizhou frowned, dropped the paper in his hand, raised his chin and said, "Then find the papers for the bottom ten and let me take a look."

"yes."

Bai Shanbao's paper is in the bottom ten.

The King of Yizhou turned over the top three papers, so that he could naturally compare them with the bottom ten papers. He simply turned over them without looking at them carefully, and then threw them down one by one.

When he finally saw Bai Shanbao's paper, he paused for a moment, then raised the paper in his hand and asked, "Isn't this paper pretty good? Although it is far inferior to the top three papers, it is ten times better than the papers drawn out.

The test paper is quite good, at least it should be within 150, right?"

One of the academic officers took one look, lowered his head and said "yes".

However, some academic officials were unconvinced and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you take a closer look at the last big question."

King Yizhou then went to look up the answer to the last big question. After reading it for a while, he laughed and said, "That's right, but it's too arrogant."

After saying that, he threw the paper into the pile of nine papers, obviously not intending to pass it.

Master Zhang took a look at it, stepped forward to pick it up and read it, and said with a smile: "I am very curious about what this person wrote that made the prince so angry."

Having said that, he also opened it.

After Master Zhang finished reading, the smile on his face did not change, and he said gently: "It is quite arrogant, but for talented people, it is normal to be arrogant. If you can teach it in the imperial school, you will be a pillar of the country in the future."

Immediately, an academic officer who liked Bai Shan reminded him: "Sir Zhang, let's look at this candidate's place of origin. He is only twelve years old this year."

"Oh?" Zhang DaDa hurriedly flipped through the information stuck on the front. After seeing it clearly, he laughed and said, "You are really only twelve years old, Your Majesty. This makes you even more teachable."

The King of Yizhou reached out to take it, took a look at his place of origin, nodded and said: "I am a young man, and young people are arrogant, which is understandable. In this case, let's record it."

Some of the academic officers breathed a sigh of relief, because Bai Shan was really good.

"However, although you are admitted, you should not give him a too high ranking. I think it is good to be ranked 150th, lest he become more arrogant after enrolling."

Everyone responded quickly.

The King of Yizhou stood up and left, "Okay, I'm not good at grading papers either. I'd better leave the final ranking and admission decision to Mr. Zhang."

In Yizhou City, apart from the King of Yizhou, Mr. Zhang has the highest official position, so there is no pressure at all to leave him in charge of the King of Yizhou.

Everyone hurriedly bowed to see King Yizhou out.

Then everyone started to re-evaluate and determine the ranking.

However, Bai Shan has been determined to die at the 150th place. No matter how bad the person in front of him is, he will not advance one place; and no matter how good the person who is still behind is, he cannot be squeezed out to replace him.

Location.

But overall, Bai Shan's results were pretty good, so the academic officials didn't feel guilty about fixing this ranking.

Manbao and the others spent most of the day and finally made their own kite, and they also made one for Mr. Zhuang.

Mr. Zhuang's was the simplest. Man Bao and the others couldn't find any good patterns for him, so they drew a picture of Confucius sitting upright on it, and then copied a few passages from "The Analects of Confucius" on it.

The characters are neat and small, so you can still tell what they are when you look at them from a distance. But once they fly into the sky, you won't be able to see anything, only a bunch of ink dots.

Bai Erlang said he wanted to make a big insect kite, and it was really a big insect. He spent a lot of effort, and with the help of Man Bao and Bai Shanbao, he cut out a big caterpillar. Man Bao painted the mouth of the insect for him.

, then he took the paint and painted it messily, and finally started to tie it up with bamboo strips.

If you ignore the insect's head and add some scales to its body, it becomes a dragon instead of an insect.

Bai Shanbao made a very large tiger. He cut out many pieces of paper before cutting it out. After coloring, the whole tiger looked majestic.

Man Bao called out several beautiful pictures of flowers from Keke, and then painted according to them. After breaking several pieces of paper, he reluctantly painted one that he thought was the best.

Then everyone tied up the kite and went to Mr. Zhuang for evaluation.

Mr. Zhuang carefully looked at the four oversized kites placed in front of him, reached out and picked up the kite with the painting of Master Kong and the famous sayings of "The Analects of Confucius" written on it, nodded and said: "That's right, we will go out for an outing early tomorrow morning.

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The three of them cheered happily, and Man Bao asked Mr. Zhuang expectantly, "Sir, which one of our three kites do you think is the most beautiful?"

Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang all looked at him eagerly.

Mr. Zhuang pointed to the kite in his hand and said, "This one is the most beautiful."

Bai Erlang was unconvinced, "Sir, there is only one Confucius above you, and there are only a few strokes in total. It is very blurry and has no color."

"So it looks the best."

Three disciples:...

Man Bao looked at his painting unconvinced and turned to find Zhou Lang, "Fourth brother, look at my kite."

Zhou Lang took a look and praised: "That's right, that's right. Didn't you say you were going to make a flower kite at the beginning? Why should you paint mountains again? Don't tell me, the colorful mountains are really beautiful."

When Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang heard this, they couldn't help holding their bellies and burst into laughter. They almost couldn't hold their own kites.

Manbao pouted in anger, turned around and took his kite back to the house, deciding not to pay attention to them tonight.

Zhou Lang didn't know what he said wrong. Seeing Bai Shanbao and the others laughing so hard that they almost fell to the ground, he curled his lips and said, "Then the paintings are just flowers, right?"

Bai Shanbao nodded with tears in his eyes, too happy to speak.

Zhou Lang could only apologize to his sister from the bottom of his heart, then took a look at Bai Shanbao's kites and praised: "Your kites are well made."

Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang smiled proudly.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, everyone got on the carriage and set off.

They did not leave the city, but went to Qixia Mountain inside the city.

There is a Taoist temple on Qixia Mountain, and there are many villas of wealthy people at the foot of the mountain. Halfway up the mountain are wide woods and grasslands. Mr. Zhuang often visited this place with his classmates when he was young, so he knew that it was also a good place to fly kites.

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Chapter completed!