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When she was little, her mother often told her stories like this. At that time, she told her a touching story so beautifully:
Once upon a time, there were four scholars. Becoming brothers of the opposite sex during the Dragon Boat Festival is like three brothers becoming sworn brothers in Taoyuan. My mother always explained it this way, and we went to Beijing together to take the exam. One of them disguised herself as a man, just like Zhu Yingtai, who disguised herself as a man to study, her mother explained. When they came to Beijing, the eldest child took the liberal arts test and was really talented. The second child was very good at martial arts, even better than her father's martial arts. The girl took the liberal arts test but had mediocre qualifications. The fourth child also had mediocre qualifications and just followed fate. But in the end, only the eldest son passed the Jinshi examination, and the emperor sent him to Cangzhou as a county magistrate. The eldest son was admitted as a Jinshi, and my mother always brightened up when she talked about it. But on the night of their third day on the road, the eldest son suddenly disappeared, and the fourth son left without saying goodbye. There has been no news since, and there is always a hint of sadness in my mother's voice when she talks about this. The boss left a letter saying that he suddenly received a letter from home and that his father had died, so he rushed home quickly. They went to his home, but his father entertained them in good spirits. When he heard that his son had won the Jinshi, his face glowed with joy. They thought he was joking and went to the county in Cangzhou, but there was no sign of him. The master who was waiting to hand over the county seal mistakenly thought that the second child was the boss,???????
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