Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 8: Life can be reincarnated, but there is only one chance to take the imperial examination!
【Follow the example of Jiang Sheng! 】

You set your own goals in mind, and then decisively learn from your role models...

[But learning from her doesn't mean you have to copy everything. Compared to Jiang Sheng, who was ultimately exposed for his deception and was ruthlessly deposed by public opinion, what you need to do is to build yourself into a true child prodigy!]

[You need fame, but you also need substance. The greatest lesson Jiang Sheng left for the world is not that you can't market, but that you can't over-market. As long as you truly live up to your reputation, then you can deserve the title of "child prodigy"!]

[So from this day on, you no longer concealed your precociousness as a time traveler, and instead devoted yourself wholeheartedly to your Dragon Aotian script...]

【…】

In the literacy class, you, at only three years old, have made amazing progress. The teacher's teaching speed is completely unable to keep up with your learning speed. "Applying one thing to another is not enough to describe your efficiency. Applying one thing to another is more like applying one thing to another!"

【True·One ounce of effort, one pound of reward! 】

[As he was teaching, the teacher began to sweat profusely...]

While your peers were still biting their pens in agony trying to read and write new words, you were already using your spare time to memorize "Three," "Hundred," and "Thousand" in front of your teacher, then reciting them fluently to the stunned teacher.

After "Three," "Hundred," and "Thousand," you taught yourself Tang and Song poetry and quickly memorized hundreds of them, with no problem reading and writing them.

[Perhaps the only thing that needs serious practice is the dog-crawling calligraphy...]

[So, while you diligently practiced calligraphy, you also began to delve into the core works of Confucianism, the Four Books and the Five Classics. Your learning progress was rapid!]

[You've easily surpassed your classmates by who knows how long. You're such a genius! After all this work, the teacher is sweating profusely...]

What makes the teacher even more frightened is that after finishing the daily lessons, other children would run out to play in groups of three or five, as if relieved, but you would stay and continue to ask the teacher about calligraphy and various other knowledge, euphemistically calling it "evening self-study"!

[In addition to evening self-study, you also take the initiative to attend morning self-study, even skipping lunch break, eating a few bites and then continuing to work hard at your desk. Your main motto is: If you don't die from studying, then study until you die!]

[Your almost self-abuse study state makes me shudder with fear...]

"He's not worried about you learning too much, he's worried about you dying suddenly at such a young age! No normal three-year-old is as terrifying as you!"

So he found an opportunity to tactfully advise you: "Although studying is a student's primary job, you should also balance work and rest... Even Confucius emphasized both literature and sports. How can you focus solely on studying? Go out and have some fun with your classmates. You're acting like a lone ranger, and everyone's almost isolating you..."

[However, you, who were practicing calligraphy in the evening study session, heard this and expressed disdain.]

"Life can be reincarnated, but the imperial examination only happens once!"

[It's just physical fatigue... Help me up! I can still perform!]

[You, the hard-working person, shout: Sir, I really want to improve! ]

【gentlemen:……】

【You are too extreme! 】

[Xuezheng, can you say something?!]

Fearing something bad might happen to you, the teacher quickly found your teachers, Deputy Xuezheng Ding and Xuezheng, and described your horrific progress and your horrific, self-destructive learning methods to them. He also asked if the child prodigy should be educated differently.

Master Ding: ...

[Xue Xuezheng:...]

[No...you really are a child prodigy?!]

This unexpected news left the two, who had originally intended to continue marketing their "child prodigy" persona and using it to deceive the world and gain fame, completely bewildered.

After some skeptical verification, their eyes suddenly lit up: Big profit!

[Originally, it was just a shady marketing scheme to scam people out of money, but now it seems like they can use this opportunity to clean themselves up...]

[A fake prodigy has to be sneaky to get the reward money, but a real prodigy doesn't have to do that; he comes directly and openly!]

[When the school is whitewashed as an "excellent model base in the education sector," wouldn't it make a fortune?!]

[Thinking of the bright future, the two exchanged a strange smile...]

As for the prodigy's health...

[Don't panic. He hasn't complained himself, so why should we complain on his behalf? Besides, even if he's suffering, it's not us who are suffering!]

[For the sake of his teacher's money, let the prodigy suffer a little longer! Let him bear the blame himself!]

【…】

what?
Zhou Liang was stunned:
"No... I know he's eager to make progress, and I know he wants to find a ray of light from the darkness as soon as possible... but isn't this too self-destructive?!"

A three-year-old child, whose body has not yet fully grown, has started to use the Hengshui-style learning method. Can he... bear it?

Man, this is a bit unrealistic...

No, this plot is not very materialistic. Chongzhen even hanged 100,000 bandits with hemp ropes. How can it be materialistic?

That's fine... "But I still think he's a little outrageous... How can a child have so much energy? This guy must be cheating!"

【You really are cheating! 】

[In fact, even you are surprised, because you can clearly feel that you have an extremely abnormal resistance to fatigue! ]

[An average three-year-old would be drowsy even after a few serious classes, let alone morning and evening self-study. This is because their physical hardware can't keep up... But you are different. Your mental willpower seems a little too strong. You can endure fatigue that others can't. Your willpower has greatly increased your endurance limit.]

After your experimentation, you discovered that you only need five or six hours of sleep a day to maintain full energy throughout the day. This amount of time is completely sufficient to support your intense study... You are truly a "natural ox and horse holy body"!

You know this isn't normal, but you can't quite put your finger on whether it's good or bad... But after a brief moment of hesitation, you decide to continue with your Hengshui-style self-torturing study method.

[Because, just like you said before: life can be reincarnated, but the imperial examination only happens once!]

[For you, who possess the ability to rewind time, life is actually worthless. What you need to do is to trade your lifespan for time, and strive to become a true child prodigy. Then, using your status as a child prodigy as a stepping stone, you will ascend to the top of the zombie Ming Dynasty, witness with your own eyes what the world is really like, and find a remedy to save the world!]

【What is life for this? I have plenty of life!】

You held firm to your convictions, and under the anxious gaze of your teacher, as well as the greedy gazes of your teachers, Deputy Xuezheng Ding and Xuezheng, you continued diligently practicing calligraphy during evening self-study classes...

"I see……"

Zhou Liang suddenly realized:

Now the logic makes sense. The reason why the "other self" can ignore the physical hardware problems is because of the new prize he just won!
["Sacrificial Spirit Light": Allows the holder to slightly increase their resistance to negative mental states such as fear, fatigue, and hallucinations!]

Why isn't he tired? Because he can handle it!

"I understand the logic...but just increasing mental resistance won't allow the body to withstand such extreme exhaustion, right?"

Zhou Liang was a little worried...

【Sparrow food.】

After more than a month of intense internal consolidation, although your mental state has always been excellent, you are still a mortal after all, and various adverse conditions begin to appear in you.

[Your weight continues to decrease, your lips become dry, your face becomes pale, and your appetite gradually decreases...but in contrast, your eyes are as bright as light bulbs!]

[You are too energetic, so energetic that it’s abnormal…]

Your extremely abnormal behavior has attracted your parents' great attention. Although they were initially happy and relieved about your diligence in study, your health is obviously what they care about more.

So they found the school and begged your master to give you fewer study tasks: "You are still young, please be kind!"

Your Master: ...

[No... What does this have to do with me?! I didn't force him to do it, it was your son who insisted on doing it!]

He complained in his heart, but in front of the two parents, he still put on some superficial effort and promised to moderately reduce your burden...

However, he was actually worried: Although he really didn't care much about the life and death of a tool, you were a rare high-level tool after all, and would be his future cash cow. Even if it was just for the money, he couldn't really watch you work yourself to death.

[However, if you really fail your "star-making plan" because you slack off on your studies, then he will have nothing to gain!]

[So after some hesitation, he came up with a solution that would satisfy both parties...]

That night, you, a emaciated figure, were packing up your stationery, preparing to finish your evening study session and go home early for bed... But just then, your teacher, Deputy Director Ding, found you and mysteriously offered to take you somewhere.

You didn't understand why, but considering that your master wouldn't harm you, you obediently agreed.

[Then, at night, he led you down a road you were quite familiar with... Why was it familiar? Because it was the same road you took when you reported to the county government office...]

You quietly entered the county government office through the back door, and then met the impatient magistrate in a candlelit study!

[Why did you bring me to see the magistrate so late at night?]

[Just as you were wondering, your master stepped forward and whispered something to the magistrate, and immediately the magistrate was no longer sleepy!]

"Are you sure...he's a real prodigy?"

The magistrate stroked his dark blue beard, his eyes stern.

"I'm sure!"

Deputy Academician Ding bowed and said seriously, "Sir, this opportunity is fleeting, and it will never come back again..."

The magistrate's eyes shifted before he finally nodded. "Then I'll give him a chance... But whether he can handle it or not depends entirely on him..."

[After saying this, he called you forward, and then placed his tangible hand on the top of your head... At this moment, you recalled the events before your last death. The day before you unexpectedly fell ill, the county magistrate had also gently stroked your head in this way...]

[Ding! Extraordinary gift detected: "Faint power of the Tyrannical God Emperor!"]

……

(End of this chapter)