What impressed memost in this chapter is the amount of expression about “our daily life”.
科舉
imperial examinations
把媽媽托付給弟弟照顧迁沫，和媽媽告別
confiding the care of his mother to hisyounger brother, he went to say farewell to her.
小時(shí)候和媽媽這邊的小孩玩
he played with his cousins on themother’s side.
小時(shí)候背書默寫（中國千年的教育制度真實(shí)沒怎么變啊哈哈）
naturally they had to commit the classicsto memory, and recitation in class consisted in repeating the passages byheart, with the student’s back turned toward the teacher to prevent him fromlooking at the book lying open on the teacher’s desk.
形容親密的朋友關(guān)系?除了最后一條出現(xiàn)比較少蜜自，其他的三條都是最親近的朋友會(huì)做的事~
they comforted each other in sorrow, helped each other in distress, and dreamed about each other and wrote poems to each other as a form of communication.
Words
This time I select 3 words which arise frequently in this chapter.
Eunuch太監(jiān)
Persecution迫害
Incident沖突
