Take the imperial examinations with the red envelopes of the writers

This room is four feet deep, three feet wide, and six feet high.

The three days and nights in the small room are related to the future and destiny of the candidates.

Su Yan, who is only a 13-year-old boy, is fine, and he can still stretch and move around inside.And those tall candidates can raise their hands to the eaves, no wonder the folk opera called the room a "pigeon cage".

Room No. [-] was empty, except for two flat and thick planks.

There are two high and low brick joints on the left and right walls of each number room.

During the daytime exam, one of the wooden boards is placed in the higher brick gap near the door as a desk for answering questions, and the other wooden board is placed in the lower brick gap near the back wall. bench.When sleeping at night, the wooden planks that were placed in the higher brick joints were removed and re-installed in the lower brick joints, and put together with the previous one that was used as a bench, it became a bed for sleeping.

Su Yan was really amazed by this design.

There is no door in the number room, so candidates need to bring their own number curtain made of oilcloth to protect against wind and rain in rainy days and keep out the cold at night.Su Yan hung up the number curtain, rolled it up, and planned to put it down when it was time to sleep at night.

At this time, the exam has not yet started, and one after another, candidates have passed the inspection and walked around looking for their room number.Candidates who come in at this time can also move freely, and go out of the number room to fetch water and go to the toilet.After the exam officially started, they were not allowed to leave this small room for three days, and they had to ask the patrolling officials to buy food or go to the toilet.

Su Yan took out a rag from his test basket, dipped it in the water, and then began to wipe the two wooden boards in his number room.

In the opposite room was a young examinee. He was sitting with his eyes closed to rest his mind, but now he was watching Su Yan clean up with interest.The young examinee thought that after entering the numbered room, he sat down without wiping himself, and his face twitched.Forget it, a man just wants to be informal, how can he be as particular about it as the little kid opposite.

After finishing wiping the board, Su Yan took out a small round box from the test basket, which contained some powder. These powders were mixed with realgar, wormwood, etc., and the housekeeper, Uncle Zhou, went to the medical hall to buy them for insect repellent. Mosquito bites.After all, the hospital examination was in August, and in the scorching summer, there were inevitably insects and ants infesting the numbered room. The housekeeper, Uncle Zhou, also prepared pills for both Su Yan and Zhou Yunwen to prevent heatstroke.

Su Yan also heard that a candidate in Lingnan Mansion was bitten by a snake in the number room, that was really tragic.

He carefully sprinkled the powder in every corner and on the walls of the number room.

The pupils of the young examinee on the opposite side trembled, and he looked at him strangely.

Su Yan noticed the gaze of the friend opposite, and showed him a harmless smile, blinking his big almond eyes, and looked away in a daze.

He arranged the pen, ink and inkstone on the table, put the thin quilt under his buttocks as a cushion, and sat quietly on the wooden chair with his eyes closed, resting his mind, waiting for the official exam to start.

When you arrived, all the candidates came in one after another.

Su Yan estimated the number of small courtyards and the speed of pre-examination inspection.

I am afraid that at least a thousand candidates have entered!

At this time, the gong sound of "咚咚咚, 咚咚咚" finally came, and the examination hall was silent.

"In the 42nd year of Tianle, the Jiangling prefectural examination has started!" A strong and powerful voice announced.

Su Yan reckoned that this was the voice of Cui Hanlin, an academic and political master sent by the emperor.

At this time, many officials came over, and each room issued a stack of draft paper and answer sheets.There are also scribes walking back and forth in the alley holding the examination question board.

After Su Yan received the answer sheet, he immediately checked whether the paper was smooth and free of ink marks. After confirming that there was no problem, he put the answer sheet flat into a roll bag sewn with oilcloth to prevent folding and ink tea from polluting the answer sheet.After that, he looked at the examination question board and recorded the questions on the draft paper.

The invigilation of the college examination is very strict. There are two officials patrolling back and forth in each row of rooms to prevent candidates from moving seats, changing papers, throwing papers, looking around, and groaning. Once found, they will be investigated and detained immediately. Examination, the weight is shown.

The tradition of the Jiangling House Examination is to select scholars according to the Four Books, and to rank according to the Five Classics.This means that whether you can pass the examination of scholar, depends on how well you answer the questions in the Four Books. As for the specific ranking after passing the examination of scholar, it depends on the priority of the five classics articles.

Therefore, it is even more important to do a good job in the Four Books.

Su Yan first looked at the first Four Books title, which was "Neutral and unreliable, strong and righteous".

This sentence comes from "The Doctrine of the Mean". The whole sentence is: "A gentleman who is harmonious but not in a relationship is strong to be correct; he is neutral and not leaning on him, it is strong to be correct; the state has the way and does not change, it is strong to be correct; the country has no way, and it is strong to be correct until death." Change is strong."

It means that a gentleman is in the same class and not in the same class, and he must be principled and impartial in his conduct.

Su Yan thought about it carefully for a while, brainstorming in his mind, quickly listed the ideas and outlines that could be answered on the draft paper, and deliberated from which angle it is better to solve the problem. After the consideration, he began to think word by word.

About half an hour later, Su Yan had a draft in his chest, so he picked up a pen and wrote down the first Shiwen profusely on the draft paper.After finishing writing, I began to check the details to see whether the length of the sentence, the complexity of the words, the pitch of the tone, etc. are relatively written.

He deleted and corrected a few words, read through the draft, and found no other problems for the time being, so he felt satisfied.So I put this question down, and started to look at the second Four Books question, which was: "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools."

This sentence comes from "The Analects of Confucius". The original sentence is: "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. Living in a country, he serves the sages of his officials and the benevolent friends of his scholars."

There are a total of six questions in the college examination, two questions about the Four Books, two questions about the Five Classics, one five-character eight-rhyme poem (test post poem), and one policy question.The five classics questions that all candidates need to answer in the college examination are the same, and when the provincial examination is held, they can choose the classics they have studied to answer according to the different classics they have studied.

Just when Su Yan was about to start thinking about the second four-book question, there were three beeps of gongs, which reminded candidates that it was noon, and also reminded candidates that lunch was on sale and they could go to the toilet.

At present, many candidates began to call out to the official, or took out money to buy lunch, or asked the official to lead them to the toilet.

Some examinees started to eat, and made a lot of noises with their chattering movements.Although Su Yan was a little hungry, he still decided to finish writing the outline of this question while he still had inspiration.

According to the experience of the brothers and Su Yan's own speculation, the first day of the three-day exam is of course the most energetic and clear-headed.On the second or third day after that, you may not be able to eat well or sleep well. At that time, your head will be dizzy, and your test status will also be affected, let alone unexpected situations such as violent storms and mosquito bites.Therefore, it is best to hurry up and finish typing out the outline of ideas on the first day, and wait until the next two days to make revisions and transcriptions.

After Su Yan finished writing the outline of the second question, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, put down his pen, carefully arranged the draft paper, put it in another clean test bag, and prepared to have lunch.

At noon on the first day, he had to eat the food that was easily expired first.Su Yan called the officials to help light the cocking stove, and asked for another pot of hot water.

He then opened the roast duck wrapped in oiled paper.

The roast duck was cooked by Chef Feng before they went out, and he sliced ​​it specially.At this point the roast duck has cooled down.

Su Yan used chopsticks to put the roast duck on the cocking stove and heated it up. The aroma of the roast duck soon wafted away, arousing Su Yan's appetite even more.

He put the grapefruit slices in hot water to make sweet grapefruit tea, and then took out a small bottle from the basket and dripped a few drops of honey into it.

Su Yan just sipped honey citron tea and ate delicious roast duck.After eating, he also took a few hawthorn slices for digestion, and then went out with the official to wash his hands.

After lunch, sleepiness also came up.Su Yan lay down on the table and took a nap for half an hour. He didn't know if he fell asleep or not. He felt that the exhausted energy had recovered a little, so he continued to write a draft of the Four Books.

In this way, when the gong rang in the evening, Su Yan had already finished drafting two questions about the Four Books and one about the Five Classics.

After racking his brains and writing three big essays one after another, Su Yan felt his body was hollowed out.

Hey, he really misses his fragrant and soft bed.

Hey, eat some instant noodles to reward yourself for your hard work.

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