The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Inside the examination room are simple and simple sheds connected one by one, which is where their county examination is held.

Li Wen went in with his own signboard, and found his test room according to the number on it.Isn't this a little too crude?Seeing the place of the exam, the corners of his eyes twitched.

There is a thick layer of dust here, and I don't know how long no one has used it.

"Ahem..." Li Wen covered his mouth and nose and coughed, and looked around at the place where he was going to stay for the exam for the next five days

A table, a chair, the size inside is just room for one person to turn around.

This place has not been repaired for many years. There are some air leaks on all sides, and the wind pours in through the broken openings. He can feel the wind flowing while standing here.Fortunately, he knew the weather was cold, so he deliberately wore thicker clothes before coming here. He also wore a goose down vest in the middle. Although it was a thin layer, it was very warm.

While there was still some time, Li Wen hurriedly found a rag and wiped the table and chairs clean.After wiping, the rag was too black to be seen, so he threw it aside casually, then took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone one by one and placed them on the table, sat down in his seat and waited for the exam to start.

In order to make it easier for the clerks to issue papers and supervise their candidates for their exams, there is no cover in front of the desk. Sitting in his seat, Li Wen could see that the man opposite him was wiping the table and chairs while holding his nose. After the man finished wiping, Sitting down, he looked up at him.

There is no specific age limit for the imperial examination. Most of the students who take the county examination are children who come to take the exam. The age is generally around fifteen or sixteen years old. Of course, there are younger or older students.The man on the opposite side looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, which was relatively common, but it was relatively rare for someone like Li Wen to take the exam before he was ten years old.

This is also because he was young when he entered school, two or three years younger than Shen Zijing and the others, so this is also the reason why the master asked him to postpone the exam for a year.

The scholar saw a child sitting across from him to take the exam, and cursed in his heart, "A little kid is also coming to the exam. If you don't pass the exam, go home and cry to your mother!" He waited to see the joke !

After such a comparison, the scholar was full of ambition and felt that he would pass the exam this time.

Candidates outside line up for inspection one by one, and they can only enter after the inspection, and the last candidate enters.The gate was dropped, and the gate was locked. No matter what happens inside during the exam, it will not be opened again until the exam is over and the examinees hand in their papers to let people out.

"Orbital—"

"The exam is on—"

Hearing the beating of the gong, everyone's nerves were lifted up, waiting for the examiner to issue the paper.

The yamen took the papers and handed them out, and Li Wen also got his own papers. He pressed the two sides with a ruler,

So as not to be accidentally blown away by the wind.

After the papers were handed out, the Yacha held up a board with their exam questions written on it. The Yacha holding the board stood in the middle of the two rows of halls. Li Wen hurriedly wrote the exam questions on the paper.

Their first test was the main test, and they were taking two of the "Four Books". In fact, it was a very simple test of memorization and dictation.

Li Wen is the best at reciting and writing these things silently. He is really stupid if he doesn't memorize the things that are required for the exam.But even if he could memorize all these things, Li Wen didn't become complacent because of this. On the road of learning, complacency is the worst thing to do.

Humility makes people move forward, pride makes people lag behind!

After getting the test questions, Li Wen rubbed his hands together to warm them up a bit, and calmed down to go through the articles to be tested in his mind.

As soon as the examinee on the opposite side got the test questions, he picked up the brush and started to write on the paper. Seeing that the little boy in the dormitory opposite was still sitting there with a mocking smile on his face, he was even more excited. Affirmed the guess that the other party would not answer the question.

Li Wen didn't know that the man on the opposite side confided in his heart that he couldn't answer the question.

After going through the article in his head and rubbing his hands warm, Li Wen picked up the brush and began to draw the draft on the draft paper.Words slipped through his mind one by one, and he quickly wrote them on the paper with the pen in his hand.

The sky is changing rapidly, the gray and white clouds are fading little by little, and the time is passing by little by little. All the candidates are nervously hurrying to answer the questions.

When Li Wen finished typing the draft of an article, his genius was brightened. As soon as he stopped writing, he felt that his hands were going to be stiff with cold.I didn't feel cold when I was writing just now, but when I stopped now, Li Wen heard the whistling wind, and his whole body was frozen a little hard.

Madan, isn't the weather a little too cold this time?

The examinee on the opposite side who was full of ambition at the beginning put his hand to his mouth to exhale and warm his hand while writing later.

In comparison, Li Wen was still wearing gloves on his hands, even if his hands were frozen, they were not so thorough.

Li Wen glanced at the opposite man who was exhaling hot air from his mouth to warm his hands while writing. He put down his pen and didn't intend to continue writing. Instead, he opened the basket on the side and took out the dry food and hot water from inside. water, start eating breakfast.

He went out early in the morning, and he hadn't had breakfast yet, and now he felt so hungry after answering a question, and using his brain was a very labor-intensive physical activity.

If it wasn't for the lack of fire here, Li Wen would have wanted to cook something hotter by himself.

He was completely huddled in his coat, and when the dry food came in for inspection, the Yamen even broke it apart for him, saving him the trouble of breaking it himself.While eating dry food and drinking hot water, when the food went into the stomach, the whole stomach felt warm, and the body also warmed up.

After eating, Li Wen was not in a hurry to write the answers on the paper so quickly. Instead, he sat in it for a while and stretched himself, then picked up the manuscript and began to check it carefully. Did he check again? After asking the questions, Li Wen picked up a brush and wrote the answers on the paper.

In the past three years, he has worked hard to develop standard lower-case characters, which are neat and beautiful. In Li Wen's own words, they are just like those printed by a printer.In his previous life, he started to learn calligraphy since he was a child, but he learned it as a hobby. Later, in order to show his personality, he froze to write in lower case into wild cursive.

Li Wen regretted this very much. It took him a full year to practice the wild cursive script back to lower script, and then it took him another two years to make the scripts beautiful. It was still printed by a printer The lower case script, Li Wen practiced it after a lot of hard work.

Later, even the teacher who taught him praised his beautiful handwriting when he saw it.

Can this word not be beautiful?The first thing the examiner looks at when marking the paper is a candidate's handwriting. If the handwriting is not good, the first impression will be bad. It is very difficult to get the examiner's favor and get a good grade.But a beautiful paper gives the first impression of a full score, which greatly increases the examiner's favor.

Writing beautiful handwriting is the first step to success, which is one of the reasons why Li Wen persists in practicing handwriting.

The answer sheet is required to be clean and concise, and no modification is allowed.

Therefore, Li Wen must maintain a high degree of concentration in the process of transcribing, and there must be no typos or even a little mistake, otherwise his three years of hard work will be in vain.

However, compared to other people's nervousness, Li Wen's mentality is better, and he is not too nervous. He grasps the rhythm of answering questions by himself, and he writes out the first article on the test paper before noon.

"iqi-"

When the last word falls, the first question is answered.

Li Wen glanced at the paper. There was no problem on the paper. With a cautious attitude, he checked it from the beginning to the end. After finding that there was no problem, he put away the paper and put it away.

The sun is still out now, and the temperature has risen a little, so it's not as cold as it was in the morning.

Taking advantage of this moment to rest for a while, Li Wen started to take out dry food and water for lunch.For dry food, he asked his mother to make rice cakes for him. They were made from rice and ground into powder, so even if they were hard, they wouldn't be hard to chew.

Because they can't get out of this dormitory in the middle, eating, drinking and messing are all settled here, so Li Wen can't eat so much food and drink too much water.Gong Tong is conveniently located in the corner, less than three steps away from him, and he smells the shit after running there, which makes him feel comfortable, so he doesn't even dare to drink more water, lest he urinate too much.

After the examinee on the opposite side stuffed everything into his stomach in two or three bites, he glanced at the kid opposite who was still eating, sneered, and began to pick up the brush to answer the questions again.

Li Wen didn't know from the beginning to the end that the man on the opposite side kept adding drama to himself in his heart.

He has been eating slowly since he was a snack, so he doesn't eat very fast. After eating slowly, he is used to taking a nap at noon.

Feeling sleepy after eating, Li Wen squinted on the table for a while, not daring to really fall asleep.It's very cold in here, and if you accidentally fall asleep, you may suffer from freezing problems, and there will be four exams in the future.

Every year, there are candidates who are carried out of the examination room, so it is said that the body is the capital of the revolution. If you are not in good health, you can't even finish the questions, let alone get in the exam and get a good ranking.

After resting for a while, he was full of energy. Li Wen picked up the brush and continued to make the draft. This time, he made the draft faster.After typing out the manuscript, I carefully transcribed the answers on the paper, without taking a breath in the middle.

After answering the questions, put down the pen and finish in one go!

Then he carefully checked the test paper, passed the test, and then checked if there were any mistakes in it, and found that there was no problem, Li Wen ticked the corner of his mouth, he was quite satisfied.

Put the paper into the test paper bag, seal it, and wait for the paper to be handed in.

By this afternoon, there was not much time left before the end of the exam, and the candidates who hadn't finished their papers were all desperately answering the questions.Li Wen saw that the man opposite him hadn't stopped writing since he sat down. He even took a break in the middle and finished the paper ahead of time.

Today's exam questions are not too difficult for him. The exams are all things he has learned. As long as he studies hard, he can basically write them silently.

But what Li Wen didn't know was that not everyone had such a good mentality like him.When people get nervous, their minds go blank, so even the articles that they have memorized well in the past can’t be remembered when it comes to the exam.