The Hulk of the Red Chamber

Lin Ruhai is indeed the main examiner of this subject's rural examination, because it is under the foot of the emperor, even the rural examination is very strict. A few days before the examination, the chief examiner, deputy chief examiner and related officials have already lived in the demolished Gongyuan. When you come down, you have to wait until the ranking is out before you can leave, so as to avoid accidents of fraud in the examination room.After the decree came down, in order to avoid suspicion, Shi Hong never went to the door of the Lin family in person, and stayed at home to concentrate on preparing for the exam.

In August, when the other family was preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shi Hong had no choice but to take the exam basket to the Gongyuan for the exam.

Although it is autumn now, the weather is not good. The temperature difference between morning and evening is very large. At noon, it is only a little cooler than summer.Before dawn, there were already people standing outside the Gongyuan, almost filling up the entire street, but this is no wonder, the Shuntian Mansion side is densely populated, and some people are not from this side, because of various The reason is that they will also be affiliated with the Shuntianfu exam, which is equivalent to the immigrant college entrance examination in later generations. Who makes the exam less difficult here!Although only about [-] are taken for each township examination, nearly [-] are used for reference. It doesn’t sound like much, but if you really want to squeeze them together, it’s enough to cause dense phobia.

On the street, many acquaintances gathered together, talking softly to ease their mood.Some candidates who took the exam for the first time nervously carried their baskets and muttered words, but it was obviously too late to memorize the four books at the moment.When the sky was slightly bright, the door of the tribute courtyard was opened from the inside, and some government servants and old scribes stood at the door, calling out the candidates' names and birthplaces loudly, and those who read their names stepped forward, and those government servants went over to explain The clothes were searched, several hats and hairpins were removed for inspection, the test basket was opened, and the contents were taken out one by one for inspection, and cakes and the like were randomly cut into large and small pieces with a knife.The few who were entrained were taken away unceremoniously. First-time offenders will still have a chance in the future. If they commit a second offense, I'm sorry, and their merits will be deprived, and they will not be allowed to take the exam again in this life.

These actions are really psychologically stressful. Some candidates who are waiting behind are sweating on their foreheads in such a breezy morning.Shi Hong and the others who came out of the Imperial College were quickly read their names, and they were also searched before they stepped forward. After tidying up their clothes, they carried the examination basket and followed the old officials who led the way into the Gongyuan.

Shi Hong's luck is neither bad nor bad, but he is much better than Yang Shi. Yang Shi happened to be allocated near the hut at the corner. Looking straight at a group of blowflies flying in the air, seeing his expression, he almost spit it out immediately.

Shi Hong sympathized with Yang Shi very much, but this kind of thing really depends on luck. If Yang Shi failed the ranking because of this kind of thing this time, it would be too wronged.Shi Hong's place is relatively inside, and it looks a bit dark and damp. Even though it has been cleaned in advance, after entering, there is still a faint musty smell.

However, these did not have much impact on Shi Hong's on-the-spot performance. This kind of place is nothing more than difficult at night, but there is no problem during the day.Shi Hong took out an aromatherapy ball from the test basket, lit a little lily fragrance in it, hung the aromatherapy ball on the corner of the wall to get rid of the smell in the test room, cleaned up the test room again, and took out the things in the basket to display Alright, at this moment, the scribes have come over with the test papers and distributed them one by one in the test booths.

The exams for three consecutive days were really difficult, especially in this season when the summer heat had not completely disappeared. When he came out on the third day, Shi Hong felt that he was going to be bad.But this is not the time to relax. There are two six-day exams to come. If you lose your energy now, it will affect the next exam.

On the seventh day, Shi Hong was scribbling in the examination shed, and heard a faint exclamation, but he fell ill. He was not allowed to enter, so the examinee was only taken out of the examination shed for hasty treatment. Although during the examination period, in order to prevent problems, there were doctors in the tribute courtyard guarding him, but the conditions were limited after all, and the one who fell ill could only depend on luck.

It seems that there was a chain reaction. In the next two days, several more were carried out one after another. One of them was less than twenty steps away from Shi Hong's examination room. , there was a bang, and fell down. Shi Hong had almost done it at that time. When he looked up, he saw that the inkstone on the case was overturned, and most of the test papers were stained. It turned into nothing, and I couldn't help but feel a bit of chill in my heart, it really is time and fate.

It wasn't until Shi Hong handed in the papers and left the Gongyuan that he heard the servants in the Gongyuan whispering that the examinee who fell ill had vomited and had diarrhea for three days, and now he was only half breathed. The doctor said it was probably hopeless.In order to prevent bad luck, the gate of the tribute courtyard was just opened, and was carried out by several petty officials in a hurry, and handed over to the candidate's family waiting outside, and then, the candidate's family took him to find a doctor in tears.

Although Shi Hong's body smelled a bit indecent, because he hadn't washed properly for a few days, his face was almost unkempt, and he was in good spirits, but Yang Shi, who was in a very bad position, was so sluggish at the moment that he looked like dried pickles, wilting. Droopy, he came out of the examination room, hugged his stomach before even saying hello to Shi Hong and the others, and vomited profusely on the street. He probably didn't eat anything these days, or he vomited after eating. After a while, his face was yellow, and he was about to spit out bile.The members of the Yang family were so panicked that they hurried forward to help their young master, and one of them hurried to find a doctor.

The three acquaintances Shi Hong, Li Yue, and Lin Wei gave a wry smile, because they were not in a good state, and they couldn't get up the energy to discuss the exam situation, so they simply went back to their respective homes.

The person who came to pick up Shi Hong was Shi Quan, the second housekeeper of the Shi family. He personally helped Shi Hong into the carriage. The carriage had already prepared toiletries, tea and snacks, but Shi Hong had no appetite at all, so he wiped himself with a towel indiscriminately. After cleaning his face, he took the blanket on the car seat and leaned against the car to doze off.The exams these few days have really tormented him. Even though Shi Hong's mental quality is not bad, but in the relatively bad environment of the Gongyuan, and he always heard other bad news, Shi Hong's nerves were tense. Even when I was sleeping, I dreamed that I accidentally knocked over the candlestick, burned the exam papers, etc., and woke up several times, so I really didn't sleep well. Now that the exam is over, I feel relaxed and sleepy immediately.

The entire family of the Shi family was waiting for Shi Hong's news. Shi Ding was always proud of his energy-raising skills, and now he was waiting in the main hall early, waiting for Shi Hong to come back and ask about the situation.In the end, Shi Hong was memorized, and Shi Ding was so frightened that he almost lost his composure. Fortunately, the doctor enshrined in his family came to check his pulse and said that he was too tired. For the supplementary prescription, two more lists of medicinal food were left. Qin Fu hurriedly ordered to boil the medicine. Shi Hong was in a daze, and was poured down a bowl of bitter medicine juice. After waking up for a while, he fell asleep again and woke up again. When we came, it was already the third day.

When Shi Hong woke up, both Qin Fu and Shi Ding breathed a sigh of relief. They also found out about the Shuntian Mansion's rural examination. More than ten people fell down in the examination room. The one who was carried out first , died that night.This made Mrs. Qin very worried. Even if the doctor swears, Shi Hong is actually too tired, which can't make her worry less, until she heard that Shi Hong woke up, holding his stomach and screaming hungry, hurried over, looking at Shi Hong Hong drank three bowls of rouge fragrant rice porridge with the legal system of purple ginger before he felt relieved.

Although Shi Ding was also worried, he didn't show it. He just asked Shi Hong how he was doing in the exam.However, in the nine-day exam, the amount of questions was quite large, so Shi Ding asked Shi Hong to silently write down the answers that he still remembered, planning to look back for a look.Lin Ruhai is still grading papers in the Gong Yuan at the moment, Shi Ding can only find someone else.

Shi Hong was indeed fine, but Yang Shi, the unlucky one, had a problem. Shi Hong suspected that if such a thing happened again, Yang Shi would suffer from exam phobia.Because they had learned the lessons from Lin Wei's last exam, they all paid more attention to physical exercise, and they had nothing to do to practice Wu Qinxi, find a place to draw their bows and so on.This time he was purely psychologically disgusted. According to what he said, during the exam, the flies kept flying around him and on the exam papers, but they didn't dare to slap them to death for fear of staining the exam papers, so they could only bear with it. Well, even so, those flies also caused him a lot of trouble.The other is the smell lingering around him. Even during the second exam, Yang Shi imitated Shi Hong and brought an aromatherapy ball, but the combination of the two smells became even weirder. Yang Shi had no choice but to extinguish the aromatherapy. up.Until now, he felt that he had a stench on his body.Yang Shi said with a pale face: "This time I will probably fail the ranking. If this happens again next time, I will never take another step into the Gongyuan in my life!"

What else can you say about this kind of thing!They could only comfort Yang Shi a few words, it's impossible to be so unlucky every time, it's just an example.In fact, there are many people who are assigned to bad positions in every exam. After all, there are only so many places with better positions in Gongyuan for nearly [-] exams. There will always be some places that will affect their performance. I can't pass the exam!The key is that Yang Shi's psychological endurance is a bit weak, but this is also normal. In a poor and remote village, many latrines are built outside the kitchen, and they live with domestic pigs and sheep. How can I pay attention to it? Smell, although Yang Shi said that his family background is not outstanding, but he was born in a wealthy family. He has never encountered such a thing since he was a child, so he can't bear it.

Just like the college entrance examination in later generations, the time has come for the provincial examination to list the list of candidates and their parents.