I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 130 The Candidates Are Crazy
The more than 300 candidates who waited in line passed the Longmen and waited behind the compound. At this moment, the sky was slightly bright, and a government servant came to roll their names, and Zhan Feiyu took the test paper.

The little official standing by the side naturally knew Zhan Feiyu, and reminded in a low voice: "There is a seat number on the paper, Zhan Xiaomengtong goes to the seat according to the seat number, and the seat is the third room on the east."

"Thank you." After thanking him, Zhan Feiyu glanced at the seat number, thinking that with County Magistrate Chen taking care of him, at least he would not be allocated a stinky seat or a leaky house.

Others also began to look for a dormitory corresponding to their seat number. There was a little Mengtong who was taking the county examination for the first time at a young age, looking at the narrow and cramped dormitory that looked like a hut.

What catches the eye are two wooden boards four feet long. There are brick brackets on the walls on both sides of the house, two up and down.During the exam, two wooden boards are placed on the upper and lower brackets separately to form a pair of simple tables and stools.

"No noise!" The yamen servant not far away shouted loudly, and the few candidates who had just complained did not dare to speak again.

Zhan Feiyu took out the rag from the test basket, quickly wiped the wooden table and stools, took out the contents of the test basket and put them away one by one. The test papers were placed on the far right, away from food and water.

"Quiet!" The yamen servant shouted three times, as all the candidates had entered the dormitory, the door of the examination shed had been closed, and the audience was silent, with a sense of tension for no reason.

There are five county examinations, the first one is the main one, and the number of people admitted is also the largest. Those who pass the essay can be admitted, and those who fail the first one cannot take the next one.

Zhan Feiyu looked at the examination papers spread out on the table. The papers had red lines and vertical grids. Each page had twelve lines and each line had twenty characters. He issued two plain papers to use as draft paper.

When answering questions, candidates are not allowed to write answers outside the sealed line.

After a while, the iron cloud board was knocked three times, and the county examination officially started. Some government servants patrolled the venue holding up the sign lights, and the examination questions were posted on the board for tour.

In addition to a total of five papers in this round, the first two papers are about Tie Jing and Mo Yi. As long as they are young children who are studying and studying, they can basically write it.

The questions for the last three questions are all on the exam question board, and candidates need to copy the questions by themselves.

Picking up the pen, Zhan Feiyu quickly copied the exam questions onto the manuscript paper. The first question was the four-book question: Stop benevolence as a minister.

Not to mention the corners of the other candidates' mouths twitching, Zhan Feiyu also realized that the county test questions were difficult, and the first question was a short one.

There is no room for a crowd of candidates to complain, and the clerk has already walked over holding the considerate board. The second question is selected from the Five Classics, "Book of Changes", "Spring and Autumn", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites" and "Shangshu". Candidates can choose One of the questions to answer.

The third question is the five-character six-rhyme test post poem: The bright moon is in the water.

After confirming that there were no mistakes in the name and seat number, Zhan Feiyu began to write the scripture questions and ink meaning questions of the first two papers.

The amount of questions in these two papers is not large. There are thirty questions for the scriptures and ten questions for Mo Yi. Basically, all the candidates have finished writing them within half an hour.

Half an hour later, after moving his wrist, Zhan Feiyu was ready to answer the most difficult and most important first four-book question.

This sentence comes from "University", "To be a ruler, stop with benevolence; to be a minister, stop with respect; to be a son, stop with filial piety; to be a father, stop with kindness; to be a friend, stop with trust."

The general idea is: as a monarch, you must achieve benevolence; as a subject, you must achieve respect; as a son, you must achieve filial piety;

The first half of the first sentence of this question is cut off, and the second half of the next sentence is cut off. In the question, "benevolence" refers to what the "jun" said, but the title links "benevolence" and "minister", so you have to stick to it when answering the question. Combining "benevolence" and "subject" to write an article, the key point is that "benevolence" means "being a minister".

Not only Zhan Feiyu was thinking, but other examinees were also doing the same. There was plenty of time left to answer the three major questions, and what to consider was how to write the essay well.

If you answered this four-book question well, you might be promoted to a "class name", and you can answer the papers in front of the chief examiners Chen County Magistrate and Zhao Jiaoyu in the second exam.

Although the surveillance is stricter, and there may even be questions on the spot, those who perform well will definitely be ranked first when the crime is committed.

As for the top few candidates in the county examination, as long as they have real talents and practical learning, the magistrates will generally take care of the face of the county magistrates when the prefectural examination is held. The top few candidates can basically pass the prefectural examination. Steady.

Time passed little by little, and the sky in February was still bitingly cold. It had been more than an hour since it was dark, and my hands and feet were already freezing cold.

"Ahem..." The examinee in the dormitory diagonally opposite shivered from the cold, and coughed twice from time to time.

Zhan Feiyu, who was writing on the manuscript paper, looked up, and a stern look flashed in his eyes, it turned out to be Qian Pingchao!

Thinking of those beggars who came out on the official road in the morning, Zhan Feiyu couldn't help but sneered, what a coincidence!

Qian Pingchao was shivering from the cold wind. He was not short of money, but so far he was still white. He had to maintain the poverty of the poor family, so he only wore a few unlined clothes. The backs of my hands were all bruised.

Looking at Zhan Feiyu wrapped in fox fur at this moment, Qian Pingchao suppressed the jealousy in his heart, thought of something, Qian Pingchao lowered his head and grinned with a particularly vicious smile.

After a long while, Qian Pingchao, who had calmed down, looked up and saw that Zhan Feiyu had already picked up his pen and started writing. With his focused and serious appearance, and the smooth speed of writing, he knew Zhan Feiyu even if he couldn't see the content. It must be a spring of literary thinking.

Qian Pingchao, who still didn't know how to solve the problem, distorted his face again with jealousy. Why did he come from a farming family, so he had to suffer, starve and suffer from the cold!
But Zhan Feiyu, a dead girl, is a teacher of Gu Dashi, and the magistrate Chen also takes care of her, and the writing is so smooth, maybe the magistrate Chen has figured it out before!But no matter how hated he was, Qian Pingchao could only calm down and start answering the questions.

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At noon, the weather was not beautiful, there was no snow, but it was windy.

The cold wind carried unmelted snow particles and raged into the dormitory, especially the dormitory where the walls and roof were so unlucky that the air leaked. Candidates could only stop writing and rub their frozen hands.

Zhan Feiyu used a paperweight to hold down the test paper, and placed the test basket horizontally in front of the table to block the snow particles mixed in the wind. If the snowflakes melted on the test paper, they would stain the test paper.

Although he wasn't very hungry, he still needed to write a question about the Five Classics and a poem for a test post in the afternoon. Zhan Feiyu took out dried meat to pad his stomach.

The newly made jerky is not too hard. It is cut into long strips and wrapped in white sesame. It is made for the exam, so it tastes slightly salty.

Candidates who were eating hard pancakes in the opposite dormitory looked enviously at Zhan Feiyu, who was eating jerky. He took a bite of the pancakes and glanced at the jerky in Zhan Feiyu's hands, wishing that the plums would quench his thirst.

The smell of food drifted away with the wind, and Qian Pingchao chewed hard on the cake as hard as lumps of soil, gnashing his teeth as if he was eating the flesh and blood of Zhanfei fish.

Zhan Feiyu grinned, with a bit of provocation in his eyes. After eating a few pieces of jerky, he took out rice cakes from the test basket. The taste just relieves the greasyness of the jerky.

When his stomach was full, Zhan Feiyu wiped his hands, but took out a small bowl from the test basket, which contained peeled oranges.

Under the temperature where this drop of water turns into ice, if you drink a sip of cold water, it is estimated that the stomach and intestines will be frozen, and the petals of oranges are just enough to quench your thirst.The eyes of a group of candidates stared straight. They are the same candidates. Why is there such a big difference?

Nanxuan Mansion and several surrounding states cannot grow oranges because of the climate, and even if they bear fruit, they taste sour. It is not necessary to know that the oranges that Zhan Feiyu eats are transported from other places and stored in the ice cellar.

Zhan Feiyu, who was full of food and drink, moved his stiff body in the test room, thinking about how to write this test post poem.

County magistrate Chen is good at poetry. The topic of the moon in the water is not difficult, but it is not easy to write brilliantly. Apart from literary talent, what is more important is the conception.

This water can be a pond, a lake or a river, or the sea, whether it is a spring moon or an autumn moon...

Zhan Feiyu doesn't want to write more brilliant poems in the test posts, as long as he can pass the test, even if it is a county test, the most important thing is to make art and literature, and the test post poems are just icing on the cake.

Sudden.

"I didn't cheat..." A sharp voice broke the tranquility of the test room, and all the candidates were startled.

Two candidates who were copying the article shook their hands, and when the tip of the pen deviated, they made a mistake, and their faces turned pale.

The two yamen servants directly gagged the examinee's mouth, grabbed him roughly and dragged him outside. He went to the toilet not long ago, and when he came back, he made a cheat sheet. He dared to cheat in the county exam. He was bored!
Zhan Feiyu was not affected, and after making sure that the format of the test poems was correct and that the rhymes were correct, he began to transcribe stroke by stroke on the exam paper.

As a result, she was left with the second question of the Five Classics.

There was another noise not far away, but it was an examinee who was so cold that he accidentally knocked over the inkstone, staining the paper with ink.

"My lord, please forgive me and give me another test paper..." The examinee looked like a child in his 30s, crying like a child, "My lord..."

Qian Pingchao looked at Zhan Feiyu, who was as immobile as a mountain, with gloomy eyes. The dead girl is only nine years old after the new year, and she is so calm!
The middle-aged examinee, who was mourning his concubine, looked at the papers confiscated by the yamen clerk, and rushed forward like crazy. The yamen clerk didn't catch him, but he broke free and escaped.

"What are you doing?" An angry shout sounded, but the middle-aged candidate knocked over the inkstones of the other two dormitory candidates.

With a ferocious and crazy smile on his tear-filled face, the middle-aged examinee wiped the inkstone with his right hand, and then slapped the next-door examinee's paper.

The student who was answering the question was the youngest one this year, only seven years old. He stared blankly at the ink-black palm prints on the paper, and didn't react for a long while.

"Damn!" Zhan Feiyu was taken aback, seeing the middle-aged examinee running towards him like a lunatic, he immediately stood up, put the test paper on the table on the stool behind him, and the test basket in his hand was like a discus Swipe over.

bang!There wasn't much in other people's test baskets, but Zhan Feiyu's test basket was prepared by Yin Wuyan, and there was still a lot of food left in a small bowl, and Zhan Feiyu used [-]% of his strength.

The middle-aged man groaned from being smashed, and the two yamen servants also rushed over, grabbed his arm and pressed him to the ground, "Don't move!"

County magistrate Chen came over with a livid face. The college exams are taken twice in three years, and there will be some problems in each county exam, but this year is the most serious one. His own paper was dirty, and he went so far as to destroy the papers of the three of them in a frenzy. examination paper.

"My lord." The two yamen servants also had ugly faces. It was their fault that they didn't stop the middle-aged candidates.

The first two candidates whose papers were stained sat in the dormitory suppressing their anger. If they didn't know the rules, they would have wished to rush over and beat the culprit to death.

And the youngest examinee finally came to his senses, and burst into tears, "My paper...my paper is ruined..."

Zhan Feiyu looked back at the examination papers on the stool, and after saluting, he couldn't help asking: "My lord, the student just acted helplessly, please forgive me for the violation."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." County magistrate Chen naturally wouldn't blame Zhan Feiyu, if she didn't react quickly and smashed the examinee with the test basket, she might lose her test paper.

If it is a general question, at most he will be kicked out of the examination room, but the middle-aged examinee's behavior is too bad, and the majestic Chen County Magistrate said coldly: "Put him in the prison! We will make a decision after the county examination is over."

As for the three innocent people whose test papers were polluted, Zhao Jiaoyu interceded, "My lord, these three people's test papers have been destroyed, and there are still extra test papers, can you replace them?"

The three examinees looked at County Magistrate Chen with Qi Yi's eyes. They were also harmed by this lunatic examinee.

"No." County magistrate Chen categorically refused.

Hope was shattered all of a sudden, and the three of them froze in the dormitory with dull expressions.

Although Zhan Feiyu also sympathizes with the three people's experience, he can also understand the actions of the magistrate Chen. Although the three people are innocent, there are no rules and regulations. Will other candidates ask for new exam papers for other reasons in the future.

"My lord, I want to sue..." The middle-aged examinee who was detained by the yamen struggled violently, howling at the top of his voice, staring at Zhan Feiyu with red eyes, "She cheated! There is a cheat sheet in her dormitory ! I just saw it!"

A stone can start a thousand waves!Not to mention the chief examiners Chen County Magistrate, Chief Registrar, and Zhao Jiaoyu were stunned, even the other candidates in the examination booth were also stunned.

Cheating?Today, more than 300 people participated in the county examination, but few people really believed that Zhan Feiyu cheated!The circle of scholars is so big, and Zhan Feiyu's reputation is far and wide.

Although she was called a child prodigy when she was enlightened in Lin's private school, the scholars in Shangsi County did not recognize her. For a seven or eight-year-old girl who has been in school for less than a year, the name of a child prodigy is probably an exaggeration.

But after the winter solstice literary meeting, Zhan Feiyu's talent has been recognized, and then she went to the county school to study. Not only the teachers of the county school, but also all the students praised Zhan Feiyu.

The case of Wan Juren's poisoning pushed Zhan Feiyu's reputation to the peak. The examination paper pasted outside the county government office is obvious to all. Whether it is her writing or her policy questions, it is amazing.

But today was just the first round of the county examination, so there was really no need for Zhan Feiyu to cheat with her talent.

(End of this chapter)