Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 202 The Provincial Examination Ends
At this time, the shopkeeper hurried over to salute Zhu Pei, and Zhu Pei waved his hand, "Go and do your work! I don't need you to take care of me."

The shopkeeper ordered the waiter to serve two more good dishes, and then he took his leave.

Looking at the shopkeeper's background, Zhu Pei said coldly: "It is said that someone picked quarrels here yesterday, beat up the shopkeeper, and insulted the Zhu family, saying that this place is a pig's house and a dog's house. Do you really think that the Zhu's family is a face-to-face?"

Fan Ning said lightly: "It's just a young prodigal son, what are you fussing about with him?"

Zhu Pei gave Fan Ning a dissatisfied look, then snorted for a while and said, "Are you afraid of being implicated?"

Fan Ning shook his head, "If I was afraid of being implicated, I wouldn't have stood up yesterday."

Zhu Pei's eyes on Fan Ning softened, she lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I've spoken too aggressively just now, I apologize to you!"

Fanning laughed, and Jupe bowed his head in apology, which was still rare.

But he knew that Zhu Pei had a very strong personality, and she would never tolerate insults to her personality or surname, but he still needed to remind Zhu Pei.

"As the saying goes, ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Although Zhang Chun's actions yesterday were excessive, if you touch him at this time, it may be easy for people to think that it was the Zhu family who did it. I'm afraid it's not worth it to have an enmity with the Zhang family for such a trivial matter, I advise you to settle the score in autumn."

Zhu Pei smiled slyly, "Who said I'm going to deal with him, if something happens to him tomorrow, it has nothing to do with my Zhu family."

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That night, Zhang Chun and a group of rich and powerful children were drinking in Qingfeng Building, but he accidentally slipped when he was drunk, fell from the second floor of Qingfeng Building, and broke his arm.

Because it happened that his right arm was broken, Zhang Chun could no longer take part in the third day of the imperial examination.

Zhang Yaozuo was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger, so he ordered dozens of servants to smash down the Qingfeng Restaurant on Panlou Street overnight.

The entire capital was talking about what happened in Qingfeng Restaurant last night, complaining that Qingfeng Restaurant was innocently implicated, and also cheering for the broken arm of Zhang Yaozuo's grandson.

At the same time, the third imperial examination was going on nervously in the examination room.

In the third imperial examination, there were two exams, one was silent scriptures and the other was poetry writing. The time was also one day, but it was half an hour longer than the previous two days.

Although the exam on the third day is relatively the easiest, the exam is the most intensive, especially the silent scriptures that start in the morning. Multiple articles.

The content to be written silently is nearly [-] words, which requires candidates to be very familiar with the scriptures, and it is better to write quickly, and they don't even have time to use manuscript paper.

From the time when the test papers were handed out, all the exams took the time to write and meditate on scriptures. Some candidates didn't even have time to read the poetry questions.

Fan Ning was very calm, he was not in a hurry to write, but read all the titles, including the poem titles.

The title of the poem is also a poem, "Taiping is more difficult than Ying." '

It seems that there is no beginning and no end, the language is vague, and the level is average, but if you know the source of this poem, then this poem will be easy to write.

This poem is a sentence in "Yuan Shi" written by Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi. It is written about the hope that after the destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty, the civil and military order of the court, the harmony between the monarch and his ministers, and efforts to build a peaceful and prosperous Song Dynasty.

In fact, candidates are asked to describe the current peaceful and prosperous age and praise the king's kindness and virtue. Most of the poems in the imperial examination are about praising the king.

The imperial examinations have always been relaxed and well-done. When you want to show your level, you must have novel ideas, clear viewpoints, and concise and powerful sentences, such as countermeasure essays and argumentative essays.

But when you are required to be in the middle, you must be steady, even mediocre, like today's poems, this kind of poem is very important in terms of political stance, as long as it can express gratitude to the king, plus rhyme, scrolling, etc. Full marks are required.

On the contrary, novelty is the most taboo when writing poems, such as persuading, criticizing current malpractices, etc. No matter how well written a poem is, it is not qualified.

That's why it is rare to hear that imperial examination poems can be passed down through the ages.

Fan Ning put the poem topic aside and turned back to the topic of the silent scriptures. He probably had estimated the font size and spacing before writing the first silent scripture.

There are two prompts at the beginning of the first article, "There are only three sacrifices out of ten, and the king visits Jizi." ’ Now I want you to keep silent until ‘it harms my family, and it harms my country’.

This is the content of "Book of Zhou. Hong Fan" in "Shangshu".

The subject of silent scriptures is the only subject that is relatively uncommon in the test. Elementary school students such as "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" will not appear in class.

Like today's "Book of Zhou. Hong Fan", if you are not familiar with the scriptures, you may not even know the source of the text, or you can't remember it for a long time. Even if you finally remember the article, you will not have time to finish it silently.

Without thinking about it, Fan Ning wrote with a pen: Wang Naiyan said: "Woohoo! Jizi, but the people living in the shadows of the sky live in harmony. I don't know the Yilun Youshu."

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Today's exam is four and a half hours, that is, nine hours, and the silent scripture questions must be completed in at least three and a half hours.

That is to write [-] characters in seven hours, the calligraphy must be good, the speed must be fast, and there must be no mistakes or alterations.

This is a very severe test for the examinees. Only about [-]% of those who can write well and finish on time, most of them will have one or two alterations.

Some candidates even refused to correct their mistakes after discovering their mistakes, betting that the examiner did not have the time and energy to read the [-] characters carefully in an attempt to get away with it.

There are quite a few candidates who think they are smart, but they have forgotten that there is a copying institute. Of course, the copying officials hope to reduce the burden of copying. Once they find mistakes in the test paper, they immediately stop writing and seal the test paper. Leave it to the examiner to judge.

These examination papers, which were not corrected for mistakes, were brushed off without exception.

Of course, the examination papers that have been incorrectly altered in more than two places will also be erased, just one step later.

Fan Ning worked hard to write, and finally finished the silent scriptures just after noon.

He took another piece of straw paper and wrote a well-regulated imperial examination poem on the straw paper.

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'Boom-thump-'

As the bell for handing in the papers rang, the imperial examination for the second year of Huangyou finally came to an end. Groups of candidates walked out of the examination room. Although each person was in a different mood, everyone had exactly the same relaxed expression.

As the bell rang for the end of the provincial examination, there was cheers outside the examination room. Everyone met to drink, go shopping, and go to brothels to seek sex. At this time, the Ministry of Etiquette would not bother about the personal behavior of the candidates.

Su Liang let out a long breath, "Finally finished the exam?"

"Today you......."

Before Fan Ning could start talking, Su Liang waved his hand and said angrily, "Whether I pass the exam or not, I have tried my best. Now don't ask me how I did in the exam? I am now I'm going to drink, I'm going to go out to play with Yuanyuan, I don't want to hear a word about the exam!"

Fan Ning spread his hands, "I didn't want to talk about the exam with you, I just wanted to ask you if you have time today, and take you to make a small fortune. Since you are going to find Yuanyuan, then forget it."

Su Liang suddenly smiled, pulled Fan Ning's sleeve and said repeatedly: "Fan Ning, brother, what is the opportunity to make money?"

"Go back to the residence to get the silver, and I will tell you when the time comes."

Su Liang was full of doubts, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he had to follow Fan Ning back to his residence.

As soon as he entered the door, he met Ming Ren who was about to go out excitedly, and Fan Ning grabbed him.

"Where are you going?"

Ming Ren said with a smile: "I'll make a bet and try my luck!"

"Wait a minute, let's go together later."

Only then did Su Liang understand, and he said in astonishment, "Fan Ning, what you said about getting rich is to bet!"

Fan Ning ignored him, and asked Mingren again: "Is Li Dashou back?"

"Just came back, and posted a Do Not Disturb on the door. He said he would sleep for a few days and nights, so that no one should disturb him."

"Forget it, don't bother him."

Fanning looked inside again and asked, "Where are the others?"

"My father took Ah Qing to the shop early in the morning, and he didn't know when he came back. The Cheng brothers and sisters went out of the city to hand over the property. Except for Li Dashou who was sleeping, there was only one Dujuan looking after the house."

"I'm going to get some silver, wait a minute."

Fan Ning turned around and asked Su Liang, "Are you going?"

Su Liang was actually not interested in betting. He thought that he had never had such good luck. It was also because Cheng Yuanyuan was not there. If Cheng Yuanyuan was there, he would definitely stay with the beauty.

Su Liang hesitated for a while, and finally nodded, "Then go! I'll buy less."

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(End of this chapter)