Bachelor

Chapter 76 Two Candidates
Just as the examiner said, Sun Dan was sleeping.

This is the second time he has slept in the examination room, the last time was in the government examination room more than ten days ago.After receiving the test paper, Sun Dan looked at the questions and knew that he had passed the test, and everything was as expected.

As Li Meiting said, Wang Yuan is a modest gentleman who likes to read "The Analects" every day. The scope of this exam should be found in this book.Therefore, the exam question this time is just like the records in the historical records, which is "knowing where it is every day".

Stereotyped essays developed to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that all kinds of topics have been written. Every sentence in the "Four Books" has a corresponding model essay.At least, among the model essays prepared by Sun Dan, there were six articles about this sentence, and copying out a random paragraph was enough for him to pass the test smoothly.

And Wang Hanlin likes frivolous and flamboyant rhetoric, so Sun Dan decided to copy Lu Liuliang's model essay.

If even the writings of Lu Liuliang, a great Confucian in the late Ming Dynasty, could not be read by Wang Yuanzheng, it is estimated that none of the [-] candidates in the entire examination room could pass.

In this regard, Sun Dan is full of confidence.

Now, the only thing he needs to worry about is how to kill the whole day.

The time for the hospital examination is not as long as that of Qiuwei, only one day.As soon as the candidates entered the examination room, the examiner immediately locked the gate of the Gongyuan, and no one was allowed to leave the examination room until the end of the examination.Therefore, it is impossible to hand in the papers and go home in advance.

Everything must be in order. More than 2000 candidates need to line up to sing the number when they enter the venue, and they also need to line up when they leave.Otherwise, if so many people rush in and disperse in a rush, not only will it be inappropriate, but it will cause uncontrollable and uncontrollable changes.In the autumn of the Hongwu period, there was an incident where candidates were drowned in the pond on the left side of the gate of the Gongyuan when they entered the arena. After the incident, Zhu Yuanzhang Longyan was furious and killed more than a dozen examiners in one breath. Only then did the anger of the scholars calm down.

Although the current Emperor Zhengde has a bad reputation in history and has done a lot of absurd things, personally speaking, he is a very generous monarch. Although it is not enough to kill the examiner because of such things, it is really troublesome However, it has a great impact on the examiner's future.

At Sun Dan's current speed, it would only take an hour to finish the paper.The problem is, after finishing the papers, he has to sit in a daze in the exam room.

So, he was not in a hurry to answer the paper, and simply lay down on the table and fell asleep.I woke up early today, and was caught by Aunt Jing to dig a canal, and I ran half to death on the road, so tired that I couldn't straighten up.

Sun Dan's body is very weak now, and he is a half-grown child. As soon as his head touched the table, he fell asleep to death.

Sun Hao was sitting in the small hut opposite Sun Dan, watching Sun Dan fall asleep, feeling admiration in his heart.Xindao: It is said in the book that a gentleman should be calm every time there is a big event, such a big thing as the college exam, brother Dan can actually fall asleep.It's not very comfortable to sleep here, though.

The test sheds of the Jinan Gongyuan are very large, second only to Shuntian Mansion in the northern provinces, with a total of more than 2000 dormitories and more than a dozen rows of houses.

These dozens of rows of houses all face north and south, with about a hundred rooms in the long ones, and seventy or eighty rooms in the short ones.The hall is very narrow, four feet long and three feet wide, only about one square meter.Sitting inside, people are like chickens and ducks locked in a cage.

There is also a fenced wooden door at the entrance of the dormitory. As long as candidates enter the room, they will be locked by a big lock. They are not allowed to open the lock until the end of the exam, even if a fire breaks out inside and the candidates are burned to death.

Thinking of the fire, Sun Hao couldn't help but glanced worriedly at Sun Dan's house.Fortunately, Sun Dan did not light the lamp, so there is no need to worry about the running water burning him into a barbecue.

Seeing that Sun Dan was fine, Sun Hao turned his gaze away from Sun Dan to the examination paper.

Seeing the title, Sun Hao's heart beat wildly again.

This topic is exactly the same as the article that Sun Dan asked himself to memorize a few days ago. Under Sun Dan's cruel supervision, Sun Dan has memorized that article so well that he can write it silently with his eyes closed.

Could it be...Brother Dan already knew the exam questions of today's Academy of Sciences?

Cheating in the examination room is a felony. It is impossible for ordinary people to share the examination questions with others, so as not to leak the information.Even if you really want to leak it to others, you have to charge a lot of money.According to the current market, it is worth at least 100 taels of silver.

But Sun Dan gave it to himself without frowning. This friendship is really touching.

"A good man, what a good man, for the sake of his own brother, he would not even take the crime of beheading. May I ask if I am in this situation, would I dare to leak the test questions to others? Sun Hao, Sun Hao, you usually think of yourself as a good man , but compared to Brother Dan, what is it? I, Sun Dan, have got this scholar." Sun Dan thought of his glory after being admitted as a scholar, his mother's tears of excitement, and his family's gratified eyes, and his eyes felt a little hot , rubbed his eyes, without hesitation, picked up the pen and rustled on the paper to copy.

At the beginning, Sun Hao's hands were trembling because of excitement, but after writing, he copied more and more fluently, and his speed also increased.

When I finished copying an article, I looked up and saw that the sun in the sky had just risen to the osmanthus tree in the east.Looking at the time, it was only morning, and there was still a long time before lunch.

Looking down, Sun Dan was still sleeping.

All the candidates were writing with their heads down, the whole examination room was silent, the breeze was blowing, the leaves of the sweet-scented osmanthus trees rustled, and a flock of sparrows didn't know how to be afraid of people, and landed on the ground of the four-foot-wide long alley between the dormitories, pecking at the leftovers left by the candidates. Dry food on the ground.

Mu sat in the room blankly for a long time, and when the sun rose above his head, Sun Dan felt hungry. He took out a few mouthfuls of dry food from his bag, drank a few mouthfuls of tea, and then looked at the opposite side. sleeping.

In the past, Sun Hao had imagined countless times what the formal exams such as the courtyard exam and Qiu Wei looked like. Today, when he was in it, he felt that this kind of exam was so boring that it could suffocate people to death.

At this time, the candidates were probably also hungry, and there was a sound of chewing all around.The sparrows in the alleyway were startled when they heard the sound of spring silkworms eating mulberry leaves, and flew into the air with flapping wings.

Hearing this sound, Sun Dan, who was lying on the table, moved, and raised his blood red eyes to look at Sun Hao.

Sun Hao was about to give him a wink, signaling him to get up and answer the question quickly.

But Sun Dan only looked at Sun Hao with confused eyes, and then lay down again.

Sun Hao was so anxious that he almost jumped up. He was fat and had a lot of flesh on his buttocks, but he felt unbearable pain after sitting on the stool for a long time. After standing up and exercising his muscles and bones, he sat down helplessly.

Time passed slowly, and the sun gradually moved westward, gradually prolonging the shadow of the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

During this period, Sun Dan urinated twice and shit once, which made a dormitory stink to the sky.During the period, he also took a nap and even re-transcribed the examination paper once.But even so, the time still didn't seem to have passed, it was so long that it made people panic.

When Sun Hao fell asleep for the second time, when he woke up, the sky was already dark, the sun didn't know where to hide, and the small room was completely dark.

Sun Hao looked up, and Sun Dan opposite was still sleeping.

Sun Hao was startled suddenly, what time is this, why are you still sleeping?

He hurriedly stood up, hung a wooden sign at the door, waved to the patrolling yamen servant, and pointed to the sign.

There are two big characters "Chu Gong" written on the sign.

(End of this chapter)