Xiangye

Chapter 189

The expected storm did not come down. After completing the first question, Gao Wen was not in a hurry to deal with the third question.

Although it is said that Wang Fuzhi was copied directly, it still takes a lot of time to transcribe word by word.Anyway, the days are still long, so take a good rest first.If you deal with one question a day, if you finish it in one go, you will inevitably make mistakes in the haste, and the next time will not be easy to kill.

I didn't realize it before, but it wasn't until late in the evening that Gao Wen and the candidates in his row realized the disgusting aspect of this hot number.

This place is next to the kitchen, and the three meals a day for hundreds of examiners and soldiers in the examination room have to be cooked here. After a whole day, the cooks hardly have any free time.The rattling sound of kitchen knives and chopping boards filled my ears, followed by bellows and chaotic footsteps.

After such a day, my mind is full of these messy voices.

In such a situation, how can other candidates calm down to answer the questions?

Gao Wen is fine, after all, he is a modern person, any noise in a metropolis is considered by the ancients to be the music of the Brain Demon.I have stayed in the big city for a long time, and I can barely resist.The other candidates were miserable, so some scholars patted their writing boards in protest.

A man initiates, a hundred men respond.

As a result, crackling sounds continued in the examination room.It caused a group of soldiers to rush forward with whips and whipped the examinees in the examination room until they screamed again and again, which made the commotion subside.

The disturbance of noise is second to none. The most terrible thing is that there is a burst of smoke and the smell of food floating over from the kitchen, which makes people cough.

When it was at its worst, it was filled with smog, and it was impossible to see things.

Gao Wen had no choice but to take off a piece of clothing, which was soaked in water and covered his mouth and nose.

Candidates who really can't bear it can only ask to go to the hut again and again, hoping to temporarily escape this smoky place.

"It's really unlucky to live in the fire house. Compared to that, I'd rather change with that bastard Huang Wei and live in the stinky house. It doesn't matter if you lean against the hut. I've heard the smell for a long time, but I don't feel it. " Thinking of Huang Wei's gloating expression earlier, Gao Wen felt bitter.

The night was already very deep, but it was still pitch black outside, and the air seemed to become heavier, as if a thick quilt was pulled down, covering everything and baking everything.

Sweat didn't stop for a moment, and his mouth was dry as if it was about to burn.No matter how much water you drink, it evaporates into sweat in no time.

The clothes on Gao Wen's body were completely drenched with sweat. At this time, he didn't care about the decency of any scholar, so he directly pulled himself naked. When the clothes he took off were twisted with his hands, water flowed out.

Putting the vest on the brick wall of the Kaoshe, not only can't feel a trace of coolness, but it is scalded with a low cry.It turned out that after being steamed by the sun hidden in the clouds for a whole day, this Kaoshe has become an oven.

No matter what posture Gao Wen changed, his heart was filled with endless irritability.This ancient imperial examination room is a hundred times worse than the later college entrance examination room, and it is a hundred times inhumane!

Although I couldn't see it, I can imagine that the scholars in the other test rooms are also like ants on a hot pot at the moment.Otherwise, why would there be lights shining out everywhere? Presumably they were too hot to sleep, so they simply lit candles to answer the questions?

In such a sweltering world, the examinees are not active and their bodies are weak, so it is difficult not to think of ghosts.

Gao Wen curled up on the kang for a while, but at midnight he still couldn't fall asleep.

Some soldiers were on watch, yelling loudly with a shrill voice: "The country recruits soldiers, and must be innocent. There are evil ghosts and ghosts, and those who have vengeance come to revenge!"

"If you have wronged you, you have wronged you, if you have revenge, you have revenge!"

The voice was so gloomy and shrill that it made people's hairs go cold when they heard it.

At this moment, there was a noise in front, as if something happened.

He got up all at once, and at the moment he got up, he touched the kang, but he felt a human-shaped water mark, which was all his own sweat.

Walking to the fence of the test house, I tried my best to stick my neck out of the gap, and saw a candidate in the distance smashed through the fence of the test house and rushed out.

This man was in his early fifties, an old scholar, his body was as thin as a hemp stalk, but his belly was high.

He cried loudly: "Mother, mother, I've won, I've won, haha, haha, I'm the master Juren, just wait and enjoy your blessings!"

"Mother, you have been dead for more than 20 years, but you miss your son, so come and see me!"

……

How frightening this shout was, someone immediately shouted: "There is a ghost, the ghost is coming!"

Immediately, almost all the examinees in the yellow-brand test booth ran out in panic, running left and right in the corridor naked, and knocked the soldier who was on watch to the ground, screaming uncontrollably.

The commotion suddenly became a mess, and all the candidates fled towards Hongzi's examination shed.

Seeing that the examination room was in chaos, the soldiers were shocked. A group of people rushed over, lined up as a wall to block them, and raised their sticks and kept moving towards the barrel.

The scholar in front fell down, and the examinees who were stepped on the ground by the people behind continued to charge forward.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, suddenly a few gunshots were fired, and then his eyes brightened.Gao Wen looked intently, and in the distance, an official in a red official robe came to support with soldiers, and fired a row of muskets towards the sky.

Then, someone yelled: "The chief envoy is here, everyone listen up and go back to the exam hall immediately, otherwise you will be disqualified from the exam!"

It turned out that the person who came was Gao Linghan.

Hearing the crisp gunshots, the chaotic scholars woke up like a dream, and then ran back to their test room in a swarm, and calmed down.

After a while, Gao Wen saw that the mad old scholar was being dragged forward in mid-air by four soldiers, presumably he was going to be locked in a cell and would not be released until the exam was over.

The old scholar giggled, and looked back at all the candidates: "You guys can't get in... you can't get in, I'm sorry I spent my whole life in the exam, my whole life..."

Then, he sang again in a high-pitched voice: "Life and death, lonely life. A lover can't call a lover. Why don't you sing your name? It seems that I am alone, waiting for someone to call me. Unclear, without interruption, and then stop.”

It was a female voice, which made goosebumps appear on people's skin.

Gao Linghan's face was livid: "Seal his mouth!"

A soldier stepped forward and slapped the old scholar so hard that his mouth and nose were bleeding.

The old scholar tilted his head and fainted.

After the old man made such a fuss, the candidates lost their energy and were not in the mood to stay up late to do the questions. They turned on the lights one after another to sleep, and it became darker outside.

The most wonderful thing is that there is a cool breeze blowing, refreshing people's hearts.

Gao Wen didn't know how he fell asleep, and he didn't know how long he fell asleep.He was awakened by a flash of light. As soon as he opened his eyes, he heard the sound of a thunderbolt, and a big thunder fell.

Before he could recover, the torrential rain that had been accumulating for a whole day came crashing down.

The rain was heavy, the air-conditioning was dense, and it was extremely comfortable.

Gao Wen hurriedly jumped off the kang, threw himself in front of the fence, and faced the rainwater naked, letting the water wash away the dirt on his body.

After washing for a long time, he rubbed the clothes that were already terribly dirty and covered with salt flowers in the rain.

When the lightning flashed, I stretched out my head, and saw that the examinees beside me were also seizing this rare opportunity to wash their clothes.

A scholar smiled at Gao Wen: "Where are you doing the laundry?"

Gao Wen: "Yes."

The scholar was obviously a talkative person, so he turned his head to the other side and asked the candidate who was naked in front of the fence "to make the storm more violent": "Where are you going to take a bath?"

"Take a shower, take a shower!"

"Speaking is not allowed, and offenders will be punished as cheating!" The soldiers who were blown up and down by the wind and rain shouted: "Be honest!"

"Go back, everyone go back!" A group of people came over, and the leader was Gao Linghan.

Seeing the chief envoy approaching, everyone retracted their bodies again.

The rain was still falling, and the water in the test number had reached the ankle.

Gao Wen returned to the kang, took advantage of the coolness, and fell asleep in the wind and rain.

When I woke up, it was already noon the next day.

The sun also came out, and the examination room was completely quiet. Presumably, the examinees were tired from tossing and tossing yesterday, and they were all dozing off.

But the voice from the kitchen came again, which made people feel restless.

Gao Wen couldn't bear it anymore, so he had to slap on the writing board and shouted: "Excuse me, I'm going to the latrine!"

The stagnant water on the way to the hut has receded, and cracks have appeared after being exposed to the sun.

Looking up at the bright white sun in the sky, Gawain couldn't help shaking his head: "Isn't it fatal to stay here for so many days in this terrible weather?"

The worst was yet to come, when the gray circle that was temporarily used as a latrine, the situation before him made Gao Wen's hairs stand on end.

The hut in the examination room is extremely simple, that is, an open-air pit.Just pour some plant ash and lime in it.Candidates need to relieve their hands, just squat on the edge of the pit and drop bombs down.Because the inside is quite deep, it took a long time to hear the sound of "Dong", and the sediment rose.

It rained overnight and the gray circle was full.There were white and fat maggots with big tails crawling out of it, spreading forward in thousands, it was really shocking.

Facts have proved that it was a wrong choice for Gao Wen to want to have a moment of peace here.

Reluctantly, he had no choice but to pinch his nose and finish the matter hastily, and prepared to escape.

Just as he was about to leave, Gao Wen suddenly remembered that Huang Wei was staying in this stinky account?
I can't help but look forward, and I am happy to see it.

Huang Wei, a bastard, has a hard life too, and his test house is right next to the gray circle.

The group of big-tailed maggots had already crawled to the gate of the fence. Such a dirty place is like hell. I don't know how this bird man did the exam?
Haha, you still laughed at me, Gao Wen, now it's my turn to see your jokes.

Therefore, Gao Wen stopped for a moment in front of Huang Wei's test room.

Looking intently, he was stunned.

Ordinary people would have jumped and screamed when they encountered this kind of situation, desperately trying to drive the maggots out, but Huang Wei just sat there in a daze, like a clay sculpture that is not carved, his eyes are full of red threads.

Gao Wen chuckled inwardly: By the way, it should be that this bastard surnamed Huang couldn't write a question and hadn't slept all night.It is noon and the temperature is still low.Wait until it heats up, it stinks to death!Happy, happy!
At this time, the soldier who escorted him pushed him from behind: "Go quickly, go back to your test room. You are not allowed to look around. If you violate this, you will be punished as cheating."

Huang Wei inside heard the sound outside, and then suddenly raised his head to look over, his red eyes were like a wounded beast.

Gao Wen grinned, and left reluctantly.

(End of this chapter)