Chapter 121: 121st

The students of Ningxing Mansion voluntarily sent the old man to the inner city to prevent the old man from being targeted by thieves again. And he left some silver or pen and ink for him in private.

But since the inner city, it will be relatively safer.

In the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of August. Li Jin, Pan Youfeng, and Wu Wei got up early in the morning, carrying the book basket that had been packed last night, and headed to the gate of Gongyuan.

Li Jin had heard in his life that there was a slowly flowing Qinhuai River in front of the Jiangnan Gongyuan, and the brothel on the opposite side.

Although it is in the south, there are not many waterways in their north, but the Goulan Courtyard is very similar.

When Li Jin went to step on the spot a few days ago, he could smell the aroma of rouge wafting from the small building not far from the Gongyuan.

The fellow talents were a little eager to move, but when they thought that they were about to participate in Qiuwei, they still held their minds.

But there were still people who couldn't hold it. They went to Goulan Yard and had a good time for a few days. After the eighth day of the eighth day of the morning, they rushed to pack their clothes and book baskets, and went to the exam.

Early in the summer, when Li Jin first arrived at the gate of the Gongyuan, the sky was still very dark. After he waited for a short time, his belly gradually became white in the distance.

In a short while, the sky brightened.

In the surrounding small buildings, a girl opened the window and looked at the talents below.

Don't look at those who are too old, and don't look at those who are too short, but only look at those who are tall and with thick hair.

"Sisters, look, is that Qian Xiucai?"

"Oh, really, Qian Xiucai has lived with me for three days, how can I not know him."

However, their voices could not be heard. One was that they were far away, and the other was that they did not dare to make a loud noise. After all, this was the gate of Gongyuan.

Qiu Wei's body search was more meticulous. Not only did he take off his clothes, he also had to let the talents walk from the first door to the second door naked, so as to avoid someone hiding the entrainment in the anorectal.

After all, Qiu Wei has a room for each entrance examination, and even if you close the door, no one will take care of the answer sheet.

It's just that the examiner occasionally inspects. If you see the candidate shirtless from the hole, I'm afraid you will lose your impression.

The distance between the first door and the second door was only about ten meters, and those who walked coyly, or walked in stride and fell from the back, were all pulled out to deal with.

Other talents who have passed the inspection have to take off the hair crown or square to check whether there is any entrainment in the hair. Finally, I checked my ears, mouth, and nostrils one by one before letting go.

The arrangement of the Gongyuan room where Li Jin is located is arranged in accordance with the Xuanhuang Tiandi Xuanhuang. Li Jin is lucky, and is assigned to the head of the ground.

Earlier, he, Pan Youfeng, and Wu Wei bought the map distribution of the Gongyuan. They already knew that the entire Gongyuan was square. The central axis was where the examiners lived. From the central axis to the sides, it was arranged in the order of heaven, earth, black and yellow. All corners are huts.

The head of the earth is very close to the examiner's residence, and Li Jin is in the middle of the head of the earth, so it is far, far away from the cottage.

Li Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and to be honest, if the situation of Lu Changdong last year was placed on him, he might not be able to answer the question in the end.

Li Jin led his number plate, and stood still behind the talents who passed the inspection.

Wait until everyone has checked, then you can enter the room one by one.

Apart from two wooden boards, there is a charcoal basin and a candle in the room number.

Even though Li Jin had been mentally prepared, he still felt very crowded the moment he entered.

He is not fat, nor is he strong, but a little tall, with long legs. After entering the number room, he closes the door, only feeling bound.

Li Jin put down the book basket, stepped across a board, and stood on the side of the room. After the test questions and answer sheets were issued, he directly put the original charcoal fire and candles near the door.

Anyway, the doors are locked now, and he won't go to the latrine for a while, so it's better to make room for himself.

During the autumn season, the charcoal fire is used for cooking, but when the spring season next year, it will be half cooking and half roasting.

Li Jin touched the wall and found that it was all made of wood. He prayed by the way that the candidates would not start a fire in the middle of the night, otherwise one would not pay attention to the wall and it might cause a fire.

Li Jin carefully sprinkled the realgar in his number room, and then removed a wooden board and put it on the recessed part of the wall, making it a table. Another fast board is used for sitting, but it is actually difficult to stretch the legs, but at this time it can only be tolerated.

Li Jin took out his pen and ink and began to ponder the exam questions while grinding the ink.

Qiu Wei took the test for nine consecutive days, which is also a huge test of the willpower of the candidates.

It was still early and the weather was not too hot. Li Jin took off the thicker single that Fulang had sewn, folded it and placed it in a book basket.

This time, Qiu Wei said that candidates should not wear cotton-padded clothes, and at most two singles.

Qin Muwen prepared a thin one for Li Jin, which was worn during the day, and the other was thicker and could be covered at night.

Li Jin has planned that every morning is when his head is awake, he has to calm down and write well in this time period.

When it gets hotter by noon, the wooden house does not absorb heat, which may make people drowsy. Even Li Jin could not guarantee his state of mind at that time.

The first session of Qiuwei is very important. Many examiners only rely on the students' essays in the first session to decide whether to admit or not. [Note]

But this is not absolute. Some examiners value the gorgeousness of students' rhetoric very much. This is also a matter of personal habits.

auzw.com But anyway, the first exam is especially important.

Li Jin first picked up the test questions and began to look at it. The first session had seven questions, including four book questions and three questions, and five classics questions. [Note]

These three four-book questions are the same for all examinees, and the four five-jing questions allow candidates to choose four out of twenty questions to answer. [Note]

Li Jin first scanned all the topics and picked out some topics that could show their talents without touching the interests of high-ranking people.

At that time, he and Wan Yun were still revising their policies, and the two discussed some more sensitive topics.

For example, beware of the emperor's death of his elder brother and enthroned in his fifties, instead of giving up the throne to young princes. There are pros and cons.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be written on the answer sheet. At that time, after Li Jin and Wan Yun practiced similar questions, they would immediately burn them, so as not to get the handle.

Therefore, Li Jin chose a few topics related to current affairs. Although the angle of the topic is relatively new, Li Jin also knows these things by heart, and knows what to list when he sees the topic.

On the contrary, there are three and four book titles, one of which is extremely strange.

The title has only one word, ‘two’.

This is simply more fragmented than the cut-up questions of the previous hospital exams. He didn't even count a single sentence as a complete sentence, it was just the word ‘two’.

Li Jin thought for a while. There are many places where two appear in "The Analects", such as ‘Zhou Jian in the Second Generation’, ‘Ci Yi Wen Yi Yi Knows Two’, ‘Where does the two come first?’...

But this question has only one simple "two", I am afraid it does not come from a single sentence, but a special listed "two".

Li Jin began to memorize the four books silently in his heart, writing down all the sentences that appeared'two'.

After all, this is his first day of the exam. If he skips this question now and finishes all the questions later, it is estimated that he can only give up this question.

Li Jin still remembers that when he was young in his previous life, the teachers taught to do the questions saying ‘empty the questions when you meet them, and talk about the later when you finish writing them.’ But every time at the end, the difficult problem was left empty.

At first, it was to get more scores in the exam, so doing it is a stopgap measure.

But now, there are only seven questions in total. When the other six questions already have ideas, Li Jin still wants to figure out this question first, otherwise he will probably not be able to think of this question in the next two days. How did you answer it?

With such an enumeration, time flies quickly, and Li Jin's first plain paper is almost full before listing the results he wants——

It is written in "The Analects of Confucius: Yan Yuan Article Twelfth", Ai Gong asked Yu Youruo... and said: "Second, I am still inadequate, so how thorough?" The opposite said: "The people are sufficient, who is the ruler and the insufficiency? The people are insufficient, Who and the foot?"

This time Li Jin did not hesitate anymore, confirming that the "two" in this test question came from this sentence, because in the entire four books, only the "two" here is an independent sentence.

After finding the source of the question, the answer afterwards went smoothly.

By noon, when the weather got hot, Li Jin had already written two first eight-part drafts. He put aside the drafts he had written and piled up the rest.

At this time, Li Jin was also a little hungry. He took out the small iron pot he had prepared, asked the guard outside the door for a pot of water, divided the charcoal fire into two thirds, and then raised the rest on the fire. Put the dried noodles that came in.

After all, you have to stay here for three days, and the court also allows candidates to bring a pot to cook for themselves.

Although you can cook it yourself, there is only a pot of charcoal fire, and you can't make up if you use it up. Cooking porridge is too time-consuming and consumes charcoal fire.

Before the exam, I didn't know how much the charcoal fire was and how long it lasted. Li Jin decided to be safe and bring something easy to cook.

This dried noodle is actually made by pressing the gnocchi into slices, then cutting into strips and drying them.

Many stores were selling before Qiuwei, and Li Jin bought some following the trend.

But he also brought some potatoes and Chinese cabbage. Potatoes can be roasted in a charcoal pot while he is cooking the soup, and used for dinner when they are cooked.

Put the Chinese cabbage directly in the soup, wait for the heat of the pot to cool down, and eat it directly with the pot.

No way, Qiu Wei asked each person to bring only one cookware for rice, and no bowls with pots.

Li Jin took the time to calculate. It took about 20 minutes to boil water and noodles. The charcoal fire in the basin had turned gray, and it was obvious that it was almost used.

He thought, fortunately, he divided up more than half of it in advance, and fortunately he didn't bring rice, otherwise he could only eat cold water on the last day.

Eating cold rice is not a problem, but cold water can still easily cause physical discomfort. There are still two games, six days later, and the body must be supported.

After eating, the sun was too big and there were many gaps between the door panels, and the thatched awning above his head absorbed heat, making Li Jin sweat all over his head. Somewhat drowsy.

He didn't write policy arguments during this period, but copied the two answers written in the morning.

Fortunately, the hot climate did not affect his holding of the pen. In addition, when Li Jin practiced with Pang Lao before, he survived the scorching heat of winter.

At that time, Li Jin was thinking that if he were to be placed in the county and hospital examinations at that time, he would not have stiff hands and dare not write easily.

Li Jin’s calligraphy has now infinitely approached the Guange style. In this era, there is no Guange style for the time being. When Pang Lao saw Li Jin's regular script, he couldn't help but compliment a few words——

"Beautiful, neat, and vigorous."

Rules and vigor, but not showing vigor, this is probably the favorite of the upper class.

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