Chapter 35 Zero-point essay
In the blink of an eye, June, every year on the 7th and 8th of June, the unified entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities, referred to as the college entrance examination, will be held.
Many people describe the college entrance examination as a war without gunpowder, and in Ji Tianci's view, the college entrance examination is just to get an admission ticket and a ticket to enter the university. Ji Tianci has already figured out which university to apply for, he doesn't plan to go outside of Zhongzhou, in Zhongzhou, Wuyang University is the most suitable, the school is located near mountains and rivers, located in a piece of feng shui treasure land, and it is also one of the top ten universities in the country.
Ji Tianci's test center was in a middle school in Duyan City. Outside the gate, groups of parents are anxiously waiting.
Dressed in a pair of trousers and a shirt, he also lit a cigarette and smoked it, probably infected by the tense atmosphere around him.
In the examination room, Ji Tianci looked "unqualified", his long flowing hair and handsome appearance made all the women in the examination room, including the invigilator, look sideways.
He was wearing the suit he brought back from the United States, and because of the hot weather, he didn't wear a jacket, only a white shirt, and the whole person looked more mature. Fortunately, all the candidates in this examination room are social, and everyone's dress is also very "social".
Qingfeng Daochang rented a room in a small hotel near the examination room, and the house prices were very expensive for the past two days, and the rooms that were usually less than a hundred had risen to two hundred, which made him very painful.
After two days of exams, Ji Tianci looked relaxed, in fact, he completed each exam in less than an hour. However, according to the discipline of the examination room, he could not leave the examination room in advance, so he could only sit in his place and cultivate.
A month ago, he felt that his meridians had been restored to their original state, and he no longer felt pain when he breathed in the aura, so he began to practice every day again.
Back at the Taoist temple, Daoist Qingfeng and Ji Tianci waited patiently for the results to be announced. During these days, Qingfeng Dao ran a lot of administrative departments, and he learned that Ji Tianci can use a loan from the place of origin to go to school, and there is no need to worry about tuition fees, and there are bursaries in the university, and Ji Tianci is also eligible to apply.
In his opinion, Ji Tianci will definitely be able to be admitted to the ideal university. This child doesn't have to eat, and his living expenses are saved, it's nothing more than buying a few more clothes, wearing more in winter, and not looking so "special". Qingfeng Daoist also explained that when students are invited to eat, they also symbolically go to eat, and do not say that they don't need to eat; when they are cultivating, they should also lie on the bed in their dormitory to cultivate, and do not go to the roof of the building or the mountain to meditate in winter.
Ji Tianci understood what Qingfeng Dao Chang meant, if he wanted to integrate into this ordinary world, then he had to become ordinary, otherwise he would only be treated as an outlier.
In the early morning of June 23rd, the exam results were announced, Qingfeng Dao Chang and Ji Tianci checked the results in front of the computer, and entered Ji Tianci's candidate information on the web page, and after a long time, the page was opened.
Ji Tianci scored 655 points, with a total score of 750 points. Qingfeng Dao Chang was a little surprised, he thought that Ji Tianci would also pass the 700 points, although this score was also very high, but it was a little lower than Qingfeng Dao Chang expected.
Qingfeng Daochang and Ji Tianci looked at this total score in front of the computer.
"Godci, are you afraid that you will become the state champion, so you deliberately made a few wrong questions?"
"I deliberately got a few questions wrong, but I didn't get it that low. ”
The two continued to look at the results of the single subject, and when they saw the first language, they said "huh" at the same time.
"Dad, why can't I have more than this score in this language, what's the problem?"
Qingfeng Dao Chang is also very strange, he looked at Ji Tianci's other subject scores, almost all of them are close to full scores, but this language is only 85 points, this is a full score of 150, Ji Tianci's language scores have not yet passed.
"Could it be that the wrong paper was corrected?" said Seifuchi began to guess.
"I don't know. Ji Tianci was also wondering why his language was not even 90 points.
"It says on the Internet that you can apply to check your scores, but if you don't know it, you have added the wrong language score. ”
"Forget it, judging from the score line of Wuyang University over the years, it should be no problem to cross the line. Didn't you also say, "Don't let me be too showy?"
"Okay, then don't check it, save yourself from checking it and become the champion. During this time, you should plan your life well, and most of the time after that you will be alone. ”
"Dad, I'll come back to see you on vacation. ”
"It doesn't cost you money?"
"I can work part-time to make money, isn't it very popular for college students to work part-time now?"
Qingfeng Dao sighed: "Alas, the outside world is too complicated, and the money is not so easy to earn, remember, it doesn't matter if you make more money or less money, just don't make money against your conscience." ”
"Dad, I know. Ji Tianci's tone was firm.
In fact, there has been more and more incense money in Cheguguan, but Qingfeng Dao Chang is unwilling to use it for his own personal use, and every time he used to use incense money to buy cigarettes, he always kept chanting "sins, sins" in his heart.
In addition to daily expenses, he used the rest of the money to maintain the Xuanyuan Palace, and if he had more money, he would repair the road up the mountain, and then repair the village path after the mountain road was repaired.
Qingfeng Dao Chang wants more people to come to Cheguguan, and wants to make the Yellow Emperor's incense more vigorous, after all, the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of Jiuyou, and people should not forget their ancestors.
He felt that these incense money were given to the Yellow Emperor by people, and he couldn't use it too much, and he had to use it for the Yellow Emperor.
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A few days later, just after dawn, Ji Tianci sat in the study and turned on the computer as usual. When he clicked on the browser and saw "Today's Headlines", a wave of depression hit his heart in an instant.
"Dad, I know why my language is only 85 points. Ji Tianci shouted at the Qingfeng Dao Leader who was still cultivating in the formation eye.
Qingfeng Dao Chang sat up and ran to the study, he was also very curious, and when he came to Ji Tianci's side, Ji Tianci pointed to the screen and said helplessly: "My essay got zero points." ”
Qingfeng Dao Chang looked at the screen, the title on the webpage was "Zhongzhou College Entrance Examination Zero Score Essay", and an article on the discussion of "wisdom" was displayed on the screen. This article is about 800 words, the handwriting is smart, and at first glance it is from the hand of Ji Tianci, and the article is smooth and contains philosophy.
The wisdom in Ji Tianci's text refers to the "Tao" in the world, and the Buddha has great wisdom because the Buddha can see the essence of the world and the "Tao" of the world.
After reading the whole article, he felt that even if the teacher did not agree with this point of view, he would not give a zero score.
He flipped the webpage down again, and after seeing the comments, it suddenly dawned on him that he could understand this article, but others were afraid that they couldn't understand it, because Ji Tianci wrote this essay in ancient characters, and there are not many people in the world today who can recognize all these words. Qingfeng Dao Chang thought it was true after reading too many ancient characters, and then he thought that if others looked at it, he might just be a "ghost drawing".
This ancient script is not classical Chinese, but a script before the Xia Dynasty, which resembles an oracle bone inscription. There are many contemporary historians who deny the existence of the Xia Dynasty and the existence of the Xia Seal, and the text written by Ji Tianci is the ancient text taught to him by the Qingfeng Daoist, and the Qingfeng Daoist said that this ancient text came from the ancient period, and later evolved into the Xia Seal.
The reason why Qingfeng Dao Chang understands ancient characters is also because it is handed down from ancestors, just like an antique, passed down from generation to generation, but this "antique" is not valuable in the eyes of outsiders, and no one wants to learn it, so it can only be buried in this small Taoist temple in the end.
"God, why do you want to write in ancient characters?"
"Dad, the title of the essay reads, 'Wisdom is an experience, an ability, a realm, and like nature, wisdom has its own appearance. Please write an essay of no less than 800 words on a self-proposed topic in any genre, except for poetry. I didn't say that I couldn't use ancient characters on this topic, and I thought that ancient characters could better reflect the theme of 'wisdom' and better reflect the wisdom of human beings, so I used ancient characters to write instead of modern Jiuyu language. ”
When Qingfeng Dao heard this, he also nodded thoughtfully: "Well, it's true, I don't blame you for this, the article is very well written, blame them for not understanding it." ”
The two of them continued to look at the comments below, and they couldn't laugh or cry. The comments are written vertically on the first floor:
"Although I can't understand this article, it looks so powerful. ”
"Ask the great god to translate!"
"Is this Martian script?"
"Upstairs is so uncultured, 228th floor will tell you the truth. ”
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Qingfeng Daochang and Ji Tianci really saw the 228th floor, and this floor was a real-name verified netizen who spoke: "I have studied hieroglyphs and cuneiform for many years, and I can almost conclude that this article is talking about 'wisdom', there is no off-topic, combined with the context and the meaning of the topic, I can barely guess the central idea of this article." One of the passages reads something like this: 'The Buddha can see the future because the Buddha has great wisdom. Mortals can also see the future, mortals know that the night is the day, and in the darkness they know that the light will come, this is not to see the future. Mortals can see the future because they understand the truth, the cycle of the sun and the moon is also the Tao, the Tao is nature, the Tao is the law, the Tao maintains the operation of the world, and the Tao has acquired wisdom. Although there is no punctuation in this article, the sentence break can also be seen from the author's pen, and the author must have written a sentence quickly in one go, and then paused to write the next sentence. The mystery in this article needs to be further studied. ”
Ji Tianci was a little surprised after reading the 228th floor, this person translated almost correctly. What surprised him the most was that there was no word "Buddha" in the ancient characters, because the ancient characters were older than the history of the Buddha, and the ancient writing of "Buddha" was a new word he created according to the writing rules of the ancient characters, and some people could really guess its meaning.
Ji Tianci clicked on the information on the 228th floor, and the avatar was an old man, with the following remarks "Professor Ye Xiangdong of Zhongzhou University of Science and Technology." ”
He remembered the name, and couldn't help but feel in his heart, it seems that there are some strange people hidden in the major universities.