Besides, I don't have any feelings for such a grand prize, and I won't have any feelings about such a thing. In any way, Chen Musa's status is much higher than that of Meng Fanjun.

As soon as the topic of the township examination was opened, it was impossible to hold it, and some people began to ask Meng Fanjun what the achievements of the Tai students of the Guozijian in the township examination were approximately.

Meng Fanjun can only answer vaguely, there is no one who is so unpredictable as this time, in the past, as long as they saw the questions, the professors of Guozijian roughly knew how many students they sent to the entrance could be selected, and where the ranking was, basically there were few guesses wrong, but this time they were completely blinded and did not dare to guess.

At this time, someone suddenly walked in in a hurry and whispered a few words in the ears of Lian Daning and Meng Fanjun, both of whom had a great change in their faces, and hurriedly stood up and walked out.

Everyone was surprised when they saw the sudden change in the expressions of these two people, and even Wei Guogong was deeply puzzled. Is there any mess going on today?

Lian Daning came over and whispered in Wei Guogong's ear: "It's the Great Grandmaster Yamen that something big has happened, please let us go." ”

"Well, then you guys should hurry up. "Wei Guogong heard that the great master had an invitation, and he knew that he couldn't stop it, so he let him go.

Besides, he and Wen Bin glanced at each other, and they all understood in their hearts: it was most likely Wen Bin's "East Window Incident".

After the last exam yesterday, all the people who marked the papers immediately entered the most nervous marking mode.

The person who marks the file is divided into 17 rooms, and each marking officer or the Confucian who invites the person to read the file is the room official, that is, the room master who lifts the person in them.

This is where the term "house master" comes from.

All the scrolls were spread out evenly among the seventeen chamber officials, each of whom also had his own assistants, not to mention the servants and miscellaneous servants. The rooms are hung with curtains, so the room official is also known as the curtain official.

Pu Songling's lifelong road to the imperial examination was extremely bumpy, and the people he hated the most were these officials, calling them blind people. Even after he became famous all over the world, the next rural test was also a name for Sun Shan, and he could only die with hatred in the name of a young man.

Those room officials are actually very wronged, the exam papers are all vague, who knows which one is yours, if you know, which room official will take him as a lifter without hesitation, but unfortunately there is no way to know.

"Strange Tales from Liaozhai" was known as the book of talents at that time, not to mention ordinary literati, even the Shangshu of the Celebrant Department of the Literary League at that time was moved, and wanted to spend a huge amount of money to buy it as his own work, but Pu Songling resolutely refused.

Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is actually to challenge "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", and one of Ji Xiaolan's sons is also a super fan of Pu Songling.

If the essay is elegant and the narrative technique is exquisite, "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is not inferior to "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", but Pu Songling wrote "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" with his pen dipped in his own painstaking efforts, which is incomparable with Ji Xiaolan, who is very mediocre in spiritual character, so the two works lose their comparability.

This is not to belittle "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", if you don't compare "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", it can still be regarded as a very elegant notebook novel Zhiwen, at least much stronger than Yuan Mei's "Zi Buyu".

This is that people have to die more than people, goods have to be thrown away, and everything is afraid of comparison.

The seventeenth room of the marking officer picks up the lantern and fights at night, everyone has strong tea and snacks at hand, and some people even have wine at hand, of course, there is no need to worry about someone getting drunk, everyone cherishes the honor of being selected as the marking officer, and will never mess up.

Chen Yixue sat leisurely in the hall outside, accompanied by several dignitaries in Nanjing, chatting with tea, as the president, he mainly checked the final ranking, or when some house officials could not make a choice in a few volumes, he made the final decision, the president is also the president of the meaning of the decision, if the township test is regarded as a game, the president is also the chief referee.

"I don't know which students are the nouveau riche this time, and all the evaluations made before the exam are invalid. A dignitary in Nanjing sighed.

"This kind of thing is normal, if you can always let people outside guess it every time, what is the use of our generation?" Chen Yixue's mentality has returned to normal now, and he doesn't feel that the topic this time is out of line, but feels that this is the emperor's wise move.

After a night of fighting, nearly 10,000 volumes have been roughly browsed, this time the intensity of the house official's marking is not large, many people have digressed, and naturally they were marked by the house official and thrown aside, but these people have become the unfortunate people who have fallen into Sun Mountain.

There are still more than 2,000 papers that are at least not too far off topic, and there is still an opportunity for further deliberation and judgment.

At this time, a room official suddenly screamed, and everyone was startled by the loud voice.

"Lao Liang, what's wrong? One of the housekeepers laughed loudly.

The name of the screaming house official is Liang Yueting, and he is the prefect of Taizhou Prefecture in Shandong.

He ran out with a scroll and shouted: "Come on, come on, I've found a genius here, Qiwen is appreciated, you can take a look." ”

The examiners of the seventeenth room all ran out, and their assistants also followed, which is also a scene when marking the papers, as long as a good article is found in a certain room, it will be shown to everyone like a treasure, and the room officials will be as excited as winning the jackpot once they find a good article.

"When you read this article, it's absolutely Confucian-level, amazing. Liang Yueting shouted.

Several room officials were in good spirits, and most of the tiredness and sleepiness of more than a night disappeared, and they all came to read this article closely.

With their rich ability to score papers, as long as they glance at it, the quality of an article is immediately clear.

"Well, it's a rare good article, whose is it?" asked a room officer.

"You're stupid, you haven't opened the package yet, you ask me, who do I ask?" Liang Yueting said with a smile.

"I'm really stupid to read the article. This person touched his head and laughed himself, such low-level mistakes are often made by house officials, and they often forget about the name system when they are excited.

It is necessary to wait until all the articles have been evaluated and the rankings have been listed, and then the header with the name pasted on it can be opened, and then it will be known which paper belongs to which person. Then the president personally wrote the list to celebrate the success of the township test.

"Well, it's true, I found a few good articles in my room, but if you talk about the ingenuity of the conception, the accuracy of the argument, and the elegance of the text, you can't go far from this article. Lao Liang, you have dug up a treasure, could it be that Xie Yuan is going to come from your room?" another room official smiled.

Seventeen rooms are also secretly competing, the competition who found more good articles, that room out of the more lifts, high rankings, etc., although these have a certain probability, because the volume is evenly distributed to each room, each room will have good and bad articles, the last room has more good articles, only God knows, but they like to compare this. Sometimes I will blush and have a thick neck because of the final ranking of the good articles picked out in each room, and the usual friendship is useless at this time.

"Hahaha, I think there's hope. Liang Yueting was not subtle, and said proudly with the scroll in his hand.

Their commotion alarmed Chen Yixue, who was closing his eyes and recuperating outside, and he also hurried over to see what was going on, in fact, no matter which room excavated a good article, he would be happy.

"Your Excellency. ”

"Lord Chen. ”

When the house officials saw Chen Yixue coming over, they all nodded in greeting.

"Lao Liang, have you dug up a treasure?" Chen Yixue asked excitedly.

"My lord, look at this article, it's the first name in my room anyway. Don't say that this time the topic is obscure, and it is difficult to produce good articles, even in the previous township examinations, it is rare to see such strange articles. Liang Yueting was still excited.

"Look at the old man. ”

Chen Yixue still didn't believe it, not because he couldn't believe Liang Yueting's character, but at this time, every room official was vying to boast about the good articles he had discovered, so he was naturally suspected of exaggeration.

Chen Yixue glanced at it a few times, first nodded in admiration, and then his face was a little ugly, he read it carefully from the beginning word by word, and the more he read it, the more ugly his face became.

"My lord, what's wrong?"

The people gathered around him didn't know why, but they all felt that something was wrong.

"This ...... It's not like an impromptu essay in the exam room, right? You're all very discerning, so read it carefully. Chen Yixue's voice trembled a little.

"This ......"

Several room officials hurriedly read it carefully, and sure enough, they all saw the problem.

It's not that their vision and knowledge are too far worse than Chen Yixue's, but they didn't study carefully when they were excited, and this careful study found that there was a problem, and such good articles were definitely painstakingly conceived and carefully scrutinized on weekdays, and they could never be improvised and written in the examination room.

Although Yuan Bao, a great genius in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, can rely on Ma Wanyan, write a peerless essay without adding points, and write a peerless essay with a wave of his hand, but there is only one Yuan Bao in history, even if the article made by the peerless genius Su Dongpo in the examination room is already a classic and famous article, and it was also selected into the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", but compared with the articles he carefully wrote on weekdays, it is still a high judgment, and the gap is very large.

The sample essays of the examination room articles of the Ming Dynasty have been integrated into the "Ink Selection", which is equivalent to the "Selected Essays of the College Entrance Examination" in later generations, but that is only for the reference of the candidates.

A shadow appeared in everyone's hearts: Could it be that the topic of this township exam was leaked?

This kind of thing has happened before, the topic is leaked, and many people ask famous masters to write a good article first, memorize it themselves, and then transcribe it in the examination room.

Later, the examiners had experience, and as long as this kind of article appeared, it basically meant that the question was leaked, and then the catastrophe was not far away.

The Ming Dynasty was the strictest in the imperial examination, as long as a case of fraud in the field was discovered, it would spare no effort to punish severely, many people had to move their heads, and there would be many unlucky presidents and examiners who were demoted or even exiled to the border wasteland, and if there was direct responsibility, it was not uncommon to be beheaded.

"My lord, what should I do?" all the room officials panicked, not knowing how to deal with this emergency.