83_83499 In order to meet the imperial examination, Du Qiyue is almost cramming for learning, reading every day, memorizing all the books that can be memorized, and asking Zhao Yiyun if he doesn't understand anything, eager to stuff everything into his brain.

However, studying so hard, Du Qiyue did not lose weight at all, but gained a small circle, even his chin was rounded, and he looked several years younger. The main thing is that Du Qiyue eats really well these days, the emperor, Princess Xunyu and Zhao Yiyun are very concerned about him, and sent him a lot of supplements, Qiu'er made three meals a day for him to eat, so that Du Qiyue felt that he was going to have a nosebleed, fortunately, the original owner's body was indeed a little weak, but after eating, the blood was much better, and his energy was much better, and he didn't necessarily feel tired after studying day and night.

Zhao Yiyun took a bite of watermelon-flavored ice cream, looked up at Du Qiyue, who was silently writing, and asked, "The exam is going to be the day after tomorrow, are you ready?" ”

"When you're ready, use the set of pen and ink you gave me." Du Qiyue stopped writing, raised his head and said with a smile.

Zhao Yiyun nodded, lowered his head and continued to eat ice cream, now he eats some ice cream every afternoon when it is very hot, all of which are made by Du Qiyue for him, with various flavors. But Zhao Yiyun couldn't eat more, so the rest of the rest was cheaper, and Mama Shu Ci and Qin Yun were a few subordinates.

Zhao Yiyun looks very good-looking when eating, Si Swen Wen, his movements are particularly elegant, Du Qiyue loves to watch him eat, he looked at him blankly for a while, and was glared at by Zhao Yiyun, so he obediently lowered his head and continued to write silently.

Du Qiyue has not taken the exam before, so he has to take the county exam first, and the county exam is considered an entrance exam, and if he is admitted, he will become a child, and he can be regarded as having obtained the qualification for the imperial examination, and then he can really participate in the imperial examination. The imperial examination is divided into three times, the first one is the township examination, and the examination is to raise people. Then there is the examination, and the first person in the examination is called Huiyuan, and the others are Gongshi. The last is the palace test, the palace test is divided into three grades, and the first place is the champion, the second place is the list, and the third name is Tanhua. The first place in the second and third grades is called Chuanlu, and the others are all called Jinshi.

The county examination is divided into five sessions, one test a day, at dawn to enter by name, the examination time is two hours, after the examination paper is handed in, leave, the next day at dawn again. Du Qiyue County test day was still dark to the entrance of the examination room, there was still more than half an hour away from the exam, the door was already full of candidates, each candidate carried a large basket in his hand, in which pen and ink, lined up in several queues waiting for the official messenger at the entrance of the examination room to check the entry.

Du Qiyue also passed the college entrance examination back then, and the battle at that time was stricter than now, so he was not nervous, and he was still in the mood to look around and observe the candidates around. Most of the candidates are not very old, the first time they are facing one of the final exams in their lives, many people are very nervous, there are a few on Du Qiyue's side, they have been holding their arms and shaking, their faces are white with fright, and their heads are full of cold sweat. If the test paper is not clean, it will be thought that the officials who read the paper can't help it, let alone review it, those officials will not take a second look.

The officials in charge of the inspection were all veterans, and the search and basket movements were very fast, and it didn't take long for Du Qiyue to enter the examination room. No matter what the dynasty, the examination room is probably the same, a small old house like a latrine, the walls are dark, and it looks indescribably gloomy. The small house was very narrow, about two square meters, and there was only a set of tables and chairs, a candlestick on the table, and a tattered bucket in the corner, and nothing else. In order to facilitate the invigilator's invigilation, the small house only has half a door, and it does not block the wind at all, but fortunately, it is the height of summer, so it doesn't matter, and when the weather is cold when the test comes, it will be uncomfortable.

Du Qiyue stood at the door of the small house and sighed, then walked in with the basket, and before he sat down, he was greeted by a small group of black mosquitoes, which were about to bite him when they pounced on his face. Du Qiyue hurriedly shook his handkerchief to drive away, and after a closer look, he found that the inside of this small house looked much worse than when he stood outside, the corners of the roof were covered with cobwebs, the walls were full of mosquitoes, and there were finger-length centipedes occasionally crawling over the place where the skin of the wall had fallen, and the whole house had been occupied by these nasty mosquitoes.

"Huh." Du Qiyue twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled bitterly twice, no wonder everyone said that the scientific examination is hard, and it is strange that the exam is not bitter in this environment.

There was still a period of time before the exam, and the candidates entered the small room but there were still people talking, and Du Qiyue clearly heard many people discussing that the exam environment was too scary. But you can't blame these candidates, they are all young, and the families who can study generally have a little money, and they have never suffered a little since they were children, so they definitely can't stand it. Even Du Qiyue, who has suffered a little, can't stand it, and his food, clothing, housing and transportation are good when he is most difficult.

"Don't make any noise, this place is not managed by anyone on weekdays, so it's good to be able to do that. Listen to my words, this examination room is already good, it is used once a year, and it is a little popular, and when you go to the exam, you will know what is called dirty and messy, and there is no popularity at all in the place where you use it once every three years, some candidates can't take the test, some candidates are caught cheating, and some are nervous and faint, and there are many people who hit the wall on the spot to find death, and you can't sleep in the middle of the night can scare you to death. An official looked at the complaining candidates and said with a sneer.

Du Qiyue was wiping the table, and his face twitched when he heard this, this official must have deliberately scared people, what are you doing here, what are you doing with this, candidates with poor psychological tolerance are estimated to have a psychological shadow, what else to test.

"If you think it's dirty, clean it up by yourself, don't say I didn't remind you, the mosquitoes in this house can bite people to death, and when the time comes, you won't have extra hands to scratch and itch! Hahaha! Another official said with a laugh and a joke.

When Du Qiyue heard this, he immediately ran to the door and leaned out half of his body and shouted: "Poor master, can you bother the poor master to help me get a basin of water, and the broom is here?" ”

As soon as Du Qiyue's words came out, everyone in the examination room looked over, especially those candidates, their faces were full of surprise, probably not expecting that someone would make such a request that was almost in the house. The official who asked the candidates to clean up just now also turned his head to look at Du Qiyue, and then continued to laugh and said: "Cheng, Xiao Langjun, you wait, I'll get something for you." ”

After a while, the official really brought a broom over, and brought a large basin of water to Du Qiyue, Du Qiyue hurriedly took it and thanked him, and then hurriedly cleaned up, there was still about half an hour before the exam, he had to clean up as much as possible, to be honest, he didn't want to be affected by these mosquitoes on his exam.

The other candidates saw that the official messenger really brought something to Du Qiyue, and those who were willing to clean it themselves asked for something, but unfortunately their luck was not as good as Du Qiyue's, the examination room was not inhabited on weekdays, so there were no daily necessities at all, the broom used by Du Qiyue and the big basin were brought by themselves to clean up the house by the officials who had to stay in the examination room these days, just one copy, and they had to wait for Du Qiyue to use it when they ran out.

The county exam is actually quite simple, the test is all in the book, most of which are similar to filling in the blanks, and the official who wrote the question randomly found a paragraph from the book, wrote the first half, and asked the candidate to write the rest of the content. There are also some answer questions that are also found from some meaningful passages in the book, so that candidates can look at and write their own understanding. Finally, there is the essay, where the examiner comes up with a question based on what they have learned in the book, and asks the candidates to write an essay or a poem based on what they say in each book plus a little bit of their own opinion.

This is almost no difficulty for Du Qiyue, the cramming learning method is still very effective a few days ago, the first two parts were basically answered without effort, and the final article Du Qiyue didn't bother much, argumentative essay, I think when he was in high school, he didn't know how many articles he wrote, and there was no pressure in half an hour and eight hundred words.

Every morning there was an exam, and five days passed in a blink of an eye, Du Qiyue finished the county exam, stretched his waist and went back to the small courtyard he rented, and then slept all afternoon.

Ten days later, Du Qiyue was undoubtedly admitted to Tongsheng, and the ranking was still very high, twenty-third, but Qiu'er was very happy, Du Qiyue didn't have any big feelings, and even a little disappointed. After the exam, he gave Zhao Yiyun an article he wrote, Zhao Yiyun said that he should be able to get into the top ten, but now the results are obviously a lot worse than expected, Du Qiyue still has some psychological gap, so he went to Zhao Yiyun's house that afternoon to ask for comfort.

Zhao Yiyun bent his fingers and knocked on the table a few times, and said: "Needless to say, the quality of the article is needless to say, the difference should be on your hand." ”

"What's wrong with my words?!" Du Qiyue was surprised, he felt that although his handwriting was not as good as what the original owner wrote, it was also good to hear, at least it was neat and pleasing to the eye.

"The people who read the papers this time are all young civil officials, who pay more attention to form, and your handwriting may not quite match their aesthetics." Zhao Yiyun said.

"The aesthetics of bullshit!" Du Qiyue rolled her eyes when she heard this.

There are many literati, there are many things, and if you are good, you love to find trouble, and you can work poetry and painting on weekdays, but you have to work words. Dafeng Dynasty is now popular flower characters, that is to say, the more like a flower is written, the better, the most popular in the literati circle is now plum characters and lotus characters, I heard that the words of good people who write are far away like a flower in a variety of forms.

So most people will do some tricks when they write, at least they will spend some effort on the mural to make the words look good, and the original owner will also do this, and the writing is not bad, but Du Qiyue will not. It is already very difficult for him to memorize those traditional characters completely, not to mention the various deformations of those fonts, and he is not good at using the brush, and now he can still rely on the habitual memory of the original owner's body, and it is simply impossible for him to write flowery characters.

Therefore, Du Qiyue finally chose some italic characters, although the italic characters are not as wonderful as those flowery characters, but the advantage is that the strokes are clear and the structure is concise, at least it looks comfortable. However, under the trend of generally advocating flowery characters, the italic characters written by Du Qiyue have become unpopular or even elegant, and those fastidious and young literati will naturally reduce the impression score, and the impression score will be low, and the overall score will naturally be low