Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Ping'an woke up from his sleep, lifted the rabbit blanket and opened his eyes, and there was only one feeling - cold.

Looking out, I saw that the earth was silvery white, white, and the sky was still fluttering with snowflakes. At first, the snow was not big or dense, like catkins falling in the wind, but as the north wind howled, the snowflakes became bigger and bigger, and the sky was like a huge white net, which was dense and dense, and the house seemed to suddenly have a white curtain.

I am a wolf in the north, but I am frozen into a dog in Nanjing.

This sentence is not to say, although Yingtian is located in the south, but who let Yingtian have three hills and one side of the Yangtze River, and the cold air goes south, which is directly a gust of cloudy wind.

Of course, this kind of heavy snow is not common for a given day.

After Zhu Ping'an got up, he picked up another rabbit skin coat from his bag and put it on, and then he felt warm. After washing his face, he had breakfast on the charcoal brazier, Zhu Ping'an cleaned up the house, restored it to the appearance of tables and chairs, and devoted himself to answering questions again.

Zhu Ping'an's only remaining brother next door put all his clothes on his body, still shivering from the cold, and involuntarily put his hand on the brazier to roast when writing a few words, and he had to always pay attention not to let the frozen runny nose flow on the test paper. At this time, this benevolent brother was extremely envious of the simple young man next door who came in with a huge bag on his back

The snow was falling all day, and on this day, Zhu Ping'an finished writing the remaining four eight-strand essays. The last one was written at dusk, with a short candle.

These four eight-strand essays are all five-dimensional and eight-strand essays, and they are not difficult. But there's one interesting question: Ignorance of my thoughts. This sentence is from the Book of Shang. Qin Oath", ambiguity originally meant secretly. To think in ignorance is to dive deep and meditate (that is, I think secretly in my heart).

There is also a joke about this topic in modern times, saying that there was a scientific examination in the late Qing Dynasty, and the title of the article is this "Ignorance of My Thoughts", which may be based on this township test. But there is a candidate who has not read the "Book of Shang. Qin Oath", mistook "ambiguity" for "sister", so the whole article called brother and sister, and tried his best to love words. The examiner couldn't cry or laugh after reading it, and he was silent, and annotated on the side: "Brother, you are wrong." It became a joke for a while.

I don't know if anyone in this exam will make the same mistake.

This day in the evening. The snow stopped.

But on the third day, the weather was even colder, and it was obvious that the snow would not be cold.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon of the third day, Zhu Ping'an had already copied all the seven eight-strand essays neatly on the test paper, and after checking it several times, he was waiting to hand in the paper.

This is the first exam of the township examination, and it is also the most important exam, such as marking is based on the seven articles and eight strands of the first session, and then combined with the second and third sessions after reading. Mutual reading and deliberation, take the median.

This day is the date of submission, and this day is divided into three batches, one batch before the afternoon, one batch in the afternoon, and one batch in the evening. The rewinder will sign each roll, and the signature will match. The name of the examination paper is blurred, and there is a copyist who copies it with a red pen before marking the paper, and the examiner reviews the red paper and uses a blue pen to review it.

Zhu Ping'an handed in the papers in the evening and packed his things. Follow the crowd out of Jiangnan Gongyuan.

When Zhu Ping'an appeared, there were still candidates in the Gongyuan who were racing against time, and the township test was cleared at the same time, that is, around 7 to 9 o'clock in the evening. At that time, if they haven't finished it, they will have to fall off the list.

Good luck.

When Zhu Ping'an came out of the examination room, he said silently.

It's the same as after a modern exam. When I got out of the examination room, I saw people gathered in twos and threes, talking about the examination room. Of course, the main thing is to discuss the exam questions, you say a word, I will say a word. The face was red, and then someone felt that something was wrong, and finally turned pale.

Why bother, the psychological quality is not enough, why should you discuss the exam questions at this time. Zhu Ping'an shook his head slightly, hooked the corners of his lips, and strode towards the inn.

"Zhu, Brother Zhu wait for me."

The voice of the fat man came from behind, Zhu Ping'an paused, and when he turned around, he saw the fat man running over tremblingly, and while walking, he also washed his nose and froze into a dog.

The fat man walked to Zhu Ping'an's side, and when he saw the two-layer rabbit skin coat on Zhu Ping'an's body, his eyes lit up, and he jumped up to take off one and wear it.

"There's one more piece in the bag, I've got it for you." Zhu Ping'an staggered and opened more, and then threw the bag he was carrying into the hands of the fat man.

Then the fat man hurriedly took out the rabbit skin coat from his bag, and then couldn't wait to put on the rabbit skin. In an instant, the long-lost warmth struck again, and the fat man's happy eyes couldn't be found.

Because there was an exam next to tomorrow, Zhu Ping'an and the fat man simply had a sumptuous dinner at the inn for dinner, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Ping'an and other candidates lined up in front of Jiangnan Gongyuan again and waited for admission. This time, everyone brought more things, more clothes, etc.

At about three o'clock, the Gongyuan began to check the entrance, and at about six o'clock, Zhu Ping'an arrived at yesterday's house.

This one belongs to the second session of the township test, with a trial of one article, five judgments, and one edict, edict, and internal department.

There is no difficulty in this exam, almost all of them are officialdom application essays, Zhu Ping'an finished this exam as if he was messing up time, and the quality of the answers was also very good, and he handed in the paper in the afternoon of the third day.

Then there was a queue in the early hours of the morning for the third exam.

This exam is much more difficult, and the test is five ways of history. The first policy question is nothing, and when I see the second question, 80% of the candidates are about to collapse.

"Seventy-two sages of Confucius, how can sages be sages?"

Nima, I can't tell you all about the seventy-two disciples of Confucius, and let me say what they are capable of! So a lot of candidates have collapsed.

Zhu Ping'an was a little happy when he saw this question, for himself with a super memory, this question is not difficult. I have intentionally checked the relevant information of Confucius's seventy-two disciples on the Internet before, including "Confucius Family", "Spring and Autumn" and other scattered records, such as "Historical Records. The Confucius Family records: "Confucius taught with poetry, calligraphy, etiquette, and music, and his disciples covered 3,000 Yan, and there were two people in 70 who were proficient in six arts", so this question is almost not the slightest difficulty for Zhu Ping'an.

Yan Hui was Confucius's favorite disciple, studious and benevolent; Min loss, known for virtue; Ran Qiu, multi-talented, famous for political affairs; Jaeyu, good at words; Duanmu Ci has excellent political and diplomatic talents, and superb financial management and business skills

In addition to this policy topic, there is another interesting question on other policy topics, which is about the policy of curing the Japanese.

Zhu Ping'an almost didn't have to think about it, so he directly copied it on scratch paper after polishing the treatment strategy he had done.

On the evening of the third day, the creaking sound of the door opening of the Jiangnan Gongyuan shattered the loneliness of the street.

A young man wearing a rabbit skin coat walked out of the door, walked and stopped, looked back at the gate of Jiangnan Gongyuan, confidently hooked the corners of his lips, showed a smile, and then disappeared into a vast snowstorm. (To be continued......)