The fourth day of the second month is the day of the annual examination in Ninghua County. ?.?? `

The annual examination is not a formal examination, not even a preparatory examination, but only an examination of local students by a provincial school, and the rigor of the examination is not even comparable to the county examination in a local area.

There is no need to get up very early on this day, because the exam will start at three o'clock in the morning, saying that it will take two days, but because it is the year of the township examination, except for the four books and five scriptures, the rest of the examination items are temporarily canceled, and finally when discussing the results, even the five scriptures are not examined.

That is to say, the exam is only two essays, and one of the last essays is not included in the overall score, as long as the students who take the exam write the four essays well.

It is a bit arbitrary to determine the candidate's talent and learning, but this is the case with the exam this year.

The reason for leaving four scriptures is that the four scriptures are compulsory examination questions, and the same questions can be given to all candidates, while the five scriptures are different because of the different scriptures that each candidate has revised, there will be different judgment criteria when the questions are to be produced and reviewed.

Everything boils down in one sentence: the township test year, the annual test is simple.

On this day, all the candidates almost walked into the examination shed in a "fortunate meeting" and "long admiration".

There are only 50 students in Tingzhou Mansion every year, Ninghua is a small place, there are five or six people a year, and it is already a great thing to show talents, so the number of students in the entire Ninghua County does not add up to more than 200 people, although according to the rules, each county has 20 places for students, but because there are not many people who are listed as "first-class" in the annual examination of Ninghua County every year, most of them are second-class and third-class, and if they are included in the second-class, although they can keep the title of Liusheng, but in fact, they have to stop the rice. The entire Ninghua County has basically never been full of people who eat imperial grain.

However, the annual examination of Ninghua in the eleventh year of Hongzhi is a little unusual, because in the first year, two students died of illness one after another, that is to say, without reducing the total number of students, the places of two students will be vacated. This makes the sentient beings still quite expectant, no matter how you say it, you can also get Yulu and Yumi, which can greatly reduce the burden on the family.

Shen Xi and Shen Mingwen went to the examination room together, and went out with an exam basket. However, when he arrived at the street, Shen Mingwen excused himself to go to the toilet and asked Shen Xi to help hold the test basket.

Lazy people have a lot of and urine, and after coming back, Shen Mingwen didn't take the test basket back, and said something unnutritious to Shen Xi. obviously bullied Shen Xi is child, and asked Shen Xi to help him carry the test basket.

Outside the examination room, Shen Mingwen went over to salute the sentient beings in a grand manner, he is a student in the end, Zhongxiucai has been more than ten years, and he basically knows this Ninghua student??.? `

Shen Xi could only carry two exam baskets behind Shen Mingwen as a "follower", Shen Mingwen was too lazy to introduce Shen Xi to those people, and when others saw Shen Xi, they only regarded Shen Xi as the person who came to send the exam to the Shen family, but they wondered why Shen Xi would carry two exam baskets.

Although the matter of Shen Xi's eleven-year-old middle school student has been spread in all the counties under the Tingzhou Mansion. But for the students in Ninghua County, their ears and eyes are a little closed, and they are either educating their children all day long, or they are studying hard behind closed doors at home, and they really don't know what to do outside in the past two years.

When the examination room opened and all the candidates 6 continued to enter the room, Shen Mingwen came over to take his examination basket and walked into the examination room with Shen Xi. Only then did others know that Shen Xi was not sent to the exam, but also a student who came to take the annual exam.

"Who's that kid?"

"Haven't you heard? That was the seventh son of the Shen family, the year before last. Last year, I won the second place in the exam. ”

"Oh, this old lady of the Shen family is really capable, she gave birth to an eldest son, and she gave birth to a younger son to commit crimes?"

"Nothing. He is the third generation of the Shen family......"

"Hahaha, the two uncles and nephews took the annual exam together, which is interesting and interesting."

There were a lot of discussions, and Shen Mingwen's face was a little not good-looking, if he and his brothers of the same generation came to take the annual exam together, it would be fine, but it was with his nephew. And the nephew was twenty-six or seventeen years younger than him, and younger than his son.

Scholars have the best face, so Shen Ming Wenning simply took the initiative to walk away to show that he had drawn a line with Shen Xi.

Shen Xi originally looked indifferent, but when he saw his enlightenment mentor Su Yunzhong from afar, he was not so calm.

In terms of age, Su Yunzhong is one round older than Shen Mingwen, and it is known that teachers and students come to participate in the annual examination together, which may damage Su Yunzhong's reputation.

And in this era, it is a great sin for students to lose face to their teachers.

So, Shen Xi walked with his head unconsciously in tow.

However, Su Yunzhong was very generous, and walked over and took the initiative to greet: "Shen Xi, is it you?" ”

"I've seen you, sir. w?”

Shen Xi had no choice but to respectfully bow to Su Yunzhong.

"Okay, good, you are a middle school student at such a young age, and you live up to the old man's cultivation of you...... Brother Tingnian, this is my student, the second in the college exam last year, Shen Xi. And this year Fang Twelve. ”

Compared with Shen Mingwen's stinginess, although Su Yunzhong is pedantic, he has a lot of energy, not only came to meet Shen Xi calmly, but also introduced Shen Xi to some people of his generation.

These people are all gentlemen from various academies and schools in Ninghua, Shen Xi does not dare to slack off, even if they are also students, he still respectfully salutes, which makes these people feel that they have a lot of face.

Su Yunzhong said with a smile: "Shen Xi, take the annual exam well, and strive to participate in the autumn festival this year, the old man's unfinished wish will fall on you." ”

When Su Yunzhong said this, he was quite emotional.

For a student, if you learn to be old, you have to be old, but after you become an apprentice, you don't have much time to prepare for the exam.

The township examination is usually a few months, and the school cannot be wasted, so generally after being admitted to the students, they will take advantage of their youth to take the township examination two or three times, if they all fail, they are forced by life, they must find a teaching career to do and support their families. If you reach your old age, you will not be able to travel long distances to the provincial capital every time you take the exam, even if you have the heart, you don't have the energy.

Whether it is Su Yunzhong or Feng Huaqi, they are relatively accomplished people in learning, their teaching methods are different, but the expectations for students are exactly the same, students have the ability, it is not a shame for them, it is worthy of pride and gratification, their own unfinished dreams of going to school are often pinned on students.

This can also be regarded as a manifestation of the high wind and bright festival.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "I used to think that Mr. Su was pedantic, but now it seems that I am too narrow-minded. Let the uncle be a teacher, there is no such bearing. ”

The examination room of the annual examination, regardless of the examination booth and seat number, you can choose the position you sit in, and you will not transcribe the name of the paper when you mark the paper at the end, who wrote the article. It is clear to the grader.

Although after the exam, Su Kui only had one day to read the papers, but let him only read one or two hundred articles, and the amount of labor was not very large.

Candidates are seated. Su Kui finally walked out in a thousand calls, and the sentient beings stood up and saluted.

Su Kui seemed a little impatient, he had traveled all over the province in the past few months, and he had taken all the students in the prefectures and counties, but in fact, the whole person was quite tired.

The examiner takes a seat. Start putting the questions on deck.

Although the final decision is made by the four minor questions, the major questions of the five scriptures must also be produced. The four texts are the same topic, and all sentient beings must answer the four texts, and the five scriptures can be answered one. As an adjutant, the teacher of the Ninghua County Confucianism Department helped to invigilate the exam, and Su Kui sat on the main seat without even moving his seat.

The exam questions were announced immediately, and all the candidates stared at the four books and texts exam questions, after all, this involves whether they can keep the quota of the students, as well as the issue of supplementing the number of students and increasing their births.

The official walked through the examination room with a patrol card. Everyone looked at the patrol card intently, for fear of missing any of the above words. When the patrol card came to Shen Xi, he finally saw the title on it clearly: "Give up its sycamore, and the taste is also in the mouth." ”

Rao is all students present who boast of being good at learning, and when they see this kind of topic, they all feel a headache.

It's another mismatched interception question, and what was discussed before and after is not the same thing at all. "Abandon its Wuyao", on the question of focusing on the small or the big, from "Mencius: Gaozi I", the original text is: "There is a field teacher today." Giving up its sycamores and raising its thorns is a cheap teacher. "It's about a gardener, if you don't take care of the plane trees and the trees. And to maintain the jujube trees and thorns, this gardener is lowly. To discuss the principle of "raising the small for the villain, and raising the big for the adult". As for the second half of the sentence, it is Mencius's question on the character of a gentleman, saying that "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and wisdom" are for a gentleman, just like taste is for the tongue. That's nature.

The four scriptures were so difficult that many people pondered for a long time and could not discuss the method, so many people had to turn to the five scriptures first.

But Shen Xi thinks that this kind of topic is acceptable, in fact, to solve the problem, it is nothing more than to consider it from the way of thinking of the questioner, because some questions have a reason.

It's like this question, why did Su Kui use it as a question for the student year's exam, instead of waiting for the exam question to be kept in the current college exam? It's very simple, because this kind of question is too profound for the children who take the exam.

It's okay to say "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith" to a group of children, but to say "because of a small loss", even if the article is made, it will seem empty.

What kind of people are the students present, a group of people who have already made a name for themselves and are even teaching and educating people, so when it comes to "sacrificing their Wuyao", it is to advise all sentient beings that you should teach students and disciples, and you should also pay attention to your own studies, and you should not lose a big thing because of a small loss, but pay special attention to the cultivation of your own character.

As for personal character, it is natural to use the Confucian Five Constants to strictly demand oneself, that is, "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith", all of which are indispensable. At the same time, this is a standard for educating children, and it is necessary to convey this concept.

If you want to understand this, it is not difficult to solve the problem.

"Looking at the small things of the saints, you can see the whole thing."

Shen Xi thought about it for a while and continued to write, "Watching people must be seen by their bigness, and those who stand up to the big ones don't blame their smallness; And especially look at its small, small should not be, and then it becomes bigger and bigger. ”

After solving the problem, the back is relatively much simpler, and it only took half an hour to write down an article, and it took me half an hour to check it carefully before it landed on the paper.

Then do the five scripture questions, and after you finish it, it is not yet noon.

Shen Xi is already very fast in doing the questions, but after all, the people who participate in the annual examination are all students with meritorious reputation, and there are not a few talented people, and when Shen Xi put down the pen, someone had already finished it.

Participating in the imperial examination needs to pay attention to one point, the inspection must be on the draft paper, as long as you feel that there are no mistakes or omissions, you must copy it to the test paper, there must be no typos when transcribing, even if you really accidentally write a typo, you can't be blacked out at will, otherwise the examiner will think that you left a mark, there is a suspicion of cheating, this kind of paper will only be treated as a waste paper. In this case, you can only regard it as a "fake word" and turn a blind eye.

Therefore, in the imperial examination, when copying to the papers, you must be careful and careful, and you can't make any mistakes or omissions, otherwise you are not qualified to complain, and you can only blame yourself for being careless.

In the afternoon, the papers are collected, far less formal than the college examination, and the students themselves come forward to hand over the papers to the Confucian Education Department, and the students can leave on their own after handing in the papers. If the case is released two days later, it will not be like the official imperial examination list, and the students only need to check the results of the Confucianism Department.

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