Confucius said: The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night. Describe the continuous passage of time like flowing water, never to return, and feel the rapid change of life and life.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the second confession, and Zhao Yan waited until the afternoon to see it this time, and saw that his seat number was only in the middle of the inner circle, and he didn't think it was a pestle.

On February 18, it is forbidden to cut down trees to make beams, break ground and make beds, and it is advisable to marry and sacrifice, pray for blessings and heirs.

Today is the last session of the county exam, and the test is a history and current policy, and a poem should be written.

Policy questioning, also known as policy questions, is an examination question for the policy test, which began in the Western Han Dynasty.

Originally, it was the emperor who used the political affairs book to Jian Ce, and asked the virtuous and outspoken people recommended by the counties and states to answer them one by one as a reference for governance, and used it to simplify the examination of officials.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the policy question has become the examination method for the disciples of the Taixue Doctor who are proficient in scriptures and the selection and appointment, and until now, it is still used as a checkpoint in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty.

The content of the policy questions is very rich, such as politics, economy, military, law, culture, education, astronomy, geography, ethnicity, and other major events related to the national economy and people's livelihood, or questions in historical classics, can be used as policy questions.

Of course, those major events in the world are far away from the candidates who are not even Xiucai now, so Li Zhizhou was very considerate and did not come up with those heavy questions, but directly asked the candidates to write, if they are Li Zhizhou, how can Shenzhou be governed better.

Some of them have long seen that Li Zhizhou's governance measures are not pleasing to the eye, and now they have the opportunity to 'govern' the prefecture and county on his behalf, so they naturally write out what they think in their hearts one by one.

After Zhao Yan read the question, he secretly spat at Li Zhizhou, this is obviously a pit, and it is buried in those candidates who look at Li Zhizhou unpleasantly.

This Li Zhizhou is greedy for money and treachery, relying on his whiskers to get to his current position, this time, as the chief examiner of the 'Talent Dictionary', will he be so generous to let people write articles to criticize themselves?

Politicians are not politicians, they are always the most weird people in the world, there is no one, and Li Zhizhou is definitely not a politician, he can only be regarded as a politician.

After figuring this out, how to write this strategy, Zhao Yan already knew it in his heart, it was nothing more than a photograph of Li Zhizhou's horses, Zhao Yan had no psychological burden on this, and after finishing the draft, a sycophant article was swept away.

As for the last poem, the title given by Li Zhizhou is to take 'bamboo' as the title, and ask the candidates to make a poem about things, poems can also be poems, and words can also be used.

Okay, Li Zhizhou asked people to write about current affairs in front of him to pat his ass, and then borrowed bamboo as a metaphor for his Qinggao, he wanted to be a bitch and wanted to set up an archway, but there was really no one.

What is Bamboo? Bamboo is grass and not trees, this is, of course, nonsense......

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were seven sages of the bamboo forest, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was called the three friends of the cold and the cold with the pine and the plum, and it was a plant that the literati and writers liked to compose poems and essays to praise since ancient times, and it had the meaning of nobility, loyalty, and integrity.

If you talk about the poems related to bamboo before the Ming Dynasty, it is really too numerous, but unfortunately Zhao Yan knows that others also know, so naturally they can't copy it, and he only remembered one poem of Yongzhu in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is Zheng Banqiao's "Bamboo and Stone" in the Qing Dynasty.

This "Bamboo and Stone" and Yu Qian's "Lime Yin" are included in the primary school textbook, because these two poems are strange in style, outstanding in words and sentences, and the deep meaning is clear at a glance, so Zhao Yan still remembers it clearly.

Yu Qian has not become a national hero at this time, and naturally he was not killed by Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, he is patrolling Shanxi and Henan, and his reputation is rising, and the song "Lime Yin" is said to have been composed when he was twelve years old.

For Yu Qian, the name of the benevolent brother, Zhao Yan is naturally like thunder, but at this time he is in the exam, and it is useless to think too much.

Zheng Banqiao's "Bamboo and Stone" would definitely be favored by Li Zhizhou if it was written, but Zhao Yan was really a little awkward in his heart to plagiarize the poems of the 'juniors' so blatantly. Even if this poem is not done well, it should not affect his ability to pass the county exam, Zhao Yan thought of this and dispelled the idea of plagiarism, and decided to make a poem by himself to confuse the past.

"Yongzhu", the green bamboo is secluded and multi-stemmed, towering into the forest and innocent...... I barely wrote a seven-character poem, and it seemed that it was still early, but someone had already gotten up and started to hand in the papers.

Zhao Yan didn't want to wait for a long time, so he also got up and put the volume on Li Zhizhou's table, this time Li Zhizhou didn't give him any looks, just nodded slightly, and then closed his eyes and began to recuperate, presumably not yet recovered from the pain of diarrhea.

After the third exam, it will be two days before the case will be reported, but this time the case is all with real names, called 'long cases', and the first place is naturally the head of the county test.

Zhao Yan's article in the first game, after the silent writing, has been handed over to Li Fuzi to read, based on Li Fuzi's experience, it is not a problem to pass the county examination, but even if the county examination is passed, there are still government examinations and hospital examinations later, Li Fuzi is still not optimistic about Zhao Yan, unless he can get the first case.

Because once you become the head of the county test, according to the convention, becoming a student is like picking up something.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and this time the case was announced as the final results of the county examination, and the anxious candidates spontaneously gathered at the gate of the state school early in the morning, waiting for the arrival of the 'final judgment'.

When Zhao Yan first came to the gate of the state school, he was invited by Liu Jing's family to the second floor of the Shiyun Building, at this time, several tables on the street upstairs were already full of people, Zhao Yan glanced at it, but he only knew Liu Jing, Qian Liangcai, Li Xun, and Wang Xian who were with him.

The four of them sat around the same table, and there was a young man at the same table, this young man had beautiful eyebrows and a gentle temperament, and he looked two or three years older than Zhao Yan.

Liu Jing saw Zhao Yan coming upstairs, so he beckoned him to sit at his table, and then introduced him: "Brother Zhao Xian, this is Brother Zhang Xian, the prodigy of the jujube family who I talked to you about before. Brother Zhang Xian, this is Brother Zhao Xian, both of you are not as young as the weak crown, but you are generally young and promising, but you have to be close to each other. ”

Zhao Yan hurriedly said: "I have seen Brother Zhang, in Xia Zhao Yan, born in Xuande for six years, and there is no expression yet. I had heard Brother Liu mention that Brother Zhang was quick to think and could recite, and he was fortunate to be able to do so. ”

That Zhang Wenyuan didn't support it either, and when he heard the words, he got up and hugged his fists and said: "In the next Zhang Wenyuan, the adults in the family gave the word 'studious', and he was born in Xuande for three years. Brother Liu's words are really over-awarded, but it's just a little famous, so don't mention it. ”

Liu Jing saw that the two of them were holding one and one was humble, he smiled and stretched out his hand to sit down with the two, and said, "Today, I am waiting to see the case, and the two virtuous brothers don't have to say polite words again." ”

Wang Xian, who is related to Wang Dahu, is a stuffy gourd, just sitting there smiling and silent, Li Xun and Qian Liangcai are much more lively, seeing that there will be some time before the case, the two proposed to do some games to pass the time, Liu Jing likes to be lively, so he naturally agreed, Zhang Wenyuan and Wang Xian did not object, so only Zhao Yan was left alone.

Zhao Yan really hasn't been in contact with the games between literati in this era, and his heart is a little weak, but several other people should be down, if he says not to play, then obviously refute the face of a few people, and can only tentatively say: "I don't know what game a few virtuous brothers want to play?" The younger brother was blunt, for fear of disturbing the interest of several virtuous brothers. ”

Qian Liangcai and Zhao Yan sat next to each other, in addition to reading on weekdays, he often followed his father for consultation, although his medical skills were not very good, he had practiced the ability to read people, and when he saw Zhao Yan's appearance, he knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "How about our pairs?" I'll first make an upper link, Brother Liu on my right will be punished for the next link, if you can't come up, you will be punished for a glass of wine, and if you can come up, you won't be punished, and then Brother Liu will come out again, and Brother Li on the right of Brother Liu will be on the lower link, and finally it will be Brother Zhao Xian's turn. Brother Zhao Xiandi and Brother Zhang Xiandi are not as young as a weak crown and should not drink alcohol, so they replace wine with tea, how about it? ”

Compared with word games such as Tibetan poems and palindromic poems, it is already relatively simple, Zhao Yan is not afraid, and even if he can't get it, he just needs to drink a cup of tea.

Qian Liangcai didn't procrastinate, and said to himself: "My upper link is 'two, three, four, five', Brother Liu, please go down." ”

Liu Jing does some word games with people on weekdays, and said with a smile: "Brother Qian, this Shanglian lacks a 'one', which means 'lack of clothes', and I have a 'ten' for 'six, seven, eight, * nine', just to make up for lack of food and clothing." ”

Qian Liangcai said yes when he heard this, and then asked Liu Jing to go down.

Liu Jing pondered for a moment, suddenly smiled evilly, and said to Li Xun on his right: "Brother Li, I have listened to you, it is 'lonely and cold and empty', right?" ”

Li Xun shook his head and smiled, and thought for a while before he said: "Brother Liu, I really heard of this pair of upper couplets before I went down, and I thought about it all day, but I could barely come up with a pair of lower couplets." What do I think of 'Pretty Woman'? ”

Zhao Yan read silently in his heart next to him, and found that the words in Liu Jing's upper couplet were all Bao Gaitou, while the words in Li Xun's lower couplet were all single-handed, neat and neat, and the meaning could barely be said, so he couldn't help but nod secretly.

"Then you're right, let's get out of the link." Liu Jingsao saw the untouched wine glasses in front of several people, and said with a smile: "The wine is not allowed to be drunk at present, and next time I will deliberately not be able to deal with Brother Qian's uplink, and I will always have to get over the addiction to alcohol." ”

A few people laughed, and Li Xun came out of the upper link, and Zhang Wenyuan next to him was in the lower link.