Chapter Seventy-Five: Two Candidates

As the examiner said, Sun Dan was sleeping.

This is the second time he has slept in the examination room, and the last time was in the examination room of the government examination ten days ago. After receiving the test paper, Sun Dan looked at the question and knew that he had passed the level, and everything was expected.

As Li Meiting said, Wang Yuan is a humble gentleman who likes to read the Analects every day, and the scope of this exam should be found in this book. Therefore, the question of this exam is just like the historical records, it is "The Day Knows Its Place".

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that all kinds of topics have been exhausted, and each sentence in the "Four Books" has a corresponding model text. At least, in the model article prepared by Sun Dan, there will be six articles about this sentence, and copying a random paragraph is enough for him to pass the test smoothly.

And Wang Hanlin likes frivolous and gorgeous rhetoric, so Sun Dan decided to copy Lu Liuliang's model text.

If even the text of the great Confucian Lu Liuliang in the late Ming Dynasty could not enter Wang Yuanzheng's eyes, it is estimated that no one in the entire examination room of 2,000 candidates would be able to pass the test.

In this regard, Sun Dan is full of confidence.

Now, the only thing he has to worry about is how to spend the whole day.

The time for the hospital examination is not as long as that of Qiuqiu, only one day. As soon as the candidates enter the examination room, the examiner immediately locks the gate of the Gongyuan Academy, and no one is allowed to leave the examination room until the end of the examination. Therefore, it is impossible to go home early.

Everything has to be in order, and more than 2,000 candidates need to line up to sing when they enter and line up when they leave. Otherwise, so many people will rush in and disperse in a hurry, not only will it not be unseemly, but it will cause uncontrollable changes. In the Hongwu years, there was a time when the candidates entered the venue by the surging crowd "tide" squeezed into the pond on the left side of the gate of the Gongyuan and drowned, after the incident, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and killed more than a dozen examiners in one go, which calmed down the anger of the scholars.

Although today's Emperor Zhengde has a bad reputation in history, and has done a lot of ridiculous things, he is a very generous monarch personally, although he will not kill the examiner because of this kind of thing, but it really makes trouble, and it has a great impact on the examiner's future.

At Sun Dan's current speed, it will only take an hour to finish the volume. The problem was that after he finished writing the paper, he had to sit in the examination room in a daze.

So, he was not in a hurry to answer the questionnaire, so he lay on the table and fell asleep. I got up early in the morning today, and I was caught by Aunt Jing digging a canal, and I ran half dead on the road, and I couldn't straighten up when I was tired.

Sun Dan's body is very weak now, and he is a half-grown child, and as soon as his head hits the table, he falls asleep to death.

Sun Hao was sitting in the small house opposite Sun Dan, watching Sun Dan fall asleep, admiring in his heart. Xindao: The book says that a gentleman should have calm every time there is a major event, and for such a big thing as the hospital test, Brother Dan can actually sleep. However, it is not very comfortable to sleep here.

The scale of the examination shed of Jinan Gongyuan is very large, second only to Shuntianfu in the northern provinces, with a total of more than 2,000 houses and more than a dozen rows of houses.

These dozen rows of houses all sit north to south, with about 100 rooms in the long ones and 70 or 80 rooms in the short ones. The house is very narrow, four feet long and three feet wide, which is about one square meter. Sitting inside, people are like chickens and ducks in cages.

There is also a fence wooden door at the entrance of the house, as soon as the candidates enter the room, they are locked by the big lock, and they are not allowed to open the lock until the end of the test, even if there is a fire inside and the candidates are burned to death.

Thinking of the fire, Sun Hao couldn't help but glance at Sun Dan's house worriedly. Fortunately, Sun Dan didn't light the lamp, so he didn't have to worry about taking the water to burn him into barbecue.

Seeing that Sun Dan was fine, Sun Hao withdrew his gaze from Sun Dan and fell on the exam paper.

As soon as he saw the title, Sun Hao's heart beat wildly again.

This topic is exactly the same as the article that Sun Dan asked him to memorize a few days ago, under Sun Dan's cruel supervision, Sun Dan has memorized that article so well that he can write it silently with his eyes closed.

Don't...... Brother Tan has long known the exam questions of the Academy of Sciences?

Cheating in the field is a felony, and it is impossible for ordinary people to take out the exam questions and share them with others, so as not to leak the news. Even if you really want to leak "exposure" to others, you have to charge a large sum of money. According to the current market, it is worth at least one hundred taels of silver.

But Sun Dan gave it to himself without frowning, this friendship is really touching.

"What a hero, what a hero, for the sake of his own brother, he can't even care about the big crime of killing his head. If I encounter such a situation, do I dare to reveal the exam questions to others? Sun Hao, Sun Hao, you usually think of yourself as a hero, but compared to Brother Dan, what is it? This show talent is in my hands. Sun Dan thought of the glory of his talent after being admitted to the examination, remembered his mother's excited tears, and remembered the relieved eyes of his family, his eyes were a little hot, and he "rubbed" his eyes, and did not hesitate, picked up the pen and copied it on the paper.

At the beginning, Sun Hao's hands trembled with excitement, but later, he copied more and more smoothly, and the speed became faster.

When I finished copying an article, I looked up and saw that the sun in the sky had just risen to the osmanthus tree in the east. It's only morning, and it's still a long time before lunch.

Looking down, Sun Dan was still sleeping.

All the candidates are bowing their heads and writing, the whole examination room is silent, the breeze blows, the leaves of the osmanthus tree rustle, and a group of sparrows do not know how to be afraid of people, falling to the ground of the four-foot-wide alley between the number houses and pecking at the dry food left by the candidates.

Mu sat in the room for a long time, and when the sun rose overhead, Sun Dan felt hungry, took out the dry food from the bag, ate a few bites, drank a few sips of tea, and then looked at the other side, Sun Dan was still sleeping.

In the past, Sun Hao had imagined countless times what the official exams like the college examination and Qiu Yu were like, but now that he is in it, he feels that this kind of exam is really boring enough to suffocate people.

At this time, the candidates were probably also hungry, and there was a chewing sound in all directions. The sparrows in the alleyway heard the sound of spring silkworms eating mulberry leaves, and were startled, fluttering their wings and flying into the air.

Hearing this sound, Sun Dan's body, who was lying on the table, moved, raised his blood-red eyes and glanced at Sun Hao.

Sun Hao was about to hand him a look, signaling him to hurry up and answer the question.

But Sun Dan only glanced at Sun Hao with a confused look, and then fell down again.

Sun Hao was so anxious that he almost jumped up, he was fat and had a lot of meat on his buttocks, but he felt unbearable pain after sitting on the stool for a long time, and after standing up and moving his muscles and bones, he sat down helplessly.

Time passed slowly, and the sun gradually moved westward, gradually lengthening the shadow of the osmanthus tree.

During this period, Sun Dan sprinkled two bubbles of "urine" and also pulled once, making a house stink. During this time, he also took a nap and even re-transcribed the exam paper. But even so, it seems that the time has not passed long, and it is so long that it makes people panic.

When Sun Hao slept for the second time, when he woke up, the sky was already dark, the sun didn't know where to hide, and the small room was dim.

Sun Hao looked up, and Sun Dan on the other side was still sleeping.

Sun Hao was taken aback, when has this been, why are you still sleeping?

He hurriedly stood up, hung a wooden sign in the doorway, waved to the patrolling officer, and pointed to the sign.

The sign reads two big characters "Out Gong".