Chapter 455: Fang Wei's County Exam

For these two days, I lived in the Yamen of the Taoist Academy, and my life was very leisurely. Ma Quan and Tan Tuo were both very excited, and when they thought of being Sun Dan's protégé, these two businessmen couldn't help but rub their hands. But because the two of them have been in business for many years, their studies have been abandoned, so they have no choice but to sharpen their guns in battle, and borrow a lot of four books and five classics from the Yamen to recite them with their heads in their hands.

Fang Wei is not nervous, she has been reading poetry and books with her father since she was a child, and when it comes to real skills, she is three points stronger than ordinary talents. If she is a man, it may be difficult to raise people to participate in the imperial examination, but it should not be a problem to make a name for herself.

In addition, he had something in his heart, sitting in the Yamen of Xuedao, and all he was thinking about was how to meet Sun Dan and ask him to avenge his father and the people of Suining, and he looked a little out of his mind.

Seeing her like this, Ma Quan and Tan Tuo reminded her that it would be better to read the book and review her homework. But Fang Wei couldn't read the book at all, and thought in his heart: It's just a small county exam, so you don't need to take it too seriously.

In the past, her father also conducted a county exam. She's also seen those children's scrolls, and it's not a big deal at all.

It's strange to say, since Fang Wei and the others came to learn the Dao Yamen to sign up and live, Sun Dan has never appeared again. It made Fang Wei, who had been looking forward to seeing him like the stars and the moon, a little in a trance, and he also felt that the time of the past two days had passed unusually slowly.

Fang Wei didn't know that Sun Dan had been looking for Suining Shizi in the city for the past two days, but two days had passed, but there were only three candidates for the Yamen to learn Taoism, she and Ma Tan, and it seemed that Sun Dan had found nothing.

On the third day, Suining's county test finally began. According to the imperial examination system, the examination time is still set at Mao Shi, and before dawn, Ma Quan's loud voice sounded outside Fang Wei's door: "Brother Fang, Brother Fang, hurry up, Master Sun has already arrived at the examination room." ”

As soon as he heard that Sun Dan had come over, Fang Wei didn't feel sleepy at all. Hurriedly got up, didn't bother to wash his face, got dressed in a haphazard manner, and ran to the examination room with Ma Quan and Tan Tuo at the door.

The examination room was set up in the Xuedao Yamen, and Sun Dan had already brought a large group of officials from the Huai'an Xuedao Yamen to wait there, and the mighty officials guarded the gates, and there were lanterns everywhere, illuminating an examination room.

Fang Wei and the three of them lined up, waiting for the roll call.

The drums beat loudly, and the servants lined up left and right, everything was solemn and solemn.

A scholar beside Sun Dan suddenly said: "Originally, this exam was supposed to be presided over by Lord Fang Shangzu of Suining Zhi County, but unfortunately he died in the flood. On the occasion of this unprecedented disaster, Lord Sun still disregarded his personal safety and stayed in this dangerous city to preside over the imperial examination, which is admirable. ”

Hearing him mention his father, Fang Wei's heart ached, and his eyes began to redden.

Sun Dan said: "The imperial examination is a great ceremony of reincarnation, it is the foundation of the country, the mountain can collapse and the ground can be trapped, and the imperial examination cannot be abolished." Even if there is not a single candidate, even if the entire Huai'an City is submerged in the flood, this adult will start the exam as scheduled. ”

That scholar also shed tears: "My lord is right, even if there is not a single candidate, we will open this dragon door wide and recruit idle people for the country." ”

Sun Dan: "Let's name it." ”

Suining...... Fang Wei ......"

Finally called Fang Wei's name, and she hurriedly walked up.

The named Xuedao glanced at her: "Where are you from Suining?" ”

Fang Wei was confused, but he didn't know how to answer.

Sun Dan sighed beside him: "The Yellow River is broken, Suining no longer exists, it is all a Zeguo, let's go in." ”

Xuedao nodded: "Fang Wei, who did the guarantee?" ”

Ma Quanhe Tan Tuo replied: "We are the guarantor." ”

Xuedao nodded: "Get the scroll." ”

Only then did Fang Wei come back to his senses, and he negotiated with Ma Quan, took the papers, and entered the examination room.

The paper is fourteen pages in length, with exam questions printed on it, and two blank manuscripts for each of them.

It can be seen that Sun Dan has prepared a lot of papers for this exam, and the papers on a table in the examination room are piled up, which are two feet high. Unfortunately, only three copies have been sent out today. Thinking about so many Suining scholars who died in the belly of the fish, everyone felt a little sad in their hearts.

The atmosphere in the examination room was also very solemn.

The examination room was empty, and before dawn, there were three people in it, which was deserted, which made people feel a little inexplicably scared.

The county exam is no stranger to Fang Wei, in fact, she has also seen the county exam papers from her father before. Generally speaking, the county examination is just the basic skills of the candidates, and most of the exam questions are small questions, which are not very difficult. The so-called small question, even if a few words in a sentence are intercepted from the four books as a question, when answering the question, the candidate directly writes a few words in the question, but he must explain the meaning of these words. Such questions are actually tested by the candidate's rote memorization.

There are two questions in this subject, both of which are from "The Mean".

The first title is "The Great Virtue Dunhua", which comes from the book "All things are nurtured and do not harm each other." The Tao goes parallel and not contradictory. Xiaode Chuanliu; The reason why this world is big is that this world is big. ”

The second question is "Chapter without Seeing", which comes from "Those who are like this, do not see and chapter, do not move and change, and do nothing." Meaning: When you reach such a state, you can be visible without showing it, you will change without waiting for activities, and you will achieve something by doing nothing.

These two topics are famous sentences in "The Mean", as long as you have read the book, you are familiar with it. There are not only many related eight-strand model texts in the market.

Therefore, as soon as they saw the question, the three candidates couldn't help but breathe: this is too simple.

Seeing the expressions of the candidates, Sun Dan smiled secretly in his heart, and said in his heart: It's just a small county exam. I'm not an examiner, am I guilty of going against the candidates? Besides, I came to preside over this county test with ulterior motives. The form is more important than the content, anyway, there are only three candidates, and the champion, runner-up, and third place have already been decided before the exam, anyway, it is a passing motion. finally got together three people, if there are more strange questions and two people are eliminated, won't this county test become a joke.

Although the exam questions were simple, the three candidates present did not dare to slack off, and first carefully figured out the exam for a while. Then, instead of answering the question first, he started a draft on the manuscript first.

In fact, none of these three people thought of achieving anything in the imperial examination. Ma Quanhe Tan Tuo never thought of relying on the imperial examination to become an official, and they have also accumulated tens of thousands of family assets in the past two years, and they live a good life, so naturally they can't endure the hardships of ten years of cold windows. However, in order to climb down Sun Dan and be his protégé, this county exam must be passed no matter what.

As for Fang Wei, she was a woman, and the reason why she pretended to be a man to take the exam was already guilty of killing her head. However, in order to have a chance to have a private contact with Sun Dan to tell the truth about Suining Dashui, he had to get a good score in the exam.

Seeing that the three of them were so serious, Sun Dan nodded secretly, and his heart was also relieved.

After typing the draft, the three of them revised it again, and then began to transcribe it one by one.

By the time I finished answering the paper, it was already noon.

When they felt hungry, the three of them got up and handed in the papers.

After taking the papers, Sun Dan asked the three of them to wait and read the papers on the spot, anyway, there were only three papers, and it couldn't be delayed for long.

At a glance, Ma Tan's volumes were all in block letters, the handwriting was correct, and the answers were also decent, so he called out a good voice and handed it to the scholar next to him with his backhand: "Look at it, whether it will be successful or not." ”

The scholars took it and looked at it separately, and they all nodded: "Yes." ”

When he saw Fang Wei's article, Sun Dan's eyes lit up: "It's a good hand for Su Dongpo's words, and the article is also excellent, such an article." “

When the scholars heard Sun Dan's praise, they all gathered around, and nodded at the same time: "Good article, such a text, even if you go to participate in the examination, it is not difficult to lift a person." Congratulations to Lord Sun, you have accepted another proud protégé. ”

Sun Dan laughed, Ma and Tan's words were very ordinary, but this Fang Wei was a talented person. With this person and this article, this county exam can be regarded as a success, and there is an explanation to the court and everyone.

He "touched" his beard with satisfaction, lifted the red pen and drew a circle on the three-point scroll, which was regarded as taking all three of them.

The scholars laughed at the same time, and shouted to the three of them: "Thank you Lord Sun soon, you have won." ”

The three of them were surprised for a while, and knelt down at the same time: "Thank you, Lord Sun." ”

Sun Dan waved his hand: "It's noon, the Xuedao Yamen has prepared meals for all the candidates, you can go and eat." After speaking, he left the examination room with a group of Taoist officials holding the papers.

At this time, Fang Wei remembered that he should find Sun Dan. But Sui Ning's matter is very important, and it is impossible to say this in front of everyone.

Fortunately, after lunch, Ma Quan proposed to go to Sun Dan's Mansion to meet the master in the evening, which made Fang Wei breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, I should go to see the teacher." ”

"I don't know where Lord Sun lives."

Fang Wei: "I know. ”

Ma Quan was overjoyed: "Then, at night, please ask Brother Fang to lead the way in front." ”

After resting for an afternoon and having dinner, Ma Tan and the others bought a lot of gifts, hired a sedan chair, and the three of them went to the courtyard where Sun Dan lived.

As soon as I arrived at the courtyard where Sun Dan lived, I happened to meet Sun Dan's big housekeeper Sun Zhong and walked out.

Seeing that it was Fang Wei, Sun Zhong was stunned: "Why are you again." ”

Fang Wei's face was a little hot, but Tan Tuo was more proficient in things, knowing that a family member like Sun Zhong was more magnificent than an ordinary seven-rank official, he hurriedly explained his intention with a smile.

Sun Zhong was even more stunned, looking at Fang Wei and said, "I didn't expect you, I didn't expect you to be a student of the master." ”

Fang Wei's face turned even redder when he remembered the situation that day.

Ma Quan asked in a loud voice: "Housekeeper, is my teacher not there?" ”

Sun Zhong was not angry, he kept looking at Fang Wei, and replied for a long time: "The imperial court platoon Yang Yiqing Yang Pavilion came to Huainan to preside over the overall situation, my lord went to Shandong to pick up Lord Yang, and it will take a few days to come back." ”

"That's it!" The three of them were a little disappointed, especially Fang Wei, who was even more sad when they thought that their father's grievances could not be redressed.

As a last resort, the three of them had to leave the gifts and leave.

After returning to the Taoist Yamen, a person from the Caoyun Yamen led the two boats over, saying that he heard that Ma Quan and Tan Tuo were the protégés of Master Sun, and the ship of Lord Sun's protégé naturally wanted to be released.

Ma Tan and the two were very happy, and they did not live in the Yamen of Xuedao, so they immediately said goodbye to Fang Wei and went to do business by themselves.

When they were leaving, the two also knew that Fang Wei was shy in her pocket, and each gave her a hundred taels of silver.

So, Fang Wei rented a hut in the city and waited for Sun Dan to return to Huai'an.