In February, the spring breeze is like scissors, and the weather is gradually getting warmer, and such a climate makes people lazy and unmotivated.

The county examination was about to come, Mr. Li Meiting suddenly came to the spirit, and tossed Sun Dan, Sun Hao and several other schoolchildren with a certain level enough, gathered these people together to explain the current text, and prepared more than ten questions for the scope of the questions he predicted, and made a few model essays for a few boys to figure out and copy.

Li Meiting said with certainty that the scope of the questions in this county exam should be "The Analects", and as for how he made this prediction, it is not something that Sun Dan needs to care about.

Mr. Li said that he is confident that he will let all the students who sign up pass the county examination, and there is no difficulty in the government examination later. If you are lucky, if you are unlucky, you will not be able to pass the test for more than ten years, and even if you have white hair, you may not be able to pass the test.

Strange to say, Sun Gui also entered Li Meiting's recommended list.

There are many suspicions of cheating in that exam, and Li Meiting is not a fool, and he has also heard of the contradictions between schoolchildren. Besides, Sun Gui's grades among the children of the Sun family are also good, and it should be no problem to pass the county exam, so he was simply recruited as well.

Mr. Li came to a rare confusion.

After Sun Gui was beaten by Mr. Li and went home, he was scolded by his mother, Aunt Jing, who twisted his ears and made everyone known. Everyone in the house knew that Sun Gui cheated in the second room exam, and his reputation was extremely bad. In addition, his status in the mansion is not high, and everyone looks at him with a lot of contempt.

Sun Gui was much more honest after being hit hard, and he didn't come to trouble Sun Dan again.

However, Sun Dan knew that this kid was a person who held grudges, and once he recovered, he might not be willing to give up.

He didn't pay much attention to Sun Gui, but it was still a very annoying thing to be harassed by a fly all day long. This kind of person has to be severely suppressed, once he is admitted to Xiucai, there is a gap between Sun Gui and himself, and he will not dare to create any more trouble.

Iron must also be hard.

In this county examination, Li Xian, as a jinshi, personally recommended Sun Dan, Sun Hao, Sun Gui and two other children of the Sun family to participate in the county examination, which was a major event in Zouping County. Li Meiting is famous, and his status is high, these five people have not yet taken the exam, and they have also won extra points in the eyes of the examiner.

In addition to these five people, there were also fifteen schoolchildren in the school who signed up on the recommendation of other students in Zouping County. Li Meiting is not very optimistic about these fifteen people, in his opinion, it is good to be able to win one or two. Although luck is very important in exams, personal strength is the key to winning or losing. These more than ten people are not strong enough, and it is not much use to go, but it is good to let them get familiar with the examination room.

According to Sun Dan, it is: feel the atmosphere of the competition and prepare for the future.

Li Meiting thought so, and said that Sun Dan's metaphor was appropriate.

Having to write every day makes Sun Hao and others miserable, after all, they are all big children, and it is really difficult for them to read and write in a regular manner.

Sun Dan felt that this was a good opportunity to calm down and study, compared to Sun Hao and them, he was also an adult, and he was much stronger than them in both sitting and meditation.

is about to take the county exam, and Sun Dan does not feel any difficulty in this exam. What he needs to do now is to pass the level of writing traditional Chinese characters as soon as possible, and Mr. is so intensive tutoring for the schoolchildren is exactly what he wants.

As long as people calm down and do things, they can do things well.

Sun Dan gets up at five o'clock in the morning every day, picks up the pen and writes a new chapter of the 2,000-word "Journey to the West", one is to save the manuscript for the new book to be released next month, and the other is to familiarize himself with traditional Chinese writing by the way.

Originally, Jiang Ruoying was in charge of copying "Journey to the West", and Sun Dan was busy preparing for the exam recently, so he didn't have time to tell you stories. Jiang Ruoying is also happy to be lazy, anyway, there is a manuscript to read, and it is much more interesting to listen to Sun Dan speak in person.

If the 2,000 words were to be written on a computer, it would only take half an hour to transcribe them at Sun Dan's speed, but it would be much slower to transcribe them with a brush. So, the two made an appointment to go to the room for breakfast, and then clean up the yard. Estimate the time again, it will be about ten o'clock in the morning, and at this time, Mr. Li should also get up and start class.

Hurriedly ran to the school, read two books to the schoolchildren, and then wrote the current text according to the topic given by the gentleman.

When the essay is finished, it should also be lunch time, and after warming up lunch on the stove, taking a short break, and starting to compose again.

Composition is difficult for Sun Dan, but in order not to be too prominent, he honestly did not plagiarize the masterpieces of later generations, but copied them himself.

At first, his pen was still very jerky, but later on, his writing gradually became smoother. Speaking of which, it is not very difficult to write eight-strands, the key is to master the format. If the format is right, it will be easy to write.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the school is over, and there is still a long time to go to bed, which is a good time for self-study. Sun Dan didn't play with Sun Hao and them, and ran directly back to his room to copy traditional Chinese characters over and over again, until it was completely dark and his eyes couldn't be opened, then he fell asleep on the bed.

At the beginning, he also used good rice paper to write, but because the amount of writing every day was too large, the money saved up to buy paper alone was an unbearable amount.

Settle for the next best thing, and replace it with the cheap raw-edged yellow paper that burns the dead.

But even so, after a month, the waste paper he used was piled up a small mountain.

If you think about it, you have to write 20,000 words a day.

Twenty-seven days, more than 500,000 words.

At the end of the writing, the tube of sheep's hair brush in his hand was also bald. There was only a short section of the ink ingot, so it was simply replaced with clear water.

At the thought of this number, Sun Dan had an urge to burst into tears.

The intensity of labor was too great, and his body was not too good, so he felt that his shoulder blades hurt so badly that his neck was stiff and could not rotate. What's even more annoying is that the middle index finger, middle finger and thumb of the five fingers of the right hand are all worn out by the pen, revealing the capillaries inside.

By now, those traditional Chinese characters have completely melted into Sun Dan's blood. As soon as I picked up the pen, I subconsciously wrote it on the paper. On the contrary, if he is asked to change the simplified Chinese characters now, he will think about it for a long time.

Time passed quickly, and twenty-seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the end of February.

The day after tomorrow is the period of the county exam.

Mr. Li simply took the schoolchildren off and let them take a day off to adjust their status.

At this time, the second episode of "Journey to the West" also accumulated a thick stack of manuscripts. Sun Hao and Sun Jia took this manuscript and went into the city on the 28th to hand it over to the printing shop, and settled the account of the first book by the way.

Of course, he told his family that because he was about to take the exam, he wanted to go out with Jiajia to relax because he was studying too hard some time ago.

I heard Sun Hao say that the first episode of "Journey to the West" sold well.

Sun Dan didn't take this matter to heart, doing business in ancient China was just a sideline, and it was not true. has the strong ability of the Sun family bookstore to spread books, even the most rubbish books can sell a few copies, not to mention "Journey to the West", one of the four classical masterpieces.

On February 28, Sun Dan received his salary and began to write as usual. But he suddenly found that his right hand was trembling, and his five fingers were shrunk together like chicken paws, and he looked up into the distance, and his eyes were hazy with. At the same time, a line of saliva hung from the corner of his mouth.

Sun Dan smiled bitterly: This month has finally passed, and I haven't worked so hard for a long time. In any case, this hurdle was finally passed.

Men at work are the most dashing, and men at work are sloppy.

I won't write today, rest, rest for a day.

I slapped the back of my hand vigorously, and it took a long time for my right hand to open, and Meimei took a hot bath, and finally adjusted my body to the best state.

In the evening, Sun Dan used a big bamboo basket to carry the discarded manuscript to the outside of the house and burned it, and slapped it twice with both hands: "We must win!" ”