Chapter Seventy-Six: The Dust Has Settled
At the end of the second year, the candidate's number will be! There is a dung bucket in the middle of the hanging, and the examinees can be anxious to prevent the examinees from cheating, and each examinee needs to send a special person to watch when they go to the toilet. However, there are more than 2,000 candidates in the examination room, and everyone takes turns to come out, but I am afraid that if I wait for half an hour, I may not be able to take my turn.
Moreover, a large amount of manpower is involved in the thatched house problem, how can we maintain order in the examination room?
Besides, a scholar has the dignity of a scholar, and when the wide clothes are untied, there is a servant staring at the side, visually measuring its size, and sighing at its warp and weft. It's also insulting.
So, after many years of experimentation. The imperial court decided to equip each candidate with a commode.
In this way, the irritating problem of unraveling is solved. However, new problems have emerged.
The hospital test was fine, and the weather was not hot.
But when autumn comes, the autumn tigers are raging, and it is the hottest days of the year. Thousands of people and pee inside, and the stench is stinking. It may also cause a big addiction to slimming.
So, there is a new rule in the examination room. After the candidate has defecate, he or she can ask for instructions and then carry the commode to the thatched house to wash. Every candidate will go to the yashou before entering the hall to receive a number plate with the word "out of Gong", once you need to pour the toilet, just hang the sign at the door, and someone will naturally come to open the door.
Seeing Sun Hao hanging out the sign, a servant came over and opened the door and let him out.
Sun Dan carried the toilet, because he didn't dare to speak, he could only stomp his foot heavily, and then coughed.
"Don't talk, or you'll get out!" Some officials shouted in a low voice.
Fortunately, this small movement finally surprised the sleeping Sun Dan, and he straightened his neck and faced Sun. Hao smiled, picked up the flint and scythe to light the oil lamp on the table.
Sun Hao breathed a sigh of relief, kept shaking his head, and said secretly: "Join the mother." You finally know how to answer the questions. ”
"Don't mess around, go, go." The officials are still urging.
By the time Sun Hao came back from the thatched house, it was already completely dark, and all the rooms had been lit, illuminating a tribute courtyard as bright as day.
Gongyuan is located on the edge of Daming Lake, the sun rises in the daytime, the lake water is steaming, such as night, the temperature drops, it condenses into a vast white mist. It spread out in the examination room, and when it was illuminated by the light, it rolled in the air with milky white stickiness.
It's dreamlike and gives people a sense of unreality.
Sun Hao saw that Sun Dan was raising his head and staring blankly at the white mist, not knowing what he was thinking.
"It's time to answer the question, when is my brother Dan, you're still staying!" Sun Hao sat back in the number house and suddenly wanted to cry.
Finally, Sun Dan began to move. He poured a bowl of tea from the teapot, tilted his head and swallowed it with a "grunt", a glint in his eyes. , anti-o coercion shake the book bar brush is complete
He put the bowl down and lifted the pen, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
After sleeping all day, he dreamed that he was back in modern times. I went back to the office full of papers, and went back to the days when I read a cup of tea, a cigarette and a newspaper for half a day.
How wonderful. Just sit in the office every day and have a good salary at the end of the month, if there is a paradise in the world, then. China in the 21st century was a paradise for the ancients.
Everything was so unreal, like in a dream.
There, he saw another self living as usual.
There, he appreciated because of his excellent work, and was transferred to the tourism bureau as a deputy chief clerk. There, he fell in love and met an elementary school teacher. There, he and his girlfriend took his parents into the city.
Yes, there, another self is completing his unfinished life.
So, what is there to worry about?
Yes, everything was in a dream, and everything in front of me seemed real in comparison. It's like the modern self is just a dream of Sun Dan in the Ming Dynasty.
Cherish the present and live well.
Sun Dan took a deep breath, picked up the pen and wrote on the paper:
"The heart of pushing inward, there are those who do not test themselves all the time.
What can be done is also because people's hearts are eared to those who gain and lose. Those who know the day and the moon do not forget, how can there be a waiting for a good trip!
Today's husband accumulates time and day, day and month, month and month, and life is accumulated, so no one can not care about it!
This is Lu Liuliang's "The Day Knows Its Place".
Mr. Chang Wancun was the most outstanding scholar and thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Most of the later generations' understanding of Lu Liuliang comes from the literary prison in the tenth year of Yongzheng. Forty-nine years after his death, Lu Liuliang was implicated in the case of Hunan Confucian Zeng Jing against the Qing Dynasty, and was condemned by Emperor Yongzheng for the crime of "great rebellion", and was brutally punished by opening the coffin and killing the corpse. His descendants, relatives, and disciples were widely affected, and none of them were spared.
However, what really lets ordinary people know this person's name is the legend of Lu Siniang's assassination of Yongzheng, which is also the theme of many martial arts in later generations. Of course. Legends are just legends, and nothing remains true.
But it is undeniable that Lu Liuliang was the most famous academic master in the late Ming Dynasty, and compared with him, the so-called modern masters of Chinese studies are not worth mentioning at all.
Can't the master's masterpiece even cope with this small academy exam?
It's not early, Sun Dan still writes unhurriedly, using a standard pavilion style, for fear of being copied by the bookkeepers when transcribing.
Every test paper in the academy examination had to be transcribed by a special person, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were not many readers, and the literacy rate was only one percent, or even lower. In addition, many schoolchildren have not seen the famous calligraphy, nor have they practiced it, and many people's words are still a mess, and they are scribbled unsightly.
Some people just because the handwriting is too sloppy. When transcribing, someone copied the wrong words, and finally lost his name to Sun Shan.
Sun Dan is full of confidence in what he copied in this article, but the reason why accidents are called accidents is often because of a little negligence.
Details determine success or failure, and Sun Dan will never let such a thing happen to him.
Chang Liuliang's article is very long, about more than 2,000 words, and it takes a lot of time to copy.
But Sun Dan still copied it unhurriedly. Sun Hao, who was on the other side, was covered in sweat.
"My lord, candidate Sun Dan has already answered the questions in the exam." An examiner ran into the roof with a relieved smile.
Wang Yuanzheng smiled: "Good Sun Dan, I slept in my examination room all day, and now I finally know how to answer the questions." Crazy Ann, Crazy Life! If it were my temperament, such a person would not be taken even if he was no longer talented. ”
The examiner said: "Lord Wang, I think this Sun Dan really has the demeanor of the ancients of the Wei and Jin dynasties!" ”
"What demeanor?" Wang Yuanzheng suddenly became a little angry: "Arrogant, liberal? ”
"It's a little."
Wang Yuanzheng: "The imperial examination was originally for the country, and he will be an official in the future." What is called an official? Shepherd on behalf of the Son of Heaven, harmonize the four people, and reconcile yin and yang. I really want to be a good official trusted by the court and supported by the people. You really have to round your temperament and remove your fire. ”
The lord said rightly, the examiner who had been taught by the humble post said sincerely: "However, Sun Dan's name shook Shandong, and one or five words were sung endlessly for the people in the market." If you don't take him, you are afraid that it will be unfair. ”
The fetus is complete
"Who said they wouldn't take him?" Wang Yuanzheng smiled: "A gentleman acts, when he is in the middle of his actions, with Sun Dan's talent, I estimate that there should be no problem in this case." However, he is young and maosheng, if he wins a small three yuan, he is afraid that it will not be good for him in the future, so he will press it and win the second place, or the third place. ”
"But my lord, the candidates' papers have to be transcribed by name. How can you tell which one is the emblem scroll? "It's not hard." Wang Yuanzheng touched his beard: "A few days ago, I transferred Sun and Dan's answer sheets from Gaoping County and Jinan Mansion to read it. The format is also very rigorous, and it is easy to find his volume from it. When the time comes, when you encounter such an article, you don't have to think too much, just put it in second place. As for Sun Yue of the Sun family, his article is gorgeous and can be placed first. Pressed Sun lightly. ”
"Your Excellency is wise
Glancing at the hourglass, Wang Yuanzheng said, "The time has come, let's rewind!" ”
"Dang!" A crisp bell rang, and the dust settled on the trial of the Undergraduate Mountain Assembly.
At this time, Sun Dan had already finished copying the article. He breathed a sigh of relief and sat calmly behind the table.