Chapter 90: The Government Examination (3)
Yan Heng is now forced to be forced by Dou Ding's killing.
Seeing so many candidates deliberately fanning the flames under Dou Ding's intention, they aggressively wanted to compete with themselves in a literary competition.
Even later generations of famous ministers like Gui Cao were instigated to lose their minds and want to share their superiority with themselves.
It is normal for teenagers to be aggressive and love to win or lose.
Yan Heng also knew that he couldn't be humble and evasive.
Because the more modest he was, the more Dou Ding added fuel and vinegar to the emotions of the candidates in other counties, desperately trying to roast himself on the fire.
Therefore, Yan Heng had to let Xiao Yan Song read out Tang Bohu's poem.
Although this "Peach Blossom Anthem" is not very refined, it is also better than the artistic conception.
Let these young students who have only read four books and a few articles listen to it, and they will naturally be able to reminisce for a long time.
Naturally, Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song were also able to get out.
Gui Cao and other young students have not been arrogant enough to compete with Yan Heng so far, although they still don't think that Yan Heng can really overpower them in the article, but they also begin to admit that Yan Heng is not a person who is indiscriminate.
Even, many young students are willing to take the initiative to make friends with Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song.
Especially some young students who like poetry and writing, among them are Gui Cao.
They now have to admit that Yan Heng's attainments in poetry have far surpassed them through "Song of the Peach Blossom Temple".
However, he couldn't stand Dou Ding, so he deliberately took advantage of this to continue to praise Yan Heng.
Even, directly boasted to some young students:
"You can see it, even if the talent of Brother Yan in our Fenyi County is not high, but it is far above you, do you still not believe that the head of this government examination is not what my brother Yan Heng must get?"
"What is proud, it's just that I can write a few good poems, and it's not necessarily whether the article is good or not."
"That's it, there are more people who have written poems well in recent years, and there is no shortage of you Yan Heng, the head of the case, and it is said that Xiong Zhixian, the parent official of your county, has offended the government, in my opinion, not to mention that it is even more difficult to seize the head of the government trial case."
Many young students are still arguing with Dou Ding unconvinced.
Dou Ding pretended to be angry and argued with Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song.
But in his heart, he was still happy, he naturally knew that in this government test, Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song would definitely fall to Sun Mountain, but just because Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song would fall to Sun Mountain, he deliberately made a big fuss:
"What do you know, whether you believe it or not, I, Dou, dare to conclude that Brother Yan Heng must be the head of this government test, and Brother Xiao Yan Song is still the second in the government test!"
All the young students were naturally unconvinced, and they all squinted at Dou Ding.
Influenced by Dou Ding, these young students saw Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song also squinting, with contempt and disdain written on their faces.
Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song didn't bother to pay attention to them, he had been living with Xiao Yan Song for the past few days, except for participating in the next few games of the government exam, most of his time was spent on how to let Xiao Yan Song take the exam and how to let Wenqu Study continue to make a fortune through the house test.
And these days, the prefect Wang Tong has not slept well, he has been taking advantage of his privileges as a prefect, looking for an article with the sentence "I am five out of ten and am determined to learn" in the answer sheet.
Prefect Wang Tong was very worried that the two brothers Yan Heng would directly ignore their own questions and directly use the sentence he told him as the title, so that even if he dared to take Yan Heng and the two brothers, he would be afraid that the great master would find out that he was cheating for personal gain.
But now, the prefect Wang Tong did not find that there was no answer sheet with the title of "I am five out of ten and am determined to learn", which made him very relieved, and secretly sighed that this Yan Heng is worthy of being a person who can calculate himself and his teacher, and he is really a smart person who has grown up in a young age.
However, the prefect Wang Tong did not intend to let Yan Heng, who was now worried about his life, be too proud.
He found four or five articles that contained the sentence "I am five out of ten and am determined to learn" or similar sentences, and decided to put them on the admission list and admit them all when the time comes.
However, the prefect Wang Tong still chose two current texts as the first and second place in this government examination.
And these two articles are Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song.
The prefect Wang Tong also guessed that these two articles were written by Yan Heng and his younger brother Yan Song, otherwise it would not have been so coincidental that there were the original sentences in the "Analects" - I am five out of ten and am determined to learn.
But the prefect Wang Tong took it for granted that the one with better handwriting should be written by Yan Heng, after all, Yan Heng is much older than Xiao Yan Song, and the handwriting is naturally better.
In order not to let Yan Heng be too wishy-washy, the prefect Wang Tong decided to choose the one with almost poor handwriting as the head of the government test, and in his opinion, although there is less background between the lines, at least the level of the article is very high.
The article with a better font, that is, the one that was considered by the prefect Wang Tong to be made by Yan Heng, was sentenced to the second place by the prefect Wang Tong.
The prefect Wang Tong didn't know, but because of his erroneous move, Yan Heng once again had the opportunity to win the honor of being the head of the government test.
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This day is the day when the government test list is released.
The Confucian children in all the counties of the entire Yuanzhou Mansion had already surrounded the government office, and they all raised their necks and watched the people of the prefect's yamen put the list.
"Brother, do you think I will fall off the list", Xiao Yan Song was affected by the depressing atmosphere of the scene, and the whole person began to feel a little unconfident.
"How can the two of them fall off the list, the talents of the two world brothers, the younger brother has admired them for a long time, this time I am afraid that they are either the top of the case or the top ten!"
At this time, Dou Ding suddenly appeared behind Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song again for some reason.
And after Dou Ding said it, some of the people he brought behind him also coaxed:
"That's right, Brother Dou is right, with the talents of the two brothers, not to mention that the head of the government test case is Xiao Sanyuan, it can't be done, so now that Zhang Yan, a fellow villager, has specially met Brother Yan here, and I hope Brother Yan will mention it more."
The young students in other counties were naturally very upset when they heard this, some of them directly made insulting remarks and wanted to argue, and some of them secretly prepared to wait until they had time to go out and have a good time to play for a while.
At this time, the list has been reported one after another.
But what the prefect Wang Tong would not have thought of was that the head of the government test case he personally selected was really Yan Heng, on the contrary, Xiao Yan Song lost the opportunity to become the head of the government test because his font was too correct.
But now that the list has been written, the prefect Wang Tong can no longer change it, and he can only accept the fact that Yan Heng has become the head of his own government test.
The admission rankings announced in the government examination are announced from the rankings in the back to the rankings in the front, so when Dou Ding saw that the names of Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song were not on the first list, he was naturally happy in his heart, but on the surface, he still continued to tout the two brothers Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song.
He Dou Ding is now waiting for the moment when Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song's Mansion try to fall first.