Zhang Fei's statue is located in the middle of the Gongyuan at the shrine, and when people enter the examination room, they do not immediately enter the number room, but first give incense to the Huan Marquis. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info the whole country is in a superstitious environment, and the examination room is no exception. As Zhang Shilu and others stepped forward, they saw a red flag in front of Zhang Fei, as well as the eight big characters of "revenge and revenge, revenge and revenge".

Lit the incense, the person knelt on the ground, but what Fan Jin thought about was the shelf flower holding the steel whip high on the stage, and there was a silent flow of water in his heart: his third brother Yide was majestic, and the snake spear was used to taking the throat, whipping the governor and fighting the bull, and fighting Wenhou in front of the tiger prison......

On both sides of the statue, there is a couplet, "Column the east and west, two literary and light salvos; The curtain is divided inside and outside, and there is no ventilation at all. ”

After worshipping the gods, they parted ways and went to the number room with the army. The room is four feet deep, three feet wide, and six feet high, each room is surrounded by walls on three sides, and there is a drawer board that can be used as a few cases, and when you are sleepy, you can also sleep in the room, but the room is too small, neither stand straight nor stretch out your legs, and people can only curl up into a shrimp in it.

After the house is the alley, and if you want to make a fire and cook, you can do it in the alley. The township test in the Ming Dynasty was better than that in the Qing Dynasty, not three consecutive exams, even if you don't cook, it doesn't matter if you eat some dry food. As for the environment of the room, it is almost dark and damp, which is more limited than the prison cell, and in a coastal city like Guangzhou, coupled with the rooms that no one maintains all year round, the wood is rotten and overgrown with weeds, and the suffering of mosquitoes can be imagined. And people are curled up in it, and they are not free everywhere, which is worse than the usual decency of scholars.

Walking all the way over, looking at the rooms, the first thing Fan Jin thought of in his heart was Hou Shouyong. This is probably what the teacher said, so that scholars should learn to obey the rules? If you can't endure the cramped room, how will you endure the endless restrictions of officialdom in the future.

The number room is named according to the thousand-character text, Fan Jin's own number room is Tian No. 4, this room is nearly half larger than the ordinary number room, even a rare big man like him in Cantonese can stretch his legs. The room was specially cleaned up, with hay in it, and mugwort and incense burned, as soon as the door was opened, you could smell the aroma, and there were naturally fewer mosquitoes. The back of the leading army is very familiar, but he can't remember who it is, until he entered the room, and he didn't recognize it until he entered the room, and after lighting the lamp and candle, he saluted Fan Jin, and this so-called army was actually Fu Liang, who he had befriended in Zhaoqing.

The Duanyan bird's nest that Fan Jin purchased in Zhaoqing was all helped by Fu Liang, and Fan Jin also gave him a lot of gold and silver, and the two of them were very friends. Yin Zhengmao was promoted to the Nanjing Military Department, and Fu Liang still belonged to the Guangzhou Military Guard because of his relationship, so he couldn't follow Hu. But before leaving, Yin Zhengmao also made arrangements for him, promoted his rank to the rank of third-rank commander, and the position was also awarded to the commander of the battalion and the general. What's more, seeing that he is still wearing an ordinary soldier's uniform, this is obviously unusual.

The latter gestured, leaned forward and lowered his voice: "Fan Gongzi, what's the use of just commanding?" The records of these subjects are buried under your room, so do you want to dig them out now? ”

"No need. General Fu, how do you ......?"

"The envoy sent by Brother Chen, I don't dare not come, let's talk about our own people, who will not help you. These people are all their own people, Fan Gongzi just rest assured, don't be nervous. Zhang Shilu and Chen Dashao's side have already been arranged, and the things they want have also been brought in, and everything is as usual. ”

"Thank you, I'll treat you to Yipinxiang when you pass the exam."

"It's nothing, Fan Gongzi has helped us enough, and this reward should be done."

At this time, a candidate with a neighboring number had already shouted, "Incense! Why is there incense in that room, why is there no mine? Before he could finish speaking, the sound of someone kicking the plank was heard.

"That's the incense that people bring from home, aren't they allowed to light it? If you want to do it, bring it yourself from home, and you have nothing to see what other people are, what kind of gentleman is it! Don't shout and shout that you'll be sent to the prison and that you're messing with the exam room! ”

Fu Liang smiled, "What's the matter, do you dare to compare with Fan Gongzi?" This number was ordered by the Lord of the Army, and it is the best in the Gongyuan. The trumpet, the rain number, and the number must not be used by their own people, Fan Gongzi, you see, there is also a brocade woven table circumference, which is prepared for the examiner, and the small ones are taken out, and you can use them. ”

The rain is the house in disrepair in the Gongyuan, the roof of the shed is broken and leaking rain and leakage, it is rainy in Guangzhou at this time, once the rain is trickling down and the ink roll is wet, there is no way to continue to take the exam. Trumpet is the non-compliant system of room repair, limited by the terrain and overall layout, part of the room does not meet the conventional requirements, wide seats, the eaves are aligned with the eyebrows, if the slightly taller people can not stretch in it, can not write according to the normal posture, the text and ink will inevitably be greatly affected. As for the, it is close to the toilet, the taste is reversed in autumn, the smell of feces is tangy, and it is a good thing that people are not smoked and faint, let alone write articles.

After a long time, the candidates in the Gongyuan have a superstitious saying, thinking that these three kinds of rooms are actually cursed by ghosts and gods, and being assigned to such a room means that they will definitely fall off the list. Once assigned to that kind of place, most candidates' performance will be affected.

Fan Jin's room not only does not have the above problems, but the lighting is also the best in the Gongyuan. Fu Liang whispered: "The brothers are optimistic about Fan Gongzi's Xie Yuan, isn't that Lin Mengchu's Chaozhou guy powerful, I put a fox in his room...... It would be fun if he screamed. ”

"Is there a fox? In case something happens, it's terrible, the Lin family has been the champion, and it is not a good character to bully. ”

"So what? Can anyone prove that I put the fox in? The big deal is that it's a poor cleanup, and I beat a few people with a baton, and I won't be hit by the board anyway. Everyone should help each other with their own people. Our Guangdong scholars are not worth much in Beijing, if there is a title of Xie Yuan, it will be much more convenient to take the exam again, so we must be convenient. There is still some time before the hair curls, although Fan Gongzi rests, he is mentally good for the exam. ”

Now is not the time to chat, Fan Jin only nodded, then lay down to rest, Fu Liang took care of the lamp and candle, bowed and withdrew. Fan Jin didn't think that a fox could really put down a Chaozhou genius and make himself Xie Yuan. But the fox puts his room not his own room, this is man.

Because of a whip law, he has many enemies in Guangzhou, but in the past two years, he has also had many friends. Some people want to ruin their own fame, and some people want to gain fame, who can say clearly whether they win or lose in this fight? In the confusion, a shout sounded in my ears: "There is revenge, there is revenge"!

This is also part of the rules of the Gongyuan, which is half prayer and half compromise, hoping to persuade the ghost to only seek the enemy's life and not implicate the innocent. Out of fear of the supernatural realm, although they made a dojo and invited Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to watch the field, no one could guarantee that these two Han Dynasty generals would definitely be able to play a role in keeping the ghosts out.

The unfamiliar environment, the eerie and terrifying examination room, coupled with this soul-like shout, are self-evident for people's nervous torture. Most candidates are destined to have no sleep tonight, and their spirits will not be good tomorrow morning. But for Fan Jin, who could sleep peacefully after passing through the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and even listening to the ghost crying wolf, this kind of small scene was not enough to shake his nerves. Compared to the battlefield, this kind of environment is not even pediatric.

I don't know how long it took, but Fan Jin only heard a few terrible screams that woke him up from his dream. As soon as he rubbed his eyes and sat up, he heard a man yelling outside the room, "Don't blame me, Xiaocui! It's my mother, it's my mother who won't let me marry you! Don't look for me...... Leave me alone! ”

The shouts and the stumbling footsteps faded away.

Fu Liang walked in and smiled awkwardly, "Crazy." There's no way, every time someone goes crazy in the township test, we can't be like a madman, disturb Fan Gongzi's good dreams, don't be surprised. ”

"It's nothing, who can stop people from going crazy. It's time to wake up and prepare for the exam. Fan Jin simply didn't sleep, sat up and took lotus paste cakes from the dry food bag to eat, and Fu Liang brought in a wet towel to wipe his face and refresh him. Looking around, he smiled and said: "There is already a lot of pressure on people to enter the science field, and it is normal to go crazy with this kind of arrangement, and this tribute courtyard will have to be changed sooner or later." ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of the dragons on the toned body. She seems to have said that she wants to do it in the Tribute Courtyard once, and with her personality, this environment will only feel exciting, not afraid. It is indeed time to consider the implementability of this proposal......

Fu Liang sat down opposite, "This person is waste, let a dead person be frightened!" If you let them go to Luoshan for a walk, and don't let them go into battle to tear them up, just listen to the local people shouting, and don't you scare them into peeing their pants? Useless. ”

"Hey, I'm also a scholar. Don't just hit people randomly. ”

"Fan Gongzi is different from them, a scholar like you is more ruthless than me when you kill people, how can you compare to those wastes."

Fan Jin shook his head and said: "It's a pity that the science field is more than writing, not killing." Yin Zhijun said that if you are used to holding a knife in your hand, it will become difficult to hold a pen. Fortunately, I have been holding a pen more than a knife for more than a year, and I don't think it's a problem. You've seen the means of killing, now let's see how I use the pen. ”

There were five rings in the distance, and the sky finally dawned. As the three trumpets sounded, the soldiers held the question sheets and handed them out, and the exam finally began.

As a rehearsal for the future examination, the form and requirements of the township examination are extremely strict, and there is no comparison with the grass stage team of the junior third level of the examination of Xiucai. The question sheet was temporarily printed in the examination room, and 23 questions were densely written on it, including 3 questions that must be done in 4 books, and 20 questions that were selected to be made in the Pentateuch.

Although the scholars of the Ming Dynasty claimed to read the Four Books and the Five Classics, in fact, due to personal energy, few people could read through the Five Classics, and could only choose one of them as the scripture. During the exam, you only need to do your own scripture questions to complete it. The first of the three township exams has seven questions, which are composed of three questions, four book questions, and four scripture questions.

Seven articles are the basic requirements, and if you do less, you will definitely fall off the list. The requirements for the article are also extremely strict, you need to avoid the emperor's name, temple number and the name of the prince, and you can't appear in the article with your name and resume, and the same word is not used at the beginning and end of the article.

In addition, the number of words in each article shall not be less than 300 words, and at the same time shall not be more than 600 words. The answer should be written on the draft first, and then transcribed to the question paper, according to the rules, the draft should also be compared with the ink manuscript when judging the paper, so as to avoid problems such as gunman writing on behalf of others.

The exam time is only one day, and two candles are given at night, and if the candles are not finished after they are used up, they must be forced to hand in the papers, and they cannot stay overnight. The number of words in the seven questions plus transcription is almost a requirement for candidates to change about 8,000 words a day. This number of words seems to be nothing more than a full-time level of street fighting, but the problem is that there is no computer input in the Ming Dynasty, all of which need to be written manually, and the handwriting cannot be bad. Although it is necessary to transcribe the papers, but in the final review, it is still necessary to check the handwriting with Zhu Mo, and the bad handwriting will lose points.

Each article has to think about how to break the topic, straighten out the structure, and then implement it on paper to write, the text follows the word order, and also takes into account the word count standard, the time of the day is really tight, and it is not an easy task.

The examination method taught by Ling Yunyi is also based on this objective environment, and people's brain power is limited, and it is not easy to conceive seven articles with different contents and beautiful words. People's energy must be concentrated at the beginning, so the first article is usually the best-looking, and the more you write later, the more scummy it becomes, so the practice of one, three, two is actually a trick for the imperial examination, and most of the people who are old in this way can't summarize it.

When the soldier who delivered the question paper left, Fu Liang pushed the door in and whispered to Fan Jin: "Fan Gongzi...... Actually, I have a way here, there are a few gunmen in the bookstore, as long as they make a sum of money, they can make the paper on their behalf. Those people are all learned, and it is not difficult to be promoted. ”

"The sea pen holder is back, you still dare to do this, don't you want to die?"

"Even if the emperor comes, everyone will have to eat. I can say, what about those examiners? A group of school officials, who eat cold pork on weekdays, all of them are counting on the poor exam to pay off their debts. Not to mention that the sea pen holder just doesn't let his nephew take the exam, even if he is sitting here now, someone still dares to do this, and people die for money. How, do it or not? ”

Fan Jin took two ingots of silver from Kaolan and came out, "Take it and give it to them, it can be regarded as thank you for thinking about me, the article is not necessary, I can still do this question myself, if I am really too busy, I will talk about it." ”

Fu Liang didn't take the money, only waved his hand and said: "This can't be helped, I didn't do anything to get money, isn't that breaking the rules of the rivers and lakes, and will I not mix it up in the future?" If you don't do things, you can't take money. Fan Gongzi, you do it yourself first, if you can't finish it, then find me, I'll talk to the gunman. ”

The others also felt that they would be annoying if they stayed any longer, so they quickly turned around and left. Fan Jin looked down at the question paper and officially prepared to write the question. The first three questions and four books are the same for everyone, and the first question is "Shen Zhi with the righteousness of filial piety".

This title is from Mencius? On King Liang Hui, the idiom of 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter comes from this. The content of this chapter expresses Mencius's idea of governing the country, that is, to eat well first, then to run education, and finally let everyone understand the truth. For the general public, the way of the saints is too far away from them, so it is necessary to educate them, but what to educate needs to be considered by the superiors. Using this question as an examination method is to test students' views on education and education methods.

Fan Jin groaned slightly, and wrote on the manuscript paper: "If you have something to teach, you must just state its righteousness......"

In the other room, Lin Mengchu used his pen like the wind, transcribing quickly on the paper, and from time to time he reached out and rubbed the ball of meat curled up under his feet. The wild fox was like a domestic animal, coquettish and cute at Lin Mengchu's feet, just begging for a little jerky to eat.

Looking at the fox, Lin Mengchu sneered: "The side door is left, you don't go to the hall of elegance, ignorant villain, this time let you see the means after the champion!" ”