It was already late for Li Yanqing to return to the inn, the inn was still brightly lit, and the shopkeeper was busy preparing food for the candidates with a few guys. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Generally, this kind of business is taken over by the inn, and the candidate pays 500 yuan, and the inn will prepare the food for the second and third games for the candidate, as well as the necessary money, which has been the case for decades and has become a common practice.

In addition to food, each candidate also needs to bring thick clothes, after all, it is now early November, Anyang has entered winter, the night is very cold, the inn provides blanket rental service, candidates pay 20 yuan per night, you can rent a soft and thick wool blanket, the necessary thing for the imperial examination.

Li Yanqing did not go back to his room, but first went to the room of Zhang Xian and the others in the backyard, as soon as he entered the door, Zhang Xian sighed, pointed to the bed, Qin Liang had already slept, the two walked to the courtyard, Zhang Xian sighed and said: "Qin Liang has decided to give up this imperial examination and is ready to study in the state." ”

Li Yanqing is not surprised, only half of the questions in the first exam, no matter how well he does in the future, it is impossible to pass the exam, if the next few exams have any significance to him, it is just to add a little experience in the imperial examination, but ..... He was in that position, and it was a wise decision to give it up sooner.

"How did you do today?" Li Yanqing changed the topic and asked.

"I'm ..... today How so? It's a pity, I've been doing a good job in front, and when I'm halfway through the last question, the candle is gone, I can't read the test paper clearly, and I almost finished the question with the help of a little bit of the afterglow of the lantern at the door, and the calligraphy of the last few lines is terrible. ”

Zhang Xian had a bitter look on his face, he was inexperienced, and as soon as he entered the number room, he lit the candle, which resulted in not enough candles in the end.

Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "You are not the only one this time, many people have such a problem, the examiner should deal with it at his discretion, don't think about it now, go to bed early, go all out to prepare for tomorrow's exam, tomorrow and the next two days will be the main event." ”

Zhang Xian nodded silently, he had finished today's exam after all, which made him still have a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"In addition, I would like to kindly remind you that only fifteen people will be admitted to the imperial examination this time, and candidates who must have performed extremely well in all aspects can hope to be shortlisted, of course, I am not talking about you, I just want to say that once the cheating is caught, I am afraid that even the door to the state school will be closed, which is more important, I think everyone should be called."

After speaking, Li Yanqing patted Zhang Xian's shoulder, turned around and walked quickly.

Zhang Xian's face was as red as a persimmon, and after a while, he walked to the table, took out a dozen small notes about criminal law from a book, threw them in the brazier and burned them, he was not stupid, but sometimes he was confused, as long as someone reminded him, he would wake up.

.........

The next day, before dawn, there was no need for a guy to lead, so the candidates set off by themselves, each carrying two large packages, one for food and one for clothes and bedding, but because there were too many things, the on-site inspection was too time-consuming, and I was afraid that the inspection would not be completed by noon.

Therefore, according to the custom, the soldier will place the package in the designated place, and the package will be sewn with everyone's test number, and after the inspection, the soldier will send the package directly to the number room.

The parcel is strictly guarded by soldiers, and as long as the parcel is handed over to the soldier, he can leave directly, and an examiner repeats the warning loudly like a repeater: "It is forbidden to put any prohibited items in the package, and once it is found, it will be punished as cheating!" ”

Li Yanqing handed over his package, and at this time, someone behind him suddenly shouted: "Brother Li won't wait for me?" ”

Li Yanqing turned around, and saw Zheng Fatzi walking quickly with enthusiasm, but there were no items on his body, and then looked at his back, three strong men carried three large packages on their backs, and followed him with difficulty.

The corners of Li Yanqing's mouth twitched, is this to participate in the imperial examination, and he is still going on vacation?

"No way, I want to bring less, but my mother was afraid that I would be hungry, so she brought me two big bags of food and a bag of clothes and bedding, but unfortunately the exam room is not allowed to communicate, otherwise we can eat together."

Zheng Fatzi's words Li Yanqing believes that anyway, this person has the help of the examiner to help him inside and outside, and he doesn't have to work so hard to find the answer by himself, especially through the practice of a meal last night, Li Yanqing knows how much he eats, and if there is not enough food for three days and two nights, he can't support his hippopotamus-like body at all.

"Huh! I've just arrived, too. ”

"Let's go in together!"

Zheng Rongtai waved his hand, and the three strong men handed the big bag to the soldiers, each of them showed a relieved expression, and several soldiers had a bitter face and struggled to move his package in.

The process was the same as yesterday, because there was no need to check the package, but it was much faster, and after a quarter of an hour, they were sitting in their respective rooms.

At this time, the night is still deep, but no scholar dares to light candles anymore, yesterday's lesson is very profound, instead of cursing the examination room for being impersonal, it is better to restrain yourself a little and endure the darkness a little.

In fact, there is no need to be nervous about the second candle, because it will take two nights, and there are five candles in the basket.

The examination room was silent, the cold wind passed through the alley, making a terrifying whistling sound, and the scholars shivered with cold, eager to see their packages delivered soon.

The day is just bright, there is a crisp cloud board sound in the school building, the exam time is up, the examiner began to distribute the answer sheet and test questions to the scholars, there is no question list today, because the amount of questions is too large, can only be used to print the test paper to distribute the answer sheet, the test paper has two large sheets of paper, and each person has ten formal answer sheets and ten pieces of straw paper.

Today's examination of the new meaning of the Three Classics is the highlight of the imperial examination, Li Yanqing glanced at the test questions, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and was sure to be guessed by the master, it is not the kind of comprehension test method in the south, or the continuation of the traditional Ming scripture questions in the north, that is, it is mainly based on sticking to the scriptures and reciting silence.

The education methods in the north and south of the Great Song Dynasty are different, the north attaches importance to scripture recitation, and the south attaches importance to scripture comprehension, so there has always been a saying that the southern scholars are admitted to the Shike, and the northern scholars are admitted to the Ming Jingke.

Although today do not test the southern kind of comprehension question type, but it is not easy to get out of the test, mainly because the amount of questions is too large, "Three Classics and New Meanings" has a total of forty-nine volumes, and the number of interpretations is no less than the text, not to mention that the Ming Jing question itself is the strength of the northern scholars, if you want to stand out among many excellent scholars, you must have a good word, and you must have excellent calligraphy.

Not only Li Yanqing, but almost all the scholars breathed a sigh of relief, yesterday's "Analects" and "Mencius" exams made everyone anxious, and today finally appeared in the question type they were familiar with, and everyone felt that they had hope again.

'When! The second cloud board struck, the exam officially began, and the scholars began to write rustling.

Li Yanqing is not in a hurry to start writing, he wants to assign a topic and make reasonable overall planning.

There are a total of 30 questions, the test is three days and two nights, in fact, it is the test three days, an average of ten questions a day, if you do not write a draft, directly answer the questions on the formal answer sheet, that time is very abundant, but once the draft is written, there is only half a day left to answer the question, although the difficulty of the Ming scripture question is not large, but it is known for its large amount, writing a draft is equivalent to doing it twice.

But if you want to get a high score, you must write a draft, in order to ensure that the volume is not changed word for word, and the beauty of the volume, Li Yanqing hesitated for a long time, or decided to write a draft, although the time is a little tight, but he writes quickly, can fight back a little time.

Li Yanqing looked at the first question, and there was only one sentence, "The position of the Great Situ is in charge of the map of the land of the state and the number of its people, and the king is the one who disturbs the state", and the title requires that the rest of this volume be written silently with this sentence as the beginning.

Li Yanqing had already memorized it backwards, and he immediately recognized that this was the first official in the sixth volume of "Zhou Guan Xinyi", and he wrote the rest of the text silently as required, about 5,000 words.

Li Yanqing couldn't help but gasp, if it takes at least an hour and a half to write the whole article, and if each question is such a quantity, then even if you don't write a draft, you won't have time to finish it.

He hurriedly put down his pen again and carefully read all the questions, fortunately, there are only three questions like this, and the other questions are not large, there are more than a dozen questions or even more than 100 words of interpretation.

At this time, he suddenly remembered an important matter, that is, the font arrangement, there are only ten main papers in total, and only one side is allowed to be written, so how big font does he need to write to ensure that the test paper is enough, this is an extremely important detail problem, if it is not arranged, the font in front is large, and the back is found that the paper is not enough, and then forced to write sesame characters, and even no test paper answers, which will seriously affect the score.

Li Yanqing simply put down the pen and began to calculate the number of words in a comprehensive manner, it took him nearly an hour to calculate that a total of more than 23,000 words should be written in 30 questions, and more than 2,300 words should be written in a main volume.

When he finished planning all 30 questions, an hour had passed for the exam, and he still hadn't written a word.

At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly found that someone was looking at him, and when he looked up, he saw a long-bearded inspection invigilator standing at the door looking at him with his hands in his hands, with a look of doubt in his eyes, meaning to ask himself why he didn't use his pen yet? And the other candidates have already written a lot.

Li Yanqing pushed the straw paper forward slightly, it was full of statistics, and the middle-aged official picked up the draft paper, only to see that it was written, 'The first question is more than 5,700 words, two pages of paper, the second question is more than 1,200 words, one page of paper, and the third question is .......'

Only then did the invigilator understand that the young candidate in front of him was coordinating the test papers, which was called sharpening the knife and cutting wood, this is the smart candidate, he nodded approvingly, put down the straw paper and left.

Li Yanqing took a piece of straw paper and began to write:

The office of the Great Situ is in charge of the map of the land of the state and the number of its people, so that the king can disturb the state.

The plan of the land can be applied to the land of the kingdom, the territory of the state can be sought, the number of the people can be controlled, the land can be guarded, the tribute can be made, the army of all the people can be prevented, the number of rooms can be prevented, and the husband can be used to disturb the state of the king.....

.........

When Li Yanqing wrote more than 1,000 words, he gradually found his senses, simply put aside the straw paper, and wrote directly on the main paper, engrossed, the pen was like flying, and lines of small characters appeared on the test paper like flowing water.