The state test of the Great Zhou Dynasty is different from the government test in many ways.

There are three state examinations, which are set up on the fifth, seventh and ninth days of junior high school.

This alone is quite different from the general locking of the cattle shed for more than two days during the government examination.

The examination room for the state examination is sometimes located in Tang Yu Academy, and then in the east of the city, Long College, and this year, it is located in Long College.

On the fifth day of the ninth lunar month, it began to rain in the early morning, and when it approached the end of the day, the rain did not weaken at all, but showed signs of getting heavier and heavier. Although it was still dark, the restaurants and shops outside Long Academy were all open, doing the business of these talents.

In one of the restaurants, Ning Jiang, Bai Zijin, and Ning Xiaomeng were talking here.

Ning Jiang asked Bai Zijin, "Brother Zijin, how are you doing today?" ”

Bai Zijin arched his hand and said: "In the past few days, according to the method of sitting meditation and breathing taught by Brother Ning Jiang, I have cultivated qi and regulated pranayama, and at this moment, I only feel that my spirit is extremely good, and it must be no problem." ”

Ning Jiang nodded.

Outside the examination room, the groomier dressed in a robe struck the gong and the gong of the third quarter, and the talents held umbrellas one after another, pouring out from the shelter from the rain, and lined up in two lines in front of the courtyard gate. At this time, it has entered autumn, and the rain showers for several days in a row have filled the sky and the earth with coldness.

Ning Xiaomeng stood in the window on the second floor of the restaurant, looking at his brother who entered the crowd, the line was very long, and the rows of oil umbrellas, like two long snakes, were coiled in the square. Different from the prefectural examination, the state examination is divided into three intervals, each of which can be taken until dusk at the latest, and the paper can be handed in at noon at the earliest.

So, she was ready to wait for her brother here.

In the team below, Ning Jiang turned his head to look and saw that Gan Lie, Lu Zhiyuan, Yu Chengyi, Yu Xinghe, Bao Kaiyi and others were all in the queue, Lu Zhiyuan was expressionless, and Gan Lie looked quite irritable. The student named Shu Guangliang, who was also born in Linjiang County, was unable to participate in the scientific examination because of the natural disaster that destroyed the entire town in Yuehu, and his parents died.

Baizi Jin stood beside him, puffing out his chest and looking quite confident.

The husband struck the gong four times, and the sound of clang, The courtyard door opened, and the official authority poured out like a tide. Two boys and two virgins, wearing raincoats and carrying a lantern to protect themselves from the rain, walked out of the courtyard, and one of the little girls kept sneezing.

The four children were divided into two sides, each leading a pair into the examination room, and one by one someone inside the door checked their papers and belongings, and then, as customary, bowed in front of the statue of Confucius.

In the examination room, the Tongzhou Taishou, the Hanlin sent by the imperial court, and the examination supervisor sat behind the case.

The talents stepped forward, and in front of the three adults, they received their respective brands one by one and were taken into their respective examination booths.

The examination booths are also locked, but each one is much more spacious and clean than during the government examination, and the stove has already been lit for the candidates. After all, Xiucai is different from Tongsheng, each of them is famous, which can be regarded as a kind of preferential treatment.

Ning Jiang didn't rush to see the rolls, but warmed his hands by the fire first.

The stove is not big, and the charcoal burning in it can only barely warm up the body.

After letting his hands warm up a little, he ran around the square table twice, and then sat on the ground, picked up the cloth bag hanging on the side of the table, poured out the rice paper rolled into a cylinder inside, untied the red rope, and slowly opened it.

In the paper scroll, there are a total of five questions, of course, because this test is about scriptures, so all five questions are related to the four books and five classics. He looked at the first question first, and saw that it was written in small block letters, "Ji Liang admonished Chu Shi", and asked for an explanation of this.

Ning Jiang nodded, this is a famous article in "Zuo Chuan", this kind of scripture, as long as people who have really worked hard, can answer it perfectly, and they will be brushed down by this question, then it is really a daily effort.

He continued to look down, but something suddenly came to mind in his mind, and after being stunned for a moment, his eyes went up again, looking at the six words "Ji Liang admonishes to chase Chu Shi".

He stared at it for a while, then let out a long sigh, put down the scroll, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes.

Jin Lu slowly left his body and floated out.

It has been almost a year since he was reborn, and at this moment, Jin Luo is already more tenacious, and he is only half a step away from the next step of "Fire Soul". He let his golden spirit pass through the wall, passed by a few examination sheds, and then, he saw Bai Zijin.

Along the way, although he passed by several Xiucai, naturally no one could find him.

He looked condescendingly, and saw that Bai Zijin was opening the test paper at this moment, looking at the words "Ji Liang admonishing Chu Shi" in a daze, with cold sweat on his forehead and tears in his eyes. Suddenly, Bai Zijin spurted out a mouthful of blood, blood sprayed on the roll, he put down the roll in despair, climbed to the door, and dragged the small bell by the door.

Bai Zijin stood up, bent over the wooden railing, and whispered.

The examination supervisor was silent for a while, whispered a few words, and Bai Zijin turned around and took the question paper and held it in front of the examination supervisor. The examination supervisor took the question paper, looked at the questions, and then looked at Bai Zijin's disc, was silent for a while, took them outside, and discussed with Taishou and Hanlin, who were the examiners in this field, and after a while, he came back and said something to Bai Zijin.

An hour later, the officials came and opened the examination booth......

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Outside, the sky is already starting to lighten.

The showers showed no signs of stopping, the sky was gray, and the Xiechuan River was wrapped in yellow mud through the copper city, rolling down, and the whole provincial city was quiet.

Ning Xiaomeng stood by the window of the restaurant, looking at the heavy rain outside, the door of Long Academy opened a crack at this time, and a person was pushed out and fell into the rain.

The gate of the examination room, which was supposed to be opened until noon, was passed by the hour, and someone came out of it, which provoked everyone to look over, only to see that the one who was pushed out was a young man in a green shirt, and the young man stumbled a few steps in the rain, raised his head, and shouted weakly to the sky.

Ning Xiaomeng was stunned for a moment, picked up the oil umbrella, ran downstairs, opened the umbrella and rushed into the rain, rushed to the young man's side, and covered him: "Baigongzi? ”

Bai Zijin, who entered the examination room with her brother, obviously came out before noon, which surprised her.

Bai Zijin arched his hand to her bitterly, didn't say anything, and went away in despair.

Ning Xiaomeng was stunned for a moment, but finally he was not worried about him, so he chased after him and held an umbrella for him.

Guanglu Doctor's Mansion, Guanglu Doctor Zheng An, was talking with the Huangfu clan in the mansion, and it didn't take long for the housekeeper to report: "My lord, Baigongzi is back." ”

Zheng An was stunned: "It's not yet noon at this moment, how can he come out of the examination room?" ”

Huangfu said: "Master, I think he doesn't often do it at all." Master, you think, our Xiang'er is a hyperbiosis anyway, and he still feels that he has little hope, and he has to prepare for another three years, and he is only an epiphytic, I'm afraid that he is already timid before he enters the field, right? ”

Zheng An shook his head and said, "Alas, I still have such a glimmer of hope for him. ”

Huangfu said: "That's the master, you have a good heart, take in his ancestors and grandchildren for half a year, for them to eat and live, it can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness, he himself is not angry, no wonder you, master." ”

Zheng An smiled: "That's what I said." ”

Bai Zijin came to the back garden and entered the old house, and Old Madam Feng sat up on the wooden bed with difficulty: "Jin'er, why did you come back?" ”

Baizi Jin bowed down suddenly: "Grandson is sorry for grandma, grandson disappointed grandma." He fell to the ground and wept bitterly.

Ning Xiaomeng chased after the door with an umbrella, looking at them in a daze.

Although she didn't know what was going on, looking at her helpless grandson at the moment, Old Madam Feng could only sigh: "That's it, that's it." ”

Bai Zijin wiped away his tears, held the four treasures of the study room at the table, wrote the divorce letter with a brush, threw the pen, and said in a low voice: "Grandma, let's go." He turned around and crouched down with his back to his grandmother.

Old Madam Feng didn't say anything, and lay on her grandson's back. Bai Zijin carried his grandmother on his back, held up an umbrella, walked outside, and walked into the rain step by step. Ning Xiaomeng, who didn't know what was going on until now, followed behind them blankly.

On the other side, in the gorgeous pavilion, the clouds and rain of Wushan Mountain, after lingering, Lu Xifu's naked body was on the windowsill, looking at the hundreds of ancestors and grandchildren who had left gloomily in the distance, and the girls who followed them, and said: "Didn't the surname Bai participate in the state test?" ”

Zheng Xiang hugged the newly married concubine from behind, also looked at the three people in the distance, and said with a low smile: "I'm afraid that I finally know that I just can't do enough to do it, and my legs are so scared in front of the examination room that I don't even dare to enter the door and shrink, don't worry about them." "Roll her over to the bed.

Lu Xifu giggled, in fact, although the Gaosuo Lu family is only a small county town, but after all, it is also a scholarly family, find a rich family in Linjiang County to marry, it is good to be a big woman, there is no need to be a concubine at all, but her brother inquired, Zheng An is about to enter Beijing to be a secretary of the ministry, if she joins the Zheng family, her brother's career can also follow in the future, on the other hand, if Lu Zhiyuan is named in the gold list in next year's spring, then she is not without a chance to turn into a main room.

So he put his delicate arms around Zheng Xiang and flattered him wholeheartedly.

The heavy rain became more and more majestic, and Bai Zijin carried his grandmother on his back and walked out of the gorgeous mansion in the shower and walked on the street.

Old Madam Feng said, "Grandson, tell me, what happened?" Grandma knows you, and you are not a child who will hold back on the spot. ”

Bai Zijin said in a low voice: "Grandma, the first question in today's exam is historical theory, and the title is 'Ji Liang admonishes Chu Shi'. ”

"Ji Liang admonished Chu Shi?" Old Madam Feng used to be the daughter of a well-informed family, and after thinking about it carefully, she already understood, "Alas...... It's all fate. ”

Ning Xiaomeng followed behind them, but he was confused when he heard it, and couldn't help asking, "Old lady, Bai Gongzi, what's wrong with this topic?" ”

"Little dream girl, you don't know," Old Madam Feng sighed, "The old deceased husband's surname is a hundred names Chu, and my son Boliang ......."

……

In the examination room, Ning Jiang opened the question paper, looked at the six words "Ji Liang admonished to chase Chu Shi" in the first line, and remembered his introduction to his family history when he first met Bai Zijin.

- "Brother Ning doesn't know, the younger brother was originally the queen of the gate, the ancestor of the family, Xun to the Great Zhou Guozhu, the father of the family Baiboliang, the Xun to the supreme light car captain!" ”

The names of Baizijin's deceased father and grandfather are all in these six words.

In this era of ritual and murder, if he dares to answer this paper, even if he wins the examination, he will soon be discovered, sued, stripped of his fame, and never want to participate in the imperial examination in the future.

Out of "avoidance", he will withdraw from this state test anyway.

This is the Confucian filial piety, the monarch, the minister, the father, the son, no one can violate it.

Although he sighed for Bai Zijin, at this moment, he couldn't help Bai Zijin, so he could only calm down first and answer the questions seriously.

When Ning Jiang left the examination room, it was early in the afternoon.

By this time the rain had stopped, and the ground was wet, but the sky was bright.

The moment he came out, he saw his sister waving to him in the distance.

Ning Jiang went to meet his sister, and learned from her that Bai Zijin and his grandmother had left the Zheng Mansion.

"Brother," Xiao Meng asked while walking on the road with his brother, "Why can't he take the exam because of the names of Baigongzi's father and grandfather in the question?" What is the rationale for this? ”

Ning Jiang shook his head, this kind of thing is also difficult to explain to his sister clearly.

In fact, this kind of thing is not only in this world, but also in the ancient times of another world, and it has also happened many times. What's more, such as the Tang Dynasty "poet ghost" Li He, when he was young, he was already famous, at the age of eighteen he should have participated in the imperial examination, he was bereaved of his father, and he was kept in the system for three years, and later when he participated in the imperial examination again, there were jealous people who attacked him, saying that his father's name was "Li Jinsu", and the word "Jin" of Jinsu was homophonic with the word "Jin" of Jinshi, and he committed a crime.

Although there is no such exaggeration now, but Bai Zijin's father and grandfather, names and exam questions are one after another, if you don't leave, after the list is released, I don't know how many people will hold up the sage book to talk about things, and at that time, even if he understands the yuan, he will be immediately beaten down, and it will become a stain in his life, and he can't even keep the reputation of Xiucai.

"Ji Liang's Pursuit of Chu Shi", as a famous article in the left biography, its main theme was originally "the people are the gods, the people first and then the gods", but because of the "taboo" that the gods chattered, he laid down a promising student, and I don't know if it is a kind of irony......

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