On the sixth day of August, the list of examiners appointed by the state and local levels in Jiangnan West Road was officially announced with the entry of the examiners and the banquet on the curtain. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the internal and external curtain officials go to the banquet, the inner curtain officer enters the inner curtain of the back hall, the invigilator seals the door, and the inner and outer curtain officials do not interact with each other, and the inner curtain official cannot have anything to do with him except for reading the test papers.

In the words of later generations, it is the sixth day of the first month of August, the officials who issue the questions and the officials who mark the papers enter a closed environment, and they are ready to work independently of the questions and marks until the end of the township examination, and they cannot leave their posts without permission.

So before closing the questions and grading the papers, a humanized collective eating and drinking was carried out.

The chief and deputy examiners of the Jiangnan Xidao Township Examination are Fan Zhongyan, a bachelor of Hanlin appointed by the state, and Wang Gongchen, the provincial chief executive appointed by the local government.

This pair of cousins of the same subject who are not on the right path are destined to love and kill each other to complete the entire proposition and marking process.

There are three township exams, and all three need to enter the exam room one day in advance:

That is, enter the venue on the 8th, 10th, and 14th days of the first month, and appear on the day after the exam.

Compared with the one-time admission of the entrance examination, which can only appear for three consecutive days, the township examination is a battlefield where you can still go out to breathe.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, all the students got up early. The sun was half-bright but not brilliant, the sky was clear, and occasionally clouds drifted by.

There are no crows squeaking, no magpies chirping. In short, everything is unremarkable.

When Fang Zhongyong and Chai Lin arrived at the Tribute Courtyard, they were already full of people.

The students each carried dry food and pen and ink, and stood in piles in the spacious compound of the Gongyuan.

In the courtyard, the grasses and flowers that grow in a limited range are decorated with vigorous vitality. Spread the green and stacked brocade, graceful and colorful, the ginkgo biloba and sycamore of Jiangnan and West Road in the golden autumn are all with a kind of beauty, elegance and elegance in the wind.

The Linfeng chrysanthemum, which is like a fairy in red, is raised twice smaller, and the leaf stems curl upwards from the ground; The rare orchid grass, like the chrysanthemum with golden earrings, the small and delicate Changbai gentian, the pine hair cui, etc., are all of the same color with a short body, with perseverance and tenacious vitality, to pay warm attention to the candidates.

These one-year-old and one-year-old flowers and plants have witnessed the "martyrs" and "saints" in the imperial examination every year, stepping on the single-plank bridge here one after another.

When the gong sounded, the invigilator in the examination room shouted "silence", and began to sing the "examination rules", quoting scriptures, shaking his head, and singing for an hour.

Then the candidates collectively swore an oath that there would be no cheating, and once discovered, they would not seek fame in this life. The whole process is another half an hour's work.

Then, according to the roll call, a simple body wash, bath and change clothes are carried out in turn. This is a kind of elegant search clothes, and even has the effect of no mark entrainment on the body, but adhering to the respect for the reader, so making this arrangement kills two birds with one stone.

Finally, I signed in one by one, carried my own small bamboo basket to eat, locked in my own "No. room", and officially entered the examination state.

After this process, most of the day passed by Hulala, which is why candidates are required to enter the Gongyuan one day in advance.

Fang Zhongyong entered his room No. 6 with the word "Kun", raised his eyes and looked around, and couldn't help but sigh:

This small black house is really very narrow, with only two wooden planks up and down, which is N times more minimalist than the bed and table structure in the minimalist style decoration of the Nordic IKEA in later generations.

The wooden board on the top is a table used to answer the questionnaire, and the chair on the bottom is a bed.

There was also a quilt, a charcoal fire, an oil lamp, a jar of water, a teapot, and a bucket - charcoal for heating, or boiling water.

After tossing for a long time, Fang Zhongyong was also hungry, so he took out the instant noodles he had made from his bamboo basket, dried vegetables and dried bacon, boiled water first, and then soaked noodles, and ate a bowl of hot food, and felt comfortable.

Only then did he take out the pen and ink from the bookcase. Open the test papers and rice paper on the table. Let's start looking at the questions.

One poem, one fu, one treatise, five questions, three stickers, three Moyi, and one scripture essay.

Yes, there will be two more in the next two, and the total number of answers is not only more than that verified by later generations, but even more than what the masters simulated.

When I looked at the question again, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly. The historical understanding of later generations allowed him to almost see the verbal battles between Ouyang Xiu and Wang Gongchen from these questions.

After a question, there must be a proposition twisted with it, the whole paper, which is quite a rhythm that makes the candidates schizophrenic.

For example, the question of interpreting the scriptures, this question, Ouyang Xiu made a question, honest to his friends, intended to mock Wang Gongchen for robbing his new clothes and champions, not being honest enough.

In the next question, Wang Gongchen came up with a one, which was consistent on the outside, aiming to disdain Ouyang Xiu's unpragmatic affairs, and followed Qian Wei to play a group, writing boundless prose and small orders, enjoying the prosperity of the whole world, but shouting that there is something to say, which can be called strict with others and lenient with himself.

In addition to the expected river governance chapter, the rest of the propositions are deeply suspected of fighting.

This makes it necessary to satisfy at the same time, the two examiners who have different minds, and have something to say, but also to maintain the format, to rules, and to come up with a new one, which examiner's meaning can not be violated, and the students who want to justify themselves, how can they be embarrassed?

Fang Zhongyong shook his head with a wry smile, and began to take advantage of the last bit of sky to finish the scriptures, ink meanings and poems.

Taking advantage of the fact that the ink was about to dry and not dry, Fang Zhongyong once again relied on the last beautiful evening sun and checked the poem inscription.

At this time, it has not been reformed by Wang Anshi, and the poem title is still a unique job, and it must be written in strict accordance with the rhyme book.

So in order to be safe, although Fang Zhongyong, who had done a proper copy according to the title, still adhered to the scientific attitude of never being superstitious about fame, and carried out a word-by-word inspection of each famous poem of the Song Dynasty, and only after confirming that it was correct, he lit the candle and began to toss dinner.

When the instant noodles were eaten for the second time, they were far less fragrant than they were, but as soon as the bacon jerky slipped into the boiling soup, it became extraordinarily good, smooth and delicious, so I divided it by two and got dinner again.

When night falls, there is an extraordinary tranquility in the room.

Fang Zhongyong had dinner before he was about to extinguish the charcoal fire and roll up the quilt to sleep, when he heard a rapid sound of gongs outside the room.

"It's water, it's water—" Then, there was a commotion in the room.

After all, the students are all locked in the number room for the exam, and if there is really a fire, it is a troublesome matter.

Fortunately, soon, Wang Gongchen's calm voice sounded between the upper and lower floors of the Gongyuan: "Don't panic, the fire has been controlled and extinguished, all the candidates are good to rest, and they will continue to answer the paper tomorrow." ”