Chapter 003: County Exam and Freshly Roasted

Besides, Li Ang walked all the way, sweating all the way, so he had to take off his shirt and hurry bare-chested. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

When I met a merchant who went to the countryside, he smiled and asked "Where is the little brother", he replied "take the exam", and the expression on the merchant's face was just five words, why are you teasing me?

When I entered the city, I saw that the streets were wide, the houses were scattered, and the streets were full of shops. Pedestrians are even more shoulder to shoulder, bustling, fortunately not in a hurry, otherwise it is not faster than walking.

Find the school palace located in the southeast corner of the city, and take a look, Wuyang is crowded.

When I went inside, all I heard was earnest teachings and admonishments, as if I had been a thousand years later. If you want to come to China, no matter ancient or modern, this test will be the same for life.

Even pushed and squeezed the crowd of people who sent the exam, and checked the two forms and floating tickets under the "Wenkui" archway, and entered the gate of the school palace with the students who took the same exam.

Just one glance, and it cried out.

Facing the front of the Master's Hall, is a small square paved with stone slabs. Groups of servants, carrying or carrying, were moving short cases out of the school building and placing them on the ground in an orderly manner.

Seeing this, the candidates inhaled the cool air, and even wanted to take the exam in the open air!

What surprised them even more was that except for a short section after the main entrance of the Confucius Palace, the entire examination room was surrounded by armed men. That's not a public man in the yamen, but a real soldier!

After looking around for a while, I saw that in the shade next to the Confucius Palace, there was a long case, and there were a few officials in green robes sitting.

The candidates swarmed over, not caring about submitting the two certificates and floating tickets, and complained to the students. You don't take us scholars too seriously, do you? Is this an exam or a punishment?

The students explained absentmindedly, saying that there were too many applicants this season and the conditions were limited, so in order to prevent cheating, the students should make do with it. Later, when I got annoyed, a student official pulled down his face and offered a six-character mantra, love the test, don't take the test!

Don't say it, it really didn't scare anyone.

The group of people who were making fun cheered each other up, walked around, and stopped taking the test! At that moment, twenty or thirty "older candidates" left the examination seat and went outside.

As soon as he came out of the "Wenkui" archway, they were all dumbfounded.

On the street outside, soldiers with spears on the inside and outside surrounded the entrance to the school palace. A knot-level pestle riding a horse and straddle a knife was in front, glancing at the "students" who had abandoned the exam, and roared coldly: "Take it away!" ”

The soldiers swarmed up and escorted all the bastards who shouted "the court treats scholars preferentially" and "the pawns dare to do this" to Xicheng to move bricks.

The parents who sent the test came back to their senses and followed in an uproar. There was someone who knew the section level, and he stepped forward and grabbed the horse and wanted to intercede, but the answer he got was: I have something to say to the prefect.

What happened outside immediately spread to the school palace. The rest of the candidates looked at each other, who would dare to make noise?

Li Ang faintly felt that something was wrong, and Lao Li's idea was to let himself go through the motions and avoid the hard labor. If Fang Cai himself also went out, wouldn't it be his nephew playing lanterns?

When I was thinking about it, I heard a student say, "Is there anything else you want to give up the exam?" ”

There was silence in front of him, and it seemed that no one was willing to contribute to the construction of his hometown.

"Don't be afraid, abandoning the exam at this time will not count you as disrupting the exam room. If you feel that you are not ready for the fire, go back to the book with peace of mind, and come back next season, don't leave it to chance. ”

No matter how this sounds, it doesn't sound like a reminder, but it has a bit of persuasion and inducement.

Those who come with real skills are naturally unmoved, aren't they just taking the exam under the scorching sun? The saint cloud, the sky will descend on the great task......

And those who don't have the ability are not afraid, they are not like the group of bastards just now, who think that they can sit back and relax by asking for a floating ticket for a few dollars. You have to get the exam questions in your hands, and then ask someone to write an essay, and then memorize them well, you know?

Seeing that no one answered, the student officer didn't say anything more, so he ordered the candidates to hand in the two certificates and floating tickets and arrange the seats. It's just that there is a big stone hanging in my heart all the time, why hasn't Jiang Xueyu come out yet? Isn't it......

As soon as he thought of this, he saw that the scholar's face was like dust, and he turned out of the master's hall with heavy steps. looked at the subordinates, looked at the full audience, and hissed, "Let's start the exam." ”

Li Ang's seat was facing the gate of the Confucius Palace, and when he raised his eyes, he could see the statue of Confucius with his palms crossed, as if to say: This road is not passable!

He sat down unwaveringly and firmly.

This seat is about to die, and the bench has been baked by the scorching sun for a long time, like a soldering iron! Sitting on it to answer questions, whether you can take the test or not to go to the county school, anyway, the eggs must be baked first.

There are not a few who have been recruited, and the students who were gentle and elegant before are now touching their stomachs with bitter faces, and Sven is mourned.

"Silence! If there are any more misbeseekers, be kicked out of the examination room! ”

Exam? The grill is pretty much the same! The candidates sat down reluctantly, grinning their teeth, hoping that the stool would cool down quickly.

As soon as Li Ang sorted out the stationery, the test paper was handed out, but it was a few blank sheets. Thinking about it, movable type printing has not yet been popularized, and there is no need for engraving printing in this district and county examination, and the examiner will sing the questions directly, and the candidates can answer them.

Sure enough, when the paper was distributed, the examiner, who looked like a dead family, announced the exam questions.

One is "gentleman's business", and the other is "compassion for farmers". The former is exegetical and the latter is a propositional poem. At the same time, it was announced that today's county exam can be submitted at any time without restrictions.

As soon as Li Ang heard these two questions, he felt that he seemed to be referring to something.

The gentleman's book is from the "Analects".

Youzi said: He is also filial, and those who are good at committing crimes are rare; It is not easy to commit, and those who are good at making trouble are not there. A gentleman is a gentleman, and he is born from the beginning. Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence.

The meaning of this paragraph is that a gentleman should be filial to his parents and respect his brother, and if you do this, you will basically not commit it, and if you don't commit it, you will not be able to talk about rebellion.

In a word, it is to let you do your part.

And the proposition poem "Compassion for Nong" has been in front of the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Li Shen's masterpiece Zhuyu. Now it is used as exam questions to remind these reference students not to forget their roots.

Thinking of what had just happened, Li Ang speculated that this question was not originally planned by Xueli, but a temporary change.

I don't believe it, look at how many people in this exam room feel like mourning when they hear the questions? There are also people who are stunned and have not come back to their senses.

After guessing for a while, I put my mind away and put it on the exam. Because that's not what you should worry about, a gentleman should not only be pragmatic, but also pragmatic.

The first question first explains the meaning of the paragraph of the gentleman's affairs book, and then talks about why we should be filial to our parents and respect our brothers.

It's because my parents raised me and raised me, and my brother loved me and protected me. Then the development is extended, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. Ah, it turns out that the emperor raised me, and the court loved me and protected me, so what reason do I have to be disloyal to the monarch and patriotism?

By extension, if everyone can understand this meaning and can have this heart, naturally the father is kind and filial to the son, and the brother is good and the brother is good, there will be no crime, let alone chaos, everyone is a gentleman, and the world is peaceful.

He was walking in this time, and the examiner above had already asked about his seat, and when he saw that he was still there, his face changed for a while! Why didn't this guy leave? Your dad said you hadn't touched a book in years, and what are you still pretending to be here? No way! Gotta find a way to get him out!

Li Ang didn't realize that disaster was about to find him, and he was still pondering the proposition poem there.

At this moment, a big fat candidate couldn't stand the scorching sun, baked eggs on the bench, picked up a roll of paper and left the examination seat, hurriedly stepped forward to present it to the examiner, made a gesture, bowed his head and walked away, without even asking the result!

Jiang Xueyu glanced at his test paper, which was clean and slippery, and returned it untouched.

Seeing that someone took the lead, those related households no longer hesitated, and handed in the blank papers or test papers with only one topic, hiding their faces and running away. After a while, more than half of them were gone! Counting those who were arrested to move bricks before, more than seventy percent of the students who obtained floating tickets to participate in the written test this time were bastards!

How they passed the registration and interrogation, I am afraid that apart from themselves, only the scholars will know.

Li Ang didn't have the heart to worry about the adults, at this moment, he was enjoying the sour taste of the scorching eggs, while experiencing the hard work of the farmer, while tasting Li Shen's original work: hoeing a thousand days in the afternoon, saying that a person named hoe thousand is in ...... Forget it, I'm really not good at it, let's find another way. After a while, I occasionally gained something, and I silently recited it in my heart:

The red sun burns like fire,

Rice is semi-scorched.

Nongshim is like soup boiling,

The nobleman shook the fan.

Shake and shake,

Shake to Grandma's Bridge.

Hey, it looks like something strange got in? No, this is a word, remove the latter sentence, pick up the pen to brush and write on the volume, and you don't have to dry the ink, the sun is poisonous, the pen is dry, what you see is what you get.