Knock Knock Knock –

The sound of morning drums in the morning light woke up the sleepy-eyed old and young men in the examination room. *Literature Museum Www.WxGUan.CoM*Jingzhao Mansion is located in the southeast corner of Guangdefang, close to Anhuamen Street, so this morning drum sound is naturally very deafening. However, when someone lazily yawned and rubbed his shoulder, which had been sore from the hard ground all night, he was shocked to find that the person next to him was not only sleeping soundly, but could even hear the sound of snoring. Even when the morning drums on more and more streets sounded in unison, he still couldn't hold back the bursts of snoring, and his face finally changed subtly.

"This Du Jiulang is really sleeping! The sound of drums like this is still lying on a high level! ”

Hearing his shouting, some people who had been tossing and turning all night for the first time for the exam couldn't help but mutter: "In this place where the wind is ventilated on all sides, he can actually fall asleep!" I can't afford to pay it back sooner or later, and I'm going to send out the second volume of today! ”

And after trying it yesterday, when I saw a doctor who came to check Du Shiyi's wound and re-apply medicine and bandage it, he sighed in a low voice: "I left for Luoyang on the eighth day of August, and then came back on August 13, even if I traveled day and night, I should have a night's rest at most." If he had entered the city early last night, he would have been able to rest for another night, but he encountered that kind of unbelievable thing again, Du Langjun was really unlucky! ”

"If he is unlucky, what is the other man? In the end, it is a great luck in misfortune to catch up, what a reputation Wang Shisanlang has, at this time he can only recuperate at home, which makes people sigh! ”

"Speaking of which, the few external injuries on Du Langjun's body last night were also strange and scary, it couldn't be that the injuries were attacked, so he couldn't sleep, right?"

As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted a lot of discussions. While speaking, a person came to Du Shiyi's side, and stretched out his hand with a solemn face to probe his forehead. Almost at the same time, he noticed that his men trembled slightly, and then suddenly opened their eyes. Looking at each other, Du Shiyi, who had just woken up from a deep sleep, relaxed, and Zhang Jian, who was startled, also breathed a long sigh of relief: "Du Langjun is awake, everyone is still worried about your injury!" ”

"It doesn't matter if the injuries are serious, the doctor has already said last night that they are all flesh wounds, and at that time I have already found out the clues and have been vigilant, otherwise I will be outnumbered, where can I survive."

Du Shiyi had completely reconciled his confession with Chibi and the others before, and even detailed some extremely trivial details, so he almost stayed up all night the night before. Yesterday's scripture was not a too difficult test for him, so he slept like a dead man this night, if it weren't for Zhang Jian's probe, he might have slept straight until the trial officer Lantian County Cheng Yufeng was present. After sitting up, he smiled and thanked the people around him who were looking around, and when there was an errand outside carrying water to sell water outside, he took a handful of money from the money bag under the pillow and stuffed it to Zhang Jian.

"Du Langjun, you are ......"

"It's best to bring your own food, but you can't skip washing, right? The well is too far away, and I am still a little inconvenient now, so I can only work Brother Zhang to buy water. ”

Since Zhang Jian showed his face at the birthday banquet of Doulu Guifei, and then when he was unable to enter the princes and nobles who could not be entered in the past, most of them were invincible, and even those poems that were despised in the past to praise people's political achievements were also greatly appreciated for a while, and even spread, not to mention that he was as proficient in drums as Song Jing, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Li Longji, the son of heaven, which became a rare stepping stone. He is a very talented person, and once he gets the opportunity and seizes the opportunity, he will naturally be like meeting Bian and the family. The only deficiency is that he is from Jiangnan Hansu, and he is shy in his pocket, although he has received a lot of funding for months, but the entertainment has increased sharply, and the cost is also rising.

Therefore, he originally planned to endure it in the examination room, but after surviving the past three days, he pinched the handful of money at the moment, and his face changed for a while, and finally he exhaled lightly. Du Shiyi clearly intended to help him, but he was still so concerned about his face, how could he, who was already grateful in his heart, not be touched?

"In that case, I'm going to get someone to bring water!"

Even if the children of the family have domestic slaves to accompany them, they can only be sent to the outside of the field, so when they enter the examination room, they have to rely on themselves for everything. For example, after crossing a long distance, he went to the well in the southwest of Jingzhao Mansion to fetch water for washing, and no one in the family was happy, so he derived the business of carrying water to sell it. As for the poor, not only must they be self-sufficient, but they are often reprimanded and ridiculed by the officials. At this time, Du Shiyi and Zhang Jian took turns to go out once, and after coming back to wash with water, they saw someone coming in from outside drenched and dejected, obviously humiliated.

Zhang Jian's face turned pale for a while, and when he saw that the man returned to his seat without saying a word, he muttered to himself: "I know that person, he is also a famous person in Hedong, but his family is poor, and he didn't expect ......."

A scholar next to Du Shiyi immediately sneered: "Hedong celebrity? Every year, isn't there a lot of celebrities and celebrities? The talents who are interested in entering the Shike from all over the world are gathered together for a while, but when the search is carried out, those officials are not condescending to shout and drink like slaves! And we try it at this time, it is the most lucky, if as early as July, the heat has not subsided, heat stroke is commonplace. As for the provincial test, there is no such luck, it is not the first month or February, when the test is taken in the capital hall of Shangshu Province, there is only a single seat below, if you are splashed with such a body of water, dripping into ice, half of your life will be removed! ”

Every time he said a word, the new exam-takers couldn't help but turn pale for a while, but those who entered and exited the field had a lot of words, but their faces were as usual. It is necessary to know that the number of township tributes and scholars every year is not only fixed, but also only valid once, that is, if you fall in the provincial examination and enter the department, you will have to work up from the county examination next year! Therefore, entering and leaving the field is actually commonplace for those who are forty or fifty miles away.

However, Zhang Jian did not get the most promising chance to pass the Jingzhao Mansion exam until this year, and at this moment he took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "This kind of day, I don't want to live a second time!" ”

"Then let's do our best!"

Du Shiyi had already heard Lu Hong mention the difficulty of this field, so he encouraged Zhang Jian, so he lit a fire, lit the small charcoal stove, and then scooped the yellow rice in the pottery and put it on top to warm, and ate two pieces of dim sum with sweet and sour buttermilk.

And Liu Ximing on the side is naturally more familiar with the advantages of money than Du Shiyi. And he prepared early, not only did he have hot water to wash his face, but even the servants brought him a maid to comb his hair, and even sent two steaming cakes and three pulp. Before he finished eating, he heard Ming Gong's shouting outside, and hurriedly put down his hand before eating a small half of breakfast. Sure enough, after a while, I saw Yu Feng enter the examination room with two messengers in the misty morning light.

Although some people were unkempt, some were hurrying to eat their breakfast, and some were busy cleaning up the bedding that had been spent overnight last night, Yu Feng had experienced such a scene as if he hadn't seen it. After all the candidates saluted unevenly, he returned the salute and immediately motioned to the officers to send down the answer sheets one by one.

When everyone received the answer sheet that had already been folded in place, as well as another roll of scratch paper, he said calmly with his hands behind his back: "Today's trial of "Nine Virtues Fu", with 'Nine Virtues and Salty Affairs, Junyi in the Official' rhyme, there is no limit to the order of rhyme. ”

Compared with the test assignment question in the Wannian County test before, the test assignment question in the second session of the Jingzhao Mansion test today is undoubtedly impartial. After all, "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period" is sprinkled with 200,000 words, and the number of words in "Shangshu" is much less. And more of the bottom of the heart is to continue to eat the breakfast that has not had time to finish at the beginning.

Du Shiyi also finished eating the millet porridge that had been warmed in a small charcoal stove first, and when his stomach was warm and his body was warm, he contemplated this trial fu.

Fuxing in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty is still loved by literati and ink writers, and the second essay test of Jinshi is also valued since the years after Gao Zongwu. However, the field test is not as important as the usual assignment, and the format is the most important. For example, Lu Hong once said to him, a test assignment can be as little as 256 crosses, and as much as more than 600 words, but if it is less, it is easy for the examiner to feel that he has exhausted his talents, and if he is more, it is easy to make people impatient. Therefore, 35 to 400 words is the most suitable. If you want to attract attention, you must work the structure. The fupu he has seen plus Lu Hong's summary, the general structure has been clear.

A long endowment of three or four hundred words, with three to four pairs of heads, whether it can lead people to read is the most important thing, although there is a distinction between real and virtual, but if it is fascinating, the real from the point of direct meaning is naturally better; The next three pairs are assignments, just as the neck is to the body is connected to the torso and the head, and the role of assignments is to connect the upper and lower levels; Then there is the abdomen, which is the essence of the whole trial, hundreds of words long, in contrast, whether it is a head or an item, it is just a foreshadowing, and this pass is where the test of the scholar's true talent lies. As for the four crosses at the end, it lies in how to end the question. Although the theme is different from that of the later generations of Baguwen, it also has the same effect on the theme.

And today's trial of the "Nine Virtues Fu", from the "Shangshu" Gaotao said in the nine virtues, "wide and chestnut, soft and standing, willing and respectful, chaotic and respectful, disturbing and resolute, straight and warm, simple and inexpensive, rigid and plugged, strong and righteous", and the rhyme used is also from the same article. Therefore, it is naturally worth a lot of effort to solve the whole problem.

Du Shiyi's deep groan almost reached the middle of the day. Yu Feng, who had been looking around, saw that he had not put down his pen for a long time, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart. However, after wandering around for a long time, he couldn't support it, so he returned to his seat and sat down happily, and when he found that Du Shiyi suddenly began to grind ink, he looked up and said to the messenger next to him after being stunned: "Go to Du Jiulang's side to see, what words and sentences have been written, come back and protect me!" ”

When the errand officer left, he glanced around at the sparse candidates in the huge examination room, and couldn't help but sigh softly. This Jinshike is a leaping dragon gate, but even if it really jumps lightly, where will it really be a smooth road!

After a while, he saw the messenger coming back quickly, and when he was beside him, he whispered, "Du Langjun's first sentence is...... The mediocre man is the profit, the gentleman Vader. ”