After receiving the papers, finding a place to sit down, Wu Jiezhi County began to lecture, which was nothing more than to clarify the discipline of the examination room.

Finally, he said that because there are not many candidates in the undergraduate county examination, there are only three exams.

It turns out that generally speaking, when encountering fierce competition and a large population in Shangxian County, the county examination must be completed five times, so that qualified talents can be selected. Although Xinjin County is an upper county and an economically developed area, it is still a little weak in culture and education compared to the kind of humanities in the south of the Yangtze River. Nothing else, the satellite city next to the metropolis, Wujiang County in Suzhou Prefecture, which time did not have hundreds of candidates?

In a county where there are not many students, the county can reduce the test subjects as appropriate.

After receiving the roll, Wu Jie was not in a hurry to make it, buckled the roll on the table, took out a white porcelain tea bowl from the examination basket, lifted the hot water kettle from the stove next to him, and brewed tea slowly.

It turned out that the weather was still cold at dawn in February, and many candidates had to spend a day in the examination room. Afraid of freezing those drooping children, the magistrate usually built two stoves in the lobby to warm them, and it was also convenient for them to eat with hot water.

In fact, if the exam questions are the same as in real history, a one- or two-thousand-word eight-strand text is copied according to the gourd painting, at the speed of Wu Jie, that is, it takes one or two hours. But even if you hand in the paper early, you can't go home and go back to sleep.

The rules of the imperial examination room, once the candidates enter the door to close the door, during the examination, you can open the door twice to let the candidates who hand in the paper leave, the first time to release the card is noon.

Submit the paper in advance, and the children who have not reached the time to release the cards can go to the ear room next to the yamen and wait.

Wu Jie saw it just now, and the ear room was dilapidated and old, and it was very cold. It's better to stay in this exam room for a day, the stove is baking, and it's warm and comfortable.

Besides, he still can't be lazy to answer the questions.

It's better to have a few sips of tea here and take a good rest, and it can be regarded as a teahouse.

The discipline of the county exam is relatively loose, eating and drinking are not prohibited in the examination room, as long as you don't affect other people, even if you want to bury your head in a deep sleep, no one will ask.

Shu people are fond of green tea, Qionglai, Emei Mountain have good green tea production, put in the cup of a flush, the roots are upside down, all a gun and a flag, tender green and lovely, although the fragrance is light, but long and long.

Seeing Wu Jie drinking tea leisurely, the magistrate smiled and thought: The mood of our Jiangnan scholars is much more elegant than that of the Shu people. This Wu Festival is a local, who was born in Nanjing since he was a child, and grew up studying there, so he naturally has the elegance of a Jiangnan scholar.

Zhixian is a native of Jiangnan, Wu Jie grew up in Nanjing, and the two of them are also half of the countrymen. I feel very cordial to Wu Jie, the so-called petty bourgeoisie in the modern population.

After drinking tea for a long time, the sky outside gradually brightened, and after being refreshed and emotionally mobilized, Wu Jie was about to open the paper to do the question, but heard a child stand up timidly: "Old parents, late birth...... Late birth should be ...... Submission ......"

The magistrate smiled: "Can you finish answering?" ”

A...... ...... answered."

"Okay, okay, bring the paper up to show the official, if you really answer well, you will be admitted on the spot, and you don't need to take the next two exams." The magistrate was greatly satisfied, in ancient times, most of the people who could submit the papers in advance were talented and agile people, and this time would not be an exception.

Wu Jie looked up and saw that the child was ten years old, and he was not surprised, could it be that this little guy is also a genius, and it only took two hours to take the test, and it was done. This guy got water in his head, did he leave the exam room so early and go to the ear room to drink the northwest wind?

No, this kid has a frightened face, and he can't speak well, not like an excellent student.

Sure enough, the magistrate took the scroll and only glanced at it, then frowned, and did not speak, but waved his hand helplessly, signaling the child to leave, obviously very dissatisfied with the scroll.

Sure enough, after a while, the voice of the child's parents shouting over the wall sounded on the street outside the yamen: "Sanwa, how did you do in the exam?" ”

There was a cry in the boy's timid voice: "It's not done, Dad...... I'm not going to do it. ”

The parents scolded angrily: "What, it's not done, you will hand in the paper before you finish it...... I won't do it, what are you going to do? I worked hard for you to study, and what I want is to make you glorious to your ancestors. Reluctant to eat, reluctant to wear, three taels of silver a year for tuition, you brute is so spoiling me? When I go home, I can't kill you! ”

It is estimated that the child was afraid of being beaten, and his crying gradually became louder, and the official reprimanded: "What's the trouble, be quiet, there's an exam inside!" Candidates go to the ear room and wait, when this is a vegetable market? ”

This noise startled everyone in the examination room to raise their heads, and all the children were concerned, and their faces were a little pale. For most people, this is the first time in their lives that they have entered the examination room, and there are those who are nervous, those who are afraid, and those who are numb, but people like Wu Jie who have a good attitude are the only ones.

Feeling funny in his heart, Wu Jie opened the scroll.

The moment he opened the scroll, Wu Jie suddenly had a strange thought in his heart.

This is a dream, the world in this dream is very different from the real history, and now it flies into a butterfly like me, will it have a butterfly effect?

What should I do if the questions in this subject are different from those recorded in history?

I don't know how to write eight-strand essays!

If the exam questions are different, I will definitely not be able to write a word, I have already released a big word in front of Mozi and Zhixian before, and I really did Mr. Baijuan...... The consequences are unimaginable.

But...... Damn, it's not time to say it, people are dead.

After a slight hesitation, Wu Jie flipped through the scroll violently and glanced at it fiercely, but his heart was relieved, and he was so happy that he almost laughed out loud.

It's the same, it's exactly the same, it's exactly the same as it's recorded in history.

In this way, this dream is real history. Then what else is there to worry about, the Golden Strip of the Imperial Examination is waiting for me in front of me, and it is difficult to think about underdevelopment.

The examination paper was made by the county government room, a total of 14 pages, with a grid printed on it, a bit like the manuscript paper of later generations. Fourteen lines per page, eighteen words per line.

In other words, the topic is strictly limited to 3,000 words, and it is okay to write less, but not one more word.

In addition, two blank pages are attached to the paper for candidates to make drafts.

In fact, most of the candidates for the county examination are Huangkou children, and many people have done it in a hasty manner with more than 1,000 words, and it doesn't take as many as 3,000 words at all.

It can happen that the pen is so unrestrained that the manuscript is not enough, and the examination papers are invalidated, and most of the situations occur in the township examination and the general examination, which are high-level civil servants, and the children's examination is impossible to happen.

This time the county learned a small question.

The so-called small question is to intercept a sentence in the "Four Books", and then hide the head and tail, and let the candidates write an article according to the gist of the sentence.

For example, "when you learn it, you will be happy to learn this sentence", most of the titles are "Learning"; "Therefore, the gentleman is easy to die, and the villain is lucky to take risks", and the sentence "Juyi" was published. If you don't memorize the four books, you don't know what this question is talking about, and the test is the basic skill of rote memorization for schoolchildren.

The same is true for this county exam, and the exam question is "The First Labor".

The sentence "the first labor" comes from the "Analects, Zilu Chapter" in "Zilu asks politics." Zi said: 'The hard work. 'Benefit. He said, 'Tireless. Meaning, Zilu asked how to govern the government. Confucius said, "Take the lead and work hard." Zilu asked for more. Confucius replied, "Don't be tired. ”

Wu Jie studied a few articles of the Analects in middle school, but he never read them completely. If you don't know the topic in advance, it will definitely be like falling into a fog, and Zhang Er King Kong will be confused.

Now, when I see these four words, my heart is determined.

Just two days ago, he had memorized four sample essays in advance, and now he just needs to think about which one to copy.

In fact, if you want to get a good score in the imperial examination room, being able to write a good essay is the foundation, but if what you write is not to the examiner's appetite, it is also possible to be brushed off. Therefore, figuring out the taste of the main exam is also a homework that candidates must do well in advance.

It's just that Wu Jie doesn't know anything about what kind of spleen surname the county master has and what kind of writing he likes.

Which of the four model essays should be copied?

After thinking about it, forget it, it's too late to bother with that thought now, just follow the best transcription.

So, he slowly touched the ink, lifted the pen and used the neat pavilion body to put the topic down, and then solved the problem, "And the things in the world have not been made to step after the people are old, and the people who are reluctant to be safe are the ones who get the plan." ”

The eight-strand essay has a strict format, and the full text is divided into eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting shares, middle shares, back shares, and bundle shares.

As soon as this sentence was written, Wu Jie regretted it. Xindao: It's just a county exam, the level is low, the difficulty is small, that is, the level of the high school entrance examination in the future, what do I do if I copy such a good article, just get a random article to compare with the group of children in front of me. Wasted, wasted.

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