Chapter 27: The Fourth Level
Six conscripts were eliminated in the third level, leaving twenty-nine conscripts.
Dong Xijun read out the list of applicants who passed the test, and asked the applicants and their relatives and friends who did not read their names to leave.
After that, Dong Xijun said: "Let's enter the fourth level." With a clap of his hands, a group of famous sword villains brought twenty-nine tables and stools, divided into two rows, about two zhang apart, and placed neatly facing each other. Dong Xijun waved his hand, and two pretty maidservants put two pieces of paper and a pen and ink on each table.
There was a puzzled look in everyone's eyes. Dong Xijun said: "There are pen and paper and seven questions on each table, please choose one question to answer, a stick of incense for a limited time, please take a seat." Relatives and friends of the applicants are requested to retreat to the three feet. All the applicants took their seats, and Dong Xijun said: "Start answering the questions and burn incense." A servant girl lit a stick of incense and kept a time.
The seven questions are:
1. Do ghosts exist? Try to prove it.
2. Can justice surely triumph over evil? Try to prove it.
3. Is human nature inherently good or evil? Try to prove it.
4. Is there really an unswerving love in the world? Try to prove it.
5. Does the Cowherd and Weaver Girl really only meet once a year? Try to prove it.
6. Does Chang'e really live in the Moon Palace? Try to prove it.
7. Do frogs really not understand human speech? Try to prove it.
These exam questions are quirky, all of them were thought out by Dong Bijun, who is eccentric, does not take the usual path, and loves Zhou Yi, gossip, arithmetic, astrological divination, and Qimen formation. When Xu Qing read out the list of passers, he learned that these questions were all thought up by Dong Bijun, and his impression of Dong Bijun's good immediately added a lot of points, and he secretly sighed in his heart, "Huang Rong is not a fictional character written by Jin Daxia, there is one in the Tang Dynasty!" ”
Here are just a few of the great answers.
Zhang Jinsong chose to answer the first question.
Answer: Ghosts exist. On the thirteenth day of July last year, I met a headless man walking in the wilderness, and I was astonished and asked him if he was a human or a ghost, and he replied that he was a ghost and that he had been beheaded last year, and asked me what day it was and that he was going to be reincarnated. I told him that he was the thirteenth of July and asked him whose house he was going to reincarnate, and he said that he couldn't say, and the whole person suddenly disappeared in front of me. This proves that ghosts exist.
Mu Jiandao chose to answer the seventh question.
Answer: One day I wanted to know what else in the world besides people could understand human speech, and when I saw a flower, I asked the flower, "Flower, can you understand me?" If you can understand, nod your head, and if you don't, I'll take you off. The flower did not nod, so I plucked it; When I saw a little bird, I asked the bird, "Can you understand me?" If you understand, fly to the palm of my hand, and if you don't, I'll shoot you with an arrow. "Before the bird flew to the palm of my hand, I shot the bird; When I saw a frog, I asked, "Frog, can you understand me?" If you can understand me, you jump on my palm, and if you don't, I'll kill you. "The frog didn't jump on my palm, so I killed the frog. It can be seen from this that frogs cannot understand human speech, and if anyone does not believe it, they can find a frog to test.
Xu Qing chose to answer the second question.
Answer: To prove whether justice can definitely defeat evil, it is necessary to prove that the power of justice must defeat the power of evil. All the people in a country can be divided into two types of people: the righteous forces are the group of people who represent the direction of social development, are conducive to promoting the development of the productive forces, and maintain the stability and prosperity of the country, and the evil forces include careerists who do whatever it takes to pursue personal interests, corrupt officials, unscrupulous officials, conservatives who hinder the development of the productive forces, and bullies and scoundrels in the market.
Human society transitions from primitive society to slave society, and from slave society to feudal society, every change has greatly promoted the development of productive forces, improved people's living standards, this is the result of the victory of the power of justice over the power of evil, from the establishment of the feudal centralized state by Qin Shi Huang to the present, in the land of China has experienced many changes of dynasty, the decline of a dynasty is because the later ruling class after a period of pleasure, forget the difficulty of founding a country, forget the lessons of history, collective corruption and degeneration, Land annexation and exploitation of the peasants were intensified, so that the vast number of peasants could not make a living.
At that time, the ruling stratum had already hindered the development of the productive forces, and had turned from a righteous force that promoted social development and progress into an evil force that hindered social development and progress, while the vast number of peasants, handicraftsmen, and some enlightened landlords and officials had the desire for change and were the force of justice. Through the war, the new dynasty replaced the old one, the people were able to recuperate, and productivity was quickly restored.
Although sometimes the evil forces prevail and the people suffer greatly from the wars and disasters, such as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, the division and war of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the chaos of China, from the general trend, the time of war is shorter than the time of peace, the time of prosperity of the dynasty is longer than the time of decline, and the forces of justice still have the upper hand in the struggle against the evil forces. Therefore, good must triumph over evil.
Li Linfeng chose to answer the sixth question.
Answer: On a full moon night, when I was practicing, my soul went out of my body and flew to the Moon Palace, and I saw a group of beautiful palace maids playing, so I walked over and asked, "What is this place?" I was overjoyed and begged them to take me to Fairy Chang'e, and they agreed to my request and took me to Fairy Chang'e's residence. Chang'e is really beautiful! I asked her for the secret recipe for immortality, but Chang'e immediately turned her face and said: "I thought you were seeing me lonely and came to talk to me to relieve my boredom, but I didn't expect you to be no different from those people, just greedy for the secret method of immortality, you better go back!" After saying that, he patted me on the head, and my soul floated in the sky, and returned to the world.
Takayama chooses to answer the fifth question.
Answer: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are mythical characters, whether the mythological characters really exist we can not prove, assuming that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl exist, then they are immortals, the magic power of the gods is big and small, we know that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl only meet once a year, if the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are boundless, then they can meet every day without restrictions; If one of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has boundless power, they can still meet every day; If the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have limited mana, they can only meet at the Magpie Bridge on the night of Qixi Festival. Assuming that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl do not exist, it proves that it is meaningless whether they only meet once a year.
Meng Fushen chose to answer the fourth question.
Answer: As long as there is a case of unsettling love, it can prove that there is unswerving love in the world. The male and female protagonists in the story of "Peacock Flying Southeast" are unswerving in love, proving that there is unswerving love in the world.
Zhou Hui chose to answer the second question.
Answer: Legend has it that the evil god poked a hole in the sky, and Nuwa Niangniang killed the evil god and refined stones to make up for the sky. Xia Wei was brutal, Shang Tang was destroyed, Shang Xuan was unkind, Zhou Wu was destroyed, this evidence is two; The Qin Dynasty was brutal, Chen Sheng and Wu Guangfa were killed, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were destroyed, this evidence is three; Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Dong Zhuo's dictatorship did not end well, and the list goes on, and the proof is complete.