After the curtain officer meets the vice president, it is time to send dinner to the candidates.

Eating is a simple thing, but it is not an easy task to provide food and drink for more than 10,000 candidates. Almost all of the fireheads and officials were dispatched, and they were busy for nearly half an hour before they could deliver the meals to the candidates one by one.

The candidates in front of the queue are okay, the weather is cold, and when it is their turn to have the last few meals are already cold, and their health is slightly worse, after the nine-day exam, coupled with mental tension, they will usually get seriously ill.

For the scholars of this era, the imperial examination was equivalent to a war.

The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, from the county to the government and finally to the central chalk, was admitted one by one, and I don't know how many scholars poured into the examination room every year. In particular, there are tens of thousands of people in each of the township examinations. From this, we can see the organizational capacity of a state structure, which is also a symbol of the strength of the country.

Wu Jie was lucky, because he was close to the room, and when the food was delivered to his hands, it was steaming hot and tasted good.

Today is the first meal in the examination room, and the president is extra kind and adds dishes.

I sent a bonus, which is really rare in the north where I ate Chinese cabbage for a winter. In addition to the bonus, there are also two pancakes. In order to take care of the southerners, the examiner specially sent a bowl of rice, in addition to a plate of bean sprouts, a bowl of braised pork and a bowl of soup.

I didn't eat serious food all day, and I brought meat and vegetables, and Wu Jie ate very hard. After a slippery mouth, I ate a fine meal, and I drank not a drop of the two bowls of soup.

It's just that the smell in the exam room is really unpleasant, which is a fly in the ointment. Also, the wooden barrel in the test house that was holding the feces was really an eyesore.

Ate so much, fast, stomach throttling. Wu Jie simply stood up, walked to the door, and looked out. found that there are not many candidates with such a good appetite.

What is the situation in the two examination houses next to it, Wu Jie can't see it. But the candidates on the opposite side sighed because they remembered the question sheet that was about to be sent, and almost all of them sat behind the table with chopsticks, unable to put down the chopsticks for a long time. The face also looked very gloomy in the candlelight, and the amount of food today was already large, and there was no intention of eating, so it is estimated that there will be a lot left.

The only exception is Wu Lun, this guy doesn't eat quickly, but he is unusually calm. While eating, he glanced up at Wu Jie from time to time, with a hint of resentment in his eyes.

Wu Jie didn't bother to confront him with his eyes, in the examination room, everything depends on grades, and no one can kill anyone with their eyes, so he stood at the door for a while, and returned to sleep on the kang.

Naturally, it was impossible to burn the kang in the examination room, and I didn't know how long I lay down, but I felt a chill in my vest, and I couldn't sleep. Just as he was about to get up and make a stove, he saw several officials coming over with red paper lanterns, shouting as they walked: "The title paper is down, all up, all up!" ”

Although they already knew in advance that the questions would be sent out this evening, the other candidates couldn't help but be stunned.

Only Wu Jie walked to the door with an arrow and looked out quietly.

On the other side, Wu Lun's movements were even greater, and he stood there one step ahead of Wu Jie, his eyes shining green in the dark night. When he saw Wu Jie, he covered his teeth, and his expression seemed to be smiling.

Wu Jie had no reason in his heart: Is the title the same as in real history? Will there be a change, in fact, this plane seems to have changed because of my appearance. Lu Bing died two months later than in the historical records, and King Jing, who was not supposed to return to Beijing for the New Year, also returned. The butterfly effect seems to have taken effect, and history is about to change beyond recognition.

If the exam questions are different from the historical, things are in trouble. I have to search my memory again to find a suitable model text, which is also troublesome. For a while, you may not be able to find a suitable answer. ..., thinking of this, his heart tightened, and the hand that grabbed the fence couldn't help but exert himself.

The wooden fence creaked softly, and the sound fell into the ears of Wu Lun on the other side.

He couldn't help but chuckle: "Brother Jie, be afraid, this is not the place you should come to, you are a fool!" ”

Wu Jie snorted.

The sound of speaking alarmed the officials, and a whip came over and threw it directly on Wu Lun's door: "Don't speak, eat carefully!" ”

Wu Lun was caught off guard for a while, so frightened that he took a step back, hit his body on the table, and squatted down in pain.

Wu Jie: "Ha! He laughed.

Wu Jie made such a fuss at the gate of the Gongyuan before, and the official naturally knew the famous Wu Shizhen, and he didn't care, but was amused by Wu Lun, walked to Wu Jie, and handed over a piece of title paper.

Wu Jie was worried, and he didn't bother to return to the back of the table, so he stood there and looked at the lantern in the hand of the servant.

Wu Jie had already seen the order of the exam earlier, and the first one was seven "Four Books" questions, of which six were eight strands of text, and one was a test poem.

The second is the Five Classics question, which examines one article, uses the Book of Filial Piety, and judges the five ways. 诌, 诘, and table selection as one.

The third game is the strategy of five ways.

The question sheet is sent out in the evening before each exam, and the question sent today is the first of the seven "Four Books" text.

Six of the seven questions and one of the eight shares of the test post poem station accounted for at least eighty percent of the total score, so to speak, so that if these seven questions are answered well, there is a great confidence that they will be on the list. As for the second of the last two sessions, the examination was on the writing of official documents by scholars, and the third examination was on the comprehensive quality and governance ability of the candidates. It is only used as a reference to examine whether the scholar can be a qualified official.

When it was time to open the question paper, Wu Jie felt that his hands were a little heavy, and he was a little nervous.

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Jie took a deep breath and thought: What am I nervous about, even if the topic has changed, it is different from the real history, and it is not big to find a suitable model text to copy it, what are you afraid of.

Thinking about this, his heart settled down, and he calmly opened the topic, and at a glance, the first question Huo Ran was "The wisdom of leaving the wheat and the ingenuity of the public losing the son, not according to the rules, can not be a square circle." ”

It was exactly what I saw in the room of Emperor Jiajing in Yuxi Palace in Xiyuan that day.

Then I looked down, and the other five eight-strand texts and the trial poem were exactly the same as in real history.

Wu Jie let out a long breath and muttered, "It hasn't changed, it hasn't changed." ”

These six and eight strands, Wu Jie has long been prepared, and they are all the champions of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The author of each article is either a prominent minister in history, or a generation of Wenzong: Gu Yanwu, Zhang Tingyu, Huang Zongzhou, Fang Bao, Weng Tongshu, Zhou Yanru......

If it is in normal times, just copy one of them at will, which is enough to make yourself a high school scholar, even if you can't get into the first class. It is also a common thing to be ordered to be a second-class jinshi.

Since history is about to change, since it has been decided that this is my last exam. Wu Jie didn't have the patience to take the exam again in three years, so he simply released all the best chapters in the model essay at hand.

The composition has to be a flower, and the champion must be undisputed.

So...... Let's go to bed first!

It's so tiring...... ）