Zuo Shaoyang said to Miao Peilan: "It's finally time to get to the capital, just rest, why are you so hard?" Just ask the servants to help with the reclamation. ”

Miao Peilan smiled and shook her head: "Let me sit idle, I'm so bored, that's why I did these things so early." ”

Qiao Qiao'er stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Brother, Sister Lan'er can't be idle, you let her be idle, that's deliberately torturing her." After she moved in, she cleaned up and down the house, and she was still in a hurry, so she shouted that she wanted to reclaim the open space in the back garden. I can't beat her. ”

"Alright, I'll clean up the garden with you." As he spoke, he was about to do it with his sleeves.

Miao Peilan stopped him with a smile: "You hurry up and give Qiao'er a follow-up, when you're done, go back to review your homework, the medical examination is about to begin, if the master knows that you are doing this kind of thing here, I'm afraid that I will blame the two of us for delaying you." Anyway, we don't have much to do, and there are still a few days, so let's just do it slowly. ”

"That's right, okay. Don't embarrass the two of you. ”

Zuo Shaoyang gave Qiao Qiaoer a follow-up visit, and her condition improved further, and there was no need to change the prescription. After a few more gossips, the second daughter withdrew. I had to smile wryly and shake my head, and I drove back home.

Finally, the day of the imperial examination came.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was only tested for one day, and it was said that the examination began and ended. Early in the morning, before dawn, the gate of the Gongyuan was crowded with people. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were six subjects for the imperial examination, and the number of tribute students in each subject was divided according to the level of each state in the country, three people in Shangzhou, one person in Xiazhou, an average of two, and there were more than 300 states in the country, so there were nearly 4,000 tribute students in the country who gathered in the capital to participate in the examination, plus the family members who accompanied the examination, it is no wonder that there were many people.

The imperial examination varies from one subject to the first place, and the subjects such as Xiucai, Mingjing, and Jinshi are generally fifteen people, while miscellaneous subjects such as Ming arithmetic and medical skills are taken from ten and five people, and the average number of Jinshi and the first place in each subject is about ten, that is to say, nearly 4,000 people, and the one hundred and the first place to compete for are not without fierce competition.

The number of medical students is ten, and Zuo Shaoyang and the first are still very confident. Zuo Gui's father, Ding Xiaosan and Bai Zhihan all came to accompany the exam, Qiao Guan and Mrs. Qu also came early in the morning, Zuo Shaoyang's medical examination is also closely related to them, so they are naturally very concerned.

In addition to preparing a bookbag containing a pen and ink inkstone for him, Bai Zhihan also prepared a brass stove for him, as well as a small bag of charcoal, which he brought to the tribute courtyard for heating at that time. However, most of the five or six thousand tribute students in the audience were poor students, and they could only shiver in the cold wind with their sleeves caged, not to mention the stove, and many of them didn't even have silk cotton in their robes. It's pitiful to look at.

Wu Shu naturally didn't come, and the substitute he invited came with his explanation. Not to mention the two of them, their appearance is really a bit imaginary, maybe they are looking for someone to dress up. Young Master Tian and Kang Xuanhu are also waiting here.

The east showed the whiteness of the fish's belly, and the gate of the tribute courtyard opened. A group of people lined up in a long line with the receipt of the text explanation and entered the tribute courtyard one by one.

There are special officials in the Gongyuan to check the stoves, school bags, food, etc. that the candidates bring into the Gongyuan, and there are special officials to check the physical characteristics of the candidates.

The one who took the test for Wu Shu ran into a little trouble, because his face was a little different, and he was invited to the side, but after the official who met the requirements saw it, he didn't ask too much and let him go.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't know if Wu Shu had spent money to buy off the relationship, but it was good that he could enter the Gongyuan smoothly, but his own imperial examination was because he was crookedly sending the plagiarized article to Du Yan, the imperial historian, which led to so many things later, and he was able to participate in the imperial examination.

After entering, Zuo Shaoyang was a little dumbfounded, he thought that the tribute courtyard for the special examination in the capital should be set up well, but he didn't expect it, but it was a row of small bungalows like livestock stables, each of which was a palm-sized place, with a stool, a table, and a toilet, and it was stuffed slowly. It is much smaller than the Gongyuan in Hezhou. It may be because there are too many people, and this room does not have half a door like Hezhou, there is not even a door, and there is a window at the back, saying that there is no window sash, just a square hole, presumably to facilitate the invigilator to monitor whether the candidate is cheating from behind.

According to the number on the explanation, Zuo Shaoyang found his own test room, sat down after entering, put the stove under the table, took off his shoes, stepped on the brass stove, put a thin quilt on his legs, and his whole body was in chaos.

He took the bookbag, put the three treasures of the study (no paper, the test papers and manuscript papers were distributed by the examination room, so there are only three treasures of the four treasures of the study) on the table, took the kettle to a little water on the inkstone, and began to study the ink.

There are two or three invigilators walking back and forth in each row of examination rooms, talking loudly about the discipline of the examination room of the Gongyuan, and staring at the candidates with vigilant eyes, as if they are all preparing to cheat.

In the morning, the exam begins.

A crisp cloud reverberated over the Tribute Academy, and the invigilator began to hand out the test papers.

Zuo Shaoyang This is the second time to take the tribute examination, and he is not very nervous, he got the test paper and read it again, and the questions are very lively, and the test is mainly about the candidates' understanding of certain issues in several medical classics such as "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", rather than being limited to the examination of the degree of understanding of the content of medical classics as in the county and state examinations. From an analogy point of view, the county and state exams are a bit like the college entrance examination and the undergraduate exam, while the general exam is like the graduate exam. It is a test of opinions and opinions on a certain issue.

Zuo Shaoyang's answers to the questions were very smooth, and when he wrote about his understanding of the White Tiger Tang in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", he encountered trouble.

This question is to first write out the articles in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" about the transformation of solar typhoid fever into white tiger and ginseng soup due to mistreatment, as well as the prohibition of white tiger soup, and then analyze and comment.

Zuo Shaoyang was familiar with "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", and after writing it silently, he began to comment on his understanding of the articles one by one. But when it came to writing one hundred and seventy-six articles, it was stuck.

There is a mistake in this one, a mistake that has been recognized by later generations as a real one.

The original text of Article 176 of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" is "Typhoid fever veins are slippery, so that there is heat in this expression, and there is cold in it, and the white tiger soup is the main one." However, the previous article of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" has made it clear that the heat is knotted in the inside, and the one who is hot on the inside and the outside is the main one of the White Tiger Soup, and it is also emphasized that its surface is incomprehensible and cannot be compared with the White Tiger Soup, that is to say, the White Tiger Soup should be hot on the outside and on the inside, rather than the "hot on the surface and cold on the inside" of Article 176. Therefore, the article "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" must have been written incorrectly.

However, this error was first discovered in the Song Dynasty when the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" was corrected, and later generations of doctors also believed that this article was wrong, but there were different opinions on where the mistake was, for example, Lin Yi of the Song Dynasty said that it should be "cold on the surface and heat on the inside", while "Yizong Jinjian" believed that it should be "hot on the outside and on the inside", and modern research believes that the latter is more in line with clinical symptoms.

Zuo Shaoyang's embarrassment is that no one has discovered this mistake in the Tang Dynasty, and if it is a general academic exchange, it will be no problem, just say the correct point of view. But now it is the imperial examination, it is the examination, and I am a candidate, at that time everyone thought that this was the medical classic "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", that is absolutely the truth, every word is fine, there can be no mistake, if you put forward this error in the medical classic "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" during the examination, you have to consider whether this is okay or not, whether it is beneficial.

There is nothing wrong with insisting on the truth, but sometimes there is a price to be paid for insisting on the truth, such as Bruno's insistence on the sun-centric theory and his opposition to the prevailing earth-centric theory at the time, and he was finally burned alive in the Campo de' Fiori in Rome. If I now write that there is a mistake in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" in the answer sheet, it is not "there is heat on the surface and cold on the inside", but "there is heat on the surface and heat on the inside". Maybe he won't be burned to death like Copernicus, but I'm afraid that it will definitely affect his medical performance.

Questioning authority is no fun, and if you don't, you will be trampled by the proponents of authority. This is not just a mistake in one question, but a matter of respect for authority, a matter of principle, and it is possible that it is not the loss of the score of this question, but the loss of the score of one's entire medical examination!

Zuo Shaoyang put the pen on the pen holder and thought about what to do with distress.

The safest thing is to make mistakes and draw scoops according to the gourd. Another way is to answer this part without answering or to answer vaguely and evasively. However, there is a trouble here, this time to participate in the medical examination, there are about 600 people in the country, all of them are selected elites from all over the country, only ten of them and the first jinshi, they do not answer this question or do not answer well, I am afraid that it will be difficult to rank among the top ten, then the list may be very large, if their medical examination results are too poor, even if there is the sponsorship of the imperial doctor, it may not be able to pass the first.

Zuo Shaoyang finished answering all the questions, only this one question was left, where to sit in a daze.

The imperial examination is not allowed to hand in the papers in advance and leave the venue early, for fear of affecting others, even if it is completed, it will have to wait until the final unified submission. Zuo Shaoyang finished writing all the other questions in the morning, and after typing the draft, he copied them neatly one by one. This is called an unfolded scroll, and it is important that the surface of the roll is clean.

However, looking at the empty 176 articles, he still couldn't think of a clue from the morning to the afternoon.

There was no snow on this day, but there was no sun, and there was a cold wind, woo, because of the heavy snow in the previous days, there was still a thick snow on the ground, and it was even colder after the wind. Although Zuo Shaoyang has a stove, in addition to the legs, feet and hands that can be baked, the body and face that cannot be baked are also cold, and he can't chew when he eats at noon. Because my face and mouth were numb, I had to keep rubbing them with warm hands.

There was a cloud in the Gongyuan to remind the moment, and it was only an hour before the paper was handed in, and Zuo Shaoyang still didn't make up his mind what to do.

(To be continued)