Red silk inkstone, ox tongue ink, while grinding ink while thinking, that "gentleman Yu Yi" Zhang Yuan decided to copy the infant sister, Zhang Yuan is not the kind of person who is not square, he knows how to trick, does not harm others, can be self-interested, why not, now just ponder the "Zhao Meng's place", as the first art of the "Zhao Meng's place" is of course more important, he should concentrate on making this art talented, impeccable - the county test case head may not be able to make up for the student, but the government test case must be the first student, In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are thousands of government test heads, except for the death or violation of the law during the period, there is no one who can not make up for the students, and the reputation of the head of the house test is very different from the general Tong Sheng who passed the government test, after two months, there will be Fan Wenruo of Suzhou Fushui Shanfang Society and Yang Shixiang of Qingpu Society to visit Zhang Yuan in Shanyin, and ask Zhang Yuan to choose and comment on the eight shares, so whether Zhang Yuan is the head of the government test case is very important, the head of the Shanyin County test case and the head of the Shaoxing Fu test case, which is printed on the title page of the selection, absolutely than lifting people, Even the selection of the general top three jinshi is more sold, and Zhang Yuan's reputation is more convenient for making friends and associations, so he must strive for the first place in this examination, so he must do his best to do his best in this "Zhao Mengzhi's place" -- the vast majority of candidates are drafting drafts, some write a few words and think hard, some look east and west to seek inspiration, and some are flirting with their neighbors or whispering, as long as they are not coerced and plagiarized, the general scriveners in the prison will not be too strict, at most a few words of reprimand" Do not talk to each other."

Zhang Yuan was not in a hurry to put down the pen, and he did not have the habit of writing drafts, he always had a draft, he supported the table with his elbows, supported his forehead with his palms, and began to break the questions and undertake the questions on the exam paper in his heart...... The gray-haired old boy sitting next to Zhang Yuan also did not use his pen like Zhang Yuan, but his eyes were looking at it, and when he saw the scribe of the prison going around to the back field, he picked up the heavy inkstone with one hand, and touched it at the bottom of the inkstone with one hand, and the golden light was brilliant, and there was an extra piece of gold foil paper slightly smaller than the palm in his palm, and the gold foil paper was densely written with fly-headed small letters, although the gold foil paper was small, but with such a fly-headed small block written on both sides, a three-four-hundred-word eight-strand text could almost be written - this white-haired old Confucian boy was a little presbyopia, The gold foil paper can not be taken to the front to see, stretch out the hand under the crotch, the person sits up straight, the neck is stretched hard, so that the eyes are far away from the gold foil paper, look at the twice, then stuff the gold foil paper into the sole of the shoe sock, and go to the bottom of the inkstone to touch, it is another piece of gold foil paper, also densely written with small characters, look at it twice, and stuff it into the shoe - the old Confucian boy on the right is Zhang Yuan, on the left is a young scholar, the young scholar quickly found that the old Confucian boy was cheating, and gently "Huh", the old Confucian boy immediately bowed to the scholar, He also pointed to his gray hair, indicating that he would ask the young scholars to have mercy and not to expose it.

The young scholar shook his head, leaned sideways slightly, didn't look at the old Confucian boy, and took care of the draft.

The old Confucian boy didn't know how many pieces of gold foil paper he had prepared, and he magically took out one after another from the bottom of the inkstone, looked at it twice, presumably the topic was wrong, so he put it in the shoes again, and when the invigilator turned to the front, he honestly didn't move, and when he turned around, he opened another one to see that the two eyes were stuffed into the shoes, and when Zhang Yuan found out, the soles of the old Confucian boy's shoes were stuffed with at least thirty or forty pieces of gold foil paper, but he hadn't found the eight strands of text on the right topic - seeing Zhang Yuan look at it, the old Confucian boy quickly nodded and laughed, Zhang Yuan smiled, and continued to think about it. Zhao Mengzhi", about half an hour later, the old Confucian boy around him no longer unveiled the inkstone, and worked hard to write up, presumably to find the right eight-strand text, but this old man is also pitiful, cheating is also clumsy, the eyes are unfavorable, and the surname is not good, only two or three words can be remembered at a glance, and an eight-strand text to be copied down has to look at more than a hundred eyes, such frequent actions are not discovered by the prison officials, it is really unreasonable - the footsteps suddenly rose, and the prison scribe appeared in the aisle on the left side of the long table, pointing to the old Confucian boy and said: "You come out!" ”

The old Confucian boy suddenly turned pale, but he pretended to be calm and said, "What's the matter? While quickly discarding the gold leaf paper in his hand on the ground, he slowly crushed it with his foot, and the scribe shouted: "Are we all blind when you are shining, and there are a lot of hidden soles and inkstones. ”

The old Confucian boy got up and said again and again: "It's the old man who is confused for a while, the old man will never do it again, never again, please spare the old man this time-"

The scribe sneered: "If this kind of coercion and plagiarism can be spared, then the other candidates should not make a fuss, and what else do they have to invigilate the exam - come out, don't affect other people's compositions." He motioned for a few candidates on the left side of this row to stand up, so that the old Confucian boy could come out.

The old Confucian boy could not get up in his seat, and begged bitterly, but the scribe was willing to spare him, and came with an errand to pick up the old Confucian boy and drag him out of the seat, and another errand came to pick up the heavy inkstone, splashed the ink on the ground, and turned it over to see that there was a half-inch thick stack of gold leaf paper at the bottom of the inkstone.

The scribe twisted the gold leaf paper and sneered: "The gold leaf paper is very thin, there are always three or four hundred sheets in this half-inch thick stack, you can really copy it, and you are willing to pay for it. ”

The old Confucian boy knelt down and begged, and said with tears in his eyes: "The old man is fifty-seven this year, and he has been taking the exam for forty years, and he just wants to take the test for a child. ”

Where was the scribe willing to listen, he ordered two messengers to set up the old Confucian boy and walk outside the examination shed, the old Confucian boy seemed to be about to kill the head, shouted loudly, as soon as he reached out to hook a pillar, he firmly held on, and the two messengers pulled one by one, and finally tore it apart, and dragged it to the central lobby.

The candidates in the examination shed are silent, this scene is sad and ridiculous, this old student is almost sixty years old, and he is not even a child after forty years of examination, this life is completely wasted in this career, and there will be such a big ugly when he is old, the young candidates present do not feel sad, and the forty or fifty-year-old rabbit and fox are sad, and they are not in the mood for a while, and the composition is not in the mood.

After Zhang Yuan saw that the old Confucian boy was dragged out, he lowered his head to find the gold foil paper that had been trampled on the ground by the old Confucian boy before, and wanted to remind the messenger to take this gold foil paper away, so as not to misunderstand it again, but he looked left and right, and he didn't see the gold foil paper, I don't know if it was stuck to the sole of the old Confucian boy and was taken out, or was quietly picked up by other candidates, the eight strands on this gold foil paper are either "Zhao Mengzhi" or "Gentleman Yu Yuyi", the old Confucian boy has been copied for a while, and now it is very likely that it is cheaper than others, this is fate, There is luck in everything - the examination booth was uninvigilated for a short time, and the candidates quickly became active, turning heads and ears, buzzing, and when the scribe and the messenger returned, it was as if a gust of wind was blowing, and countless big-headed flies disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Yuan was disturbed by the matter of Fang Cai, the exam paper in his heart was messed up, he ate two pieces of crispy honey cakes, drank a few sips of water, straightened out his thoughts for a while, and continued to hold his head and meditate, this is his habit of writing, this kind of article within 1,000 words He has to complete the draft and then write it out in one go - every other hour, there will be an errand to beat the chime to announce the time, reminding the candidates to hurry up the composition, as soon as it gets dark, they will hand in the papers, there are talents in this house test, it is the time of the cards, someone will hand in the papers, Zhang Yuan has experience this time, and he is not in a hurry to hand in the papers. If you hand in the paper too early, you will be sent home by the drummer to ask for a reward, and you will be asked for two rewards in the last county exam, not that you are stingy, but you think it is ridiculous to report two good news for the exam.

At noon, Zhang Yuan printed the eight-strand text of "Zhao Mengzhi" on the manuscript from beginning to end, and checked it in his heart, there were no mistakes or omissions, and there were no forbidden or offending words, so he ate a few pieces of crisp honey cakes, drank water to moisten his throat, and saw that the ground ink was half dry, so he dropped a few drops of water, and used a brush to adjust slightly, and first wrote the two articles on the scratch paper, which was reminded by Hou County's order, Zhang Yuan did not draft the draft during the last county examination, and the scientific examination was to be submitted together with the draft paper. Although the blank of the draft paper is not considered a violation, it is always different, and it is better not to appear too different during the scientific examination, some examiners may suspect that this is plagiarism, Zhang Yuan humbly accepts it, so at this time, he drafted the draft first, and deliberately changed it a few times, which looks very draft-the old Confucian boy was forked away, and the table was a lot empty, so he could write horizontally on his elbow, without worrying about being hit by the elbow of the neighbor and soiling the exam paper.

When the card was not issued, Zhang Yuan wrote the two pieces of art on the test paper in a dignified small block script, which is called transcription, and I felt that these two pieces of art were slightly better than the two articles in the last county examination, which was the result of his cooperation with the younger sister of the infant sister, and the word on the ink roll alone, it had grown better than two months ago, and immediately removed the seal on the test paper, and got up to hand in the paper.

Originally, it was the top ten candidates who handed in the papers, and the examiner would read the papers on the spot, and dozens of people had already handed in the papers at this time, and the test papers were no longer directly sent by the candidates to the Xu Zhifu in the center lobby, but were collected by the invigilators. ”

Zhang Yuanwei bowed, put the test paper in the examination basket, and carried the examination basket to see Xu Shijin, the prefect of Shaoxing, he was not worried that the prefect of Xu would make things difficult for him, the prefect of Xu was not a reckless stunned young man, and he was sleek and stable to have a status today, and he had no direct conflict of interest with the prefect of Xu, and the prefect of Xu took him and he was also his teacher, and he would never be stupid enough to suppress him because of Yao Fu's affairs - people are afraid that they are incompetent, as long as you have the ability, you can get the respect of others, small grievances, small contradictions can also be resolved, if you are incompetent, Then people who say that they have no grudges and no hatred may also come to step on you.

(To be continued)