Fang Yun looked at the six incense sticks, lowered his head, and meditated in his heart.

"As a mother, I may not be able to go back, forgive the child for being unfilial, please take care. ”

"The second is the dead Fang Yun, Xie Lu Xie. ”

"The third and fourth are Fang Yun's parents, and the fifth is Sister Yuhuan's father, with me here, I will definitely not let Sister Yuhuan suffer again. ”

"Six is Meng Haoran, the poem of Xie Xianxian. ”

Fang Yun looked at the incense candle for a long time, and the melancholy in his heart turned into a sigh, as if he was saying goodbye to the past.

After the incense, the two sat at the dinner table facing each other.

Fang Yun said: "Sister Yuhuan, let's set a rule for dinner today." ”

"Boy, please command. Yang Yuhuan said with a smile that she hadn't laughed so happily for a long time, because the burden on her body was finally lighter.

"Today's rule is, you clip a chopstick, I clip a chopstick, you eat as much as you want, I eat as much as I want! You don't need to say, this rule cannot be changed! How much I can eat today is up to you. ”

Yang Yuhuan looked at Fang Yun quietly, her heart was surging, she suddenly felt that with Fang Yun's words, all these years of suffering and tiredness were nothing.

"Our family's Xiaoyun has grown up, and Zhilu Dao feels sorry for his sister. You are now a child, and your family will be much more prosperous in the future, and when you are a talent, this fish will be nothing. Today, my sister thanks you have a good meal. ”

Fang Yun picked up a piece of oily braised pork, handed it to Yang Yuhuan's mouth, and said softly: "No, it's my blessing to you, without you, I don't want to study, it's not easy to live, I always remember." ”

Yang Yuhuan's eyes were red, and he opened his mouth to eat the braised pork and chewed it slowly.

Born in a poor family, you know that meat is precious.

Fang Yun sandwiched a piece of braised pork for himself, and after eating, he picked out the chicken leg from the casserole and put it in Yang Yuhuan's bowl.

"One for each of us. ”

"Hmm!"

It is rare for two people to eat meat once a year, and today they let go of their stomachs to eat, and they ate a fine light after the worst.

Yang Yuhuan looked at the empty plate, a little embarrassed, he had eaten too much.

The two of them were too full to stand up, looked at each other and smiled, chatting happily, and the room was filled with a warm atmosphere.

After a while, there was a commotion from the neighbors, and it was Lao Wang who had drunk too much and was teaching the children to study hard and take the children's exams.

The two smiled, Yang Yuhuan looked at the sky, and said, "Now the three examiners should be marking the papers." ”

Fang Yun nodded.

Inside the Bun Academy.

The spacious marking room is brightly lit, and rows of long tables are neatly placed, and the test papers of more than 2,000 candidates are placed on them one after another, covering the table, which is very spectacular.

The three examiners stood solemnly in front of the statue of Confucius in the depths of the marking room, and the ten Mr. Lang of the County Academy of Literature were behind them.

Cai County Ling said: "Respectfully ask for the Holy Judge!"

"I respectfully ask the Holy Judge. Then the crowd said in unison.

A strange force descended out of thin air, and there was wind in the room, but all the test papers did not move.

Most of the papers were unchanged, but almost half of them suddenly glowed orange.

Talent revealed.

Those orange shimmers were more or less, and the highest talent among them was close to three feet tall, almost reaching the level of Naruju.

The second-ranked test paper is barely one foot tall, and the difference between the two is huge.

Then, a gust of wind blew, and the test papers flew all over the sky.

The wind stopped, and a large number of test papers were piled up in one corner, and there were only a hundred test papers left on the table, arranged in order of talent.

"Pick people by talent, sort by text!"

After Cai County's order was finished, the ten lecturers each held an answer to the holy word, and each of them selected nine examination papers from back to front, and began to read the papers.

The ten test papers with the most talent did not move.

Cai County Ling was in charge and said: "Since there are almost poems about Mingzhou, then this county is not welcome, and it is a sneak peek." After speaking, he happily walked to Fang Yun's test paper.

The reason why the paper is marked so late is because after the candidate submits the paper, there is a special person responsible for stamping the candidate's name with a name seal on the paper, and it cannot be seen when marking the paper to prevent cheating. Only when the top fifty rankings are determined can the names be seen.

The poem was placed on the top, and Cai Xianling couldn't help frowning when he saw the word "Chunxiao", although this word was quite neat, but in his opinion, it was still too bad, but when he thought that Fang Yun was a disciple of the cold sect, he was relieved.

Practicing calligraphy requires a lot of pen, ink and paper, and the poor disciples don't have that much money, so they either practice on the sand with branches, or write directly on the table with a brush dipped in water, the latter still needs a lot of brushes.

Cai Xianling looked at the poem and couldn't help but read it: "I don't know when I sleep in spring, I hear birds crying everywhere; ”

The three examiners were stunned, the text of this poem is very simple, and you can understand it as soon as you read it, but why do you have a faint regret after reading it?

The other two examiners also looked at Fang Yun's test paper and thought carefully.

"It seems like something is missing in my heart. Wan Xuezheng said.

Cai Xianling was born in the same jinshi, and his official position was the seventh grade, and Wang Yuanjun and Wan Xuezheng were only from the seventh grade.

Cai Xianling watched it several times, and suddenly sighed: "Wonderful." Although the text of this poem is simple and natural, it is expensive in the word 'true', the scene is true, and the meaning is true. The structure of this poem is also extraordinary, you look at the four lines of the poem, in order, I don't know, I know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,

'I don't know' leave a blank space, let the reader think, how many flowers are falling, why do you ask about this flower fall?"

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the reading room, as if everyone was thinking about a question, how much do you know?

It's just five words, but it arouses everyone's hearts.

Wang Yuanjun nodded and said, "Brother Cai said the best of this poem. The reason why this poem is true is because there is spring in every sentence, every sentence is off topic, spring sleep, spring birds, spring rain, spring breeze, spring flowers, it seems to be full of scenes, but it is not romantic. The most rare thing is that the text is simple, unpretentious, the most natural, and the most easy to circulate. If this candidate is not obtained by chance, he will not be an ordinary person. ”

The other two kept nodding, it was too important to be easy to circulate, the literary name was one of the pursuits of the reader, and the half-saint could not avoid vulgarity.

Wan Xuezheng said: "I can also make such words, but I can make a poem like a picture in front of me, and melt into it, but it is so natural, it is difficult." ”

Wang Yuanjun said: "When the list is released tomorrow, I will repair a book and recommend this poem to the state court Jun Li University, hoping that he can recommend it to "Holy Dao", so that this poem will be famous all over the world." ”

"If this poem can be included in "The Holy Dao", it will greatly increase the literary style of my Jingguo!" Cai Xianling said with great anticipation.

Wan Xuezheng's face darkened, and he said in a low voice: "I am nearly fifty years old, and I have thousands of poems and essays, but I have never been on the monthly magazine "Holy Dao". ”

Wang Yuanjun smiled bitterly: "The Holy Dao is published by the Holy Academy, and the selected articles over the past months are all famous articles, and everyone who publishes in the "Holy Dao" is either a poetic saint, or a Confucian scholar, or a master of strategy, and the lowest one is also a wonderful skill, I dare not be delusional. ”

Cai Xianling nodded, lifted the pen and dipped it in cinnabar red ink, and wrote under this test paper: The words are simple, the love is true, the poetry is beautiful, the meaning is long, and it should be the head of all beings, A!

"Do you have any objections?"

"The first of this year's children's poems is none other than "Spring Dawn"!"

"No objections. ”

Cai Xianling took aside the test paper with "Spring Dawn" written on it and said: "This person is extraordinary, but if you want to compete with Fang Zhongyong for the position of the head of the case, you still have to look at the holy words." ”

Cai Xian Ling looked at the words on the scroll of the Holy Word and shook his head secretly, looked at the first question carefully, his eyes lit up, and said: "I never thought that this son was so extraordinary! Even if I encountered this question back then, I would never be able to answer it correctly." ”

The other two examiners also looked at the answer, looked down, and were surprised, because the two of them would definitely not answer this question correctly before, even if they were lifting people, after all, this question was too biased, involving geography and inference ability.

Cai Xianling continued to look down with a pen in his right hand, and his expression was solemn after reading the first three, while the other two examiners, one left and one right, were also reading the papers at the same time, and they were speechless for a long time.

Cai County's pen has not been able to fall.

After staying for a moment, Wan Xuezheng asked, "No mistake?"

"Not a single mistake is incredible!"

Cai Xian Ling continued to look down, read the remaining twenty-seven test papers in one go, and simply put the brush aside.

"Still right?" Wang Yuanjun was a little surprised.

Cai Xianling said solemnly: "The god is like a god, not only no mistakes, no words, no alterations, no stains, I have only seen it in my life." ”

"Could it be that he would even ask for holy words to be first-class? Since inviting holy words to be admitted to the imperial examination, I have never had a first-class invitation to holy words in Jingguo, and even Chen Sheng was only second-class back then. ”

Cai Xian ordered: "It's a pity, I really want to give him a first-class, but his words are average, if I give him a first-class, I will inevitably be attacked by Shilin." ”

After Cai Xian ordered to finish speaking, he wrote on the test paper asking for the holy word: The words are inferior, there is no mistake, and B is on it.

"It's a pity. ”

"It's a pity. ”

Cai Xian Ling reluctantly put down Fang Yun's test paper and picked up Fang Zhongyong's poetry test paper.

Fang Zhongyong can write poems out of the county, and the children's examination in any place will be paid more attention by the examiner, and the examiner will inevitably write comments with praise and praise, but unfortunately he met Fang Yun, and met Cai County, who was regretting in his heart.

Cai Xianling looked at Fang Zhongyong's poem, didn't say a word, and wrote "B Zhong" casually, without even commenting.

The rating is divided into four grades: A, B, C, D.

No matter what the test is, there can only be one A class per subject.

After that, B and C will be divided into upper, middle and lower, and D and other grades will not be scored, because those who get Ding and so on in any subject will not be admitted.

The three examiners have been immersed in the regret of not being able to give Fang Yun Shuangjia, silently marking the papers, and when they encounter mistakes, they do not hesitate to make a stroke, and finally evaluate them according to the number of mistakes.

After reading the top 10 with the most talents, the three examiners will give the remaining 90 test papers poems and holy words to be evaluated.

The last of these 100 people should be ordered according to the order of the Holy Word, and the first 50 can become children.

If it is equal, the one with fewer errors comes first.

If it is said that the errors are equal, the poems are sorted according to their order. If the poems are the same, then depending on the quality of the text, if the 50 and the latter cannot distinguish between the superior, you need to ask the semi-saint examiner to decide, and there will generally be a few more children.

After the grading, it was already late at night, but everyone was not allowed to leave the Bun Academy, and they each slept in their quarters.

Early the next morning, the three examiners and the ten lecturers got up at 6 a.m., washed up and eaten, and then began to "review" at 7 o'clock to re-examine and re-examine to ensure that there were no problems.

If the judgment is too big and the Demi-Saints will intervene, the examiner will not only lose face, but may even be removed from prison and imprisoned.

Entering the marking room, Cai Xianling said while walking: "I couldn't sleep for a long time last night, and I am still unwilling." ”