The first session of the county test is the Sutra.

It was established by the empress's deceased husband Gaozong, and the imperial examination was only one time before.

At that time, the Jinshi candidates had a tendency to "not read the canon", "copy the righteous articles", and "only recite the literary policy", and the superiors tried to maintain their rule with Confucian ethics and education. Therefore, an official played Gaozong: "Jinshi only tries the current policy, for fear of recovering from the superficiality, please add two essays and post a small scripture." ”

At this point, in the Jinshi examination, there are more essays on scriptures and poems.

Every time Liu Chenxing thinks of this historical record, he can't help beating his chest and sighing, why wasn't she born more than ten years early.

This is all joking, or the text is back to the point.

As the name suggests, cover the left and right sides of the scriptures, only open the middle line, and then cover the three characters with paper, and the candidates can supplement the sentences according to the scriptures before and after, and write out the missing three words. Similar to modern fill-in-the-blank questions, they mainly test the juzi's familiarity with the scriptures.

In fact, this exam is very easy to pass, as long as the candidate usually memorizes and memorizes more, there is almost no problem.

However, at this time, there are many arrogant talents, and it is because it is too simple to rely on rote memorization of the scriptures, and it is inevitable to relax at ordinary times.

Therefore, as soon as they read the test questions, many candidates in the examination room scratched their ears and cheeks, and some of them were as big as a fight.

The sighs came one after another, and Liu Chenxing was not disturbed by them and quickly reviewed the question.

There are a total of 15 test questions, including 10 Xiaojing and 5 Laozi.

Memory is Liu Chenxing's strength, which can be regarded as the existence of a golden finger, looking at the past at a glance, Liu Chenxing already knows it, so he is not in a hurry to answer the question.

This morning, that is, at four o'clock in the modern morning, she got up to take the exam, and now it has been more than an hour, she has not even used a mouthful of morning food, and her stomach has already grunted in protest.

Now is the time for her to grow her body, in order to grow taller these years, she has to drink pork bone soup almost every two or three days, and the bone oil in the pork bones is even cleaner. In fact, it is better to drink milk, but milk is still not affordable, pork is regarded as cheap meat, and bones are not valuable, so she has to absorb nutrients from pork bones to grow taller.

At the same time, he also takes into account ligament pulling, high jump, and other sports.

After years of hard work, but also after the separation, she was finally able to eat well, and as soon as the nutrition kept up, her height also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and she will only turn thirteen years old next month, but she is already Liu's height, that is to say, she has finally broken through the one meter six that she had in her previous life.

With such a gratifying growth in height, now her goal is no longer one meter six mark, but to challenge one meter six eight, of course, she can't be full and hungry anymore.

So, Liu Chenxing took out a small pottery stove from her bamboo back basket and skillfully lit a fire. In order to reduce the choking fireworks and burn some of them, she also went to buy carbon.

After a while, the carbon ignited, and he felt the warmth coming, Liu Chenxing couldn't help but smile, pulled open half of the Hu cake and baked it by the stove, set up a pottery bowl on the stove, poured the water from the bamboo tube into the bowl, and then put the mutton and sheep water bought at lunch yesterday and boiled it together.

Because the mutton and mutton are cooked food, as soon as the water boils, it can be cooked.

Liu Chenxing carefully served the homemade "mutton soup" through his sleeves, and the baked Hu cakes on the side were also warm.

There is nothing more enjoyable than eating a bite of hot cooked food on a cold day, and Liu Chenxing is satisfied.

Although the male and female candidates took the test in separate rooms, the doors and windows of each examination room were wide open, and Liu Chenxing sat in the first row, which was inevitably seen by the candidates sitting in the first and second rows of the examination rooms on both sides of the courtyard.

"I have been studying hard for decades in the cold window, which can be described as summer practice and winter practice, and hunger and cold are nothing but the sages and sages! But female candidates clearly know that the imperial examination is child's play, so competing in the same field, isn't it humiliating us!? ”

"Ridiculous! It's a fur mattress, and it's cooking and boiling meat, how can this be an exam!? ”

"It's really ...... for a saint to open a female imperial examination Alas! ”

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The discussion gradually became louder, but there are regulations that you can bring food and even cook food, but the candidates mostly regard the imperial examination as a way to change their fate, how can there be leisure and elegant food in the examination room?

Although the male candidates are not used to this move, the invigilators around see that Liu Chenxing has not violated discipline, so they will not take care of it, but they must not despise it in their hearts, female candidates, still thirteen? It's ridiculous!

Liu Chenxing is not deaf, so he naturally heard everyone's ridicule.

But the female imperial examination is already full of controversy, and if she cares about these gossips, she will not appear in today's examination room.

One of the goals of the imperial examination is to live a more comfortable life. If you wronged yourself for the eyes around you, why bother with the imperial examination?

Liu Chenxing ignored the male candidates' verbal criticism, nor did he care about the displeased eyes of the female candidates, and still used the hot morning food slowly and methodically.

At the same time, one of the male candidates also concocted the same method and cooked the food.

There are those who know male candidates, and they know that they are students of Qingyang Library, and they are still quite knowledgeable. I felt that the words of the crusade just now were like a slap in the face, but fortunately, I quickly found the words to criticize - "The world is going down!" There are also those among us who are greedy for pleasure! ”

The corners of Liu Chenxing's mouth curled, and his brother also ate the morning food.

And everyone saw that they were angry for a while, but the male and female foodie candidates were still themselves, and gradually lost interest.

Maybe they also felt hungry, and many people secretly found their own dry food, but when they thought of the steaming meat, the cold and hard dry food in their hands suddenly lost their taste, and they could only comfort themselves in their hearts: Such people who regard the imperial examination as child's play will definitely fall off the list! And they are the people who will descend from the heavens, and they must go through some training first!

In this way, the candidates finally finished eating, and the sky was completely brightened.

When the examiner in charge of the examination, the county lieutenant, arrived, and took a seat on the main hall steps, he didn't dare to make a sound anymore, and began to answer the questions intently.

The first post: No___ ears and eyes, Baidu is chaste. Play ___ mourning, play ___ mourning.

The county examination is the most basic examination of the imperial examination, and the post scripture is the first of the county examination, and the questions are still very simple.

The first post is selected from one of the minor classics, the Book of Shang.

There are a total of 58 chapters in the Book of Shang, which are divided into the Book of Yu, the Book of Xia, the Book of Shang, and the Book of Zhou.

This post is from the "Book of Zhou" of the "Traveling Mastiff" chapter, and the content is: not to serve the eyes and ears, Baidu is only chaste. Playing with people loses morality, and playthings lose their minds - it is a well-known idiom allusion to the world.

Liu Chenxing answered directly without thinking about it and commented on its meaning.

The difficulty of the following posts gradually increased, almost all of them were long sentences with astringency, but Liu Chenxing had a good memory, and she never stopped reciting Confucian classics such as silent writing every day.