Carefully walking half a circle from the corridor, Du Jinning came to the courtyard. Liu Xianling sat on the steps of the courtyard, and the movement in the courtyard was in full view. There was a stir in the corridor on his left just now, and he knew that someone had handed in the papers, but he didn't expect it to be Du Jinning.

He was taken aback and asked, "...... are you?"

Du Jinning took out two test papers from the test paper bag and held them respectfully with both hands: "Adult, students hand in the papers." ”

The candidates left their seats and came here, naturally they came to hand in the papers, and Liu County's question was just a fluke. At this time, when he heard that he was really here to hand in the paper, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful when he took the paper.

He could read Du Jinning's first volume, and he answered it very well. He is young, but he has solid basic skills, and even if he doesn't answer well in the second paper, he will get it. After all, such a person has a promising future. He won Du Jinning, and when Du Jinning became an official in the future, he also had an incense relationship.

Five or six hundred test papers need to be read and corrected in three or four days, and all the county orders participating in the invigilation and marking will not be like those teachers in later generations who have changed every question, and then the scores will be counted and admitted according to the scores from top to bottom. The focus of their marking will be on the first paper.

If you can't even answer the first volume well, you don't have to read the second volume. After all, if you are not familiar with the most basic four books and five classics, the Moyi and Jingyi questions in the back will naturally not have any outstanding performance. Nowadays, it is a trend for the government examination to have truncation questions, and if you are not familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics, if you go to take the government exam, you can't even read the questions when you encounter them, let alone break them. Letting such a person pass the county exam and take the prefectural exam is definitely a big waste of the county exam quota.

So just now after only looking at Du Jinning's first volume a few times, Liu Xianling had already decided in his heart that as long as the second volume of this kid was not dirty, he would directly take him in.

It's just that now it seems that it's a pity.

He didn't think that Du Jinning had come to hand in the papers now, and he had completely completed all the test questions. After all, the second paper is not only difficult, but it also takes longer. Those four arithmetic questions, even for a fellow jinshi like him, took a long time to figure out, and Du Jinning, at such a young age, could not be calculated in just such a little time.

As for not doing it, just leave the question blank and then hand in the paper early, this situation will hardly happen. After all, this is a major event related to the future of his life, and with all the hopes of his family, if he doesn't finish the questions and stay up until dark, these people will definitely not hand in the papers. At least, not so early.

So now that Du Jinning has handed in the paper ahead of schedule, the only explanation is that his second test paper is dirty.

With regret in his heart, Liu Xianling opened Du Jinning's test paper, glanced at the first one, and then put it aside, revealing the second test paper.

"Huh." When I looked at it this way, I saw that it was full of words, and there was no dirt on it.

Not only is there no dirt, but none of the questions are empty.

Liu Xianling looked at Du Jinning in surprise, only to see that he was still standing there with a straight posture just now, his eyes drooping slightly, his expression calm, and his attitude was calm and respectful.

He suppressed the shock in his heart and looked at the second volume intently.

I think that the county order that came out of the question is intended to be assessed from shallow to deep, layer by layer. The first question is from the Analects, and the second question is slightly more difficult than the first, and a passage is selected in the "The Mean"; The third question is a paragraph of some controversy in "University", which needs to be explained by two annotations, and this question is the most difficult in Moyi. But Du Jinning answered very accurately.

Liu Xianling couldn't help but raise his eyes and glanced at Du Jinning. After thinking about it, he asked Du Jinning with interest a question that did not appear on the test paper: "Yu Shun is slight, he is a concubine, so he is cheap." Yao Wen's wisdom will make the heir, go through all kinds of difficulties, and succeed him. Try to govern the people's difficulty. It's difficult, it's anti. He wrote "Shundian". Why? ”

Du Jinning knew that Liu Xianling was interested in the answer to his Moyi question, and now he wanted to test himself, so he replied: "Yu Shun lives in an ugly side, and his body is lowly, Yao Wenzhi has wisdom and saintliness, and will make him succeed to his throne. ”

Her year's time was not based on the learning process of Class B or Class A, but she spent a lot of time and energy on the books in the library cabinet. She has the ability to never forget, and has the ability to accumulate and understand all kinds of knowledge in later generations, and the collection of books in the library of this era is not comparable to that of the library of later generations, and the library of a small county academy is only three or four hundred books. It took her a year to read all these books, and she had a general understanding of the knowledge of this era.

Although there are many annotations to the Four Books and Five Classics, they are very confusing, and there are still many errors in the understanding of the scriptures, which are not as comprehensive as the "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" edited by Ruan Yuan in the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in this exam, her answers are basically based on the annotations in the "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" to deal with the Moyi questions.

"Ninth day of the first month: Don't use the hidden dragon. Why? Liu Xianling asked again.

"In the first position, so it is called 'the beginning', and because of its yang, it is called 'nine'. The Diver, the name of the hidden; Dragons, things of change. It is said that the natural qi of the sky starts in the month of Jianzi, the yin qi begins to flourish, and the yang qi is latent underground, so it is said that the 'first nine hidden dragons' are also. This natural image, the sage's practice, said in this hidden dragon time, the villain is prosperous, although the sage has dragon virtue, at this time only should be hidden, not to be used, so the saying 'do not use'. ”

There were a few test papers that were soiled by the rain, and when Du Jinning got up to hand in the papers, he also gave up the exam and prepared to hand in the papers and left, and they all went to the county order together. Hearing these two sentences, everyone was taken aback and looked at Du Jinning.

Could it be that this young man didn't hand in the papers because the test papers were dirty, but finished handing in the papers? And, did you do a great job in the exam papers?

Because of the tight time for revising the papers, many county orders will be corrected on the spot when someone submits the papers in advance. Sometimes I feel that you are doing well, and I will say "go back and prepare for the government test", which means that you have no problem with the county test. And some of the test papers are particularly good, or there are certain doubts, if you have time, he will test you on the spot. Anyway, as long as you can let the county order take the school, as long as you answer it properly, the county test will be stable, and there is a good chance that you will win the top ten.

This young man looks like he is only twelve or thirteen years old, and he has finished the paper so quickly, and he can still let the county order take the test for the school, which shows that he did a very good job in the test paper.