There was a thin wooden board between the two examination rooms, and Du Jinning's sense of hearing was keen, although the candidate next door tried to suppress his cry, it still reached Du Jinning's ears.

Du Jinning sighed softly and shook his head.

The first question, for these scholars who were accustomed to following the rules in ancient times, may feel that the examiner deliberately made it difficult for them. But Du Jinning feels that this topic has merit in addition to being a little cheating, at least this topic is not rigid, and it can maximize the imagination of candidates, tap their potential, and let them express their views.

It's much more interesting than coming up with a fixed topic for everyone to write about.

Just like the college entrance examination essay later, there is no longer a full-proposition essay, but through one or two materials, so that everyone can get insights from it, write what they want to say most in their hearts, and express their innermost thoughts, instead of writing official essays in the same way.

If you select talents with such topics, you can select people with quick thinking and flexible minds. This is beneficial for the country as a whole.

It's a little bit of a trick in the second question, which is a bit inexplicable. The interception question is not good to intercept, hiding the head and showing the tail, which is puzzling.

This exam is a three-question strategy and one poem.

Probably because the examiners also knew that the first two questions were a bit excessive, and the third question was very common.

Du Jinning copied the questions and did not fight at night like other candidates. She lit incense and smoked the house, made sure there was not a single mosquito in it, and went to sleep.

In the Gongyuan, the vast majority of candidates did not rest, but stared at the two questions in a daze.

One of them is Qi Siyu.

Qi Yuandao is still very concerned about his grandson, and he himself is mixed in the academic circle, and he has a clear understanding of the trend of academic tendencies, and knows that in the past two years, Bagu Wen has accounted for more and more of the imperial examination, so he not only reminded Qi Siyu to write more Bagu Wen, but also specially invited a person who is good at writing Bagu Wen to teach Qi Siyu.

But Qi Siyu really didn't expect that he had written Baguwen for so long, and he thought that he was better than everyone else in this regard, and he was quite confident in making Xie Yuan, but now he found that he couldn't even solve the problem.

These two topics were so bizarre that he was completely confused. He sat there facing the circle, irritating himself and trying to pull his hair.

Not to mention Qi Siyu, even Xu Chengyuan, Fang Shaohua and others were also in a daze with candles in front of the two questions on the test paper.

The news that Qi Siyu knew, Du Jinning naturally knew the test questions in the test papers collected through the bookstore. Du Jinning comes from later generations, and never forgets, she is also a person who loves to read and is well-read, even if she has no research on Baguwen, but she has seen the title of Baguwen in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and her understanding of Baguwen is still more than that of people in this era.

Du Jinning has never hidden her selfishness from her friends, not to mention Xu Chengyuan and Fang Shaohua, one is her eldest brother-in-law, and the other is her third brother-in-law, she naturally will not have reservations, not only reminding them to pay attention to Baguwen, but also telling them many examples of solving problems.

But the strangeness of the first question is still beyond Xu Chengyuan's imagination.

It was Qi Muyuan, who didn't have a big reaction when he saw this kind of topic, and he seemed confident. He did not affect his normal work and rest time because of the test papers, he ate at the end of the day and slept in the dark. Although they are separated from Du Jinning by hundreds of test houses, the work and rest habits of the two are in sync.

Du Jinning slept well, washed his face and went to the toilet the next morning, and then began to work on the problem.

She picked up a pen and wrote the first question on scratch paper: "There is no cube." It means that there are no rules.

She intends to write about the importance of the law in this article.

You must know how much she misses the legal society from the future generations of the law. She sincerely hopes that the Great Song Dynasty can rule the country by law, not whoever has the power can ignore the royal law and do whatever he wants.

Although she knew that the article she wrote might not be seen by anyone other than the examiner and the examiner who was grading, unless she could be admitted to Xie Yuan or the top three in the township examination, the article would be posted, but Du Jinning still tried her best to write it. Anyway, everyone is still stuck in solving the problem, and she writes the article quickly, and she can use more time and energy than others to refine the article.

It took her most of the day to write this article.

After she finished writing, she rested for a while, and then began to write the second question: "Mrs. Jun's Male Desire".

In fact, this question has nothing to do with Xiao Huangwen, but it is just a truncated question.

The three words "Mrs. Jun" are from the Analects. Ji's "The wife of the king, the gentleman is called Mrs." The wife's wife is called Mrs. Jun. The woman follows her husband, and the husband is the minister of the Son of Heaven who guards the land, and the country is large and small, and the duties are the same, so the salute is the same, which is an orderly practice.

"Yang goods desire" also comes from the "Analects" "Yang goods want to see Confucius, Confucius does not see", which means that there is a person named Yang who wants to see Confucius, and Confucius does not want to see him. And who is this yang goods? It's a juror. What do you want? See Confucius. Confucius is missing, why? Yang goods accompany the courtiers to uphold the government, and the more polite and disorderly the government, this is an unruly practice.

So the upper and lower sentences are connected, that is, the saint observes the ceremony, and it is not indecent.

"The Analects" is well known to readers, and the interception question is not a new thing, if the questioner is willing to speak well and finish speaking: "Mrs. Jun wants to see Confucius", the vast majority of candidates can know what this question means. The pit is that it only speaks half a sentence, and the content of the upper and lower sentences is easy to make people want to be crooked, so it is difficult to solve the problem.

Du Jinning finished writing the problem, saw the meal, asked for a meal, made a cup of tea after eating, continued to write for a while, and saw that it was late, so he fell asleep.

After all, Xu Chengyuan, Fang Shaohua and others have been mixed with Du Jinning for a few years, and their thinking is more open than that of ordinary ancients. At first, I was confused by the topic, but the next day I reacted, successfully solved the problem, and started writing the article.

Although the topic is strange, it is not unsolvable. Especially the first question, strange is strange, but it gives candidates the greatest room for play and imagination. Except for those candidates who are so rigid that they can do whatever others say, other people with more flexible brains can still think of a lot of things from this circle. So it slowly came to the end.

But this is a township test, whether a test paper is done well or not, in addition to determining whether the question can be solved, but also determines the speed of solving the question. If you respond quickly, you will solve the problem quickly, and you will naturally have plenty of time to write articles; If the response is slow, even if the problem is solved, it will take too much time to solve the problem, resulting in a tight time later. Not to mention skipping the pit in front and the pit in the second question.

Therefore, when Du Jinning leisurely maintained the regularity of his life and finished writing the entire test paper, some people were still writing the second or third policy essays, and they had no time to do the test poems.