The eight-strand text is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting the topic, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle share, back share, and bundle share. The topic and the topic have been written, and the following talk Du Jinning also wrote very smoothly: "If you say that the monarch and the people are one, in order to mourn the public, cover the addition of the king, and use it insufficiently: if you want to use it enough, you must first meet its people?" ”

She put the pen on the inkstone and dipped it in ink, and continued to write: "Sincerity can be a hundred acres and thorough, and the eternal festival is with the heart of love; Tithing, not for the people's own use; then the people's power is not trapped in solicitation; The people's wealth is not as good as the ...... of the burial"

Governor Zhou Dongping walked around the examination room, then returned to the main hall and sat on his invigilator seat. At that time, the test papers had not yet been distributed, and the candidates were anxiously waiting for the papers. Seeing that he was sitting opposite him, the faces of the two desk leaders suddenly became a little nervous, and the other candidates were more or less uncomfortable.

And the youngest candidate from Lishui County, who was sitting on the side, didn't seem to see him at all, and he could forget himself by grinding ink, as if the people around him didn't exist. After getting the test paper later, he was even more distracted, and he didn't even glance at him, the examiner.

Zhou Dongping's face was a little dark.

The special one is really Guan Lehe's disciple, who is as arrogant as him, and no one is in his eyes.

A kid like this who doesn't even pay attention to the invigilator who is about to become his own teacher, no matter how well the article is written, Lao Tzu will not let him get the head of the case.

And at such a young age, maybe Guan Lehe used some means to make him the head of the county, and when he read the file for a while, Lao Tzu had to peel off the skin of their master and apprentice.

scolded fiercely in his heart, and Zhou Dongping felt better in his heart.

He turned his head and looked at the other candidates, out of sight and out of mind.

Sunlight shone in through the window lattice, creating patterned shadows on the ground. Slowly, the shadow of the sun moved from the inside to the outside, the sun gradually rose, and Du Jinning's stomach rang out at the right time.

She had already finished the first question. However, she did not rush to copy it, but took advantage of the fact that her mind was still quick, and wrote a short paragraph of the second question. Originally, she wanted to finish it in one go, and by the afternoon, she could spend more time on copying. After all, although she has a good memory and is faster than others in learning, calligraphy takes time to precipitate and accumulate. Although Yuan Xiuzhu praised her for her spirituality in calligraphy, two years was still too short, and her handwriting barely held back during the scientific examination, and there was absolutely no way to add points to herself.

So she plans to finish the article, rest for a while, adjust her state, and then concentrate on copying.

But the physiological needs are not forgiving.

She's growing up, and she's usually hungry. As soon as I felt hungry, I immediately felt that my chest was pressed against my back.

She reluctantly put the pen down.

Looking at the article she had written before, she went through the content she was about to write in her mind again, and made sure that she would not forget it again, so she pulled the rope hanging from the corner.

There is a bell tied to the rope, and candidates can pull the bell to call people for any need. She pulled the rope, and in a few moments an errand came over.

"I'm tired of sending me a meal." Although Du Jinning didn't get up, he still arched his hand.

Although the servants ate public meals, and the common people were in awe of them, few scholars looked down on them. Even the status of petty officials and officials varies greatly, let alone errand officers. The scholars are all going to be officials in the future, and the servants are similar to their subordinates in their eyes.

Therefore, Du Jinning's polite gesture immediately won the favor of the errand officer.

However, although he has a good impression, he is only a little warmer, and the money that should be collected is not a lot. He carefully quoted: "One meat, one vegetable, and two bowls of rice, sold for one tael of silver; Vegetarian dishes with two bowls of rice are sold for five dollars of silver; A bowl of rice sells for a penny. There is also a bud grain cake of 30 yuan. I don't know what you're going to do with this minister? ”

It belongs to the southern border of China and is rich in rice. The flour was transported from the north, and because of the inconvenient transportation, it was very expensive. Therefore, bread is not available in the examination room.

Du Jinning had long known from Guan Jiaze and Qi Muyuan that the price of the examination room was high, and it was not surprising that the price was high.

She took out a tael of silver and put it on the table: "Bother to bring me a meat and a vegetarian meal." ”

"Okay, please wait, I'll send it later." The errand officer said, and kindly reminded Du Jinning, "A bamboo tube of water is ten cents, do you want to come to a tube?" ”

In order to make money, the exam room is also hard enough. They specially looked for the kind of thin bamboo, and when they sold the four treasures of the study before, they gave such a small tube of water. If you want to save some money, you don't want to buy water to drink, drink the water in this bamboo tube, that's not possible.

If you want to drink water, you have to buy it from them. Ten pennies is a big tube, which is not expensive.

Du Jinning hesitated for a moment, but still took out ten yuan and handed it over: "There is labor." ”

It's not that she can't bear the ten cents. She has always pursued the principle of "money is not saved but earned", and usually spends money when it should be spent. She was just worried that she had drunk too much water and was going to the toilet.

Six or seven thousand people took the exam, and there were no flushing toilets in this era, so the situation can be imagined. Qi Muyuan, who has a habit of cleanliness, repeatedly warned her not to go to the toilet during the first two exams. The third exam is for two consecutive days, so there is no way, but you have to minimize the number of times you run to the toilet.

It's not a restaurant, you can't order a dish and he will serve it to you. Therefore, half an hour passed after Du Jinning ordered the meal, and when she felt that she was about to faint from hunger and had no way to write an article at all, the meal was finally delivered.

The silver of this era is very valuable, one or two silver, if you order food in that kind of general restaurant, you can order six or seven dishes with big fish and meat, and you can order more than a dozen with meat and vegetables. But it costs a tael of silver here, and it's just a winter melon...... Served with a little lean minced meat, plus a plate of baby greens.

Maybe the viewer wants to say that it can be served with lean minced meat but not fatty minced meat, and this examination room is still quite conscientious.

Then you are wrong. You must know that in ancient times, the price of fatty meat was much higher than that of lean meat. Lean meat stuffed with teeth, no oil and water, if you don't have no money, who wants to eat it?

Before he came to the exam, Du Jinning knew that he was going to eat these two dishes. You must know that the government exams are all in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, which is the time when the green and yellow are not accepted. At this time, there is no such thing as greenhouse vegetables, even if the examination room wants to talk about conscience, it will not be able to conjure up any good dishes for everyone.

Winter melons are released and are not valuable, so every autumn the officials in charge of the logistics of the examination room have to ask people to hoard a large number of winter melons and sell them to the candidates during the government examination. Guan Le and they ate winter melon when they tried it in the government back then, and now she, a disciple, still eats winter melon in the house test.

Meals cooked in a large pot naturally don't taste good. Fortunately, Du Jinning has endured hardships, and he doesn't pick his mouth, so he eats the food.

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, she took two small sips of water, moistened her throat and put down the bamboo tube.

After pulling the bell and asking the messenger to collect the dishes and chopsticks, she picked up the pen and continued to fight.