The sky is bright and the wind is clear, the morning light is shining, and the river gets up to wash at the moment of the first rooster crow. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Today is the day of the opening of the small exam, Jiang He took the courtyard door with an oil-paper umbrella and a simple pen and ink cartridge to go out to the Ministry of Rites. The road was bustling with cars and horses, the rivers were walking quietly, and a hint of morning dew made him feel very cool, and Kyoto Castle always began to wake up at the first ray of morning light.

The examination room of the Ministry of Rites was already crowded with candidates for reference, and Jiang He had to stand at the back of the line with an oil-paper umbrella when he came. There was no end in sight to the blackened crowd, only a vaguely crimson gate glowing with an old hue at the very end. The steamed bun shops on both sides of the street are doing very well today, and the hot steamers are emitting white smoke and the smell of soft and glutinous meat.

At this moment, the sky is early and the morning light is faint, but from the gate of the courtyard to the corner of the street, there are already all kinds of candidates. There is a rich boy dressed in luxurious silk brocade, shaking a delicate origami fan in his hand, followed by a few subordinates carrying a hot pot and holding a small stool, as if going out for an outing. There are also candidates who are still standing in the queue holding books and reading them attentively, making the final preparations before the exam.

Jiang He folded the umbrella and honestly lined up behind the line, waiting for the officials of the Ministry of Rites to come out to preside over the exam.

More and more candidates are coming, and there are many candidates from other countries wearing different styles of clothing, and there is a sharp contrast between the candidates from Jinsha Country who wear short shirts and shorts with pearl seashell jewelry and the candidates from the North who wear long-sleeved dresses and top hats. The Protector's attitude of embracing all rivers and rivers and not limiting nationality has been appreciated by the world, and at the same time, it has also attracted all the talents from all over the world to come.

On the same day, when the owner of the steamed bun shop sold out the last basket of steamed buns and the last spoonful of porridge, the door of the examination hall finally opened, and a host wearing an official uniform came out with a golden gong, and then with the sound of a gong, another long-bearded and white-haired examiner of the Ministry of Rites came to the door with a file and began to read out the rules of the examination room.

He was wearing a luxurious official uniform, his beard and long hair extended to the chest in front of him, he raised his hand to signal, and the candidates instantly quieted down, and the street could only hear the barking of a dog at the end of the street, he rolled his sleeves wide, and then took the file and began to read it aloud:

"The rules of this small examination are as follows: first, the examination room is strictly disciplined, and there shall be no substitute examination behavior, and once it is found, it will be banned from taking the test for life. ”

"Second... ”

Probably some of the rules of the examination room, such as no cheating, no substitute exams, and no random defecation in the examination room, the candidates below listened boredly, but they all honestly lined up in line and waited for the reading to be completed.

"The next one is extremely important, and I ask you to listen carefully. The examiner suddenly paused, and looked at the examinee in front of the door with the file. Everyone was amazed, not knowing what he was going to say. So they all stood up straight and leaned over to see what this so-called important matter was. For some reason, everyone in the world knows that this small test has been held for decades, and the last time the rules were changed was ten years ago.

Seeing that everyone was in good spirits, the examiner paused with satisfaction and continued: "The final score of this small examination has been lowered to two-tenths in the proportion of the assessment and evaluation results of the inner courtyard of the Protectorate Academy, and the specific assessment indicators of the inner courtyard will be standardized after the list is released. ”

In an instant, the candidates below were in an uproar, and the voices were noisy. Jiang He didn't know the situation, so he had to listen to the people around him discuss it loudly.

"In the past, the results of the primary examination of the Guardian Academy accounted for four-tenths of the results, and the results of the monastic assessment accounted for six-tenths, but now, isn't there a slim chance of transferring students like us who are not very high in cultivation to enter the inner courtyard?"

"Why do you discriminate so much against us candidates who are not outstanding in cultivation?"

"Oh, I don't know how to cultivate anyway, and the inner court has nothing to do with me... ”

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Jiang He finally suddenly realized, this inner courtyard is really not simple, out of the evaluation of experience results and to evaluate the level of cultivation, according to the usual rules, even if you don't know how to cultivate, but you have the talent of cultivation and the grade A, it is possible to be admitted on the basis of merit.

But now according to this rule, Jiang He can't help but feel a little regretful, it seems that he has no chance to see the world's cultivation wizards, because he can't cultivate the Tao and his talent is still rotten.

However, Jiang He felt that he could still give it a try.

The presiding officer beside the examiner rang the golden gong again to silence the crowd, and the examiner was able to continue reading the rest of the guidelines.

After the reading was completed, it was another sacrificial activity, with high incense and fire, and smoke. And in previous years, there was probably a senior brother and sister from the Protectorate to help preside over the sacrifice, I don't know why this year it was a few officials of the Ministry of Rites, and they had to burn incense and worship the sky, and then there was another gong.

Only then did all the candidates enter the examination room one after another with the soldiers who had been waiting in front of the gate of the hospital for a long time to maintain discipline in the examination room.

The candidates in the queue packed up their things one after another and walked crookedly in several lines towards the courtyard. Those boys and brothers also took away the little servants around them, and then walked to the courtyard with the prepared pen and ink bookcase. The examinees who were standing in the corner reading the books also leaned over, put the books into a storage box in front of the courtyard, and walked inside with the book basket on their backs.

Jiang He held his pen and ink cartridge and followed the team forward, the box contained three kinds of brushes bought by the boys and a box of high-quality ink tables made in Weicheng, and there were nothing else, because there would be an invigilator to check whether there was entrainment, if there were paper strips and cloth towels and the like, they would be counted as entrainment.

Inside the courtyard is an empty and spacious special examination room, with several rows of large and small houses lined up one after another, and each room is divided into many separate examination rooms, which is an important examination room of the Ministry of Rites. Kyoto City's big and small exams are held here.

Jiang He took his number plate, then put down the pen and ink cartridge in his hand, and a dilapidated wooden table in front of him had been through vicissitudes. Jiang He took a deep breath and pinched the brush in his hand, the hardness and trace feeling of the pen barrel made him feel very comfortable.

About Kyoto City, about Nanguo, about this world, Jiang He couldn't help but feel a little fusy as he looked at the black and old table in front of him and the simple brush in his hand. From the beginning of his efforts to live, to now worry-free food and clothing, such a life will always make people a little chaotic and paralyzed, maybe through this Protector of the House of Guardians can get in touch with more questions about this world, he needs to know, understand, and find out the world he came to and why he came here.

This is a process of pursuing value, Jiang He shook his head, putting aside complicated thoughts.

Where I came from and where I am going will always be a profound topic in the course of countless different lives.

After the examination room was inspected, the sealed examination papers were placed in front of each candidate's desk, and a few strands of gold thread were carefully scalded along the edges of the papers, and the seals were extremely cautious. Jiang He carefully unwrapped the silk thread, then unfolded the scroll, and another gong sounded, and the exam officially began.

Jiang He didn't start working on the question directly, he flipped through the paper, read the question roughly, and then after a long time he flipped the paper from the back to the front. At the end he shook his head softly and let out a wry smile.

It's not that there are too many questions to complete, and it's not too complicated to write, but... It's too complicated, this little test is really as rumored to happen, it is from the astronomical and geographical cultivation method, down to the village songs of repairing houses and tiles, Jiang He suddenly felt that he was still deeply ignorant.

There are more than 100 questions in this exam paper, and the first 30 are about filling in the sentences and memorizing the Taoist scriptures, which have been read in the book a few days ago and are already familiar with the heart, and this is only the basic part for most candidates.

Jiang He rubbed his hands, then picked up the pen and began to write silently.

"The husband is the master of the heart, the heart is evil, and the heart is right. Today's hands and feet, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, can not help but the heart, the heart's thoughts, is not qi, qi feelings, will from the heart, so that the whole qi is the body, the qi is the god is destroyed, the god is destroyed, the god is dead. . . . ”

The only sound in the entire examination room was the sparse sound of rolling and the subtle grinding sound of a brush sliding on the paper. The invigilator in front of the house carried a knife to patrol back and forth, preventing cheating and paying attention to the physical condition of the candidates at any time, and there was a thumb-thick incense in front of each room, which should have added a little spice, Jiang He felt that this fragrance smelled very pleasant, and smelled it and had the effect of refreshing the mind.

The incense is more important for the timing effect, the incense is divided into three columns, one of which is black, the second is white, and the third is yellow, and the black incense is lit one after another, and the yellow incense is burned out for the end of the exam.

After Jiang He finished filling in the last field, he rubbed his somewhat sour wrist, then raised his head and looked at the incense in front of him, the black incense had just burned to the fullest, he opened the ink cartridge to grind the ink for himself, and then silently calculated his previous score.

Of the thirty-two questions, he answered twenty-eight, because four of them were not read in the Taoist books, and he could clearly remember the rest, thinking that it should be a good grade.

Turning the pages of the volume, the second sheet is an essay question, with only four questions, namely:

The first question, please discuss why Taizong of the Southern Kingdom garrisoned Belan Mountain for three months when he was at war with the barbarians?

In the second question, please discuss the characteristics of the architecture of the northern country and draw a representative architectural drawing.

Third, please discuss whether there is an end to this heaven and earth, and why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?

Question 4: Please discuss the singing method and characteristics of rural folk songs in the south of Jinsha Country.

Jiang He put the pen on the pen holder and rubbed his temples. The first question of history,It's already extremely difficult.,It's mentioned in the history books I read.,But most of them are brush-off.,There's no way to know in detail.。。

There is only the third question, and only the third question, Jiang He knows the answer, this backward era civilization is still in the world cognitive concept of the round sky, they think that the sky is like a dome and the earth is like a square, the sun, moon and stars swim in the sky by themselves, no one confirms it from the ocean, maybe some people say that the earth is round, but there is no way to know.

For the first time, Jiang He felt that the scientific civilization he knew was still very important in this backward world, but he also deeply felt the difficulty of explaining it, and how a new theory could be accepted and convincing required countless arguments and evidence, which was science, and Jiang He felt that his head was a little big.

He picked up the pen, then put it down again, and thought in his mind for a long time about a model of the movement of celestial bodies and an easy-to-understand theory, and after a long time, he picked up the pen again and began to answer the question slowly.

Green smoke curls up from the incense and then gathers and disperses.

"The earth has an end, a fixed side and has been moving forward since then, and finally returning to the beginning, the world is a sphere, and man is like an ant on the surface of the world... Jiang He tried his best to explain that although he was not sure whether the examiner agreed with his point of view, science is like this, it always starts to explore and think from the confusion that cannot be known, and there are always people who will slowly accept this new idea that is close to subverting the known...