There was fog today, and the Kaitai Academy in the early morning was shrouded in a layer of misty white fog, like a huge net spread across the sky, and it was not clear to see it from a little distance.

Today is a good day for the main event "The World's No. 1 Talent Talent Competition" to beat the drums and gongs, so at a very early stage, many staff members of Kaitai Academy began to be busy.

The competition venue is set in the center of the academy - this place is a huge stone square, which usually belongs to the students of Kaitai College to listen to the lectures collectively, and the place where they are trained is enough to be a hundred zhang square, and the ground is paved with granite of neat specifications, which is polished very smooth.

Today, the granite is covered with hundreds of cushioned balls, all of which are for the representatives of the scholars from all walks of life to sit, and a small table is placed in front of each cushion for people to write. And above the square was a small temple.

This temple is completely different from the temple built by the monks of the Buddha's family, boxy, upright, in fact, it should be said that it is more appropriate to belong to the temple type of building, the door is always open, there is no design door panel at all. There are three steps outside the door, made of white marble materials, and under the steps, two trees are symmetrically planted on the left and right sides, one is a cypress tree, and the other is also a cypress tree.

Not only are the two trees of the same species, but they are also quite close in height and size, and they have obviously been artificially pruned often, and the canopies of the trees are very similar, and they look like two identical cypress trees.

Under the cypress trees, there are a row of Taishi chairs, lined up on both sides, of course, for officials and gentlemen.

As soon as the hour arrived, the sound of "bell" came out of the temple, and the sound was clear and pleasant.

As the bell rang, representatives of students, officials and gentlemen from all the states and academies rushed to the square.

It turned out that the upholstered tables were pre-allocated in advance, with notes with their names on them, and the students needed to be seated. Among them, there is a rule, the front row belongs to the representative of Guozijian, and then belongs to the Yuelu Academy, Kaitai Academy, these big academies, just like this, all the way down, getting worse and worse-

When they arrived at Chen Jianchen and Xiao Hanfeng, they were almost sitting at the back of the square.

In such a scene, Chen Jianchen suddenly remembered that when he was in school in his previous life, he allocated seats according to the rules of grades, regardless of height, even if he looked like a tiger with a bear's waist, he could block the small half of the blackboard with his head up, but as long as his grades were good, he could sit in front of him - it was a typical row of sitting and dividing fruits, and those with poor grades would naturally be able to get good fruits, while those with poor grades had to pick up some crooked melons, cracked dates, and rotten pears.

On the day of the competition, all the student representatives were neatly dressed and meticulous, that Zheng Shuliang was especially exaggerated, in addition to a white Confucian costume, he also wore a high hat on his head, which was a retro-style high crown, at least one foot high, towering, like a mountain and a peak.

"Senior Liuxian, Kaitai Academy is really extraordinary, that is the Holy Temple!"

What Xiao Hanfeng said was the temple above the square, called the Holy Temple.

——Since the opening of the Tiantong Dynasty, there has been only one person who can be worthy of the word "saint" for thousands of years, and that is Dong Shengren. The holy temple, of course, is a temple dedicated to worshiping the saint Dong.

The temple can not be built anywhere, and it is not like the Dragon King Temple, which belongs to the rotten streets. In order to build a temple, it must be a large academy with a great reputation and a long history. Therefore, a third-rate academy like Ming Wah College is not qualified to build a temple. Otherwise, it is overstepping, it is transgression, and it does not conform to the etiquette system

Chen Jianchen looked at the back, and saw that the temple of Kaitai Academy was not big, nor was it high, and on the steps, there were two stone tablets, on which the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, and many words were carved, which should be words and articles praising the saint. The statue of Sage Dong is not built in the temple, but designed at the door, six feet tall, high-crowned robe, barefoot, with his right hand and looking at the sky, and holding a book in his right hand behind him.

The sage looked at the sky, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and his left hand was holding three long wisps of beard, as if he was contemplative, and seemed to be worried about something, which was exactly the appearance of a great Confucian who was worried about the country and the people.

After entering the square, they did not sit down immediately, but had to bow to the saint and perform the disciple salute before they could sit down.

Afterwards, the dean of Kaitai Academy, an old man with a clear appearance, began to speak, nothing more than welcoming everyone to come, hoping that all the scholars would behave well......

Chen Jianchen listened without saying a word, occasionally looking left and right, but saw that everyone else was very serious and upright.

After the old dean finished speaking, the next thing was the preparation time for the scholars, so they took out the four treasures of the study room that they were usually used to from the book, and placed them on the small table one by one.

Participating in this competition, neither servants nor scholars can take it with them, and it is so strict that it is comparable to the imperial examination.

Dozens of students and dozens of different styles of books are placed on the ground, which looks magnificent.

After a while, a short and fat official came to the front desk to speak, looking at the service, not a petty official, and waiting for him to introduce himself, it turned out to be a scholar and politician in Zhezhou, surnamed Liu.

Liu Xuezheng is mainly here to announce the rules of the competition, which are roughly as follows:

First, the content of the competition is divided into three parts: "calligraphy", "poetry" and "current literature";

Second: the competition implements the elimination mechanism, today the first test "calligraphy", calligraphy is not good, directly out, and then not qualified to continue. Tomorrow I will take the test of "Poetry", and the day after tomorrow I will take the test of "Shiwen".

Third: Each level of the competition will be judged by three respectable, fair and strict masters, and the score will be reviewed.

There are three levels in total, divided into three days.

The reason why "Shiwen" is put at the end is because of the importance of Shiwen, you must know that if Shiwen Bagu is well written, there will be great hope for the imperial examination in the future.

"Alright, the rules are almost done. So, today's competition has officially begun, and it will last for an hour, and you can pick up your pen and write. Finally, Master Ben would like to remind you that the first level of calligraphy is not just a test of your calligraphy......"

Speaking of this, Lord Liu stopped, but none of the people in the square were stupid, and they quickly understood the meaning, that is, the words written in calligraphy, if they were ingenious, would have extra points.

Calligraphy, there is a book, in which the "book" occupies a large proportion, for example, even if you have a wonderful pen, the rules are like a god, but the content of the writing is vulgar or meaningless. Then, this work has no value. To put it more simply, if you use your big pen to write the word "" heartyly, even if the strokes are vertical and horizontal, the law is strict, and it is unparalleled in the world, what is the use? Even if such a "" is given away for nothing, people will not want it, and it must not be pasted on the pit.

Therefore, the word "book" is very particular, and what content is written is very important.

An hour is two hours, which can be said to be relatively sufficient in terms of time. Therefore, the students present were not in a hurry, but began to sharpen the ink in a hurry, and some people, after grinding the ink, spread out the blank paper and began to practice the pen first, looking for a feeling.

Calligraphy is a broad and profound art, which is an art, and it is necessary to pay attention to inspiration, rather than just picking up a brush and brushing to write well, it is easy to write, but it is difficult to write well. This principle is the same as writing an article, making up nonsense is an article, and Seiko carving is also an article, but the difference is like the difference between heaven and earth, and it cannot be compared.

Chen Jianchen sharpened the ink, spread out the paper very skillfully, concentrated slightly, lifted the pen with good luck, and almost wrote three big characters in one go:

"Innocent. ”

Of course, these three words have a source, Zi said: three hundred poems, in a word: thinking is innocent.

This is not the first time Chen Jianchen has written these three words, in fact, he has written this character several times, practice makes perfect, so it does not take too much effort and time to write it on the spot.

Then, he wrote his name on the bottom, stamped it, blew it slightly, and when the ink was dry, he raised his hand and motioned for himself to hand in the paper.

So far, it's only half a cup of tea.

Chen Jianchen was the first to hand in the papers.

He immediately attracted the attention of many people, and many eyes obviously noticed Chen Jianchen's existence for the first time, there was surprise and stunned in his eyes, but more of them were puzzled, and when he found out that Chen Jianchen was just a student representative of Minghua Academy, all his eyes revealed the meaning of the words "so it is"-

Since coming to Kaitai Academy, Chen Jianchen and Xiao Hanfeng's performance is even more quail than quail, and they can't find a decent feather on their whole body. In fact, this is also normal, the representatives of the students who come out of the third-rate academy are only at the third-rate level; as the saying goes, "the general is drawn from the short", but how to pull out, in front of the real masters, they are all short.

Therefore, the reason why Chen Jianchen wrote so quickly and handed in the paper was not because of his extraordinary strength at all, but because he knew that he was not competitive, so he wrote hastily and handed in the paper early.

There are many examples of such things, and they are not uncommon. The so-called "broken jar and broken fall" is talking about this truth.

Gu Xuezheng, who was sitting under the tree of the holy temple, saw that Chen Jianchen was the first to hand in the paper without much effort, not only was he not happy, but he frowned: Why is this Chen Jianchen so sloppy? You must know that this is a talent competition with many talents from all over the world, not selling calligraphy and paintings in Jiangzhou. In the market, if you sell words, you can simply write them, and you may be able to sell them for dozens of dollars. However, in the competition of the strong, how can the words written in this way enter the eyes of the judges? I am afraid that after the three old masters have seen it, they will directly crumple it up and throw it into the paper basket.

Hey, the shaft is unbearable, and the mud can't support the wall after all......