When the paper landed on the table in front of the examiner, the brick partition wall shook and cracked, collapsing towards the ground until it disappeared completely.

The exam room returned to its original state, and except for those who took the exam for the first time, who were slightly nervous, everyone else was calm.

The examiner said aloud: "Those who abandon the test can leave on their own, and the second test will follow." ”

Those who had failed to reach the pen power before lowered their heads and quietly left the examination room, the first one had already sunk into the sand, and the second test was useless no matter how good it was.

Xu Shao's face was full of victors' expressions, and he couldn't wait to put his nostrils to the sky, he thought that he would definitely be able to take the first place.

At this time, two officials walked in with a stack of papers, which were medium-grade rice paper, much better than the paper used to test the pen just now.

"In the second session, the content of the exam is fonts. The examiner said angrily: "Start handing out paper!"

After handing out the paper, the examiner picked up the envelope in front of him, opened the intact fire paint, took out the letter paper inside, and read: "The topic of this Wendao exam is the second article of the pavilion style, from 'small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge' to 'not also sad', the time is two quarters of an hour, and the exam begins. ”

The so-called pavilion style is the standard regular script style, based on the decomposition structure of European characters, emphasizing the unity of writing shape, size and thickness, and the font must be square and clean.

However, the overly regular font seems to be boring, and this kind of rigidity and immutability are criticized by calligraphers, but as a child's exam, there are still certain advantages to taking the exam in this way.

The candidates are generally under the age of 18 and are in the initial stage of learning calligraphy.

Throughout history, calligraphy has mostly become famous after the age of thirty or forty, and then it takes a longer time to reach perfection, so young people do not need to have personality to write, and laying the foundation at a glance is the king.

The 12 chapters of the pavilion style are the standard practice posts of the pavilion style, which are excerpted from the famous passages in the Analects, Mencius, Laozi and other classic works, and the second is the "Wandering Journey" in the Zhuangzi.

Among the twelve, the first three belong to the lower difficulty coefficient, which is generally used for the county examination, and when it comes to the prefectural examination and the hospital examination, the questions are selected from the last nine.

That is to say, candidates must not only be able to write, but also have to memorize the content of these twelve articles, a total of 86 words in today's exam, all of which must be written in standard italics, and the time is two quarters of an hour, which is quite nervous for many people.

The rice paper has a standard dark pattern of rice characters, and the size of the grid is one and a half inches square, and the candidates first read this passage silently in their hearts, and then write it down.

The test font does not need to use literary power, it all depends on the ability of one hand, the good writing is good, the bad is not good, the candidate can look at the answer sheet of the people around him at will, provided that you are not afraid of wasting your time.

If you can't complete the full text dictation within the specified time, you will be directly judged as unqualified.

There was silence in the examination room, except for the rustle of the pen against the paper.

Before half of the time had passed, a slightly abrupt voice sounded: "Submit the papers!"

Many people felt incredible, and looked in the direction where the voice came from, only to see that Qin Mo had already stood up from his seat.

The examiner frowned: "This candidate, are you sure you want to hand in the paper?"

"Yes. He affirmed.

The pavilion body is a piece of cake for him, the owner of this body has practiced hard for eight years, coupled with his in-depth understanding of calligraphy, which is equivalent to two people in the exam, of course, he will feel very relaxed.

The official walked over quickly, put Qin Mo's test paper away, and put it on the table in front of the examiner.

The examiner glanced at it, and suddenly his gaze tightened, this font is so standard, even a scribe with a humanistic degree may not be able to write so well.

Why is it so sure, because he is a lifter.

Writing block letters in a square of one and a half inches, and being able to write two in a minute is considered a very fast speed, but now the time has not passed halfway, and everyone thinks that he is abandoning the exam.

Before the exam began, Xu Hao and He Chang went to the three examination rooms of piano, chess, and painting to inspect, because the calligraphy exam takes two quarters of an hour, so just come back before the end.

The two of them did not find the talent of Jingtianwei and Earth, because they were thinking about this side of the matter, so they returned together with a tacit understanding, and found that Qin Mo had left, expressing their surprise.

He Chang shook his head and whispered, "It seems that we have too high hopes for him, just imagine that a person who can't try seven times, of course, can't have a chance to make a splash." ”

Xu Hao's brows furrowed and he did not comment on this matter.

Candidates began to hand in their papers one after another until the end of the exam time.

Calligraphy examination marking standards, pen power is divided into preliminary evaluation, re-evaluation and main evaluation, the first three words of the filament for the first class, the front cross filament for the second class, after the cross filament for the third grade, no filament for the last.

Among them, the third class and the last class are directly eliminated and will not participate in the scoring.

The standard of re-evaluation is more stringent, the first word transfilament is excellent, the first three words transfilament is a good product, and the front cross has a word complete transfilude for ordinary products, and the rest are defective products, and defective products are directly eliminated.

Of the more than 200 examination papers, only more than 50 papers were scored by the main and deputy examiners, which shows the great difficulty of the county examination.

He Chang is the deputy examiner, and he went through all the papers, leaving the words A, B, and C on them.

Among them, there are 12 Category A exam papers, 20 Category B papers, and the rest are all Category C. According to the experience of previous years, it is difficult for candidates in Category C papers to be admitted to middle school children, unless he gets Category A in the Taige physical examination paper, he will have the opportunity to compete with others.

The three levels of A, B and C are subdivided into three sub-levels: upper, middle and lower, and the final grading work is made by the chief examiner Xu Hao.

Several Class A test papers were judged by Xu Hao to be under A, and the word "Xia" was added to the lower right corner of the word "A".

Although these scrolls are all first-word translucents, the traces of tricks are too obvious, and it is not too much to judge them as under the armor at this point alone.

Then he got the scroll of the young master surnamed Xu, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, although there were also traces of tricks, but the first word pen was filament, and there were many filament strokes of the second and third characters.

He wrote the word "Shang" after the word "A", indicating that the grade of this scroll is Shang.

Some of the next few volumes were obtained in the first grade, and some were obtained under the first grade, Qin Mo's scroll was pressed at the bottom, and when Xu Hao saw that there was only one "Yong" word on it, he couldn't help but praise: "Good words, good strategies!"

He Chang raised his head, heard the sound and walked over and asked, "Lord County, what makes you so happy?"

Xu Hao picked up the scroll in front of him and said, "Take a look." ”

He Chang's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized: "Only write one word, it means that it is the first word through the silk, and the pen is through the silk, which is much better than those candidates who know how to trick it!"

Because there is only one word, there is no so-called trick, which is the best embodiment of pen power.

Xu Hao took out the previous volume on the first copy, erased the word "Shang" and changed it to the word "Zhong", and then wrote the word "Shang" on Qin Mo's volume.

"He Xuezheng, do you have any objections to this official's approach?" Xu Hao asked with a smile.

He Chang Zhengse said: "The lower official doesn't dare, although the previous volume is also the first word through the silk, but he has an obvious suspicion of cheating, if there is no later one, it is judged that there is no problem on the first, but the goods have to be thrown away." ”

In fact, with a little pen power, it is not difficult to achieve the first word through the silk, in order to be more safe, he chose to take a trick, but he didn't know that it was this that made him miss the first place.

Looking at the word on the test paper, Xu Hao felt as if he had an understanding, but because he was thinking about another thing in his heart, he didn't think about it deeply, and said with a smile: "The official is wondering whose this paper is." ”

He Chang raised his eyebrows and pointed to the inkstone next to him, which was freshly ground ink, corresponding to Qin Mo's ink characters.

According to the marking regulations, the number of the examination paper is not disclosed until the result is determined, and the person marking the paper does not know which candidate the examination paper belongs to.

Then there is the evaluation of the font volume, after the preliminary evaluation and re-evaluation, there are only more than 40 papers in front of the two examiners.

He Chang used the fastest speed to judge seven Class A tickets and sent them to Xu Hao.

Although they are all the same font and the same content, the quality of the characters can still be distinguished at a glance.

This time, Xu Hao was not in a hurry to judge a roll as a top one, and after some careful evaluation, there were two of the best rolls, which were spread on the table side by side by him.

The styles of the two scrolls are obviously different, one is extremely neat, and the other is extremely beautiful, Xu Hao frowned, and he didn't know how to decide for a while.

There is an unwritten rule in the county examination that there is only one place on the first grade, and there cannot be a situation where both papers are rated as the first at the same time.

Seeing the county lord's face full of embarrassment, He Chang came over and asked, "What's the matter, Lord Xu?"

Xu Hao didn't look up, pointed to the two test papers in front of him, and said: "In terms of neatness and standard, the one on the left has the upper hand, but the one on the right brings out the rare spirituality of the pavilion body, and He Xuezheng thinks which one is more in line with the standard of the first one." ”

"The lower officials are not qualified to judge the upper, middle, and lower, and everything is up to the county lord. He Chang first expressed his attitude, and then said: "According to my point of view, the one on the right is better, although the Taige physical examination is the font neatness and the specification of knots, but after all, it is not the right way to cultivate calligraphy. Compared with the two, it has a rare agility, and this alone is enough to surpass other exam papers. ”

Xu Hao nodded and said, "The hero sees the same thing, and this official thinks so." ”

Then, he completed the assessment of the Category B and Category C test papers, and the two of them opened the sealed test numbers together and found that the numbers of the two test papers on A were exactly the same.

Comparing the roster of candidates, the number corresponds to two words: Qin Mo.

Xu Hao was extremely excited: "The county test double A boy, this kind of rare result in a hundred years, can actually appear in our Xiayi County!"

He Chang was also excited: "Yes, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there are very few chances of the appearance of double-class children in the county examination, except for Su Sansheng, ten fingers can be counted." ”

In the county examination, both exams are awarded Category A, which is a double A score, but only those who have obtained both of them are eligible to be called Shuangjia Tongsheng, and there is not much difference in the name of the two, but the difference in nature is very different.

When the two examiners were praising Qin Mo, there happened to be a group of people sneering at him, led by Xu Shao, who was empty-eyed.

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