"Bang-"

There was a crisp bang, and the clerk of the government began to issue questions.

Wei Chen respectfully took the exam questions tied into a tube with red rope from the other party's hand, trying to calm his mood.

I opened the test paper, but I saw that there were two four-book questions, one five-scripture question, and two five-character and eight-rhyme poems written on it.

Wei Chen first looked at the first four-book question at the top.

As we all know, the imperial examination has three folds, emphasizing eight strands, emphasizing the first field, and emphasizing the first question.

Therefore, the first question of the first session is particularly important.

There are 3,000 candidates in the government examination, 3,000 papers in the first session, and 9,000 essays, where does the examiner have the patience to read them one by one?

Many examiners only look at the first question and have a general impression of your essay, if the first question is not written well, they will directly lose the paper, and it will be useless to write it later.

Wei Chen looked at the question of the first question intently, and saw that the test paper read: Therefore, if there is no big reason, you will not abandon it, and you will not be prepared for one person.

This passage is from the Analects of Weizi, which is a warning from the Duke of Zhou to his son Bo Bird.

It means that if old friends are not at fault, do not abandon them, and do not blame a person.

When Wei Chen saw this question, his eyes immediately widened, this first question was actually a dignified big question, much simpler than the intercepted question.

That's it, and more importantly, he just did it not long ago!

For more than a month, Wei Chen, Sheng Changbai, and Chen Jun have been almost closed, and have been using the sea of questions tactics to conduct pre-exam assault training.

After the three of them finished writing the article, they first evaluated themselves and then each other to find out their shortcomings.

For the article written by Wei Chen, Sheng Changbai and Chen Jun unanimously gave high praise, believing that this article is not only profound, but also full of rationality, and has the potential of Han Chao and Suhai.

Wei Chen did not be proud of himself because of the praise of the two, but pondered his article several times, combined with the characteristics of Shen Zhifu's preference for four or six pun texts, he was more nitpicky in the choice of words and battles, and polished the article again.

This final article is firmly engraved in Wei Chen's mind, even if it is a few decades later, he will not forget it!

Wei Chen couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, he was so unlucky that he was trampled on and lost his shoes before the exam, and he was lucky enough to be blinded by the original question during the exam......

After sighing, Wei Chen stopped grinding, immediately sharpened the ink and picked up the pen, and began to write without thinking.

First, I will solve the problem concisely:

"Abandon the old and be thrifty."

Then, there is a large number of sentences, sprinkled and magnificent.

An article of several hundred words, Wei Chenyun wrote it down, in one go, without the slightest stagnation.

After half a pillar of incense, when most of the candidates in the examination room were still thinking about how to solve the question, Wei Chen had already finished writing the most important first question of the first session!

After writing the first question, Wei Chen calmed down and calmed down.

Relying on the style of this question alone, the admission of his own government examination is basically a certainty.

However, there are four more questions in the next place, and they can't be casual, although these questions are not as important as the first question, but if the level of the first article of the two people is between the two people, the next few questions have become the key to determining the ranking.

The second question, unsurprisingly, is a truncated question.

"All Yayan is also Ye Gong"

Wei Chen was really a little confused at first glance, and after a little thought, he added a dot after the first four words, which became "All Yayan, Ye Gong".

The former is the last four words of the fifteenth chapter of the Analects, and the latter is the first two words of the sixteenth chapter.

When the topic was done here, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh secretly: "This Shen Governor's Mansion is really a genius!" ”

Although everyone knows that this is a truncated question, these six words are clearly connected in terms of the order of the article, if you don't believe it, go to the book and see if it's right?

At this time, there is no punctuation, and I really can't say that people are not.

Ordinary interception questions are criticized because the questions are hard to put together, even the questioner's own standard answer is far-fetched, and the answerer is even more foggy and does not know what to do.

But the question from Shen Zhifu is different.

As long as you understand the respective sources of the two sentences, combined with Zhu Zi's commentary, you can use the four words "the virtue of the sage" to connect, and it suddenly becomes a fair question to understand Zhengda.

To be honest, this is the first time, when Wei Chen did the interception question, he had a sense of steadiness when he was doing a big question.

Wei Chen began to write to solve the problem, and secretly admired in his heart: can make the interception question so dignified and honest, which makes people break it and convince them, this Shen Governor's attainments in the scriptures are so high, compared to the legendary "Yama" two, I'm afraid it's not much worse!

After solving the problem, the following topics start to talk and enter the topic, and it is like flowing water, and Wei Chen writes heartily and is addicted.

At this time, the sound of the cloud board sounded, and when it was time for intermission, Wei Chen just focused on the article and didn't care.

At noon, another cloud board sounded, and several scribes began to come down to collect the answers to the first question.

This is also one of the benefits enjoyed by candidates who sit in the hall, as long as they finish writing the first question and hand it to the examiner before noon, the examiner can have enough time to mark the paper in advance.

Otherwise, you can only wait for the unified submission of the paper, and then the examiner will have to read 9,000 articles in two days, and will he be careful when he sees your article? How serious?

Candidates can only ask for more blessings for themselves.

At this time, Wei Chen's second question was almost written, and when he saw that the scribe came to collect the volume, he handed in the answer sheet for the first question, and he continued to ponder the next Five Classics question and the last five-character and eight-rhyme poem.

In the public hall, Shen Du sat on a high-backed chair, picked up the scrolls collected by the scribe, and read them one by one.

When Shen Du saw the satisfactory article, he drew a circle on the top of the paper, which was almost considered to be a win, which means that the probability of passing the government examination is very high.

If a vertical is drawn on the scroll, it means that it has been put on hold for the time being.

If a cross is drawn, then the candidate will be miserable, this is the meaning of direct elimination, according to the principle of the first question of the imperial examination, no matter how well the candidate writes the next few questions, it will be in vain.

Shen Du looked at dozens of scrolls in a row, and couldn't help shaking his head, except for five or six scrolls, most of the rest were difficult to enter his eyes.

The candidates in the hall looked up and peeked, only to see that the people of Futai were reading the papers, and they saw that more than ninety percent of the dozens of papers were returned, and they were all terrified.

In fact, the government examination admits 50 people out of 3,000 people, and this probability is completely normal.

It's just that the candidates watched the papers being dethroned with their own eyes, and the despair in their hearts was really indescribable.

Who knows if there is a copy of his own?

Shen Du naturally wouldn't know about the tormented psychology of the candidates in the hall, or rather, he wouldn't care if he knew.

Shen Du took a sip of Longjing tea, picked up the next scroll covered with a small stamp of Tang characters, and saw a line of words: "Abandon the old and be thrifty." ”

Shen Du nodded when he saw this: "The problem is solved well, small and exquisite." ”

Looking at the following, it turned out to be his favorite four or six pun texts.

Shen Du perked up, straightened up, pulled the chair under his seat a little closer, and while tapping his fingers on the table, he read the article silently in his heart word by word.

Suddenly, the candidates who were writing essays in the hall heard a burst of laughter, and they all raised their heads in surprise, thinking to themselves who was so bold and dared to make noise in the government examination room?

Only by looking at everyone did they know that it was none other than the chief examiner of this government exam, the prefect of Jiangning, Shen Du.

I saw Shen Du holding a scroll and slapping the case, and laughed loudly: "How can you read this Jiawen without wine?" Come on, get on the wine! ”