When Li Zhijie heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "This schoolchild is Xu He, the head of my Hailing County trial case!" ”

With that, he took a deep look at Xu He.

Xu He understood, stepped forward and saluted: "The schoolboy has seen Lord Futai. ”

Peng Ruyu nodded noncommittally, and then stared at Xu He's floating ticket and looked at it twice: "Can you settle the guarantee and be guaranteed?" ”

As soon as his words fell, Wu Decao and Chu Yuan's four people came out, because it was five people who were on guarantee, so only Wu Decao stood behind Peng Ruyu.

The old rules, after some inquiry, came to Xu He's search.

Xu He was terrified in his heart, even in the bathing center and old bathhouse in the later generations, he did not take off his essence in front of so many people.

Fortunately, Peng Ruyu said at this time: "I heard that you once made the sentence [You are not afraid of broken bones, you must leave your innocence in the world], this official believes that you are not a person who cheats in the scientific examination, and go ahead, you will be exempted from the search!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding melon-eating crowd immediately cast envious and jealous glances at Xu He.

But when they heard the two lines of poetry recited by Peng Ruyu, they all showed shock, they didn't expect that the young man in front of them could make such a deafening work, no wonder the people of Futai didn't let people search him.

In the eyes of readers in this era, poetry is the voice of the heart, and if he can write a poem like "Lime Yin", then Xu He will definitely not cheat.

Although there is some idealism, the lovely thing is that if Xu He is a native of this era, it is impossible for him to cheat.

Why?

Because he can't afford to lose this person, not everyone will make "Compassion for Nong", but he will do huge greed.

Therefore, this era is in this simplicity and loveliness, according to the logic of its own behavior, it is inconceivably running.

Xu He breathed a long sigh of relief, finally no longer having to be so ashamed.

When he entered the second gate, he found that a huge examination room appeared in front of him, and there was a large bamboo makeshift shed in the whole courtyard, each of which was about 30 rooms in size.

Between the two sheds is a large hall, where the examiners and officials sit.

There is a Xuan in front of the main hall, and there is a seat next to it, and there are three doors and soap rooms next to the two examination sheds, which are the places where the soldiers, officials, and officials who patrol the examination rest.

There are long tables and stools in the canopy, about the length of the canopy, and one person sits at a distance of two feet.

This kind of position is generally placed by the workshop officials, because the officials invade the fishing fee, so the quality is very poor, the board is thin and brittle, there are cracks, sitting on the stool, a little force, there is a risk of breaking.

More than a dozen people sat in the front row, and in order to prevent each other, the more than ten seats were nailed together with bamboo strips, and as long as the candidates moved their hands and feet slightly, the entire table and stool shook with it, so that there was no quiet moment on the day of the exam.

Moreover, this kind of table and stool, the candidate cannot completely put the weight of the body on it, and it is very painful to take a test, which is like a horse step.

This is still the examination shed of Yangzhou Prefecture, the richest in the country, and the examination conditions in those remote prefectures are even worse.

Some state capitals can't even afford to buy desks, so candidates can't always carry tables and chairs on their backs when they come to the exam, right?

Therefore, before the exam, all the door panels and bed boards were borrowed by these candidates, and there were many candidates, and the door panels and bed boards were not enough, so they could only use the cutting boards for selling meat to make up the number.

Someone wrote "Bamboo Branches" to describe this kind of scene:

The state exam is too magnificent,

How many scholars sit in the lobby.

The oil plate is carried as a test case,

After the exam, the clothes are shiny.

But fortunately, Xu He was still very lucky this time, when he led the number plate into the examination booth and found that he was sitting on the edge of the examination booth.

Why is this position said that he is "lucky"?

If it was windy and rainy, the location would be miserable, but today the sun is rising, the wind is beautiful, and the light is very good.

Most importantly, he sat on the very edge, and the bench was supported by two legs, which was safer than those who sat in the middle without the support of the legs.

Xu He sat on it, his buttocks moved, it was indeed a lot more stable, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't have to squat and write all the exams for a day.

After a while, finally, the lengthy qualification review was over, and the government examination booth was closed and locked.

The officials all received the test papers and handed them out to the candidates.

When they were all received, a clerk walked out of the lobby carrying a big board, and the big board was pasted with red paper, with big characters written on it, because it was far away, Xu He couldn't see it, but he thought it should be an exam question.

Sure enough, after the clerk got Peng Ruyu's approval, he read the exam questions out loud.

After reading, the clerk called a person to walk through the examination shed in turn with the board, and let the people who couldn't hear it copy the exam questions.

Xu He wrote the questions on the manuscript paper while thinking about the exam questions.

This title is from "The Analects of the Eight Hundreds"

Zhu Ziji's annotation explains: "Yu, Wu Lieye, the eighth son of heaven, the six princes, the fourth doctor, and the second scholar." ”

To put it bluntly, it is a kind of dance, and the people who dance in this dance are eight people, a total of sixty-four people.

The full text of this chapter in the Analects of the Eight Hundred is: "The sub-title is "Shao", which is as perfect as it is and as good as it gets. It is said that "Wu" is perfect, but it is not perfect. ”

Xu He recalled Zhu Zi's annotation of this text, and he had forgotten exactly what it said.

But he still remembered the approximate meaning.

To put it simply, "Shao" and "Wu" are the music of Shun and King Wu respectively.

Beauty is a combination of sound and light, which is very beautiful and interesting. Goodness, on the other hand, is another kind of beauty.

Shun Shaoyao's rule, and King Wu's killing and saving the people are all merits, so their music is beautiful.

But Shun's status came from Yao's Zen, but King Wu rebelled, and the two saw that there was a difference after all, so Shun's voice was perfect, and King Wu was a little regretful, and he got the throne by grabbing.

Xu He thought about Zhu Xi's annotation many times in his mind.

But I can't find how to write this article.

He put himself on Confucius, thinking about how he would describe it to his disciples if he were Confucius.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't help it, his heart gradually became bored, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly.

What Xu He didn't know was that when his brows furrowed, Li Zhijie also became nervous.

At this time, Li Zhijie's heart was even more anxious than Xu He.

Although he did not personally teach Xu He to make a fuss, he personally ordered Xu He to be the head of the county case, and admitted that he was his student in front of everyone.

I have already achieved this point, if Xu He's article is not done well, it will really make Shilin laugh.

Li Zhijie has a problem, when he encounters a tangled matter, as long as there is no one around, he will hold his hands and gnaw his nails with his teeth.

But the prefect Peng Ruyu was beside him, and there were a lot of candidates below, it was really indecent to gnaw his fingernails, so he could only force his thoughts and use his index finger to pick out the barbs on his thumb, which really killed him.

Peng Ruyu was actually paying attention to Xu He, a candidate, at this time.

On the one hand, because of Xu He's poem name, even he heard about it in Gaoyou Prefecture.

There is also the fact that he knew the details of his predecessor's fall before taking office, and this Xu He also appeared many times in this matter.

It can be said that the tax money of the final laboratory is not lost, which is the credit of this little guy.

In addition, Xu He is a student of Li Zhijie, who was sentenced to work with him temporarily, who is Li Zhijie? One of the famous [Ding Wei's Ten Sons], a generation of coquettish talents led by poetry, he was very curious about what kind of splendid articles this talented student could make.

At this moment, Xu He, who was in the eyes of the two, suddenly smiled, as if he had gained, and wrote the paper.