The examination room in Chunfu is a row of small black houses, which has become the "number house". When students enter, the supervising officer will padlock the door, leaving only a small window to deliver the exam papers.

Throughout the day, the students' eating, drinking, and Lazar were done in the small dark room.

The candlelight was like beans, and the small room was dyed dim, Xu Erlang sat by the desk, played with the inkstone, poured water, and grinded it slowly.

There was still a long time before the exam started, and this time was enough time for him to calm down and think about something.

Since ancient times, the heavy weight of scriptures and righteousness, light poetry, and the decline of the Dafeng poetry scene for a long time, so this will try the last one, for most students, it is just a formality.

When I was admitted to the hospital, the students who knew each other were smiling and contented. Unlike the first two games, his face was serious and his mentality was nervous, as if he was going to put on armor and go into battle.

However, others can be relaxed, and Xu Erlang knows that he can't be negligent.

He is a student of Yunlu Academy, according to the attitude of the princes of the court towards the students of Yunlu Academy, after winning the Jinshi, he will either be assigned to the poor countryside, or he will not be given an official body for a long time and hide in the snow.

Xu Erlang has his own ambitions, he doesn't want to be sent to a poor countryside, and he doesn't want to stay in Beijing.

"It's a long way to go........," Xu Xinnian sighed.

At this time, the trumpeter outside the door knocked on the small window, and said angrily: "Master, the roll is here." ”

Those who participated in the Spring Festival were all lifted people, and the raised people had the qualifications to be officials, and the big-headed soldiers directly called the students in the examination room "masters".

Xu Xinnian took the roll and spread it out on the table, at this time the sky was already bright, but the morning sun had not risen.

By the orange candlelight, Xu Xinnian fixed his eyes on it, and the title was a sentence in "Cheng Zi Gange": "The three armies can win the commander, but the husband cannot win the ambition." ”

Xu Erlang, who was full of poetry and books, instantly refined the core: Yongzhi!

He stared at the exam papers, his expression uncontrollably dull, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.

"Big brother must have stepped on dog shit before he came into my house that day, right?" Xu Erlang muttered.

Can this also be guessed for him?

That day, Xu Erlangquan should be the annoying big brother, although the spring exam questions can be guessed, but they are limited to the scriptures and strategies, after all, there are traces to follow.

The title of the poem depends entirely on the mood of the examiner, and he can come up with whatever he wants, even if it is named after the wildflowers on the roadside.

You can guess this?!

Unless the eldest brother stepped on the shit that night, Xu Erlang really couldn't think of any possibility.

Wait a minute......... Xu Xinnian's expressions of shock, confusion, and dazedness were all transformed into ecstasy and excitement.

Big brother guessed the right question, big brother guessed the right question!

He suddenly straightened his waist, and couldn't help but want to let out three long whistles to express the excitement in his heart at the moment.

"With the poetry of the eldest brother, since I guessed the exam questions correctly, then the third poetry will be respected by my Xu Erlang. I, I might be able to compete for the Yuan. ”

The one who will try to be "Gongshi", and the name of the Gongshi is "Huiyuan".

It makes sense for him to think so, first of all, he will try to be famous, and his identity as a student of Yunlu Academy will not be exposed, so he will not be excluded. Secondly, Xu Xinnian is a natural seed of reading, the proud protégé of the great Confucian Zhang Shen, coupled with the Confucian system of unforgettable, thoughtful and other bonuses, his own level far exceeds that of Guozijian students.

In the end, in order to prevent fraud in the imperial examination, Dafeng arranged three chief examiners, many of whom took the same exam, and the ingredients here were complicated, and the three chief examiners must be from different parties.

Maybe they're still hostile to each other.

Even if someone can buy one examiner, it is impossible to buy the other two.

Therefore, in each session, there will be a battle between the examiners, and then they will discuss and compromise with each other to make a final choice.

"If I don't give birth to a New Year, I will try to be like a long night. ”

Even if he was as proud as the New Year, there was no one in the house at this time, and he couldn't control his emotions at all, dancing and laughing like a fool.

If there is a bed, he will roll on it, or wriggle around like a maggot.

"Big brother is really my lucky star! Calm down, calm down, what is the poetry that my eldest brother gave me........

Xu Xinnian settled down and forced himself to calm down.

Fortunately, he of the eight grades of Confucianism has already been able to remember it, and the poems given by his eldest brother are really good, he still has a deep memory, and he quickly recalled.

Dipping the pen in ink and unfolding the scratch paper, he realized that his hands were still trembling slightly.

"It's not promising, but it's just going to try, and I'm excited like this. Dad said that I have the qualifications of the first assistant. ”

After teasing himself, Xu Xinnian relaxed a little, his hands no longer trembled, and he quickly wrote on the paper:

The gold bottle sake bucket is ten thousand, and the jade plate is shy and ten thousand dollars.

I couldn't eat when I stopped throwing my cup, and I was at a loss when I drew my sword and looked around.

If you want to cross the Yellow River and ice congestion river, you will climb the snow-filled mountains of Taihang.

Idle fishing on the blue river, suddenly take a boat to dream of the sun.

The road is difficult, the road is difficult, the road is divergent, and now it is safe.

There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea.

(Author's note: The poems of the imperial examination, also known as Fude poems, are usually five words and eight rhymes, four rhymes, and six rhymes, not seven words.) I'll change it to the devil in another world to facilitate the plot. Again: anti-bar fine!)

After writing the poem, I read it several times to confirm that I had written it correctly, but new doubts surfaced in my mind.

"What is the Yellow River? What is Taihang? Idle fishing on the Bixi, suddenly taking a boat and dreaming of the sun, are there any allusions to these two sentences.......

Xu Erlang frowned.

Xu Xinnian, who was full of poetry and books, searched his stomach and intestines and did not find where the Yellow River and Taihang were, and according to his understanding of poetry, "idle fishing on Bixi" and "Suddenly riding a boat to dream of the sun" should be two allusions.

"Big brother is really, and he didn't know how to make notes when he wrote poems. How can I understand his state of mind when he wrote his poems, and how can I understand his profound intentions?"

"The Yellow River and Taihang should be the name of the river and the name of the mountain, this can be replaced, as for the sentence "idle fishing on the Bixi" and "Suddenly taking a boat to dream of the sun", even if there is no allusion, it is not difficult to understand the meaning of the expression, and the problem is not big. ”

So, after replacing the "Yellow River" and "Taihang", Xu Xinnian put pen to paper:

"It's Hard to Walk"

.............

The chief examiners of this spring festival are Zhao Tingfang, a scholar of Dongge University, Liu Hong, a scholar of Youdu Yushi, and Qian Qingshu, a scholar of Wuyingdian University.

Unlike the students, the chief examiner and fellow examiners have not left the Gongyuan since the beginning of the examination, and the door is padlocked, so don't want to leave unless they have wings.

In order to prevent collusion between the examiners and the students, the examiners need to wait for the list of tribute scholars to be determined before leaving the tribute academy.

Compared with the first two marks of the beacon fire, the same examiners have had great changes in their attitudes and emotions.

"Bullshit doesn't work, and any broken poems dare to be ugly in the meeting. ”

"Borrowing bamboo as a metaphor for people, using this Yongzhi, although the angle is good, but Yongzhu is more than Yongzhi, and the cart is turned upside down. ”

"Hey, after reading it for a long time, there is not a single amazing poem. ”

"Isn't it the same in previous years, I'm used to it. ”

The marking officer is also called the curtain officer, and they comment while reading the file. At first glance, the atmosphere is full of gunpowder, but in fact, it is the most relaxed.

Poetry is not taken seriously, and it is the icing on the cake if it is good, and it doesn't matter if it is not good. Anyway, they are all scum, and the poems made by the students are rare to be decent. It's not worth taking seriously by the examiners.

In the capital, when it comes to poetry, there is one person who absolutely can't be avoided, and he is Xu Qi'an, who beats the watchman. He was regarded as the leader of the poetry world by Confucianism, or, the savior of the poetry world.

"Then if Xu Qi'an participates in the examination, not to mention anything else, at least this year's examination, a poem will be born. ”

"Who says it's not, it's a pity that Xu Qi'an is not a scholar, and in the future, the history books will record that Yuan Jingnian's poems and masterpieces are all from this person, and we scholars have no face. ”

The reader's attitude towards Xu Qi'an is very complicated, and he is glad that his rise has made so many poems that can be mastered in the past two hundred years not to make future generations laugh.

I regret that he is a martial artist, not a scholar, because this is also a thing that will make future generations laugh.

In the two hundred years of Dafeng, there are thousands of scholars, and they are not even as good as a martial artist.

"Thousands of mistakes, all of them are Xu Pingzhi's fault. ”

At this moment, a grader unfolded a copied volume, and after a few seconds of careful reading, he froze, his body seemed to be petrified, and he did not move.

But his mouth kept babbling and repeating it.

After a few minutes, the examiner suddenly got up, looked around at his colleagues in the room, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "Who said that Dafeng scholars can't write good poems, who said it, who said it?"

The examiners looked at him one after another, looking dazed, not knowing what he was crazy about.

The poetry world has been weak for two hundred years, and contemporary readers are not good at poetry, these are all facts, what is there to dispute.

"Smack!"

The examiner slapped the scroll on the table, his chest rose and fell, and he said excitedly: "I dare to conclude that as soon as this poem comes out, it will be famous all over the world." This year's examination will be recorded by the historian. ”

A grader on the side glanced at him, walked over curiously, picked up the paper, and looked at it fixedly.

Madness seems to be contagious, and the examiner holds the scroll and trembles with excitement: "Good poems, good poems, hahaha, who said that Dafeng scholars can't write good poems, who said that?"

At this moment, the rest of the graders realized that a good work had come out, and they rushed up in a swarm, passing and reading each other.

"Good poetry, when the floating. ”

"There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea........ This is the kind of poetry that a reader should write. ”

"How can a student write such a poem that has endured many vicissitudes?"

"Maybe it's a repeated failure, so let's write it down with poetry. ”

The appearance of this song "Difficult to Walk" is like a group of local chickens mixed with a golden phoenix, which is particularly precious, and the room full of examiners keeps circulating and commenting excitedly.

"Ahem!"

There was a sound of coughing vigorously outside the door, and the gray-haired scholar of Tokaku University stood in the door with his hands behind his back.

He was drawn by the noise.

The examiners in the room were suddenly silent.

"What's the point of being noisy?"

Zhao Tingfang, a scholar, reprimanded a few words, and then asked: "This official just heard someone say that once this poem comes out, it will be famous all over the world?"

Immediately, a grader stepped forward and respectfully handed over the paper.

The scholar of the East Pavilion glanced at everyone first, and then took the scroll and squinted at it........ His hand holding the scroll trembled slightly.

Anyone can see that this is a good poem, a good poem that is uplifting.

But the experience is different, and the feeling is different.

This poem is both a song and a bumpy life experience. From "the heart is at a loss and it is difficult to walk" to "there will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea", anyone with similar experiences can quickly empathize.

And the last sentence is Yongzhi, which is also the finishing touch, which directly raises the artistic conception of the whole poem to a very high level.

"This son is absolutely talented, if the scriptures and suggestions are excellent, this official will definitely appoint him as Huiyuan!" said the scholar of Dongge University.

..........

The day after the end of the Spring Festival, Xu Xinnian found that his treatment at home had plummeted, and his mother used to let the kitchen heat a bowl of hot milk every morning.

At noon, it is a fragrant chicken soup, and in the evening it is ginseng soup.

During this period, the mother will also shush the cold and ask for warmth, although there is no tangible performance, but it also shows enough attention.

And the father and eldest brother will also ask a few words at the dinner table, and the same is true for the younger sister Xu Lingyue, and even the younger sister Xu Lingyin will occasionally shout: Second brother, you have to work hard!

But since the end of the last show, the milk is gone, the chicken soup is gone, the ginseng is gone, and after asking when the list will be released, everyone has not paid much attention to it.

At the dinner table, Xu Qi'an asked: "Why is Erlang in a bad mood, because he didn't do well in the last exam?"

Xu Erlang didn't speak, and when he finished eating, he pulled his eldest brother into the study and stared at him directly: "Big brother....... You've guessed the point. ”

For this result, Xu Qi'an was both surprised and not surprised, nodded and asked, "Patriotic or Yongzhi?"

"Yongzhi!"

Xu Xinnian asked: "Where are the Yellow River and Taihang?

....... I don't remember. Xu Qi'an looked confused.

"I come to Bixi because I like fishing. Suddenly taking a boat to dream of the sun, yes, yes........ Oh, why are you talking so much nonsense? The exams are all over, and you're still beeping here.

"Hurry up and tear up the Four Books and Five Classics, and the eldest brother will take you to the Jiaofang Division tomorrow to play. ”

Xu Qi'an scolded and fled.

When he returned to the room, he found Zhong Li sitting on the edge of the bed bandaging his head, faintly bleeding.

"Fell again?"

"Hmm. ”

Zhong Li nodded a little aggrieved and said, "I found that your sister's life is very hard. ”

"Which sister?" asked Xu Qi'an.

...........

PS: I raised the bar with myself today, in order to check who the chief examiner is in history, and what is the specific official position, I looked for two hours of relevant information, and found that there is only a general division of official positions on the Internet, which is not accurate.

I wanted to go to the library, but the library was closed again, which me off.

Although you can make it up casually, I feel that I still have to be rigorous, and I am a person who is afraid of being raised.

Change first, then change.