The word "death" gradually expanded on the yellowed rice paper, and the undried ink was like a hollow hole on the paper, and the more the old man looked at the word, the more his consciousness became more and more sloppy, and the pen in his hand was pestled heavily on the rice paper, as if he was fighting with the word "death".

The examiner was sitting in the lobby, and suddenly heard a strange sound in the quiet hall, so he had to get up and go to make his rounds.

Everyone in the hall pondered and pondered, but they also noticed that the sound was inappropriate for this situation, and they did not dare to look left and right, so they could only continue to think about the questions given by the examiner, and then pick up the pen and put it on the rice paper.

The examiner searched for the sound, and found the source of the sound in the last column, the man lowered his head and seemed to be writing, but he could see the machine shaking incessantly. He snapped, "You, don't make a noise. If you make any more noise, you can go out on your own. ”

'Da-da-da-da ’

The gray-haired old man didn't say a word, and the case machine was still shaking, as if he had put himself out of the matter.

"You, get up!" the examiner saw that the man did not listen, so he raised his voice again.

The man still didn't move, however, the sound of the machine shaking was even louder, from the previous 'da-da' sound to the 'dong-dong' sound at this time.

The examiner looked at his deputy and nodded, and he walked briskly towards the old man.

When I saw the old man's trembling hands, I only thought that this person had been rushing for the exam for many years and was in poor spirits for a while. Anyway, he has been the main examiner for many years, and he has seen too many dizzy, crazy, and rejuvenated people, but there are more of them after the list is revealed.

"Are you alright? If you're sick, you might as well go back first. The examiner asked worriedly.

He has seen too much about the imperial examination over the years, but this phenomenon will not change, and he can only ask about it routinely.

The old man's whole head was buried above the rice paper, his hair hung down messily, and the main examiner saw a part of the leaked words, and he answered decently, even if the top three were not played, he could always end up with a showman.

The examiner waited for a moment, but the man did not speak, let alone stand up from him.

"Hey. The examiner noticed that something was wrong, so he reached out and patted the old man on the shoulder.

Before his fingertips touched his clothes, the pen in the old man's hand snapped and broke in two, his head suddenly raised, and the examiner saw the swollen and blue face, the protruding eyeballs were white, and there was only a black spot the size of a sesame seed in the middle, and it was impossible to tell whether it was an eyeball or a pupil.

Before the examiner could see it more clearly, the terrifying grimace spurted a mouthful of blood into the examiner's face, and then the whole person fell limply on the desk.

It was not uncommon for the examiner to experience a situation where the examinee had physical problems during the exam, but this old man really scared him. After being stunned for a moment, he came back to his senses and said, "Hurry up, come on, take him out to find the imperial doctor." ”

Two guards quickly walked in and took the old man out. When the examiner saw the word 'death' written on the rice paper, his back couldn't help but feel a chill, he coughed lightly and calmed down, and took out a handkerchief from his arms to wipe his face.

The examiner cleared his throat and said, "Calm down! ”

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After that, the examiner squeezed his eyebrows, and the blood in the old man's mouth seemed to spit into his eyes, because no matter what he looked at, it was blood-red, as if his eyes were covered by red glass.

He closed his eyes and pressed his eyes with his hand, and when he opened them again, he was back to normal, and without thinking too much, he walked around the hall again. Today's exam is already halfway through, and the examiner thinks that it is safer to go to the Imperial Medical Department to find a doctor after the exam.

Half of the bamboo pen lay on the desk, the obviously flat desk seemed to be tilted, the half of the bamboo pen rolled off the table, fell to the ground and bounced an inch, rolled to the feet of a scholar five steps away.

The scholar held the pen in his hand with trepidation, and he had just sneaked a glance back, just in time to see a terrifying human face in the old man's drooping hair.

The examiner is standing, and from a top-down perspective, it is natural that there is nothing else in the hair like a beaded curtain. But he was on par with the old man, and as soon as he turned around, he saw what the examiner couldn't see. The face under the hair curtain is not the old man's, the back of the old man's head is the same as the case, whose face will grow on the top of the head?

It's horrible!

The scholar looked at the rice paper in front of him with a solemn expression, and said that he could still prepare for a year, and he would come back to take the imperial examination next year, but the old mother at home did not agree, and borrowed a lot of money from the neighborhood, saying that it was for him to come and see, so he could be prepared.

Every year there is today, every year there is a present day, what is there to see? Now it's good, I see what the hell I see.

The scholar was so engrossed that his fingers were so cold that he couldn't put down the pen, so he simply put down the bamboo pen, put his hands together, and inserted it between his thighs and rubbed it violently. After relieving the unbearable cold, he put his hand to his mouth and sighed and rubbed it again.

He had never seen anyone write the questions read by the examiner, and he didn't know how to answer them, so he scribbled a lot of things that didn't match the horse's mouth.

Now the words I write are sometimes big and sometimes small, and in the end, there are two big words left that are very abrupt in the text, and those two words are 'bow your head'.

Submit?

Did you write these two words yourself? The scholar stared at those two words, but still looked down at the ground.

As soon as he took his eyes off the machine, he saw a human face on the ground, the same face he saw under the old man's hair, and before he could see it completely, he only saw half of it, so he closed his eyes in fright and shifted his gaze to the machine again.

There is no Amitabha in the south, there is no Amitabha in the south, there is no Amitabha in the south...... The scholar closed his eyes and meditated silently in his heart, feeling something poke his shoe, and at the same time, it was like a knife poking his heart. The more he read it, the faster he read it, and the look of that face still lingered.

The scholar felt so frightened that he opened his eyes and shouted, "Mother!"

The people in the hall looked at the scholar one after another, and the scholar had a feeling of returning to the world, but he was still sweating all over, and his heart was pounding violently against his chest, and he looked at the examiner in horror and said, "Yes, I don't ......."

"It's okay, then let's continue. The examiner looked at the scholar who was not very old, and it should be the first time he took the imperial examination, and he encountered this kind of thing for the first time.

Anyone can be scared.

In particular, this kind of teenager is very curious, probably frightened when he sees the old man vomiting blood. He got up to look at it, and said, "Go home and ask your mother to boil you an egg, just eat it." ”

Hearing this, the scholar let out an 'um' in his throat.

The scholar stared blankly at the bamboo pen on the case, held the bamboo pen in his hand, and remembered that this was made by his mother herself, it was thick and ugly, and even the pen hair was plucked from his own pig.

For some reason, he was very homesick at this time, and wanted to hide in the arms of his mother, even if the people in the village laughed at him for coercing the boy, he didn't care.

"Beauty!" the scholar was thinking, and someone in the hall shouted again, accompanied by lewd laughter.

The more the man laughed, the more rampant he became, and the foul words in his mouth came out one after another, and he also took the rice paper on the case into his arms like a beauty. He smiled and said, "How about bird's nest porridge?" hahahaha......

"Shut up!" the examiner held the ring ruler in his hand, and hit the machine hard in anger, he shouted: "Ridiculous! I have been the chief examiner for many years, and I have never encountered such a ridiculous thing. Come on, bring it down. ”

A few guards walked in again, and before they could make a move, the man was already slumped on the ground, still holding the pictures of the Spring Palace in his hands.

The man's face was flushed, his eyes were faintly filled with unsettled spring waves, saliva dripped to the ground along the corners of his mouth, and his body was still twitching.

"There's everybody these days. One of the guards said that he was about to tear the rice paper in his hand, and inadvertently touched the man's hand, only to find that it was not warm at all.

"Brother, you're so cool. The guard tugged hard at the rice paper in the man's hand, but didn't pull it out. He said, "Pretend to be dead! Get up and go by yourself." ”

Another guard asked in a low voice, "What's the situation?"

"This ...... No response. The guard gritted his teeth and twisted the man's arm fiercely, the force was so great that even a dog would bite back, but the man still didn't move, and he didn't even frown.

"Evil sect, will it die?" said another guard: "Two people died in a test in a row, this is ......"

"Don't talk nonsense, isn't this still moving?"

The examiner saw the two guards muttering something, which caused the scholars present to look back incessantly, so he stopped: "What do you do, drag it out quickly." ”

"Yes. The guard answered, and the two of them went left and right to pull the man on the ground.

One of the guards couldn't help it, but he still reached out to probe, and found that the person they were pulling seemed to be full of red light, but in fact he was no longer breathing.

In order to avoid causing panic, the two guards brought out the man who was unwilling to put down the spring palace diagram even to death.

After processing, the two stood outside the examination hall.

One of the guards couldn't help but say, "Dude, you think it's too strange today. ”

"Well, I also think it's evil. The other nodded in agreement: "You said that the old man at the beginning has been tested for a lifetime." Maybe this year's exam questions are right and he dies of joy, or maybe this year he won't be in a hurry? ”

"yes, the death of this person in the back is too weird. Looking at the picture of the Spring Palace and dying? Unheard of, unseen. ”

"Boom!!"

"Whoa!"

While the two guards were chatting happily in the garden, there was a thunderous roar from the main hall of the examination, followed by the rumble of the palace collapsing, as if it had been struck by lightning, and the entire roof fell without warning.

"This ...... Finished. ”

"What to do!"

......

The surrounding guards all saw this scene, and they all stood stunned in fright, at a loss for what to do.

"Go, go and tell the emperor!" I don't know who in the crowd shouted, everyone woke up like a dream, and ran to the emperor's palace.

(End of chapter)

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