This sentence comes from the "Tao Te Ching", which is one of the strongest voices in the history of Ye Xingyuan's previous life, the Spring and Autumn Period. When it is used to participate in the lowest level of children's exams, it is really a bit like cutting chickens with a knife.

But firstly, Ye Xingyuan's heart was uneven, and he couldn't help but explode once in anger, and secondly, because there seemed to be some will traction in the dark.

"The way of heaven is like a bow, the higher one suppresses it, the lower one lifts it, the surplus loses it, and the insufficient one makes up for it. The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost.

The way of man, otherwise, the loss is not enough to give more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world, only the Taoist. It is not afraid of the saint, and it is not necessary to be successful, and it does not want to see the virtuous. ”

Zhou Zhixian read the Chinese characters of the exam paper word by word, and his expression barely remained unchanged, because this was an article made by a candidate he did not like. But his heart was beating so hard that the knuckles holding the exam paper began to turn white.

When the examiners saw this situation, they were also overjoyed and wanted to crowd next to Zhou Zhixian to watch. But because of the dignity of officialdom and the majesty of the county, don't get together, you can only endure it first.

"Hope is natural. Therefore, the wind does not end, and the rain does not end. Who is this? Heaven and earth. Heaven and earth can't last long, but what about people?

Therefore, those who are engaged in the Tao are the same as the Tao, those who are virtuous are the same as virtue, and those who are lost are the same as those who are lost. Those who are the same as the Tao are also happy to get it, those who are the same as the virtuous are also happy to get it, and those who are the same as the one who loses are happy to gain it. Faith is not enough, there is unbelief. ”

Ye Xingyuan told the story, the words he wrote seemed to be touched by heaven, and they naturally emerged, more like heaven using his pen to show this classic text to the world.

Zhou Zhixian was born as a Jinshi, not to mention his character and political opinions, at least his knowledge is by no means idle, so he can naturally see that he is powerful. The more this is the case, the more you can't let go.

Huang Dianzhi was far away and couldn't see the words on the test paper, so he was a little confused, so he was panicked again. Ye Xingyuan, this kid, what did he write? Even people like Zhou Zhixian seem to be obsessed?

"The heavens have to be high, the earth has to be wide, the sun and the moon have to go, and all things have to prosper. ”

In the second half, Ye Xingyuan's writing became more and more arbitrary, and the momentum of this paragraph, combined with Ye Xingyuan's calligraphy with silver hooks and iron strokes, was about to break the scroll and fly away.

To be honest, this kind of article is simply bullying people when it is put in the county test. Compared with other test papers, the gap between Mount Tai and Pebble is even greater.

"The abyss is like the sea, and Wei Wei is like the end. The volume of everything is not scarce. The way of a gentleman is that everything is not scarce. That's the way it is!"

Under the attention of everyone, Zhou Zhixian slowly put Ye Xingyuan's exam paper on the table in front of him, but pressed the hand on the article but did not mention it. He read it carefully, and when he finished it, he was speechless.

The reason why Zhou Zhixian did not speak for a long time was because he was worried that he would scold the street as soon as he opened his mouth and ruin his majestic image. That's how big the impact of this article is.

Is it possible for a scholar to write such an essay when he was sixteen years old? The essence of the essay is so subtle that it is almost on par with the words of the saint in the classics!

The ranking of the county examination has always been determined by the chief examiner, that is, the magistrate of the county, and this is the power given by the imperial court! But at this moment, Zhou Zhixian feels that his power has been encroached upon!

"Fetch the Great Seal!" Zhou Zhixian suddenly commanded. When the big seal was brought by Chang Sui, Zhou Zhixian immediately took some kind of trick in his hand, spat out the truth, snapped, and stamped the big seal on the question of Ye Xingyuan's test paper!

The examiners were taken aback and couldn't help but exhale in a low voice, this was clearly Zhou Zhixian using the official seal to use his magical powers to seal the aura and content of Ye Xingyuan's article.

If the ban is not lifted, people with lower official positions than him will look at this volume blank, and they can't even see a word. In other words, it is impossible for anyone in this county to see this article again!

What did the county lord want to do? Everyone was puzzled.

Zhou Zhixian did not stop, and after sealing it with the official seal of the county, he took out his Jinshi private seal from his arms, rubbed it slightly, and covered it with a snap.

For the position of Jinshi, there are only less than 100 people in the country in three years, but they are selected as one out of 10,000, or even one out of 100,000 in millions. Therefore, the person who was born in Jinshi, known as Qingliu Huaxuan, has become a real "man of the world".

Jinshi's private seal, avoiding evil and filth, suppressing demons, has infinite use. The use of the Jinshi seal to ban it means that Zhou Zhi County attaches great importance to this matter.

"There is no hole in this article, the mystery is difficult to solve, and it is inconvenient to spread it easily. The official immediately sent this article to Beijing and asked the cabinet officials to read it. Zhou Zhixian went down with two bans, and it seemed that he had completely regained his calm, and his tone did not fluctuate.

The examiners suddenly realized that there was a precedent for this matter, if in the imperial examination, a certain scholar's article was supernatural and mysterious, the examiner would ban it and submit it to the Hanlin Academy or the Cabinet Department, or even the Imperial Review.

However, this generally happens in the general examination, and occasionally in the provincial examination, in the provincial examination, there is no case in a hundred years, as for the lowest county examination, it is unheard of before!

The candidates who took the county examination were not even children, so what kind of heavenly tricks could they understand? Although the examiners knew that Ye Xingyuan was a talented man in the county, they would never have expected him to write such an article.

It's a pity that Zhou Zhixian finished reading it himself, but he didn't show them a look, and immediately sent the article to Beijing to make the examiners itching, maybe he missed an adventure in his life!

didn't give others too much time to be surprised, Zhou Zhixian said to the examiners, "But there is no need to delay the county test list, and the rest of the candidates will be arranged in order after they have seen it." ”

Zhou Zhixian couldn't help but be upset and got up to leave. After reading Ye Xingyuan's article, he was not interested in the articles of other candidates at all.

Huang Diancheng followed behind the county lord in fear, keeping his head down. Zhou Zhixian didn't know whether he was talking to himself, or if he deliberately wanted to say it to Huang Dian, "In a few years, Ye Xingyuan will at least be a person"

Not to mention the thoughts of these people, just say that Ye Xingyuan finished handing in the papers, and he was relaxed, Shi Shiran went out of the examination room, and went to Ouyang Ju's house to stay.

The county trial list was fast, and he was too lazy to go home, so he stayed in the county seat, waited for the ranking to be determined, and then went back to his hometown to report the good news to his sister.

broke the ban with the "word breaking trick", made a lot of noise, and wrote such a heroic article again, Ye Xingyuan had the confidence of the success of this county test in his heart, as for the consequences of "hanging and bombing the sky", he could only not think about it for the time being.

In the examination room, after Ouyang Juren heard about it, he scolded Huang Dian a few words, because of the protection of the county, I am afraid that this matter will not be over. He only cared about how Ye Xingyuan did in the exam, but he was more eager than Ye Xingyuan himself.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the morning sun rose, Ouyang Juren sent a family member to send Ye Xingyuan to see the list.

Ye Xingyuan was sure in his heart, and ate a bowl of wontons on the side of the road for breakfast, and then he came to the county government unhurriedly and watched the officials post the list.

Sheng Benqi also arrived early, and he wrote the second half of the exam in the afternoon, and finally it was a mess, but he still had a little luck and came to see the list early in the morning. He saw Ye Xingyuan from a distance, and quickly lowered his head, not daring to make eye contact with him.

The examiners have stayed up all night to read the articles, and the rankings are arranged in turn, and the top five are reserved for the examiner Zhou Zhixian to decide. No, it should be said that it is the top four and Ye Xingyuan.

The other examiners didn't see Ye Xingyuan's article, and they didn't know how to arrange Ye Xingyuan, so they handed it over to Zhou Zhixian together. When Zhou Zhixian sets the final ranking, the list can be released immediately.

Zhou Zhixian waved his hand to let everyone retreat, but Huang Dianguan did not leave, and said to Zhou Zhixian: "If Ye Xingyuan's excellent article makes the master embarrassed, then it doesn't hurt to take Ye Xingyuan, let him be the second place, it is enough to explain." ”

Huang Dianyi is not a fool, although he didn't see Ye Xingyuan's article, he also knew that he must be excellent, and it was very tricky to forcibly dethrone him.

The second place, Zhou Zhixian, was noncommittal, and asked rhetorically: "Then who can be the head of the case?

Huang Dianguan didn't know what to say, so he could only secretly scold Sheng Ben for his dead dog not being able to support the wall. Yesterday, Ye Xingyuan's movement was too big, and Sheng Ben, who was in the examination booth next door, had a ghost in his heart, and he was shocked and frightened to play abnormally, not to mention being the head of the case, even if he won the list, it was not enough to convince the public.

can only persuade: "Then you can't let Ye Xingyuan be the head of the case, according to the rules, the head of the county test must win the show talent in the government test, isn't it equivalent to giving Ye Xingyuan a show talent in vain?

"It's out! It's out!" Seeing the county officials going out with the list and the entries on the Tongsheng roster, all the candidates became excited, stretching their necks like ducks waiting to be slaughtered, and probing their brains to see the names that had just been posted. Sheng Benqi couldn't hold it back, didn't care about the reserve of his talent, and desperately squeezed into the crowd.

Ye Xingyuan was a good friend, standing in the distance, and he was not in a hurry to step forward.

He didn't believe it, someone dared to brush his article off the list, and the only thing he was worried about was the ranking. But if the county lord doesn't give him the head of the case, he still wants to post the article and fight to the end, even if he does not hesitate to sue the emperor.

There is already too much injustice in this world, and if you blindly tolerate it, nothing good will come of it. When the examination room was suppressed, he felt that deep sense of anger and powerlessness, and Ye Xingyuan didn't want to try anymore.

Every time the official posted a name, it caused a commotion.

The readers were crying or laughing, after all, they were still young, and those who won the book were rejoicing, and some even turned over their heels, while those who did not see their names held their breath and stared at the list, expecting that they would be next, but their hearts were getting more and more nervous.

"I can win, I can win" Sheng Benqi continued to comfort himself, seeing that there were more and more names posted, and there were fewer and fewer names in the hands of the little official, and he couldn't help but feel cold. He can't withstand the blow of falling off the list again, obviously the nobles in the county have said that he should be the top of the list, and he will be hit this time!

In the county examination, the practice is to take one out of ten, and this time more than 200 people went to the examination, and the number of children was only 20. Although the little official deliberately slowed down, he quickly finished pasting it, and only one name note was left in his hand.

Sheng Benqi's name has not yet appeared, and Ye Xingyuan's name has also not appeared.

However, the performance of the two was completely different, Sheng Benqi's eyes widened, his hands were clenched, his legs were spread apart and shaking, as if he was about to fall at any time, while Ye Xingyuan was so busy that he moved a stool from nowhere, sat calmly, and held a cup of fragrant tea from the roadside tea stall owner.

The little official turned around and smiled at everyone, and finally put the last name, that is, the head of the child's case this time, on the list.

Sheng Benqi looked at the name of those three words, his throat muttered, his eyes straightened, and suddenly jumped up, revealing an ecstatic look, "I'm hit! I'm hit! This time it's me!"

He laughed wildly and ran desperately in front of the county office, running around in circles. A group of scholars avoided it one after another, "This Sheng brother has not been a child for ten years, but I'm afraid that he is overstimulated and crazy, right?"

Zhou Zhixian really dared to go against the sky? Ye Xingyuan, who had been pretending to be forced, finally couldn't calm down, jumped up from the bench, and desperately squeezed into the crowd.

The last name to appear on the list is indeed three words, but it is not Sheng Benqi, but Ye Xingyuan,,,,,,