This time Zhang Yue handed in his paper half an hour early.
"Sanlang handed in the paper again."
"Sure enough, the I Ching is too difficult. I'm not the only one."
"Save it, you Daozaburo is just like you."
"Sanlang was the first to submit the paper in the county school entrance exam, and he got a perfect pass."
"I see."
In the eyes of everyone, Zhang Yue was the first to hand in the paper. It's not that he wants to show off, but to save time to prepare for the next exam.
The invigilator of the county school took a look at Zhang Yue's paper and couldn't help but said: "Sanlang is really amazing, he has written so much. The whole paper is filled up."
Zhang Yue couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Well, the angle of this compliment was quite strange, but he had written quite a lot.
"Thank you for the compliment, Minister."
The other party smiled and said: "Sanlang is a good student."
After leaving the dining hall, he walked to the kitchen stove to get the rice bowl without returning to the studio. There was a Zhou ceremony in the evening. The food had been cooked in the kitchen in advance, and the food bowls were placed in first, second, and third order under the tree outside the dining hall. There were already many students who were going to take the Zhou Li test. They took the rice bowls as soon as they came, standing or squatting. Dinner outside the restaurant.
Zhang Yue was about to stand outside the hall and have a meal with everyone, when someone said: "Sanlang, there is someone at home, waiting on the front porch!"
Zhang Yue walked to the front porch carrying the rice bowl, only to see Zhang Shi waiting there with a food basket.
"Third brother! Third brother!" After finishing speaking, Zhang Shi turned to the door and said, "Look, did I just say that he is a brother? How can you believe it?"
Menzi hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, sir, it's my eyesight that is stupid."
Zhang Shilang said with a hearty smile: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."
Zhang Yue walked up to his brother and said to the disciple, "He is my brother."
Menzi smiled apologetically and stepped back. Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Brother, why are you here?"
"Didn't I know that you have a public examination today, so I rushed to bring you food? If the shop hadn't been busy at noon, I would have brought it to you long ago. Eat quickly, while it is still hot, it will be brought to you as soon as it comes out of the pot. "
"Okay. Brother, eat some too."
Zhang Shi opened the lid of the food basket and said, "I have eaten. Xi'er was about to come see you, but I stopped her. And your sister-in-law said that the weather will change and she will give you a winter coat. She will give it to you later." You put it on. Yes, let me serve you a bowl of chicken soup first. This old hen has been stewed all afternoon. The heat is just right. The soup is covered with oil and water. Take a sip. If you can drink this hot soup in winter, the taste will be different from that of the official family. Sit down for me, I won’t be happy either!”
Listening to what Zhang Shi said, Zhang Yue watched him take out a cup of chicken soup, wrapped in cloth. As soon as the lid of the cup was opened, there was indeed a trace of steam coming out.
Zhang Shi served Zhang Yue a large bowl. Zhang Yue couldn't wait to take a bite of the chicken first. It was indeed extremely soft. Then Zhang Yue gulped down the chicken soup with thick oily flowers, and his whole body was immediately warm.
Before the time travel, this layer of oil was often scooped away, but now it has become the most essential part of the soup.
As he approached, Zhang Shi brought out another bowl of wonton stew without any soup and said, "Third brother, eat these wonton stew dipped in chicken soup."
The two brothers immediately sat on the front porch and ate the food in the food basket.
In the end, even Zhang Yue, who had a strong fighting ability, burped for a long time: "Brother, I can't eat any more. You can take back what you save!"
Zhang Shi smiled and said, "That's fine. Tell your brother what you want to eat tomorrow, and he will ask someone in the shop to bring it to you."
After saying this, Zhang Shi stuffed a lot of candied nuts and seven or eight hard-boiled eggs into Zhang Yue. Zhang Yue was full of praise.
"Eat the eggs when you are hungry, and distribute the candied nuts to your classmates. Don't eat alone and just remember yourself, and be more harmonious with your classmates outside."
Zhang Yue couldn't refuse, nodded and said: "Brother knows, you can go back!"
"Okay! Third brother, how about we eat wonton stew tomorrow?" Zhang Shi accepted, then he picked up the food and walked away.
Zhang Yue followed his brother's instructions and distributed these candied candies to his classmates. Everyone smiled and thanked them while envying Zhang Yue for having such a brother.
Zhang Yue didn't rest for a moment. Most of the students in the Book of Changes had finished their exams and the next session was about to begin. As for the students who passed the exam by copying Zhang Yue's papers, they thanked Zhang Yue repeatedly as soon as they left the house.
Guo Lin also had a test in Zhou Li.
The two of them entered the restaurant in advance and found a seat to sit down.
"How is junior brother, can you still tolerate it?" Guo Lin asked from the side.
"It's okay, senior brother, don't worry about me."
"That's good, don't tire yourself out. If you can't hold on to the great righteousness, just leave it blank and don't write it down. It's just ten ways. Even if you don't write down any of them, you can get through the nine if you write down the others."
"OK."
After Zhang Yue finished answering, several classmates sitting next to him were overjoyed when they saw him: "Sanlang, please help me later!"
"Sanlang, I was worried about my failure in this subject, but now that I see you, I feel confident."
"Su Zhi Sanlang is a righteous man, so I'd like to thank you in advance."
Zhang Yue smiled. At this time, someone was already taking candles from the bookcase and heading to the kitchen stove.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. Before the end of the year, the dining hall is already much darker.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yue and Guo Lin each took candles from the examination box. A few people went to the kitchen stove to light candles first, and the others borrowed candles and lit their candles.
There was no candlestick, so Zhang Yue dropped the burning candle wax on the dining table, and then fixed the candle on the unmelted candle wax.
The invigilator handed out the papers one by one. Zhang Yue took a pen and compared the questions on the papers with his own test paper to answer the questions.
After eating a meal of hot soup, Zhang Yue regained a lot of strength, but after writing like this for a day, Zhang Yue was still a little out of energy, and his hands and shoulders were sore. After writing for a while, Zhang Yue had to put down his pen, rubbed his shoulders, and shook his arms.
It was suddenly cold at night and taking eleven exams in a row was indeed the greatest test of mental and physical strength.
Several candidates who couldn't afford to wear more clothes already had runny noses from the cold.
With his new winter clothes and the warm and greasy bowl of wonton stew in chicken soup, Zhang Yue gained a lot of strength.
Anyway, it’s the last subject, so don’t be too hasty, just write it one by one.
This time Zhang Yue also wrote much slower. It took nearly two hours to almost finish the paper, and the other candidates were almost the same.
After answering the last question, Zhang Yue finally felt relieved. He stood up and handed in the paper, then turned and walked down the hall. He saw rows and rows of candles arranged from far to near on the dining table in the dark dining hall. The candlelight flickered lightly, and from time to time there was a soft sound.
Under dozens of candlelights, there are young faces. Every candidate is concentrating on the pen, and the strokes are drawn on the paper, just like the sound of spring eating leaves.
And I must have been as serious as them just now.
After opening the door and leaving, Zhang Yue looked up and saw that the first quarter moon was already hanging in the sky, and a galaxy was hanging on the zenith. The galaxy was still so far away from him, but upon closer inspection it seemed to be a little closer.
Suddenly, a feeling of extreme exhaustion surged through his body, and Zhang Yue let out a long yawn. At this moment, he wished that a bed would open for him on the ground in front of him. Now Zhang Yue can fall asleep instantly just by lying down.
The three exams on the first day have been completed.
Five games on the second day!
They are Xiaojing, Shangshu, Gongyangzhuan, Guliangzhuan, and The Book of Songs.
In addition to the Filial Piety Classic, which must be tested, there are three small classics and one medium classic.
This examination process is very unscientific to Zhang Yue.
Here, Zhang Yue is most familiar with Xiao Jing and Shi Jing, but Shangshu, Gongyang and Gu Liang are less familiar.
Zhang Yue has never been very good at Shangshu. He was lucky enough to get everything right in the last county school entrance exam, and Gongyang and Guliang were also new to the school.
Fortunately, the two major sutras, Zuozhuan and Liji, are on the second day.
As soon as he got the paper, Zhang Yue picked up his pen and started writing. The most important thing now was not whether he could write, but whether he could finish it.
For Zhang Yue, these five games were like one paper after another. He ate all the food in one go and didn't even have time to take a nap. Zhang Yue didn't even dare to drink more water. Drinking too much would be a waste of time, so he had to eat dry food throughout the whole journey.
For him, this was the most difficult level, but Zhang Yue persisted. And it’s all written, regardless of whether it’s right or wrong, at least it’s finished.
When the fifth exam was over, Zhang Yue was almost unsteady on his feet and had to be helped back to his dormitory by Guo Lin.
The next day I had to get up early and take three exams.
But compared with the five heavy pressures on the second day, the first and third days were already a piece of cake.
Completed nine exams in eleven sessions.
Zhang Yue had unknowingly created something unprecedented among the students of the County School of Economics, and this matter has been talked about by subsequent County School students.
The second day after the exam.
The sky finally cleared up and a big sun came out.
The sun shines on Zhang Yue through the tops of the pines.
But he went to the restaurant to eat in a daze. If he couldn't bear to miss that second-class meal, Zhang Yue would rather lie in bed and take a nap until noon.
Along the way, I saw countless people talking to me or greeting me. Even the students of Jinshizhai who had dismissed Jingshengzhai in the past got to know me for the first time.
When he entered the dining hall, the originally noisy place suddenly became quiet, and then everyone spoke with reverence in their eyes.
"Sanlang!"
"Sanlang is here!"
"I've met Saburo!"
Facing the enthusiasm of the crowd, Zhang Yue couldn't help but think with suspicion, the results haven't been released yet? Why is this so? Could it be that I have become handsome again? But even if it is true, it is not like this!
But when he saw a student from Jinshizhai walking up to him and saying, "No matter how well Sanlang does in the exam this time, we are all convinced."
Another person said: "Sanlang, when you reported eleven games, I still doubted you, but now I hope you don't take it to your heart."
"Sanlang, I wish I could know on the spot how you did in the exam."
The sun shines through the window and shines slantingly on Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue, who was bathed in sunshine and praises, suddenly realized that no matter how well he did in the exam, he was the first person in the county school to pass the exam of nine classics and eleven exams.
Yes, I finally did it! No matter how well he did in the exam, he finally accomplished something that no one in the county school had ever accomplished.
Seeing all the classmates happy for me and not jealous, this is more touching than congratulating each other after the results are released.
Zhang Yue said with a smile: "You guys are making ridiculous comments, I am not trying to show off my talents, I just want to say, 'Those who try their best to achieve their goals and fail to achieve it can have no regrets. Who can ridicule them?' I wish Wang Jiefu Zhizhou said this." I encourage you all to live up to your youth and what you have learned!"
Students from left and right county schools said one after another: "That's it."
"Let's encourage Zhang Jun together! Live up to your time and what you have learned!"
A string of laughter sounded in the dining hall again.
And a few days later, the county school public examination results were released!
