After enduring the stench of shit for a day, the sky finally got dark.
There are rules in the college examination. Papers submitted on the same day of the examination cannot be continued.
But this is not absolute.
For example, in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, the famous eight-legged essay master Jin Sheng, who died in the Ming Dynasty and fought against the Qing Dynasty, died for his country, when he took the boy's examination, he proposed a test question titled "Isn't it right?"
He thought hard all day but couldn't finish it.
At this time, everyone else had handed in their papers, and he was the only one left.
The academic officer asked someone to take a look and saw that there was only one broken question on his paper.
So the academic officer asked the officials to pull him out.
But when the official Ti Xueguan saw that he had broken the title, "The one who is proud of the world is the one who can be raised by a solid scholar", he couldn't help but be amazed.
On the spot, the academic officer called him back, broke the rule of not being allowed to "continue the candle", and personally lit a candle for him and asked him to finish writing this article.
Jin Sheng therefore entered Pan and became a student.
When a cannon shot came from the camp gate, Xu He was startled.
In fact, he had already finished writing the article and was ready to leave.
But because the person in charge of the exam was Yang Yinqiu, he was afraid that Yang Yinqiu would take the opportunity to cause trouble, so he could only endure the stench and wait for the bomb to go off.
As soon as the cannon fired, he was the first to get up and hand in his paper.
Yang Yinqiu looked at him meaningfully but said nothing.
Xu He bowed to the hall and hurriedly walked out of the gate.
When they passed the Kowloon Field again, Chu Yuan, who came out with him, covered his nose and said, "Brother He, the smell on your body..."
When Xu He heard this, he retched in his throat and almost vomited it out. He couldn't help but feel lucky that he didn't eat anything at noon.
However, having to endure the stench all day while having his brain working at high speed was really too much for him.
When he arrived at the Longmen Gate, Ding Ze saw that his young master was starting to stagger when walking. He ignored the smell of Xu He and directly took the test basket from his hand, put Xu He on his back, and hurried towards the square outside. Get into the rented carriage and go...
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The night passed.
Because the college examinations were rotated among counties, time was tight. Yang Yinqiu got up early and gathered a team for the college examinations to start work.
As a promotion officer, Peng Ruyu will definitely participate.
However, his job is mainly the responsibility of arranging these hosts in the examination room. Coming to participate in the marking is purely a court rule.
The papers of all the children are first selected by the marking officer.
These people would write comments on good papers and put them in bamboo baskets on the ground.
The officials collected them and sent them to Yang Yinqiu's case.
It was Yang Yinqiu's first time as an academic officer, and he still felt that this set of procedures was quite new. So when he got the first test paper, he was eager to get started, imagining that he would be able to produce a few future Jinshi and No. 1 Scholars from his own hands. It was also said that he was a good judge of people.
Peng Ruyu looked at Yang Yinqiu's energy, knowing that this was the first time for an older girl to get on the sedan chair, and she was somewhat disapproving of this man's serious appearance but impetuous inner behavior.
However, he just promoted the officer and could sit with him, so he didn't show it on his face. He just sipped the tea slowly and pretended not to notice.
But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
In the paper in front of Yang Yinqiu, most of the articles were vulgar and unwritten in the eyes of a genuine second-class Jinshi.
Among the dozen or so papers in front, no one succeeded.
Gradually, Yang Yinqiu also felt bored.
Just when he was bored and opened an article, he suddenly became energetic.
I saw that the inscription was: "What the saints call the ultimate filial piety is the development of virtue."
Yang Yinqiu nodded. This topic was very appropriate and closely related to the theme.
He himself was the one who asked the question, so he naturally knew how difficult it would be to answer the question based on the full text, so he was the first person among the dozen or so papers to be able to solve the question so clearly.
Yang Yinqiu then looked down.
I only saw one sentence in the article: All things born in nature are cultivated because of their virtue, and the rivers in the earth are overturned because of their disgust.
Yang Yinqiu's eyes lit up. The two sentences in this article are to illustrate the two sentences "Those who plant them cultivate them, and those who overthrow them overthrow them." They not only combine to break the topic to further explain the meaning, but also make neat and catchy contrasts.
A smile appeared on Yang Yinqiu's lips: "I caught you!"
Looking further down, sure enough, almost the entire text is written in parallel prose, but some places are a bit far-fetched.
But in Yang Yinqiu's view, this is not surprising.
As a teenager in his teens, it is not easy for Xu He to write articles of this level.
He nodded in the end, smiled and handed the paper to Peng Ruyu and said: "Master Peng, look at this boy's article. It is quite literary. I have read it for so long, and this is the only one that caught my eye!"
Peng Ruyu took it and took a look, then nodded and said: "It does have some literary talent, the great master has a keen eye! However, the ending is a bit sloppy. The author of this article should be a young man. It starts at the beginning but ends at the end, which is a pity!"
Hearing the word "literary talent", Yang Yinqiu was even more certain that this should be Xu He's article.
And Peng Ruyu's second half of the comment hit home even more.
He was originally a bit of a germaphobe and felt that suppressing Xu He was contrary to his status as a scholar, but now that you, the prefect Peng, have said the same thing, then you will record Xu He in a low-key manner, and no one can say anything.
Thinking of this, he marked the end of the article with a red pen and placed the paper in the still empty basket on his left.
Yangzhou Prefecture admits about 300 people for each college examination, and each county admits about 30 people.
After reading the paper, the grand master thinks that the candidate can be admitted, and will mark the end of the test paper with [o], [-], and [·].
These three marks respectively correspond to the three grades: high, acceptable, and bottom.
Being able to [distinguish] Xu He's article so quickly made Yang Yinqiu let go of a major issue in his mind.
Next, his eyebrows relaxed a lot, and he even read some articles that were not eye-catching according to his standards, but because he was in a good mood and because the other party had one or two sentences that were pretty good, he also read them. Recorded.
After lunch, the preliminary review work of the marking officer was basically completed.
The following is Yang Yinqiu's own affairs.
At this moment, he no longer had the excitement he had in the early morning, and could only mechanically turn over the pages one by one.
To be honest, in this state, he reviewed the article more fairly and was not swayed by emotions.
In the afternoon, just when he was about to stand up and move around, suddenly, a paper he had just opened attracted his attention.
I saw that the title of this article is "The greatness of holy filial piety is achieved by virtue".
According to his standards, the solution to this question was actually a bit ordinary.
But I am always afraid of comparison.
For example, [Xu He] broke the topic in the morning, [The sage said that filial piety is the most important thing, virtue is the source of it]. Comparing the two chapters, this article uses fewer words, but the explanation is more refined than the one in the morning.
"Finally I saw an interesting question!" Yang Yinqiu perked up, held the paper in his hand and started reading.
