Had dinner early the next morning.
All the students staying in the Fu School gathered at Myung Lun Hall under the notice of Zhaifu.
Although Minglun Hall is where junior students attend classes on weekdays, when there is a major gathering, it is the same as the [ladder classrooms and auditoriums] in later schools, where all teachers and students gather.
Xu He only slept for half the night last night, and his head hurt a little.
Everyone else in the same room, except Wu Decao, was also depressed.
There are more than three times more people in Minglun Hall today than in Yuyingzhai yesterday.
But since Xu He entered the hall, he could faintly notice that many eyes were directed at him.
There were even people whispering and introducing something to the people around them.
When he came to Fu Sheng, Jiao Ze smiled slightly at Xu He and said, "Are you ready for the speech that the professor asked you to prepare?"
Xu He opened his mouth, wanting to complain, but in the end he nodded and said, "I'll try to explain."
The head teacher again acted like he was trying to relieve you of the burden. He patted Xu He on the shoulder and Jiao Ze said, "Don't feel pressured. Just say what's on your mind."
"What's on my mind... I don't want to talk about it!" Xu He thought to himself, "The eight-part essay, which is the most important part of the imperial examination, can train people, but it also really imprisons people's thoughts. If I say this, will you make me angry? Tear it up?"
While the teachers and students were talking happily, someone outside the hall rang the small bell. When they heard the bell, everyone gradually became quiet.
By the time Gao Bi entered Minglun Hall, no one dared to speak anymore.
He first sat down behind the case, and then asked the instructors in each room to collect the articles assigned yesterday.
After getting the article, he ignored everyone and just sat there and read it, sketching it out while reading.
In fact, when people write articles in Fu Xue, except for special requirements, almost all of them are written in the eight-legged style.
So regarding yesterday's argument about "Zhao Dun killed his king", if there is any question, Gao Bi only needs to understand the question.
If he made a mistake in solving the question, he would just put it aside and ignore it. Only if he understood the two-layered meaning of the article Xu He said yesterday, he would read it for a while.
Xu He saw him lowering his head and correcting the article very quickly. After a while, the article was completed.
He asked the doorman who was standing guard to hand out all the unqualified papers, and then said with a dark face: "Most of them are just scribbles, take them back, and those who don't understand can go to Yuyingzhai to ask your classmates for advice!"
Among those who had their papers rejected, the epiphytes were just fine with it, while the undergrowth and hyperplasia had a little embarrassment on their faces.
Xu He discovered that Xie Defu actually passed the test.
No, did this guy have time to write an article last night?
Is this kid the legendary top student? Play all kinds of things in front of people, and roll all kinds of books behind people? Insidious!
Gao Bi waited for the doorman to hand out all the papers that failed, then turned to look at Xu He and said: "In this subject of our school, we have the first [Xiao Sanyuan] in Nanzhi since the founding of the People's Republic of China..." "
Before he finished speaking, everyone looked at Xu He.
There was no way, Xiao Sanyuan's reputation was too great, and with Brother Sao's assist yesterday, Xu Liangsheng's reputation was now well known to everyone in the school.
Gao Bi ignored everyone's psychological activities and said to Xu He: "Since February, you have won three consecutive exams at the county, government and hospital level, and you are still the head of the case. There must be some secret to studying in it. Are you willing to share it with everyone today? two?"
The atmosphere was already heightened to this point. If I said I didn’t want to, would I still be able to have a good time in the government school in the future?
This old man, this question is very incompetent!
However, Xu He is actually very willing to share, because in this era, having good classmates and making progress together is actually a kind of cultivation of human connections.
This is not the era of later generations where old classmates stab you in the back.
Everyone still cherishes the feeling of being classmates, which also means that if you are among this group of people in the future, your classmates will be your hometown wish and the foundation of your official career, and your classmates who will be Jinshi will be your comrades-in-arms and your offensive and defensive allies.
Uniting classmates is to contribute to one's own future, and it is a good thing to benefit others and ourselves.
Xu He nodded, smiled and said to Gao Bi: "The professor's orders can only be said in a shy voice. If you are wrong, please ask your classmates for advice."
No one would take this kind of retreat topic too seriously, so when Xu He said it politely, everyone laughed.
Yesterday's Ouyang Jun said: "Chief Xu, please say it boldly. Although you are an epiphyte, your knowledge is no worse than that of us juniors and accretions. No one dares to find fault in front of you, otherwise it will be uncomfortable!"
The people who were in Yuyingzhai yesterday burst out laughing when they heard his words.
Xu He nodded, nodded slightly to Ouyang Jun, and then unexpectedly asked a question.
"Everyone, how can I get the top prize?"
"The top pick?"
"I'm not even sure how to win the championship, so how can I talk about being the top candidate?"
"If I can get the top prize, it doesn't matter if my life is shortened by twenty years!"
"Put it down, then what's the point of winning the top prize? Let me remind you, you are already 30 years old this year!"
Xu He's question caused a commotion in Minglun Hall.
Xu He saw that the fire was almost done, so he said in a humorous tone: "When you first entered school, did you feel that you had memorized a set of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and then you took a set of the Four Books and the Five Classics and memorized them, and then you can win the exam? Has the Jinshi become an official?"
His words made the originally noisy Minglun Hall suddenly quiet down, especially those who had just been infected by the life force. They all looked at Xu He expectantly.
Xu He then smiled and said: "Okay, if everyone memorizes all day long, memorizes all the Four Books and Five Classics and their interpretations, and enters the examination room with high spirits, can you really pass the exam?"
Everyone burst into laughter with a roar.
Xu He also laughed: "The topic came out. We wrote down all the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics and their interpretations word by word into the paper. But unfortunately, Zhiyi is a literary style with a fixed format and a limited number of words. The Four Books and Five Classics do not need it. Arrangements, Zhu Shengren’s annotations on chapters and sentences do not need to be divided into eight parts, but when we copy them directly, we need to arrange them into eight parts. Who can I ask to explain this..."
Everyone had been there before, so when they heard Xu He's words, although they were playful, they spoke to everyone's heart, they all smiled knowingly.
"Okay, you're confused. You go home. The provincial examination is over. Our result got a [not accepted] in the end. It's really embarrassing."
"Then we started working hard. Isn't it just eight-legged essay? What's so difficult? Can't I just learn it?"
"So, we borrowed the paper that ranked first in the provincial examination. After reading it, everyone realized that the eight-part essay was not as simple as we thought. It cannot be written just by memorizing it!"
"Some people want to talk now! I guess they must be saying that I cheated on so-and-so everyone's Cheng Wen, and got away with it by luck!"
"But if you are lucky for a moment, what about your whole life? Can you have this kind of luck in your whole life?"
"So, do we think that by memorizing the meanings and interpretations of the scriptures, we can move forward in the examination room?"
"No, in addition to reciting, we also need to understand, I call it, reading comprehension!"
Ouyang Jun interjected at this time: "Isn't the sage's interpretation what you call reading comprehension?"
Xu He nodded, then shook his head: "Yes, but it belongs to the sages, not you!"
