Just after Xu He finished the first article, the sky was already bright.
But after a while the wind blew, and the early autumn rain began to patter down.
On normal days, if these scholars saw the continuous autumn rain, they would definitely recite a few poems in a sultry manner.
However, during the provincial examination, everyone lost interest.
As soon as the raindrops fell, Xu He was startled.
He quickly put all the papers on the board he was sitting on behind him, then took out the oilcloth from the test basket and propped it up in front of the cell to keep out the rain.
Not just him, but all the candidates.
At this moment, Xu He heard someone suddenly wailing not far away.
The sound was simply more painful than the crying spirit.
The trumpeters all turned to look in the direction of the sound.
The candidates wanted to see it, but they were blocked by the chants and had no idea what was going on.
At this time, Wang Liangchen, who was upstairs in Mingyuan, saw what was happening. He turned around and ordered the trumpeter downstairs: "Go two people and see what's going on."
After a while, the two buglers came out carrying a distraught and crying scholar.
Because Xu He was close to Mingyuan Building, he vaguely heard something like "the paper was stained with water and the ink stains melted away".
Then, I heard the stern voice of Titiao Wang Liangchen: "Pull it out. The paper is dirty. It will be useless to take the test again. If you leave it here, it will affect everyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of crying and howling increased in volume again, and then the sound gradually became distant.
Xu He sighed.
Studying hard in the cold window, how many three years are there in life?
Three years will be wasted just because of raindrops on the test paper.
It’s scary to think about.
As the raindrops fell, there was a coolness in the dormitory, but the problems that followed troubled Xu He.
The dormitory was dark and damp. Although a sergeant had specially cleaned it before the rural examination, it had been abandoned for three years. How could it be cleaned up in one visit?
In addition, mosquitoes swarm in the autumn in the south, and their bites are severe, and Xu He cannot bear to be disturbed.
After finishing the second article, I concentrated on scratching my itch.
In addition, the number of people coming and going to the toilet gradually increased, making Xu He feel a little restless.
You cannot write good articles when you are impetuous.
Although he had completed the two most important Four Books, he decided to take a break.
Good guy, it was dark again. It wasn't until noon that he was smoked by the smoke from the scholars' cooking.
Hao Jun saw him stretching, as if he was seeing a ghost.
Scholars in other houses did not dare to waste any time, and some had even written four or five articles.
As for this old man, he didn't come to take a provincial examination. Those who didn't know better thought he was here to listen to a play.
It was a sweet sleep curled up on the small board, and the snoring made the fellows on both sides so angry that their eyes rolled up to the sky.
When I woke up, I felt refreshed and the rain outside had stopped.
Xu He's stomach also began to growl.
Xie Liangcai's family personally organized the exams last night.
When I opened it, there were a dozen snacks that I didn’t like when I was cooking.
There were also some ingredients. Xu He was silent when he looked at the small bottles of soaked dried mushrooms, marinated bacon, and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Light the fire, heat the pot, pour oil, and stir-fry.
Pour some autumn oil and sprinkle some chopped green onion, Haojun's eyes almost popped out.
Is this person really here for an outing?
Others just sprinkle a handful of flour and add some sesame oil.
This is great. Would you like to go to a restaurant?
Seeing the delicious and delicious mushroom-fried pork slices being placed on the small table by Xu He, the buglers swallowed their saliva.
Don't look, looking is torture.
After eating and drinking, Xu He wiped the board carefully, took a bucket and got some water to wash his face, and then sat down again.
In the third article, a refreshed Xu He began to compose.
Honesty is based on virtue, and those who rectify others first rectify themselves.
There is no one in the world who can correct others without being upright himself. If you stick to theory and practice politics, wouldn’t you value your own virtue to show it?
…
An Ru stops at a few well-being; silence, sound and color are at a minimum. Everything that moves from east to west, from west to west, and from south to south is the silent movement of this virtue.
There is no one in the world who is not serious but allows others to be serious. When talking about politics based on principles, how can there be any political effect that does not take one's own moral behavior as the standard?
pretty!
The more Xu He wrote, the more confident he became.
By obeying your kindness, you can detect the buds of mistakes in time, gain political clarity, and calmly treat the pleasures of sensual dogs and horses without going too far.
This kind of political enlightenment reaches the Tao, is widely spread and spreads all over the world...
Just perfect.
After waking up, Xu He was in better shape than ever after eating and drinking.
After finishing the questions on the Four Books, I turned around and started to tackle the questions on the Five Classics.
That speed is unparalleled.
Everyone else was drowsily struggling in the dormitory, but Xu He was writing vigorously in an unprecedented state of clarity.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu He finally finished writing all seven articles.
He stretched his neck and moved his wrists. After relaxing for a while, he did not dare to waste too much time and began to check the seven articles.
Compared with the Third Child Examination, the Provincial Examination has many more rules.
When transcribing, the handwriting must be correct and neat. The title and text have a prescribed format and cannot be written randomly.
For example, on the test questions of the article, no test characters are allowed. The entire paper must be written in regular script according to the order of the questions. Cursive writing is not allowed.
Articles need to avoid royal names, temple taboos, and cannot disclose personal information.
After the test paper is transcribed, all the unsatisfied annotations, erasures and corrections must be posted outside the public hall, which is called hall posting. Of course, this is done after the paper is handed in, and the candidates themselves do not know it.
But when the marking officer sees these questions, he will never look at your paper again and post it directly. Your subject will be considered useless.
Post the eight-legged section that has not been completed, and post the section that contains errors or omissions.
Also, how many words you have written in this article should be written in small regular script at the bottom right of the copied paper. You cannot make mistakes, and you cannot report less for more, because the rules of the scientific examination are all There is a word limit, but if it’s less...post it.
Today is the first of seven eight-part essays. In these seven essays, the beginning and end cannot be the same.
For example, one of your seven articles uses the word [husband] at the beginning.
Then the remaining six articles are no longer allowed to use this word.
For another example, if you end an article with the word "win", it is best not to use these two words at the end.
If similar questions appear in the seven articles, the test paper... will be posted.
The posted papers have no hope of admission.
Therefore, when Xu He checked, he had to compare them one by one against the rules and regulations in his mind.
If something goes wrong, fix it.
Don't be careless here, because some perverted requests cannot be discovered by you on the spot and when you are extremely excited.
After Xu He checked it, he found that in two "Poetry" papers, he used the word "cover" as the beginning.
Therefore, in any era, the process of checking the test papers after the exam is very necessary, and you cannot be lazy.
As the sky turned dark, the buglers distributed three candles to the students in each dormitory who were still writing furiously.
As usual, after the candles are burned out, the exam is over. The [Bujizhu] in the provincial examination is the real Fujizhu.
When the second candle was still about the length of a little finger's head, Xu He completed the first round of the provincial examination.
After walking out of the Gongyuan, Xu He was already so tired that he felt dizzy without even realizing it.
Don't say anything, find Ding Ze and go back to work!
