It was Li Erlang who sent Su Yu to meet up with a few others first, and then went to the examination room together to take the exam.
It was a bit cool in the early morning in mid-August, but after walking a few steps, my body started to warm up.
When we arrived at the gantry of the examination room, many candidates had already arrived.
Su Yu was also waiting in the crowd with his classmates.
Everyone was silent and did not speak, waiting for the officials in the ceremony room to come out to verify their identities before entering the examination room.
When the sky is slightly bright.
The gantry opened and the officials in the ceremony room began to call the candidates' numbers.
The five people who were called came forward to answer the call.
After checking the candidates' information and household registration documents, the candidates took off their clothes in batches in the shed at the back and stepped into the pool that was not under their feet. Special officers then checked whether there were any cheat sheets.
After the examination, everyone took back their clothes and examination baskets, arranged them with disheveled hair, and headed to the examination room.
When the candidates entered the venue, Magistrate Lu was also watching from the door, accompanied by the Admiral Jiangling Mansion Academic Affairs Examiner.
Seeing Su Yu and his entourage enter the venue, Magistrate Lu pointedly said: "There are many young talents gathered in this college examination."
"I see that student, although he is dressed in ordinary clothes, his back is straight and he walks calmly. He looks like a good person."
The direction Magistrate Lu was looking was Su Yu, who was adjusting his clothes while walking.
Zhang Xuezheng also took a look and didn't recognize him.
But Magistrate Lu pointed it out specifically, and there must be a reason for it.
He remembered the greeting King Huainan gave him not long ago, saying that a young man named Su Yu would be allowed to pass the college examination.
Zhang Xuezheng immediately thought that this person might be him.
He looked at Su Yu a few more times.
It looks good from the outside, but it's a pity that it's a back-door one.
Although Huainan King Gu Fangxu would give Zhang Xuezheng some face, it did not mean that he was willing to do so.
As a scholar, he has his own persistence.
It is really difficult for this kind of candidate who has no ability to take the imperial examination and relies on the back door to leave a good impression on him.
Zhang Xuezheng withdrew his eyes and said calmly: "I am just looking at you."
"Is it possible that this young man knows Mr. Lu?"
Magistrate Lu looked at him in surprise.
Could it be that the prince only greeted himself and not the academic administration?
From this point of view, the relationship between this young man and Prince Gu is probably just average.
This could also explain why they kept ignoring him after he let him pass the government examination.
It was even Master Lu who recommended him to the Fu School.
Since Prince Gu didn't say anything, then Magistrate Lu naturally wouldn't say anything.
He also smiled and said: "I don't know him."
"It's just that I thought he looked good, so I just said a few words."
Zhang Xuezheng knew it well and changed the subject to talk about other candidates.
...
Although Su Yu felt the eyes looking at him.
But in the examination room, you are not allowed to look around.
He could only move forward without looking back while adjusting his clothes.
After finding the exam room, I found that I was quite lucky and got the position in the middle.
It's not the kind of exam room that's close to the latrine and full of odor as rumored.
Sit down and take out the pen and ink from the test basket.
The remaining papers and inkstones will be distributed by the invigilator.
Candidates are taking their seats one after another.
By the time the exam actually started, the sun was already high in the sky.
Zhang Xuezheng said loudly: "Distribute test questions."
The guards passed by the examination room one after another, leaving behind ink strips, scratch paper, test questions, etc. for the examination.
After getting the test questions, you cannot start writing directly.
Su Yu started to read while grinding the ink.
The first parts were all written from memory, and he knew them all by heart. His score was not high, and there was nothing interesting about them.
Mainly look at the title of the article at the end.
There are two questions in the first round, the most important of which is the first one.
The first question seems difficult.
"The Master said."
There was some small noise from the examination number next to it. It is estimated that many candidates were dumbfounded when they saw this question.
Su Yu was also a little stunned.
in memory.
The questions in the county examination and the prefecture examination are very simple.
It is a passage taken directly from the book for candidates to solve the questions.
The title of the essay in the college examination is only two words, and there is no explanation. The candidates have to guess the intention of the person who asked the question.
However, the scoring of imperial examinations inherently involves luck.
If what you write happens to meet the preferences of the person who wrote the question, then even if the article is average, there is a high probability that it will pass.
Su Yu thought for a while.
He originally thought that if he encountered something he didn't know during the exam, he would try the Pinduoduo method.
Flexibly put together various famous quotes and passages that you remember.
An article written in this way will definitely get a lot of points.
Before he could even pick up a pen to write, Su Yu had already thought of many useful sentences in his mind.
The bell rang and everyone could start writing.
Su Yu also dipped in ink and started to make a draft.
First, break the topic, that is, determine the argument of your entire article.
After solving the problem, the rest becomes much easier.
Su Yu pieced together and excerpted all the popular articles and sentences from the Eight Great Masters that he could recall.
Then fill in your own article sentence by sentence.
After I roughly finished writing it, I read it myself and surprisingly found it pretty good.
As for the second way, it is much easier.
Su Yu followed the format of his first question and started a new round of piecing together.
At noon, he ate some dry food prepared by Gu Changle for him to fill his stomach, and then asked the clerk in the examination room to buy some hot water.
After finishing my meal, I continued to write hard.
By the time Su Yu finished writing, many candidates had already handed in their papers in advance and left.
Su Yu checked it twice, and after confirming that there was no problem, he brought his answer sheet to the Academic Affairs Master.
After staying in this small examination room for several days, Su Yu felt like he was getting moldy.
Fortunately, it is autumn and the weather is not hot, so I haven’t sweated in the past few days.
Otherwise, you will definitely smell bad.
There were already some answer sheets piled up in front of the desk of the official responsible for printing names on the answer sheets.
Zhang Xuezheng had obviously seen these.
After the names are blurred, they will be scanned a few more times during the unified marking later.
It’s too much, but it’s basically been finalized.
When Su Yu handed in his paper, he happened to finish reading the previous one and took it over.
As per usual.
If the paper is submitted in advance, all the examiners will take a look at it first. If they think it is good, they will conduct an additional test on the candidate.
But when he took the test paper, he raised his head and glanced at the young man in front of him.
I found out that it was the examinee who wanted to go through the back door to let him pass.
If this person was knowledgeable, he would definitely not have to open the back door for him.
So his studies must have been a mess.
Zhang Xuezheng lost the mood to read his answer sheet for a while, and naturally he didn't want to take the exam alone again.
"Just let it go."
Su Yu respectfully put his answer sheet aside and watched the official paste his name on the answer sheet before leaving.
