"Are you Wei Chen?"
Wei Chen, who had closed his eyes for a long time, opened his eyes when he heard the sound, and saw a young official with a mustache standing in front of him and staring at him.
"The student is Wei Chen."
"Well, these are the test questions. After you finish writing them, put them on the small table on the right side of the dormitory. Wait for me to pick them up."
The clerk put down the test questions he was holding in his hands and continued to issue questions.
Wei Chen slowly unfolded the test questions and saw that the first question was: "We are human but can we be inferior to birds? Shiyun, King Mu Muwen."
At this time, the test questions had been distributed to most of the candidates, and there was a gasp in the originally silent examination room.
"It's just a question from the beginning!"
Many candidates looked as pale as if they were mourning for the examination, and the hands holding the papers shook as if they were sifting chaff.
The so-called intersecting and tying questions is to extract half of two unrelated sentences from the scriptures to form a brand new topic. This kind of topic is called junta and taizhi, also called a small question.
Even people who have never done eight-legged essays can see that small questions are often difficult to understand because they separate the text from the scriptures, making it extremely difficult to solve the topic.
Therefore, the imperial court issued a decree: "Big questions must be asked in the main examination, and small questions can be asked in the preliminary examination."
In other words, examinations at or above the provincial examination must have large questions with complete form and meaning, while examinations at or below the provincial examination can have small questions that are fragmented.
There is nothing that can be done about it. The Four Books and Five Classics used as a question bank only contain a few Braille words. Examinations at all levels across the country have to draw questions from them. After so many years, which sentence has not been used?
Therefore, the examiners of primary examinations such as county examinations and government examinations can only innovate in different ways and come up with a bunch of perverted cross-section questions to torture the candidates to death.
The question asked by Feng Zhixian now is a combined question, and it is an abnormal mashup of "book" and "classic". The first half of the sentence comes from "The Great Learning" and the second half of the sentence comes from "The Book of Songs".
With such a perverted question, it’s no wonder that candidates were filled with grief as soon as they saw it, and some even had the idea of giving up the exam and going home immediately.
But there are a few exceptions.
For example, Wang Yaochen, who was sitting in the examination room No. 7 of Tianzi, just pondered for a moment and then smiled and began to write quickly on the manuscript paper. It was obvious that he had successfully solved the question.
Sheng Changbai, who was sitting in the examination room No. 16 of Dizi, after some hard thinking, began to write with a solemn expression.
In addition to the two of them, there were several older candidates who also finished solving the problems one after another and began to formulate articles.
However, in terms of ease and ease, no one can compare to Wei Chen, who is sitting at No. 70 Xuan Zi. Even Wang Yaochen is not even close to him.
He has long memorized the classics and is familiar with various routines of cutting and tying questions. When doing mock questions before the exam, he would cut sentences in the scriptures up, down, carry on, skip down, skip chapters, and ruthlessly... ...and come up with many small questions on their own.
The question about Feng Zhixian may appear to others to be fantastic, but to Wei Chen, it seems ordinary. The simulation questions Wei Chen gave himself were much more perverted than this!
As soon as Wei Chen saw the title, he immediately located the origins of the previous and next sentences in his mind, and then just thought about it briefly before picking up the pen.
"It is really shameful for a lady to be inferior to a bird; there is no better person to be ashamed of than to be a teacher to King Wen."
In an instant, two sentences that were originally unrelated were spliced together by Wei Chen to make them reasonable and seamless!
This kind of cut-and-match question seems unreasonable, but in fact it tests the candidate's ability to adapt to the situation, which is why most candidates are afraid of it.
After many scholars have studied the Four Books, Five Classics and related works, they put all their energy into eight-legged essays. They do not read the three links and four histories, and do not know the emperors of Qin and Han dynasties.
The reason why Wei Chen can deal with it easily is because his mind is not rigid and he is not rigid.
On the one hand, he read the vast collection of various schools of thought and classics and histories in the library, absorbing nutrients from the wisdom and experience of everyone in the past, and thrived.
On the other hand, he also has the memories and experiences of his previous life, has rich associative abilities, and has a flexible and clear mind. He is countless times better than those useless nerds.
This is the biggest difference between Wei Chen and other scholars in Dazhou!
After successfully solving the problem, the next thing becomes very simple.
Starting from the topic, the topic was compared, and finally it was bundled into a large article. In less than half an hour, a eloquent and colorful article fell on the manuscript paper.
After finishing writing, Wei Chen read it silently from the beginning again, making sure that the whole text was harmonious, catchy, and contained no taboos, and then he transcribed it on the answer sheet one by one.
Handwriting is the face of a scholar. Many scholars write very well, but they are rejected by the examiner just because of their sloppy handwriting.
Wei Chen noticed the flaws in his calligraphy when he first entered the free school. He has been practicing diligently and now his handwriting in Guange style can be described as dignified, beautiful and meticulous.
After the entire article was transcribed, Wei Chen breathed a sigh of relief and stretched.
At this time, three drum beats were played in the hall, which was a reminder for the intermission. The candidates could take advantage of this time to eat and drink water, or call for help to take them to the toilet to solve their physiological problems.
Wei Chen also felt a little hungry, so he took out the food box from the test basket, picked out a few pieces of pastries and preserved meat, and ate it with water.
When the candidates in the examination room nearby smelled the aroma, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts: If you start eating so early, you really treat the examination room as a restaurant, right?
Some people suppressed their greed and continued to take the exam while covering their noses. Others couldn't stand the excitement and simply took out their food and ate together.
There was an examinee next door to Wei Chen. Because he was afraid of having to urinate urgently during the exam, he did not dare to drink water while eating. He also ate too quickly and choked immediately.
Seeing that the situation was not good, several officials quickly stepped forward, beat their chests and rubbed their backs, and finally got out the foreign object stuck in the candidates' throats, otherwise they might have died on the spot.
Wei Chen couldn't hear what was going on outside the window in the examination room. He didn't know what was going on outside. After eating and wiping himself clean, he began to write the last question, a five-character and eight-rhyme test poem.
This test poem does not account for a large proportion of the test score. The examiner mainly looks at the first time question, or even only the first sentence of the question. If the question is completely unreasonable, there is no need to read the rest of the paper, and the paper is Throw it away.
Therefore, the essay questions are the most important in the first test, and the test poems that follow are somewhat secondary.
But the secondary is secondary. After all, Wei Chen is known as a ten-year-old prodigy who can write poems. If this test poem is too bad, it will be a slap in Wang Xuezheng's face if word spreads about it.
Fortunately, Wei Chen has a quick mind and has studied books such as "Yun Shi" and "Du Lei" in the library. Now it is no longer a problem to cope with ordinary literati singing and singing. It is not difficult to compose a test poem on the spot. of.
When he lowered his head and saw that the title was "Yin Yin Xia Mu Jiao Oriole", Wei Chen immediately knew that this sentence came from Wang Wei's "Poems in Jiyu Wangchuan Village".
Wei Chen closed his eyes and recalled the artistic conception of the poem, "The summer trees are chirping oriole, and I am quietly watching the hibiscus trees in the mountains." In an instant, the poem was written in his mind.
This time, he simply didn’t even write a draft and scrawled sixteen verses directly on the answer sheet.
There are thousands of trees in the long summer, and there are hundreds of warbling orioles in the thick shade;
The double breasts are yellow like embroidery, and the green band is like a curtain;
The dark leaves linger for a long time, the branches are high and the sound is late;
The wind is blowing on the tip of my tongue, and the rain is falling outside my body;
Sitting there covered with mica, singing can compete with the snow;
It’s hard to stop listening to good music, and I don’t know the scorching scenery;
Yangliu Sanyi Road, cherry in April;
The sentiment is annoying, and the poem in the painting is written.
Wei Chen finished writing in one breath, put down his pen and checked it again. Looking at the time again, he saw that it was just a quarter of an hour, and there was still more than an hour before the end of the exam.
Even if you hand in your papers in advance, you cannot leave immediately. You must wait until the end of the exam time to exit.
Since he couldn't get out anyway, Wei Chen simply stopped handing in the paper in advance to make people hate him. With nothing to do, Wei Chen closed his eyes and continued to take a nap in the examination room.
After a while, a steady sound of snoring could be heard in the examination room No. 70 of Xuanzi.
The candidates in the examination room next door were sweating profusely and writing furiously. When they heard this sound, they almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
Eat and sleep. Is this an examination room or your home?
