After Lin Yanchao arrived at the examination room, there were already several candidates in the nearby examination room. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Yanchao was not in a hurry, he went into the examination room first and cleaned up.

This examination room is really as small as the legend, and when you go in, you can't straighten your waist, lie down with your legs exposed, and stand up and touch your head. Lin Yanchao couldn't help but slander the relevant departments of the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't spend some money seriously to give the candidates a place to take the exam.

While Lin Yanchao was cleaning, he admired the 'field house culture' on the wall, which of course were the 'ink treasures' left by the predecessors of the science field.

Probably just wrote a crooked poem, someone came here for a trip or something, Lin Yanchao looked at five or six names, most of them were unknown, but when he read a name, he was stunned.

In the eleventh year of Jiajing, Lin Yin of Min County tried three times here.

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but sigh when he saw it, the nine thousand examination rooms of the Tribute Academy, he actually went to the place where the mountain chief stayed during the exam that year.

By the time of the next subject, the wooden examination room must have been demolished and replaced with a brick examination room, and these words will never be seen again.

It seems that there is a providence in the dark.

Lin Yanchao sat in the examination room, stunned for a while at this line of words. After half a ring, Lin Yanchao straightened his waist and bowed to this line of words, the heart is long, the disciple will definitely be named on the gold list, and live up to your teachings for many years.

Lin Yanchao thought of this and continued to clean up the examination shed.

Better tools make good work

Lin Yanchao was still cautious, using an oilcloth as a top and a door curtain to prevent rain from entering the examination room. Judged to be a blue roll, it is basically a falling roll.

After arranging the examination room, Lin Yanchao hurriedly lit a charcoal basin to keep warm. And he filled a small copper kettle with water and boiled there.

After the water boiled, Lin Yanchao threw some red dates and wolfberries into it, and put the small copper kettle in a bamboo basket, and the sides of the pot were stuffed with goose feather cotton, leaving only the spout outside, so that it could keep warm. It can be regarded as a thermos pot of the ancients.

After brewing this red date tea, Lin Yanchao took a sip directly into the spout, and the fragrance of the red dates suddenly penetrated into the internal organs.

Jujube tea can not only drive away the cold, but also nourish the spleen and stomach, in order to save time, the examination room will inevitably eat raw and cold food, so easy to freeze the stomach, indigestion. Drinking jujube tea can resolve a lot, and drinking a pot of hot fragrant tea in this cold winter wax moon. It's also a rare enjoyment.

Lin Yanchao's lunch is steamed buns with red date tea.

In the afternoon, the candidates have finished entering the venue one after another.

The exam questions were issued, and Lin Yanchao looked at the first question first, which read the words 'I love Qili'.

For an eight-strand fighter like Lin Yanchao, who has been through a hundred battles, he only glanced at these four words, and immediately thought that this question came from a chapter in the Eight Hundred Analects, and the original text was 'Zigong wants to go to tell Shuo's gluttonous sheep.' Zi said: Give also, you love its sheep. I love it'.

To the effect, Zigong proposed to remove the live sheep used to sacrifice to the ancestral temple. Confucius said, "Yes, you cherish that sheep, but I cherish that kind of gift." ”

This kind of question, not to mention the previous question bank, I have done it once. It's not the slightest bit of difficulty. After three years of hard work every day, Lin Yanchao's scripture skills have reached a higher level.

But what I will try to think about is not just to solve the problem as usual, but to find a way to defeat these 3,000 people. Therefore, the level of the article should be further than before.

Lin Yanchao took a sip of red date tea, and immediately wrote ten words on the draft, the heart of a saint, only knowing that it is polite.

This is a broken topic, and the first half of the sentence I love, that is, the love of Confucius, the name of Confucius cannot be mentioned in the eight-strand text, otherwise it is a violation, so it must be replaced by a saint, the love of Confucius is the love of a saint, and the love of a saint is the heart of a saint.

Courtesy, Confucius hoped that Zigong would still use sheep for sacrifices, but in order to maintain the etiquette system, so the second half of the sentence was written, only to know that there was courtesy.

Inherit the topic, the gift of the husband's farewell, and the great gift. The heart of the saint is there, and he has no time to pity the sheep.

The following is the words of the saints, and by the time it gets dark, the first 500 words have been written.

Lin Yanchao stretched his waist, the charcoal in the charcoal basin had already been extinguished, after dark, the temperature dropped rapidly, and the examination room felt even colder, and several surveillance soldiers were stamping their feet to keep warm.

Lin Yanchao's stomach growled, so when it was cold, the calories on his body were consumed faster, so he was more hungry than usual!

So Lin Yanchao took a look at the remaining six exam questions, and with his ability to never forget, he immediately remembered them in his mind.

Lin Yanchao put the roll into the roll bag and added charcoal to the charcoal basin again, this time for the exam, Lin Yanchao was very well prepared for charcoal, and bought some more at the supply center, so he didn't have to worry about not having enough charcoal.

After adding charcoal, Lin Yanchao cooked noodles under the eaves, and brought two salted duck eggs from the inn that had already been frozen hard.

Lin Yanchao threw the salted duck eggs into the noodles, boiled a bowl and ate them, but it was not enough, so he ate while cooking, and ate three bowls in a row before he was full.

At this time, the candidates in the examination rooms on the left and right were all lighting candles and writing exam questions, and they saw Lin Yanchao cooking and eating in the examination room.

The people don't know Lin Yanchao, and in order to do the questions in a hurry, they all drink cold water and eat raw buns, just make do with a meal.

As for cooking and eating, this is also normal, but seeing that Lin Yanchao actually ate three bowls in a row, he didn't use such precious time in the examination room, but used it to cook rice, which was too wasteful.

Isn't this person here to be funny?

The crowd shook their heads.

After Lin Yanchao ate and drank enough, but felt tired, he still didn't sleep well last night, and he was sleepy in the dark, if he continued like other candidates, the effect would not be very good.

Anyway, there are three days and two nights in the examination room, and it's only one day and one night, so we're not in a hurry.

Thinking of this, Lin Yanchao was in the examination room and took off the number plate used for the exam from the brick support. Speaking of the number plate in the examination room, it is really an artifact-like existence during the imperial examination.

During the examination, the plates were rested on a brick support more than one foot above the ground and more than two feet above the ground, and were used as tables and stools for examinations and meals during the day, and at night, when it was time to sleep, the two plates were removed from the brick supports. Spread it on the ground and use it as a bed board.

If there is no this board, the February weather in this Beijing division will directly let you sleep on the ground, and the sour taste will ensure that you will never forget it for the rest of your life.

Lin Yanchao put the two trumpet boards together on the ground, and then spread a layer of bedding on the trumpet boards. Lin Yanchao tried to lie down, yes, the softness and hardness were moderate.

Then Lin Yanchao wrapped the charcoal basin in cloth and put it on the futon.

After the bedding was warm, Lin Yanchao put the charcoal basin outside the door curtain, then covered the futon himself, took off the roe deer he wore on weekdays and folded it into a pillow, and then covered the robe and covered his body and lay down.

I have to say that the examination room is too small, and Lin Yanchao, who is a southerner, is not tall. But if you sleep inside, if you wrap your head and feet, the whole person is bent into a shrimp, and your buttocks are still exposed outside the curtain door, and if the whole person is lying upright, your feet are outside the curtain door.

After Lin Yanchao made a trade-off between his buttocks and feet, he finally decided to take care of his belly, and then put more charcoal in the charcoal basin. Place it next to your feet outside the curtain to warm your feet.

The cold wind was blowing strongly, and Lin Yanchao was tired. So he fell asleep in the examination room.

When the candidates on the side saw this scene, they were even more speechless, they were still holding candles and writing papers, because they knew that they would definitely not sleep well in the examination room, and it was better to answer the questions in one go when they were still in good spirits the day before. I wrote the first three articles first, and when I couldn't stand it anymore, I slept in the examination room.

It makes sense for them to think about it, and it is also the examination experience of the ancients in the past, so they think. Lin Yanchao got up early like this, it was a strange flower.

Everyone shook their heads, ignored Lin Yanchao, and continued to answer the question.

It was a very windy night and a cold night, but luckily it didn't rain again. However, in the middle of the night, a candidate accidentally knocked over the candle flame, causing a fire in the Gongyuan. Moreover, this fire is still quite close to Lin Yanchao's 'Xuan' examination room.

The candidates near Lin Yanchao saw the fire and wanted to leave the examination room for fear of harming the pond fish, but the guards refused to let them go, saying that if they left the examination room, they would be punished as cheating.

All the candidates were frightened at the moment, but they didn't dare to leave the examination room, so they could only answer the questions with their heads down. At first, when the fire was getting bigger and bigger, many of the candidates were still crying in fright, but the officers and soldiers warned them not to make noise.

These candidates could only hide in the examination room and weep silently.

The fire in the examination room immediately alarmed the chief examiner Shen Shixing and Zhi Gongju.

When they heard the news, they immediately put on their clothes and went out to organize officers and soldiers to extinguish the fire.

At that time, each test lane was equipped with a large water tank, and the water tank was full of water before the test. The elder personally presided over the extinguishing of the fire, and the officers and soldiers on the left and right dared not to work hard, and the fire was immediately extinguished.

Although the fire was extinguished, dozens of examination rooms were burned, affecting nearly 100 candidates.

Shen Shixing had to temporarily change the examination rooms for the candidates, and then Shen Shixing, as well as Yu Youding, the deputy chief examiner of the Rites Department and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, personally inspected the examination room to appease the candidates who were scared and let them continue to take the exam.

When Yu Youding inspected the Xuanzi Examination Lane and came to Lin Yanchao's examination room, he saw a person sleeping in the examination room.

The officials who came to inspect with Yu Youding on the side were all hearted, the Gongyuan was on fire all night, and this person actually fell asleep, could it be a fool.

The officers and soldiers on the side were about to go up to wake up Lin Yanchao, but Yu Youding waved his hand and said to his subordinates with a smile: "This person is really calm when he encounters a major event." ”

Everyone smiled and said yes, and Yu Youding didn't wake up Lin Yanchao at the moment, but went directly to other examination rooms to inspect.

The officers and soldiers guarding in front of Lin Yanchao's examination room couldn't help but fall down when they saw this scene.

After the night passed, when the sky was slightly bright, Lin Yanchao finally woke up from sleep, maybe he was too tired yesterday, and he didn't sleep all night, but he slept until dawn. Lin Yanchao slept too deeply last night, and he didn't even know anything about last night's fire.

At this moment, the candidates on the left and right were all in shock, everyone was staring at a pair of panda eyes, looking tired after not sleeping all night, watching Lin Yanchao get up, and then yawning in the examination room while cleaning up the bedding.

The officers and soldiers who supervised Lin Yanchao asked angrily: "This old man slept well last night." ”

"I slept quite warmly last night, but it was a little noisy in the second half of the night! Alas, forget it, I still don't feel like I can sleep enough after a night's sleep! Lin Yanchao complained.

When the candidates saw Lin Yanchao's dissatisfied expression and tone, they were all angry in their hearts! (To be continued.) )