The crowd slowly passed through the three gates, each door was repeatedly searched by soldiers to ensure that there was no entrainment of cheating, and the soldiers who inspected it were so fine that the slightly larger cakes that were brought in were broken with knives to prevent things from being caught inside.

The last gate is the tallest, a huge plaque on the gatehouse has the word 'Dragon Gate' written on it, Su Jin suddenly realized, it turns out that the Dragon Gate called by later generations is based on the third gate of the Gongyuan;

In the huge Gongyuan, rows of blue bricks and small tiles of the examination shed are lined with rows of dense turns, all in a row to the south, each shed has ten houses, leaving a long lane about four feet wide between them, and the lights and water tanks are prepared, which can be used by candidates to travel at night and drink water during the day.

The examination shed is numbered, and the number room is also numbered, Su Jin found his own number house one after another according to the number plate, and pushed open the wooden door of the number room, and a musty and damp smell came to the nose, and the Chinese wanted to vomit; Su Jin covered his mouth and nose and looked closely, slowly adapting to the dim light, only to see that this house was small. Cramped, on the area is definitely not more than five square meters, the length is only more than two meters, the width is definitely not more than one meter five, the two walls of the brick wall are one or two feet from the ground to build up and down two brick supports, on which the upper and lower layers of wooden planks are staggered, but I don't know what to do.

Su Jin turned his head and heard that the student in the next room, who was about twenty-seven or eighteen, was busy going in and out and didn't know what he was doing.

Seeing Su Jin's confused face, the student knew that he was taking the exam for the first time, so he took advantage of the fact that the soldiers on patrol were not paying attention, and quietly said to Su Jin: "Brother Tai doesn't know how to use this house?" ”

Su Jin nodded and pointed to the two wooden boards and said softly, "What about the table?" What about the bed? How do you live in such a small place? ”

The student pointed to the two-layer plank and said, "During the daytime exam, the upper plank replaces the table, and the lower plank is a stool, which can sit and answer questions, and at night take out the upper plank and merge it into the lower layer and use it as a bed for sleeping." ”

Su Jin was stunned and said, "This is less than five feet long, how can you sleep?" ”

The student spread his hands and said, "There is no way, I can only settle, brother!" There is a small niche on the opposite wall, where you can place a small stove to heat tea, and if you bring food and dry food, you can eat it hot on a small stove; There is a unified time for toileting, generally once in the morning, noon and evening, and the door of the house must be locked after the rest of the time. ”

Su Jin almost didn't bare out of his eyes, what kind of paralysis is this exam? This is simply torturing people, but I didn't expect the serious and sacred imperial examination to be like this, which is simply unacceptable to Su Jin.

"There is another point to pay attention to, there are often centipede poisonous snakes entrenched in this house, someone in the last department was bitten by a poisonous snake, and when the house was opened, it was found that the person was dead, so you must check and check before going to bed......"

Before the man could finish speaking, a soldier at the aisle crossing in front of him patrolled by and shouted, "Don't talk to each other, and then talk to each other and go out." ”

The man hurriedly stopped, silently arched his hands, and turned to go to work.

Su Jin wants to cry without tears, he has never stayed in such a pigsty-like place when he is so big, this will be regarded as a lesson; In any case, since it came, it was useless to regret it; Su Jin had to open the examination basket and take out the same things to sort out, it's okay not to tidy up, I was startled when I sorted it out, there was everything in it, Su Jin was pleased to find that there was a box of sandalwood tablets and a small incense burner, this look is Huanniang's handwriting, Huanniang has the most time to serve her reading, and knows that she likes to light a piece of incense when reading.

Su Jin hurriedly picked up a piece of incense and sent it to his nose to smell, sure enough, it was his favorite rose incense, so he lit a piece and put it into the furnace, and after a while, the aroma filled his nose, and the foul smell of mildew in the small house was washed away.

Su Jin was in a good mood, so he started to sweep all the inside and outside with a broom, and went to the water tank at the end of the shed to scoop a few basins of water to flush the inside of the house; I took another piece of cloth to block the curtain and wiped it on the blue brick wall, wiped the cobwebs clean, and tore the strips of cloth to block the big gaps, so that the poisonous snakes and centipedes would not have a place to hide.

After some tidying and cleaning, the house was completely new, and the air was filled with the fragrance of rose incense chips, which looked like a small new house.

Just when Su Jin was busy tidying up the number house, the lifters in the front and right houses had already started to raise a small stove to roast the dry food and start to eat lunch; Smelling the aroma of the food, Su Jin felt uncomfortable with hunger, looking at the skylight, at least it was almost the end of the day.

Su Jin hurriedly took out the food box and opened it, the huge mahogany food box was divided into five layers, the top was pastry, and the lower layers were sealed, with the words one, two, three; This is the meal prepared by Yan Biyun for Su Jin, the sealed food box with one written on it is eaten on the first day, the one written on second is eaten on the second day, and the third box is eaten on the last day; Pastries are eaten as snacks.

Su Jin guessed that Yan Biyun was set according to the quality of the food, and when he was inspecting outside just now, the soldiers had already uncovered it, but Su Jin didn't look at it; Today is the first day, so naturally I have to eat the first box.

Uncover the food box with one written on it, and there are three things in the food box, a bowl of longan lotus seed soup, a plate of cucumber fried pork slices, and a small bowl of dozens of dates; The dishes were not sumptuous at all, but Su Jin immediately understood what Yan Biyun meant: these dishes all have the effect of calming the mind, Yan Biyun knew that Su Jin was very uncomfortable when he first entered the Tribute Academy exam, and he was afraid that he would be impetuous, so he carefully chose these things to calm down, so that Su Jin could calm down after eating.

Su Jin understood Yan Biyun's intentions, but he couldn't calm down, this woman has a goddess-like appearance, and she has a delicate heart, she does every little thing very carefully, especially to herself, she has never seen him perfunctory to herself; I didn't feel anything before, but in this isolated little world, Su Jin's feelings suddenly became sensitive and strong, and Su Jin asked himself: Recently, he has been busy with some work, have he missed some of the most beautiful things? Hopefully, it's not completely missed.

In the afternoon, when Shen Shi was filled, all the sealed questions were sent down, and someone carried a gong to walk and beat between the tents, and announced loudly: "Shen Shi locked the examination booth at the moment to officially start the exam, and during the exam, you must not speak loudly!" Don't laugh at will! Don't warp through the house! No plagiarism and cheating! If there is a violation, it will be expelled immediately and sent to the official for investigation! There are two invigilators in each shed and ten soldiers overseers; Before that, no one is allowed to open the house privately, and all major matters must be reported to the examiner for approval! ”

At the moment of Shen, ten soldiers in the examination shed stood in front of the door of the house with big locks, and the invigilator gave an order, and the wooden door of the number house was closed and locked, and the room was suddenly dark, and all the students lit their own oil lamps or candles, and the sound of the thorn and the envelope was torn open, and the exam questions began to meditate.

The first exam question is to test the poem, which is actually a propositional composition, with a specific proposition to write a poem (or word) and a poem, if it is original, it is naturally difficult, not only to consider the words and sentences, but also to consider the rhyme; For Su Jin, a person who travels through the world, the pronunciation of words in later generations is very different from that of ancient times, and it is really difficult for him to do a good job of rhyme.

But fortunately, Su Jin was pirated all the copies, and when he saw that the scope of the prescribed poems was so large that there was no boundary, he only asked to 'write about the old scenes and express the ancient feelings', and he immediately became confident.

Although the memory of this skin bag is not used, because what is remembered is the poetry made by the predecessors, copying it must be a goof, but Su Jin is a college student of the Chinese Department in later generations, no more and no less and has memorized so many dozens, and no more and no less ancient poems have memorized hundreds, at this moment, is not to keep it, all you have to consider is not to make a string of ages, just copy the poems before the Qingli.

Su Jin thought for a while, slowly studied the ink under the candlelight, and wrote the title: "Nian Nujiao Chibi Nostalgia".

The great river goes east, and the waves are exhausted,

Romantic characters through the ages.

So to the west of the base, humanity is,

Three Kingdoms Zhou Lang Chibi.

The rocks pierce the air, the waves crash on the shore,

Roll up a thousand piles of snow.

The country is picturesque, how many heroes at one time!

Thinking about Gongjin back then,

Xiao Qiao got married for the first time, and he was heroic.

Lupine scarf, talking and laughing,

The canopy was in ashes.

The fugue of the homeland, affectionate should laugh at me,

Early birth.

Life is like a dream, and a bottle is still a river.

Stealing Su Shi's version, Su Jin has no psychological burden, who told him to still wear open crotch pants, counting the years, this guy is four or five years old at most; As for who this poem belongs to in the future, I can't control this foolish account, and I will burn my eyebrows and look at my eyes.

"The word pirated Su Shi, just give him a pirate as well, forget it, if you want to pit him, you can pit him alone." Su Jin thought about it, and wrote the three words "Red Cliff Fu" on his pen.

"In the autumn of Renxu, in July, Su Zi and the guest were boating under the red cliff. The breeze is coming, and the water is not rippling. Raise the wine to belong to the guest, recite the poem of the bright moon, and sing the chapter of the fairy. Shaoyan, the moon comes out of the east mountain, wandering between the bullfights. The white dew crosses the river, and the water shines to the sky. As far as a reed is, Ling Wanqing is at a loss. The vastness is like Feng Xuan resisting the wind, and he doesn't know where it stops; fluttering like a legacy of independence, feathering and ascending to immortals. ”

Su Jin triumphantly wrote down the beginning of Chibi Fu, read through it and said to himself: "No, the year of the autumn of Renxu is definitely not right, and it needs to be changed; The self-proclaimed name of 'Suzi' doesn't need to be changed, Su Shi believes in Su, and my surname is Su, is this the will of God? ”

So he drank and rejoiced, and sang about it. The song said: "Gui Yi Xilan oar, hit the sky and trace the streamer." Slim and small, looking at the beauty of the sky. "There are people who blow the flute in the hole, and they rely on the song and harmonize it. Its voice whined, such as resentment, such as admiration, such as crying, such as complaining, and the aftermath lingered, endlessly. Dancing the submarine of the ravine, crying the wife of the lonely boat. ”

Su Zi was stunned, sat upright, and asked the guest: "Why is it so?" The guest said: "'The moon stars are scarce, and the black magpie flies south. 'Isn't this Cao Mengde's poem? Look at Xiakou in the west and Wuchang in the east. The mountains and rivers are sympathetic, depressed, this is not Mengde's trapped in Zhou Lang? Fang Qi broke Jingzhou, went down to Jiangling, went down the river to the east, traveled thousands of miles, covered the sky with flags, drank wine near the river, and gave poems to the horizontal lance, and the male of the solid first generation was also, and now he is safe? In addition, I and my son are fishing on the river, and they are friends with fish and shrimp and elk. Drive a flat boat with a leaf, and raise a bottle to belong. Parasitic mayflies in the heavens and the earth, a millet in the sea. Mourn the moments of my life, and envy the infinity of the Yangtze River. Fly the fairy to swim, hold the bright moon and end long. I don't know it suddenly, and I will leave it in the sad wind. ”

“……”

Su Jin read it back and forth to see if there were any flaws, and finally put his mind at ease, spread the answer paper on the board to dry and put it away, brewed a cup of hot tea with a warm pot and drank it carefully, then laid the wooden board, unfolded the futon, curled up in the quilt and gradually fell asleep.