"A trip to the mountain, a trip to the water, walking to the side of the thistle town, a thousand tents in the middle of the night. The wind is changing, and the snow is changing. The dream of the broken hometown cannot come true, and there is no such sound in the old garden. ”

Zhang Shouzhi recited this poem repeatedly, the more he tasted it, the more he read it, the more he felt his heart rippled, compared to his own road to study in the wind and snow, this section of the wind and snow march, I don't know how many times higher. is really not worthy of this poem!

Zhang Shouzhi couldn't help but blush, it felt like running to Confucius's house to sell Analects, embarrassing, and embarrassing to the extreme. He paced back and forth on the ground irritably, a mere teenager who couldn't write such powerful lyrics, maybe it was his father or his teacher who gave it to him, so that he could use it to brush up his reputation!

It must be so!

Tang Yi, Tang Yi, you can deceive for a while, but if you can't deceive for a lifetime, the old man will let you show your original form in the county exam!

……

When I returned home, I just walked into the study, I saw Xu Wei and Wang Shimao and others talking, and when Tang Yi came back, Xu Wei smiled and said, "How is it, is the new Zhizhou allowed you to take the case again?" I'll just say, with the strength of the line, which Zhizhou doesn't want to stammer? ”

Wang Shimao was still unconvinced, and argued: "Why must the head of the case be his, and my knowledge is not bad?" ”

Shen Lin interjected: "If the knowledge is useful, Mr. Qingteng would have been the champion a long time ago!" ”

"Well said!" Xu Wei stroked his palms and laughed, "Xiao Linzi, your knowledge is rising, your young master doesn't have to worry, the problem now is you, these days you are eating and drinking, and you are waiting to ensure that you pass the county exam." ”

Several people talked and laughed, but found that Tang Yi's face was solemn, and Xu Wei stopped smiling.

"Okay, do you want to practice putting on an official stand in advance?"

Tang Yi smiled bitterly, "I just can't figure out when I offended Zhang Zhizhou." He doesn't like me. ”

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As the first step towards the imperial examination, the county examination is not strict, usually the examination time is in February, and the specific date is determined by the main examination, for example, this year it is placed on February 20, and the date is slightly later. The weather is warm, and the candidates can suffer less. In this way, Zhang Shouzhi is quite considerate.

The examination room was selected in a large open space in the county school, and someone had set up a shed early, and below it was a solid yellow earth, with hundreds of hardwood tables and chairs, all with numbers written on them, meticulously.

Before dawn, the candidates came one after another. The officials in charge of the inspection waited there, searching their bodies one by one, and they did not have the ruthlessness of the legendary clothes and baskets, and they were eager to break the chrysanthemums to see the yellow springs, in fact, most of them were just going through the motions, and soon it was Tang Yi's turn. When the search officer saw it, he didn't even dare to move his hand. Tang Tang Yi went in directly.

Took the test paper with the number written on it. It is arranged according to the thousand-character text, what "Heaven and Earth are Xuanhuang, the universe is desolate", Tang Yi's number is the yellow number three, relatively forward, and there is a tall mulberry tree not far away. It can block out the sun, which is an ideal location for the exam.

Looking at the table again, Tang Yi was suddenly happy, with two vegetable buns and a bowl of gruel. A bowl of water. Obviously, Lord Zhizhou is very sympathetic to the candidates, knowing that everyone came early, most of their stomachs were empty, and they prepared to eat.

Tang Yi didn't say a word, grabbed the vegetable buns, took a bite, still mixed the stuffing with sesame oil, ate it in two bites, and drank a bowl of gruel, as for the water, he put it aside, he had to take the exam all day, and he would drink it when he was thirsty.

At this time, more than 500 candidates entered one after another, walked and found their positions, and many people ate something hastily like Tang Yi. The sun had risen and the sky was bright.

Zhang Shouzhi, who was wearing a neat official uniform, appeared in front of everyone. He glanced at the audience majestically, especially focusing on Tang Yi, and then read according to the book, saying what the way of Confucius and Mencius, the emperor's grace is vast, and he wants everyone to take the exam well, don't cheat for personal gain, and ruin his future.

Maybe it's the psychological effect, Tang Yi doesn't think Zhang Shouzhi is aimed at himself.

Fortunately, it didn't take long, and Zhang Shouzhi rang the gong to announce the official start of the county examination.

The freedom of the county examination is also reflected in the questions, generally there will be a four-book question, a five-book question, that is, two articles, and there are also cases where only one question is produced and one poem is made. In one day, the answer is completed, and the results will be available on the same day at the earliest.

If the first test is in the test, the latter do not have to participate, if you don't win, you have to participate in the "initial recovery", "re-recovery", "even recovery", if the next three games are lost, then congratulations, directly out, four down, all the candidates who passed will be lined up into a big list, the name of the first word is one word higher, and the rest are arranged in order, such as Taicang admitted forty at a time, and drew a red line in front of the forty-first, indicating that the latter ones have fallen off the list.

I don't know how many times I have heard Xu Wei say the process of the exam, Tang Yi is familiar with it, he unfolded the test paper with his name written on it, and the first one he drew out was his own small file, name, age, gender, three generations of ancestors, temporarily put aside, and then pulled out a stack of answer sheets, there were twenty sheets, half of them were drafted, and half of them were answered.

When Tang Yi took out this piece of paper, there were already boos in the examination room, glasses were shattered, the candidates' faces were pale, some people simply trembled their hands and feet, delicate cold sweat broke out on their foreheads, and some people looked up to the sky and howled, as if they were dead!

"Be quiet, if you dare to make noise, you will be expelled and you will not be allowed to take the exam!"

Zhang Shouzhi's majestic voice made all the candidates tremble and hurriedly shut their mouths. It's just that few people have the courage to face the exam questions in front of them, this thing is too bad! The good impression of Zhang Shouzhi that had just risen was also gone.

If you want to understand the pitfalls of Zhang Shouzhi's questions, you must first clarify the rules of the exam.

Since the Bagu Wen has to be based on the Four Books and Five Classics, and the number of words in the Four Books and Five Classics is limited, the deduction is taboo, and the deduction is not suitable as a topic, and the ones that can be used will be greatly reduced.

After more than 100 years of use, almost all the questions have been written, and by this time, the exam has become very cumbersome. If there are already questions, there are candidates who have memorized the famous Cheng Wen, and it happens that the examiner does not know, then this one is very likely to be admitted.

It's just that this situation loses the meaning of selecting materials for the country, and those who are officials will also be scolded badly.

It turns out that when they are cornered, there are people rushing to the wall.

That's where the interception question comes in.

What is a truncation question, that is, a paragraph of the sentences before and after, different chapters, and different books are intercepted and combined to form a new exam question.

This is amazing, four books and five classics, which one is tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of words, theoretically arranged and combined, plus there is no limit to the number of words, the questions that can be made are endless, so as to avoid the problem of repeating the question, but the trouble of the cheater will follow.

Due to the random combination, it is often the preface that does not match the afterword, and the wind and horses and cows are not related, so it is difficult to start an article.

The advantages and disadvantages of truncation questions are obvious, and the imperial court, after careful weighing, stipulates that the official examination must have a large question, and the small examination can produce a truncation question.

As a result, many candidates who are not very smart in their brains are often at a loss and have been defeated repeatedly.

There was once a Jinshi who wrote a couplet describing his mental journey: the county examination is difficult, the government examination is difficult, and the hospital examination is especially difficult, and he only entered Pan at the age of forty-two; The township test is easy, the test will be easy, the palace test is especially easy, and it has been registered in fifteen months.

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The truncation question is difficult, which is divided into long and short, affectionate and ruthless, and Zhang Shouzhi is the most difficult one, ruthless!

"Knock him on the shin with his rod. Que Dang Boy. ”

These two sentences are both from the Analects, the first half of the sentence is the chapter of "The Original Soil Yiqi", and the second half of the sentence is the chapter of "The Command of the Dang Boy". Put it together,Not only has no logical relationship,It's also very weird.,The former sentence is beating people.,The latter sentence is a child.,Could it be the habit of the adult of Zhizhou to poison children?

Whether this is the case or not, almost everyone present was abused.

scratched their ears and cheeks one by one, thinking hard, and couldn't think of how to solve the problem. An unlucky guy was so excited that he knocked over the water bowl, and the papers were flooded, so he could only leave the examination room crying. Looking at his departing back, many candidates were envious, at least they didn't have to suffer inside.

Zhang Shouzhi saw that everyone was so bitter and hateful, he sighed slightly in his heart, and there was a trace of unbearability, as he said, he was born as a bitter child, and he knew the difficulty of studying, and he didn't want to be difficult for the big guy in the exam.

But there was a Tang Yi, Zhang Shouzhi decided that Tang Yi was ghostwritten by someone with a knife, but there was no evidence, and the old master would not do anything that was punished without teaching. simply put the difficulty and deviation of the question, but we have to verify how much ability Tang Yi has!

The exam went on for almost half an hour, Zhang Shouzhi slowly walked to the back of each candidate, some people didn't write a word, some people wrote it, but they didn't have the right lips for the horse's mouth, Zhang Shouzhi shook his head again and again.

Although the old master has read a little bit of everyone's papers, he really cares about Tang Yi. He quietly walked behind Tang Yi, and after just one glance, the old master was stunned.

I saw Tang Yi break the title and wrote: "One cane and the original soil hurts, two canes and the original soil cry, and three canes and the original soil die." The three souls are insignificant, the seven souls are heavy, and a gust of wind turns into a boy of the Que Party. ”

Zhang Shouzhi thought to himself, he didn't connect, he didn't commit it, he didn't scold the question, he missed the question, just a few sentences, and connected the two sentences that had nothing to do with each other, everything was so appropriate, it was even more powerful than the problem he was trying to solve.

What surprised the old master the most was not these, Tang Yi's posture of answering the question was very stable, every sentence was repeatedly scrutinized on the straw paper, every word was beautiful and hungry, serious, there was not a single cursive word.

Reading his words again, they are flat and stable, in line with the scriptures, without the slightest self-exertion. It is completely different from the legendary arrogant, unruly, and clever Tang Xingzhi - if Tang Yi knew that he was in the old master's heart, he would be like this, I was afraid that he would cry.

Zhang Shouzhi stood behind Tang Yi for half an hour, he gradually felt that watching Tang Yi answer questions was a kind of enjoyment, looking at the audience, there were definitely no more than five people who could take the county exam so seriously, and Tang Yi was undoubtedly the best among them. Even putting aside Tang Yi's background of being scared to death, this article alone is worth a case.

"Tang Yi, Tang Yi, you have the strength of the head of the case, so why bother playing villain tricks!" Zhang Shouzhi's face was confused. (To be continued.) )