Volume 1 Chapter 47 The imperial examination room is really tough
The examination room for this county exam is usually located on both sides of the corridor in front of the county hall lobby, because the place here is spacious enough and there are walls on both sides, making it easy to build an examination shed.
At this moment, small test booths with square footage were already built on both sides of the corridor. On the left is Tianzi No. 1 and on the right is Dizi No. 1. There are only more than a dozen test booths on each side, so there is no need to find them.
Yang Cong walked directly to the examination room on the front left, looked up at the numbered sign hanging, then walked in sideways, and looked around.
This examination room is really simple. There are wooden boards on both sides, and the top is still wooden boards, less than eight feet high. You can touch the ceiling with your hand. The decorations inside are also so simple that they are scary. It is just a small table and a straw mat.
There was nothing on the straw mat, but there was a bowl on the small table, which contained water.
However, this water is not for drinking, but for grinding ink and washing the pen.
Yang Cong looked at it for a while, tightened his belt again, and then began to clean up what he was carrying.
Brushes, inkstones, ink sticks, and paper towns are all things that need to be used in the exam, just place them on the table.
He brought a brand new small toilet, which was even a light rosin at this moment, but it would definitely smell when the time came. He thought about it and placed it in the corner farthest from the table.
What I eat is an exquisite porcelain bowl filled with a few thin strips cut from five-spice jerky and a thin strip of sesame cake. It is mainly for lunch. You must not eat it when you take the exam, because you eat more and you will pull it more. When you come in, you will not let it go until the exam is over. Of course, the less you pull, the better.
This thing must not be placed with the toilet, it can only be placed in another corner opposite.
The kettle is just an open teapot. You can see the bottom by opening the lid. It can’t hold much water. It just drinks something when you are thirsty. You can’t drink too much, because you drink more and you can’t drink too much.
This thing must not be placed with the toilet, but can be placed next to the food.
There is also a small banana fan, either the one of the Iron Fan Princess or the one made of dried banana leaves.
This thing can be placed on the table, so that people can avoid suspecting that they are cheating.
By the way, don’t scholars and young masters like to use bamboo bone paper fans? Why did he bring a fan made of banana leaves? This kind of fan is used by poor people.
Of course, this is also to save trouble. If you have any writing inside the paper fan, if you tear it apart, they won’t get you touched it.
He worked hard for a while, and other candidates also came in one after another. After about half an hour, more than thirty examination halls were filled.
Although the corridor was full of people, there was no sound of conversation. Everyone was silently preparing their own things. Even if someone who was familiar with him sat next door, no one was foolishly greeting him. You must know that whispering was cheating. Who knew whether whispering at this moment was considered cheating? If you meet the examiner in a bad mood, as long as he said a word, your life would be in vain.
At this time, the examiner finally walked back to the county government hall with county magistrate Liu Shouliang. They seemed to have summoned several officials to check the paint seal of the test paper, and then opened it in public, attaching the answer sheet and manuscript paper one by one.
When the time of Mao was approaching, the inspector gave the order, and the two yamen runners who inspected the candidates quickly ran to the front of the two rows of examination sheds with two stacks of paper, and then finished the trial.
Immediately afterwards, the county magistrate Liu Shouliang shouted loudly: "The exam begins."
Seeing that all the candidates were moved, Yang Cong slowly picked up the test paper and looked at it.
This poem is nothing more than government affairs, agriculture affairs, military affairs and other related content. He prepared more than a dozen poems and found a similar one to the Prime Minister to make a change. However, the title of the eight-legged essay made him frown slightly.
The title of this eight-legged essay is "So kind and kind, abyss, and a vast sky." If you just look at these three sentences, it is simply inconspicuous.
Of course, Yang Cong was not confused. He knew that this sentence was selected from "The Doctrine of the Mean. Chapter 32". The entire original sentence was, "Only the most sincere thing in the world can be the best in order to manage the great scriptures of the world, establish the foundation of the world, and know the transformation and cultivation of the world. How can we rely on? We are kind and kind, abundance and abyss, and vastness of the sky. If we are not smart and sages, who can know the virtues of heaven?"
Combining the meaning of the previous and subsequent texts, this sentence is to praise Confucius' sincerity and kindness, as deep as the pool water, and as vast as the sky.
The meaning of this title is to make people write an article that praises Confucius.
This topic was written in an eight-part essay to praise Confucius, but he really never tried it.
However, it doesn’t matter much. You can write it strictly according to the requirements of the eight-legged essay.
He thought for a while, then picked up his pen and wrote it on the draft paper. Since it was a formal imperial examination, he wrote it very seriously and did not write it as usual. In addition, he has been concerned about it these days, and the draft has already felt a little bit like a saint's words.
Of course, it is impossible for him to complete the four sets of parallel and contradictory sentences in one go. If he can even complete the parallel and contradictory sentences in the eight-legged essay in one go, he will be really a genius among geniuses.
He really thought about this eight-legged essay. After he had thought about it for an hour, he wrote the draft, and after nearly two hours, he put down his brush with satisfaction and prepared to copy it with the formal test paper.
It was almost noon, and the weather was not as hot as usual. Even if he subconsciously held the fan and fanned the wind, he was already sweating profusely. After three hours of concentration, he felt a little hungry.
He was about to drink some water, eat something and copy it carefully. "Puff", and a muffled sound suddenly came from the examination room next to him.
Immediately afterwards, a foul stinking stinking.
"Vomit", he was so hungry that he didn't spit out all the porridge he drank in the morning.
Damn, who is this? You don’t get diarrhea early or late. You come to get diarrhea during the exam!
This is a sentence that cannot be said during the imperial examination, otherwise it will be whispering to each other. At the very least, the test scores will be cancelled, and at the worst, the test qualification will be revoked forever.
He could only silently endure the stench and slap the wind hard. Until the guy finished pulling it and the stench faded a little, he endured the disgust and drank a sip of water, and then picked up the brush and copied it.
As for jerky and sesame cakes, he definitely couldn't eat them anymore.
This feeling is like squatting in a pit to eat, who can continue to eat!
He endured the odor and copied the article. Before he could write the poem on the test, the entire examination room suddenly felt like a blow, and muffled sounds and extremely depressed muffled groans were heard one after another. Various stenches of different smells kept coming, making him roll his eyes!
Damn, what happened to these people? I know that I deliberately ate Croton when I took the exam today, so I was disgusting, right?
Of course these candidates are not so bored. Everyone knows that today's exam will definitely not eat randomly. The problem will be June. The weather is too hot. Moreover, they are still stuck in a small space of less than three square meters. Like steaming buns, many people have heatstroke.
Most of the heat stroke starts with stomach bloating and pain, so it is not surprising that there are a few people with diarrhea. It would be good if no one fainted.
This guy, this foul smell has damaged Yang Cong, who has been pampered for more than a month. If it weren't for the imperial examination that the imperial examination was not allowed to submit the paper in advance, he really wanted to fill in the test poem immediately, and then hand in the paper and leave.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, diarrhea, and more and more urinating. The entire examination room is simply a cesspool in the toilet, and the stench is invincible. Finally, some people couldn't help but vomit, followed by a "wow" sound. I don't know how many people vomited, and there was another nauseating sour smell in the air, which made people feel extremely painful.
This guy, this imperial examination room is really hard to bear. If you have to be physically healthy, who will suffer this torture?
Chapter completed!