Chapter 221 Chapter 220: Cheating
There are three Ming Jing exams, the first one is the postscript, the second one is the vocabulary, and the third is the current affairs policy, which are conducted in three days.
The postscript is a fill-in-the-blank question, and it is also the easiest thing to cheat. Although I have found a lot of entrapments when entering the market, it is inevitable that there will be fish that miss the net.
Guo Hao was shuttled among the candidates, but he didn't find any cheating at the moment, so he planned to return to his seat to rest for a while. However, on the way back, he found a fat man shaking his clothes.
Guo Hao stopped and looked at the fat man. The fat man seemed to have not noticed him. He lowered his head to continue answering the questions. Guo Hao looked for a while and found nothing abnormal before leaving.
Time passed little by little, and three days passed in a blink of an eye. The first day of the earth's postscript was boring. Guo Hao didn't pay much attention to the test of the edict the next day. He only had the current affairs plan on the third day. He found that several candidates who answered well were silently remembered in his heart.
After the Ming Dynasty, he had a day off, and then the Jinshi exam was followed. When he entered the venue, he still had a strict inspection. This time he saw Chen Xuan, and Chen Xuan, like everyone else, gave a gift to Guo Hao and entered the tribute court.
After the exam questions were issued, the candidates saw five "big questions". The first two arguments were relatively clear, namely taxation and etiquette.
However, the last three questions can be said to be more difficult than the other, especially the last question, which talks about "the relationship between good and evil and the study of things", most candidates do not even have a way of thinking.
Guo Hao walked among the candidates. The Jinshi exam took longer than the Mingjing period, and even the examiners could not go home during this period, so Guo Hao sent someone a lot of ingredients and planned to use Feng Dao's hot pot.
"Mr. Guo, your five questions have stumped many people, especially the last one, I'm afraid no one can answer it."
Feng Dao ate the mutton and chewed it slowly. When he was old, he didn't have a good mouthful, but he couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food, so he could only taste it slowly.
Guo Hao was different. He put a lot of vegetables and meat in the bowl, stirred evenly, ate it in a few bites, and took a sip of tea: "What's that? Actually, I told them the answer. As long as they interpret those four sentences carefully, it will be easy to pass."
The two of them's "shameless" behavior made the surrounding area full of fragrance, and officials could still eat a few bites with shame, but those candidates did not have such a blessing.
"That's true, but your question is too profound, and I'm afraid only a sage like Mencius can understand it!"
"This is not necessarily the case, those four sentences are actually not..."
Guo Hao immediately reacted when he was halfway through his words. He almost let it go. When he looked up, he saw Feng Dao looking at him with a smile.
"I have searched through history books and asked many people. Mencius's words and deeds have been recorded in later generations, and no one has ever seen these four sentences."
Guo Hao laughed dryly and said, "Mencius is too far away from us, and it is inevitable that there will be lost in classics, and it is normal for future generations to not know about it."
Feng Dao smiled and said nothing. At his age, he had already seen many things very clearly, and Guo Hao's expression was very unnatural. Feng Dao could be sure that these four sentences were definitely not what Mencius said. As for whether it was Guo Hao, he was not very sure.
After all, these four sentences have very profound skills, so the author must be a great scholar, while Guo Hao is still too young.
Knowing that Feng Dao had doubts, Guo Hao would not take on this matter. Both of them saw through and said that they were both old people.
After eating and drinking, the two went down to patrol. When they passed by a scholar, a move attracted Guo Hao's attention. The scholar was shaking his clothes like the fat man before.
It was September and it was still a little hot during the day. The fat man was sweating profusely and fanned his clothes with his clothes. But this scholar was thin and had no sweat on his face. He was shaking his clothes there for no reason. Is it really that hot?
Guo Hao stared at the scholar. At first, the scholar was very natural, but after a stick of incense, the scholar began to sweat.
However, the temperature around was not high, and Guo Hao didn't sweat much after eating hot pot, which shows that the scholar was nervous.
Seeing this, Guo Hao left quietly, left Shizi's sight, hid in the blind spot, and secretly observed.
The scholar breathed a sigh of relief at first, then looked around, then grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and gently spread it on his clothes.
This scene was very suspicious. Guo Hao coughed on purpose. The scholar hurriedly shook his clothes when he heard this. Guo Hao was finally sure that there was definitely something wrong with the clothes!
Guo Hao walked up to the scholar, reached out to grab his clothes, and when he lifted it, he saw that there was nothing. The white lining was a little dusty, as if nothing was abnormal.
Guo Hao glanced at Shizi. His face turned pale and his heart was in his throat. Guo Hao looked at the teapot next to him, brought it over and took a sip, and squirted at the clothes!
puff……
The mist fell on the clothes, and the dust stained before, and the words appeared. The scholar's face was ashes and was already scared, but Guo Hao smiled.
"Okay, I just felt something was wrong. I didn't expect there would be invisible ink at this time, and it was so hidden. I underestimated you!"
After Guo Hao finished speaking, he waved his hand to greet the guards and said sternly: "This person cheated and was caught by me and took him down!"
"Sir, please spare me!"
The scholar was frightened and cried, and Guo Hao shouted softly: "Don't make noise, otherwise you will put him in prison!"
Due to the continued system of the Tang Dynasty, the punishment for cheating was very light. Although the scholar was caught by Guo Hao, he was disqualified from the examination and was driven out of the tribute school according to regulations.
The scholar was frightened by Guo Hao and immediately closed his mouth. After being taken out by the soldiers, Guo Hao immediately asked someone to carefully screen. Except for this "invisible ink" that was too clever and was missed, no cheating was found for the time being.
Guo Hao felt very accomplished when he found a fish that missed the net. He was actually very interested in the "invisible ink", but he was in the examination room and it was not convenient for him to ask.
A day passed in a blink of an eye, and the one who answered the fastest was completed. As for the third article, it was already difficult, and there were still two days left, and the time was still sufficient.
Early the next morning, Guo Hao got up to exercise his body. These days, he had no chance to practice martial arts, so he could only do some warm-up exercises to maintain his physical habits.
Starting from the third article of current affairs, the differences in the level of candidates began to be reflected. Chen Xuan is indeed very literary. Although Guo Hao didn't read it carefully, Guo Hao felt that he shouldn't be too bad based on his fluency alone.
After walking around again, nothing was wrong. Guo Hao was bored and began to look at the list of candidates, thinking about whether he could find a few historical celebrities.
What disappointed him was that no one knew him. Guo Hao began to read the candidate's information, and a Jinyang man attracted his attention.
As the governor of Hedong, the capital of his vassal states was in Jinyang. If the scholars under his rule had real talents and knowledge, they could be kept under their hands.
Guo Hao found the scholar and found him having dinner. Guo Hao had been in Hedong for more than half a year and was very familiar with Shanxi's eating habits.
Shanxi people like to eat jealousy, and the amount of vinegar is very high. Shanxi water is highly alkaline. In addition, vinegar can help digestion with mixed grains such as buckwheat noodles, sorghum, corn, potatoes and other high-heat and digestible foods.
Shanxi people are called "Laoxi". Shanxi people are inseparable from vinegar, no matter noodles, buns, dumplings, pies, and stir-frying. Otherwise, the rice they make will not be delicious.
Some residents in the mountainous areas used sour soup to replace sour cabbage. In the past, the people in the mountainous areas of Shanxi were poor and could not afford vinegar, so they could only cook with sour soup. Shanxi families wanted to make vinegar, vinegar pots, and salt did not leave the table.
However, Guo Hao was standing nearby but didn't smell any sourness. He thought that the scholar's family could not afford vinegar, so he went back to get some.
"How can I eat without vinegar? I'll give you this vinegar. I'll ask me for it anymore."
Guo Hao was purely careless, and the scholar stood up in surprise and bowed: "Thank you, sir, the students never eat vinegar."
“Never…”
Halfway through, Guo Hao looked up at the scholar. The words just now were without a Hedong accent, and Guo Hao couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"You are from Jinyang, how could you not eat vinegar?"
When the scholar heard this, his face changed slightly and he hurriedly explained: "Although the student is from Jinyang, he grew up in Bianliang, so he has no habit of eating vinegar."
"oh……"
Guo Hao agreed, looked at the food in the Shizi bowl, and smelled casually: "What's your name?"
"Return to adults, student Liu... Zhang's experience."
Hearing this, Guo Hao sneered: "Okay, how could you even say your surname wrong? Should you leave yourself or if I have someone to invite you out!"
Chapter completed!