Chapter 76 The dust settles

It turns out that although there is a manure bucket in the candidate's account, the candidate can solve it on the spot in the emergency. In order to prevent candidates from cheating, each candidate needs to send someone to keep an eye on him when going to the toilet. However, there are more than 2,000 candidates in the examination room, and everyone takes turns to express their respect, afraid that it may not be the turn if they wait for half an hour.

Moreover, a large amount of manpower is involved in the problem of thatched cottages, so how can we maintain order in the examination room?

Besides, scholars have the dignity of scholars. When they untied their clothes, there was a yamen runner staring at them, observing their size and lamenting their latitudes, which would be a shame for them.

Therefore, after many years of experimentation, the court decided to equip each candidate with a toilet bucket.

In this way, the annoying solution problem is considered to be solved.

However, new problems arise again.

The hospital examination was fine, and the weather was not hot.

But when the autumn examination is over, the autumn tigers are raging, which is the hottest days of the year. Thousands of people are scattering and peeing inside. Not only is the smell of stench, it may cause a great plague.

Therefore, there is another new rule in the examination room. After the candidates defecate, they can ask for instructions and go to the cottage to wash. Before entering the venue, each candidate will go to the yamen to get a license plate with the word "Qu Gong". Once they need to pour the toilet, they just need to hang the sign at the door, and naturally someone will come to open the door.

Seeing Sun Hao hanging a sign, a yamen runner came over and opened the door of the house and let him out.

Sun Dan carried the toilet, but because she didn't dare to speak, she could only stomp her feet heavily and then cough.

"Don't talk, otherwise you will be pushed out!" A yamen runner shouted in a low voice.

Fortunately, this little movement finally surprised Sun Dan in the sleeping state. He straightened his neck, smiled at Sun Hao, picked up the flint scythe and went to light the oil lamp on the table.

Sun Hao then breathed a sigh of relief, kept shaking his head, and said to himself: "My mother, you finally know how to answer the questions."

"Don't look at it randomly, go quickly, go quickly." The yamen runners were still urging.

When Sun Hao came back from the cottage, it was completely dark. All the rooms had lighted up, illuminating a tribute courtyard as bright as day.

The Gongyuan is located on the edge of Daming Lake. During the day, the sun rises. The lake water evaporates. As if at night, the temperature drops, it condenses into a vast white mist, spreading in the examination room. When the lights are shining, it is milky white and sticky in the air.

Like a dream and a illusion, it gives people a feeling of unreality.

When Sun Hao saw Sun Dan raised his head and staring blankly at the white mist, he didn't know what he was thinking.

"It's time to answer the question. My Brother Dan, when is it? You are still in a daze!" Sun Hao sat back on the voyage and suddenly wanted to cry.

Finally, Sun Dan began to move. He poured out a bowl of tea from the teapot, raised his head and swallowed it with a "gulp" sound, and a light flashed in his eyes.

He put down the bowl and lifted the pen, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After sleeping all day, he dreamed that he had returned to modern times, to the office full of documents, to the era when he was reading a cup of tea, a cigarette, and a newspaper for a long time.

How wonderful it is. Just sit in the office every day and you will get a generous salary by the end of the month. If there is really heaven in the world, then China in the 21st century was paradise for the ancients.

Everything is so unreal, just like in a dream.

There, he saw another person living as usual.

There, because of his outstanding work, he was transferred to the Tourism Bureau to work as a deputy chief clerk. There, he fell in love and met an elementary school teacher. There, he paid the down payment for the house with his girlfriend and took his parents from the countryside into the city.

Yes, there, another person is completing his unfinished life.

So, what else to worry about?

Yes, everything is in a dream. In contrast, everything in front of you seems real. It is like the modern self is just a dream of Sun Dan of the Ming Dynasty.

Cherish the present and live well.

Sun Dan took a deep breath, lifted the pen and wrote on the paper:

"The desire to seek within is to be verified by any means.

What you lose and what you can do is also due to the gains and losses of the human heart. If you know the day and the moon are not forgotten, how can you be more beautiful and wandering?

Now, time accumulates and day accumulates and month accumulates and month accumulates and lifelong life, so everyone cannot do it!

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This is Lu Liuliang's "Knowing Where to Get It" and is also a famous work in the Eight-Legend Essay.

Mr. Lu Wancun was the most outstanding scholar and thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was eight years old and was a righteous man and spiritual leader in the early Qing dynasty. Later generations mostly knew about Lu Liuliang from the literary inquisition in the tenth year of Yongzheng. Lu Liuliang was implicated in the case of Hunan Confucian scholar Zeng Jing's anti-Qing forty-nine years after his death. He was appointed as a "great rebellion" by Emperor Yongzheng. He was brutally sentenced to open a coffin and kill a corpse. His descendants, relatives and disciples were widely implicated, and none of them were spared.

However, the real story of ordinary people knowing this person's name is the legend of Lu Siniang assassinating Yongzheng, which is also the subject of many martial arts novels in later generations. Of course, the legend is just a legend, and there is no fact left.

But it is undeniable that Lu Liuliang was the most famous academic master in the late Ming Dynasty. Compared with him, the so-called masters of Chinese studies in modern times are not worth mentioning at all.

Can’t even handle this small college examination by the master?

It was getting late, and Sun Dan still wrote slowly, using the standard style of the Pavilion, just to be afraid that the books and offices would copy it incorrectly when copying it.

Every test paper in the college entrance examination must be copied by a special person. In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many scholars, and the literacy rate was only one percent, or even lower. In addition, many school children had never seen famous calligraphy books, nor had they practiced calligraphy. As Sun Dan knew, many people's calligraphy was a mess. My font style was so sloppy that it was so sloppy that it was so sloppy that it was so confusing to see.

Some people copied the wrong words and sentences when copying because their handwriting was too sloppy, and eventually lost their reputation.

Sun Dan is very confident in what he copied in this article, but the reason why accidents are called accidents is often due to a little negligence.

Details determine success or failure, and Sun Dan will never let such things happen to him.

This article by Lu Liuliang is very long, about 2,000 words, and it takes a lot of time to copy it.

But Sun Dan still picked up slowly, and saw Sun Hao on the opposite side sweating.

"Sir, candidate Sun Dan has answered the questions in the exam." An examiner ran into the roof with a relieved smile.

Wang Yuanzheng smiled and said, "What a Sun Dan. She slept in my exam room all day, and now she finally knows how to answer the questions. Crazy, Crazy! If it were my temperament, such a person would not be able to do anything even if he was no longer talented."

The examiner said, "Mr. Wang, I think Sun Dan really has the demeanor of an ancient Wei and Jin dynasty!"

"What kind of demeanor?" Wang Yuanzheng suddenly became angry: "Arrogant, open-minded?"

"It's a little bit."

Wang Yuanzheng: "The imperial examination was originally used to recruit scholars from the country, and in the future, we would become officials. What is an official? It is a solemn and guardian on behalf of the emperor, harmonious with the four people, and harmonizes the yin and yang. If you really want to be a good official trusted by the court and supported by the people, you really have to polish your temperament and remove the fire."

"Sir, I've been taught by a low-ranking position." The examiner said sincerely: "However, Sun Dan's reputation shocked Shandong, and a five-character song was sang to the people of the city. If he didn't take him, he would be unfair."

"Who said he wouldn't take him?" Wang Yuanzheng smiled: "A gentleman acts and acts in a state of mind. With Sun Dan's talent, I guess there should be no problem with the head of the current case. However, he is young and energetic. If he wins a small three-yuan, it is probably not good for him in the future. If he suppresses him, he will get the second place or the third place."

"But sir, the candidates' papers must be copied by name. How can we tell which one is his paper?"

"It's not difficult." Wang Yuanzheng touched his beard: "A few days ago, I transferred Sun Dan's answer sheet from Zouping County and Jinan Prefecture to read. This kid is very exiled and writes the articles in a simple and thick manner, and the format is very rigorous. It is easy to find his papers from it. At that time, when you encounter such an article, you don't have to think about it and just put it second. As for Sun Yue of the Sun family, his articles are gorgeous, so you can put it first, so you can put it lightly."

"Sir, wise."

After taking a look at the hourglass, Wang Yuanzheng said, "The time is up, let's close the roll!"

"Do!" A crisp bell rang, and the test of the undergraduate Shandong College was settled.
Chapter completed!