The carriage arrived at the county government office. Zhou An, Li Yuxuan and Xu Shilin got off the carriage. They saw that the outside of the county government office was surrounded by water. There was a huge crowd within dozens of meters. Zhou An and the others could not squeeze in. There were too many scholars who came to take the exam.
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Zhou An had no choice but to wait outside, waiting for the county government office to open at an auspicious time and start the scientific examination.
"Look, our three talented people from Baiquan County are here. In this year's National People's Congress, these three talented people will definitely take the top three places again."
"Yes, I heard that the three talented men were very talented, especially Gu Mingzhi, who was good at calligraphy and painting. I heard that his calligraphy was original, graceful and graceful, and he was deeply loved by the women in his boudoir.
, and the paintings he made are equally extraordinary, mainly depicting women, slender, plump, and gorgeous, all of them are penetrating, penetrating into the essence, and arousing the imagination of countless people."
"Who are the other two talented men?"
"Two talented men, one named Cen Feihong, was good at writing poems, especially tragic poems, which made countless people sad. I heard that Cen Feihong once loved a woman deeply, but the woman passed it on to someone else. From then on, Cen Feihong wrote
I began to write tragic poems, writing poems based on pain, and saddening my soul with my heart; another
A famous talent named Hong Lingyan was a female talent. She was good at writing articles. Whether it was about governing the country or writing about the world, she was omniscient and omnipotent. However, she was a woman, and her articles all contained a hint of grace.
He lacks a bit of domineering spirit, but he still attracts praise from the world."
"From your tone, it sounds like you look down on this talented woman."
"It's not that I look down on her. A woman should honor her parents, serve her husband, and take care of her family. She's not like Hong Lingyan, who exposes herself to the public and attracts people to talk about her, without caring about her own image."
"I think you can't eat the grapes and say they are sour."
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Zhou An heard the discussions around him and became interested in the three great talents. Among them, Gu Mingzhi was the most popular. Many talents were surrounding him. He also treated them with the courtesy of a gentleman, but this Gu Mingzhi was very
It’s interesting. The words he wrote are very attractive to those women, and the pictures he drew are very attractive to those men. It’s almost universal for both men and women. I don’t know if he does this intentionally or unintentionally. If it is intentional, then he is interesting.
Yes, maybe there are some tidbits of news.
Cen Feihong, on the other hand, has a more withdrawn personality, with a sad look on his face, as if he has something on his mind that he cannot forget. Everyone seems to know his personality, and no one talks to him. He just sits alone in a corner, feeling sad.
Spring mourns autumn.
As for Hong Lingyan, she is also quite popular, but most of them are men, and they are full of admiration. However, Hong Lingyan stands there aloof, unmoved by anyone, leaving those who want to please her.
People are intimidated.
These three talents all have quite unique personalities.
After Zhou An looked at it, he ignored it. Zhou An didn't pay attention to these talented people at all. They were all a group of weak scholars who had no ability. Unless they were admitted to Jinshi and became officials of one party,
Only then will Zhou An look at them seriously, but now they don't.
"Why does this person look so familiar to me? I seem to have seen him somewhere before." A scholar said to himself in confusion when he saw Zhou An.
"What did you say?" asked his companion.
"Does this person look familiar to you?" The scholar stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhou An and said.
"Are you stupid? You can't even recognize him. He is Zhou An, a talented man from the ancient county town who composed three unparalleled poems." His companion said.
"That's him. I didn't expect him to be so young and have a heroic spirit. It's just a pity that his appearance is too ordinary and not very handsome." A female scholar next to them said approvingly.
"Should we find him and ask him to write his poem on paper and sign it?" said the scholar.
"No need, he and we don't know each other. Besides, we are both scholars. Now that we are about to take the exam, we are both competitors. Maybe he doesn't have a good attitude toward us."
"If you don't go, I will." The female scholar flipped up her hair and walked towards Zhou An.
"Mr. Zhou, the young lady has come to see you." The female scholar came to Zhou An and said, "The young lady would like to ask Mr. Zhou to write down the poem "Magpie Bridge Immortal" and sign her name." After saying this, she came to Zhou An.
He took out a piece of paper and a pen and handed them to Zhou An.
"Okay." Zhou An took the pen and paper, wrote the poem "Magpie Bridge Immortal", and signed his name.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhou." The female scholar smiled shyly, took the paper and pen and left.
This scene was seen by many people, and naturally Zhou An's identity was spread, attracting the attention of many people. There were even talented people who loved Zhou An's poems. They came to Zhou An with paper and pen and asked Zhou An to write
Zhou An did not refuse to sign the poems, he wrote the poems and signed them one by one. Zhou An was so close to the people, which attracted the love of many people, and his good impression of Zhou An suddenly increased.
Boom, boom, boom!
Three bells sounded, and the gate of the county government office opened in front of me.
A middle-aged man in official uniform walked out with an official seal in his hand. He was the magistrate of Baiquan County, Ye Shu.
Ye Shu said: "Let's start the test!"
Then he threw the official seal in his hand into the air, and the official seal flew over the county government office, emitting a faint golden light, illuminating the entire county government office.
"What is County Magistrate Ye Shu doing?" Zhou An asked Li Yuxuan and Xu Shilin.
"County Magistrate Ye Shu uses the official seal to invigilate the exam. As long as there is a cheater, the official seal will immediately detect it and notify Magistrate Ye Shu, so that the cheater can be caught." Xu Shilin explained.
After Zhou An threw out the official seal, he returned to the county government office, leaving behind an official and two government officials. The official said: "You enter the county government office one by one. When everyone enters, register their address and address."
Name." After the official finished speaking, he sat down, picked up the brush on the table, and prepared to register.
Immediately, the scholars who came to take the exam lined up and came to register one by one in front of the officials. Soon it was Zhou An's turn. Zhou An told his name, where he lived in Baiquan County, and the official.
After recording it, Zhou An walked into the county government office.
The guards inside were very tight, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. Zhou An came to the examination room. It was a house with several rows of lattice houses. There were twenty lattice houses in a row. Each lattice house was small and as wide as
The size of a bed is as long as two beds.
Zhou An found a cubicle numbered 32 and went in. There was a small bed in the innermost part of the cubicle. There was a toilet in the corner of the small bed. There was an aisle for one person in front of the small bed, and there was a chair above the aisle.
, there is a table in front of the chair, these are the only things in the cubicle, nothing else.
Zhou An put the suitcase on the table, opened the suitcase, took out the pen and inkstone from the suitcase and put it on the table, then took out the ink and poured it into the inkstone, ground it well, and then took out the paper and spread it out. The imperial examination meeting
There are regulations on the test papers, and all candidates must use the same ones, so this kind of paper is very expensive. One piece of paper costs only two taels of silver. Many scholars from poor families have pawned many things to collect enough money to buy
paper.
Then Zhou An sat down and looked at the candidates outside, only to see Xu Shilin diagonally opposite him and Li Yuxuan next door to him.
"Every candidate returns to his or her seat, the first joint examination will begin." Zhou An waited for three hours when officials shouted from outside.
Six government officials took the test questions and sent them to each candidate in each cubicle. After a while, the government officials took the test questions and handed them to Zhou An's hands.
Zhou An took the test questions and looked at them. There were twenty questions in total, and they were all fill-in-the-blank questions. Isn't the first question a paraphrase of the article? Why did it become a fill-in-the-blank question? Zhou An looked at it carefully with doubts.
After reading the fill-in-the-blank questions, Zhou An understood a little bit. It turned out that he was using the method of fill-in-the-blank questions to answer the explanation of the article.
For example, in the third question, the explanation of "things have an origin and an end, an end and a beginning, and knowing the sequence is the shortest way." This sentence is mentioned in an article in "The Great Learning", and it refers to the three cardinal outlines and eight items.
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There is also the eighth question, Master is gentle, courteous, thrifty and yields, and what the Master seeks is also different from what others seek. This sentence is mentioned from an article in The Analects of Confucius, and it refers to gentleness, courtesy, thrift and yielding.
There is also the twelfth question, I know that the way is not good; the wise people can't do it, and the fool can't do it; the way is unclear, I know it; the wise people can do it, and the unworthy person can't do it; everyone can't eat and drink.
Being able to know the taste is mentioned in an article in "The Doctrine of the Mean". It means knowing the taste of food.