Chapter 134 The Master said
When Zhu Ping'an was packing up and waiting for the delivery of the papers, candidates came in one after another in the house, and students from the neighbors were successively there.
After about half an hour, a sound of metal came from the direction of Mingyuan Tower. When I looked up, I saw several flags waving on Mingyuan Tower. Then a vague sound came from the gate.
"After entering the venue, close the door and lock the keys, the whole audience is quiet!"
It turned out that the metal sound just now hit the cloud board. Zhu Ping'an realized it later. Then the gate and the ritual gate should be blocked at this moment.
Hitting the cloud board means that the examination has officially begun. The college exam has very strict requirements on the examination discipline. There are a considerable number of yamen runners and sergeants in front of the account hall. If there are any emotional problems such as shifting seats, changing papers, throwing papers, speaking, looking around, and singing, then investigating them. Therefore, the entire examination room becomes particularly quiet at this time.
There are two exams in the college entrance examination, one for the main and one for the second round. Today is the main. After hitting the cloud board, the officers distributed the test papers one after another. In addition to the test papers, each person also had five pieces of straw paper.
As for the test questions, it is the same as the county government test. The college test questions are also pasted on wooden boards, and several yamen runners walk back and forth in the examination room with question signs in hand for candidates to view the questions.
However, when the yamen runners started walking back and forth in the examination room with the question sign, Zhu Ping'an obviously heard a sound of coaxing around him, and then he heard the sergeant standing with his sword roar, "Silent, dare to make noise again, and treat it as cheating."
The examination room was then quieted down under the pressure of the sergeant, but you could also hear the depressing sound of gasping sounds coming from all over the world.
Could it be that today's test questions are a bit perverted?
While immersing the brush in the ground ink, Zhu Ping'an thought without any bad taste that the question was not about the novel I read before, drawing a circle to let us break the question and write eight-legged essays? When he saw that novel, he specially checked the information. The candidate who ranked first in history actually used this question to solve the question: "The beginning of the sage's academic research is empty", and he really thought about it. If so, wouldn't he be too generous?
However, when the yamen runner came to Zhu Ping'an with the title sign, Zhu Ping'an looked at the title and knew why everyone reacted like that after reading the title.
There are two questions in the titles of the Four Books and one question in the Five Classics, and a total of three questions.
The title of the Five Classics is nothing. The title of the Five Classics is the Post Sutra, which is similar to the fill-in-the-blank questions we used to study. The so-called Post Sutra, which covers the two ends of the sutra, opens the only line in the middle, and cuts paper into the post. The three characters of post can be added or lost at any time. Can they be different? Or if you get four, five, and six are the following. The title of the Post Sutra in the Academy Examination is nothing more than a longer content. Zhu Ping'an often reads the Four Books and Five Classics carefully, so this question can be written at a glance. I believe that it will not be difficult for other students and scholars to get there.
The two four classics are, uh, how to say it, it makes people collapse.
The first question is two words: Zi said.
Just looking at the first question makes people feel a little troublesome and awkward. Zi said, Confucius said, "I said, "I said, "How can I break the question and write an essay?"
However, when Zhu Ping'an saw this question, he couldn't help laughing. Yes, yes, I have read this question myself and I once read an article in modern times, probably called the Appreciation of Eight-Legends of the Ming Dynasty. The article gives an example of this question and gives a standard problem-solving.
Although this question was not the circle question I just thought about, it happened to be the one I had seen. So when Zhu Ping'an saw the question, he did not feel as sad as others, but couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips and smiled silently.
Well, this candidate was so angry that he laughed at the question. It seemed that he was the worst person to be destroyed by the question? The yamen runner who held the sign threw a sympathetic look at Zhu Ping'an.
Zhu Ping'an didn't know that he was being sympathized with. After copying the first question neatly on straw paper in small regular script, he began to look at the second question.
The second question is much more normal. The title is: A gentleman gives a good reputation to the villain. This title comes from a sentence in "The Analects of Confucius". Confucius said: "A gentleman gives a good reputation to the villain."
There are three questions in total, and everyone can basically do it. It is these two four books and eight essays that can't widen the gap. The decisive role is the two four books and eight essays. The first question really makes people confused for a while and don't know how to solve the question. Fortunately, the second one is normal, otherwise even if there are more sergeants in the cross-sword, they will not be able to suppress it.
Compared to others racking their brains and suffocating, Zhu Ping'an was much more relaxed and casual. He started to solve the problem and make drafts on the draft paper.
The first question is Zi said, which is a small question in the imperial examination questions. The big question generally has multiple sentences and a whole chapter, while the small question is one sentence or a few words in one sentence. Just like the first question, "Zi said" is a small question with two words.
The so-called problem solving is to simply analyze the problem, what is going to be discussed in this article? Eight-legged essays have requirements for problem solving, and only two sentences are used. Although there are three sentences, they all have sudden points in a long sentence, which looks like three sentences.
It’s very painful to solve the question. You have to summarize the meaning of the question and explain the meaning of the question in these two sentences, but you can’t just talk about the meaning of the question. Solving the question is the first step in the eight-legged essay and the first priority in the eight-legged essay. If you break the question well, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
"A common man becomes a teacher for a hundred generations, and a word becomes the law of the world."
Here are two sentences that Zhu Ping'an copied on draft paper, which is also the most standard problem that he has seen. These two sentences do not reveal the word of the title, but they also explain the words "zi" and "ju" very thoroughly.
After solving the question, the question is inherited. Zhu Ping'an only reads the questions and solves the questions in modern times, but did not see the contents of the questions. However, after all, Zhu Ping'an had eight years of systematic study in the Ming Dynasty. The questions were solved. It was much easier to follow the questions, start the lecture, start the eight-part four-part, and finish the conclusion. Zhu Ping'an had a little idea and took a pen and wrote them in neat small regular script on the draft paper.
The standard small regular script eight-legged essay was written in less than an hour.
When Zhu Ping'an finished writing the first question and just put down his brush, he heard three drums coming from Mingyuan Tower, and then he heard the nearby yamen runners say expressionlessly, "Drinking tea and going to the toilet is self-righteous, and violating people cheat."
It's time to drink tea, water and go to the toilet during the intermission.
There is a water tank at the door of the house. If you want to drink water, you can go to the water tank at the door to drink water. However, you have to get up and signal to the yamen running for inspection and you are not allowed to speak.
There is a manure number at the end of the number house and a toilet bucket inside, which is the toilet.
At this time, Zhu Ping'an did not feel thirsty at all, but felt a little defecated in the lower abdomen, so he stood up and signaled that he wanted to go to the toilet. The yamen runners checked in the direction of the feces number. At this time, no one agreed to Zhu Ping'an's request for use in the toilet and took a sign to Zhu Ping'an.
Zhu Ping'an took the sign with both hands and looked at it. There were words on both sides of the sign, "Into Quietness" on one side and "Exit Gong" on the other side. The ancients said that Gong came from here when they went to the toilet.
Zhu Ping'an held the card on his chest before he was allowed to come out of this aggrieved room to go to the toilet. Zhu Ping'an came out carefully, for fear of touching the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
After Zhu Ping'an came out, a yamen runner followed Zhu Ping'an to the end of the account house. He was really following him closely, and Zhu Ping'an could understand that they did this just to avoid the candidates taking the opportunity to cheat.
Chapter completed!