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Chapter 95 The Fifth's Anda

The marking work of the entire township examination has long been streamlined.

After the examiner took Yuzhu's paper, he immediately registered and confiscated it, and stamped a mark on the paper.

Every ten test papers is one, which will be forwarded to the Mifeng Office by a special person.

After receiving the paper, Mi Fengguan immediately brought a special thick kraft paper that was completely opaque, pasted Yuzhu's name, hometown, and the resumes of the three generations, and numbered it.

Next, under the strict supervision of the transcription officer, the scribes in the transcription office began to transcribe Yuzhu's test paper with a vermilion pen.

The transcribed test paper is called "Zhu Juan".Yuzhu's original test paper was the "ink scroll".

In the interrogation office, the interrogator read the Zhujuan completely word by word and sentence by sentence twice. After confirming that it was correct, he sealed it with a seal and transferred it to the room of the same examiner.

According to the rules, after the same examiner recommends papers, they will be divided into groups of ten. The chief examiner will take an odd number of candidates, and the deputy chief examiner will take an even number of candidates.

If Yu Zhuzhong knew Yuan, then Li Guangdi, the chief examiner of this year's provincial examination, would be his justifiable "teacher".

If it is said that Yuzhu won the No.2 Yayuan, then the deputy chief examiner, Zuo Fudu Yushi Wang Zhishan, is his teacher.

The deputy chief examiner, Minister of Rites Xierdan, because he is a Manchen, does not take the exams as usual, and is only responsible for monitoring the admission of Hanchen.

And a fellow examiner who recommended Yuzhu is Yuzhu's "house teacher".

The same examiner, because each of them has a separate room, is commonly known as the room teacher.

After the letter cannon sounded, the soldiers shouted in unison: "Open the Dragon Gate!"

Yu Zhu got up slowly, packed his things, followed the flow of people, and left the Gongyuan.

At this time, the sky was completely dark.

Yuzhu didn't look at anyone, just walked straight ahead with the test basket in hand.

With the cleverness of Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng, if they missed him at the same time, they should be blamed.

"Second Master, Second Master, here, here."

Sure enough, Wu Jiang, who was exceptionally clever, quickly spotted Yuzhu, and quickly squeezed to his side.

Don't need Yuzhu to speak, Wu Jiang has taken the initiative to take the test basket in his hand, and said with a smile: "Second master, the little one just discovered the fifth beile. But, I don't know who the fifth beile is here to pick up, the little one I didn't dare to go over and talk too much."

Wu Sheng wished he could slap him. He had been planning to say this for a long time, but Wu Jiang preempted him again.

The boys couldn't see the situation clearly, which is understandable.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that Yinqi, the fifth elder brother, must have come to pick him up given his withdrawn personality.

Based on Yuzhu's experience, the more disabled a person is, the harder it is to make good friends.

However, once it is handed over to the heart, this kind of person can easily become a life-threatening friendship.

Judging by the appearance of the fifth elder brother Yinqi, he is not a person with many friends.

People with disfigured faces are mostly unusually withdrawn.

Fifth elder brother Yinqi, no matter how big-hearted he is, it is impossible for him to make friends as if nothing had happened.

Sure enough, the entourage around Yinqi, the fifth elder brother, quickly found Yuzhu, bowed his waist and said respectfully: "Second Master Yu, my Lord Belle, came here to pick you up."

Yuzhu followed the entourage to meet the fifth elder brother Yinqi.

After meeting, Yuzhu just wanted to salute, but the fifth elder brother Yinqi raised his hand to stop him, frowned, and said: "between Anda, those who don't pay attention to these vain etiquette will be exempted from it in the future."

Huh, Anda?Doesn't that mean that Yuzhu is regarded as a brother?
"Anda Wanfu." Yu Zhu was not a layman who insisted on etiquette, he simply turned his shoulders and gave the fifth elder brother Yinqi an arm salute.

The fifth elder brother Yinqi immediately smiled, grabbed Yuzhu's hand abruptly, and said eagerly, "I'll give you a small gift."

Yuzhu was pulled by the fifth elder brother Yinqi to his carriage. Where the curtain of the carriage was lifted, under the dim light of the lantern, there was a hand-carved carp leaping over the dragon gate, half a person's height.

Wow, the jade pillar doesn't look exquisite, it's even a bit rough in workmanship, I'm so moved!
"How is it? Is my carving okay?" Yinqi, the fifth elder brother, asked Yuzhu eagerly.

"The carving is really good, it's great!" Yuzhu restrained the turbulent waves in his heart, and cupped his hands, "Anda, I won't say thank you."

"That's right, between Anda, thank you will be your share." The fifth elder brother Yinqi showed a childlike smile, and offered to ask, "Shall I help you move to the carriage?"

Yuzhu looked at the fifth elder brother Yinqi who was in his 20s but was as happy as a child, and he couldn't help feeling mixed feelings in his heart.

Who said there is no sincere friendship in Tianjia?
"Anda, shall we move together?"

How could it be possible for Yuzhu to watch fifth elder brother Yinqi carry gifts?
So, Yuzhu and Yinqi, under the watchful eyes of the servants who had turned into dumb geese, worked together to move the wood carving to Yuzhu's car very clumsily.

"Papa!" Yin Qi patted the dust on his hands, and said contentedly, "Okay, it's time for me to go back."

Yuzhu originally wanted to leave Yinqi to drink with him.However, seeing his rare happy face, Yuzhu swallowed back the words that were on his lips.

"When I finish the exam, let's go play in the water together?" Whether Yuzhu's heart is good or not, he sent out an extremely ridiculous invitation to play in the water.

"Playing in the water? Haha, to tell you the truth, I often secretly go boating in Kunming Lake to play in the water." The smile lines on Yin Qi's face were like pebbles falling into a calm lake, and quickly rippled away.

Are you crazy?The servants on the side were all stunned and didn't know what to say.

Yin Qi left happily, Yuzhu watched his carriage go away, and then boarded the carriage and returned home.

In the next six days, Yuzhu's exams went extremely smoothly, like flying down three thousand feet.

Four words are enough to sum it up: with ease!

If you have to sum it up in eight words, then add, let’s take a walk in the garden.

After the nine-day exam, Yuzhu slept in the room all day.

The examinees were all over the top, and the examiners of the Shuntianfu Township Examination began to mark the papers in full swing.

In the Shuntianfu Township Examination, Li Guangdi did not have any special candidates who needed to be taken care of. He was always sitting in the room with a godlike presence, sipping tea and kneading melon seeds leisurely.

Since he passed the Jinshi examination and entered the Imperial Academy, Li Guangdi has gone on school trips so many times that he can't even count them.

To tell you the truth, fifth-rate cheaters will agree on passwords or something.

A top cheater like Li Guangdi doesn't need to collude with anyone at all to make the target candidate win the exam or the Gongshi.

The method of cheating without any risk is actually to make a determination based on the papers recommended by the same examiner, combined with the style of writing of specific articles that have been read before.

When Li Guangdi served as the chief examiner, he took care of all the special papers that could be recommended by fellow examiners.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Guangdi has never missed a shot!

Of course, the benefits are also extremely rich.Li Guangdi had always only accepted cash, not bank notes, and only accepted after the person under his care had passed the exam.

As time went by, Li Guangdi couldn't sit still.Because, among the papers recommended by the same examiner, he couldn't find out which one belonged to Yuzhu.

Six dollars in a row?Stop kidding, what are you kidding?
Li Guangdi dared to say that if he wins the 15-year-old Yuzhu today, tomorrow there will be poor scholars who will fail the ranking, and the streets will be full of stickers. (Note from the author: Jietie is also a big-character poster in the Qing Dynasty.)
Regardless of whether it is the provincial examination or the general examination, the more wealthy the children, the more they will suffer a big disadvantage in terms of ranking.

The palace examination is different, the ranking is determined by the emperor himself, no one dares to make trouble.

Because of presiding over the scientific examination, it caused an uproar, and there were not a few examiners who lost their heads.

However, if you want to depose Luo Yuzhu, you must first find out his testimonials, right?

The problem now is that among the ten papers in front of Li Guangdi, he couldn't tell which one belonged to Yuzhu.

The deputy chief examiner Xi Erdan, although he is a minister of the Ministry of Rites, is a spectator of this provincial examination, so he is too lazy to worry about it.

Another deputy chief examiner, Wang Zhishan, the left deputy capital censor, was also looking for Yuzhu's paper.

As a Hanchen, he didn't want the 15-year-old bannerman to win the election at all.What books will Bannermen read?Barbarians, shouldn't you ride a horse and draw a bow?

In the current imperial court, Manchurian officials generally hold real power, and most of them look down on Hanchen.

Hanchen's strength was insufficient, so he naturally did not dare to stand up to the important Manchurian ministers.

However, the imperial examination has always been the prerogative of Han Confucian officials and Jinshi, and Manchu officials have to stand aside.

Although the Confucian officials of the Han Dynasty dared not speak out in the court, they had the courage to do small tricks secretly, and deposed Yuzhu, the so-called child prodigy under his banner.

Whether it was Li Guangdi or Wang Zhishan, they had read Yuzhu's college, yearly and scientific examination papers beforehand, and knew his writing style better.

The style of writing is something that can only be understood but not expressed in words. It is purely a feeling.

This is the same as modern handwriting identification. Everyone's writing habits have certain rules to follow.

Under Xierdan's supervision, the ten test papers unanimously recommended by the examiners had the same number of laps.All circles, no tips.

Li Guangdi thought to himself, Yuzhu is just a 15-year-old boy, so naturally the writing cannot be too old-fashioned.

Wang Zhishan felt that since Yu Zhu was a bannerman and came from a wealthy family, there was more or less arrogance in the article, right?
A good article unanimously recognized by the examiners, whether it is Li Guangdi or Wang Zhishan, if you want to be dismissed, you must find a suitable reason.

Otherwise, you will not be able to convince the public!

Li Guangdi went through the ten papers again, from the beginning to the end, and suddenly his eyes lit up, hehe, I know it.

The eyesight of being an examiner for so many years told Li Guangdi.The younger the examinee, the more he likes to show off his old-fashioned style, but it is easy to show flaws.

Wang Zhishan took the paper that Li Guangdi had finished reading calmly, opened his eyes wide, and checked it carefully.

In the end, Wang Zhishan found that the writing style of one of the papers was very resembling the domineering style of his subordinates, um, that was it.

As a result, Wang Zhishan and Li Guangdi each found reasons and dismissed a paper respectively.

The remaining eight papers, after excluding the influence of selfishness, were quickly ranked.

Xierdan waited quietly until Li Guangdi circled the [-]th place and Wang Zhishan circled the [-]th place. Then he suddenly picked up the two papers that had been dismissed and shouted sharply: "Criticism!" What's the intention behind the deliberate failure of the paper?"

(End of this chapter)