Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 303

Hearing Li Tong's words, Zhou Dongping not only did not readily agree, but remained silent, frowning into a ball.After a long time, he waved his hand back, motioning for Li to return to his seat together.

Li Yitong didn't understand what he meant, but this is an examination room, not a place to talk, so he had to take a few steps back and sit back.

In the following time, Li Tong found that Zhou Dongping was looking at the case leaders in the examination room on the surface, but his eyes glanced at the article in front of him from time to time, and his frown never relaxed. He found that he could not understand Zhou Dongping Dongping.

Zhou Dongping has been a county magistrate for ten years, five years in education and administration, and two years in prefecture. In the past 17 years, he has been an invigilator almost every year. It can only be described as luck to find an article of Du Jinning's level in the examination room.Could it be that Zhou Dongping is not satisfied after reading these two articles, and wants to find another stereotyped article better than this one?
Or was it because the two articles were written so well that they surpassed him to some extent, so he was upset and jealous?Impossible, Zhou Dongping has never been so narrow-minded.

So why is that?
But before he could think about it, another examinee rang the bell, and was led by the guards to hand in the paper.

When Zhou Dongping saw this person, his gloomy face suddenly brightened, and he asked with a smile, "Wu Yumou, from Fuxing County?"

"Yes, my lord." Wu Yumou bowed respectfully.

Zhou Dongping nodded, and looked down at the test paper in front of him.

Li Yitong also got up, walked behind Zhou Dongping, and started marking the test papers with him.

There are [-] to [-] test papers in the government test, Zhou Dongping can't correct them by himself, so he can ask his teacher to bear it together.The master is one with the master, sharing blessings and misfortunes, advancing and retreating together.Therefore, this practice is also acquiesced in the officialdom.

After watching for a while, Li Tong frowned.After hastily finishing the second article, he looked up at Wu Yumou, then retreated and sat back in his seat.

He knew about Wu Yumou.

The government test is not a trivial matter, not only the candidates have to do their homework in advance, but the invigilators also have to do their homework in advance.How many local candidates are there, and how many candidates are returning from other places to take the exam.And among them, how many second-generation or third-generation officials returned to their hometowns for examinations from places with prosperous literary styles.What is the general level of case records in various counties?They all have some knowledge of these situations.

This Wu Yumou is the county case chief in a large county, because there are more people taking the exam in a large county. The gold content is greater than that of Xiaoxian County.

Wu Yumou's father worked in the Beijing Imperial Academy.When you are a Jinshi, you need to rank high and pass certain exams before you can enter the Imperial Academy. This talent is naturally better than ordinary Jinshi.Wu Yumou has a long history of family education, and he is considered to be the best in this year's candidates for his talent and learning.Zhou Dongping paid close attention to him, and felt that it was very likely that the candidate would take the head of the case.

You are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods.If Du Jinning and Zhuyu hadn't been in front, these two articles by Wu Yumou would have been pretty good.But comparing the two articles together, his two stereotyped articles are not enough to read.

I think this guy has done his homework, so he chose what he likes and wrote two stereotyped essays.But because stereotyped essay is not a standard style of imperial examination, there are not many people who study it, and not many people are good at writing stereotyped essay.Even though Wu Yumou had done his homework and learned stereotyped essays, in Li Tong's opinion, he was still far behind.

Li Tong looked at Zhou Dongping.

Sure enough, Zhou Dongping's face, which was as warm as a spring breeze at first, suddenly turned into winter after reading the article, and his brows were so wrinkled that they could kill mosquitoes.

He suppressed the irritability in his heart, tried his best to smile at Wu Yumou, and encouraged him, "Go back and prepare for the exam."

Although Wu Yumou had great confidence in himself, seeing Zhou Dongping's complexion change, his heart went up and down like a roller coaster.Hearing these words at this time, and seeing Zhou Dongping smiling at himself, his heart suddenly settled down.

He bowed deeply: "Thank you, sir."

At this time, the guard brought another person in, and said: "My lord, hand in the paper in this life."

There are invigilators in each test booth, and the papers can be handed over to the invigilator, not necessarily in front of Zhou Dongping.The reason why the guard brought this candidate here was because he was the first ten to hand in the papers.As for the ten candidates who handed in the first paper, according to the old practice, Zhou Dongping would meet with each other.

Because the head of the government case is likely to appear among these ten people.

Zhou Dongping glanced at the newly handed-in test paper, and was about to wave to the guards to lead them out, but seeing the candidate's name, he changed his mind again.

"Fang Shaohua, originally from Lishui County?" He asked.

"Yes, my lord."

Zhou Dongping nodded, and lowered his head to carefully review the test papers.

He knew this person, he was a candidate who came back from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he ranked third in the county examination.He wanted to see how far this man was from Du Jinning.

Fang Shaohua felt uneasy.

The county examination was overwhelmed by Du Jinning and Liang Xiankuan. Although he was convinced, he was still unwilling. "There is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond the people" He has a deep understanding of the phrase recently, so he did not dare to utter wild words, and he must take the case of the government.But he is determined to get good grades in the government examination, ranking above Du Jinning and Liang Xiankuan.

At this time, he especially hoped that the invigilator would appreciate his essay.

Li Yitong stood up again and started to read the article with Zhou Dongping.

Zhou Dongping didn't say a word, even if he had nothing to do now, Wu Yumou didn't dare to leave without authorization.But he didn't want to leave either.He wanted to see how the candidate's essay was written, and what Zhou Dongping would think of him.

But this time Zhou Dongping's expression was not as ugly as when he read Wu Yumou's article.He nodded when he finished reading the article, Fang Shaohua said: "The article is well written, go back and work hard, prepare to take the college exam."

Fang Shaohua was overjoyed, bowed deeply to Zhou Dongping, and thanked him.

"Okay, let's go." Zhou Dongping waved his hand, motioning for the guards to lead the two of them away.

Before Fang Shaohua left, he glanced at the examination numbers in the front row, looking for Du Jinning.It turned out that two test numbers were empty, but Du Jinning was nowhere to be seen.

Did this guy hand in the test early again?
He murmured in his heart, and after following the guards out of the house, he couldn't help but ask Wu Yumou, "Brother, may someone hand in the paper before you hand it in? Is that person Du Jinning?"

Wu Yumou glanced at him indifferently and ignored him.

He heard what the magistrate said just now. This person is from the same county as the 13-year-old county chief.The man in front of him was seventeen or eighteen years old, he looked like a dog, his clothes were of the best material, and his family was either rich or expensive.Why is it such a waste material, being crushed by a kid with no hair yet.He didn't bother to pay attention to such a person.

Watching the group of them go out, Li Yitong finally couldn't help asking Zhou Dongping: "Although this article is better than the second one, it is not at the same level as the first one. Why, Dong Weng..."

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