Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 315 How long will the north wind blow?
Seeing this together, Li Yi was looking forward to it.

The title of the second question comes from a sentence in Liu An's "Huainanzi Interpretation of Words" in the Western Han Dynasty: "To the highest virtue, the Taoist is like a hill and a mountain. If it stands still and does not move, the walker thinks about it."

The meaning of this question is very clear, and it is much easier to write than the previous question.Du Jinning was able to write such a wonderful stereotyped poem on the previous question, and it is even more exciting that he can write this question at his fingertips.

I saw Du Jinning handed the pen to the inkstone, dipped it in, and wrote: "The north wind blows, blowing the cypress branches in front of my courtyard..."

Hey, what is this... What is this writing?
Li Yitong was very puzzled.This is not like eight-legged poetry.

His eyes moved from the table to Du Jinning's face, and he saw that Du Jinning's immature face was calm, as if she was not in the examination room at this time, but was composing poems in her own garden, with a casual posture and a leisurely manner.It's not like she can't write stereotyped poems, so she settles for the next best thing and uses another poem to make do with it. It's like she's already planned to write like this.

Li Tong's eyes moved to Du Jinning's pen again.

I saw her continue to write: "The tree is not afraid of the wind, the integrity is still self-sufficient, and the frost and frost are unwavering."

This is... off topic.

The meaning of the original title is: The heart of a person who has attained the Tao is as firm as a hill and remains motionless.And Du Jinning's poem is about the cypress in the north wind, no matter the wind blows rain, ice and snow, but still "unwavering" and firm heart.

Li Yi nodded slightly.

Although the question was deducted and the writing was not bad, until now, he hadn't been particularly surprised.

But he didn't come to a conclusion right away.After all, Du Jinning proved her ability with her amazing two stereotyped essays in the first scene and the stereotyped poem just now, and convinced Li Yitong, so Li Yitong still has great expectations for her next poems.

I saw Du Jinning dipped in the ink and continued to write: "Kuang Fuyang and Jing Jianyi, idle flowers and wild grass are still luxuriant, what will the wind blow the cypress branches? How long will the north wind blow?"

Seeing this sentence, Li Yitong was startled.Seeing Du Jinning put down his pen, it seemed that the poem was finished.He immediately read the poem from beginning to end.

After reading it, he was afraid that he might get the wrong meaning, so he read the poem from beginning to end twice again.

After reading it, Li Yiyi's heart was like a stormy wave stirred up by a strong wind, and his mood was agitated, which could not be calmed down for a long time.

This is, this is... is she going to challenge Zhou Dongping?
When he first read this poem, he thought it was to praise the strength of the cypress tree. Although the implication is descriptive, there is nothing to praise, it is too general.But after reading the whole poem, he realized that Du Jinning compared her steadfast integrity with the cypress in the north wind. No matter what kind of adversity she was in, she was indomitable and always maintained her integrity.Moreover, the last sentence "how long will the north wind blow" is simply too domineering, it is clearly a challenge to Zhou Dongping!
If Du Jinning's previous poem was not a stereotyped poem, and if it wasn't so wonderfully written, then Li Yitong still couldn't understand what she meant.But she wrote a wonderful eight-legged poem first, and then wrote this one in front of them, and the meaning couldn't be more clear.

This is what she wants to show: Not only can she write stereotyped poems, but she can also write them very well, very good!But she doesn't write now, and she doesn't want to write anymore, because her moral integrity is like a cypress tree in the north wind, and nothing can make her bend down.Even if you are the magistrate, you are the chief examiner, and you can influence my future, but so what? "How long will the north wind blow?"You, Zhou Dongping, may be dismissed from office one day, and if you don't dismiss from office, you will be transferred after three years of office. In short, you will not last long.Even if you use despicable methods to prevent me from passing the government examination this year, I will still be able to succeed when you leave this place.I am only 12 years old, who am I afraid of?

This kid is amazing!Li lived to be in his 40s, and has seen countless people around Zhou Dongping, but he has never admired a person like this moment.

This requires not only talent, but also courage!The stance of who I am, who is not at all afraid that you will put on my little shoes, made him deeply impressed by the 12-year-old child in front of him.

At this moment, he, who was always not very curious, became extremely curious about the grievances between Zhou Dongping and Du Jinning's teacher.He very much wanted to know what kind of grievances and grievances there were between the two of them, which would allow Zhou Dongping to try every means to suppress Du Jinning to win the case, and make Du Jinning fight back in such an important exam with full of anger, so face to face Challenge Zhou Dongping.

And Zhou Dongping's expression could not be described as extremely angry.The flushed face, the beard that was about to stand on end, and the eyes that were about to crack their canthus all indicated that he was on the verge of going berserk.

"Dong Weng, calm down, calm down, this is the examination room." Li Yiyi hurriedly pushed him away from Du Jinning's examination number, pulled him back to the examiner's seat and sat down, persuading him in a low voice, "You write a question, and he writes it. Poetry, he has nothing out of the ordinary; if you rant here, you will know what the consequences will be..."

Zhou Dongping is the magistrate, but it doesn't mean that he can cover the sky with one hand on this one-third of an acre of land.Every time there is a government examination, the court will send a student official to take charge of the scientific examinations in the three neighboring provinces and supervise the behavior of the prefects.Once news of Zhou Dongping's unreasonable rant about the examination room got out, he, the magistrate, would have done his best. Although he would not be dismissed from office and go home, it was still very possible to demote a two-level official rank.

Even if Zhou Dongping was protected by someone above him, he could not escape the blame for such an obvious disclosure and mistake.

After being told by Li Tong, Zhou Dongping finally calmed down a lot.

He also knew he shouldn't, and he also knew the consequences of losing control of his emotions.

It was precisely because he knew that he felt that Du Jinning definitely did this on purpose, so he wanted to make him look ugly in the examination room.Thinking of this, it was still difficult for him to calm down.

He stared at Du Jinning with reddish eyes, and said ruthlessly in his heart: "For the sake of my own future, I will not refuse you to pass the government examination; but if you want to get the top case in the government, just dream!"

Li Yitong looked at Du Jinning, who was concentrating on grinding the ink alone, seemingly oblivious to all this, shook his head, and sighed deeply.

Is it worth it to abandon a good case leader in order to win a moment?What kind of grievances did Zhou Dongping have with her teacher that made her willing to take the risk of ruining her own future and offend Zhou Dongping to the death?
"Dong Weng." He remembered something and reminded, "If he does the math well and gets all the answers right, you have to give him the office desk."

(End of this chapter)