Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 518 Strange Examination Questions
This time, Du Jinning didn't get a bad number, and he didn't sit opposite Qi Siyu, who didn't like it. Although the location of the test house was not very good, it was not bad compared to the previous two times.

Although Du Jinning said that he went to school in Fucheng, he was originally from Lishui County, so he had to enter the examination room with the candidates from Lishui County.This time, Lishui County was ranked at the back to enter the arena, and when they entered the Gongyuan and found their examination room to sit down, it was getting late.

After tidying up the examination room, and not long after sitting down to rest, the cloud board was knocked, and the subordinate staff led the servants to start distributing the test papers.

After receiving the blank test paper, Du Jinning knew that this time the question was set on the spot again, and there was no test paper engraved.But this is also within her expectations.

Six people, five factions, I don't know how many disputes, compromises and balances there are when the question is proposed.

Although it is said that the main examiner and the assistant examiner are responsible for setting the questions, the four fellow examiners are not vegetarians. They must prevent the main examiner and the assistant examiner from asking questions that they have already decided to ask.Although the two of them did not dare to disclose the exam questions, there are traces of which question types they tend to prefer when teaching juniors, which book they prefer in the Four Books and Five Classics.If they were allowed to come up with questions, wouldn't it be easy for Jie Yuan to fall into their pockets?
Therefore, it is certain that they will obstruct each other and pick each other's thorns when they come up with the questions. Before the last moment of the exam, the exam questions will not be decided. Where will there be time to engrave them?

But Du Jinning was already mentally prepared for the questions, and when the yamen servant walked around the examination room holding a sign with the questions written on it, and saw clearly the questions written on the sign, Du Jinning's expression became: ⊙▂⊙
The other candidates were stunned.

What is this ghost?

The sign held by the yamen servant had a circle drawn on it: "0".

There is no English these days, and there are no Arabic numerals. What does such a circle mean?
Some of the more courageous examinees couldn't bear it anymore, cupped their hands and said to the yamen servant: "This poor man, may I ask if you have taken the wrong brand?"

Yamen servants who can come to the Gongyuan to hold a sign are also literate and have studied for several years.When he took the sign from the deputy chief examiner just now, he was also full of puzzlement, and even presumptuously asked the deputy chief examiner, but was scolded bloody by the deputy chief examiner.

At this time, with a serious face, he replied: "That's right." He ignored these people and walked straight ahead.

Right?

That circle is the policy topic of this year's rural examination?
Do you want to be so pitiful?

The psychology of the candidates is broken.

After Du Jinning was startled, he quickly calmed down.

In her two lifetimes in the examination room, what weird questions haven't she seen?If you are a modern person with a sharp mind and a powerful and unconstrained thinking, are you afraid of comparing with these ancient people who have become rigid in their heads after reading the Four Books and Five Classics?
With such a simple circle, she can pull out tens of thousands of words.

She picked up the pen and drew a circle squarely on the draft paper.

There are three days to do two policy essays and one test poem, which is more than enough time for her, but she is not in a hurry to solve the problems.Wait for a while to finish copying the question, and then slowly think about how to write this question.

After a while, another yamen servant holding a sign came up to her.

What he raised was the second policy topic.

"Madam Jun is lustful."

Seeing the words on the sign clearly, Du Jinning raised his eyebrows, and copied the title calmly.

Candidates in the examination room next door looked at these words with a confused face.

what is this?
He knows all these six characters. What do the six characters mean when they put together? It seems, it seems...why can't he understand it?
I can't explain it, and I don't.It's just, is this really what he understands?
If that's what it means, have the heads of the examiners who set the questions been caught by the door?Do you dare to ask this kind of question?Aren't they afraid to go back to the capital and be scolded by the emperor?Furthermore, there are a thousand men imprisoned in this tribute courtyard, and you asked everyone to write hundreds of thousands of words eloquently, expressing "sexual desire" to this "Mrs. Jun", what do you want to do?
This question was too much, and with the previous weird question as a base, he didn't dare to ask if he made a mistake in this question, so he copied the question tremblingly.

Why are you trembling all over?

You must know that this is an imperial examination.How many days and nights he has studied hard in the cold window, how many days and nights he has worked hard under the lamp!The family saved money from their teeth to support his education, hoping that he would be admitted to Juren and live a good life.What's more, the township examination, which takes place every three years, is life-threatening.He is in his forties. If he can pass the Juren this year, he may continue to work hard to pass the Jinshi examination.But if this exam is delayed, he may stop at a scholar for the rest of his life, and he will no longer have time to take the general exam and palace exam.The opportunity for him to take part in the provincial examination is so precious, but this time the heads of the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner were collectively caught by the door. Didn't he take his hopes and his life as a joke with such a cheating question?
After copying the topic with trembling hands, he completely collapsed, sitting there wiping his tears, choked up uncontrollably.

(End of this chapter)