Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 632 Bad luck
"We won't be so unlucky to meet him as the chief examiner, right?" Fang Shaohua said.

Xu Chengyuan frowned, and said: "Zhou Dongping is a small belly, and now Gu Xinian can achieve the position of Taifu Shaoshi. I don't think he is so narrow-minded. It has been more than 20 years, and he still keeps the past in his heart. It's also his family, who made things difficult for us, aren't you afraid that others will reveal the scandals of the past?"

"That's right." Qi Muyuan said, "President Guan Shan has been in the capital for a long time, and he hasn't seen Gu Xinian do anything, let alone embarrass us juniors. Besides, since it is Enke, then our candidates in this year are all He is the first student of the new emperor, the emperor must be paying more attention to the scientific examination than ever before. If he tries to make things difficult for us under the emperor's nose, he will not be afraid of getting caught and end up badly like Zhou Dongping?"

Everyone nodded and relaxed their hearts.

In fact, if Gu Xinian really wanted to make things difficult for others, the most likely ones would be to make things difficult for Guan Jiaze and Du Jinning.Guan Jiaze is Guan Lehe's nephew, Du Jinning is Guan Lehe's disciple, and they have the closest relationship.The others are from the same hometown as Guan Lehe, at most they are students from Guan Lehe and Ren Shan Changshi Academy, Gu Xinian is not enough to hold them back.

But then again, instead of worrying that people who have a relationship with Guan Lehe will be unfavorable to him, Guan Jiaze might as well be worried that people who have a relationship with Guan Zhengxiang will be unfavorable to him.Guan Zhengxiang is confused at first glance, and he has offended many people in the past.It is estimated that Guan Zhengxiang himself does not know who is the enemy.Guan Jiaze is hard to guard against.

As for Du Jinning, she knows everything well, so she doesn't need others to worry about her.

It was not easy for everyone to get together, so they didn't disperse immediately, but took out the points raised by their elders and masters and shared them with everyone.Du Jinning simply came up with three more topics to write articles for everyone.

Guan Jiaze couldn't help wailing: "Forget it on weekdays, today is a holiday after all, can you let everyone have a good rest?"

Fang Shaohua shrugged: "If you don't want to write, you can go back first, don't force it." Then he turned his head and asked Du Jinning, "Right?"

"Yes." Du Jinning answered very simply.

Guan Jiaze pouted: "Forget it then. Maybe the article you wrote today is what you will be tested in the exam."

Du Jinning ignored him: "Qi Muyuan, Fang Shaohua, each of us will come up with a question." Then he added, "Just follow the style requirements of the first three examiners on my paper."

"Okay." Qi Muyuan and Fang Shaohua nodded in agreement.

Du Jinning laid out the paper, thought for a while, and wrote a topic on the paper.

The title was fine, but Guan Jiaze saw that the style requirements above were parallel prose, and he couldn't help crying: "Why is it parallel prose again? I'm the least good at writing this."

During this period of time, Du Jinning often asked them to write parallel essays.

"Because Gu Xi Nian is good at parallel prose." Xu Chengyuan didn't understand why Du Jinning repeatedly asked them to write parallel prose, but now he finally understood Du Jinning's painstaking efforts.

Parallel prose prevailed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty selected scholars by poetry and prose, and their prose works were rhythmic prose derived from parallel prose.The official documents of the Tang Dynasty were also parallel prose.Parallel prose often affects the expression of content because it adapts to sentence patterns and piles up rhetoric. After Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated the ancient prose movement, parallel prose suffered a setback for the first time; after Han and Liu passed away, the influence of parallel prose rose again. master.After entering the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Ouyang Xiu and others, the ancient prose movement set off a second round of climax, prose prose came out one after another, and parallel prose gradually declined.

The history of turning a corner continues to the present, prose has become the main body, and few people write parallel prose anymore.Therefore, Xu Chengyuan had never been able to understand why Du Jinning asked everyone to write parallel essays.

Guan Jiaze sighed, and resigned himself to writing the article.

This is a day's work to write.

When they were in the capital city of Guangxi Province, they often met at Du's house. Mrs. Chen was very happy to hear that they came, and personally brought some snacks and fruits, said hello to everyone, and bought a rich meal at noon. , Let them enjoy it in Du Jinning's yard.Everyone finally finished writing the article before the sun went down, so they politely declined Mrs. Chen's kindness to keep them for dinner, and they went their separate ways.

Du Jinning sent a servant to send the articles written by everyone to Lu Jiuyuan and the other three for correction.

In their intense preparations, the test finally came.

Du Jinning has already experienced many battles in the scientific examination, and his mentality is still calm, but Chen is very nervous, and afraid of affecting Du Jinning, he can only cover up in every possible way to prevent himself from showing his clues.

She checked the things calmly, and then asked, "Is there anything else you didn't bring?"

Du Jinning couldn't help laughing: "I've brought everything. In fact, there is nothing to bring. There are pens, inks, papers and inkstones inside, and there is no need to bring bedding. You only need to wear a suit of clothes. And the clothes, shoes and socks, mother, you have checked them five times. gone."

Chen's face turned red, and she said angrily: "Mother is not worried about you being cold inside. Now it's just past the twelfth lunar month, and it's freezing, but you have to stay in that cold and damp test room for three days. Mother is afraid of you. Frozen out of nowhere."

"Yes, yes, I know that you are worried, mother. But I have been exercising diligently these years, and I am not very afraid of the cold. These clothes are enough, so you don't have to worry." Du Jinning said with a smile.

Chen turned around, stared at her daughter who was more capable than a man, and nodded in relief: "That's good."

When Du Jinning wanted to learn martial arts from the guards of the Qi family, Mrs. Chen was not very willing.Now she is very grateful that she did not block the success.

Although Du Jinning's martial arts is not particularly powerful, at least it can strengthen her body; and when she walks outside, she doesn't have to worry so much because she has some self-protection power.Sure enough, if you pay, you will gain.

"Master." Aoki's voice sounded outside the courtyard gate.

Du Jinning walked to the door and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Master Qi sent a letter."

Du Jinning's expression became serious: "Bring it in."

It was time to go to the Gongyuan tomorrow, but Qi Muyuan sent a letter at this time, with only one content, the list of examiners came out.

Aoki sent the letter in, but Du Jinning didn't open it right away, and asked, "Who sent it? Did you say anything else? What about others?"

"Liu Gao sent it, but he has already left. He didn't say anything."

Du Jinning waved Aoki out and opened the letter, only to see that there were only six words written on it: "Jiang Tong, Gu Xinian." It was Qi Muyuan's handwriting.

Du Jinning raised his eyebrows slightly.

She doesn't seem to be having much luck.

Gu Xinian had old grievances with Guan Lehe; but this Jiang Tong was Qi Yuandao's in-laws and Qi Siyu's grandfather.He used to be the son of the state to offer wine, but because of his poor health, he resigned from his official position and recuperated at home.

Because Jiang Tong is not in office, he was not included in Du Jinning's list of ten people at all.I don't know what Zhao Wei was thinking, but he invited him out of the mountain again to serve as the chief examiner of Enke this year, and Gu Xinian became the deputy chief examiner.

(End of this chapter)