Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 71 The Birth of the God of Sleep

The second lunar month in Beijing is different from the second lunar month in Wang Daoqiu's hometown of Zhejiang. It is still very cold in Beijing. Lying on the fire bed with briquettes burning next to you and covered with thick quilts, it feels like a good sleep. .

It's just that this kang is too short and narrow. It is specially designed for Wu Dalang. It is really difficult for Wang Daoqiu's normal height of 1.7 meters.If you sit there for a long time, you will feel sore and uncomfortable in your back.

He didn't sleep well, and Wang Daoqiu woke up from the pain all over his body more than an hour later. He imitated the movements of later generations, stretching his arms and legs, twisting his neck and twisting his buttocks to make himself feel better.He set up a small pot on the briquette stove and began to heat up his own meal.

According to the experience and lessons of Yin Zhengmao and Zhang Juzheng, two seasoned veterans, the dishes Wang Daoqiu brings are meat and fish cooked at home, plus some pickles.Fish and meat are frozen in this cold weather. Fish doesn't matter. Wang Daoqiu likes to eat fish jelly, so there is no need to reheat it. However, the meat is a solidified lard ball. It must be heated before Wang Daoqiu can A mouthful.So Wang Daoqiu heated the meat on the lower level of the pot and steamed the steamed buns on top.

After 10 minutes, the aroma filled the air, and Wang Daoqiu began to eat.The meal is very simple, two white flour buns, a pot of stewed pork, a plate of fish jelly, and a plate of kimchi.

After dinner, Wang Daoqiu rang the bell again, signaling the invigilator to "take" him to the toilet.When he walked to the front door, the unfortunate boy, Fatty Jiang, still looked at Wang Daoqiu, who was walking over, with the same resentful look on his face.At this time, Fatty Jiang felt extremely aggrieved and wanted to complain to his friend, but he did not dare to open his mouth and make a sound, because that would be considered cheating in the exam room.

Feeling the fat man's grievance, Wang Daoqiu suddenly no longer disliked his small dormitory.person!All like that.No matter how unlucky you are, as long as you know that there are people who are more unlucky than yourself, you will feel better immediately.

After entering this "bathroom", at the first glance, Wang Daoqiu felt more sympathy for the fat man.He just slept and had a meal, but this "bathroom" was much dirtier than the one he came to when he first entered. Not only were there some feces and urine in the three big excrement buckets, Even the ground beside the dung bucket had a thin layer of yellow ice.

Covering his mouth and holding back his anger, Wang Daoqiu quickly finished solving the problem, and then left the "bathroom" as if he was running away.

After coming out of the toilet, when he was almost walking to the door of his dormitory, he saw Gaoyi and two other invigilators patrolling here together.

According to the current rules of the Ming Dynasty, the examiners of the joint examination must be Hanlin officials who came from the Hanlin Academy.Moreover, once the list of examiners is approved by the emperor, those who are identified as examiners will immediately be imprisoned in the Gongyuan, and will not even be allowed to say goodbye to their families.They, the examiners, have to wait until the results of the general examination are released before they can leave Gongyuan.

The list of examiners for this session was approved by Emperor Jiajing just after the Lantern Festival.Gao Yi, who was working in the Hanlin Academy at the time, and several other Hanlin examiners who were designated as examiners for this session, were directly taken away from the Hanlin Academy by the Imperial Army and imprisoned in the Gongyuan Academy after their names were called by the bachelors in charge.Since then, Wang Daoqiu has never seen Gao Yi again.

Now the two meet again. Gao Yi is the invigilator and he is the examinee. Do you think this is embarrassing?But Wang Daoqiu thought that the most embarrassing person in this matter should be Yin Zhengmao!
After all, six years ago, Yin Zhengmao and Gao Yi lived in the same inn and participated in the examination together. They were all poor brothers who started at the same starting line.It's good now, things are unpredictable, and in a blink of an eye...!
Thinking of Yin Zhengmao's unlucky look in the examination room when he saw Gaoyi proctoring him, Wang Daoqiu laughed unkindly.

At this time, Gao Yi saw Wang Daoqiu smiling at him. He did not expect that Wang Daoqiu was actually teasing Yin Zhengmao in his heart. He thought Wang Daoqiu was laughing at him!So while pointing Wang Daoqiu with his finger, he was also grinning there.

Awkwardly, he passed by Gao Yi and returned to his dormitory. Wang Daoqiu changed two briquettes for the briquette stove, then went to the kang again, wrapped himself in the quilt, curled himself up into a ball, and continued to meet Duke Zhou. .

Just like this, when I woke up, I went to get something to eat. After I finished eating, I went to the toilet. After I used the toilet, I came back to sleep. When I woke up, I went to...

Just like this, over and over again, one afternoon and one midnight, Wang Daoqiu's journey to the examination consisted of going back and forth between eating, sleeping and going to the toilet.

As for doing the exam questions, his inkstone didn't get a drop of water on it all day long. It was definitely the cleanest inkstone in the entire examination room.The invigilator who was in charge of this area, and the examiners who had come here several times to inspect, were all shocked and dumbfounded.They have never seen it before. It has been a long time since the test papers were distributed, and there are still fierce people who haven't even started to study ink.

Especially Gao Yi, who had previously admitted to the examiner Sun Chengen that he knew Wang Daoqiu.Later, while resting in Mingyuan Building, he told other examiners that he and Wang Daoqiu rented in the same house, and they were very good friends.

Therefore, when Gaoyi and the other two examiners who were in the same group as him visited Wang Daoqiu's house again and again, they saw Wang Daoqiu's inkstone clean every time.One examiner couldn't help it anymore. He lowered his voice and whispered to Gaoyi: "Zixiang, you're a fool who just goes to the examination room and only eats and sleeps. Is he really your Jieyuan of Zhejiang Province? "Haha, Su Qing, maybe Liangzhen didn't sleep well last night and is a little sleepy today! After he sleeps, it's time to get up and do the questions seriously,"

Regarding Wang Daoqiu's performance in the examination room, what can Gao Yi say?Are you selfless and openly criticizing your friends?That would affect your image too much.So Gao Yi had no choice but to help Wang Daoqiu find a reason to eat and sleep in the examination room against his will.

The reason Gao Yi found was far-fetched. The examiner named "Su Qing" obviously did not agree with Gao Yi's statement.So as soon as Gao Yi finished speaking, he continued: "Zixiang, stop covering up for this idiot. Look at how this idiot doesn't look like he didn't sleep well last night? He came back from the toilet, and we met him At that time, his face was glowing and he was smiling brightly at you. How could he look like he hadn't slept well? I see that among the nearly [-] candidates in the examination room, he is the one who is in good spirits."

"Haha! Forget it, Su Qing, there is no rule in the exam rules that prohibits candidates from sleeping during the day. Let's just ignore this matter and go to patrol other places!"

As she spoke, Gao Yi dragged away the examiner named "Su Qing".

Of course, Wang Daoqiu, who is currently sleeping in the dormitory, does not know what he has just experienced at the door, nor does he know that when they first met, he was the chief minister of the cabinet during the Longqing period in history, tall and tall. It was difficult to arch Gao Suqing, which left such a bad impression.

After sleeping until the end of the moon, Wang Daoqiu woke up from backache again and went to the toilet again.He put the inkstone next to the briquette stove and toasted it, and then toasted some of the frozen cold water in his kettle.

After pouring the melted Liangbai Kai into the inkstone, Wang Daoqiu began to grind the ink. After the ink was grinded, he started to answer the test questions.Then my soul left my body and went to the library to find the answers to each question.

Eight-legged essays do not need to be long, but they have certain word count requirements. The meaning of the Four Books must be more than [-] words, and the meaning of the Five Classics must be more than [-] words.To put it bluntly, the Seven Paths, Four Books, Five Classics, and Eight Parts of Essays add up to about [-] words, which is the standard number of words for a chapter of online articles in later generations.

If you don't know how to write something like this, then you really don't know how. But if you can, even if you write with a brush, wouldn't it only take two or three hours?

Wang Daoqiu's chosen son has a whole library of books at his disposal, so there is no question of whether he can do it or not.

So he went to the library to read the questions one by one in order, and found those sentences and related annotations, and he memorized them in the library.Then go back to the examination room and write those materials into eight-part essays according to the format of eight-part essays.

Writing with a brush is relatively slow, and I have to memorize those things in the library before I can bring them back.Therefore, Wang Daoqiu struggled with the answer to the [-]-word question from the middle of the night until the sky was just white.

But this is good, at least most of the other candidates haven't gotten up yet, and no one will compete with him for the "bathroom" now.So after Wang Daoqiu finished finishing the questions, he steamed the steamed buns on the briquette stove, and then went to the "bathroom" to solve his personal problems.

After using the toilet and washing up in the "bathroom", Wang Daoqiu returned to the dormitory and ate the steamed buns. He then replaced the briquettes for the briquette stove and then started to sleep under the quilt.

On this day, Wang Daoqiu was the same as yesterday, only doing three things a day: eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet.And for the safety of the test papers, after finishing the questions early in the morning, he put all the pen, ink, paper and inkstones into his own cloth bag and hung them on the wall.In this way, his simple wooden table is now clean and empty.

It was another day of hibernation. As Wang Daoqiu's body gradually adapted to the sleeping position curled up into a ball, his sleep quality was getting higher and higher, and he could only wake up every four to five hours.

Wang Daoqiu is getting more and more comfortable as he sleeps, but others have doubts about life. The guards who invigilate the exam, Gao Yi who patrols the exam, and others see Wang Daoqiu every time. Wang Daoqiu only eats, sleeps and goes to the toilet. I have never seen him. Holding a pen.What the hell are you doing here? Do you know how many people want to come to this dormitory and pass the exam like you?Mud, we are all here, a life and death battle to determine the fate of ourselves and our family!But you eat and sleep, do you still have a heart, are you a pig?
Looking at Wang Daoqiu's unrestrained life in the examination room, the invigilators and examiners now express undisguised contempt every time they pass Wang Daoqiu's residence.Only Gao Yi didn't despise Wang Daoqiu every time he passed Wang Daoqiu's residence. Instead, he hid his face and walked away, cursing himself in his heart: I called you a slut, I called you a slut, why did you say you knew him? ?
(End of this chapter)