Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 149 The County Examination Ends

Li An felt a little hungry, put down his pen, and ate steamed buns with braised pork.

The steamed buns were broken off by the yamen servants, and Li An had some mental obstacles.

But there was nothing I could do, I couldn't concentrate when I was hungry.

He couldn't help but be a little envious of students from other counties.

In fact, only the imperial examinations were held for several days in a row. The county and township examinations were originally one test per day, and you could go home at night.

But Yangzhou is a state city. In order to give students a more intuitive understanding of the examination, the exam is completely simulated.

Therefore, you have to stay in the examination room for several days and cannot leave.

After eating, Li An checked it again. After careful consideration, he felt that it was almost ready, so he wrote it again.

This time Li An wrote his name, place of birth and exam number, and then the article.

If nothing else happens, this time will be the final answer.

After finishing writing, Li An checked it twice again. Seeing that there was no problem, he went to bed directly.

Ang Lee was not satisfied with this article because it did not match what he wanted to write.

But in these years, the scholars in Nianzhuang told them many articles about failure in the imperial examination.

While most of these are literary flaws, many are due to other factors.

The two most important points are that they refute the sages and are inconsistent with the situation at that time.

Some people always like to attract attention and write shocking remarks, but the real reviewers are orthodox Confucian students. It is difficult to accept such remarks, and naturally they will not get good grades.

Just like the current examination questions, the answers cannot refute Mencius' words, but can only agree and extend them.

And the form is even simpler. Nowadays, neither the officials nor the courtiers want to fight. If you write about recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, fighting Xixia will definitely not work.

I can’t write what I want to write. Ang Lee has tried his best in this article.

He was afraid that if he continued to think about it, he would be easily assimilated by this kind of thinking.

But after all, this is just a county examination, and the requirements are relatively low.

Ang Lee thinks his article shouldn't be too bad.

After a long sleep, there was no time when he woke up, and Li An didn't know what time it was.

But no one asked me to hand in the paper, and it wasn’t until the next day anyway.

Li An felt a little urgent to urinate, so he rang the bell, and soon a yamen servant came.

The yamen officer asked, opened the door and took Li An to the latrine.

After going to the latrine, Li An returned to the room and continued to sleep.

While half asleep and half awake, Li An heard the ringing bells. He thought it was handing in a paper. When he got up and listened, he realized that the wind was blowing.

Li An went back to lie down and continue to sleep, but he didn't know what to do with the people who were going to the latrine when the bells were ringing.

……

Students taking the Jing Yi Test have an understanding of the Classics and History subsets, and the test questions are all selected from the Classics and History subsets.

The silent scriptures are a subset of silently written scriptures and histories.

Both of these test memory. Although the classic meaning questions require some understanding, Li An has read the annotations of Sheng Hong and Liu Xuewen, so it is not difficult to answer them.

Meditating on sutras was even easier for him. The only difficulty was the poems and poems.

Poetry and Fu are not a test of poems and songs, but rhymes and poems, which are somewhat different from poems.

Fortunately, Li An knows his shortcomings in this area and has been focusing on learning over the years.

I have to say that the closed county examination was really torturous. I couldn’t take a shower or wash myself, and there was no one to talk to.

Over the past few days, Li An was tortured almost crazy.

Fortunately, it will be over after I finish the last policy exam tomorrow.

On the morning of the last day, the paper on poems and poems was called, and the clerk read out the title of the final policy essay.

Farmer!

Just one word.

This kind of question is easy to say, but also very difficult to say.

It is easy because the topic is very open and it is easy to find the entry point.

The difficulty is also at this point. It is too broad and difficult to write.

Li An thought for a long time and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

He originally wanted to write about the story of sharing the same family with a small family, but gave up after hesitating for a while. But this thing is good, but it involves reform.

Although Han Zhang is now back in office, there is a lot of talk about reform among the people.

But Ang Lee knew the plot behind it and did not reform it again at all.

Therefore, when it comes to reform, I definitely cannot write about it.

After hesitating for a long time, Li An did not take risks, but chose to seek stability.

Zhuang Xuexue had published similar test questions before, so Ang Lee simply re-edited the one he had written before.

……

As soon as the application time passed in the afternoon, the government officials came to collect the answer sheets and asked the students to pack up and leave.

Li An had already packed his things, handed in his answer sheet, and left with his things.

Passing by other examination rooms, Li An saw many scholars still packing their things. Not many like him had packed their things in advance.

Arriving in the examination room courtyard, with the afterglow of the sun shining on him, Li An took a deep breath of fresh air.

Li An exhaled, carried his things, and walked out of the examination room.

"Aniu!"

As soon as Li An left the examination room, he heard his mother Liu's voice.

Looking for fame, I saw my parents, eldest brother and others running over.

"A Niu, your sister-in-law is at home preparing meals. Let's go home."

Mrs. Liu originally wanted to ask Li An how he did in the exam, but seeing her son's haggard look made her heartbroken.

"go home!"

Li An looked at the concerned eyes of his relatives, showed a smile, let his eldest brother take the package, and was pulled home by his mother.

Along the way, Liu and the others only asked about what was going on in the examination room, but did not ask how the exam went.

After returning home, Mrs. Liu asked Li An to go back to the room to wash up.

After washing, taking a bath, and changing into clean clothes, Li An felt as if he had been reborn.

……

"Well…"

Seeing that his mother wanted to pick up food for him, Li An wanted to speak, but his mouth was full of food. He quickly reached out to stop his mother, swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Mom, I'm full."

"Let's eat something. It's only been a few days and I've lost a lot of weight." Mrs. Liu said distressedly.

"I'm so full that I can hold on again." Li An said with a bitter smile.

"Okay, drink some water and rest for a while, then go back to your room and sleep."

After Mrs. Liu finished speaking, she asked Aunt Niu and Cai'er to clear the table together.

"Brother-in-law, drink tea."

Zhang Qing made tea for Li An and brought it over.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Li An quickly took it.

"Aniu, now that the exam is over, will you go back to Bianjing when the results are released?" Li Nan asked.

Ms. Liu, who was clearing the table, heard this and said angrily: "What are you talking about? Are you going to kick Aniu away just after he finished the exam?"

"No, let me ask you something." Li Nan said aggrievedly.

"It's not okay to ask, A Niu can stay as long as he wants." Mrs. Liu glared.

"Mom, don't blame dad. I don't plan to leave this year. If the county exam is passed, the township exam will be held next spring. I will wait until I pass the township exam before going to Bianjing." Li An said.

He had already thought about this. If Zhao Xian hadn't won over him, he would have returned to Bianjing after taking the county examination. Now he might as well stay at home until next year after the provincial examination before going to Bianjing.

The county examination and the township examination were only half a year apart, so there was no need to run back and forth.

Of course, the premise is that you can pass the exam.

However, Ang Lee is still somewhat confident about this.

Moreover, Zhou Yingjie knew his identity, so even if he was close, he would not let him fail.

(End of this chapter)