Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

He can't be quiet, he was so humiliated by Long Zai outside just now, now that he thinks about it, he is still annoyed in his heart, and he hates Mr. Long and Er Er Wu to the bone.

If there is no accident, maybe within a month, the fact that I am suspected of plagiarizing Song Ci will definitely spread in the circle of scholars in Baoding, the capital city.

Notoriety is naturally inevitable. If you don't get this place back and get rid of the suspicion on yourself, you won't have to mess around in this world in the future.

Of course, the precondition is that you must win the exam, otherwise, even if you tell people that you are very talented, why can't you even win the exam?

Su Mu also knew that this township test was an unprecedented challenge for him. He had no one to take care of him, and he didn't know the test questions, so he had to rely on his own authenticity.

If you don't adjust your state to the best, you don't need to take this test.

Although his heart was burning with anger, depression, annoyance, worry and other negative emotions, Su Mu still tried his best to relax himself, just put his hands on the table, and slowly adjusted his breathing to be steady and long.

I don't know how long I sat there, the sky got darker, and the halo of the oil lamp on the wall beside me slowly shrunk into a ball.

Looking at the lanterns in the hands of the soldiers in the distance, the light dimmed little by little.

If you guessed right, it should be Mao Shizheng, which is about four o'clock in the morning Beijing time in later generations.

The T-shaped test shed is next to the Mingyuan Building, and you can clearly see the situation in the aisle outside.At this time, a group of people walked over mightily, with the leader beating the gong to clear the way, followed by followers.

In the middle is a large sedan chair with 16 people, and the curtains around the large sedan chair have been removed.

Sitting on the sedan chair was a middle-aged man wearing a six-rank red official robe. He was Yang Tinghe, the chief examiner of the Beizhili Township Examination.

When looking at the list, Su Mu also knew his name.I also know that this person is the chief minister of the cabinets of the Zhengde and Jiajing dynasties, the future CEO of the Ming Dynasty, and a man of great ceremony.

Unconsciously curious in my heart, I looked closely, but saw that this man was tall and long-armed, with phoenix eyes and crouching silkworm eyebrows. He was really a good-looking talent, and I praised him in my heart: It seems that in ancient times, if you were not a handsome guy, let alone a cabinet minister An official at the top level, even a magistrate of the fourth rank, has no possibility.The body is the first case to be judged by words and letters.If it is too ugly, there will be no official authority, the people will not know it, and it will lose the dignity of the court.Fortunately, my physical body is not too bad, which is very satisfying.

Yang Tinghe was surrounded by the deputy chief examiner and other room examiners, all with tense faces, looking very dignified.

When the future Yang Ge saw that the team had passed the Mingyuan Tower, he raised his hand and threw a command arrow from the sedan chair.

A yamen servant took it and shouted: "Lock, door!"

A few soldiers closed the gate, and with a "click", the Gongyuan was locked, and deer firewood was placed in front of the gate.Examiner Yang waved his hand, ran past the four-way soldiers, and occupied the four outer walls of the Gongyuan.

From inside came the voice of the outer curtain official reporting to the master examiner and performing a roll call:

"The inspector is in place!"

"Kneel! Get up!"

"The examiner is in place!"

"Kneel! Get up!"

"Officer Mi Feng is in place!"

"Kneel! Get up!"

"The transcription officer is in place!"

"Kneel! Get up!"

"The reader is in place!"

"Kneel! Get up!"

"The promotion officer salutes!"

"The examiner salutes!"

……

A busy, huge scene.

Su Mu didn't expect the provincial examination to be so lively compared to the college examination, and he was immediately fascinated by it.After all, it was the first time for him to take the official national civil service examination, so he was inevitably curious, but he refused to let go of any details.

But at this moment, Su Mu found that the candidates on the opposite side were all opening the test paper in a hurry, and took out the Four Treasures of the Study and placed them on the table.Add water to the inkstone, and quickly grind the ink.

Even the examinee who couldn't stop crying after being humiliated was no exception.

Su Mu felt strange, the topic hasn't been posted yet, what are you busy with?Don't be in a hurry to answer the questions.

When Yang Tinghe and others entered Zhigongtang, three whips were heard.Then the sound of "opening the book" came from the Supreme Court like a relay.

Following the sound, an examiner appeared in the T-shaped examination area, held a piece of paper in his hand, unfolded it, looked at it under the light, and then sang loudly: "Listen to the examinees, the first exam, the first question "Zi Gong Wen said: If there is a word that can be practiced for a lifetime, the Master said it will be forgiven." After reading, he stopped on purpose and asked the candidates to record it by themselves.

The waxy and soft mandarin with Hangjiahu accent is a bit difficult to hear, but it is very nice.

Obviously, this examiner is from Jiangnan.

The style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River was at its peak, and there were tens of thousands of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty.In the entire court, more than half of the officials were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.Therefore, several dialects in the Jiangnan area are simply semi-official, and if you don't know a few words of Wu Yu's soft language, you won't be able to mix them up at all.

When Su Mu was teaching at the university in his previous life, there were many Jiangsu and Zhejiang people in the college, so he naturally understood.However, he was taken aback and almost yelled out: Fuck, it turns out that there is no question paper in the township test, but he read the questions directly.No wonder the other candidates were grinding ink quickly... Oops, this is too bad...

It turned out that during the last hospital exam, candidates would receive a stack of papers first.During each exam, the examiner will send out the paper strips with the questions printed on them, so that everyone can write the article on the paper according to the above questions.

Su Mu originally thought that the rural examination was the same, but he didn't prepare in advance.

However, with a slight movement in his heart, Su Mu figured out the joints.Unlike the hospital examination, one can directly become an official after passing the provincial examination.Because of this, the court tried its best to prevent the candidates from saying goodbye.If you distribute the test paper, you must prevent the examiner from inserting the answer in the question paper handed to the test.

Therefore, in the end, it was simply dictated in public.

Because he was not familiar with the rules of the examination room, he was caught off guard this time.

Looking at the opposite side again, the examinees all took up their pens and quickly wrote down, Su Mu immediately became anxious.

I hurriedly took out the brush from the test basket, but I saw that the brush had been washed clean long ago, and there was no ink left.

It is too late to grind the ink now.

While he was in a hurry, the examiner began to read again: "The second question is "therefore, the government depends on the person, take the person as the body, cultivate the body with the Tao, and cultivate the Tao with benevolence"."

Su Mu was a little dumbfounded, his heart was beating briskly.

He hurriedly said to himself in his heart: Don't worry, don't worry, the matter is not out of hand, there will always be a way.I can recite the Four Books and Five Classics backwards, backwards...

Looking at the ink ingot in his hand, Su Mu's eyes lit up, and without hesitation, he put it into his mouth quickly, drool a little, and wrote on the wall the five characters "Government with reason, with benevolence".This can be regarded as an abbreviation in disguise, anyway, the middle words and sentences can be memorized by myself.

Then, I raised my hand and wrote the first question on the wall, "One, sorry!"

His examination booth was located in the outermost room, and his every move fell into the eyes of the examiner.

Seeing Su Mu writing all over the wall and being in such a mess, he naturally knew what the examinee was doing, some of the yamen servants couldn't help laughing, and the others also covered their mouths and snickered.

This scholar was too funny, and he made the gentleman disgraceful. The examiner was furious, and shouted loudly: "What's the matter with you, a man of high reputation, how can you do such a thing?"

Seeing that the examiner was angry, a yamen servant yelled, raised his stick and walked towards Su Mu.

Su Mu was taken aback, cold sweat broke out from his vest immediately.If the examiner does not allow me to scribble on the wall, how can I remember so many questions.

Could it be that this exam is coming to an end as soon as it starts?

Thinking of this, Su Mu's heart was in a mess.

At this moment, the examiner changed his expression and shook his hand, "Slow down."

The yamen servant looked back suspiciously, and the examiner said: "Forget it, after all, it is related to the future of a scholar, so let him go."

Only then did Su Mu let out a long breath of relief, and the examiner in his heart felt a little grateful.

But he didn't know that when the examiner was scolding, he couldn't help but glanced at Su Xiucai's writing board hanging at the entrance of the examination house. The word "Su Mu" was written on it. His heart moved, and then he let him go. a horse.

It turns out that it is inevitable for candidates to go to the toilet in the examination room, which needs to be resolved, but the examination room is a very serious place, and you can't shout in the silence: "Report the government, ask Mao", it doesn't matter if you disturb the order. It is not good for other candidates to interrupt their composition ideas.

Therefore, candidates will receive a wooden board with their name written on it when they enter the test room, and hang it at the door when they enter the test room.When you need to call someone for something, you just knock on the board, and the yamen servant will naturally come to deal with it.

Seeing Su Mu's disfigured face and his whole body in a state of distress, the examiner found it very interesting, and decided to meet the other examiners later and talk about it, which can be regarded as a small interesting episode.No matter how you say this Su Mu can be regarded as a famous person, it is an interesting anecdote to make it like this.

He looked at the servants beside him, put away his smile, and said, "Be serious."

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "I don't understand, Mr. Examiner, your accent is incomprehensible to young students."

As soon as the words fell, two yamen servants rushed to the man quickly and cursed: "Disturb the examination room for no reason, I can't beat you to death!"

He poked the stick in his hand forward, and hit the scholar's mouth, until his mouth was full of blood.

Seeing that the rules in the examination room were so strict, everyone was trembling and kept silent, not daring to make a sound.

The examiner was disturbed by the examinee, finished reading all the questions with a livid face, then waved his sleeves, turned and left.

In this way, he quickly memorized the rest of the other topics.

Only then did he heave a sigh of relief, and quickly rubbed the ink, but he didn't think that he had turned a face into a cat long ago by stuffing the ink ingot into his mouth without needing it.

This time the rural examination was the same as in the past. The first round consisted of three questions on the essays of "Four Books", four questions on "Yi", five questions on "Book", four questions on "Poetry", four questions on "Spring and Autumn", and four questions on "Book of Rites".

Among them, the three questions of the "Four Books" are compulsory questions, and all of them need to be done.As for the following four questions in "Yi", five questions in "Book", four questions in "Poetry", four questions in "Spring and Autumn", and four questions in "Book of Rites", you only need to choose one question for each book, and it is not necessary to write each question. do.

Taken together, there are eight stereotyped essays in this first session.

Each topic must be more than [-] words, but anyone who has written stereotyped essays knows that if you want to finish an article, no matter how condensed your words are, you still need [-] words.

On average, an article is about a thousand words long.

Seven articles, [-] words in total, plus ideas and drafts, need to be completed in three days, and the time is not too generous.

Su Mu was only interested in copying the questions, but had no time to examine them.

Su Mu didn't care to sympathize with the scholar who didn't understand the exam questions, so he sharpened the ink quickly with his hands and feet, and took a long time to copy the questions on the draft paper.

When everything was settled, the sky had already opened up, and he breathed a sigh of relief to figure out the exam questions.