Little Scholar's Circle of Husbands

On the ninth day of August, when the fourth watch came, the bell started ringing outside the Gongyuan to remind the reference students to get up, and at the fifth watch, they began to ring the bell, signaling to gather in front of the Gongyuan.

According to the order of the roster, enter from different doors in turn. At the same time, the order of the roster will also be announced on the wall outside the tribute courtyard. Candidates can watch the sessions first and wait at the correct entrance.

Lu Fangzhou entered the door after Chen Shi, belonging to the late group, and quickly found the room that belonged to him after entering the door.

Be good, it’s really small. Lu Fangzhou roughly measured it with his height and width in front of the station gate. It was two meters high, sixty centimeters wide, and the depth was no more than 1.3 meters by visual inspection. He felt his legs shrunk when he slept at night.

If you know the body type, you probably don't need to take the exam.

Lu Fangzhou shook his head with a smile. He was relaxed. Those who took the same exam next door were different. The first time he came back, he was very nervous. After a few times, he treated Lu Fangzhou as a fool. Whoever enters the Gongyuan will be judged. Measure the size of the house?

Did no one tell you the size of the room before the exam?I don't know that if you move too much, you will be listed as suspected of cheating. After a while, the examiner will focus on you.

Lu Fangzhou didn't care about this. In terms of exam experience, he is no less than these people. You must know that he encountered SARS in the college entrance examination, and he had a low-grade fever that day, so he was alone in a room For the test, two invigilators + two inspectors, four teachers stared at him, and he still performed normally.

The big heart is not afraid of the invigilator to take a few more glances. Lu Fangzhou is very confident in his big heart. He methodically put away the items that he brought into the venue, and sat quietly waiting for the paper to be issued.

After a while of drumming, the papers were distributed and the answers began.

The topic is not biased, and they have basically done it. Lu Fangzhou just thought about it for a while before writing, unlike other candidates, who took the paper and wrote the manuscript first. It took a long time to write back and forth, and stopped after writing a few sentences.

Lu Fangzhou accidentally saw those people's examination methods, and sighed in his heart: Brother, the question type of noun explanation + brief description, even if you want to have a novel idea, it will not be so novel?On the contrary, it is easy to miss the question if you think too much. Even if you can take the test for three days, time is not such a waste.

Eat well and sleep well, preserve your physical strength, and keep your brain awake is the key.

Especially for things like eating, you should be active when the time comes. It’s noon, Lu Fangzhou resolutely stopped writing, carefully put away the answer sheet, and then took out the food he had prepared in advance.

Today is the first day, the time is short, and you don’t have to worry about spoilage when you eat any food. This shortbread was sent by Lushan before going out. It is said that Luyan deliberately got up in the middle of the night to make it. Eat it as soon as possible, otherwise it will spoil.

The shortbread crust is not easy to deteriorate, and the stuffing inside is naturally the one that is easy to deteriorate. I wonder what kind of filling Yan Yan packed?

Lu Fangzhou opened his mouth and took a mouthful, wow! ! !

Fresh meat mustard stuffing!

Fresh meat mustard mooncakes are a specialty of the city where he studied in university. The crust of Soviet-style mooncakes is the same as that of shortcakes such as egg yolk crisps.Among the cakes that Lu Fangzhou brought in, there were two types of shortbread. One was made of dried vegetables and meat. The dried vegetables and meat were specially roasted so that they would not spoil easily; It is also less prone to spoilage.

When making it in the first place, Lu Fangzhou once regretted a little, saying that this kind of shortbread would be delicious if it was stuffed with fresh meat and mustard.

Chop pickled mustard into cubes, mix well with fresh meat, egg white, and starch, then add some water, rice wine, a little salt, and a little sugar to make the filling. It is soft with gravy, and the taste is very similar to the skin of meat buns.

Super delicious/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

It's just too easy to break.

Unexpectedly, Yan Yan actually remembered it, and got up overnight to make it for him, so happy/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

Lu Fangzhou couldn't sit still thinking about it, wishing he could end the exam and go out to find Yan Yan.Also unable to sit still is the circle of candidates around Lu Fangzhou, who are they?So wicked, eating such delicious food in the examination room of the Gongyuan!

Although there is no rule in the examination room system that it is not allowed to eat very fragrant food, but everyone will live like a prison for the next day, eating hard dry food, and smelling such delicious food for the first meal of the first day, unacceptable!

The candidates silently put down their pens and swallowed a lot.

Lu Fangzhou slowly ate the shortbread stuffed with fresh meat and mustard greens, then shook his head, as if he had eaten too much and was a little sleepy. He carefully recalled the regulations of the examination of the Gonggong Academy. It seemed that there was no special instruction that he could not take a nap in the afternoon, it was just a rule The board for answering questions can be taken off and placed on the lower floor only at night when you are prompted to sleep.

When the answering board is placed on the lower floor, it will be level with the sitting board, and it will become a simple bed for candidates to rest.

That is to say, naps are allowed, but sleeping on the back is not allowed.You don't need to lie flat, you can also lie on your stomach. Thinking about it, Lu Fangzhou lay down on the table and fell asleep.

The examinee on the opposite side stared straight at him. Is this person missing?Such a precious exam time actually sleeps, and this is the first day. When the mind is most awake, it is not used to think about how to answer the questions, but used to sleep. Does this person not want to pass?

However, after three or four days of Lu Fangzhou's regular meals and lunch breaks, the candidates finally saw the gap. He gave up the exam early and was taken out for medical treatment.

But Lu Fangzhou's spirit is still surprisingly good, he eats well, sleeps well, and writes with spirit.

When it was time for the third test to start, Lu Fangzhou was even more fluent in writing, and finished answering the papers in two hours.Seeing the melancholy faces of other candidates, I wish I could have the speed of Lu Fangzhou, because the weather in Yuezhou City has changed since last night.

The heat is no longer unbearable, but the wind blows and stops for a while. When it blows, the wind is strong for a short time, and the gap between stops is getting shorter and shorter.

Most of the students of Zhedong Road knew that this was a sign of the coming of the windy and rainy days that often occur in summer, that is, the typhoon days that Lu Fangzhou was familiar with.

The local examinations in Zhedong Road have encountered this kind of weather several times. When the storm comes, the Gongyuan will not stop the examination. Candidates can only ask for blessings. It is best to finish the questions as soon as possible and ensure that their papers are not wet. This is the solution, and it is because of this that Zhedong students must bring raincloths when they go to the exam.

Seeing that the answering speed could not keep up, the candidates had to take out the rain cloth one after another.

The room in the Gongyuan is small, and the size of the raincloth can only be as wide as the room, and the length is also standard, in order to prevent candidates from cheating by hanging the raincloth to block the sight of the invigilators and inspectors.

Therefore, the rain cloth is effective when the wind and rain first blow, but it will not work when the rain pours down.And when it really rained cats and dogs, there was another problem.

The Gongyuan is located at the foot of Wolong Mountain, which is a low-lying area. After a round of heavy rainfall, the Gongyuan will accumulate water, ranging from muddy to muddy, to nowhere to stay.

Therefore, many candidates are in a hurry.

Lu Fangzhou also noticed the change in the weather last night, and he couldn't help admiring Mr. Sun Ge's prediction. After a good night's sleep in the cool weather last night, he didn't hesitate to write the paper today. When finished, put the scroll into a special rain cloth bag made by Mt.

Raincloths are generally made of oilcloth, with a hemp texture coated with a special oil layer. The texture of the raincloth made by Yushan feels like silk, and it is not coated with a special oil layer. However, water falls on the cloth and cannot penetrate, and will slide along the surface of the cloth. .

It is the same as some non-wetting cloth crafts in the modern society where Lu Fangzhou lives.When Lu Fangzhou saw it for the first time, he was shocked, thinking that the craftsmanship of the ancients is really amazing.

After saving the papers, Lu Fangzhou began to move the items he brought from the ground to the table and the board where he was sitting. When it rained heavily, there would be water accumulation. Not to mention, there are still two days left The food should not be wet, and leaving the venue early is regarded as abandoning the exam, and it is not worthwhile to abandon the exam after answering all the questions.

In the afternoon, it started to rain.

Like the wind, it also stops and falls for a while, and when it falls, it is suddenly very loud, and it is also mixed with the wind.Experienced people know that this kind of play indicates that this time the wind and rain will be particularly powerful, but it is not terrible to finish it in one breath.

Many people even accelerated the speed of answering the papers. By the evening, half of the candidates had completed the answers, and everyone carefully collected the test papers.

In the middle of the night, the storm hit completely. The first thing affected was the tarpaulin that the examinees put up in front of the house to keep out the rain. The wind was so strong that the tarpaulin became an obstacle. The part where the oilcloth is fixed to the eaves, many of the eaves rafters are broken.

The rafters were cracked or not, and the tiles were starting to blow off.The tiles on the southern roof are different from those on the northern roof. The tiles on the northern roof are fixed when they are installed, while the tiles on the southern roof are installed and not fixed.

In the event of a strong typhoon, the tiles will fly all over the sky. Anyone who wants to go out at this time may be crushed to death.

Lu Fangzhou has experienced this kind of weather since he was a child, and he has also seen many modern typhoon prevention methods, such as rain cloths, which were withdrawn early in the morning. Once a strong typhoon forecast is received in his city, the curtains on all outdoor billboards will be closed. They were all cleaned up. If something happened, the huge billboard could be easily blown down.

So he took off the raincloth early and covered it with the raincloth. He kept the things he carried with him and covered them with the raincloth.In stark contrast to the state where the candidates watched the rain cloth fly away, but could not speak, they could not speak during the examination of the Gongyuan, otherwise it would be regarded as cheating.

After the tiles were blown away too much, the Tribute Courtyard began to leak water, and now the candidates’ exclamations began to be heard from the barely quiet scene. At first, they were quiet, but when the leakage started to become severe, the exclamations became louder. Individuals still screamed in despair.

Most of those people's raincloths were blown away, so they could only use their own bodies to protect the rolls in the raincloth bags, but the rain was so heavy that their whole bodies were soaked quickly, and water accidentally poured into the bags.

The officials in charge of the examination at the Tribute Court were also helpless when they saw this. The rules of the rural examination have been like this since ancient times. It is impossible for them to close the papers at this meeting, and it is impossible for them to decide to start the examination again privately. It will take ten and a half months to get a reply.

Besides, it is not uncommon for Daoxiang in eastern Zhejiang to encounter this kind of weather. I have never seen a few emperors approve it to retake the exam.

The examiners could only order the soldiers in charge of security inspections to increase the number of inspections, keep an eye on the candidates everywhere, prevent the candidates from making trouble, and prohibit the candidates from making noise.

Another two hours passed, and when it was almost four o'clock, the tiles on the roof of the Gongyuan were almost blown away, and the springs coming down from Wolong Mountain also soaked the entire Gongyuan.

The papers of more candidates were wet with water. Some candidates asked them to abandon the exam and asked the chief examiner to let them out immediately. However, there were quite a few candidates who proposed to abandon the exam. Did not agree.

Candidates began to get excited, and the examiner had to order the prefect of Yuezhou to call in the Yuezhou garrison to maintain order in the examination room.

At this time, the city of Yuezhou was also in chaos. The water in the low-lying areas of the city had overflowed halfway up, and many houses had cracks, and some of them had collapsed.

The Yuezhou garrison came extremely slowly, and when they finally arrived, the Gongyuan was already in chaos.

The examiner immediately ordered the generals of the defenders to catch some leaders and kill the chickens for the monkeys to see. Just when the storm stopped suddenly, the examiner thought that God was helping him, so he urged the generals to execute immediately.

The examiner is from out of town and doesn't understand this kind of weather. It's not God's help that it stopped suddenly, but he entered the center of the storm, and the storm will continue after a while.

This is a rare opportunity, and we must seize it and evacuate immediately to deal with the more violent wind and rain in a while.The defending general knew about this, and explained it to the chief examiner. He didn't want the chief examiner to only care about the rules of the rural examination and not consider the safety of the candidates, so he refused immediately.

The general had no choice but to shake his head to execute. After a while, the torrential rain continued, and the eastern examination room, which was soaked the most, collapsed, and the candidates made more noise.

At worst, Qiu Wei will come back three years later, and if he loses his life, he will lose everything.

Lu Fangzhou also protested with the crowd. His rain cloth was effective in keeping out the rain, and he was lucky. He was on a slightly higher terrain in the west, and the water did not reach his insteps. never mind.

The sound of the collapse of the examination room in the east also reached him, and he also felt that the chief examiner had mishandled it because he considered the lives of so many students present as worthless.Even if such behavior does not break the rules of the township examination, it will be reviled by scholars all over the world.

Seeing this, the chief examiner was in a hurry. He was nominated by the Fourth Highness to come to take the Zhedong Road Provincial Examination. Now that the Fourth Highness has the support of Du Guifei, it is like the sun is rising, he must not give the Fourth Highness a slap in the face.

Now that things are getting serious, if the candidates present follow the wishes of the candidates and let them go out in advance, the candidates may not accept his wishes, but they will not be able to tell what happened today.It's better not to let it go, isn't it just that some candidates die, and if there are too many dead, there will be fewer mouths that can speak out, and the rest can be passed no matter how poor their grades are, as long as they are given to Juren, they can be blocked. It is also possible to avoid death in the name of maintaining order in the examination room despite the critical situation.

Thinking of this, the examiner immediately ordered the Yuezhou generals to suppress the students.

The general of Yuezhou was surprised when he heard the words: "My lord's move is inappropriate."

The examiner snorted coldly: "You are just a member of the general, a sixth-rank official, and you dare to question my actions? Don't even think about it, who is your general or your prefect?"

The general was taken aback when he heard that, whether it is the guard of Zhedong Road or the magistrate of Yuezhou Prefecture, they are all disciples of the Du family. Now the Du family is very close to the Fourth Highness, and the examiner is recommended by the Fourth Highness. He is a small The general can't afford to offend, but he can't do things like disregarding his life.

Just when the general was hesitating, a heroic voice suddenly sounded: "Come here, surround this place, the chief examiners, the examiners come out quickly, collect the papers one by one, and then send the candidates out of the tribute courtyard."

It was Princess Changping!

The author has something to say: Lu Fangzhou: I'm going, I almost lost my life after passing the provincial exam, I'm so sorry for the fresh meat mustard shortbread made by the male god!

Yan Yan (silent, holding his forehead): ...Is it just sorry for the food?It seems that the frequency of feeding should be reduced in the future, otherwise he might be abandoned for food in the future.

Lu Fangzhou: Huh?Why do I have a bad feeling?