[Red Chamber] The imperial examination life of the great master

"Who is that?" Jia Amnesty withdrew his gaze and asked in a low voice.

"Don't you know him? He is the number one in our outer house—Cai Liang." Chen Ronggui said in a low voice, his tone full of envy.

Cai Liang?

Jia Amnesty can guarantee that he absolutely does not know him, but...

"Mr. is here." Someone yelled, and the room fell silent instantly.

Pat, clack, there was a sound of footsteps coming slowly, and after a while, a thin-faced, thin-figured master walked in.

After he walked in, he looked around, was surprised when he saw Jia She, and then calmly handed out the paper in his hand.

The exam time is about two hours.

When Jia Amnesty got the paper, he heard people around him gasp.

You don't need to look carefully, but you know that the exam this time must not be so easy.

He thought to himself, and opened it up to see, sure enough, maybe the township exam was coming, and there were four questions in this exam, three of which were broken questions, and one was all nine chapters of "Mencius" Gongsun Chou.

Jia She took out the brush and ink, first used the brush to moisten the pre-grinded ink, thought for a while, and first silently read all the nine chapters of "Mencius" Gongsun Chou, which is not difficult for him. , it is not too late to solve the problem.

After he made up his mind, he wrote on the paper first.

Huh?

Han Yi from above looked in Jia She's direction in surprise. In the past, this student would either scratch his head or his heart was ashamed at this time. Why does he seem to be confident today?

He came down and looked around slowly.

Jia She didn't notice the movement around him. He was concentrating on his thoughts. At first, he was a little sluggish when he wrote, but then he wrote faster and faster, thinking like a fountain, and the scriptures that had been deeply in his mind popped out word by word. , he was silent effortlessly.

Han Yi put his hands behind his back, and he nodded in surprise and admiration. There are not many people who can recite the full text of "Mencius" upside down, and there are even more people who can do this in the Imperial College. But compared with the previous student's grades , It is already very good to be able to do this now.

Han Yi admired Jia Amnesty in his heart. Seeing that Jia Amnesty was fully focused on the exam, he simply stood behind him with his hands behind his back to see how he could solve the problem.

The three questions were all written by Han Yi. One of the three questions is "Zi said", one is "not following the rules", and the other is "Zi said Yan Yuan said, use it to do it, and discard it to hide it. , but I and you have a husband."

Seeing these three questions, Jia Amnesty understood why someone gasped just now. Let’s put it this way, if the difficulty of the usual exam is the difficulty of the national test, then the difficulty of these three questions is the difficulty of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. up.

Are these three questions wrong?Not biased!Difficult, too difficult!

Someone once said that the difficulty of crafting is nothing more than solving problems.

Breaking the topic is limited to two or three sentences, a few dozen characters, but it determines the level of an eight-legged essay.

Among them, there are many rules for breaking the title. For example, sages and saints such as Confucius and Mencius are not allowed to call them by their first names, but should be respected as saints, while disciples of Confucius are called capable.In addition, to solve the problem, you must explain the topic thoroughly and clearly, but you cannot directly explain the meaning of the topic.

This shows how difficult it is to solve the problem.

Jia Amnesty looked at the first question first. The first question was Zi Yue. Needless to say, this Zi was Confucius, so he had to euphemistically reveal the identity of the sage Confucius when he broke the question. The head is big.

The meaning of Ziyue is very simple. It is nothing more than what Confucius said. Even children who have just started to understand this point, but the simpler the topic, the more difficult it is to solve it.

Jia Amnesty bit his pen, and decided to skip this question first, and look at the second question "Do not follow the rules".

Han Yi watched from the back as he was preoccupied with the topic, thinking that he was at the end of his mind, and was inevitably disappointed, feeling that he thought highly of him, so he couldn't help but shook his head and walked away.

Jia Amnesty didn't notice the change in his heart.

The second question was a little easier, so he quickly solved it and wrote it down.

The third question took a little time to solve the problem. After finishing the two questions, he returned to the first question and thought about it.

Han Yi patrolled around. He knew that the questions this time would be difficult. He intended to take this opportunity to motivate everyone to work hard for the rural examination in March. But after patrolling around, he only watched It is better to solve the problem with a few people, and among them, Cai Liang's level is the best.

After Han Yi sat down, he couldn't help but look at Jia She again. Seeing him biting the pen holder, he shook his head again with a distressed expression. It seemed that he really thought too much.

The time for a stick of incense comes in the blink of an eye.

"Stop writing, close the scroll." Han Yi's voice was decisive, and as soon as his words fell, everyone below wailed.

The papers were collected one by one.

The student who was in charge of collecting the papers in front of him looked at him in surprise when he saw that Jia She's papers were full.

After Han Yi took the paper and went out, there were wailing and complaining everywhere in the room.

"Mr.'s question this time is too difficult. I can only break one of the three questions." Someone said in a crying voice.

"Brother Bai, at least you can do one more trick. I can't break through one. This time I'm doomed." The person next to him said with a sad face.

These are the wailing of scumbags.

And the masters—such as Cai Liang raised his chin and said lightly: "Is it difficult? It seems a little bit."

"Brother Cai is number one here, of course it's not difficult for you, this time I'm doomed."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm also a little unsure."

The scumbags and masters were all busy discussing today's test question, but Jia She was too lazy to discuss it. He has been used to the test for so many years, not to mention that the most important thing now is to reward the Wu Zang Temple, so he asked Chen Ronggui: : "Is there any restaurant and teahouse near here where I can have some lunch?"

There was lunch provided in the Imperial College, but Jia Amnesty thought about the food in his memory, and decided to eat something delicious.

"Is it a restaurant? There is a Zhuangyuan building, why don't we go together." Chen Ronggui stood up, patted his stomach and stood up with a big heart.

Jia Amnesty was also looking for someone to ask about the situation of the Guozijian, so he agreed.

They had an hour or so to rest at noon, which was enough for them to chat and eat.

As soon as they stepped out, they heard the voice of Cai Liang talking to others behind them.

"Some people are really thick-skinned. After making such a incident, they still have the face to come to the Imperial College. It's really embarrassing for our Imperial College students."

The words were not loud, but everyone in the room could hear them clearly.

All of a sudden, everyone quieted down and looked in the direction of Jia She and Cai Liang.

Jia Amnesty stopped in his tracks, his expression worried.

"What did you say?"