After spending another half a day, Li Ling finally finished writing all the two questions. Although he was clear about the affairs in the yamen, it was still not easy to completely transform articles with a certain literary talent. Even if he could only ensure that there was a certain readability, it was naturally quite a distance from a truly good article.

At this time, the sky was dark and night was coming. Just when Li Ling thought he could only sleep at night and at most, the veteran came to the door again and whispered: "Siucai, this is the night candle for this exam, and the food for tonight."

Li Ling was stunned and looked up and saw that the other party was holding three candles and a small bowl in his hand. He didn't know what was inside, but he still took it with a smile and thanked him again. It seemed that there were arrangements in the examination room, so he prepared candles for everyone at night, but this candle can last for more than an hour, so he needed to use it in a planned manner.

While there was still some light, Li Ling quickly arranged the food for the evening. The small bowl was just two dry buns and two chopsticks of vegetables, which was really not a good thing. But he didn't care about it. After thinking about it, he put the vegetables and a few slices of jerky he brought in and some rice together, went outside to make some water, put them in the pot, and then lit the small stove, and cooked them into a pot of vegetable and meat porridge.

In just a while, the aroma of vegetable and meat porridge spread in the area in front of his exam room, which immediately attracted the attention of many candidates. They looked at it one after another, and they all looked complicated when they saw this: we all just wanted to eat something casually and continue to take the exam. You're here to have a picnic.

Li Ling didn't care about the strange eyes of these people. He cooked the porridge and took it back to the test room. He ate a delicious meal with dry buns. Although the ingredients were simple, the taste was pretty good, especially because the porridge was hot, but it was much better than eating dry buns and drinking cold water. After eating it, it only made his whole spirit feel refreshed.

Although the sky was completely dark, Li Ling did not intend to rest. Instead, he lowered the curtain, lit a candle and incense, and took out a question and carefully drafted it. This time he decided to take advantage of his clear mind to write a four-book title first. After all, this is the focus of this provincial examination.

Although there are more than ten articles in the provincial examination, the actual decision to pass the seven four-book questions and the five-classical questions are actually the seven-book questions and the five-classical questions. As far as Li Ling knows, sometimes the only ones that determine success or failure are the first four-book questions and the five-classical questions in the first article, because there are too many candidates in each provincial examination, and the examiners only have more than a dozen people, and they have to distinguish between the pros and cons in just a few days, which is naturally a huge workload. So what they can do is to focus on the key points and put the others aside first.

Of course, this does not mean that other articles can be written randomly or not, but as long as the first two articles are outstanding enough, the mediocre ones behind them can be won.

After thinking for a while, Li Ling suddenly thought of something and quickly lowered his head and blew out the candle. After all, he still had no experience and actually lit the candle to make a draft of the belly. This was a waste of real time.

The exam room was in darkness, but Li Ling's heart became clear and soon grasped the essence of the question. Speaking of which, the provincial examination was different from the previous exams, and became more formal, and there were no strange things like interrogating questions, all of which were dignified.

It becomes very simple to grasp the question in this way, but it becomes less easy to write excellent articles to win the praise of the examiner. Fortunately, Li Ling has already imprinted the sample essays of Jie Yuan, Zhuang Yuan and others in his heart during this period and integrated them. After comparing them one by one, he found that the themes of two of the articles are similar to the titles of this Four Book.

In fact, this is reasonable. After all, Confucianism is just a little bit of the truth, benevolence and loyalty to the emperor... But the articles are more than tens of millions, so there are naturally repetitive and similarities. Now that Li Ling caught this, he decided to use the words and sentences of the two articles that can make people pass the Jinshi exam as the title of his article, and then use his own words to make sentences to replicate them.

Although Tencent’s approach is a bit shameless, the only way to succeed or fail in the imperial examination is to be unethical, so it is impossible to care about it.

With the overall idea, it became easy to straighten out the whole article. In just over half an hour, the draft was completed. Li Ling lit the candle again and wrote it quickly on the paper as if he were to write it quickly. It took only more than half an hour to finish the title of the first four books. At this time, half of the candle was still burned.

But Li Ling no longer planned to write anymore. He put away the exam questions in an oil cloth bag and hung them on the wall. Then he put away the wooden board himself, changed the seat into a small bed, and lay down to rest.

Lying on the cold and hard brick and stone platform naturally cannot compare to the bed, and there is no quilt. The feeling of sleeping is really uncomfortable. Fortunately, Li Ling is young and his body is very good due to his constant daily exercise, so he can finally withstand it. But even so, he did not sleep well that night. He almost fell from his head after turning over several times. At dawn, he woke up from a sneeze. When he turned over, he found that it was already dark outside.

Li Ling lifted the curtain and left the room. He found that many other candidates had come out. Everyone looked listless. It was obvious that everyone was not having a good night. But no one could complain. Even after meeting each other, no one talked. He only moved for a long time, and waited for the sky to light up, so he went back to the exam room.

Then, it was like cooking porridge like yesterday evening, and Li Ling attracted a wave of envy and jealousy from people. After all, they could only continue to eat dry buns with cold water on this autumn morning, without even a hot soup. The comparison was too strong.

After breakfast, it was completely dawn, and Li Ling started today's exam again. However, he was a little cold and had a sore waist and back pain, but he was unable to concentrate as much as yesterday. He had to use a lot of perseverance to restrain his mind and write an article.

It was not until this time that he realized that he had made a mistake. The strategy of making the first easy and then difficult was obviously not applicable to the provincial examination. Because as time goes by, his energy will continue to decline, and he will definitely not be able to perform best by keeping the most important articles until the end. He actually wasted his best day on those few questions.

However, it was too late to regret at this time. Li Ling could only force himself not to think about these things and concentrate on the next Five Classics topics. Fortunately, he was still solid in his foundation and remembered a lot of examples. Although he was in a bad mood at this moment, he could still pick out things from them and use them into the article.

Li Ling also knew that the more time went by, the worse his condition would be, so he did not dare to neglect it anymore. After writing the next article, he conceived the next article without stopping and wrote it out.

In this way, Li Ling almost didn't have much rest the next day. He was either writing articles or writing ideas. Even when cooking porridge and eating, he was not empty, and he truly achieved full power operation.

In this way, he actually wrote five articles in anger, and his mind was a little confused when it was dark.

Although the five articles are only five or six thousand words, this is no different from later online articles, and it is different from his novels. Each article is a work of hard work. It must be written in detail and must be carefully considered to make the article look more gorgeous, and it must also be quoted from classics to make his argument more reasonable. If he had not been able to use the words and sentences of other predecessors, he would have been afraid that he would have been able to write three articles in a day.

It is beneficial to just work hard like this, because in this way, Li Ling has written out all six of the seven sutra questions, and combined with the strategy and math questions completed early in the morning, leaving only one big question and three-part judgment table, and there is still a whole day to use tomorrow.

So Li Ling, who was already dizzy, no longer forced himself to continue writing at night, but instead slept behind the curtain after eating some cold porridge. That night, he did not feel the brick and stone platform under him hurt. He slept until dawn in one sleep. Although he still felt cold, his energy was much better than yesterday morning.

But at this time, he didn't bother to think too much and immediately devoted himself to the exam on the new day...

Mencius once said that when God is about to give a great responsibility to a person, he must first suffer his mind and mind, exhaust his muscles and bones, and be exhausted... It is obvious that this provincial examination is a training for these candidates. It is not only a test of their ten years of hardship, but also an examination of their physical fitness. Only those who are outstanding in both aspects can truly enter the class of scholars, become real masters, and become a reserve official.

This is the case in Xuzhou. The next day after the three-day exam, some candidates had problems due to various reasons. Some suddenly collapsed and shouted and rushed out of the examination room, and were then held down by soldiers outside. Some suddenly fell down due to wind and cold and other diseases, but they could only stay in the examination room, waiting for the dragon gate to open before seeking medical treatment... No matter which situation occurs, it means that the candidate has finished the provincial examination this time, and he has to wait for another three years before he can suffer again.

Li Ling is obviously lucky than many people. Although he coughed from time to time on the third day, his mental state was still pretty good. He finally finished writing the remaining articles. When he arrived at Shen, another thud of drums sounded, but the examiner ordered that the papers be handed over and opened the door.

Of course, there is still a distance from the real deadline for submission. According to the regulations of this dynasty, the second update is the final time for submission, which is also the reason why three candles were issued early in the morning.

But Li Ling looked at the two and a half candles on his hand and smiled bitterly. He was inexperienced and had already arranged the wrong time. He should have written more things on the first day.
Chapter completed!