Chapter 90 Inside and outside the examination room (2)
"The examination room of this government test is really not comparable to that of the provincial test. The examination room here is divided into new and old sizes. It would be better if it could be divided into new yellow and later test room. The most troublesome thing is to be assigned to dozens of test rooms in Xuan and the number of test rooms, which are both small and broken, and are all old antiques from more than ten years ago."
"In fact, it's nothing to take the exam in the Xuanzi test room. Although it's a little smaller, it can be tolerated at least. In a day, there are only a few times in and out. What I fear most is that I'm still assigned to a toilet number, which will really suffer."
"What is a toilet number?"
"As the name suggests, the toilet number is a test room located next to the toilet. Think about it, there are dozens of people in a row over there, and hundreds of people come over in a day. The impact alone is quite large. In addition, there is also the smell... Oh, it's better not to mention it, it's uncomfortable to lift it. I just hope that we won't be assigned to the toilet number so unlucky."
The above are some of the statements that Jian Qing and Fang Zigui gave Li Ling the experience of the mansion in the past two days. At that time, he never expected that he would be assigned to this terrible toilet number, and it was the toilet number for the Xuanzi test room with the worst conditions... There was no one else's luck at all.
Before the exam was started, I could already smell the disgusting stench floating in from outside. Then, once people kept coming in and out later, it would be so sour. After thinking about it for a moment, Li Ling felt that his hair was about to stand up. In this environment, could he still make excellent propositional articles?
In his irritability, he diluted the panic and anger before. In order to calm himself down completely, Li Ling subconsciously took a deep breath, and then... vomited, the stench directly poured into the respiratory system, causing him to almost vomit.
"There is no other way. Since you come, you will be at ease. As the saying goes, God will give you great responsibilities to this person, you must first make your mind and mind, your muscles and bones, and your body smell..." Li Ling murmured silently in his heart, doing psychological construction for himself, and at the same time he began to take out all the relevant pens and inks in the exam basket and put them on the table. At this time, his strong psychological quality was reflected. Even though the environment was so harsh, after packing up the things, his mentality had calmed down and he just waited for the exam questions to be issued outside.
At three o'clock in the morning, with a few bells ringing, this year's house examination officially began.
Unlike the county examination, because the candidates are all placed in one examination room, the test questions cannot be reported in person. So I saw dozens of soldiers walking back and forth in the corridors in front of the examination room, loudly reporting on the test questions. This shape is the same as the county examination. It also has three choices for the four books, one choice for the five classics, one choice for the four classics, and three rules for the three rules for the system. The candidates have to write a total of five articles.
After walking back and forth several times, confirming that all the candidates knew the questions of this time, they distributed the paper for the composition of this exam to each room again. Therefore, during the examination, candidates were not allowed to bring in pieces of paper, but if anyone was caught, they would be treated as fraud regardless of whether there were any handwriting on them.
After Li Ling got the stack of paper, he started writing down all ten questions. Of course, this time he would not have the same good luck as in the county examination. All questions were never written before, so this would test his real abilities.
After thinking about it, Li Ling was not busy writing those two major questions, but decided to start with easy and then difficult, first write out the three "yamen application texts" first, and then consider the others. These three questions are naturally not difficult for him who have experience in the county government. When he thought about them, he wrote them out one by one.
Time began to flow little by little. After half an hour, there was footsteps outside, and then there was a kind of uncomfortable drizzle or buzzing sound coming from the side, and the smell became more and more intense...
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At noon, Wan Lang came to the back house of his main courtyard with a strange surprise and met the old man. He had made an appointment with someone to go to Yichun Pavilion to have a drink at noon, but now it is said that the old man wanted to see him, so he could only push the social engagement.
Walking in the yard attacked by the fragrance of flowers, Wan Lang felt quite surprised. Why did the old man suddenly call him over today? Although he is quite liked by the old man, he always sees him for about ten geniuses.
However, when he saw the old man, he still suppressed these questions, and went forward obediently to kowtow and greet him: "My grandson has met the old man..."
"Xiaojiu is here, come, sit next to me. We haven't had dinner together for a few days. Today, there is a good fresh fish soup from Jiangnan. I remember that you loved this when you were a child, so I asked you to enjoy it together. It didn't delay your business?" The old man said slowly.
"It's a serious matter for the old man to ask his grandson to have a meal, and the fresh fish in Jiangnan is indeed the most delicious, and the grandson also wants to taste it." Wan Lang smiled and sat down, "Uh, is there any wine?"
"Haha, I knew you were a greedy person, so I specially asked someone to find you the 18-year-old daughter Hong that I had brought before. Jiangnan's dishes are the most appropriate to go with Jiangnan's wine." The old man looked at him with a bit of doting, and then ordered: "Select the food."
Of course, it is impossible for the old man from the Wan family to invite his juniors to have a meal. In addition to this fresh fish soup as the main dish, there are more than ten dishes from Jiangnan, such as Dongpo pork, dried bamboo shoots and duck, and one fish and three eat... Anyway, they are all good things with fresh sweetness as the main taste, and they are accompanied by amber daughter red, which really makes people feel drooling when they see their index fingers.
Wan Lang was not polite either. When he saw the dishes coming up, he picked up some for the old man first, and then he feasted himself. Especially the pot of fresh fish soup, he even ate bowl after bowl, saying it was good.
The old man smiled even happier when he saw this. Now the family is cautious when they see him, and only this grandson is the most close and casual. After watching him eat for the third night, the old man smiled and said, "By the way, something happened to the Mansion School today, you probably don't know yet, right?"
"Main Academy? I haven't studied there, nor have my friends there. What does something wrong with me? Why do you know?" Wan Lang swallowed the delicious fish in his mouth and replied casually.
"Oh, you forgot, today is the house exam, there is the examination room over there."
"Hmm?" Wan Lang's movement, who was picking up a wooden spoon and trying to scoop the fourth bowl of fish soup, stopped immediately, and he immediately understood, "Are you saying something happened to Li Ling during the house trial? He, is he okay?"
"He was almost treated as a fraud and was about to be taken down."
"What did this say... Hum? Almost? That means it was fine again later?"
"Later, it was found out that he was framed. The two servants who framed him were also taken down and are still being questioned."
Wan Lang then breathed a little relieved: "Then find out why they framed Li Ling? No, it must be that they wanted to harm others, and there was no grudge between the two sides, so it must be that someone was making trouble behind the scenes."
After pausing, he looked at the old man again: "So you asked me to come today for this? Do you want me to help check it out?"
"At least I have to take this opportunity to get close to Li Lingduoduo. Since you have been determined to make friends with him before, you can't let this opportunity go easily, right?" The old man smiled and said.
"My grandson knows, I will go and inquire about the truth about this matter as soon as possible. Also, I will go to the examination room to see Li Ling later, and at least I have to comfort him. I don't know who was full, but he would do such shameless things!"
The old man smiled again, and Wan Lang's reaction was correct: "Then go after eating. Remember, the key to making friends with others is to make friends. Although we are businessmen, it is rare to be true friends."
"My grandson has written it down." Wan Lang snored a few times and drank a bowl of fish soup, then picked up the towel beside him and wiped it, and quickly stood up: "Old man, please use it slowly, grandson will take a step first." Seeing the other party nodding, he left the door and quickly left the gate of the house, rushed to a follower in front of him and said, "Go and check if Li Ling has made a grudge with anyone in recent days, and let someone go to the government office to ask if the officers who were taken down in the examination room of the imperial school this morning have been asked about the results."
In front of the old man, he was a scoundrel. In front of Li Ling, he was a frivolous but friendly friend, but in front of him, Wan Lang showed a neat and decisive side. With just a few words, many people around him quickly got busy.
And he himself, after looking at the sky, got on the carriage: "Go to the Mansion School and help me watch the mansion test gate later. Li Lingruo comes out and asks me to sleep for a while. Also, he told the inn not to send a car to pick up people."
At that moment, he got into the luxurious and spacious carriage and fell asleep, and the carriage moved steadily and headed towards the imperial school.
When Wan Lang was sleeping soundly in the carriage outside the examination room, Li Ling was writing quickly in an extremely harsh environment.
It's strange that in such a stinking test room, Li Ling not only did not get confused, but instead felt that his thoughts were like a spring... No, it should be that his thoughts were bleeding now, because there was a background sound... Before noon, he had finished all the three articles in the verdict table, and he also had some ideas on the first four books title.
After enduring the nausea and eating two pieces of pastries casually, Li Ling decisively wrote it. In just one hour, the title of the Four Books was completed in one stroke, leaving only the last Five Classics.
In order to get out of this torture as soon as possible, Li Ling also tried his best this time, without any rest in the middle, his mind was running quickly, and he wrote like a god, and he finished the last Five Classics title in one go.
It was still bright at this time, and there were nearly two hours left before the prescribed time for submission, which was faster than when he finished writing an article during the county examination.
However, Li Ling no longer wanted to suffer more here. After checking several articles, confirming that there was no problem and no taboo content, he got up and went out, handed the article to the soldiers guarding the side, and then left in the other party's surprised gaze.
Chapter completed!