April 17th is another day of the examination in Hengzhou Prefecture.

This time the weather was not good. It started to rain yesterday evening, and the rain had no intention of stopping. Instead, it was getting heavier and heavier. Early this morning, the city was filled with water, which made the candidates who arrived in front of the examination room early complain, and at the same time, the scene, which was nearly half less than the ones during the examination, became more chaotic and crowded.

As a higher-level imperial examination only if a scholar who has passed the second examination of the county government and has the status of a Tongsheng, the college examination has a higher standard, and the number of people who can take the examination will be greatly reduced, with only about 500 people - some Tongshengs gave up this examination because they have no confidence in themselves.

In addition to the fact that today's weather environment is very different from previous years, the hospital examination is actually much earlier than that of his year. In fact, generally speaking, the hospital examination is often held more than a month after the hospital examination, that is, in May. This year, it is more than half a month earlier because the provincial examination will be held next.

The provincial examination is much more important than the three examinations of county government and courts, and it is once every three years. Therefore, by the year of the provincial examination, local governments will naturally attach great importance to it and make way for it. The college examination alone will be greatly affected. For example, in order to cooperate with the time of being elected as an examiner, they will enter the examination room one and a half months before the provincial examination, and almost cut off all contact with the outside world for fairness. The examination time of the college examination will be as prerequisite as possible. In addition, the provincial academic and political masters who used to tour the various prefectures and supervise the examination matters will not be present this year, and only the officials under them will be responsible for the examination matters of local colleges...

Anyway, under the halo of the provincial examination, the college examination is not as eye-catching as before, at least in the government. Of course, there is no difference for the candidates. Instead, because time is tighter, the requirements for them are higher.

If this heavy rain is happening again, it will be a difficult test for all candidates.

Li Ling and Xu Cang sat in the carriage waiting for the examination room to open. The carriage was quiet. After a while, Li Ling looked at each other and said, "Brother Xu, are you in a better state of mind?"

"I... thank you brother, you mentioned yesterday. At least I fell asleep at night." When I said this, Xu Cang's face was still a little nervous, but the blood in his eyes was indeed much less than yesterday.

Li Ling smiled: "Actually, there is no need for you to be so nervous, you have to believe in yourself. By the way, if you still feel nervous when you do the test, why not take a deep breath and tell yourself that all the problems can be solved easily. There is only this path to go in life."

"I... I will give it a try then." Xu Cang looked at Li Ling with sincere gratitude. It was really his luck to be so good for his friend. But it is not too late to say this at this moment.

While the two of them were talking, time finally came to the second moment of the second. With the sound of a gong, the gate of the examination room opened again and another official came out to speak. However, the sound of the silence of rain had already covered up all other sounds, making it difficult for the official's words to reach everyone's ears.

He also felt that it would be useless to say this, so he sent an order: "It's raining heavily today, and it's inconvenient to enter the venue. Just search and check as quickly as possible and let the candidates enter the venue."

With the transmission of this order, the open space before the examination room became more and more chaotic, and everyone rushed forward. Fortunately, the soldiers tried hard to suppress the situation, so Li Ling and the others were able to hold the umbrella and wading over.

Today, I can no longer let the candidates line up according to the county as they did during the government examination. I could only queue up to check the test certificates, and then searched them at will, and then let them enter the venue. But even so, it took more than half an hour for hundreds of people to enter the venue in the heavy rain. When Li Ling sat in his examination room, it was already three hours, just like the one during the government examination.

This time, his exam room was much better than before. It was actually a newly built Yuzi test room. Not only was it nearly half bigger, but it was far away from the toilet. No longer had to smell the ecstasy smell to write articles. The only downside was that this rain caused a lot of water to enter the exam room, and we had to think of removing some of the accumulated water to get into the seat.

However, this matter was still difficult for Li Ling. He directly pulled out the lower half of the exam basket and used it as a dustpan to scoop the water outside. Then he hung the curtain made of oil paper that he didn't know what it was before in front of the exam room. In this way, not only could he block the accumulated water flowing outside as much as possible, but even the rainwater that was fluttering in the wind was blocked outside the exam room.

Li Ling took out the charcoal basin again, and the fire was in full swing. The originally cold house suddenly became warm, making him breathe a sigh of relief, and he felt that the bitterness was over. This is what the imperial examination should be like.

At this time, he finally understood the function of another long oil paper bag. This should be to prevent the tool to damage the test papers from getting wet on such rainy days. Just put the paper in it and find a high place to store it, and you can be worry-free.

In this way, the designer of this basketball test is indeed experienced and has taken into account all aspects. This basketball test has made a lot of effort in his two exams.

Just as Li Ling put everything in place, the sound of the clapper sounded from a distance and near. He quickly lifted the curtain and looked out. He saw soldiers holding a large wooden sign with difficulty, facing the wind and rain along the alley. While walking, he shouted loudly, reporting the questions of the imperial examination written on the board.

Like the first two exams, the college entrance examination is still a question of the four books, the five classics, and the other one. Li Ling looked at it carefully and listened carefully, and quickly copied all these questions.

It’s still the same rule, it’s easy to start and then difficult to write the three questions of the judgment table at will. This thing is really nothing to him.

At the same time, many other candidates in the examination room were honestly starting from the first four-book questions. After reading the three questions, most of them were scratching their heads and falling into a state of confusion: "What kind of question is this? Why is it completely different from what we have written before?"

Xu Cang also had the same confusion, his eyes fixed on the three questions with two sentences: "'It's all elegant. Mr. Ye asked Confucius about Zilu's question. How can he do the question? Could it be that the examiner who set the question made the wrong questions, right?"

But then, he shook his head again: "It is impossible. All examiners are knowledgeable. How could they make such a mistake? But these two sentences come from two articles in the Analects of Confucius, how can they be confused?" The more they thought about it, the more nervous they became, and their heartbeat became faster and faster.

At this time, Li Ling's previous words rang out in Xu Cang's mind: "If it's time to do the test, you'd better take a few deep breaths and tell yourself..."

"I can do it. I have been studying hard for more than ten years. I believe that my understanding of the meaning of the scriptures is not inferior to anyone, and I will never miss it!" While taking a deep breath, he kept breathing himself, and his mind began to turn faster: "The elegant words of Zi, poetry, books and rituals, are all elegant words, which are taken from the Analects of Confucius. Shuhe Chapter; Ye Gong asked Confucius about Zilu. Zilu was wrong.\nTu said: "The girl said that he is a human being. He is angry and forgets food, and he is happy to forget worries. He did not know that the old man is coming. Although it also comes from Shuhe, it comes completely from two paragraphs, and the wind, horses and cows are not connected. No, there is still a connection between the two. The key is..."

At this moment, Xu Cang's familiarity with the Four Books and Five Classics was finally fully reflected. After a little hard thinking, some of the principles had been explored one by one by one by one, and the core ideas of the following article naturally came out.

After exhaling a long breath of turbid air, a smile appeared at the corner of Xu Cang's mouth. After taking the paper, dipped the pen in ink, he began to write an essay without hesitation.

There are not many candidates who can have such solid skills in Xu Cang in the exam room. Many people are stumped by these unprecedented questions. They think hard one by one, and some are already mourning. Today's college entrance examination is too difficult and strange. Can you only give up this year?

Some people are writing, some are thinking, and some people are leaving their bodies at this time, and their faces are terrified - Ji Wuyou.

The exam room where Ji Wuyou is at this moment is exactly the No. 24 Xuanzi where Li Ling was in during the previous home examination. Of course, this was also an arrangement made by Wan Lang early in the morning.

The environment here is worse than that of Li Ling on that day. After experiencing many candidates in the palace exam, the smell of the toilets became stronger and stronger. In addition, the storm today has caused the stench that makes people want to cut off their noses to spread to the surroundings to a greater extent. Even if Mr. Ji hung the curtain on the door, it was still difficult to withstand the waves of stench. In his feeling, the entire examination room was completely swallowed by the stench, including him.

Young Master Ji, who was used to being pampered as a child, had never suffered such a crime. He hadn't sat in the room for a while and had vomited twice. Not only did he vomit the breakfast he had eaten, but he even vomited jaundice water. This made him become listless and dazed, and his eyes were even watching casually in the exam room without any focus.

Then, he saw a line of small words that suddenly raised up behind his back - that was a line of small words engraved on the gray wall directly in front of the seat. If I hadn't carefully observed it, I wouldn't have read it in real time: "Ji Wuyou, you are here! You will definitely fail this exam!"
Chapter completed!