Chapter 70 70 Hitting Someone with a Stick

The Jiujiang Prefecture Examination Hall was built according to the standards of the Imperial Examination Hall, surrounded by tall walls. It is said that the hall was built according to the examination room, where the candidates answered their papers.

Although the examination hall was a little simple and small, after all, there were not so many candidates in Jiujiang Prefecture to take the exam, but building such an examination room was also to prevent the provincial education officials from coming here to hold an academy examination.

There is no specified examination location for the academy examination, which is different from the provincial examination and the joint examination, and it will not be as casual as the county examination.

Although the academy examination in Jiangxi Province is mostly held in the Imperial Examination Hall in Nanchang, the provincial capital, the education officials can also take the examination in a certain prefecture below.

In fact, most of the academy examinations are divided into prefectures. After all, the number of Tongsheng accumulated over the years is still relatively large, and they are all in the province, so transportation and other aspects are easy to say, so there are really too many candidates who sign up for each academy examination.

The academy examination is divided into several times, which is actually nothing for the candidates. After all, the scholar's title is allocated according to the region, not the level of your composition. As long as you are better than the local candidates, you can pass the academy examination and get the qualification of "student".

Of course, Wei Guangde and his companions also brought in several candidates from Pengze County along the way. They all knew each other at the wine table, so they naturally had to give them some convenience. However, they did not see Zeng Yuanrui, and they did not know that he was squeezed into that corner.

At 1:00 a.m., the gate of the examination hall opened, and the candidates were divided into several rows according to their admission tickets, that is, the examination guide, under the command of the yamen runners in front of the gate. They could enter the gate only after being searched.

This time, Wei Guangde did not bring the examination basket. After all, it was a prefectural examination, and everything needed in the examination room was provided by the government. However, Wei Guangde was still embarrassed after entering the gate. The curtain hanging behind the gate was where the body search was.

The gate was the initial inspection. When you get here, you have to take off your clothes, pants, shoes and hats for inspection to prevent people from bringing things in with their clothes.

Fortunately, I was inspected in my inner clothes. The weather in April was not too cold, so it was acceptable to take off my outer clothes, and there was no search. The soldiers had a bad taste in teasing Wei Guangde's bird.

Wei Guangde came out from behind the curtain, and this was considered to have completed the search and pick-up work. A clerk looked at his admission ticket and pointed him to the location of the examination room.

Fortunately, Wu Dong had mentioned these procedures to him before, so it did not affect Wei Guangde's mood for the exam.

I heard that the search and pick-up for the academy examination and the provincial examination was also like this, and there was no such thing for the county examination.

Sitting in his own examination room, the examination room was very small, with only a table and chairs, three sides were walls, and there was no door in the front, just wide open.

Soon someone brought the things for the examination room, pens, ink, paper, inkstone, and answer sheets. As for the test questions, there would be a while to wait. It should be carried out after all the candidates entered the room.

Wei Guangde sat there without a hurry. He poured water into the inkstone and began to grind it gently. The preparation work must be done well.

The rules of the prefectural examination are actually similar to those of the county examination. There are three consecutive examinations, and they also test the Four Books and Five Classics, eight-part essays, and test poems. If you pass the main examination, you will pass the prefectural examination, and it doesn’t matter whether you take the next two examinations.

Wei Guangde's plan was to rush through the main test directly, and not take the rest. He saved his luck and used it in the college test.

Yes, Wei Guangde had realized that he had a bit of the protagonist's aura, and felt like a son of luck, but he was not sure. After all, there were several more tests to come, and he didn't know how many times his aura could protect him.

After the county test, Wei Guangde came to participate in the prefectural test this time. He also heard from his cousin that County Master Tang had asked about him. The clerk in the etiquette room was flattering, so he naturally wouldn't let it go. It was just that he mentioned it when he met Wu Dong after the county test.

Regardless of whether it was true or not, since the other party had spoken, Wu Dong immediately offered some benefits.

The test questions for this prefectural test were announced soon afterwards. It was almost the same as the county test. There were still two questions from the Four Books, one question from the Five Classics, and a test poem. The addition was to recite a part of the Four Books and Five Classics, and explain its meaning.

As for dictation and explanation, these are Wei Guangde's strengths. We rely on our excellent memory to pass the exam. Otherwise, Wei Guangde would have learned how to be a good village head at home, and the morality and cultivation of the village head.

However, when he saw the test questions, Wei Guangde was shocked.

Three eight-part essays, it is not a big deal to finish them in one day, after all, there is a foundation, but one of the questions in this prefectural exam is a damn cross-cutting question, and it is a cross-cutting question that Wei Guangde has never done before.

I looked at the other questions and they were all fine. The slightly more brain-burning one is the test poem.

As for the cross-cutting question, Wei Guangde plans to put it aside for now.

It must be done. What's the point of taking the prefectural exam if you can't finish answering the questions, but this question is indeed a bit difficult.

"Knock his shin with a stick, the boy from Quedang."

These are two passages in "The Analects of Confucius". The original words of the first sentence "knock his shin with a stick" are "Yuan Rang waited for Confucius and said, "When you were young, you were disrespectful to your brother. When you grew up, you had nothing to say. When you were old, you didn't die. You are a thief. Knock his shin with a stick."

It means that Yuan Rang sat with his legs apart and waited for Confucius. Confucius said, "When you were young, you were disrespectful to your brother. When you grew up, you had nothing to say. When you were old, you didn't die. You are really a thief." After saying that, he hit his shin with a stick.

The original words of the latter sentence "the boy from Quedang" are "The boy from Quedang will order someone to ask him, and the Master said, "I see him in a position and I see him walking with the teacher. He is not a person who seeks benefit, but a person who wants to achieve success quickly." It only tells the meaning of the test question, which is a boy from Kan Dang.

There are actually many categories of punctuation questions. According to the length of the question, they are divided into long punctuation and short punctuation. According to whether the question is related, they are divided into affectionate punctuation and unaffectionate punctuation. Of course, there are other categories, but the question Wei Guangde is currently seeing is an unaffectionate punctuation.

Hitting the calf with a stick, a boy from the Kan party.

Okay, Wei Guangde put aside this somewhat troublesome question first, and copied the two eight-part essays he was familiar with. This time he really copied them directly on the answer sheet, and there was no time to write a draft.

After copying the two eight-part essays, Wei Guangde also wrote the Four Books and Five Classics that he had memorized. In the end, he copied and pasted, and finished the test poem when lunch was distributed. Wei Guangde didn't have time to go to the toilet all morning.

Fortunately, there was still an afternoon to deal with the unaffectionate punctuation question.

After lunch, Wei Guangde first checked all the questions he had done in the morning. Until now, he had not thought of a way to solve the problem. He still checked the ones he had done carefully to ensure that there were no mistakes.

So far, Wei Guangde still thinks that eight-part essays are really difficult to write. They are too brain-burning. It is not as simple as opening a "play" and then doing it.

Hitting someone's legs with a stick, hitting someone with a stick