Be a master through ancient times

By the time Chuci finished writing all three articles, the sun was already over half.

He put down the pen and let out a long sigh of relief, rubbed his wrists, and then wrote a few characters of feces in the air with his head to relieve the pressure on his cervical spine.

The soldiers guarding outside the number room looked at this nagging student suspiciously, not knowing what he was doing again.However, the invigilator is only responsible for monitoring whether there is any cheating, and the rest of the students' actions are ignored.

I didn’t feel it when I was busy writing just now, but after Chu Ci put down the pen and moved around for a while, I felt unbearable hunger in my belly. After doing the math, I still ate at around five o’clock in the morning, and now it’s almost twelve o’clock Alright.

But Chu Ci doesn't want to cook yet. When cooking, he has to clean up the things on the table and get a lot of water out. It would be bad if the partition gets wet.

The steamed buns are no longer edible, and the others have to be cooked. The only thing that can be eaten now is the dried meat in the basket.He took a few pieces of jerky from the basket and chewed them one by one in his mouth.

This jerky should not be beef jerky. Judging from the taste, it should be pork or something. It has a sweet taste and the aroma of sesame seeds, like dried pork. I don’t know how it is made.

Chu Ci lowered his head and ate while thinking about some messy things to relax his brain nerves.

Suddenly a familiar voice sounded with a smile: "Let's turn on the water, student, take out your kettle."

Chu Ci suddenly raised his head, and the jerky that hadn't been chewed in his mouth slipped into it, making him feel extremely uncomfortable due to the choking.

Kou Jing, who wanted to give him a surprise, was in a hurry. She stepped forward and put her hand into the partition to help him pat his back, while picking up a small teacup and stuffing it to his mouth.

Chu Ci drank a few mouthfuls with his hand before swallowing the mouthful of jerky.Because of the excessive force, the corners of his eyes were a little red, and he looked like he was crying.

"I'm sorry." Kou Jing blamed herself a little bit, from the angle he just saw Chu Ci lowered his head, but he didn't know that he was eating.

"My lord, Xiaosheng is fine." Kou Jing didn't ask him to resign from his younger brother, so it was naturally impossible for Chu Ci to reveal his acquaintance with Kou Jing on the spot.

Kou Jing let go of her hand, then leaned over, picked up the teapot that Chu Ci had placed on the wooden board, and filled him with water.

Chu Ci smiled and said thank you, Kou Jing nodded.Before leaving, he raised two fingers behind his back, and then bent them.

Chu Ci knew that what he meant was to wait for him after the first scene on the morning of the [-]th.

The rural examination is a major event, and the imperial court is particularly strict about cheating in the rural examination, so a lot of people are needed to supervise it.The Yacha of Yangxin Prefecture and the local defenders need to maintain local law and order, and there are not many people who can be transferred.

So the governor borrowed manpower from the Marshal of the Frontier Battalion stationed in Xijiang Province to help invigilate the exam.The marshal was not too happy to do this, because the civil servants and military officials of the Great Wei Dynasty had always been incompatible.

What's more, the township examination is of great importance. If something happens, won't it hurt his soldiers?The Marshal was about to refuse, but the military adviser under him said, I don't know how long I will stay in Xijiang Province now, it is really inappropriate to make trouble with the local emperor, it is better to send those recruits to deal with it, it doesn't matter if something goes wrong, anyway None of them have been incorporated into military households yet.

The marshal thought about it and agreed.

Kou Jing, as the chief instructor of this recruit training camp, naturally has to lead the team to accept the task.Therefore, this is why Chu Ci met Kou Jing in the examination room.

Chu Ci didn't know the joints, but he guessed that the care he received along the way should be due to Kou Jing's greeting.

After thinking for a while, Chu Ci shook his head, throwing these things out of his mind.It was still early, and Chu Ci brought over the first article that had been written. The four book questions required more than [-] words and no more than [-] words.The Songs of Chu, no matter what it looks like, should have four to five hundred words.

How to delete it?Chu Ci first recalled the emperor's name and country name in his mind to avoid any taboos. Secondly, he also recalled the names of the ancestors of the Chu family to see if there was anything that needed to be taboo.

He didn't want to be like Li He, a poet ghost, because his father's name contained the word Jin, which prevented him from taking the Jinshi exam.Fortunately, the ancestors of the Chu family had foresight.

Suddenly, Chu Ci thought of Fang Jinyang again, and hoped that his younger generation would not be too jealous, otherwise, this would be a clue.

Chu Ci picked out the taboo words in the article, and deleted those that could be deleted, and replaced them with other words if they could not be deleted.

After finding these words, the next thing is to correct the words that are not in the order or repeated.

While Chu Ci was reading silently in his heart, he was revising on the draft paper. The white paper used as a draft was full of various symbols.

These symbols can only be understood by Chu Ci himself, because he uses modern modifiers, if other people look at it, they will think it is some kind of messy runes.

Chu Ci successfully controlled the number of words to around two hundred and forty to fifty. After revising one piece, he picked up the second piece and prepared it in the same way.

Chu Ci, who used his brain too much, still felt a little empty in his stomach, but he didn't dare to eat any more jerky, for fear that he would want to take out the Gong card later.

This Gong sign refers to going to the toilet.In the township examination hall, free entry and exit are not allowed. If there is a third emergency, there is a clay pot in the number room, but only urination is allowed, and no bowel movements are allowed.

If you are really in a hurry, you have to report to the soldiers outside the numbered room, he will take your test paper away, and then give you a greeting card, and let someone take you to the toilet room to use the toilet.

For the students who received the Gong card, when handing in the test paper, someone will stamp a black mud seal on it, commonly known as "shit poker".The test papers that cover this chapter are basically not used.

Therefore, students who can't hold back will go to the toilet in the basket or boots they brought.

Chu Ci absolutely did not want to go to this point, so he could only refrain from eating.

After Chuci finished revising all three articles, the sun was already in the west, and the time he spent revising was longer than writing the articles.

Chuci saw that there was still light, so he took out the answer sheet and prepared to transcribe the three articles.

There is a red line on the answer sheet, and each vertical line has a prescribed number of words, which must not be exceeded.And the font must be a correct pavilion style.

After carefully transcribing the three articles, Chu Ci let out a long breath again, and patiently waited for the test paper to dry.Because there are rules in the imperial examination, if there are obvious marks, ink dots, traces of fire, water stains or torn test papers on any test paper, the inner curtain officials will use blue pen to copy, commonly known as "denglanbang".

All other test papers were transcribed with a red pen.The test papers on the blue list were directly rejected, and the candidates' years of hard work could only be wasted.

Generally speaking, only those who are very unlucky will have such luck. Chu Ci will never allow himself to have such an experience, so he is very careful.

When the test paper was dry, he blew it gently, then rolled up the test paper and placed it carefully on the wooden board behind.

I cooked some porridge with a copper stove, and it tasted very bland.Chu Ci decided that after he went out, he must have a big meal.

The students in the other rooms were all answering the questions seriously, and some of them looked very sad. Chu Ci also saw an old man with gray hair lying on the table and crying loudly.He sighed. After this experience, he once again had a deep understanding of the difficulty of the ancient imperial examinations.

Before they knew it, it was getting dark, and many students lit candles and continued writing at night.

Chu Ci didn't light a candle. His article had already been written, so he should take a good rest at night. After a day, he also felt physically and mentally exhausted.

Chu Ci lit the charcoal basin, and then went to bed with his clothes on. Although he was covered with a smock, he still felt a little cold, so the charcoal basin was not spared.

Some students looked at Chuci's dark room, and began to wonder in their hearts, could it be that this student has given up, and someone will come to collect the papers in the morning tomorrow, and if they don't finish writing in the evening, when will they have to wait?

At night, there was a commotion in one of the numbered rooms. It turned out that a student was too sleepy while writing with a candle, so he accidentally touched the candle.

Although the fire was extinguished in time without causing any casualties, a big hole was burned in his test paper, and it was impossible to save it.The student broke down and cried on the spot, with his hair disheveled and jumping like a madman.When he was dragged out mercilessly by the soldiers, all the students around him felt sympathetic and guarded their answer papers even more tightly.

Chu Ci was in a deep sleep, so he didn't hear it. When he woke up the next morning when he was startled by the sound of the gong, someone had already come to collect the scrolls.

After handing in the papers, Chu Ci got up to move around, and then made something to eat.

Not long after eating, the exam gong sounded again.Today, the procedure of the examiner's inspection is missing, so the time for putting the questions has been brought forward.

Today's task is even more severe, because the number of questions has changed from three to four.Moreover, the number of inscriptions in the Five Classics requires more.Students need to choose four scripture questions to start answering.

Chu Ci was dealing with Spring and Autumn. When he opened the questions, he was very happy to find that he had done exactly the same two questions, and Mr. Xu had commented on them for him.

This sutra is just a book, and the topics in it come out, and that’s all. It’s not surprising that you have done it.Chu Ci restrained his joyful emotions, because others might have done the same thing, maybe even all four ways.

Who told him to cure the classics, and go to other people much later?Fortunately, Mr. Xu has already said that although he is late, he has a tendency to catch up from behind, so he needn't be too afraid.

Chu Ci settled down and began to concentrate on answering.

He spent much more time today than yesterday, and he didn't finish transcribing the test paper until a candle was burned out.

Chu Ci lit another candle for lighting when eating and washing.

The candles in a room in the distance suddenly went out, and the student immediately knocked on the partition and asked the guards to fetch the candles for him.

But there are only three for one person, so the soldiers will naturally not go to help him get them.If possible, Chu Ci would like to give him the two extra ones he had.However, the rules are strict, and this is not acceptable.

He didn't know why he felt a little sad, so he blew out his own candle, and lay down on the wooden board in the dark.

The next day at Maoshi, another soldier came to collect the scrolls.

After collecting the scrolls, the soldiers guarding outside took out the keys and unlocked the number room.

Chu Ci carried the basket and followed the crowd out, feeling as if he had passed away for a moment.