The closer we got to the dung horn, the stronger the smoky odour became, and the buzzing of flies and mosquitoes became clearer.
The odour was simply unbearable.
“Vomit ……”
A vomiting sound came, Zhu Pingan looked over and saw that the poor miserable unlucky child sitting in the numbered room near the dung number, at the moment, his face was pale and his eyes were lifeless, he was leaning against the corner of the wall and vomiting.
It is really vomit don’t want ……
When that unlucky child saw Zhu Pingan walking towards him with the Out of Gong and Into Silence sign in his hand, like a little girl who had been blocked into a corner by a seven-foot man in the middle of the night, his entire body shivered. Those small godless eyes seemed to carry an accusation, Nima, this is stinky enough, you come again!
This kind brother, I’m really sorry, it wasn’t my intention to aggravate your miserable situation.
Zhu Pingan could only use his eyes to express his apologies.
I won’t describe the scene of the faeces, under the high temperature, the stench is unbearable, the flies are flying around, in short, toileting is a kind of torture!
Upon hearing that Zhu Ping An was in a small toilet, the man next door to the dung number could not wait to stretch out his fingers and give Zhu Ping An a hundred praises. After Zhu Pingan finished solving the problem, cleaned his hands and came out from the dung number, he saw the grateful eyes of the poor miserable kid next door to the dung number, and was a bit confused for a while.
However, thinking about it, he was relieved.
Anyway, I hope that this unlucky and miserable good paper will not be smoked out of order, the so-called heaven will be descending on the people, must first suffer their will, labour their muscles and bones, starve their body and skin, empty their body, line whisking what they do; I hope that he can have a good score it …… but look at his smoked out rolling his eyes of the frame, I guess it’s a little bit difficult.
Returning to his own number house, Zhu Pingan will be out of respect into the quiet card returned to the examining magistrate, then continue to start their own courtyard examination answer questions.
The first eight questions have already done a good draft, Zhu Pingan immediately after doing is that the post scripture mention, it is very simple do not need to spend time, did not take long to finish it neatly written on the straw paper.
The post scripture questions done, Zhu Pingan will continue to do the second eight questions. The second question is titled: The gentleman reaches up and the villain reaches down. From a line in the Analects of Confucius, Zi said: ‘The gentleman reaches upwards, the villain reaches downwards.” The meaning of this question is: “A gentleman goes upward to achieve benevolence and righteousness; a villain goes downward to pursue fame and fortune. Although this question himself before did not try to break the question, but this eight-legged question is still quite standard, nothing difficult, depending on your writing line.
Zhu Pingan stopped the pen, pondered for a long time, and then after a few moments of speculation, he dipped the brush in the ink stone, and then neatly copied the eight-legged essay on the draft paper in lower case.
After writing all three drafts, Zhu Pingan stretched his back and slightly moved his body, writing in such a stifling environment was simply harmful to the body.
After the activity of the body, put the eye Mingyuan building, far vision, let the eyes also do exercise, in ancient times myopia, but there is no glasses with.
“Hey, said you, not allowed to look left and right!” A nearby yamen patrolling the field saw that Zhu Pingan was always looking elsewhere, and could not help but reprimand.
Err.
I’m just looking forward, okay? Although he thought so in his heart, Zhu Pingan still obediently retracted his eyes, the ancients do not know what eye protection and other theories, and at this juncture with his theory is purely a longevity drinking arsenic is too long.
In the line of sight of the magistrate, Zhu Pingan honestly and obediently retracted his eyes, two ears do not listen to things outside the number, and only write the eight-legged essay.
After Zhu Pingan withdrew his eyes, he began to copy the first eight-legged essay on the answer sheet, more attentively than on the draft paper, trying his best to give full play to the maximum potential of his own calligraphy, and copied it down neatly in lower case.
After copying the first question, three more drums were heard, and then one after another, an officer brought rice and water to each candidate’s numbered room. One meat, one vegetarian, one big bowl of rice, and another bowl of boiled water, this was the lunch for the candidates of the courtyard examination.
Vegetarian dishes taste too light, meat dishes taste too salty, rice is grain crystal clear full, aroma overflowing. Always eat with vegetables, today it is with rice to eat vegetables, this time, Zhu Pingan feels that his mouth seems to be a bit spoiled, thanks to this bowl of rice to eat a full stomach.
After eating, someone came to clean up the cutlery, and gave the candidates a clean and tidy answer number room.
After finishing his meal, Zhu Pingan, however, inexplicably thought of the candidate who was in the dung number room and wondered how he ate his lunch.
Zhu Pingan could not see that candidate in the dung number room at the first time he saw the rice and vomited again, waving his hand like he saw a flooding beast……. In this environment, it would be strange to be able to eat into the stomach.
After that unlucky and miserable child paper vomited, it was a deep concern, Nima, if everyone had eaten lunch, wouldn t the dung number room be active again …… so he vomited again.
After eating, Zhu Pingan began to copy the second question, copying to half of the time when I heard three drums, followed by three cloud boards, and then heard the inspector shouting, “Quickly transcribe the real!” , just like a modern exam invigilator reminding the candidates to pay attention to the time to catch up on their writing.
At this time around one to two o’clock, Zhu Pingan bent down to continue transcribing the second eight-legged essay. The content of the eight-legged text was not much, it didn’t take long for the second question to finish frying, and then the post scripture was also transcribed together.
After copying all the questions, Zhu Pingan carefully checked them again, at this time, there were already examinees handing in their papers and heading to the waiting area, waiting for their cards to be released to leave the Tribute Courtyard. Zhu Pingan ignored the people who handed in their papers and continued to carefully check the exam papers, checking them twice in total, confirming that they were correct and then got up to signal the examiner to hand in their papers.
When the Officer Receiving Scripts arrived, he asked Zhu Pingan to remove the floating sign with his name on his exam paper and write his seat number, after which the Officer Receiving Scripts received Zhu Pingan’s exam paper and issued Zhu Pingan with an exit card.
After receiving the card, Zhu Pingan went to the waiting area and waited for the card to be released under the guidance of the police officer. At this time, the first batch of paper submitters had already been released, and after waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Zhu Pingan and his batch of paper submitters were allowed to be released out of the Tribute Academy.
In the doorway of the guards of the small officials to collect a card to release a person, Zhu Ping arranged the team to hand over the card out of the Jiangnan Tribute Academy.
Out of the Jiangnan Tribute Courtyard, looking back at the gate, like a bird out of the cage, suddenly feel relaxed and comfortable.
“Brother Zhu, you finally came out.”
Before Zhu Pingan could take two more breaths of relaxing air, he heard a pig-killing howl.
Without looking, he knew by the sound that it was Fatty Xue Chi.
“Brother Xue” Zhu Pingan looked up and just said half of the words, then swallowed into his stomach, because the image of the fat man in the line of sight is just too shocking, it is like being pulled down by a group of strong men in the grove friction friction friction for a hundred times, but a penny did not pay the appearance.
Really a handful of snot and tears ah.
“Brother Zhu,” Fatty Xue Chi walked over with a handful of snot and tears.
Accompanying the fatty was a fishy stench.
“I’ll go, did you bathe in the toilet?” Zhu Pingan took two steps back, treating the fat man as a flooding beast.
It was as if this sentence had touched Fatty’s heartbreak, and upon hearing this, Fatty’s snot and tears flowed backward into the river
With a handful of snot and a handful of bitter tears, Fatty waved his fat hand and complained bitterly about the unfairness of the courtyard examination.
