There are three sessions of the Congressional Examination, each of which lasts three days and nights. Since there are two changes of venue in between, it is actually nine days and seven nights. During these nine days and seven nights, the candidates had to be in the Tribute Court, which would not be opened and the candidates allowed to leave the court until the last session was completed.
For the first session of seven eight-legged essays, Zhu Pingan quickly finished them on the morning of the third day, neatly copying them onto his answer sheet. Because the second session did not start until the fourth day, so after the morning exam, Zhu Pingan put all the test papers and grass paper in the test paper bag and hung it on the wall, cleaned up the number house, laid the kang, and then reclined on the kang and fell soundly asleep.
At noon on this day, the chief examiner, Xu Jie, led several invigilators to inspect the examination room again, and when he passed by the row where Zhu Pingan was, he was frowned upon by the odour that swirled around before he reached the number where Zhu Pingan was.
However, in order to do his duty as the chief examiner, Xu Shi still stretched out his sleeve to cover his nose and forced himself to continue forward. The fellow examiners who followed behind Xu Shi also pinched their noses and followed a few more steps forward.
A north wind came, and the smell of excrement that had been piled up in the toilet for three days was rolled back, which was refreshing!
Vomit
A fellow examiner finally couldn’t hold back, vomited and threw up.
However, no one laughed at him, as everyone could hardly hold back from throwing up quickly when this gust of north wind came through. Now that he threw up, everyone was quite relieved, and they wouldn’t be alone if they couldn’t help but throw up themselves when the time came.
“Tongkao Wang, why don’t you go back to the Mingjing Building first.” An examiner advised.
Wang Tongkao, who was vomiting bile, squatted on the ground and vomited, but still stretched out his hand and shook it firmly, insisting that he would continue his examination rounds.
When Wang Tongkao finished puking, Xu Shi led the crowd to continue on their way.
Almost to the head of the time, heard a subdued snorting sound, from the front of the stinking number came out.
After taking two steps forward, he saw a teenager sleeping soundly in the stinking horn, covered with a thick rabbit fur blanket. The snoring was rhythmic.
Leaning against the toilet and still sleeping so soundly! We just couldn’t help it even if we were so far away, and people Wang Tongkao just threw up, and this kid is right next door to the toilet. He is in the front line of the impact of the toilet smell, but he can sleep so well!
The crowd could not help but feel amazed, and then took a look, uh, the number plate of this house seemed a bit familiar. Oh, isn’t this the toilet man who cooked a pot of spaghetti as soon as he entered the room and ate it wailingly?
So this kid, not only can he eat, he can also sleep!
However, this kid can eat and sleep, but seems to be unable to do the problem ah, the first time I saw him when he ate noodles, this time to see him he is sleeping. Then look at his number house, hanging on the wall of the test paper bag is very neat. It seems to have never moved a pen, as if the paper was just issued in the paper bag.
Hey, what a pity.
If that yesterday’s vomit fainted off the lift can have his ability to endure like this, how good it is! The examiners sighed away as they thought of the other candidate who had fainted from puking from the stinking number.
One who could endure, but was incapable of doing the questions.
One can do the questions, but is incapable of enduring.
What a shame, what a hateful thing to do.
Of course, the pity was the one who vomited and fainted, and the hateful one was naturally Zhu Pingan who snored rhythmically.
Zhu Pingan slept until the afternoon when the invigilator came to collect the first examination paper. After being woken up by the supervisor’s soldiers, Zhu Pingan got up and handed over the examination paper to a contemptuous face on the side of the receiving officer, the receiving officer is also followed by a member of the afternoon inspection of Xu Shi, at noon to see Zhu Pingan sleeping. I didn’t expect to see this kid still sleeping when he collected the paper in the evening, so he must not have answered the questions.
Despise!
After the officer was sealed, he gave Zhu Pingan another look of contempt, and then pinched his nose and walked away.
At this time, the rain outside is still pattering. After Zhu Pingan turned in. Clothed in thick rabbit fur clothes, took out some dried fruit and also dried meat from the baggage, borrowed the charcoal fire pot and roasted it, ate a dinner, and then went on to sleep.
The next morning at more than five o’clock, Zhu Pingan got up again, washed up, roasted some dried meat through the charcoal fire pot to stuff his stomach full, drank some hot water, and then began to wait for the second examination paper to be issued.
In accordance with the usual practice, the second examination and the township examination is the same, the test is the official application essay, divided into the up and down the correspondence and provide cases based on the judicial judgement of two kinds, specifically that is, the theory of a song, the judgement of the five, imperial edicts, enjoinment, the table of each one.
At around seven or eight o’clock in the morning, the test papers were distributed.
After the test papers were sent down, Zhu Pingan looked at the questions and was first stunned for a moment, then could not help but laugh out loud.
Of course, at the same time that Zhu Pingan laughed out loud, many of the candidates in the examination room were looking at the test papers and cursing silently.
Not for anything else, just for this second test paper questions, this is different from the past days of the test, this test paper questions overall did not change, the change is the type of questions, this exam has a theory, judge four, edicts, enjoin, table each one, but in the back but there is more of a green word questions.
That is to say, this examination relative to the usual examination, less a judge, but more than a word of green.
In this way, this second examination has Jiajing characteristics, Qing words, which is the most representative of the Jiajing Emperor symbols, Jiajing Emperor also has the Qing words of the Emperor’s reputation.
Changes in the examination, I believe that it will not be the changes made by Xu Jie, give them ten guts, they would not dare. Jiajing emperor although obsessed with alchemy and immortality, but for political power and strategy has almost genius-like understanding and penetration of him, but it is the courtiers in control of the firm, any one of the courtiers, even if the power as Yan Song, as long as the Jiajing emperor is willing to as long as the words can be crushed into powder.
Jiajing Emperor is the absolute boss of the Ming Empire.
In addition, Jiajing emperor himself because of the cultivation of immortality and alchemy, IQ and high, he appeared to be inscrutable, courtiers face Jiajing are trembling with fear, and respect and fear, which dare to play a subjective initiative in this kind of matters relating to the country’s spring and autumn of the big plan of the examination ah, and not a long several heads, drop one does not matter!
Xu step, this will be in accordance with the historical development, this period of time should just be Yan Song Yin a hand, is being Jiajing emperor hanging out to dry, naturally more will not do this controversial change in the test.
Then, make a change of nature can only be Jiajing Emperor, also, this Enke was originally Jiajing Emperor’s gift, he made a change in this examination is also considered normal.
Jiajing Emperor, it really is Jiajing Emperor.
Under the rule of Jiajing, out of the green words Chancellor Yan Song, huh, but now also come to a green words will test.
But also thank you, because before reading history books know Jiajing emperor’s information, so he got the suspected blue road line of the old Taoist sent that “Jiaojiao green words Jing”, for the green words also have more research, not to say that the big success also have small success, in this test examination, enough to laugh proud, would have wanted to this how to show it.
In this way, thanks a lot.
This will test grasp, has increased to ninety nine per cent. The will test attaches importance to the first, their first answer is very informative, and now the second has Jiajing emperor added the green word test questions, naturally this green word questions will also be the focus of the mark, green word, relative to other candidates, they are good at it again. So, this will test has been stable.
Zhu Pingan looked at the examination paper and hooked up the corner of his lips.
