The word “Ding Chou” on the red paper was like two loud slaps, which ruthlessly threw in the face of the eldest uncle and others who surrounded Zhu Pingan with their mouths open and their mouths shut.
Snap!
With an echo
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren twitched the corners of his mouth, staring blankly at the list, unable to take his eyes back for a long time, as if he had to see the word dingchou as any other word before he was done.
The other scholars are almost all the same as the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren, all of them were shocked by the word “Ding Chou”, and they were all shocked by the word “Ding Chou”.
“Cough cough cough, I’m afraid there’s something wrong with the list.”
A from the first-class list back to the eyes of the failed students, red eyes, murmured. Apart from the problem with the list, he really couldn’t think of a single reason why Zhu Pingan could be on the Grade A list.
“Or maybe it was a mistake when marking the papers.”
Another scholar who could not accept the results thought of a second reason why Zhu Pingan could be on the Grade A list.
In fact, it is only these people who don’t want to accept the result, the imperial examinations are notoriously strict, the county examination is the most basic link, although it is a little more lenient than the government examination and the academy examination, but the reading of the scrolls is not allowed to make mistakes. The county exams have a set of strict rules to prevent cheating, one of which is to transcribe a new copy of the candidate’s answer sheet to prevent the candidate from leaving a mark on the paper or the markers from recognising that they are familiar with the candidate’s paper. The examiner who reads the examination paper does not read the original paper, but one that has been transcribed in red pen and vermilion sand by a clerk from a foreign county, and checked and verified by several people, so that there will be no mistakes such as writing the wrong seat number. Moreover, a paper has to be read by several examiners to minimise the subjective influence of individual examiners.
But no matter what, these people simply didn’t think that it was Zhu Pingan’s strength and just attributed it to other reasons. In the end, after a lively and positive discussion on the spot, everyone united to come up with a reason for Zhu Pingan to be on the Grade A list: this snake-bitten, sniffing, crowing bird-eating rice bucket, this time in the exam, got lucky!
Thus, in addition to the titles of snake-bitten and bird-sniffing, rice bucket, and f*ggot, Zhu Pingan was given the title of a lucky teenager.
The six people whose names were on the B list were fine, but the others who were not on the list gave Zhu Pingan, the teenager who had been lucky, a strange look.
It’s not that we are talentless, it’s that we have bad luck.
The scholars and scholars who failed to get on the list let out a long sigh of resignation, packed up their things, and embarked on their return journey.
The eldest uncle Zhu Shouren is also sighing the fate of mankind, followed by the crowd slowly pacing back to the inn, their own decades of hard work is only a high school B list, Zhu Pingan go a piece of sh*t luck can be on the list of A, it is really the fate of mankind ah, however, the luck of the dog can not be two, they do not need to be overly concerned about, after all, they are even the government exams have passed. The swine’s luck is not likely to continue, his path to the imperial examinations this time will also stop here, right, good, surely.
Zhu Pingan, who hadn’t had the chance to open his mouth since the issuance of the lists, looked at the crowd that sighed about his powerful sh*t luck and left, and couldn’t help but slowly stretch out his right hand towards the back of the crowd, as if he wanted to call out to the crowd.
However, the next second the picture changed, Zhu Pingan turned his palm upwards, four fingers together, his middle finger extended abruptly, comparing to an iconic middle finger gesture that was popular in modern times, but unrecognised in ancient times.
At this time, the crowd dispersed, the people in front of the list also sparse, Zhu Pingan slowly paced to the front of the list, carefully check. The first county examination had a total of more than 1,300 participants, with more than 700 people on the B list, 50 people on the A list, and one person on the head of the case. A and B list rankings in no particular order, are arranged in a circle, Zhu Pingan in the A list is located in the core of a small circle. The head of the case is also only seat number “Azi”, look at the seat number should be sitting in front of the person, from their own quite far, no effect at all.
Back at the inn, the scholars in the lobby congratulated Zhu Pingan on his high school ranking in the A list in a teasing tone.
One by one, Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked them back, as if he did not hear their banter.
True gold is not afraid of fire, Zhu Pingan does not care to argue with them, there is no point, not to mention that these people may be waiting for you to argue with them, and then stepped on you hard out of the limelight. But the first county test is actually a very basic examination, seventy per cent of the people can win the list, and then there is a second, third, fourth waiting for the big waves, fire refining it, and by their tossing and waiting for the results to come out, without having to do it themselves, their faces will be swollen by their own beatings.
At that time to see their expression, must be very interesting.
The crowd looked at Zhu Pingan’s back as he blandly left, and the mockery was even more intense, treating Zhu Pingan’s bland departure as a shameful, grey departure.
“Look, look, he doesn’t even dare to argue, he must be ashamed in his heart.”
“Why is he ashamed, he’s afraid of ghosts, maybe he’s stuffed some favours for His Excellency the County Honour.”
“Hush, brother Wang prudent speech, this poor living in the woodshed food can have what spare money with the county honourable sir county honourable sir in the county is famous just and upright he ah, this exam is just lucky ah, watch it, tomorrow’s exam will certainly knock him back to the original shape”
“Oh, that’s right, heh heh heh, sh*t luck can not last and see how his next exam.”
The atmosphere in the hall warmed up, stay here in the schoolchildren students either like Zhu Shouren as a child, or is the exam high school in the list of people, the crowd drank some water wine, emotions are high, I do not know who proposed to follow the example of the list before the opening of the handicap, we also open a handicap betting on some of the lottery, to try to see that the snakebite, smell the crying bird of the woodshed of the luck of the dog sh*t teenager can be the next high school in the list.
I’ll put up a hundred won and bet that he doesn’t win.
I’ll bet one tael of silver that he doesn’t win.
In the end, the handicapper couldn’t go on, and the scholars and scholars in the whole lobby of the inn placed their bets, but all of them bet on Zhu Pingan not winning.
So, the crowd looked at each other and smiled, a feeling of heroes see the same thing, unspoken with the same raise the cup to wish each other a distant, drink together with the end.
Back to the room of Zhu Pingan, do not know that he has once again become the object of ridicule, pack up his things, sitting in front of the desk, open the law and the past case law, facing the sunshine into the window, and read it with great interest.
The second examination of the table judgement, is to examine the students to judge right and wrong, write all kinds of official documents administrative ability. This can also be seen, the old Zhu imperial examination reform really want to select for the country really cultured, insightful, capable of practical talent. But unfortunately, the eight-legged essay seriously limited the realisation of this destination.
Zhu Pingan while commenting on the reading of legal precedents, while the old Zhu comrade’s good intentions to report ridicule, the dream is plump, the reality is bony, if the old Zhu knows that his set of things elected mostly nerds words, midnight dreaming back, will be old and tearful.
