When the time comes, the exam will start on time.

No matter whether everyone is present or not, as soon as the bell rings outside, the gate of Gongyuan will be locked. The outside of the courtyard is guarded by layers of soldiers. No one can come in or get close until the exam is over.

They will not open the door, even if there is a fire or flood in the Gongyuan.

There are many people on the upper floor of Mingyuan. Each examination room has two examiners, four co-examiners, and one promotion person. In addition, there are also people who are responsible for receiving papers, sealing them, transcribing them, reading them, patrolling the prison gates, and checking the suspects.

officials.

The senior examiner signals the start of the exam by blowing the drum, and then other officials perform their duties in an orderly manner.

After the drums were played, the government officials began to hand out test papers and draft papers one after another.

Then, the exam questions are announced.

When the government servant holding the test questions came over, Du Ruo quickly and neatly copied the test questions on the scratch paper.

This year is the same as in previous years. This time, the "Four Books" have three meanings and the classics have four meanings.

Classical meaning is a subject in the imperial examination. It uses the text of the classics as the basis, and the candidates write essays to explain the meaning. Of course, you have to use the eight-legged style. These questions must be answered in three days and two nights. No matter how you answer, no matter what you do

No matter how you arrange your time, as long as you don't cheat, it's up to you.

After copying the test questions, Du Ruo was not in a hurry to write, and indeed there was no need to rush. After all, he had already had breakfast. Compared to many people in the examination room who were actually cooking together, he could slowly prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Du Ruo was almost finished reviewing the questions, and then he officially started his road to the provincial examination!

This first three-day and two-night exam requires a total of seven eight-part essays, three eight-part essays on the Four Books, and four eight-part essays on the Five Classics. The amount of questions varies from person to person, and some candidates may finish them in less than two days.

, but some candidates can’t finish it even in three days and two nights.

Du Ruo is worthy of the name of a child prodigy. Among the candidates present, he is definitely the youngest, but his knowledge is really strong. After all, if it were not for the involvement of the Juyi Gang, he would have prepared three years ago

Those who came to participate in the provincial examination have now prepared for three more years, and their strength has been improved to a higher level.

After reading all the test questions, Du Ruojue realized that he didn't need any evening time and could finish it in just three days.

Dip the brush into ink, spread out another piece of draft paper, and Du Ruo started working on the first line.

The first question is the meaning of the Four Books: "A gentleman is ill and has died, but his name is not known."

This is a very standard Eight-legged Eight-legged Doctrine of the Four Books, which comes from "The Analects of Confucius. Wei Linggong No. 15". The meaning of this sentence is that Confucius said: "The regret of a gentleman is to die without being praised by others."

When Du Ruo saw this topic for the first time, he already had a solution in his mind. He started writing almost as soon as he dipped in ink. It was like a divine help!

"It is the worry of saints to have no reputation in future generations."

This sentence is a broken question. It can be said to be a very standard broken question.

Reputation cannot be spread in future generations, this is what saints worry about.

After solving the problem, Du Ruo dipped the brush on the inkstone and continued to write: "It is not necessary to have a name for the moment, but a name for future generations is not necessary. Therefore, a gentleman does not seek fame, but he has no choice but to do so.

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The question was solved very quickly and the number of words was not much, but the answer was very tedious. For this question, it took Du Ruo just half an hour to write the first answer. He let the draft paper filled with words dry on the table for a while, so as not to worry about it.

The ink flowed from the writing and stained the test paper.

After placing the first piece of rice paper, Du Ruo pressed it down with a ruler to prevent it from being blown away by the wind, and then started to read the second question.

The exam time passed slowly, but after only answering two questions, it was already noon. He had been in this small dormitory, and it was quite troublesome to answer the questions. By this time, he already felt a little groggy in his mind, and then

Put the dormitory into a resting state and prepare to take a short rest and take a lunch break.

But just when Du Ruo was about to close his eyes, he heard a miserable roar coming from the next door, shocking the sleepiness he had just brewing away.

"Damn it, I read the wrong question!"

After this pitiful roar, there was a bang-dong-dong sound. If I guessed correctly, it should be this man hitting the wall.

Then, another roar full of anger followed. It was the voice of another person, as if the owner of the first voice had a hatred for killing his father and taking away his wife.

"Dunlun, your mother, I was so frightened by you that my writing was stained, and the test paper was stained!"

Du Ruo twitched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but laugh. These two people really had a big feud. The first one who read the wrong question must have answered the wrong question. He let out a cry in desperation, which made the other person's hand tremble. The test paper

After being stained with ink, these two people are destined to fail.

Soon, the examiner came in with soldiers, confiscated the two people's test papers, then covered their mouths and dragged them out like wolves and tigers.

Du Ruo could only sigh slightly, students!

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The provincial examination was the biggest event in Suzhou during this period. As a prefecture in Suzhou, Jinling Prefecture was naturally very busy. Naturally, the hardest-working people were the police officers responsible for security.

Xue Hongyi, the third-in-command of the Criminal Investigation Department, was urgently transferred back because of the rural examination. For such an important matter as the rural examination, she naturally did not dare to slack off at all and moved directly outside Gongyuan.

Because this provincial examination is divided into three sessions.

Each session lasted three days and two nights, and lasted for nearly ten days and nights in total. During this process, Xue Hongyi was under great pressure. Nothing was allowed to disturb the provincial examination. If anything went wrong, Xue Hongyi was under great pressure.

, the responsibility she bears is huge.

Therefore, a few days before the provincial examination, she visited all the bosses of all three religions and nine schools in Jinling City one by one. It is also true that anyone who is interested will find that Jinling City is very quiet these days, especially Zhuangyuan Street, even the local ruffians

The gangsters can no longer be seen.

Moreover, what's even worse is that many larger gangs have actually sent personnel to all corners of Jinling City. They are all very well-behaved and assist the Yamen policemen in searching the streets and maintaining the security of Jinling City.

It is precisely because of this that a rare spectacle occurred in Jinling City. The most unruly people actually began to maintain public order and truly cooperated with the people to create a beautiful Jinling!

On a river dam not far from the Gongyuan, more than a dozen tents were set up here. All the people coming and going were Jinling government officials. There was a small sign hanging outside the middle tent with the three words Xue Hongyi written on it.

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A policeman walked outside the tent and asked. After getting permission, he entered the tent and saw Xue Hongyi sitting on the chair. He said: "Boss, someone from the Changsheng Martial Arts School just handed over the news. Qingzhou Yijian
Chapter completed!