Xiangye

Chapter 217
Sure enough, the more worried, the more haunted.

None of the examiners came from a Jinshi background, and they were educated.When I entered the imperial examinations, I also did a good job of stereotyped essays, so it was inevitable that I would be a bit of a scholar. When encountering a good article, some people would even applaud it, then stand up and read aloud.

He smiled and said: "This article is very good. If it is not on the list, I will not accept it in my heart. I should draw a circle. What do you guys think?"

If you come across an article that doesn't understand the grammar, or if one of the sentences is wrongly written and a joke is made, you will also read it aloud, and you have the right to have fun.

Everyone will naturally discuss it. If you agree, draw a circle on it. If you disagree, draw a triangle, or even directly give a bad review.So, it's interesting.

Du Shenghui didn't dare to speak, but just looked down at the paper.Others think that he respects his status and stands out from the crowd, so he doesn't care.

On this day, an inner curtain official burst out laughing suddenly: "This paper is interesting."

Just when he was sleepy in the afternoon, Grandmaster Li was already snoring loudly, and the eyes of the others were also blurred.Hearing this laughter, he knew that there was a good show, and asked at the same time: "What's the matter, what happened, and what made you laugh like this?"

The man snorted again: "For a Five Classics question, this examinee used an allusion about the wife of a lord, and even broke the question. It's interesting to break it."

The so-called wife of the monarch refers to Chunqiu who is the wife of the monarch, and is called the wife.From the article "Ji Shi Pian" in "The Analects of Confucius".The original sentence is: "The wife of the king of the state, the king calls it Mrs., and the wife calls herself Xiaotong; the people of the state call it Mrs. Jun, and all other countries call it the widow Xiaojun; the people of other countries call it Mrs. Jun."

This set of titles is one of the contents of Zhou Li.This is to maintain the grade system, in order to achieve the justifiable purpose.

"Oh, it turns out that this candidate studied the Book of Rites." Shu Richang, the deputy examiner, responded, "How did you break the question?"

The inner curtain official said: "The examinee is such a broken question 'The wife of the sage Sibangjun, the more you think about it, the more interesting it becomes.' Haha!"

As soon as these words were uttered, everyone burst into laughter, and even Li Zhen, the chief examiner who had already fallen asleep, woke up and laughed loudly: "This question, this question...is really new...haha, Xiaosha Old man!"

For a moment, the lobby was full of laughter, and everyone was wiping tears.

"What are you laughing at?" Shu Richang was not as easy-going as Li Zhen, his face straightened, and he shouted loudly.

Everyone was stunned, and then they calmed down.

Shu Lili was livid: "Who recommended this paper. How dare you insult a saint? It's tolerable, but it's unbearable. If you can't use it, you have to investigate the responsibility of the room official!"

The examiner there looked at the test number, and then said: "If you go back to the Imperial Envoy Grand Master, it is recommended by Du Zhi County."

"Ah, how is it possible!" All the officials were shocked.

Du Shenghui's face turned red, but he didn't believe it in his heart. He hurriedly snatched the paper and saw that it was recommended by him, and there was still a part of the joint with the word "hu".

Seeing everyone's playful eyes, Du Shenghui knew that he was too ugly, and his mind was buzzing, wishing there was a gap in the ground to get in.

The examinee didn't know if it was Huang Wei, but no matter what, he couldn't get rid of the relationship.

This person broke the question and even said that Dacheng's most holy teacher, Kong Shengren, coveted the beauty of the monarch's wife, and the more he thought about it, the more impulsive he became, and the more he thought about it, the more flavorful it became.If it gets out, I'm afraid that I will immediately become the laughing stock on everyone's drinking table.If it reaches the ears of my mentor in Beijing, how will I face his old man in the future?
"How can you recommend such a paper, even if you don't know the basic meaning of the scriptures? Master Du, how can you explain it?" Shu Richang said solemnly: "This kind of thing happened in the Shaanxi examination room. No light!"

These words were harsh, no one in the lobby dared to laugh anymore, and the atmosphere became serious.

At this time, Li Zhen suddenly smiled: "This examinee can't say that he only studied the "Four Books". When doing the five classics, he chose the wrong question, and this made a joke."

Shu Richang is a straightforward person, and he glanced at Du Zhixian angrily: "I don't agree with the choice of the wrong topic. This sentence about the wife of a monarch is in "The Analects of Confucius", so why should the chief examiner open it up for him. "

"Okay, okay, it's a big deal, just don't need this paper." Li Zhen is a good man, anyway, he is also a person who will retire soon, and he doesn't want to offend anyone, so he said: "The reason for choosing this paper is Du Zhixian is just making a joke for everyone, he naturally has good papers in hand. By the way, everyone is more energetic after this joke?"

Everyone laughed along with him: "It's a lot more energetic."

Shu Richang: "Chang Qi, I suspect Du Zhi County..."

Before he could utter the word "cheating", Li Changqi interrupted him and said with a smile: "Masters, I will tell another joke to cheer everyone up."

Everyone: "Mr. Changqi's jokes are naturally good, tell them quickly, tell them quickly."

Li Zhen: "Everyone is a Jinshi. They have been officials for so many years. Some of them are not the first time to be inner curtain officials. Fame is a thing. It seems very precious to outsiders, but it is actually very low. Can you You know, I won the Jinshi and went to the palace examination. The small tables there were short and broken, with three legs and even two legs, so I couldn’t use them at all. All of them are dignified, but they have to put a table behind their backs and go in. All of them are hunched over, like tortoises, how can they be decent?"

All the officials laughed, and someone asked again: "Mr. Li also carried the table back in those days?"

"Of course it is." Li Zhen said: "Not only did I recite it in, but I also recited it out. After other people's palace exams, they threw the table inside and refused to take it out again. The eunuchs in the palace were so anxious that they threw away so many rags. In it, I thought my Tianjia was a scavenger! But the Jinshi just ignored me, and the father-in-laws saw that I was honest, and they wanted to put the table on the old man. As a result, the old man, who was a dignified first-class man, gave the old man a day. coolie."

Everyone laughed so hard that they wiped away their tears, saying that eunuchs are annoying!
"That's why, regarding the matter of fame and this autumn, please don't be too harsh." Li Zhen glanced at Shu Richang and Du Shenghui with a smile, both as persuasion and warning.

After losing such a grown-up, Du Shenghui didn't talk to anyone anymore, and only focused on reviewing the papers.

After a few days like this, the table-turning trial finally came to an end.

In the last ranking, none of the papers recommended by Du Shenghui entered the top [-], and all of them failed the ranking.

This situation is no longer right.

There is an unspoken rule in the township examination. Regardless of the quality of the papers recommended by the house teacher, at least one or two copies must pass the test, because no one knows if there are any favor papers in the papers recommended by the inner curtain officer.Also, it is impossible for you to recruit a large number of students, and there will be no one else, but you will lose face.

Ten thousand steps back, the officials who can be the inner curtain officials are all Jinshi-born, and their knowledge and morals are the top choices among the provincial officials.If you don't give a single quota, if you spread the word, doesn't it mean that people's knowledge is really poor.

Therefore, when turning tables to grade the test papers, if there are too many bad reviews on the test papers of a certain room, everyone will save face and draw a few circles, and at least recommend one or two candidates to the list.

But today’s situation is different from previous ones. The quality of the papers recommended by Duzhi County is so poor that it has aroused the vigilance of the imperial envoy masters. It would not be worthwhile to impeach Shaanxi examiners for bribery and fraud.

The other [-] room examiners who were seated next to me were all seasoned and experienced, and they were very careful when turning the tables to mark the papers. How could it not be seen that Du Shenghui's papers in this room had joints left.These papers have a common feature. Whenever interrogative sentences are used, regardless of whether they are appropriate or not, they all end with an abrupt "hu".After reading the whole story, it made people feel extremely awkward, both angry and funny: You, Du Shenghui, took money from others, and you want to sell your joints, so you can just send one or two papers out.But the papers are so unscrupulous, this eating is too ugly, right?

There is a minimum limit for others to give favors, one person gives one.No matter how many, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among other candidates.Moreover, if possible, in the end, he could choose a child from a poor family to pass the test.In addition, well-known students in Shilin also had to send one out.Only in this way can a balance be achieved.

Isn't it important for the state to do things for the government to satisfy everyone, so that no one can make mistakes?
Didn't you, Du Shenghui, cause trouble for everyone by doing this?
Young people are young people. Relying on the power of the old Wang Shangshu of Wangge, but the power of me is equal to nothing evil?
……

So, almost subconsciously.The other seventeen house curtain officials all gave negative comments to the test papers recommended by Du Zhixian, and naturally none of them passed the test in the end.

How did Du Shenghui know what Neilian official was thinking? He also didn't know that he had committed public anger by disregarding official rules.Seeing this situation, I just felt ashamed, wanted to argue, but couldn't say anything.

As a result, the yellow brand examination room he was in charge of was exhausted, and no one was in the front row. Naturally, it was impossible to talk about recruiting students and building contacts.

The general trend was already like this, and Du Shenghui had no choice.He thought: Come on, although I don't know which paper Huang Wei got, but he must have been passed.The officer is also powerless, so I can only apologize.After appearing on the stage, the staff must be ordered to return the money to others.In addition, the favor money they received in other places has to be returned one by one... But, these bastard things are all brought from my hometown, and they are all close to each other.Tell them to return the money, and I don't know what it will be like to complain.If the news is sent back to my hometown, it will be said that I don't know how to behave.This country test is really depressing!

Thinking of the troubles in the future and the ridicule of the world, Du Zhixian's heart was so cold that it dropped to freezing point.

But he didn't know that Huang Wei was indeed in the test room he was in charge of, and Gao Wen was also there, it was just a coincidence.If there is no major change, both of them will lose their names at the same time.

"Hey, it's not right, it's not right!" Suddenly, an inner curtain official called out, which was particularly loud in the silence.

Hearing this voice, Du Shenghui's heart trembled, thinking that there was something wrong with the paper he sent out again.These days, he always felt terrified, a little bit like a year.

"What's wrong?" Shu Richang scolded with a frown, "Screaming, what's the matter?"

The chief examiner, Li Zhen, respected his status, and he was old and lacked energy. Except for reading the papers, he sat on the side and dozed off.In a day, there are not many hours of the situation.Therefore, it fell to Shu Richang to govern all the inner and outer curtain officials and maintain the discipline of marking papers.

Shu Richang was born in Hanlin, he has a strong personality, and he is merciless when he speaks. To be honest, everyone is really a little guilty when they see him.

He and Li Da, the chief examiner, played a red face and a bad face, but they cooperated well.

The inner curtain officer heard Shu Richang's question, and handed over the paper in hand: "Deputy Chief Examiner Shu, please take a look at this paper."

Shu Richang took it over and took a look. He had already read this paper, and he had some impressions, so he said: "This person's writing is familiar and sophisticated. He should be an old scholar, and it's not bad. What's the matter?"

His comment was fair, and after looking through it again, the other seventeen inner curtain officials also drew a lot of circles in the paper, and their grades were considered to be average.If there is no accident, I can barely squeeze into the top [-], and it is no problem to be among the top [-].

The inner curtain official said: "Deputy chief examiner Shu, let's take a look at his first "Four Books" article "It's a joy to have friends coming from afar", the official always feels familiar, as if I saw it somewhere .”

Shu Ri has been in the prime of life and has an amazing memory.After just one glance, he took a deep breath: "Yes, wait, wait. By the way, the first composition of a paper in the recommendation paper is almost the same as this article. Check, check thoroughly!" subconsciously During the test, he felt that someone was cheating, so he ruthlessly threw the paper on the big case with a murderous look on his face.

The officials knew how powerful it was, and hurriedly stopped their work and began to check.

Du Shenghui thought it was the papers he sent out that caused trouble, but when he saw that it was from another test booth, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

"I found it, I found it." An examiner picked out a paper from among them, found the article from the first session, and put it side by side with the previous paper.

All the officials gathered around, and Li Zhen, the two chief examiners who was dozing off, knew that the problem was serious, so he rubbed his face and raised his spirits to get over it.

Everyone looked intently, and at the same time exclaimed in surprise: "It seems, it's annoying, someone cheated in the Qiu Wei examination room!" , Starting from the point of view, the idea of ​​bundling is exactly the same.In some places, the words and sentences are exactly the same.

This, this, this is clearly plagiarizing each other!

Shu Richang said coldly: "Find the ink scrolls of these two papers, tear off the seals, and verify their integrity. When the Gongyuan is opened, they will be handed over to the Xuezheng Yamen to get rid of their meritorious deeds, and handed over to a secretary for questioning. The national talent ceremony, Dare to cheat, it is tolerable, what is unbearable!"

While talking, he shouted angrily: "Whoever recommended these two papers, it's fine if you recommend it. When I turned the table just now, I didn't find any problems in it, and I drew so many circles on it. If it's true Let one of these two bastards get a great reputation, wouldn't this Qiu Wei be a trifle?"

The two inner curtain officials who recommended the papers blushed and were about to speak.At this time, Li Zhen coughed suddenly: "It's not that serious, and it's not considered cheating. Since everyone has drawn so many circles on this paper, it shows that this article still has merit, so let's take it!"

"What!" All the officials shouted at the same time.

Shu Richang was also shocked: "Li Gong, why are you doing this?"

Li Zhen: "These two students didn't cheat. You see, their test numbers are different, and the test rooms are far away. How could they plagiarize each other?"

All the officials looked at it and nodded at the same time: "Gong Li is right, the distance between the two test houses is six hundred paces, if they can copy it like this, could it be that they are all clairvoyant?"

Thinking of this episode, Shu Richang was also stunned: "But, the first four script essays of these two people were written so resentfully?"

"That's right, this is really puzzling." The crowd began to discuss in a mess again.

Li Zhen chuckled: "What can't be figured out? According to the old man, these two people are either from the same school, or they are scholars from the same place. They have a close relationship on weekdays, and they are still good friends. Literati In communication, it is inevitable to sing poems and discuss some moral articles. This question is not easy to say. They have discussed and discussed it before. When I went to the examination room, I saw, hey, we just talked about this question a few days ago, it is really God’s blessing. I You don’t need to waste your energy, just copy it directly.”

Hearing what he said was interesting, all the inner curtain officials burst into laughter: "Li Gong is right, I think it must be so."

Shu Richang couldn't help scratching his head and shaking his head: "If you want to blame, you can blame Li Gong for making the questions too easy this time, but as far as these three questions and four books are concerned, no examinee has done it many times before."

"Haha!" Everyone laughed even louder.

When everyone finally stopped laughing, the inner curtain official who recommended the previous examination paper became anxious: "You two great masters, what should I do with this paper?" I finally got a candidate in my room, and that's my own. How can the honor of being a room teacher be brushed off?

Shu Richang didn't know how to make a decision, so he just looked at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen pointed to the paper and said, "Since everyone has already chosen this paper, it is God's will, so let's take it." As he spoke, he picked up another paper and threw it into the wastebasket.

No need to ask, these two papers are naturally from Shi Linsheng and Yu Xingyan.The articles written by the two are almost identical, but one of them won the exam, while the other lost his name.This just illustrates one point: No one can tell what is going on in the examination room. Without the premise of absolute strength, whether you can be Chinese or not, sometimes it really depends on luck.

I just don't know who these two people are favored by God.

……

Ten days have passed, and there are only three days left before the final announcement.

The turntable trial is still in full swing.

Li Zhen chuckled, and said: "I think it's almost time for a table transfer, so let's just leave it at that for now. You guys have worked hard, so please stop for a while."

Hearing this, the examiner was shocked and asked, "Is the Grand Master going to search for the remains?"

(End of this chapter)