Chapter 71 71 Another Paper Is Handed In

Hit someone's leg with a stick, hit someone with a stick

After checking all the answer sheets and finding no problems, Wei Guangde naturally shifted his attention to this question of cutting and connecting.

For the ruthless cutting and connecting, Master Sun taught Wei Guangde to try every possible way to connect two unrelated sentences. How to connect is the part where the candidates are tested.

It is easier to do the ruthless cutting and connecting, but the most difficult is actually this kind of ruthless cutting and connecting.

Wei Guangde silently recited in his mouth, but still couldn't think of any good way.

A little discouraged.

At this time, Wei Guangde was really a little discouraged.

It is estimated that if this question can be solved in this provincial examination, there will be a chance to pass the main test.

Wei Guangde is very clear that this ruthless cutting and connecting question is likely to stump most of the candidates participating in the provincial examination this time. As long as the question can be solved, even if it is a little bit worse, the chance of passing the provincial examination will be countless times greater.

He didn't dare to hope that he could do it again like when he took the county exam in Pengze, when County Magistrate Tang let him go after hearing that he was a relative of Wu Zhankui. There weren't many people in the prefectural yamen of Jiujiang.

After all, Jiujiang Prefecture was big, and it couldn't be compared with a county town.

Moreover, this was an imperial examination, although strictly speaking, it was not a formal imperial examination. The county exam that Wei Guangde had taken, the prefectural exam that he was currently taking, and the academy exam that would follow were essentially just a competition for the qualification to enter the official school.

What is an official school? In the local area, it is the county school and the prefectural school, and above that is the Imperial Academy.

Yes, despite so many scholars, they actually didn't even touch the door of the official school.

Not entering the official school means that you have no connection with the ruling class of this era, and naturally you won't have any political preferential treatment.

Why do scholars have preferential treatment, and they are exempt from taxes and are exempt from kneeling when meeting officials? Isn't it because they are students?

Students, also known as scholars, are people who enter official schools, so they have preferential treatment. In later generations, they can barely be regarded as reserve talents.

Only a reserve, no qualifications for being an official, that is the privilege of a Juren, to serve as an official.

"It's so damn hard to pass the exam."

Wei Guangde cursed in his heart.

An hour passed quickly.

"It's over, it's over, I failed the prefectural exam this time, and the county exam that I passed wasted my time."

Wei Guangde thought in his heart that if he failed the prefectural exam, he would not even be a Tongsheng, and he would have to retake the county exam next time, which was a waste of time.

At this point, Wei Guangde accepted his fate, and he could not solve the connection between hitting someone's leg and the boy.

Wei Guangde gave up. Even if he knew that many people in this courtyard would hand in a blank paper like him, he couldn't solve it.

"Bangzi, Bangzi, big Bangzi"

He couldn't get the South Bang and the North Bang into it, people wouldn't understand what it meant if he wrote it, and there was a little boy behind him.

Who is the little boy? The Japanese dwarf?

Well, I've been thinking a lot about the Japanese pirates recently, and Wei Guangde's thoughts began to diverge.

"Stick, golden hoop stick, stick, golden hoop stick."

Wei Guangde thought of Journey to the West from the stick again, Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick.

"The golden hoop stick beats monsters, but it doesn't say it beats children."

Monsters?

Children?

The children are monsters?

Wei Guangde didn't know whether Journey to the West was published in the 31st year of Jiajing. Anyway, he had never seen it in the bookstore. Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms were sold, but Journey to the West was not seen.

But even if he wrote it like this, he was afraid it would not pass the test.

It was probably close to the end of Shenshi, and it was not long before it would get dark. Wei Guangde decided not to leave a blank paper, so he just made up a story based on his previous imagination.

Well, he didn't want to be a "blank paper hero". I heard that there was a person who handed in a blank paper and entered the university that year. It was really interesting.

Of course, when Wei Guangde wrote this, he would not put the monsters in Journey to the West into it.

Wei Guangde quickly wrote on the draft, "One stick and Yuan Rang felt pain, two sticks and Yuan Rang fell, three sticks and Yuan Rang died, three souls disappeared, seven spirits drifted away, a breeze turned into Quedang boy..."

This is the way of forced marriage, forcing the two parts together is naturally a joke.

However, this is just to expand the thinking, Wei Guangde will not really write the answer sheet like this.

"Knock his shin with a stick" comes from "The Analects of Confucius Xianwen Chapter 12" "Yuan Rang Yi Shi. Confucius said: 'When he is young, he does not respect his younger brother, when he grows up, he does not leave his legacy, when he is old, he does not die, he is a thief.' Knock his shin with a stick."

"Quedang boy" comes from "The Analects of Confucius Xianwen Chapter 44" "Quedang boy is about to order. Someone asked him: 'Is it for the benefit?' Confucius said: 'When I am in the position, I see that he is on the same level as the teacher. He is not seeking benefit, but wants to achieve success quickly.'"

The first sentence is Confucius criticizing people who have done nothing in their lives and do not respect others.

In a humorous tone, he had a good relationship with Yuanrang, who had known Confucius since childhood. Yuanrang was unrestrained and did not abide by etiquette.

When Confucius went to visit him, Yuanrang should have gone out to greet him according to etiquette, but he not only did not go out to greet him, but instead sat with his legs stretched out to greet the guest.

Confucius attached great importance to etiquette, so when he saw Yuanrang's behavior, he bluntly criticized his lack of progress.

The second sentence shows that Confucius paid special attention to educating young people to pay attention to etiquette, and respect for the elderly is one of the moral norms of Confucianism.

Confucius judged from Quedang Tongzi's words and deeds that he was not a person who pursued progress, but a person who was eager for success.

Because people who truly pursue progress will pay attention to their own moral cultivation, which is manifested in being humble to others, respectful in dealing with things, and their behavior is within the rules and regulations.

Then write about the faults of Quedang Tongzi first, and then beat him up to vent your anger. As long as you grasp the core, that is, Confucius pays special attention to educating young people to pay attention to etiquette, and sing praises for Confucius.

Wei Guangde threw aside what he had written before, and started writing quickly.

"Learning cannot stop"

Because I have never written before, I have to write down what I want to express first, and then fill it with water. This water can't be too much, otherwise it will be troublesome if it exceeds the word limit.

After filling, see if there is still time in the sky, and continue to revise the words and sentences, and strive to make the article look high-end and classy, ​​so that it can be seen by the examiner.

Eight-part essay itself does not require gorgeous words, but at this time, I can't care so much.

Although it is still a bit far-fetched for Wei Guangde to think of this answer method, I feel that it is finally a little logical. The beginning, the topic, the beginning, the middle, the end, and the end are all OK. Although it is not my best level, it is also very good.

It's just that the opening is a little bit off, there are still some shortcomings, but the continuation is still passable.

There is no other way, there is no mobile phone at this time, so I can ask Master Sun for his opinion remotely.

After checking the draft, Wei Guangde copied the article on the answer sheet, and today's provincial examination was completed.

Seeing that there was still time, Wei Guangde checked it again and found no mistakes.

At this time, someone had already rang the bell to hand in the paper, and Wei Guangde naturally didn't want to stay in this small examination room for a while longer.

After the bell rang, the clerk came to collect the papers and covered the names on the spot, Wei Guangde's provincial examination today was all over.