Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Chen Lang found his examination room according to the number on the license plate.

A small shack of only about three square meters.

The wooden board used to answer the questions is placed horizontally in the middle. If you want to get in, you can only crawl in from the bottom.

Because the wooden board is nailed to the door frame.

As for turning over...

No candidate would take such a risk.

It’s not that I’m afraid of breaking the crossbeam, but I’m worried that I’ll hurt my hands when the crossbeam breaks.

The hands of the examinees are more precious than gold.

Chen Lang looked at the other examination rooms again and found that his was indeed the best.

The old man who had previously lied about his age was unlucky.

His examination room was next to the toilet.

However, the old man seemed to have gotten used to it a long time ago. His expression was quite calm, without any resentment at all.

At this age, he is still a student and has experienced all kinds of situations. He will definitely not get angry because of the problem of the examination room.

"Examinees, please take your seats!"

The officers holding clappers came closer from afar.

After hearing this sound, candidates must enter the examination room immediately, otherwise they will be disqualified from the examination.

Chen Lang hurried into the examination room, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the examination basket and placed them on the horizontal rack.

After the bangzi sounded three times, the county examination officially began.

Two officers carried a board and walked slowly along the road in the middle of the examination room.

What is written on the board is the topic of this county examination.

Candidates need to copy the questions themselves and are responsible for the consequences of any mistakes.

The examination board moves very slowly, giving candidates plenty of time to copy the examination questions.

However, every year in the county examination, there are candidates who fail because they are unable to copy all the questions.

The reason is that these candidates started thinking about how to answer while copying the answers.

By the time they realized what was happening, the exam board had already been moved away.

This is the first test of the county examination.

Although Chen Lang hadn't taken an exam for many years, he still had the experience he had when Chen Erlang took the exam. In addition, in the past two days, Sheng Chuliang had told him many things he needed to pay attention to in the exam room. So when Chen Lang was copying the questions, he didn't think about anything else in his mind. He was just a ruthless input machine.

After Chen Lang finished copying all the questions, the examination board started to move.

After stretching his fingers, he began to actually review the questions.

After looking for a while, Chen Lang's expression became a little strange.

These questions look so familiar.

Many of them were questions from the test paper that Sheng Chuliang had asked him to do before.

Sheng Chuliang was not the one who set the test, and given his personality, he would definitely not do something like leaking the test questions.

Then there is only one truth!

Sheng Chuliang guessed it right!

"Teacher, you are really awesome!"

Chen Lang was ecstatic. Reciting scriptures was his biggest pain point. Although he had spent more than ten days on intensive recitation, the scriptures were not only obscure and difficult to understand, but also contained many uncommon characters.

Just remembering these things killed most of Chen Lang's brain cells.

Later it developed into...

Open the book, Ma Dongmei.

Close the book, what about Ma Mei?

Open the book, Ma Dongmei.

Close the book, what Dongmei?

Finally, write it down: Sun Honglei.

What a miserable word.

But now it’s different. Most of the questions in the dictation of the scriptures have been guessed by Sheng Chuliang, and for those questions that were not guessed, even if you don’t answer them, you won’t lose too many points.

This can be made up for through the subsequent reading comprehension and essay writing.

Chen Lang felt relieved and took out a piece of white paper and began to copy and answer the questions for the second time.

This is the formal test paper, so it needs to be kept neat and clean.

Here Chen Lang must thank Chen Erlang. In order to pass the examination to become a student, he worked very hard on practicing calligraphy and thus developed a good handwriting.

Chen Lang's hands have long been spoiled by the keyboard. Not to mention a brush, even with a pen and pencil, his writing is as slow as a dog's crawl.

After finishing the recitation part, Chen Lang took out the second sheet of paper and began to answer the reading comprehension questions.

The reading comprehension questions in this year's county exam were really weird.

What I need to understand is what the old witch in the palace said.

The official term is called Imperial Edict.

Chen Lang was really complaining about his incompetence, but at the same time he became more and more convinced that the county magistrate got the position by flattering others.

It would be fine if I just wrote a birthday poem, but now I have to analyze the old witch's words.

Really ridiculous.

However, no matter how ridiculous it is, the analysis still needs to be done.

Chen Lang suppressed the nausea in his heart and began to answer.

After all, he had answered the question "There are two trees in front of the door, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree." This kind of analysis was not difficult for Chen Lang.

Chen Lang wrote nearly a thousand words of his understanding, and felt that he had flattered the master to the extreme. When he looked up, he found that it was already noon.

The yamen runners were distributing buns and water to everyone.

The imperial examination in ancient times was also a physical job. There were not many counties like Nanhe County that directly distributed meat buns to candidates. Most counties gave candidates black flour buns, which were very small and not enough to fill them up.

The examinations before becoming a scholar do not last many days. For example, the county examination only lasts one day, so the impact of being hungry will not be too serious.

But starting from the examination for the Juren degree, the difficulty doubles. An examination often lasts for three or four days. If the examinee encounters a conscientious examination room and a conscientious examiner, he or she may still be able to get by.

If you encounter an examiner who has poor conditions and likes to embezzle money, the candidates must be mentally prepared to go hungry for three or four days.

The candidates did not dare to report it for fear of being punished later.

At most, when I become an official in the future, I will find a way to give the examiner who was in charge of my exam a good beating.

But the chance of this happening is still too small, because even if you become an official, you will not be assigned to your place of origin.

By the time I found a way to return to my hometown, the examiner in charge had already been transferred.

It is precisely because of this that these officials who like to take advantage of small things become more and more unscrupulous.

After lunch, Chen Lang reported going to the toilet again. After coming back, he leaned back in his chair and rested for about a quarter of an hour before picking up the pen again.

He still had two parts left to answer.

The first is poetry, and the second is essay writing.

The theme of the poem is autumn, which is a free point for Chen Lang.

A poem about autumn by Zhang Ji from the Tang Dynasty, done!

As for poems like "The autumn water and the sky are the same color" and "The frosted leaves are redder than the flowers in February", they are nuclear weapons and should not be used lightly.

As for the final policy essay question, it is a bit troublesome.

The title is: "Excessive expenses are increasing."

When Chen Lang saw these four words, he was a little confused for a moment and didn't understand what these four words meant specifically.

He looked at the candidates in other examination rooms and saw that they all had frowns on their faces and were scratching their heads.

It's just a county exam, why would you have such a profound topic?

No matter how much you complain, you still have to solve the problem.

Chen Lang took out a piece of scratch paper and wrote and drew on it for a while, and finally he understood the meaning of the question.

This is actually a financial issue.

What this means is that the court has more and more areas to spend money, and how can this problem be solved?

It is true that what goes up must go down. The emperor is a money-grubber, and the officials below him are also obsessed with how to make money!