Chapter 70
I went out for a stroll, and spent four hundred taels of silver. When I returned, Qingzhu was thinking all the way. Zhou Yi was annoyed by his words, "You have so little confidence in me, young master? One pays five, if I pass the exam, it will be
two thousand taels."
I couldn't find the north: "Master, if this happens, not only will we not spend money when we come out to take the exam, but we will also earn a lot of money back!"
Zhou Yi laughed: "Don't worry now?"
Qingzhu shrank his neck: "I just Thinking of the pressure of four hundred taels of silver, I am a little flustered, but the young master is sure to be able to win the exam. Thinking about it this way, the money is worth it!" More than ten days
passed by, and soon it was August 8th. It will be held on August 9th. Qingzhu started to pack his things a few days earlier. He has prepared several sets of pens, inks, papers and inkstones. However, the rural examination is different from the boy's examination. There are three examinations in the local examination, and each examination takes three days and two nights, so you have to bring food in. For three days, you have to carefully consider what to bring to eat. Qingzhu inquired everywhere, and finally made a decision. He also heard that there was a wooden board for sleeping inside, so he hurriedly bought some felt blankets, and the warm clothes that Wang Yan brought to Zhou Yi also helped.
Everything was detailed and comprehensive, and he was more careful than a little maid. Until the afternoon of this day, he was still thinking about whether there was anything he missed.
Zhou Yi patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, that's enough." Those who didn't know about the package like a mountain bag thought he was going to move!
"Young master, rest first, and I'll wake you up later!" The township examination has to be admitted at Chenshi, and it's impossible to queue up early in the morning to enter the entrance early, and there are so many people, so many candidates will come in at midnight Start queuing up, try to finish the inspection as soon as possible, and enter the examination room.
Zhou Yi nodded, he was going to get up in the middle of the night, and he really needed to go to bed earlier.
In a daze, Zhou Yi was woken up by Qingzhu, "Master, it's time for us to get up!"
Zhou Yi sat up from the bed, washed his face, and instantly regained consciousness. Qingzhu carried the big package on her back, and found a piece of clothing to put on Zhou Yi's body, and the master and servant left the room.
Unexpectedly, Boss Mao and his wife were also waiting in the front yard. Seeing Zhou Yi coming out, Boss Mao hurriedly stepped forward: "Zhou Xiucai, I believe that your country test will definitely be a no-brainer, and you will be called Zhou Juren from now on! Hahahaha... ..."
Zhou Yi hurriedly replied: "Boss Mao has praised you. There are so many talented people in the world. I can only do my best and obey the destiny!"
Boss Mao was really thoughtful. Sent to the Gongyuan.
Before arriving at the Gong Yuan, the place was already full of people, Qingzhu handed the package to Zhou Yi: "Master, you will definitely pass the exam!" His tone was firm.
Zhou Yi patted his head: "Let's go back." There
were more and more people in front of the tribute courtyard, and Zhou Yi carried a large package as he shuttled through the crowd from time to time to bump into others, causing them to stare blankly.
"Hey, let me tell you, you are here to take the exam, or you are fleeing famine, you won't carry your entire belongings on your back, hahahaha..." A scholar couldn't help laughing when he saw that Zhou Yi looked like he was carrying a tortoise shell.
The people next to him also seemed to have seen the biggest joke in the world, and they all laughed too.
Zhou Yi ignored it, and stood behind the flow of people in line.
The scholar smiled, but the other party ignored him and felt that it was not interesting, so he turned back and talked to the student from the same village.
At around four o'clock in the morning, a drum sounded on the roof of the Beiyuan Mansion Gongyuan, and the guards began to call on the students to line up for inspection and admission.
On a night in late autumn, a gust of cold wind hit, and some people who wanted to be graceful were shivering from the cold. Zhou Yi wore the single jacket that Qingzhu found out for him before he left, and he looked very contented.
Others rely on shaking to keep warm, but he relies on clothes to keep warm. Although Qingzhu is timid and talks a lot, he is really careful, and he has noticed many things that Zhou Yi didn't think of.
Around five o'clock, it was Zhou Yi's turn. He brought too many things, and the inspectors had to check them for a long time. The strictness of the rural examination was even more abnormal. The pancakes they brought were broken into small pieces. Just put it in your mouth.
Then the clothes and the quilt were touched inch by inch. He spent more time alone than the other three, which made the candidates behind him complain.
Zhou Yi pretended not to hear, put the things back into the package one by one, and carried them directly into the gate as if nothing happened.
After passing the inspection by the school clerk at the gate, he entered a dormitory under the guidance of the guards, but what made people want to cry without tears was that his dormitory was not far from the "stinky number". No., that is, the place where candidates solve the reincarnation of grains during the exam. Each exam takes three days and two nights. It is impossible to hold back and not go to the toilet all the time.
The stinky name in the examination room of the township examination and the general examination is simply famous, and all the candidates who have seen it have changed their expressions. Zhou Yi secretly thought it was unlucky, but he only heard other people say how terrible the stinky name is, and he has never experienced it. However, although I had some precautions in my heart, I didn't take it too seriously. I thought to myself, isn't it just the toilet, what's the big deal! It was only during the later exams that he realized how naive he was.
He put the things in the dormitory, and then began to look at it. The whole dormitory is very narrow and cramped. The upper and lower wooden boards are placed alternately. The upper board is used as a desk for answering papers, the lower board is used as a chair, and it is also used as a bed when sleeping. use. There is also a small charcoal stove in the corner for the candidates to cook, and a few candles for the candidates to answer questions at night.
For the next two days and three nights, all eating, drinking, and diarrhea will be settled in this small dormitory.
Around six o'clock, all the candidates entered the examination room, and the gate was locked. No matter how flooded the outside was, the gate would not be opened until the time came.
Immediately after the invigilator entered the arena, the standard of the rural examination was much higher than that of the children's examination. There were two chief examiners, four people who took the same exam, and one person who was promoted. Search for the gate of the prison, and search for the officials who are coerced.
When the exam started, the chief examiner signaled the drum to be played, and the other examiners performed their duties. Although the standard was much higher than that of the government examination institute, the steps were still the same. Zhou Yi had already taken the exam twice, so he was considered old-fashioned. Then I got my test paper step by step.
Then start posting the exam questions.
Whether it was the boy's examination, the rural examination or even the general examination, the first round was the most important. The guards carried the wooden boards pasted with the examination questions through each examination area, and Zhou Yi quickly copied the examination questions.
The amount of this question is not bad, and it is also a general practice. The "Four Books" have three meanings, and the Five Classics have four meanings.
Zhou Yi's routine has always been very stable, but he got up in the middle of the night today, and after waiting in line for so long, his eyelids started to twitch.
He put the copied questions carefully, then took out the quilt, felt blanket, and pillow prepared by Qingzhu for him from the package, and spread them on the wooden board below, yawned, and lay down in the warm quilt to rest .
Although after the exam questions are sent out, as long as you finish answering the questions within three days and two nights, there is no requirement as to when you answer the questions.
But just entering the examination room, all the candidates were excited and nervous. Who would sleep at this time? When the candidates around Zhou Yi saw him like this, they curled their lips in disdain, um, another idiot who was defeated before the battle, they didn't bother to be with him.
When the exam starts, the chief examiner will lead people to patrol around the exam room and walk to Zhou Yi's dormitory. Candidates sleep alone and don't know what night it is, which is really different.
The examiner smiled. The examinee was still able to sleep at this time, so he didn't know whether it was a dimple in his chest or a broken jar.
After a good night's sleep, Zhou Yi woke up feeling refreshed. When he woke up, he found that it was already daylight, and Zhou Yi reckoned it was around nine o'clock.
He rubbed his eyes, and a lump of shit came out. Zhou Yi blew the shit on the ground. This scene happened to be seen by the man opposite, with a look of disgust on his face, oh my god, where did this idiot come from, his behavior is simply vulgar Unbearable, reading sage books in vain!
Seeing that someone saw Zhou Yi, he smiled embarrassingly. His behavior was indeed a bit indecent, but there was nothing he could do about it. There was no place to wash up here, so why would he still answer the question with his eyes glued to his face?
Zhou Yi shrugged his shoulders, and didn't care what others thought, and then he started the fire again, baked the pancakes he brought over the charcoal fire, and ate his first meal in the country test with hot water.
This caused the examinees around him to roll their eyes even more, they were either sleeping or eating, they were simply pigs, how did such a person pass the boy test?
After eating and drinking, Zhou Yi finally started to answer the questions.
The topic is not biased. In the past few years, under Han Xiangru's overload training and his own hard study, he has already gained a deeper understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics. He has the depth, not to mention the breadth. After a while, he made a draft in his mind, thought about it, and only started to answer the questions on the test paper after he felt that there was nothing missing.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, he had already answered a question about the Four Books and a question about the Five Classics.
He rubbed his shoulders, and when he was about to take out something to warm up for lunch, there was a sound like thunder from the next door, and Zhou Yi's whole body froze.
Who is shitting, why is there such a big commotion! ! !
Zhou Yi looked at the jerky in his hand, and lost his appetite for a moment. He could even imagine that the state just pulled out must be like a yellow dragon coming out of the valley... Ah, I can't think about it anymore, he is about to feel sick!
Zhou Yi took a deep breath, but it was this deep breath that almost made him spit it out. As more and more people came out, the smell became stronger and stronger. Zhou Yi didn't feel it at first, but now As soon as he smelled it like this, the whole smell was so refreshing!
Many times we have this feeling, when we don't notice something at first, we don't feel much, but once we notice it, the feeling is multiplied.
Even though Zhou Yi breathed lightly, he still felt that the smell was getting stronger and stronger, and this was not going to work. He quickly found two tufts of cotton from the quilt that was cut open by the guards and stuffed them into his nose.
It doesn't matter, the smell is actually not that big, it's all his own psychological effect, just don't think about it..., keep giving yourself psychological hints, and after the end, it seems to be really better.
In order to prevent the sudden sound from being heard again, he also stuffed two lumps of cotton in his ears. He couldn't smell it, couldn't hear it, and if he didn't think about it, it really got better.
Zhou Yi planned to answer the questions calmly with one of the Four Books and two of the scriptures every day, but now he gave up this idea.
The power of this stinking horn is too strong, it is only the first day, and he can't stand it, if it waits until the second or third day, the excrement will accumulate, and the power will be multiplied.
Don't be stunned by the smell!
Thinking of this, Zhou Yi tightened his mind to answer the question, trying to get more time to answer the question.
Zhou Yi tried his best not to think or listen, and just focus on his exam papers.
In the evening, he had already answered two questions and four books, and three questions of scriptures.
Generally speaking, the amount of questions in the township examination is not too large. If you study well and study deeply, as long as you solve the questions quickly, your essays will spring up, and it is not uncommon to finish answering the questions in two days. Days and nights are really tight.
After answering the questions, Zhou Yi took out the cotton from his nose.
"Ouch..." A smell hit his nostrils, and Zhou Yi couldn't vomit it out.
He hastily stuffed two lumps of cotton into his nose again, and looked at the man opposite him again, answering the question with one hand, and pinching his nose with the other hand, with a miserable expression on his face.
Zhou Yi originally wanted to go out, but he knew the environment inside with his feet. After several times of mental construction, he still couldn't take that step, so he had to hold back and sleep.
In the middle of the night, the stomach couldn't take it anymore, and it started to growl.
There was no other way, so Zhou Yi had no choice but to get up, and walked into this stinking account that all candidates avoided with a fearless look.
As soon as Zhou Yi entered the stinking hall, Zhou Yi wanted to poke his eyes, only to see rows and rows of barrels inside, some of which were already full, and even flowed to the ground.
Zhou Yi vomited, and his feet automatically wanted to turn around and run back, but the movement in his stomach was getting louder and louder. As a last resort, he found a Gong bucket with the smallest volume inside to solve it.
He held his breath the whole time, and didn't dare to open his mouth to breathe until he pulled up his pants and made a stinking noise.
Once the gate is locked, not to mention the barrel, it is difficult for a mosquito to fly out. The inventory of so many candidates for three days and two nights will all be vented in the stinky horn.
Zhou Yi went back to his cell, closed his eyes, his mind was full of the scene he just saw in the stinking cell, no, no, I can’t think about these things, think about the blue sky, white clouds, clear water, and the maple leaves all over the mountain... so Forced myself to think elsewhere, and finally fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up the next morning, I just felt dizzy.
Zhou Yi's heart skipped a beat, could it be that the stuff in that stinking account had turned into a biochemical weapon and poisoned him?
Zhou Yi wiped his face with the water he brought, and then he felt more awake.
After sitting and waking up for a while, my mind was finally no longer so dazed. Zhou Yi was vigilant, he quickly took out the remaining two questions, and answered them carefully.
Until noon, all the questions were answered by him.
Although he answered in a hurry, maybe some details were not taken into account, but overall there were no mistakes. Thinking of this, Zhou Yi relaxed his mind, and he never wanted to experience such an inhuman environment again.
After eating breakfast yesterday, Zhou Yi didn't eat anything anymore. Although he was very hungry at this time, he lost his appetite when he thought of eating something and going to that stinking house again.
Put the test paper away carefully.
Zhou Yi sat down and began to close his eyes to rest his mind, thinking about whether he made any mistakes in his exam papers. '
In the afternoon, there are more and more people running stinky accounts. After all, it is the second day. Some candidates are holding back at first, but they can't hold back for two days, three days.
"Mother..." A candidate screamed at the door of the stinky hall.
"No noise is allowed, offenders will be punished as cheating!"
"Ouch..." The examinees stopped making noise, but they couldn't help their physical reactions, and some of them had already vomited.
A gust of wind blew the smell directly to Kaoshe's side, and was taken by the people who vomited at the beginning, and many people who were close also started to retch.
The inspectors are not surprised, it has always been the case in previous years, as long as the candidates don't make noise, it doesn't matter if he vomits or not!
Zhou Yi couldn't help but think about it, but he could hide from the surroundings, but he couldn't hide from the man opposite him. Zhou Yi watched the examinee turn his cheeks pale, and then was taken away by the people around him. Trembling as if, then wowed his mouth, rolled his eyes and passed out directly.
Zhou Yi was right across from him, and he saw clearly from beginning to end.
This examinee was dressed in high-quality silk and satin, and the pen and ink he used looked famous. He must be a well-dressed young man at home. He sat by the stinky horn for two days, and he still passed out even now.
A guard came over and dragged the person out. Hey, the township exam must be over!
I don't know if it's because of staying in this environment for a long time, Zhou Yi gradually felt that he couldn't smell the bad smell anymore, he didn't feel full or hungry, but his mind became more and more confused, and his eyes began to blur.
Zhou Yi knew that not being able to smell the smell was not because the smell had disappeared, but because the sense of smell had been assimilated. Staying in such a bad environment and not eating for such a long time, naturally he couldn't wake up.
Now he is glad that he finished answering the questions when he was still full of energy at the beginning, otherwise, by now, this year's provincial examination might really be over!
He didn't want to eat, so he rolled up the bedding, buried his whole body in it, and fell asleep. Go to sleep, and the exam will be over when he wakes up.
It's just that although his mind is chaotic, he doesn't feel sleepy. Although he closes his eyes, he can still hear the movements of the people around him. , One sound after another, Zhou Yi was really worried that he would run over to his death just like that.
Candidates all around were answering questions. In the autumn night, the outside of the Gongyuan was silent, but the inside was illuminated by dim candles.
Zhou Yi opened his eyes, and saw the candlelight around him through the slits of the quilt. There was a halo of light in the dim light, warm and reassuring. Looking at it, Zhou Yi finally fell asleep unconsciously.
On the afternoon of the third day, the gate finally opened.
Many examinees were about to cry with joy, especially the examinees sitting next to the stinky horn. If they didn't open the door, their lives would probably be lost there too.
Almost limp and crawling out of the examination room.
"Young master, young master..." Zhou Yi took a deep breath when he walked out of the tribute courtyard. As the saying goes, those who are close to ink are black. He stayed at the stinking horn for three days, and he couldn't smell the smell inside, but now he's outside. After taking a breath of air, I realized that the normal air is so fresh.
As soon as he left the gate, Qingzhu called him by jumping in the crowd, and kept waving his hands and ran towards him.
Arriving in front of Zhou Yi, Qingzhu's expression changed, and he quickly covered his nose and said, "Master, you fell into the dung bucket, why is it so smelly?" Zhou Yi sniffed it, and found that he couldn't smell it at all, and now he didn't have the heart to talk to him
. As Qingzhu spoke, she just wanted to take a quick bath.
"Stop talking, young master, I'm sitting next to the stinking number..." Zhou Yi said helplessly.
"Ah..." In order to prepare Zhou Yi for the exam, Qingzhu naturally knew the reputation of this stinky name, but she didn't expect such a bad thing to be met by her young master, and she felt very distressed.
"Then young master, did you do well in the exam?" Qingzhu asked cautiously.
In fact, many people say that if you are assigned next to the stinking number, unless you have great perseverance, it will be difficult for someone to persist in finishing the test paper.
"It's okay." Zhou Yi replied weakly.
Qingzhu immediately cheered up, "I knew you could do it, young master!" Seeing Zhou Yi's weak face, he hurriedly said, "Master, let's go back quickly." After getting into the carriage, he returned to Boss Mao's house
. Waiting at home, Zhou Yi only had a few words to deal with him, and then went back to the house with the help of Qingzhu.
When Zhou Yi said he wanted to take a bath, Qingzhu hurriedly boiled water for him. After the water was boiled, Qingzhu went to Mao's kitchen to bring him some hot food.
After Zhou Yi took a bath, he felt the heavy burden on his body suddenly loosened, and his whole mind was cleared up.
Seeing the food on the table, I also have an appetite.
Qingzhu pinched Zhou Yi's undressed clothes with two fingertips, covering his nose at a distance.
Zhou Yi saw it, "Is it so stinky? I stayed inside for three days wearing this clothes!" "
Master, what should I do? You still have two exams!" Knowing how difficult the environment inside was, thinking that Zhou Yi would stay inside for six days and four nights, his whole face crumpled.
The corners of Zhou Yi's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he was not sure: "I won't just be so unlucky, and I will be seated next to the stinking number in the next two rounds, right?" Qing Zhu clenched her fists when she heard this, "No, young master Hong
Fu Qi Tian, I will definitely get a good seat in the next two games!"
It's just that God seems to have played a joke with Zhou Yi's master and servant.
In the second round, when Zhou Yi followed the guard leading the way to the house that happened to be the man opposite him in the previous round, he wished he could turn around and forget about the exam. After learning the lesson from the first round, Zhou Yi didn't even bother to catch up on sleep. When he got the exam questions, Zhou Yi answered them immediately, and finally finished all the questions before his mind became dizzy.
In the third match, he was already able to sit by the stink horn with a smile on his face and deal with it calmly. The stinking and pale-faced examinees around him were all shocked when they saw his unchanging expression. Where did this fierce man come from!
Zhou Yi smiled, as the saying goes, life is like rape, if you can't change it, then lie down and enjoy it, look at him now, sitting by the stinky horn, isn't he used to it!