Confucian and Taoist scholar

"I have admired Brother Sun for a long time as a great military talent, and today I saw that he is truly worthy of his reputation."

Du Ning also surrendered to Sun Zhentian, a famous military strategist in Tanzhou who hated evil as much as his enemies.

Due to his heroic character, Du Ning also wanted to make him his friend.

"Brother Du, thank you. We have only passed the first level. There are nine more levels to come. Don't be careless."

The implication is to remind Du Ning not to let down his guard against the students of Xianwen Society. Ge Yuan and Wu Xiangwen may look for opportunities to take action against Du Ning later.

"For a young person, what does it matter compared to the test of the literary competition in the Academy? Doesn't it seem that my vision is too low?" Du Ning said disapprovingly.

"Brother Du, what you said makes sense." Sun Zhentian nodded lightly.

The exchange between the two made many people envious. This is the kind of interaction that scholars should have with each other. They know heroes and value them, instead of being like the Xianwen Society who do everything they can to consolidate their power in the court.<

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Du Ning and Sun Zhentian have never known each other before, but it is also a kind of fate that they met during the competition today.

The people of Xianwen Society were even more angry. Du Ning ignored Xianwen Society again and again, which was simply bullying the people of Xianwen Society.

Du Ning looked ahead and saw a wide road leading to the mountain, where he could see the first attic building.

"Please."

The two made a "please" gesture to each other, and found that they had a tacit understanding. They immediately looked at each other and smiled, and stepped forward together.

Not long after, the students arrived at the first attic.

After entering, you can see that this is a very wide hall with nearly 3,000 tables.

Du Ning came to a table with nothing on it. He could only wait for Fan Qianfeng's prompt.

As time went by, students from behind came to the hall one after another, and everyone consciously stood in front of the table.

Wu Xiangwen, Ge Yuan and others have been beside Du Ning, staring closely at Du Ning.

But Du Ning was still ignoring them, as if he really treated them as if they didn't exist.

When everyone arrived, pen, ink, paper, inkstones and a stack of test papers appeared in front of everyone's desk.

Du Ning took a quick look and found that there were poems, songs, Confucian classics, and policy articles by saints from various countries.

There are one hundred questions in total.

"The second level, answer sheet, must be completed within one hour. Anyone who gets ten questions wrong will be eliminated." Fan Qianfeng's voice sounded.

Many people's eyes suddenly turned cold. One hundred questions is nothing, but it has a time limit, and it also tests the scholar's calligraphy skills.

Moreover, due to time constraints, it is very likely that typos will be made during the process of answering questions. Once a typo is written, the written answer will have a different meaning, which may directly affect the test score.

For questions that are not easy to answer, readers should make the decision to give up at any time, otherwise a lot of unnecessary time will be wasted.

Once you fail to answer ninety questions, or get ten questions wrong, you will be eliminated by the Semi-Saint and sent out of the literary world.

Many people did not dare to waste time and hurriedly started to answer the questions.

Du Ning, on the other hand, didn't panic. After reading each question roughly, he suddenly had an idea.

More than 80% of the questions can be answered fluently, and for the remaining 20%, Du Ning can use the star power transformed from the books in the Wen Palace to retrieve articles with corresponding content.

Before starting to write, Du Ning already had a plan in mind!

While Wu Xiangwen was answering the question, he secretly glanced at Du Ning, with a sarcastic look on his lips.

Now that the time to answer the questions is tight, Du Ning is still wasting time there, which is simply stupid.

Ge Yuan was also happy in his heart. The more time Du Ning wastes now, the less time he will have left when he answers the questions.

"They all say how smart Du Ning is, but when I saw him today, they were exaggerating."

Ge Yuan thought triumphantly, and then he looked at Wu Xiangwen again, and he could see a little joy in the other person's eyes.

At this moment, Du Ning began to write and answer the questions.

I saw Du Ning writing hard and fast on the test paper, using cursive script and regular script. When writing, he was able to write very coherently and in one go.

Although Du Ning's current calligraphy is not unique, it still has its own style, which is elegant, smart and has a hidden edge.

Seeing how fast Du Ning was, Wu Xiangwen, Ge Yuan and many scholars were shocked.

“What a fast answer!”

"How can he be so fast?"

"Aren't you afraid of making mistakes due to negligence?"

Wu Xiangwen was in disbelief. He suddenly remembered that Du Ning had read all the questions before answering. He suddenly seemed to understand something, and then his face turned red. He felt as if he had been slapped invisibly.

Similar.

"Impossible! I am a student of the Guoxue Palace, a truly knowledgeable person, and who is this Du Ning? He just attended a few classes in the Guoxue Palace, can his knowledge be on par with mine? Ridiculous

!"

Wu Xiangwen gritted his teeth. He thought that he had studied at the Guoxue Palace for a long time and had read poetry and books since he was a child, so he did not believe that Du Ning's knowledge would surpass him as a scholar.

"Hmph! Du Ning will definitely get a lot of questions wrong! It's impossible for him to get one question right at such a fast speed!" Wu Xiangwen sneered.

Ge Yuan's expression was serious. He glanced at Du Ning and Wu Xiangwen and felt a little pressure.

"No! I wrote it wrong in a hurry!"

Wu Xiangwen suddenly realized that he had written a wrong word, so he quickly crossed it out and rewrote it, and continued to answer questions.

Forty minutes later.

"Pa!"

Du Ning put down his writing brush and said that he had finished answering one hundred questions.

"Impossible! How could it be so fast!"

"What a fast speed, worthy of Du Ning!"

"It's better to meet each other than to be famous. I admire you! I admire you!"

Many people gave Du Ning a thumbs up, expressing their great admiration for him.

"Du Ning answered so quickly, there must be some wrong questions."

Wu Xiangwen thought to himself: "As long as Du Ning gets ten questions wrong, he will be eliminated by the Semi-Saint. Even if he really passes, his results will not be very good."

Thinking of this, Wu Xiangwen felt very happy.

This is his chance to surpass Du Ning, and there is absolutely no room for failure.

"Winter!"

As a bell rang, the time to answer the question ended.

Fan Qianfeng's holy thoughts descended and filtered through everyone's test papers.

After a while, a string of numbers floated above everyone's head, marking each person's score on the 100-question answer sheet.

"Ninety-seven points!"

"Okay!"

Wu Xiangwen looked at the score above his head and found that he only answered three questions wrong, which was definitely at the upper level of the Guoxue Palace.

Then, Wu Xiangwen looked at the text displayed above Du Ning's head.

One hundred percent!

"Hiss..."

Wu Xiangwen felt a discomfort in his chest, and almost a mouthful of old blood was about to spurt out.

"One hundred percent perfect, no mistakes or omissions!"

"A genius!"

"Be convinced!"

Many people exclaimed, and the vast majority of people were happy for Duning.

"This is impossible! How could Du Ning get an answer of 100%!"

Wu Xiangwen shouted angrily, unable to believe that as an elite of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he would lose so much to Du Ning.

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Everyone looked at Wu Xiangwen and laughed when they saw that Wu Xiangwen had scored ninety-seven points in the exam.

"The score of ninety-seven points is actually questioning the score of one hundred points."

"It's really the most ridiculous thing in the world. Du Ning was the most talented person in the imperial examination. Wu Xiangwen was still three places short of the most talented person in the imperial examination last year!"

"Haha..."

When Wu Xiangwen heard this, his face turned red and he was completely ashamed.

Ge Yuan looked at Wu Xiangwen sympathetically and said slowly: "Du Ning is the most talented person in the government examination. It is not shameful to lose to him."

"A person from a humble family only attended classes with us for a few days at the Guoxue Palace, and yet he surpassed me just like that!"

Wu Xiangwen was very unwilling.

At this time, Sun Zhentian said: "Master Wu is wrong. It's not that Du Ning has surpassed you, but that his grades are inherently better than yours."

"You..."

Wu Xiangwen was very disdainful, but his current performance was not as good as Du Ning's, so he did not have the courage to refute, otherwise it would be a bigger joke.

Today, Wu Xiangwen feels that he has been quite embarrassed, and he really doesn’t want to continue to be embarrassed.

Many white lights appeared and hundreds of failed students were teleported outside.

"Those who answer hundreds of questions without any mistakes will be given a talent initiation."

After Fan Qianfeng finished speaking, several talents descended from the sky, landing on the heads of a few people including Du Ning.

After Wen Gong absorbed this talent, Du Ning felt that his talent and strength had been slightly enhanced.

This is because Du Ning's talent and strength are already very powerful, far better than those of the same level, so to Du Ning, this increase is nothing.

But for others, it is a huge improvement.

The Academy's large essay competition will give some rewards to students who perform very well.

At the same time, it also plays a role in motivating other students, allowing them to compete in literary competitions with such envy, and they will gain greater motivation.

With a "squeak" sound, the exit door opened.

Everyone walked out of the door, left the attic and moved on.

Not long after, everyone arrived at the second attic hall.

As in the second level, everyone occupies a table.

After everyone sat down, Fan Qianfeng's voice sounded again.

"The third level is a test of ten 'number' questions, and the time is half an hour."

Ten test papers appeared in front, one question per paper.

Du Ning looked at the first question.

I have a jug of wine and will take it with me on my spring outing.

When you meet a shop, you buy twice as much, and when you meet a friend, you drink a bucket.

The shopkeeper went to three places and the wine in the pot was gone.

May I ask how much wine is in this pot?

The general idea is that there is a hypothesis that there is a jug of wine. When you meet a wine shop, you double the amount of wine. When you meet a friend, you drink a bucket. After three times, you will drink up the wine in it. You are asked to calculate how much wine there is.

"Isn't this just a middle school math problem..."

Du Ning's mind was racing, "Suppose there are wine x buckets in the pot. According to the equation in the question, we can see: 2[2(2x-1)-1]-1=0."

"x is 7/8 (dou)."

Du Ning used mental arithmetic and came up with the answer in one go.

"My algorithm will probably be difficult for even the saints to understand in a short period of time..."

Du Ning couldn't help but feel ashamed. This kind of question could stump Jinshi or Hanlin, but for him, it was simply a question that gave him points.

"Haha..."

At this moment, Wu Xiangwen, Ge Yuan and others burst into laughter.

Du Ning looked over strangely, and the people over there also looked over here.

Smiles appeared on their faces and they cast extremely contemptuous glances at Du Ning.

Du Ning guessed that they felt that they had just become Juren, so they might not have studied "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" or were not proficient in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", so they might not be able to solve such a problem.

This level was eliminated.

However, how did they know that even if Du Ning was not proficient in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", his mathematical knowledge in the nine-year compulsory education was far better than the elite among these elites.

"Master Du is a great talent, so these questions shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

Wu Xiangwen smiled from ear to ear and was in a very happy mood.

Ge Yuan said: "Brother Wu, you think highly of Du Ning. How long has he been a Confucian and Taoist scholar? How could he answer such an arithmetic question? You can think highly of Du Ning, but to think too highly of him would be to deceive yourself.

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Many people were very dissatisfied with the actions of Wu Xiangwen and Ge Yuan, but they did not criticize them because it was Wenbi time.

It is obviously unwise to waste your time by arguing with others.

Moreover, Du Ning is also a Confucian and Taoist scholar with literary courage. If he is so easily affected by their few words, it can only be said that Du Ning does not live up to his reputation.

Du Ning ignored them and didn't even write the answer to the first question, and started to explore the following questions.

There are three hundred and sixty-one tanks, you can divide them into several ships.

What is the total number of boats and how many tanks can be installed in each boat?

There is no room for one boat more than one vessel, and there is no room for one vessel less than one tank.

How many tanks are installed in each boat? How many boats can travel across the river?

"Three hundred and sixty-one tanks can be installed equally on several ships. As many ships as there are, there will be an average number of tanks installed on each ship. We only need to decompose the mass factors to get the answer."

Du Ning did a mental calculation for a moment and concluded that the answer was "nineteen". Nineteen times nineteen is exactly three hundred and sixty-one.

"It's so easy."

Du Ning continued to look behind.

While Wu Xiangwen and Ge Yuan were calculating, they used their peripheral vision to look at Du Ning, and they felt even happier when they saw that Du Ning was still "in a daze" on the spot.

"Brother Ge, how many questions do you think Du Ning can answer correctly with his talent?" Wu Xiangwen asked with a smile.

"From what I see, it's probably difficult for him to answer even one question correctly. If he can answer five questions correctly, it will be considered a top score." Ge Yuan answered in a strange way.

"I don't think so. Mr. Du is a rare genius. Maybe these ten questions won't be difficult for him."

Wu Xiangwen seemed to be very confident in Du Ning, but everyone present knew that he was deliberately disgusting Du Ning.

Some people couldn't stand it anymore and said in a deep voice: "What a dignified Chinese Academy student Wu Xiangwen, today we finally have an eye-opener."

"I have never seen such a talented person in the Guoxue Palace. I admire them."

"It's simply shameless and morally corrupt."

Hearing the insinuations from the people around him, Wu Xiangwen's face changed slightly, and he pretended to be wronged and said: "Hey...you people have misunderstood me...Hey, forget it, I won't say it anymore."

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