Fortunate Young Gentleman

Ruyi Xiaolangjun Text Volume 61 A Monster "Brother Xiaoning, here!"

Tang Ning walked out of the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall and heard a crisp and joyful voice.

He turned his head and saw Xiaoru standing not far away waving at him.

Zhongyi and Tang Yaoyao were also there. Fang Xiaopang was holding two candied haws in her hand. When Tang Ning walked over, she handed one to Tang Ning and said, "You worked hard on the exam. This is a reward for you."

No one asked him how he did. Xiaoru took the bag from him and said, "Brother Xiaoning must be starving. Go back and eat..."

Tang Yaoyao looked at him and asked expectantly, "I heard many people say that they didn't even finish the questions. How did you do in the exam..."

Before she finished her words, Zhongyi pulled her sleeve. Zhongyi turned his head and looked at Tang Ning, saying softly, "Don't think about it if you have passed the exam. Go back first. Dad and Mom are waiting for us to eat..."

In the Imperial Examination Hall, candidates came out one after another, looking at the backs of several people leaving with envy on their faces.

Let’s not talk about how that brother did in the exam. As soon as he walked out of the Imperial Examination Hall, he was greeted by three beauties. As a fellow examinee, he was really enviable...

...

Today’s meal was more sumptuous than the previous few days, so sumptuous that Tang Ning felt a little embarrassed.

If he didn’t do well in the exam this time, he felt that the one he felt most sorry for was the cook in the Zhong Mansion.

Chen Yuxian put the food from a distance on the plate in front of Tang Ning and said, “Eat more. Eat more so that you have the strength to take the next exam.”

“There’s nothing to prepare for the next poetry and prose.” Zhong Mingli looked at him and said, “There are still two days before the first exam is announced. Just take a good rest in these two days and don’t feel any pressure...”

There are three state exams, and candidates are eliminated one by one. After the first exam, the examiners will mark all the exam papers within two days, select the candidates who are eligible to participate in the second exam, and make the list public.

Only those who pass the first exam are eligible to participate in the next two exams.

The second round of poetry and prose tests the candidates' literary talent, and the third round of policy essay tests the students' ability to govern the country. In these two rounds, students can give full play to their abilities.

Among them, luck also plays a certain role. If you happen to be tested on poems that you are good at, or if you have insights into the policy essay questions, your ranking will definitely not be too low.

But this first comprehensive test tests the actual accumulation and the students' foundation over the years. There is no shortcut.

Zhong Mingli knew that Tang Ning had forgotten a lot of things because of his amnesia. He only had one month to review. The possibility of passing this first round was really too small.

He didn't have much hope for this. He originally thought that he could only participate in the next state exam.

Zhong Yi and Su Ru didn't ask him how he did in the exam. Tang Ning knew that they didn't want to put too much pressure on him.

He thought about it. If he didn't miss it, he had already answered all the questions. This first exam was just copying the answers in his mind. There was no difficulty at all.

There were only a few questions about history that Tang Ning was a little unsure about, because there was a big deviation between the history of the two worlds. He didn't memorize the standard answers for the evaluation of historical figures, so there might be mistakes.

But a small mistake should not affect the overall situation.

However, the next one and the next one will be different. For poems and essays, the subjectivity of the examiners plays a big role, and he can only do his best.

After the first state examination, the Imperial Examination Hall was blocked.

The court attached great importance to the imperial examination. In order to avoid suspicion, local officials were not allowed to serve as examiners. All examiners of the Lingzhou Imperial Examination Hall were temporarily transferred from Kyoto.

They had to review 5,000 test papers in just two days, and select more than 1,000 qualified candidates from 5,000 people. It was not an easy task.

Fortunately, after one screening, the number of candidates participating in the second round will be greatly reduced, and they will be much more relaxed when the second and third rounds come.

In the Imperial Examination Hall, in a spacious hall.

More than a dozen examiners sat at their respective tables, and on the table in front of them, there were thick test papers.

In the hall, noisy voices came one after another.

"The handwriting of a scholar is sloppy, like a dog's crawling, I won't accept it!"

"The test paper is dirty, with two clumps of ink, which looks like a mark, I won't accept it!"

"On a paper, only 30% of the questions were answered. How did the Lingzhou local official school select people..."

"After reviewing more than ten papers, no one answered more than 70% of the questions. It's sad, sad..."

"It's really worse than the previous one..."

...

Liang Dong was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of Rites. This time, he was appointed by the court to serve as an examiner for the Lingzhou provincial examination. He had to review nearly 400 papers in two days.

The first test had a huge amount of questions. He reviewed them one by one. After reviewing only more than ten papers, he felt a little swollen.

However, as an examiner, he must be serious and responsible. If there is any mistake in this process, his career will be added with an indelible stain.

He greeted the Grand Secretary who set the questions several times in his heart, picked out a few papers that were suspected to be marked, and the papers with too sloppy handwriting, drank a sip of water, and continued to mark them.

Among the papers he read, no one answered 70% of the full paper, but he was not surprised.

The number of questions in this first round was so large and the scope was so wide that even he couldn't help but want to curse. In the past imperial examinations, there has almost never been a candidate who can answer all the questions.

The first test examines the comprehensive ability of the candidates, and the content is extremely wide. Candidates need to focus and make choices based on their own abilities.

Whether it is the state test or the provincial test, those who can answer 60% of the questions correctly can be considered qualified, those who can answer 70% are excellent, and those who can answer more than 80% are rare...

However, to a certain extent, this also reduces the difficulty of their marking.

After marking more than a dozen test papers, he took a short break and took another one.

Every time he got a test paper, he would first look at the whole thing. If there was too sloppy handwriting, or the test paper was dirty and had obvious marks, he could directly judge it as unqualified, saving time and effort. As an examiner, he had such power.

Although the handwriting of this test paper did not make people shine, it was also quite standard. The test paper was clean and there was no stain. He was a little disappointed in his heart, picked up the red pen, and began to mark it.

The filling and interpretation of the meaning of the classics were all correct. He nodded. The meaning of the classics is the foundation, and very few candidates will make mistakes on this.

He actually answered all the questions about some obscure laws and regulations, which was quite rare.

Mathematics questions..., he actually got one right. Mathematics has never been taken seriously, and this was the first math paper he had reviewed with all the questions correct. A large number of candidates would directly give up math questions.

These questions about history, well..., although the angles were a bit tricky, they were not too out of touch, and could be considered to have a clear mindset, which showed that he was not like most students who only knew how to memorize to cope with exams. The court lacked such talents...

...

Liang Dong was in a good mood when reviewing this test paper. He nodded while reviewing it. When he turned to a new page, he found that he had already finished reviewing this test paper.

He was stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something, put down his pen, and turned back to read it.

After a while, Liang Dong stood up suddenly from his seat, holding a test paper in his hand, looking over and over, muttering: "Monster, monster..."

The examiners beside him noticed his abnormality and asked in surprise: "Master Liang, what's wrong with you?"

Liang Dong came to his senses, put down the test paper, and said with a smile: "Come and see, there is a monster here..."

After a while, several examiners surrounded the test paper and marveled.

"Lingzhou actually produced such a person?"

"The last time everyone got all the answers right in the first test, was it the provincial test more than ten years ago?"

"Talent, talent..."

"Oh, talent is probably not enough to describe this monster..."

As the few people were talking and laughing, two people came in from outside the door, and the examiners bowed, "Master Fang, Master Wang..."

The two examiners looked at them and said in surprise: "What are you doing..."

Liang Dong looked at the two examiners, smiled, and said: "You two masters, come and see and you will know..."

...

When Tang Ning was having breakfast in the morning, he learned from his father-in-law that the first test papers of the provincial test had been reviewed, the Imperial Academy lifted the blockade, and notified the government office that the list of candidates who passed the first test would be posted in the afternoon.

In less than two days, five thousand test papers were reviewed, and it was really not easy for those examiners.

Tang Ning later asked his father-in-law that the questions he answered about history were a bit off, and he probably won't get any points...

However, he answered the other parts well, and should be able to enter the second round smoothly.

After finishing his meal and putting down his bowl and chopsticks, Zhong Mingli said with some sigh: "Today, there was a news in the Imperial Examination Hall that someone in this year's class answered all the questions in the first round without any mistakes. Even the two examiners found it a bit incredible and said that Lingzhou had a monster..."

Tang Ning had experienced this round and knew how difficult it was to answer all the questions correctly.

There are indeed people who are better than you, and there are heavens beyond heaven. He couldn't get full marks even with cheats, but there are still people who can do it. This is not a monster, it's simply a beast...