The Prosperous Era of Longwan

In this re-examination, Wei Guangde finally broke a tradition he had always maintained, which was to submit the paper in advance.

In this re-examination, Wei Guangde waited until the examination room was finally closed to collect the papers, then handed the answer sheets to the examiner and followed most of the students slowly out of Nanchang Gongyuan.

The reason why it was delayed for so long this time was because the college examination was too important, and it was related to whether I could accomplish a small goal in my father's mind: not to earn his 100 million first, but to be admitted as a scholar.

In the previous government examination, the questions were difficult enough, so I had to cut them off.

But at that time, he felt that he was afraid that there was no chance, so after figuring out how to write, he just started writing.

After more than a year of continuous writing, he still has a little bit of writing power.

After finishing the article, I checked it twice and copied the answer sheet. It was considered that I had completed the exam, and I handed in the paper before the time.

When it came to the college examination, although he was still thinking in his heart that he must be favored by God and his belief that he would pass the imperial examination was extremely strong, he was much more careful when actually doing the questions than in the government examination.

After finishing the article, I thought about it again and again and made some modifications before I was satisfied with it.

I rechecked the essay again and copied the essay for the first question onto the answer sheet. However, I did not copy the second essay immediately. Instead, I slowly pondered over each word, so it was not until the end that the guard began to remind me that it was about to begin. After collecting the paper, I copied the article onto the answer sheet.

After leaving the gate of Gongyuan, among the crowd, I quickly saw my cousins ​​Wu Dong and Zeng Yuanrui waiting by the ancient stone square beside the gate. However, I didn't see Zeng Yuanshu, so they were probably still behind me.

This was the place they had agreed with Wu Dong and others before taking the exam. After all, there were many people taking the exam, so if they didn’t tell a place in advance, they would be afraid of missing it if there were so many people.

"Why did you come out now this time?"

But when Wei Guangde walked to his cousin, what he heard was Wu Dong's words.

While Wei Guangde was stunned, Wu Dong's next words came to his ears, "I thought you would hand in the paper in advance again, so I came over with Yuan Rui in the afternoon, but we have waited until now."

"Are the test questions this time difficult? We haven't seen many candidates who submitted their papers in advance."

Zeng Yuanrui interrupted now.

"is a bit."

Wei Guangde then explained the scientific examination questions to them.

"The first question was pretty good, but the second day I cut off half a sentence and it was really hard to write."

Wu Dong heard that there were only two questions in the academy test. When he thought about the questions, he immediately realized that it was the second question that stumped most of the candidates.

It is said that there are only so many words in the Four Books, but how do you know what questions the examiner will ask?

Using a short sentence, or a long sentence, or a cut-off question or a combined question, really makes it difficult for candidates to guard against it.

The three of them waited on the side of the road for a while. From time to time, they saw acquaintance candidates walking by. They bowed their hands and exchanged greetings.

Most of the people's attention actually fell on Wei Guangde. After all, he was only thirteen years old, and he was still a child. He could pass the college entrance examination and participate in the re-examination, so everyone was also very curious about his composition and asked about it. How did he answer the first test question? Even if Zeng Yuanshu came out to meet them, everyone's curiosity remained.

At this point, there was nothing to hide, so Wei Guangde explained his problem in detail.

Everyone understands the solution to the first question. In fact, their compositions are also similar. After all, there are just a few techniques.

As of now, people have already summed up the writing skills of the eight-part essay. Everyone has similar views on many things, so if you know the topic, you don’t need to talk about the rest, just write it down in the same vein.

Regarding the second question, there were a few scholars among the crowd who nodded in praise, and some bowed their heads in deep thought, but no one said that it was not good to break the question like this.

Seeing such a reaction, Wei Guangde knew that the article he wrote this time might have a real chance of getting him successfully admitted to the hospital.

God's favor.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but feel a little proud.

"Okay, okay, it's getting late and I'm hungry. Let's go eat and drink. It's been a tiring day."

At this time, Lao Kan came back from his previous deep thoughts and said to everyone with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Everyone had been standing here for a long time. Now that Lao Kan said this, they all felt a little hungry.

When he returned to the inn, Wei Guangde asked the store to prepare hot water and rinsed it off thoroughly. Now he could truly relax physically and mentally.

The results of the college exam will not come out for a few days. During this period, everyone was in the same mood as after the first exam. They relaxed briefly and met at the banquet to go out and play together tomorrow.

In fact, the weather is quite hot, so the places you can go must be by the water, and the area around Nanchang Fucheng is naturally the Gan River.

Yes, we all made an appointment to go to Tengwang Pavilion. Although Wei Guangde had already been there before, almost all of the group had been there. However, it was quite pleasant to go to the riverside to cool off with the river breeze on a June day. , so no one objected.

This time when he came to Tengwang Pavilion, Wei Guangde gained a lot of experience.

Originally, they only wanted to come with more than 20 acquaintances from Jiujiang Prefecture, but what they didn't expect was that many students from other prefectures and counties also came together for a visit, and soon the number of students in Prince Teng's Pavilion reached hundreds.

Almost everyone from the thirteen prefectures in Jiangxi comes here to cool off.

Then, naturally, a small circle was formed based on the prefectures and counties. From the discussion of knowledge at the beginning to the poetry comparison, everything seemed so ordinary.

Wei Guangde naturally wouldn't open his mouth when discussing knowledge at the beginning. Of course, no one would pay attention to a child like him. Even if they knew that he was also a candidate for the current Academy of Sciences examination and had also participated in the re-examination, not many people paid attention.

In the eyes of most people, Wei Guangde is just a kid who is extremely lucky.

Although, this is the fact.

However, Wei Guangde didn't take it seriously, and he didn't want to get involved.

Knowledge, what is there to ask?

This ancient imperial examination only tested the eight-legged essay, but did not test the calculus of functions or the three laws of mechanics.

In Wei Guangde's view, this is the case. What they learn now is Chinese at best, and the knowledge of later generations will be hard knowledge such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

However, after entering the poetry meeting mode, Wei Guangde was still pleasantly surprised.

Wei Guangde was a little excited when he came to this world and participated in the "Poetry Meeting" for the first time, but he soon lost his excitement.

Not many famous poems of the Ming Dynasty have been circulated. In fact, this also reflects that the development of poetry in this era was indeed relatively slow.

But when I think about the Qing Dynasty, it was actually almost the same. After the culture turned to popularization, maybe it was like this.

Of course, Wei Guangde has a powerful tool for showing off. He doesn't remember many unpublished poems, but they are definitely amazing and brilliant, but he is not ready to show them out among a group of children.

At least after the provincial examination or after going to the capital, I will throw out the song "If Life Is Just Like the First Meeting".