Chapter 407 (1/2)



407 The end of the spring quarter examination (1)

The examination venue for the spring examination was a row of small black rooms, called ‘rooms’. After the students entered, the bugle soldier in charge of supervision would lock the door, leaving only a small window for the students to deliver their exam papers.

For the entire day, the students finished their daily routine in the small black room.

The candlelight was like a bean, dyeing the small room with a dim yellow. Xu Erlang sat by the table, pouring water into the inkstone and slowly grinding it.

There was still a long time before the start of the exam, and this time was enough for him to calm down and think about some things.

Since ancient times, the poetry world of Dafeng had been in decline for a long time. Therefore, for most students, the last round of the exam was just a formality.

When he entered the Academy just now, the students he was familiar with were all laughing and talking, happy and content. Unlike the previous two matches, where he had a serious expression and a nervous mentality, as if he was going to put on his armor and go into battle.

However, Xu Erlang knew that he could not be careless.

He was a student of Yun Lu Academy, and according to the attitudes of the court officials towards the students of Yun Lu Academy, after becoming a Jinshi, they would either be sent to a remote and poor village or be kept as officials for a long time and be hidden away.

Xu Erlang had his own ambitions. He didn’t want to be sent to a remote place, nor did he want to stay in the capital.

“The road ahead is long …” Xu niannian sighed.

At this moment, the trumpeter outside the door knocked on the small window and said in a muffled voice, “”Old master, the paper is here.”

Those who participated in the spring examination were all high scholars who had the qualifications to be officials. The soldiers directly called the students in the examination ” old master.

Xu niannian took the paper and spread it on the table. It was already dawn, but the sun had not risen.

Under the orange candlelight, Xu niannian took a closer look. The title was a sentence from Cheng Zi:”You can take the Commander-in-Chief of the three armies, but you can’t take away a man’s will.”

Xu Erlang, who had read a lot of books, instantly extracted the core:Yong Zhi!

He stared at the paper, his expression uncontrollably dazed, his eyes filled with disbelief.

“Big brother must have stepped on dog shit before he entered my room that day, right?” Xu Erlang muttered.

How could he guess this correctly?

Xu Erlang treated the drawing of lots as a way to deal with his annoying big brother. Although the questions of the spring examination could be guessed, it was limited to classics and policy theories. After all, there were traces to follow in the two.

The topic of the poem was completely dependent on the examiner’s mood. He could come up with anything he wanted. It was even possible for it to be named after the wildflowers on the roadside.

He could even guess this?

Unless yang stepped on dog shit that night, Xu Erlang couldn’t think of any other possibility.

Wait. minute … Xu xinnian’s shock, confusion, and confusion all turned into ecstasy and excitement.

Big brother got it right, big brother got it right!

He suddenly straightened his back and couldn’t help but want to roar three times to express the excitement in his heart at the moment.