There was a chilly wind at the Meridian Gate at midnight.
The candidates who came to wait for the exam all hunched their necks, bent their bodies, and huddled together, occasionally stretching their necks to measure the direction of the Meridian Gate.
There were only soldiers guarding the gate, and there was no intention of starting the exam.
"Miss, how about we go back?" The maid's teeth were chattering with cold. Most of the people around were from poor families.
Because medical school does not provide food and accommodation.
Some people had never bathed in many cases, and the smell from their bodies filled the maid's nose, which was unbearable.
"If you want to leave, go by yourself," Xie Shuyan tightened the letter in her hand.
In order to successfully enter this so-called medical school, she even asked the imperial physician to write a letter of recommendation for her.
“Here I come.”
Following a shout, several carts came over. On each cart were some covered bamboo baskets, and from time to time one could hear the flapping sound coming from inside.
"Doctor Shen is here!"
The crowd was boiling with excitement, and everyone wanted to rush forward.
Fortunately, since Shen Zhaozhao organized this exam, he had made sufficient preparations, and the guards quickly came to maintain order.
"Doctor Shen, how exactly do we take the test? I can't write an essay." A man rubbed his hands and said with a chuckle.
"Wang the Butcher, why are you here? We should learn how to save people here, not go in with a white knife and go out with a red knife like you do!"
There was a burst of laughter all around.
Xie Shuyan curled her lips and looked at the butcher who was being ridiculed by everyone with some contempt.
He pushed the letter into his sleeve.
If all such people entered this medical school, she would not need to take this letter. She believed that even if she entered, she would not be able to see what was going on.
Just make a name for yourself by tossing around.
"Everyone, stop laughing," Shen Zhaozhao waved his hand, and several guards placed several tables in the open space in front of the Meridian Gate. "Today's entrance examination is very simple. There are two levels in total. The first level tests your ability to memorize. If you can't read or write, you can turn around and leave now."
"What? I need to know how to read! Can't I just recognize my own name?" a man shouted.
Shen Zhaozhao smiled and stretched out his hand, making a gesture of invitation.
This won't work.
The man originally didn't hold out much hope, so he turned around and left readily after being told to leave. However, he didn't walk far, but stood behind the crowd to watch the fun.
The first level requires literacy, so many people had to leave.
The crowded crowd suddenly became smaller, and the space in front of the Meridian Gate became much more spacious.
"The second level is to kill rats," Shen Zhaozhao pointed to the basket behind him with a smile, "Not only chop off the rat's head, but also cut open its belly and remove all the internal organs intact."
The whole audience was silent for a moment.
Everyone seemed to be shocked by this second level.
The maidservant beside Xie Shuyan was the first to show an expression of being disgusted. She looked at Shen Zhaozhao and shouted loudly: "Doctor Shen, what is the operation method of this second level? Show us all!"
After the maid finished yelling, she whispered to Xie Shuyan, "Miss, I don't believe she dares to catch mice by herself!"
"She doesn't even dare to pick up the mouse when she gives us a question. Let's embarrass her once, so that she won't think of these weird things to embarrass others all day long!"
Shen Zhaozhao smiled and said, "If anyone doesn't want to try the second question, you can leave now."
"After the first round of selection is over, I will show you how to do the second round."
After Shen Zhaozhao finished speaking, no one was in a hurry to leave this time. They probably wanted to wait until the first level was passed before seeing how the second level went.
Xie Shuyan didn't leave.
She's already here, why does she want to see the end?
However, it was impossible for her to catch mice herself because she had a letter of recommendation from the imperial physician.
Shen Zhaozhao nodded and asked those who stayed to line up in front of several tables. A guard distributed the content to be memorized in front of the table.
One piece of paper per person.
The first scholar who took the paper glanced at it and laughed.
"It's just a short paragraph, very easy to memorize!"
"Young man, can you take another look?" The other girl who took the paper frowned and looked at the paper in her hand.
"Moxifloxacin hydrochloride, furosemide, cetirizine, immunoglobulin...what the hell is this?"
The smile on the scholar's face froze and he looked down at the paper in his hand.
I know every word.
Put together, it all becomes a heavenly book.
"How can I memorize this? I don't recognize many of the characters..."
The maidservant beside Xie Shuyan squeezed to the front row at her instruction and brought a piece of paper to Xie Shuyan.
"Miss, that Shen Zhaozhao is just being mysterious. What a mess." The maid couldn't read, and she rolled her eyes at Shen Zhaozhao who was standing at the top with disdain.
Shen Zhaozhao had been smiling all the time, as if he had anticipated the current scene of complaints.
When Xie Shuyan saw her confident look, he got angry, snatched the paper from the maid's hand and started to memorize it.
She was a famous talented woman in the capital. Although the words on the paper were difficult to read, she could remember them by heart after reading them several times and getting used to them.
When she came forward and finished reciting, she deliberately glanced at Shen Zhaozhao.
As a result, Shen Zhaozhao did not continue to smile, but took a piece of food to eat. A servant dressed as a young man was waiting by the side with a food box. When he saw her eat something, he quickly put the food box aside and poured hot tea for her.
The service is very thoughtful.
Xie Shuyan knew the boy, who was close to Zhan Nanxing and whose name was Huang Ye.
The resentment in my heart became even heavier.
She endured the cold in the middle of the night and had to recite this inexplicable paper, but Chen Zhaozhao had hot tea to eat.
"Tsk, look at her appearance. Neither her looks nor her talent can compare to you, young lady!" The maid was hungry and sleepy.
At this time on normal days, she would have already gone to bed.
It's so serious, it's really annoying!
"Let's see how she behaves to us later." Xie Shuyan pursed her lips and her eyes fell on the bamboo baskets.
"Shichen 누!"
The guard in charge of timing glanced at the funnel and announced loudly.
Those who hadn't carried it back were naturally eliminated, and only a few people were left.
However, those who were eliminated were not in a hurry to leave, and those who stayed were waiting curiously, wanting to see how a woman like Shen Zhaozhao dared to catch a mouse and even disembowel it.
Shen Zhaozhao sipped the hot tea, clapped his hands, and washed them with water from a bucket.
"Everyone, please watch. You don't have to follow my steps exactly. Just do the basics."
Shen Zhaozhao said loudly.
Then, he took a pair of rubber gloves and put them on, turned around and walked to the side of a bamboo basket, took the lid and reached in.
When she took her hand, everyone could clearly see that she was holding a big gray rat.
The mouse seemed to have a premonition of its impending fate, and it was squeaking desperately, twisting its chubby body, swinging its long tail back and forth, and opening and closing its pointed mouth, as if trying to bite the hand that was holding it.
"Hiss——" Several girls in the crowd were frightened and turned pale, and couldn't help but take a step back.
"Everyone gather around so you can see clearly. The gesture of catching a mouse is the key," Shen Zhaozhao smiled at the girls, picked up the shining scalpel in one hand and raised the mouse in the other hand, "If you don't catch it well, you will be bitten!"
"The rats here were specially raised in the past few months. You won't get sick if you're bitten by them, but it still hurts a lot."
After Shen Zhaozhao finished speaking, he put the fat rat on the table in front of him and dropped the scalpel in his hand.
"Ah!" Xie Shuyan's maid was caught off guard and saw the bloody scene. She screamed and quickly covered her eyes.
Xie Shuyan's face looked very ugly. She gritted her teeth and watched Shen Zhaozhao cut open the rat's stomach, took out the internal organs one by one, placed them neatly aside, and introduced them to everyone.
"This is so dirty, let me see this...stomach," Shen Zhaozhao even cut a knife on the stomach and took out the mushy contents inside, "Tsk, this rat probably ate her son, and there's a rat's foot in the stomach..."
"vomit!"
The sound of vomiting could be clearly heard from the crowd.
Shen Zhaozhao glanced at Xie Shuyan who had already rushed to the side to vomit with a smile, and shook his head. This Miss Xie is really persistent!
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