After finishing the three questions she wanted to read in one go, Shen Cui couldn't feel happy.
Well, she had no idea at all.
And it wasn't just her, Mei Ruochu on the light screen also frowned slightly.
He has become more calm in the past two years, and his psychological quality is far superior to that of ordinary people. Basically, nothing can affect his mood.
He is like this, it seems that this question is indeed not easy.
Shen Cui couldn't help but turn her gaze to Mu Erpang and Cui Fei.
Because they are a little worse than the others in this regard, if they can solve it, the others won't have to worry.
Mu Erpang and Cui Fei were both mentally prepared for the difficulty of this poetry topic, so their reactions were relatively calm.
But if Shen Cui looked carefully, she would find that the backs of the two men, which had been straight just now, had collapsed a little.
At this time in the Imperial Examination Hall, Mu Erpang first focused his attention on the first question, "Green shade brings the rest of spring."
Because this question has more words, it is easier to guess the source than other questions with only two words.
In the two years after the college entrance examination, Mu Erpang had to review it every year in the hands of Liu Xuezheng, so his thoughts changed quickly. He first made sure that he had never seen these five words connected together, and then he knew it was a combination.
Less than two quarters of an hour later, Mu Erpang thought of the complete sentence - it was a famous line from Wei Yingwu's "Visiting Kaiyuan Jingshe", 'The green shade brings peace to the day, and the solitary flower represents the remainder of spring'.
Although the word "spring" is included, the meaning of this poem is that the green trees make the day seem quiet, and the solitary remaining flowers indicate that the remaining spring light has not yet disappeared.
'Not yet completely gone' is the key point of this title, so this is a poem about early summer!
If you don't know the source and don't understand the whole poem, and just comment on the word "spring" in the title, then you are definitely off topic!
Knowing the source and knowing that it was just about early summer, the title of the poem was not difficult. Mu Erpang breathed a sigh of relief and began to write the draft.
Seeing that he had already started writing, Shen Cui glanced at the others. Except for Cui Fei, everyone else had started drafting at about the same time.
About half an hour later, Cui Fei picked up the pen and dipped it in ink again. He also figured it out!
Chen Cui read through what the students had written one by one and found that everyone was writing about summer scenery, and no one's theme was different from others, so she felt a lot more at ease.
Although Cui Fei was the last one to think of the source and start writing, he was not slow in writing poetry. Later on, he finished the poem much faster than Mu Erpang.
Until that afternoon, Mu Erpang had a quick bite of lunch and began to think about the second question, "Bian Juan".
Because there are only two words, it becomes increasingly difficult to think about the origin.
After another round of hard thinking, Mu Erpang remembered that the earliest source of these two words was "Chu Ci", and the original sentence was "plump flesh and thin bones, a graceful figure".
It means plump skin, slender bones, light body, and graceful movements.
'Bianjuan' means lightness.
However, if the main theme of the poem is to describe the beauty of women, it may appear disrespectful if handled improperly, which violates the basic rule that examination poems should avoid being frivolous and gaudy.
So after thinking about this, Mu Erpang still didn't dare to start writing, and continued to think about other things.
After another half day, Mu Erpang listed three famous quotes on the manuscript paper:
"Zhanghua Fu": "Her figure is graceful and elegant, like the grass blown by the wind."
This is a work by Bian Rang of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It has gorgeous words and lofty ideas. It uses the scene of King Ling of Chu enjoying himself at Zhanghuatai to criticize current social ills and use the past to satirize the present.
"Ode to Mountain Dwelling": "It is both tall and majestic, yet graceful, and also luxuriant and dense."
The author of this fu is Xie Lingyun, in which he expressed his lament that time is fleeting, life is short, and life is like a dream.
"Muyuan Tizhu": "The graceful and slender bamboos cover the rafters and pillars, with an extraordinary and secluded appearance that is a gift from nature."
Mu Erpang had never thought about the author of this poem for a moment, but what he was sure of was that the word "Bianjuan" could be used to describe a lot of things, not only to describe women, but also to describe flowers and plants.
Finally, he made some choices and felt that he could not write well the theme of "Mountain Dwelling Fu" which lamented about life - after all, he was only fifteen years old. It would be easy for him to write something that sounded inappropriate, like "forcing sorrow to write new words for the sake of composing a new poem". So he decided to take "Muyuan Tizhu" as an example and use "Bianjuan" to write about bamboo. Bamboo has always been a symbol of upright gentlemen. In connection with the sentence in "Zhanghua Fu", he could write from the perspective of a gentleman and give some advice to the monarch, which was also a good project to develop.
It was already midnight on the ninth day of the eighth lunar month. Mu Erpang had already figured out the second-to-last question, so he quickly put away the test paper carefully and took the time to catch up on his sleep.
He had always been in good health, so he had the nerve to hold on until now.
As for the other people in Cuiwei on the light curtain, most of them had already blown out their candles and gone to bed.
Shen Cui had been following them, so she had a good idea of everyone's progress:
Mei Ruochu was the fastest. He had finished the second poem before nightfall and copied it down. Although he had not started writing the last poem topic, he had been thinking about it all night. He hadn't started writing yet, but he always wrote poetry in one go, without even a draft. He was also the first to go to bed. I guess he had already made up his mind and just needed to write it down the next day.
Chen Aoshuang finished the last poem on the manuscript paper, but he seemed very dissatisfied. He stopped halfway through and started another beginning. This beginning didn't seem to satisfy him either, so he went to bed halfway through. He would probably have to continue thinking about it tomorrow.
Wei Shu and Wei Xi were still frowning over the last question before going to bed.
Cui Fei and Mu Erpang were at the same level, both had made drafts for the second question, but had not yet completed the poem.
There is still a whole day left before the exam, so there is plenty of time for everyone.
Shen Cui checked everyone's values again and found that only Wei Xi's physical fitness dropped by 1 point.
But he always knew the importance of taking care of his health, so even though the room was stuffy, he still remembered to wrap himself tightly in a thin blanket after going to bed, which made Chen Cui feel a little more at ease.
Chen Cui made sure they were all asleep, secretly encouraged them in her heart, and then quickly washed up and went to bed.
On the second day, Mu Erpang was the first to wake up among the group, because he had been working on his brain for a while after falling asleep the previous day.
So when others stood up, he also wrote the second poem, and finally caught up with the progress of Wei Shu and Wei Xi.
Then he began to think about the third question.
"Zhuangzi" There is a sentence in "Qiwu Lun" which goes "The wind blows a thousand different things, but makes them remain the same."
'Chui' refers to the wind and 'wan' refers to all the holes. When put together, it means the wind blows through all the holes, making all kinds of sounds and causing all things to stop moving on their own.
But even after understanding this, people are still completely in the dark.
"Zhuangzi" has lofty aspirations and far-reaching meanings, and each sentence is often full of Zen, which requires people to appreciate carefully. Just from these two words, you can understand more and more.
He was hesitant to put pen to paper, and the same was true for Wei Shu, Wei Xi and Cui Fei.
Another half day passed, and before lunch, Chen Aoshuang finally finished the last question, copied the poem that he was satisfied with onto the test paper, and began the final check.
Shen Cui paid more attention to them, and in a flash, she found that Mei Ruochu's box was empty - he handed in the paper early.
Moreover, it was only noon of the third day, so it was equivalent to half a day earlier.
He was always quick at answering papers and had great talent, but he was not arrogant and always tried to be thorough in everything. He had never submitted a paper so early.
Chen Cui felt that something was not right, but since he had already handed in the paper, he would be back soon, so she waited for him to come back and asked about the situation.
Quarter of an hour later, Mei Ruochu slowly returned to Shusheng Lane.
Fortunately, Chen Cui had the system. After discovering that he was not in the examination room, she went out to buy food and boiled hot water. Otherwise, she would not have made any preparations at this moment.
Lao Buyu had never expected him to come back at this hour. He was enjoying the cool air under a tree in the yard. He asked in confusion, "Just now, the dean went out to buy food and boil water. I advised her that there was no need to start so early. The exam will not be over until nightfall today, and you will not be back until after lunch at the earliest. I didn't expect you to come back so early... and the test paper is so simple?"
Mei Ruochu's face didn't look good. He first answered Lao Buyu's question, shook his head and said "no", and then smelled the fragrance of the food, and began to retch with a "guh".
Chen Cui had just set the table in the main room and hurried out when she heard the noise.
Mei Ruochu asked them not to come forward, and then he found a place to adjust himself for a while, and then he said weakly: "I'm fine, it's just that I got a bad seat this time, and I couldn't stand it, so I handed in the paper early. Dean and teacher, don't come forward, I smell bad."
The so-called smelly room is the room closest to the toilet.
Although the face towel that Chen Cui prepared for him had a certain deodorizing effect, it could not block out all odors in the air, so Mei Ruochu stayed next to the toilet for two and a half days!
And he also ate some dry food during the meal. Naturally, he couldn't wear a face towel when eating dry food, so he just faced the smell...
Chen Cui saw him wearing a face towel at the beginning of the exam and thought that the scholar next to him was using a toilet in the exam room. Unexpectedly, the situation was worse than she thought!
This is also fortunately because it was Mei Ruochu. If it was anyone else in the academy, perhaps only Shen Aoshuang, whose sense of smell is not as good as that of ordinary people, would be better, but his performance would definitely be greatly affected.
Chen Cui cursed the rules in her heart - since she couldn't stop Mei Ruochu from entering, she would just disgust people somewhere else, right?
While quickly taking the food back to the kitchen, he also got some clean water for Mei Ruochu to rinse his mouth.
Mei Ruochu vomited three times before finally emptying the little food left in his stomach. Afterwards, he drank some water and was carried back to the house by Chen Cui and Lao Buyu, who took him to lie down for a while. He finally recovered. Seeing that Chen Cui and Lao Buyu were worried, he wanted to talk to them and reassure them.
Chen Cui and Lao Buyu did not stop him and told him to take a shower and rest quickly. They could discuss everything after everyone else came back.
Mei Ruochu ate something casually, changed his smelly clothes, and fell asleep, and never woke up again. It was obvious that the two and a half days in the Imperial Examination Hall were a huge torture for him both mentally and physically.
In the afternoon, the brothers Wei Shu and Wei Xi handed in their papers together as if they had telepathy, and met at the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall.
Wei Xi's physical condition dropped by 2 points in total, and the physical manifestation was that his face turned a little pale. Wei Shu took a quick look at him and squatted down in front of him without saying much.
The two brothers have been together day and night for these years, and the discord and estrangement in their early years have long disappeared.
Wei Xi indeed felt weak all over, so he didn't refuse and lay on Wei Shu's shoulder, and he carried him back to Shusheng Lane.
When the two of them returned to the house, Wei Xi had already fallen asleep on his back.
Wei Shu gently brought him into the house, and then hurried to the main room to eat.
Chen Cui boiled some rice soup, mixed the medicine for conditioning the body into it, and brought it into the house.
Wei Xi was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.
When Shen Cui fed him rice soup, Wei Xi thought it was Wei Shu who fed him, and hummed like a child: "Brother, you remember to take a bath before feeding me. Finally, I don't have to smell your stench."
Wei Shu had almost finished his meal outside, so he came in to see him, holding half a steamed bun in his mouth. He heard these words as he entered the room, raised his fist at him in amusement, and smelled the smell on his body. He frowned because of the odor, so he quickly changed his clothes and went to wash up.
Later, before nightfall, Mu Erpang and Cui Fei also returned one after another.
By that time everyone else had already gone to bed, and they were too tired to talk, so they quickly ate something, washed up, and went to bed.
The next day, August 11, they were going to enter again.
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