After eating, Gu Jiao tidied up the house, went to the Westinghouse to cover the quilt for Xiaojingkong, and then went back to the room to sleep.
It has been two months since the last dream, and since then Gu Jiao has never dreamed again.
Unexpectedly, that night, she dreamed again.
It's just that what she dreamed of was not Xiao Liulang, but her "self".
She dreamed that she became the daughter of Gu Mansion, met Gu Jinyu of the hot spring villa, and returned to the capital with Gu Jinyu.
She lived in a house with carved beams and painted buildings, and she was served by more than a dozen servants every day, and her family members who had never been masked loved her.
The servants respectfully called her Miss Gu, but the good times did not last long.
Gu Jinyu is beautiful, demure and elegant, knowledgeable and sensible, and has an extraordinary conversation.
On the other hand, she has a crippled face, rude demeanor, does not know a single big character, and speaks clumsily.
In the strong contrast of Gu Jinyu, she became a complete joke.
Everyone is saying that the Gu family brought back a wild girl from the countryside.
People began to laugh at her, daughters began to alienate her, and even the family members who once loved her didn't seem to know how to deal with her.
In order to save what should belong to her, she did some bad things under the instigation of people with a heart, which caused everyone to be disappointed with her.
In the end, she was sent to Bie Zhuang outside the capital, where she was unhappy and heartbroken every day, and finally died in a cold winter.
When Gu Jiao woke up, she wondered why she had such a dream.
When she dreamed about things related to Xiao Liulang, she understood that those things would happen, but not on her own.
Not for anything else, just because the "she" in the dream is not her at all.
She is neither ignorant nor clumsy.
She won't care about what others think of her, she won't be jealous of Gu Jinyu, she won't be provoked, and she won't use those mentally retarded tricks against Gu Jinyu.
If she really wanted to kill someone, she would do it better than mopping the floor.
As for being heartbroken without the love of his family, that's even more ridiculous.
So, why did she have this wild dream? Is your brain pumping
On the other side, Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin's carriage finally arrived at the Fucheng Pingcheng after a long journey for several days.
They didn't come too early, and the inn next to the test room was full.
Twenty taels of silver for a room is simply a sky-high asking price.
But there is no way, who makes the candidates wait? Can only obediently pay for the money.
When the government exam is over and the first batch of candidates who fail the list leave, the price will drop by half, and when the academy exam is over, the price will drop by half again.
Feng Lin and the driver were greedy and ate unclean things on the road, and they were so upset that they almost couldn't go on the road. Fortunately, there was diarrhea medicine prepared by Gu Jiao.
Xiao Liulang is all well, but he is not used to falling asleep every night.
Two days later, the government test began.
The location of the prefectural examination was at the Pingcheng Gongyuan, and the candidates brought the examination into the venue at every moment.
Different from the examination documents of the county examination, the government examination issued to each candidate an examination card made of fish bones.
There are four major examination sheds in the Gongyuan of Pingcheng, and most of the A-brand examination sheds are the top of the county examination cases and the ranking is the former, and Xiao Liulang is also among them.
The big test shed is divided into countless small test rooms, one for each person. The place is not big, but there is a desk, a pad and a narrow wooden bed.
Candidates are not allowed to bring in anything except for the citations. The candidates’ pen, ink, paper and inkstone are distributed by the Gongyuan. In addition, there are three meals a day, and quilts for the night are also sent by specially-assigned persons.
If candidates are tired, they can rest at any time. As long as they do not cheat or violate the discipline of the examination room, no one interferes even if they sleep in it for four days and four nights.
There is no fixed situation in the government exam, so candidates must obediently complete the three exams, and they are not allowed to leave the exam room except when they go to the toilet and walk out of the exam room under the guidance of a special person.
Once you leave, you cannot return to the exam room, regardless of the circumstances.
The first is the scriptures.
The scriptures of the prefectural examination are required to pass three or more scriptures, and the “Book of Filial Piety” and “The Analects of Confucius” are mandatory, and candidates for the remaining scriptures can choose one of the two “Book of Songs” and “Zhou Li”, and write them in dictation according to the specified paragraphs.
This may seem simple, but you need to know that apart from the "Book of Filial Piety", which has only 2,369 characters, the other three books add up to more than 90,000 characters. There are more than 50,000 words, and the amount of memorization is huge.
The volume of questions on the sutras is also very large, and the fastest time to write them is in the afternoon. Usually, it is not until dusk that people will hand in the papers one after another.
Xiao Liulang only wrote for half an hour before he stopped writing and went to sleep.
His test paper was covered with white paper and pressed with an inkstone.
The invigilator was stunned.
This is... done
No, it's impossible, no one can answer that fast!
Unless you recite these sutras by heart, you can write without thinking.
This is not something ordinary geniuses can do. Who does he think he is? The former juvenile offering wine - Zhaodu Xiaohouye
The invigilator felt that he probably couldn't answer, so he simply gave up and didn't write.
It's still a county trial case leader, and it really embarrassed their county!
After the test, a special person will come up to collect the paper, first name it, and then put it in a special box, even the invigilator can't see the paper surface. And when I saw it, the name had been smeared, so I didn't know which exam paper belonged to which candidate.
Perhaps the first game Xiao Liulang impressed the invigilator too deeply. In the next two games, the invigilator also paid special attention to him.
The second essay test is about the candidates' ability to speak words. There are not many restrictions on wording and writing. It is the easiest one of the three.
Xiao Liulang only did it for half an hour and then went to sleep.
You... can you stop being so self-sacrificing? How easy essays are! Can't even write this? How did you pass the county exam? Are your students this year so impatient? !
The last one was an eight-part essay, and it took two consecutive days to test it, which showed its difficulty.
Especially this time, it was the provincial governor Zhuang who came from the capital to write the question himself. Zhuang provincial governor picked two irrelevant sentences from "The Analects of Confucius" - poor without flattery, rich without arrogance, sensitive to things but cautious of words. , let the candidates put them together abruptly to break the question.
But within a quarter of an hour, two candidates collapsed due to too much pressure.
They were carried out and the exam was void.
The invigilator secretly scolded you, "Why don't you give your father a paw for such a difficult test question!"
He thought that Xiao Liulang would give up going to sleep within half an hour this time, but he would have been sitting there without moving.
"'Poor without flattery, rich without arrogance, sensitive to things but cautious of words', why did Mr. Zhuang assign such a difficult homework? Ah Heng, help me do it!"
The girl's bright smile flashed through her mind, vividly in her mind, as if it were yesterday.
(End of this chapter)