Zhuangyuan Building, located on Qinghua Temple Street, has no empty seats at this time.
Since he dared to be called the Zhuangyuan Building, it is natural that he had been a Zhuangyuan. The champion building has not only produced champions, but also produced dozens of champions. This restaurant has been around for a long time, and it has been handed down from the previous dynasty, and it can be regarded as a well-known name.
Every spring, scholars from all over the country who go to the capital to take the exam will come to pay their respects, and they should be full of joy. If the candidates have a lot of money in their pockets, the Zhuangyuan Building will be the first place to live.
Without him, it is because the world believes that if you can live in the champion building, you will be able to become the champion. Even the price of this champion building is more than double the price of the same restaurant.
This Zhuangyuan Building occupies a huge area. In front of it is a three-story restaurant, and behind the restaurant is the place where guests live. Zhuangyuan Building is not only expensive to live in, but also more expensive than other places to eat, drink, and drink tea. People who come here to eat and drink tea are still like crucian carp crossing the river.
In addition to being festive, it is naturally also for this person who lives in the Zhuangyuan Building.
Being able to live here is either rich or expensive, and even if not, it is the great talents who are famous. It is also the owner of the Zhuangyuan Building who can do business. Every year, several recognized talents are invited to stay in the Zhuangyuan Building. Not only do they have the best rooms to live in, but they do not charge rent.
Now that the meeting has just passed, it is the time when the scholars relax unprecedentedly.
Or asking one or two friends for tea, or drinking alcohol, this kind of occasion is naturally indispensable for chatting and talking.
The main object of discussion in the past two days is the two of the five geniuses—
Yang Guangzhi of Shaoxing and Wang Xiu of Suzhou.
It is also the two people who are unlucky, and I don't know if they are prosperous and will decline, or some bad luck. It has probably been touted for a long time, the disaster god got on his body, one suddenly caught a cold before entering the tribute courtyard, and the other broke his arm in the tribute courtyard.
But the genius is worthy of being a genius. Even in such a miserable situation, the two of them insisted on the three trials. Especially Wang Xiu, he broke his arm in the first game, so he held on to the injured arm until the end of the first game, and then came out to treat the injury.
It's not a big deal for people, but they have suffered a lot, but in the first test in this state, those who know a little about Chunwei in their hearts will inevitably feel that these two are in danger.
Sure enough, after trying it out, the two stayed in the room behind closed doors for many days. And how many people praised them before, how many people laughed at them in private.
Hearing the whispered discussions of several scholars at the table next to him, Xue Tingxiang picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.
Mao Badou has always been restless. He had long gone to other tables to talk to people he knew, so Li Datian was still sitting here with him.
"Ting Xiang, we've been sitting for a long time, why don't we go back?" Li Datian asked.
"Why are you going back? It's noon now, so let's stay for dinner."
The food in the Zhuangyuan Building is not cheap, but Xue Tingxiang can still afford it. The three ordered a few dishes, took another pot of wine, and listened to Mao Badou gossip while eating and drinking.
As he was talking, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
Xue Tingxiang followed everyone's gaze and saw a young man in his twenties walking up.
This man was pale, wearing a cyan cotton robe, with a white cloth tied around his left arm. At first glance, he was injured.
He didn't speak after he came in, just went to a table with a solemn face and sat down. The people at that table were a few examples from Fujian, and they discussed Wang Xiu's affairs with others before, but when they saw Wang Xiulai, they immediately changed their expressions of flattery, which made people very shameless.
Because the victim appeared, naturally everyone couldn't point to the monk and scold the bald donkey, and then started talking about other things.
At Wang Xiu's table, a middle-aged man in his thirties whispered to Wang Xiu, "Brother Wang Xian, don't pay attention to these people who are high and low. Not to mention that the list has not been released yet, even if it is released, you really are. There is no name on the list, and you will take the test again in three years. With your literary talent, a Jinshi in a mere area is naturally easy to catch."
"Thank you, Brother Li, for your relief." Wang Xiu sighed and forced a smile: "My luck is indeed worse."
The words have been said like this, and the people at the same table naturally comforted you with every word. Not long after, Xue Tingyan saw Wang Xiuyi change her depressive expression from a distance, chatting and laughing with the people at the same table, but it was no different from usual.
Here, Mao Badou said in a low voice: "This person is also strange. Don't be afraid that his head was caught by the door. He is a genius, can't he see that these people he befriends are all villains and hypocrites?"
Xue Tingxiang snorted slightly: "Maybe people like to be with villains."
It's really invincible to say that, even Mao Badou couldn't say anything, but Xue Tingxiang's eyes flashed.
After that, he deliberately slowed down the speed of eating. Wang Xiu's table was used up first, and a few people vacated the table. In the end, it was Wang Xiuhui's account.
In the next few days, Xue Tingxiang seemed to be in conflict with the champion building and would come every day. Of course, I will also go elsewhere, and some of the tea parties, poetry and drinking parties have not been pulled down. The only thing he didn't go was that every night, some scholars would go to the Bada Hutong in groups of three or five to listen to a little song and drink a little wine.
However, Xue Tingxiang never went, no matter how others persuaded or motivated him. Including Mao Badou and Li Datian, when night fell, the three of them returned to Jing'er Hutong.
Shuntian Gongyuan is located in the southeast of Chongwenmen in the inner city.
This long-standing tribute courtyard has been the location of the Beijing Municipal Examination and even the township examination in the Shuntian area since the former dynasty. Its buildings are tall, majestic and orderly, and naturally it is not comparable to other places of Gongyuan.
At this time, outside the Shuntian Gongyuan, it was still closely guarded. In the Gongyuan, after the initial arrangement, name-saving, transcription and cross-checking, all the exam papers for this meeting were handed over to the inner curtain through the outer curtain.
A total of two chief executive officers and vice presidents, as well as eighteen room examiners, gathered together.
The examination papers were divided into eighteen equal parts, and under the supervision of the chief and vice presidents and supervisors, the room examiners drew lots. Whichever one is drawn, the examiner will carry the large stack of examination papers into his examination room.
In addition to the room examiner, there are four other examiners in this examination room. These examiners are all low-level officials from the three provinces and six ministries, and they are also among the inner curtain officials.
Because there are too many examination papers, the examiners will mark the papers first, and leave the appropriate ones. Those with many typos or unintelligible characters, or even taboos, will be dropped. Then pick out more than 30 papers for the outstanding ones, and more than 20 papers for the spare ones, and then the room examiners will judge the papers.
After grading the papers, the room examiner will leave the papers that he thinks fit and recommend the papers to the vice president. The process is the same as the rural exam.
At this time, in the Spring and Autumn Room, the scoring officer Dou Anzhun was busy reading the papers.
He has been grading papers for many days. There are 18 examination rooms in total, with nearly 6,000 examination papers, which means that each room has to be graded nearly 300 papers, and these examination papers are all read by him and three other colleagues who are also graders.
If there are only more than 300 copies, in fact, one point per person is not too much. But as a reviewer, the responsibility is heavy, and the lower-level people are more cautious. All because these test papers will eventually be handed over to the Ministry of Rites for grinding. If there are any mistakes or omissions, the entire test room will be held accountable.
And the first to be held accountable are the examiners.
So they not only read part of the test by one person, but crossed each other to read all the test papers once. If they come across a test paper that is difficult to compare, the four of them will make a decision together.
Dou Anzhun put aside an unintelligible test paper, and all the people in the pile were rejected.
Zhang Hu next to him smiled at him, then stood up to make tea, and also made a cup for him along the way. The two sat and drank tea, talking about the past few days of grading.
They are all from a serious imperial examination background, and whether the articles on the test papers are good or bad, they are naturally qualified to comment on one or two.
But I didn't say much. The temporary supervisor would go into each room from time to time to investigate. If he saw that the examiner was not doing serious business, he was drinking tea and talking gossip. Naturally, he would be recorded.
Don’t look at the fact that they won’t say anything about you in the Gongyuan, but the one written down will be sent to the Ministry of Rites, and then sent to the yamen of the government department where they are located. affected future.
The two put down the tea cups and continued to read the papers. I don't know how long it took, when I heard Zhang Hu suddenly pat his thigh and say, "Good article!"
This voice was particularly loud in the silent examination room. Not only Dou Anzhun, who was beside him, raised his head, but the two examiners on the other side also looked over.
Probably a little tired, the other three all stood up and walked over. Zhang Hu handed them the test paper in his hand, and several of them looked at it.
"Unpretentious, but every word is precious."
"Zhongzheng is stable, Fadu is sensible."
Dou Anzhun also stroked his beard and said: "The word dictionary is cut, and it can be used to pass scriptures, but those who have been immersed in it for many years cannot write it."
This kind of unanimous evaluation is the first in this spring and autumn room. Seeing this, Peng Baoyi, the room examiner sitting in the first place, couldn't help but look up.
"Sir, this volume can be listed at the top of the recommendation volume."
"Oh?" Peng Baoyi put down the test paper in his hand and asked a question. He smiled again: "It's rare that you wait for an unanimous opinion, bring it to me to see."
Brigadier Dou An held the exam paper to Peng Baoyi and returned to his seat.
Peng Baoyi didn't read it immediately, but read through the half-read paper. He did not participate in the initial marking, but had to look at the papers that had been dropped by the four marking officers. Of course, it is not all-seeing, but random selection. Three hundred exam papers, he needs to randomly select fifty to review.
However, it can be seen that the examiners in this room are extremely responsible. He has read many copies and has no other objections.
Peng Baoyi picked up the exam paper, and the first line of words caught his eye as soon as he read it, and then he read several pages in a row, hungry and thirsty, and he let out a long sigh of relief until he finished reading it.
His heart was still beating uncontrollably. This was an uncontrollable resonance after reading the good article.
Looking at people from Yuwen, a picture even appeared in his mind involuntarily, a man with a very good bearing was expressing his opinions in a cadence. His attitude is calm, but he is well-founded, without losing the gentleman's demeanor, but also convincing.
Good style, good demeanor.
After hearing Dou Anzhun's high evaluation before, he didn't take it seriously, but now it seems that the phrase 'the word dictionary is cut and can be matched with scriptures' is not an exaggeration.
Another rising star!
Don't know who it is
Peng Baoyi couldn't help but guess in his heart, was it Zhao Pinhe from Jiaxing or Wang Xiu from Fujian? Or is it Zhuo Hejun of Suzhou
Peng Baoyi has read the articles of these people, but it is not their style of writing.
After thinking about it for a long time, Peng Baoyi didn't think about it, so he simply stopped thinking about it. However, he put this exam paper aside, and it was a special treatment at first glance.
The three of Dou Anzhun, who had been secretly aiming at this side, smiled when they saw this, thinking that the leader of their room might have come out.
Another two days passed, and all the exam papers in this room were considered finished. Next, there is nothing to do with the examiner, but the examiner and the main vice president jointly examine the paper.
Peng Baoyi took a clerk holding all the examination papers to Hengjian Hall, where he and more than a dozen other examiners would complete the next grading and rank them.
At this time, two people also came over from the corridor opposite. It was another room examiner who brought the examination papers of the room where he was. He was also accompanied by a famous scribe, holding a large tray on which were neatly stacked test papers.
Because there seemed to be a lot of exam papers, they were coded in a tower shape, with an exam paper on top, the same as Peng Baoyi's.
This is an unwritten habit of every room examiner. If the examiner below is grading the paper and feels that there is an article that can be called the leader of the room, and the room examiner agrees, it will be placed on the top.
In this way, other room examiners can also know what to do when they exchange papers for each other, and if another room examiner agrees, they will recommend papers to the main vice president together.
It's time for a jinshi to run away.
The examiners in the opposite room are also from the Spring and Autumn Room. The examiners in the 18th room are named after the Five Classics. The four books are not mentioned.
Although Spring and Autumn is not a big hit, there are quite a few. Three of the 18 rooms are Spring and Autumn rooms.
The examiner's surname was Sun and his name was Yuhai, and he was the imperial edict of the Imperial Academy. Peng Baoyiguan is a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, so the two are also colleagues.
As the two approached, they smiled and bowed to each other.
However, they did not talk, but drove out of the corridor side by side, planning to go to Hengjian Hall.
The two of them were quite good, but unfortunately the clerk behind them made a mistake. The two scribes were already holding the high exam papers, but when they came out of the corridor, they bumped their elbows, and the exam papers in their hands spilled on the ground.
"Why are you so careless!" Sun Yuhai scolded.
The two scribes didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly squatted down to pick up the exam papers.
Peng Baoyi said good things for them: "Master Sun, don't worry, these exam papers have to be re-read anyway, even if they are messed up, it's fine."
"I'm afraid of causing trouble."
The so-called trouble is that if the order is correct, even if you read it again, the other party will be able to grade the paper according to the first room, and quickly divide the next level.
If the order is disrupted, you have to start over from the beginning. It may happen that another room examiner takes a fancy to the paper, but it fails to be selected, which not only brings a lot of trouble to yourself but also to the other party.
"It's okay, it's okay."
The exam papers were quickly packed up, and the two led the clerk forward again until they reached a fork in the road.
This is also to avoid it. Generally, in the Gongyuan, even among colleagues, they can talk less and talk as little as possible, so as not to arouse the suspicion of others.
Although they went separate ways, the two of them went to Hengjian Hall with their front and back feet. After everyone entered, the door closed tightly behind them.