Originally, the exam was always you testing yours, I tested mine, who has the ability, who has the ability, is the well water does not violate the river water. How to be jealous is human nature, the so-called "people are not jealous is a mediocrity." Qu Yuan's old master also injured himself and was jealous, and in his "Leaving the Troubles", he sang loudly: "Qiang Nei forgives himself to measure others, and each is jealous of his heart"! It has always been Wu Dalang who opened the shop - the guests who came in could not be higher than me, so a few children began to tease this thick and honest person who had to test Xiucai.
At that time, people were superstitious, and a popular activity of asking the gods about their future and destiny was called Fu Qi. The method is to use a large wooden plate filled with sand, scraped flat with thin wood chips, and a wooden stick supported by a person at both ends, and a small wooden stick with sand in the middle of the stick, called a pen. The beggar burned the incense table and knelt down in front of the sand table and prayed, asking for instructions, and the two pens held by the two men wrote the words of God's reply on the sand table.
Zhou Shi naturally had this kind of activity in the county where he lived, and Zhou Shi was certain whether he could get a talent in the palace, and he was prompted by several of his peers to go to the altar to ask. This time, it was his two peers who went to the altar to support the wooden stick and pen. This Zhou Ye, Zhou Laoshi, knelt down and asked the first question he asked: "Daxian you always said that I can't win when I enter the palace examination show?" Nor is he like others who are speechless, but silently plead in their hearts, so that the heart is known to God. His elder brother seemed to be talking to God, and his voice should be asked, and the two helpers laughed in their hearts, but they drew a pen in their hands and wrote out two big words, "Can be!" ”
Zhou Shi quickly knelt down and prostrated his head, and guang told "Noh Zhong" that it was not okay, and he also asked: "DaXian you always say that I can win, of course, it is good, but I have a few drops of ink in my stomach, Daxian you always know, how I am a county examination boy, there is no need for me to tell Daxian again, what else do you not know." Since you said that I can win, then ask Daxian to tell me the topic of this year's government examination, I am ready! ”
He almost laughed out loud at the two guys with the pens above, anyway, to tease him, two people one pushed a wooden stick to write, one Shunjin followed on the sand table, wrote a sentence from the four books: "Gentlemen are frank, and villains are long-standing." It was a deliberate satire on him, and he didn't understand it at all, but he memorized the book and prostrated his head and went home.
At that time, there were many printed and copied texts for the exams of predecessors, and just like today's booksellers compile and print a large number of "Excellent Composition Selections" for primary and secondary school students to make money, they are easy to buy. Since the Immortal pointed out that the title of this year's Examination Xiucai was this book, he found a copy of the article titled by the Eight Strands Literary Masters who did not know which year and which generation, memorized it in the morning, memorized it at night, slept on the pillow and backed it, read hard day and night, did not quit in the cold and summer, and even the stone brain was also engraved. I didn't expect that the heavenly way would reward me for my diligence, and I would go to the house to take the exam, and the essay test questions on the field would indeed be "gentlemen are frank, and villains are long-standing relatives." His brother was called Chunfeng proud, and his heart was familiar with it, and he copied the big article he memorized, and at that time, the eight strands of the world's shiwen were simply a mountain of manuscripts, and there were no well-known writers and authoritative magazines like now, and even the erudite examiners had no ability to read all the articles of the same name in the world, and pointed out that Zhou Shi's articles were copied. It is also very similar to the current number of literary writers, even the most intelligent editors can hardly turn over the national literary journals. In this way, the examiner admired this exam masterpiece very much, so he gave him the first place in xiucai.
According to the legal system of the state at that time, Xiucai saw that the county officials could not kneel in the public court, allow them to wear specific square scarves and hats on their heads, and wear silk shirts and straight embellishments, committing the crime of slapping their butts on a small board in the lobby, nor could they be beaten in the hall according to their pants like the ordinary people, and could only be sent to the yamen of the teachings (also known as instructors) who specialized in Xiucai, and beat their palms on the "Minglun Hall" offering Confucius the god's seat. Zhou Shi he had such a coincidence, the gang of guys in the county who teased him were simply confused, originally tricked him into making a false problem to make him ugly, but he did not expect to make it real and bumped into him, too angry. But knowing that he can't make an article, how can he make such a good article? It's confusing. As for Zhou Shi, no matter how honest he is, he will not tell the actual situation of the article he got to "Ban Chao Teng (Transcription) WenGong". And those people could not see the original, only to stare at him with dry eyes and put on the show hat.