Chapter 734: The Third Examination (3)
Sun Shan returned to He's house and had dinner, but He Shujun and the others still hadn't come back. It seemed that they were preparing to fight until tomorrow noon.
In this imperial examination, after the first round, everyone exchanged information and found out that only the unlucky guy Sun Shan was drawn to a temporary examination room, and he was also the only one who drew a bad number.
After hearing the news, He Shujun and others twitched their lips. They were unable to express their feelings and could only sigh.
Sun Shan saw through their thoughts at a glance, and must have been saying: Ah Shan, you are so unlucky. Why do you always have to deal with bad exams? This time it was even worse, he was assigned to a leaky exam room, which was worse than the provincial exam.
Also, why is Ashan so closely related to shit and urine?
Thinking of the last time in Jinling, when they stewed Ashan and drank Huanglong soup, He Shujun and his friends trembled all over.
He immediately jumped three meters away, as if Sun Shan had contracted some infectious disease and was someone who could not be approached.
Old Madam He paid a large sum of money to hire a resident doctor to treat the He family's students. As soon as Sun Shan came back, the doctor immediately came over and helped with all his heart.
The conclusion is: I am still in good health and just need to have a good rest.
Then he prescribed some tranquilizers and told me to have a good rest.
Sun Shan lay leisurely in the bed and looked at the night sky outside. It was drizzling again.
Fortunately, I did not continue to insist on staying in the examination room. If I had insisted, the paper might have been wet by the rain.
Thinking that I have to go to the exam hall tomorrow night, if it rains, should I give up the exam?
My health is not a problem now, but what I fear most is rainy days. Even if I finish the test paper, it may be contaminated at any time.
Such a test paper is equivalent to not doing it at all and you will still fail the exam.
Gui Ge'er was also worried. He secretly glanced at Sun Shan and then quickly moved away. After a few seconds, he secretly glanced over again and then quickly moved away.
This repeated cycle made Sun Shan very upset.
Sun Dali asked Sun Dingnan to help him with the sewing. The clothes were torn, and his wife was not around. He did not want to trouble the servants of the He family. It would be expensive to ask someone to mend them, so he might as well mend them himself. Anyway, it was fine as long as it could be worn, and he did not pursue beauty.
Sun Dali was mending clothes. His hands were moving to sew, but his eyes, like Gui Ge'er, glanced at Sun Shan from time to time, wanting to say something but not daring to.
Sun Dingnan did the same. He would sneakily peek at Sun Shan, quickly move away, and then continue peeping, over and over again, leaving Sun Shan speechless.
It still gets dark early in February, and the rain outside is falling densely on the ground. The cold evening breeze blows in through the window.
Sun Shan's nose itched and he sneezed.
Gui Ge'er immediately said nervously: "Brother Shan, is it very cold? I'll go close the window."
He quickly closed the window, went to the kitchen, brought a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, and said anxiously: "Brother Shan, drink the ginger soup quickly. It's made with brown sugar. It's good for your body and warms you up. Drink it quickly."
Ginger can keep out the cold, and brown sugar can replenish the blood.
Brown sugar ginger soup can relieve exterior symptoms and dispel cold, warm the middle and stop vomiting, warm the lungs and stop coughing, detoxify and replenish blood.
There is no harm in drinking it, only benefits. It just means going to the toilet a few more times.
Sun Shan gulped down a large bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, and his stomach instantly swelled up to as big as a nine-pound belly, becoming round and plump.
Sun Shan asked, "Is Brother He's cold healed?"
Gui Ge'er shook his head and said, "Master He's servant said that not only has the condition not improved, but it has worsened. At first, he had a fever, a cold, a cough and a runny nose, and now his whole body is burning hot and he still feels very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Master He did not enter the venue. If he had forced himself to go in and could not come out, it would have been terrible. Especially since it rained last night, it would have been even worse."
It was indeed tragic. Sun Shan hid on the chopping board to avoid the rain last night, and most of his clothes were wet.
It was so cold and windy last night. Going in with an illness might be life-threatening.
Sun Dingnan asked cautiously: "Ashan, it rained last night. Did it affect you? Have you finished the test paper?"
Coming out so early, Sun Dingnan couldn't be sure whether Sun Shan had finished the test paper.
Especially since several of his fellow candidates who were going to take the exam did not show up, Sun Dingnan became even more anxious.
Sun Shan shook his head and said, "Although it rained yesterday, I finished the test paper early, so I came out as soon as the time came today. There is no point in staying in the examination room after finishing the test paper, so I might as well come back and have a good rest."
If it was an eight-part essay, Sun Shan would definitely not be able to finish it. Fortunately, except for the poems and essays, everything else in the second round was easy.
Sun Shan was really not interested in poetry, and the poem he produced in this examination was still mediocre.
In my previous life, apart from a few well-known Tang and Song poems that I could recite by heart, I really can't remember any famous poems from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
If you want to plagiarize, you have to remember it, but Sun Shan couldn't remember it at all and couldn't think of it.
In addition to the poem "Lime Chant": Thousands of hammers and chisels dug deep into the mountains, and the raging fire burned as if it was nothing. I am not afraid of being crushed to pieces, I just want to leave my innocence in the world.
Apart from the above, I can only remember one or two famous poems here and there.
Like in Tang Bohu's "Song of Peach Blossom Cottage", Sun Shan only remembered "others laugh at me for being too crazy, I laugh at others for not seeing through it."
If you ask him to recite the whole text, he won't be able to do it.
The poems written by Sun Shan were all learned in this life. As for how well he learned them?
I can only say that I tried my best.
Sun Dingnan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that Sun Shan had finished the test paper.
Just finish it. Once you finish it, you will have the opportunity to participate in the selection and have a chance to be on the list of successful candidates.
This time they came to the capital so carefully and entered the examination hall with such great difficulty. If they failed to take the examination again due to some force majeure, Sun Dingnan felt that they should not return to Sunjia Village and would be ashamed to face the fellow villagers of Sunjia Village.
I'm so unlucky that no one would believe me if I told them.
Sun Dali was absent-mindedly mending his clothes just now, and he and Sun Dingnan had the same idea, fearing that Sun Shan would be forced to leave.
Now that Sun Shan had finished the test paper, he could finally put his heart at ease. He said happily, "Ashan, it's good that you've finished it. As long as you have done your best and have no regrets, that's all."
Gui Ge'er was also very happy and had always wanted to ask Shan Ge if he had finished the test paper, but he didn't dare to ask.
Now that Shan Ge said it was done, the burden on my shoulders instantly disappeared.
With a big smile on his face, he said, "Brother Shan, you are really fast. The test questions must be easy to do. You will definitely do well this time."
Sun Shan smiled.
What can he do well in the exam this time? He will take the exam this time.
As for whether it was good or not, Sun Shan had no idea.
So far, I feel that the examination is not difficult, the content is bland, and it is very stable.
There are no overlapping questions and the test content can be solved quickly.
It seems that the word "stable" has been running through the emperor's first imperial examination.
Smooth and steady, no ambiguous questions.
Sun Shan didn't think any more and said to the three people from Sun Village, "You guys keep busy, I'll go to sleep first. I need to rest well. I haven't been sleeping well in the examination room."
Gui Ge'er quickly said, "Brother Shan, sleep well, we will go out and won't bother you."
Sun Shan shook his head: "It's okay, I have a charcoal fire here, it's warm, and the candlelight is bright enough, you can't disturb me."
Since the three members of the Sun family were not candidates, their treatment was much worse than that of Sun Shan.
It was much more comfortable to stay in Sunshan's house than in theirs.
Sun Shan was a heavy sleeper and he would fall asleep without fail.