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Chapter 15 The Head of the Desk

It turned out that the sample essay copied by Wu Jie was the official examination article when Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty was in the fourth year of the Kangxi period.

Yuan Mei was a famous poet and essayist in the Qing Dynasty. He was appointed as the magistrate of Jiangning and one of the three great masters of Kangxi. He was a representative figure in the literary world.

As a liberal arts student, Wu Jie was very familiar with this person. The first time I knew Yuan Mei’s name was the book "Suiyuan Cookbook" he wrote. As a veteran foodie, if I hadn’t even read this book, I would be a little embarrassed when I met my fellow students.

When I first read this book, what impressed me most was a recipe for steaming pig heads. Unlike ordinary people’s methods, when making this dish, you must first cook a large pot of rice wine and steam the pig heads with rice wine to remove the fishy smell and filth in it.

As for the snacks in the recipe, such as dried tofu, fennel beans, they are also valuable materials for studying secular culture in Jiangnan in the mid-Qing Dynasty.

Later, Wu Jie read his ghost novel "Zi Buyu", "Suiyuan Painting Book" and his poetry collection one after another. After a long time, his impression has become very blurred.

But I have to admit that this guy is the most interesting and knowledgeable among the Qing Dynasty cultural people.

Using articles from the Jinshi exam to deal with county examinations is a bit of a suspect. Moreover, although there are many articles in Wu Jie's database, most of them are ordinary people. There are not many works by famous celebrities like this, and they are used less frequently.

Besides, Yuan Mei's writing is sophisticated and profound, but now it comes from the hands of a young man Wu Jie, which makes people doubt it.

Unfortunately, the words have been written on the paper, and according to the examination room rules, they cannot be replaced.

Wu Jie could only bite the bullet and continue copying.

Wu Jie started writing and was excited by the magistrate who had been paying attention to him. He walked slowly to Wu Jie and looked down. He was shocked: The words were written too neatly, as standard as woodblock printing. If you take such a test paper in the future, you only need to paste the name and do not need to copy it. As expected, he is a child of an official family. He has learned to write a library style since he was a child and is determined to be an imperial examination.

The Pavilion's physical strength is to be elegant and solemn, which is a product of exams. It emphasizes cleanliness and neatness, making people look at the eyes without being tired. However, it does not pursue personality and charm, so naturally there is no calligraphy at all.

Calligraphers in the modern society where Wu Jie is located hate the style of the Pavilion when they mention it, and they feel that this thing is not called calligraphy at all, but a constraint on human nature.

Wu Jie also agreed with it. In fact, he liked to be the most popular in Pijiang on weekdays, followed by Song Huizong's thin gold style, and he also scoffed at the Guange style. But this was in the Ming Dynasty examination hall. If he could write a neat hand-made Guange style, it would be a great bonus. He was not a fool, so he would naturally not play with his personality on the test paper.

No matter what era you are in, if you want to get involved in the system, you have to do things according to the rules of the game within the system.

Sure enough, when I saw Wu Jie's paper, the magistrate felt happy and was extremely happy. He couldn't help but look at Wu Jie's article again. When he saw it, he felt a little disappointed.

Wu Jie just happened to write the beginning part.

In fact, even a great man like Yuan Mei writes strictly in the eight-legged format, and the beginning is still regular, mature and thick, without any outstanding features.

Disappointment is disappointment. In contrast, Wu Jie's articles are rigorous in format and are very skillful in writing. I don't know how much better it is than other candidates.

To be honest, many of the things written by children are nonsense, and taking a look at them once will make your eyes dirty. Fortunately, there is a character like Wu Jie in the current subject, which makes it impossible for a single talent to be selected for this exam.

He looked at it again, and at this time, the magistrate posted an unusual place.

Indeed, Wu Jie's article was a bit dull and a dull beginning, but after he finished writing the lecture, the magistrate felt that he was trapped and trapped by this integrated text, and he felt a little breathless.

After careful consideration, if this article is changed to yourself, it can only be written in this way according to Wu Jie's general idea. It is difficult to change a word.

Thinking of this, the magistrate was surprised and suddenly widened his eyes.

He was also a Jinshi and was a seventh-rank magistrate who was actually taught. He was also very knowledgeable and was very proud of his articles and background. Today, when he saw Wu Jie's writing, he had a strange idea in his mind: Is Wu Jie's ability to write articles more than me?

He stopped his steps and his eyes fell on Wu Jie's paper, and refused to move away.

I have to say that the writing of a brush is really slow. Yuan Mei’s article is about 2,000 words. If you use a computer, it will be done in twenty minutes; if you change it to a fountain pen, it will take half an hour.

When using a brush, it is also a meticulous pavilion body, so the speed is naturally very slow.

When I started to start the second-strength stock, half an hour had passed.

During this period, candidates kept handing over the papers, and the papers were handed over to the magistrate by the yamen runners.

The magistrate only took a look and compared Wu Jie's paper. He felt that the things written by these candidates were so unsightly that they could not bear to see, so he handed them over to the yamen runners, and was too lazy to mark the papers.

Time passed little by little. When Wu Jie wrote down the middle two horns and entered the second horns, an hour had passed, and the sky outside was already bright.

A red sun hangs high in the sky, and another sunny sky.

The magistrate stood behind Wu Jie, feeling his legs a little weak, and his chest was so bored by Wu Jie's outrageously mature words.

The magistrate was even more shocked: This young man was only sixteen or seventeen years old, so why was he so thick? It makes no sense!

When Wu Jie wrote the last two strands, he probably thought it was too annoying to write in the style of the Pavilion. Perhaps because he was able to write smoothly, the handwriting was filled with the charm of Huang Tingjian, and the speed became faster. The whole paper also became bright red and lively, like the bamboo leaves that had passed by rain, green and lush.

"Okay!" The heart in the magistrate's heart, which was suppressed by the neat text, suddenly relaxed, and was extremely comfortable. He shouted "Okay", and couldn't help but recite the line of text written by Wu Jie: "We must welcome and send you off without vain spring and autumn, save farming and conserve, and without vain years, the creatures have not moved, but the seventy-two countries have the heart of scattering the wind and fish... Good articles, good articles!"

More than two thousand words have been written before, but it is said that not only does not have any outstanding features, but it makes people feel depressed when reading it. However, this sentence is neat and beautiful, showing the eternal style of Yuan Mei and Yuan Zi.

This is the finishing touch when the pen is released, it is like someone poking a hole in the window, and the breeze is coming through. When you read it, it will be like wings on the armpit and it will be floating in the air.

When Wu Jie heard this series of good words, he knew that the first level on the road to the imperial examination had passed smoothly, without twists and turns, without turbulence, everything was natural, and it was as if it was light.

The final conclusion of the last sentence of more than twenty words is no longer important. When Wu Jie finished writing the last word, the magistrate who was waiting next to him snatched the brush from his hand and circled a little bit on the paper.

"This..." Wu Jie stood up in surprise.

The yamen runner next to him smiled and said, "The county master has already admitted you on the spot."

In the county examination room, examiners usually mark the papers on the spot. When they encounter satisfactory papers, they will pick up their pens and draw marks on them. They will be admitted on the spot, which is called circles.

Everything was expected, but Wu Jie was still a little surprised. He quickly bowed to the ground and asked again to confirm this point: "Thank you, the county emperor. I just don't know if you still use it for late-life exams in the last two exams?

"What are you taking? I'm the first person in this subject." The magistrate laughed.

The shock was filled with a low commotion in the examination room, and the eyes of dozens of candidates fell on Wu Jie at the same time, full of envy.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, I'll leave now."

"Wait, although you have won the first place in this subject, you won't have to take the exam again in the future. However, it's still early anyway, so I will give another question, so you can take a look." After seeing Wu Jie's words, the magistrate was reluctant to let him go.

Being able to see Wu Jie's words in such a lifeless and full of garbage articles is a great pleasure in life. If there are good words, it is a good story.

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