Rise From the Humble

When I woke up, it was already sunset in the afternoon.

Zhu Pingan opened his eyes and saw the test questions for this exam. They were placed on the simple wooden table and pressed down with one of his inkstones. It should be that the person who wrote the papers saw that he was sleeping too soundly and didn't wake him up. , he put it on the table and pressed it with an inkstone.

The examiners of this exam should be several examiners. Once the examiners are confirmed in the Ming Dynasty, they have to go straight to the Gongyuan. The Gongyuan will be blocked immediately and guarded by heavy soldiers. Birds cannot come out and ants cannot enter! These examiners will not be released until the examination is completed, the papers are corrected, and the rankings are determined.

This is for the sake of confidentiality, for the fairness of the imperial examination, and to avoid leaking questions for personal gain.

According to the usual practice, the number of questions in the first test of the general examination is about the same as that of the township test. There are seven questions in total, including three questions about the meaning of the four books and four questions about the meaning of the five classics. This is the most important exam for the stereotype.

I heard that the official examiner this time was the famous Xu Jie in history. He was the master who defeated Yan Song. Therefore, Zhu Ping'an was very interested in the questions he presided over and wanted to see the master's painstaking efforts. What kind of questions come from your brain?

Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but gently push away the rabbit fur blanket covering his body, stood up, washed briefly and dried his hands, then tidied up the table, put pens, inks, papers, inkstones, etc. in order, and officially started his journey to the test of Yu Leap over the Dragon Gate. .

Open the test paper, and the questions for this exam will appear in front of you.

If the first exam is the most important exam in this exam, then the first question is the most important question in this exam. The quality of your eight-part essay writing in this first question almost determines your success or failure in this exam.

"If the Jin people have Mrs. Feng, Mrs. Feng will get out of the car with her arms."

This is the first question in this examination. For most candidates, this question is slightly different from usual.

Generally, the title of the eight-legged essay is to select one sentence, two sentences, or a chapter from the "Four Books" as the title, which is consistent. But there is something different about today's question. It is disconnected. "There is a woman named Feng in Jin Dynasty" and "Mrs. Feng got off the car with her arms crossed" are not connected together. There are other sentences between them. This method of making questions is called cut-and-take questions. This kind of question is very innovative. You don't have to worry about it being the same as the previous questions, and you don't have to worry about someone cheating.

In fact, similar questions appeared before this test, but not many, only once or twice. Although today's stereotyped question is an interception question, it is relatively simple among the interception questions. Everyone can understand it, and it is easier to write stereotyped essays.

When seeing this question, all the candidates were only slightly surprised by this question, but they all understood it, so there was no noise.

This title comes from "Mencius. Try your best". "There was a woman named Feng in the Jin Dynasty. She was good at fighting tigers and she became a good soldier. In the wild, there were people chasing tigers, and the tigers were trapped in the ground. No one dared to pick on them. When they saw Mrs. Feng, they rushed to meet her. Mrs. Feng rushed to get off the car. , everyone is pleased with it, and those who are scholars laugh at it.”

Seeing this topic, Zhu Pingan thought for a while.

After writing this eight-part essay, you can simply understand it from the title. Although you have to write around the title when writing, to understand the meaning of the title, you have to combine it with the context at that time. At that time, the state of Qi was suffering from famine. Chen Zhen said to Mencius: "People in the country thought that the teacher would once again persuade the king of Qi to open the granary in Tangdi to help the victims. Probably he should not do this again." Mencius did not answer him. Whether he would go to persuade King Qi to open a warehouse, but said that if he went by himself, he would be Feng Fu, and then told Chen Zhen the story of Feng Fu.

Why did the scholars laugh at Mrs. Feng?

Zhu Ping'an thought about it carefully, and felt from the tone of Mencius's words that he did not completely deny Feng Fu's actions, because "Being Feng Fu again" actually gained the support of everyone, and Feng Fu saved so many lives. It was only the scholars who laughed at Feng Fu.

Zhu Pingan imagined himself as Mencius. If he was Mencius, would I persuade King Qi to release grain?

What’s more important, a joke or a statement?

I will go to persuade King Qi to release food, so Mencius will not!

To put it into context again, today’s Ming Dynasty is dominated by captives from the north and Japanese from the south. There are also famines in the country from time to time, and then Zhu Ping'an understood what the questioner meant.

So, I studied ink and laid paper, and started to make stereotypes on the draft paper.

"At the beginning, the Jin people changed their careers to do good. In the end, they cheated others and lost themselves."

This is the first sentence written by Zhu Pingan, which is a breakdown of the eight-legged essay. The meaning of this sentence is this: In the Jin Dynasty, this person named Feng Fu was able to change his brave and powerful behavior at first, and Become a good, kind person. Later, for the safety of others, he lost his own behavior and became tough again.

This sentence is very exciting to solve the problem. It perfectly summarizes the Jin Youfeng's wife who got off the car with her arms, and it is also the main point of the article, which makes people understand at a glance.

Then Zhu Pingan continued to write, and Zhu Pingan continued to write the part that carries the title. Feng Fu has become a kind person, why does she still go to hunt tigers? Mencius probably knew this story, so he compared the matter of asking him to persuade King Qi to open the granary to rescue the victims.

After finishing the part of the title, Zhu Pingan stopped writing, put his hands on his head, rubbed his forehead, and began to meditate.

The first eight-part essay at the beginning almost determines the success or failure of this examination. It is not that easy to stand out among the best candidates in the country. As for the eight-part essay, the level of those who can break through the siege of the Tongsheng Examination and the Provincial Examination is quite high, and everyone has a solid foundation in the eight-part essay.

If you want to stand out, if you want to attract the examiner's attention among more than 5,000 eight-part essays, and get a good ranking, a smooth eight-part essay is not enough, you need innovation.

You have to make the examiner's eyes light up.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Pingan suddenly curled his lips slightly, and there seemed to be the light of a shooting star in his eyes.

Haha, yes, then I dipped it in ink and continued writing.

In the middle part and the back part of this eight-part article, Zhu Pingan changed the way of discussion in the past and used description to exaggerate and exaggerate the crisis situation of people before Feng Fu attacked the tiger, and also described Feng Fu's actions of attacking the tiger. The image is drawn.

Of course, it also uses two lines of parallel text, but it uses description rather than discussion. In this way, this eight-part essay is enough to stand out among the more than 5,000 eight-part essays.

It was getting dark, so Zhu Pingan lit a candle, turned on the light, and wrote the last paragraph of this eight-legged essay in the emotional tone of Mencius:

"Excuse me, if Mrs. Feng started out fighting tigers, she didn't know that she was a good person at the end; she was already a good person, but she didn't know she would fight tigers again. But people expect me to be like Fatang again. What's the matter? It’s different from Feng Fu’s arms getting out of the car!”

The soldier who was responsible for supervising the examination of Zhu Pingan's residence was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhu Pingan writing furiously under the candlelight.

The candidate with the bad number in the other direction has vomited seven or eight times, but we, the examinee, don’t feel like sitting in the bad number for the exam at all. We eat well and sleep soundly, that’s all. But this person actually did it consecutively The questions flowed smoothly, and were not affected at all by the toilet next door.

After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan put down his brush, read the eight-part essay he had written, and nodded with satisfaction.