Li Xiaonan (same as Nanyin), wearing his brother Li Xuedong's short white coarse cloth jacket and coarse cotton trousers, had her hair tied up in a tight bun on the top of her head, her head hanging slightly, revealing her slender neck, which made her very delicate and gentle.
Li Xiaonan held her breath and looked up. Seeing the collar of Mr. Gao's indigo cotton gown, she dared not look up again.
Mr. Gao was about forty years old, with a refined temperament and a gentle look at Li Xuedong, who looked timid. He took a picture with pity, "Don't be nervous. OK, you three enter the arena, remember, don't panic, just as you usually do in school, and concentrate. Go."
Mr. Gao gave two instructions, stood with his back and hands, and watched the three men enter the arena.
This is the first round of the examination for children and the first round of the county examination.
Li Xiaonan came to take the test for her brother Li Xuedong.
This exam has a bearing on the life and death of their sister and brother.
Li Xiaonan walked at the end of the five people who joined together, learned from the examinee in front, put down the test basket in front of the scribe, and turned around with her arms open. The scribe did not raise his head, but waved.
Li Xiaonan breathed a sigh of relief, and held her smile with a pursed mouth.
The first pass!
The courtyard of the county school is the examination room, with only a hundred or so examination tables.
When the examinees found their seats and sat down, it was just light. The scribes looked serious and put their examination papers on the examination table in turn.
Li Xiaonan took apart the paint seal and looked at the Ge Zhi title first.
One count, the simplest several heads and legs, one commutation and one physics are extremely simple.
Li Xiaonan clenched her fists with heartache on this Ge Zhi test paper.
She can't do this paper!
Her brother Li Xuedong has never learned Gezhi. Moreover, she doesn't know how to solve this kind of problems in the world, let alone how to explain that physics problem.
Science is her greatest advantage. Now, she can only give up.
Li Xiaonan then looked at the test poem. It was a common rhyme. Li Xiaonan was secretly relieved.
Among the subjects she wanted to take the exam for, what she was most uncertain about was this poem with five characters and six rhymes. It was too difficult to write poems.
Li Xiaonan finally read two articles on contemporary art. The University and the Doctrine of the Mean each gave a question, which was unbiased and easy to solve.
Everything was more smooth than she expected. Li Xiaonan was a little relieved. She looked down and thanked Kaoshen piously.
The two themes of Shi's art and literature are the best. Li Xiaonan has already had a rough outline and direction. She put down the exam questions of Shi's art and wrote poems with rhymes in mind.
When there is enough time, she likes to do difficult problems first.
The exam lasts for a whole day. For her, the content of the exam is too little and the time is too long.
She has to control the time. She can't finish it too early or too late. She has to hand in her papers in the middle of the time. It's better to get an above average score.
It is safest to mix in the middle.
Huang Xianzun, who just took office last year, was about 50 years old and slightly skinny. His official uniform had been washed white. He walked down the steps of the lobby and watched slowly among more than 100 tables.
Li Xiaonan listened to the movements around her, heard the footsteps, poured some water into the inkstone, and began to polish the ink slowly.
She should concentrate, not look up, not be conspicuous.
The lower hem of Huang Xianzun's old official uniform walked from Li Xiaonan's side, then from the other side, and then from the other side.
Li Xiaonan picked up her pen and began to write essays on scratch paper.
The ink must be used when it is grinded out, otherwise it will be dry.
Li Xiaonan writes slowly and neatly with each stroke.
The exam time was enough for her to write the draft meticulously.
After writing an art article, a smell of mutton wafted from behind.
Li Xiaonan subconsciously looked at the shadow of the sun. When was it that she would eat?
There was a smell of fish in the front, followed by braised meat. Hmm, braised meat should be eaten while it was hot.
The examinee on Li Xiaonan's left bent down and took out a small suitcase from the examination basket. On the right, there was a sound of bowls and chopsticks, and a sound of chewing all around.
We should follow the crowd everywhere without being conspicuous.
Then eat.
The rice and chicken legs wrapped in cotton tubes are still hot and fragrant.
Li Xiaonan was full after eating half a bowl. She didn't have much appetite. Sister A always loved her and gave her too much food.
After wrapping it up and putting it back in the basket, Li Xiaonan sharpened some ink again and went on to write the second article of Shi Yiwen.
Two articles have been written slowly, one stroke at a time, and someone has already handed in the paper.
Li Xiaonan began to transcribe the two articles, transcribed one, and six or seven people had already handed in the paper.
Li Xiaonan began to transcribe the second chapter of Shi Yiwen.
Huang Xianzun strolled to Li Xiaonan's side, looked at Li Xiaonan's transcribed article with his head tilted, read it in a moment, smoothed his gray beard, nodded slightly, and moved forward.
Li Xiaonan finally transcribed the poem she had crammed together. The examination table was half empty.
Li Xiaonan packed up the examination basket, took the examination paper and draft paper, with a low brow and timid look, handed in the paper, followed four or five candidates, and left the county school gate.
Li Jinzhu, the eldest sister, rushed to meet Li Xiaonan.
Mr. Gao walked around with his hands folded, stretched his head and said with concern, "How was your exam?"
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Nan: The sound is the same as that of a girl in the South dialect. Good little girl, good girl, can be directly replaced by: good baby. A little girl is the youngest daughter of a family.
Li Xiaonan was not named by her parents. Anyway, she was the youngest, Li Xiaonan.
