In the Great Yan Dynasty, the imperial examination was the only way out, and Cuàn Ergou was the famous loser in the imperial examination throughout Qingzhou Prefecture - a boy born in ten years and a scholar in three years. He could not even recite the Analects of Confucius in full. His handwriting was uglier than a dog crawling. The examiner sighed after reading this: "Even dogs can write this word more neatly than you!"
While others stayed up late at night to read, he squatted in the corner fishing for fish; while others studied eight-legged stereotypes, he studied which steamed buns had thin skin and big fillings; while others were preparing for the imperial examination, he fell asleep, still shouting "braised pork" in his dream.
Everyone laughed at him: "Cuan Ergou, you will never win the lottery in your life, why not go home and sell steamed buns!"
Ergou chuckled and said, "How tiring it is to win the imperial examination. Wouldn't it be better to be a scholar and eat and drink?"
But who would have expected, fate made a huge joke - he passed all the exam questions blindly, and the examiner regarded the crooked articles he wrote as "a new style of simplicity", and even the words he missed were interpreted as "blank artistic conception".
In such a confused way, the losers Ergou went from being a student to a scholar, and then to being a scholar, and finally they wanted to be the number one scholar?
The government and the public were shocked, and the examinee collapsed: "Why? He can't even remember the eight-part pattern!"
Ergou scratched his head and said innocently: "I don't know, maybe the examiner's eyesight is bad?"
From then on, the most outrageous counterattack in the history of Dayan Imperial Examination began! Even a poor person can win the first prize, and a foodie can be in the court. Let's see how the loser Cuan Ergou relies on luck (and a little cleverness) to win all the way in the imperial examination and make the whole audience laugh!
