Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 141 The Opening of the Examination

Guo Yun glanced at the crowd, and continued: "Fan Ning hasn't shown much in the past two years. He has always been the No.1 of Luming Academy in the county school, but the strength of Wu County itself is not weak. Fan Ning can win the county scholar The leader is also enough for people not to underestimate, he is ranked third in my opponent list."

Guo Yun took out another name and pasted it on the wooden board, "Yan Qing, the county magistrate leader of Kunshan County, is 13 years old. He just stood out in January this year and ranked first in the county magistrate selection contest participated by more than 1000 students.

I have read his test paper, and his handwriting is quite sophisticated. Although he is only 13 years old, his countermeasure questions have a high vision and a thorough understanding of the questions. I can't even write it down.

If he participates in the adult imperial examination, I think he can enter the top ten in the solution test. Based on this, I rank him No.2 in the opponent list. "

Guo Yun took out the third name and stuck it on the wooden board.

"Liu Ran, I believe everyone still remembers him. He is an unattractive little man, the No. 1 scholar in Wujiang County. At the beginning of the year, he competed with us and ranked sixth. He doesn't look very good, but let me tell you, He concealed his strength in the competition at the beginning of the year."

Guo Yun's last words caused whispers in the originally quiet lobby. The news was so shocking, it turned out to be a deliberate concealment of strength.

He deliberately concealed his strength and got No.6 in the test. What if he went all out?
The ten county magistrates, who were full of self-confidence, were suddenly poured with cold water. Everyone secretly thought that it would not be so easy to take all five tribute officials.

"I don't know Liu Ran's true level, but based on his scheming to hide his strength, I'll rank him No. 1 in the opponent list."

Speaking of this, Guo Yun's voice became high-pitched again.

"I said this not to undermine everyone's confidence. I just want to tell everyone that we still have opponents. We must not take it lightly. We must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and answer questions calmly. As long as we do the above points, I believe we will win five in the end." Gong Jushi."

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At five o'clock, someone started to knock on the door. Fan Ning woke up from the dream, and he sat up immediately. In the darkness, Su Liang and Duan Yu also got up.

"Is it time?" Su Liang yawned and asked.

Fan Ning looked out the window, the sky was still dark, but there was movement in the yard outside.

"It should be five o'clock, get up!"

Everyone packed up last night. In fact, it was just a cloth bag with only a floating ticket in it, that is, the admission ticket. It recorded the characteristics of the candidates in detail, such as height, face shape and other physical characteristics, and there was also a guarantor.

There is also a jug of water, and the Examination Institute is only allowed to bring these two things into the venue.

Fan Ning wore a relatively thick blue fine linen gown, and the three exams were separated, so there was no need to spend the night in the exam hall, and there was no need to bring bedding mats.

He put on another half-worn turban, and put on shoes and socks.

At this time, ten county officials were standing by the well in the yard. Everyone was busy fetching water, washing their faces, rinsing their mouths and brushing their teeth. No one spoke, and everyone was busy with their own affairs. The atmosphere seemed a little tense.
At this time, Zhao Xiuwen walked into the yard quickly, clapped his hands and said loudly: "Breakfast is ready, go to eat after washing up, try to eat as much as possible, the food provided by the examination institute at noon will not be very good, and the meal in the morning is very good." important."

When registering, each person paid [-] Wen, including the examination fee and a lunch. The examination usually started at [-]:[-] pm and ended in the afternoon, which took about four hours.

After breakfast, ten county magistrates, Xuezheng Zhao Xiuwen and two teaching assistants took three bullock carts to the Examination Institute.

After walking for less than a mile, Zhao Changgeng suddenly exclaimed, "I forgot my floating ticket!"

Zhao Xiuwen's expression suddenly darkened. The thing they need to bring most is the floating ticket, which is the admission ticket. They forgot such an important thing, so what's the test?

Zhao Xiuwen immediately said to a teaching assistant: "Go and get it for him!"

Zhao Changgeng hurriedly said, "It's in the bag next to the bed!"

The teaching assistant promised, jumped off the bullock cart and rushed away.

The bullock cart continued to travel south, Zhao Changgeng patted his chest and smiled, "Fortunately, I remembered it in time, if I didn't remember it until I arrived at the examination institute, it would be over!"

No one paid attention to him, Zhao Xiuwen's face was as gloomy as water, and it was never a good sign that such a moth appeared on the eve of the exam.

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When everyone arrived at the Examination Institute, it was still dark, but the square in front of the Examination Institute was already crowded with people. There were long queues in front of the ten entrances, and almost all the more than [-] candidates had arrived.

The first step in entering the examination room is identification, that is, to prevent substitutes from taking the test. The second step is body search. Examinees are not allowed to bring any pieces of paper or items into the examination room except for float tickets and water bottles.

Once violated, severe penalties will be imposed depending on the severity of the circumstances, ranging from warnings to disqualification from the exam.

"Everyone, don't stray, come with me!"

Zhao Xiuwen led the crowd to the side door. They were taking the Boys' Examination, and unlike normal candidates, they had a special entrance.

Fan Ning looked left and right. He was looking for the other six juniors. It was still dark and there were too many people. They didn't see them. The six of them lived in Dong Kun's house. There shouldn't be a big problem in the admission process. The key is still impromptu.

There were already two teams lined up in front of the passageway for the boy's exam. Su Liang bumped Fan Ning with his elbow and whispered, "The candidates from Changzhou County are in front of us."

Fan Ning immediately became interested, and looked at the ten scholars in front. The ten Changzhou county officials were like them, each carrying a cloth bag on their shoulders, and the team was arranged from short to tall.

"The first three!"

Su Liang gave Fan Ning a wink, "It's just that the three great gods, Jiang Feng, Yao Xi, and Luo Zaidao, are here. The other 47 county officials can only compete for the remaining two places."

Fan Ning saw that the expressions of these three people were quite arrogant, and the other Changzhou county officials all turned their heads to look at them, but these three people did not look back, as if they were the only three in the whole team.

Fan Ning smiled and said to himself, "Perhaps this is called being proud of one's talent!"

At this time, the two Xuezhengs were standing aside chatting, but Guo Yun kept looking at the scholar team in Wu County. He was looking for Fan Ning.

Scholars who can enter his list of opponents cannot be taken lightly. Although Fan Ning is only ranked third in his list, he still cannot be underestimated.

Guo Yun's eyes finally fell on Fan Ning's face. Although this scholar was dressed in ordinary clothes, Guo Yun could feel his unique temperament.

The other scholars looked very nervous and pursed their lips tightly, but this scholar gave people a feeling of being careless, as if he didn't care about anything.

Guo Yun looked into Fan Ning's eyes again, but Fan Ning just happened to look at him, and saw Fan Ning's eyes were cold and extremely sharp, piercing his mind like a knife.

Guo Yun was startled, and quickly avoided Fan Ning's gaze. He was secretly surprised, could this boy be Fan Ning?

"Zhao Xuezheng, who is that boy in the light blue scholar uniform?" Guo Yun looked at Fan Ning and asked.

Zhao Xuezheng chuckled, "His name is Fan Ning, Guo Xuezheng should know this name!"

Guo Yun nodded, and it was really interesting, but what about real talents and practical learning?

With the guarantee of the school and government, the county magistrate's identification was very fast, and soon it was the turn of the Wu county magistrate. Behind them, the Kunshan magistrate and the Wujiang magistrate also came successively.

"The next Fanning!"

Fan Ning hurried forward, their floating tickets had already been handed in in advance, the examiner looked at the characteristics on the floating tickets, he was five feet three tall, with a thin build, a slightly elongated face, and long eyebrows like swords.

The examiner nodded and asked again, "Where are you from?"

"Student from Jiangwan Village, Mudu Town, Wu County!"

The examiner immediately glanced at Zhao Xiuwen, Zhao Xiuwen took out his private seal and stamped Fan Ning's floating ticket, which was his guarantee.

"That's it!"

The examiner casually took a test card and handed it to Fan Ning, "Go in and do a body search!"

After entering the small gate, two soldiers were already waiting. They skillfully searched Fanning's whole body, even his hair, shoes and socks.

With a final wave of his hand, "Pass!"

Fan Ning hurried to a small stool and sat down, put on his shoes and socks, and put on his head scarf.

At this moment, Su Liang came in after searching, and asked with a smile, "Fan Ning, what's your file number?"

The number on the test card given to him by the examiner is the roll number. This roll number is very important, because the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty implemented a system of pasting names, and the names were covered up.

The four subjects are not handed in at the same time, but divided into three days. In this way, the papers of the same person are scattered, so it is necessary to write the paper number on the back of the paper, and then group the test papers according to the paper number.

This roll number is also called the Lucky Number. Candidates are very superstitious about this number. In the Song Dynasty, there were also auspicious numbers, mainly three, six, and nine, representing the meaning of "promotion, slippage, and long-term".

The other four is also a taboo number.

Fan Ning looked at the test card, Ding Liuqisan, Ding refers to the special symbol for the boy's test, he said with a smile: "I am Ding Liuqisan, how about you?"

Su Liang triumphantly said: "I am Ding 666!"

"Good luck, congratulations!"

"This is actually meaningless. This time I must be a foil."

"That's not necessarily true, just go all out and don't think about anything else!"

The two soon came to the examination room, which consisted of 3000 long alleys, each with [-] cabins, which could accommodate [-] people to take the exam at the same time.

Fan Ning found Eighth Lane, and his examination room was at No. 24, Eighth Lane, according to the floating ticket.

After walking through the long examination room, Fan Ning stopped and looked up at the number on one of the examination rooms, 24, which is here.

(End of this chapter)