Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 279 The college examination begins

The sky in the east is white, the salute is ringing, and the candidates are about to line up to enter the venue.

This was the first time Zhou Banxia sent Gu Wenxuan and Dajiang into the examination room, and Xiaobai was also brought with her.

Because they were female dependents, the two of them did not have to squeeze together to go to the waiting area like other escorts, so they stayed quietly in the carriage.

Zhou Banxia was startled by the sound of the cannon, and almost subconsciously ran out to rescue Gu Wenxuan and Da Jiang.

What a great experience.

The sound of the cannon is so loud that there is no warning at all. It can scare people to death, and a large crowd is not afraid of a stampede.

Compared with Zhou Banxia, ​​a country bumpkin, Gu Wenxuan is an expert.

When the salute sounded, he still took advantage of the opportunity to queue up and walked forward without forgetting to look at the candidates who were separated from the accompanying persons.

Different from the previous county examinations and prefectural examinations, there are very few young students taking part in the college examinations this time. Most of them are middle-aged students, and there are also some gray-haired children.

Obviously, almost all the candidates in front of Zhending Gongyuan came alone, or with a book boy, and only a few young candidates were accompanied by one or two relatives.

At the same time, it was not his illusion, it was very obvious that the admission inspection for the college examination was much stricter than the county examination and the prefecture examination.

When the gongs and drums sound, the candidates are not allowed to speak.

Each one of them had to hold the floating ticket and line up quietly in a long queue. Under the watchful eyes of the officials on both sides, the first step of self-checking began in the Gongyuan Passage.

After checking with the information on the roster to confirm that it is correct, when it comes to the second level of body search, even the extra candle wicks brought by the candidates must be checked to see if there are any cheat sheets stuffed in them.

After completing all the procedures, I finally got my exam number and started entering the exam room.

The examination method is also the same as the third session of the provincial examination, except that the questions in the college examination are no longer as rigid as the county examination and the provincial examination.

Gu Wenxuan has heard many people mention it before. If you are lucky, you will still ask questions normally when you meet the examiner. On the contrary, if you meet a tricky examiner, you can only ask for luck.

In addition, the scope of the college's test questions is also extremely wide. Although the first test only lasts for two days, the test questions involved are really difficult to guess.

Today’s first question.

The test is also about sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics, but the questions are interesting.

Simply put, it's "insufficient".

This truncation question is truncation.

Gu Wenxuan soon heard noises coming from around him, and then came the scolding of the government officials, and then he could see the scene of a candidate being escorted out by two government officials.

It's much more severe.

"insufficient?"

"When the people are sufficient, the ruler is mature and insufficient; when the people are insufficient, the ruler is mature and sufficient."

This time, Gu Wenxuan did not immediately pick up the pen and ink.

First, I sorted out my thoughts, roughly what famous quotes and allusions I should borrow, and made a rough draft before I started writing on the draft paper.

By the time I finished writing this article, revised it, checked it, and copied it onto the answer sheet, the sun was already rising and it was noon.

It's just that the weather has been getting hotter day by day recently. Even if the examination room is ventilated, it is still so hot that you are sweating at noon. No wonder candidates suffer from heat stroke every year in the college examination.

I don’t know who has a bad idea. The good August hospital exam was changed to June. God is going to give a great job to this person. This is not the case.

What they brought in this time were pancakes, oil tea noodles, thin shredded pork, shredded seaweed, and some powdered thirst-quenching and refreshing tea bags, all prepared by Zhou Banxia himself.

The weather was hot, so Gu Wenxuan was too lazy to ask for hot water for a while, so he just got cold boiled water and had to make do with the pancakes that were not sour yet.

After lunch, he deliberately took a break, waited for his forehead to stop sweating, wiped his face and hands with water, and continued with the second question.

Gradually, it got later and later, candles were lit inside the examination room, and lanterns were hung outside. Suddenly, in the dead of night, there was a shocking thunder.

Intimidated. Inside the Gongyuan.

Ojiang was so shocked that he couldn't help but secretly follow his third brother-in-law's advice not to write on the exam paper at night. He could only write on the draft paper if he couldn't sleep.

The thunder roared louder and louder.

Zhending Gongyuan was built in the 10th year of the founding of the Liang Dynasty. It has been almost 200 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. During this period, it only held the courtyard examination twice every three years and repaired it before the provincial examination.

Ojiang immediately put away the draft paper quickly, and then hung it with the examination paper on a wall he found during the day to avoid getting wet by the rain.

After a while, it really started to rain.

When it comes to scientific examinations, both knowledge and luck are indispensable.

The first session of this year's college examination was preceded by a heavy rain in the middle of the night.

During the day, I had seen that there might be leaks in the examination room. I thought I was lucky this time, but after all, there was still some leaks. Fortunately, no important things got wet.

Inside the Gongyuan.

Whether they were doing test questions or candidates who were awakened from sleep, everyone was extremely nervous at this moment and protected their papers in the sound of rain.

outside.

Zhou Banxia couldn't sleep tonight.

I had no choice but to take "The Book of Changes" and flip through it.

After turning over and over, she finally felt a little sleepy. Just when she was about to blow out the oil lamp and go to sleep, a shocking thunder made her jump to the ground.

Why is it going to rain?

As expected of a couple sleeping in the same bed, Zhou Banxia also secretly cursed whoever was mentally ill to suggest that the hospital trial be changed to June in the rainy season.

Gu Wenxuan and Da Jiang were not at home, so Zhou Banxia asked Xiao He to move from the south room of the east wing to the east room of the main room and sleep on the kang in the back room.

When Zhou Banxia ran in to see if he had been frightened, there was thunder and lightning that made her dumbfounded. Her baby brother was still sleeping soundly without being affected at all.

He put the thin quilt that had been kicked off by the little one back on his belly, closed the window, and the rain hit the roof tiles fiercely.

The loud noise was definitely not because of her good hearing.

Zhou Banxia secretly sighed, wondering if the roof of the Gongyuan examination shed could withstand this heavy rain.

Stop it.

About half an hour later, the rain, which had been coming so hard, finally stopped.

Inside the Gongyuan, there were some noises from the examination room again, and then the yamen scolded them not to make any noise in the center of the examination room. Fortunately, no candidates were dragged out of the examination room this time.

Being woken up, not only Zhou Banxia and others, but also Gu Wenxuan couldn't sleep tonight. He packed up his things and started working on this arithmetic problem.

Jiying Lane.

Everyone is worried about the bad luck of their children or brothers. In the middle of the night, there is a leak in the examination room and the papers are wet.

Among them, Xiaobai didn't sleep all night.

Like Zhou Banxia, ​​she also had two candidates in her family taking part in the college exam. She was worried about her husband and was worried about the leakage of her eldest son's exam booth.

It makes her worried.

It was difficult to go to the backyard in the middle of the night, and it was finally getting dark outside. Xiaobai quickly went to "Zhou Fuxing" to ask for a good omen.

"You said your uncle and the others are in Gongyuan?"

"It went smoothly."