Chapter 228: Imperial Examination (Part 2)

Everyone has different thoughts, so Zhang Huan naturally didn't expect that someone in Jinling made arrangements for the imperial examination.

"Zhang Huan!" Someone shouted his name in front of him. Zhang Huan hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, walked to the front, and responded: "I am Zhang Huan."

"Show the sign." The tortured looked at the boy in front of him and said lightly.

Zhang Huan hurriedly handed over the sign he got from the yamen. After the tolerance check, he found nothing wrong. Like the previous few people, he exchanged him a bronze medal with a number and asked him to come in with the bronze medal to find his seat.

It was Zhang Huan's first time taking the imperial examination, and he didn't know how the previous imperial examinations were taken, but this arrangement made him feel very new.

Holding a small bronze medal with exquisite workmanship, Zhang Huan entered through the gate and walked in.

The examination room is in a tight position, the more you walk in, the less noise the noise is. The green plants on both sides are already tender green. When you lift your nose and smell it, a faint fragrance makes people feel refreshed.

It can be seen that the county attaches great importance to this imperial examination. The place where the examination room is arranged is beautiful and very quiet. Along the way, there are servants guiding the way around every corner. Zhang Huan found the location of the examination room very smoothly.

This is a huge hall. I don’t know what I did before, but it has already been empty at this time, with rows of tables and chairs placed on it.

Before entering the examination room, the yamen runners at the gate had already inspected him. His body and the pen and ink in the blue were carefully examined and looked through. Because the exam was not long, he was not allowed to bring food to the examination room this time.

When checking, Zhang Huan was not embarrassed either.

At this time, I stepped into the door of the examination room and glanced over it. I found that the examination room was very large. Looking at the layout, it was made up of two halls helmed together. There was no partition between the candidates. Each person had a table and a seat, and there was nothing on the table.

When Zhang Huan came in, there were not many people inside. He quickly found his seat by pressing the number on the card. As soon as he sat down, the sound of pulling the table and chairs came from beside him.

The sound was still loud. Zhang Huan subconsciously turned his head to look at it, and was startled. Sitting next to him was a candidate with gray hair. It seemed that this person was older than Mr. Yu.

The other party looked at him with a blank expression and said nothing. Zhang Huan nodded at the other party with a smile, with his eyes back, but he was secretly sighing in his heart that it seemed that there were many people participating in the imperial examination this time, and even such an old man came to take the exam. He had to answer the paper seriously.

After a while, the candidates behind them also walked in one after another. Not everyone was taking the exam in this examination room. There were probably only about 30% of the people who came in when they were queuing at the door.

The candidates were looking for their place one after another, and they were relieved to find it and sat down immediately. They couldn't find the look of anxiety on their faces, and they looked around.

During this period, several small episodes were also released, which caused the seat search, which made the examination room chaotic for a while. Under the scolding of the examiner, he calmed down.

Due to these incidents, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more tense, and some older candidates even turned pale.

Zhang Huan was quite nervous. This was his first time to take the imperial examination, and it happened to be the time when the King of Chu hired people. If he succeeded, he could show his ambitions and take the exam a few years later. I am afraid that the opportunity would be difficult to find.

After the exam questions were announced, I felt relieved and most of the exams were posted.

The so-called posting of sutras means that posting a few words to fill in the scriptures. This is a modern fill-in-the-blank question. This is actually not difficult, and the main test is to memorize.

There are three meanings of ink at the end, which are what makes people say, and they are relatively superficial.

Until Zhang Huan finished the three exams and walked out of the entrance hall, he was blown by the cold wind, and he still felt like he was dreaming, a little heavy.

Shaking his slightly dizzy head, he walked out.

I could smell the aroma of oil cakes from afar.

Zhang Huan took three exams in a row, and at this time he was already a little hungry.

Zhang Huan touched his wallet and found that there was still a lot of money. He stood there and thought for a while, and finally made up his mind.

After taking out a few coins, he approached the oil cake stall and said to the busy boss: "Boss, come ten oil cakes, give me one, and wrap everything else."

"Okay! This guy, please wait a moment, it's time to get ready!" The spiced oil cake that had just been out of the pot was picked up by the boss, and after a slight drop of oil, it was wrapped and handed over.

Zhang Huan handed over the money, took the oil cake bag, and walked along, ate a oil cake. After the food was over, he didn't feel hungry.

He planned to eat the remaining oil cakes on the way. It was cold now, and it was a day and a half. When he got home, he could still have five left. He could heat the oil cakes and eat them for his younger brothers and sisters.

The family is already meatless and ate wild vegetables and gnocchi. The younger brother and sister are too thin. They are clamoring to eat oil cakes in front of them.

Thinking of this, the oil cakes in the mouth were suddenly a little difficult to swallow. When he put the remaining oil cake bags into the package, Zhang Huan quickly walked towards the place that Mr. Yu had mentioned in front.

When he came, he was riding in a caravan. He didn't spend much money and went back to hire a car to go back. It was too luxurious, but when he walked back, it was too far away. Therefore, before he came, Mr. Yu gave him an address and asked him to go there to find an acquaintance of Mr. Yu. The other party had a carriage back to Baiming County on the evening of the sixth, and he would bring it back to him by the way.

Sure enough, when he got there, the other party happily agreed, and asked questions from the exam room, and Zhang Huan answered them one by one.

Seeing that he had a certain degree of talent at a young age, this man became more and more polite when he entered the examination room. Along the way, he invited him to have dinner with the caravans. The atmosphere was very good.

He was still speechless all the way, and soon he arrived at home.

After asking about how he was doing in the exam, Zhang’s father and mother didn’t understand it very much, it’s okay.

When I met Mr. Yu, after asking, I was silent for a moment, thinking that these questions were not very difficult and that the exam was very likely to be passed. However, I did not point out this directly, but just asked him to go back and wait for the news.

I was tired along the way, and after I brought food to my younger brother and sister, Zhang Huanto fell asleep.

I woke up early the next morning and recovered.

It was still the same as usual. He came with a machete and rushed to the foot of Baiming Mountain to chop firewood, and still worked to subsidize his family income.

Time passed day by day.

April is spring and the earth is reviving.

There were also more work at home and in the fields. At the beginning, Zhang Huan was thinking about the previous imperial examination, but as he had more work, he also left this matter behind.

On this day, Zhang Huan still went to the foot of Baiming Mountain to chop wood.

Seeing the sun rising and the firewood was almost chopping, Zhang Huan tied the firewood and walked towards the house with it.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I heard the sound of horse hooves on the official road in the distance.

Zhang Huan was stunned and stood there and looked over. He saw a lot of people surrounding the official road, all of whom stopped to watch.

Perhaps because someone got married, he didn't like watching the fun. He took a few glances and walked towards his home.

After entering the yard, he put down the firewood, and Zhang's mother prepared clean water for him, which was the cool water. He washed his face and hands.

While the mother and son were talking, they heard someone shouting outside: "Does Zhang Huan live here?"

It's a man's voice, listening to voices and asking questions, not an acquaintance.

Zhang Huan was stunned, looked up at his mother, and found that Zhang's mother was also stunned.

It was at this time that an acquaintance entered the yard, a neighbor, pointed outside and said, "Zhang Huan, go and see, it's a yamen! When you arrive at your doorstep, is something wrong?"

Someone from the yamen?

When Zhang's mother heard this, her first reaction was to be afraid.

He looked at his son with a pale face: "Son, what's going on? Why did someone come to the yamen?"

But Zhang Huan immediately thought of the imperial examination.

"Mom, don't be afraid, maybe it's not a bad thing." Zhang Huan comforted her and left the courtyard.

There were two yamen runners standing outside the door. Later, following a few villagers, one of the leaders, and saw that one person came out, he asked, "Are you Zhang Huan?"

Zhang Huan bowed: "It's Zhang Huan below, I don't know if you are..."

"My husband, I won, I won, I'm third in the second list!"

The husband was originally known as the prime minister, but now anyone who has won the scholar can be called the husband.

"Grandpa Zhang, this time he was awarded a scholar, so that Baiming County would be more glorious. The county magistrate asked me to send you ten taels of gifts and ten acres of land. You have collected the land deeds!" After confirming Zhang Huan's identity, the tolerance for speaking was very polite, and he said, "You can go to the county to receive six dou of rice every month."

One stone is a hundred kilograms, ten dou per stone, and six dou means sixty kilograms of rice. This is a small benefit to Zhang Huan's family.

Ten tael silver is broken silver.

When the people around him heard this, they took a breath of air. Many people were secretly shocked, but scholars were still promising!

Zhang Huan was a little dazed for a moment, but he didn't expect that he would have such fortunes.

After taking the document, Tian Qi and Wenyin, he calmed down.

He thanked the yamen runners and took some broken silver, about two taels, and sent it over. Seeing that Zhang Huan was not stupid, the yamen runners were very satisfied and said, "Zhang Xianggong, according to the official system, you can take the exam directly this year. If you don't take the exam, or if you don't take the exam, you must report to the yamen in August to complete the work."

"Also, you can wear a blue shirt now." The yamen runner said with guidance.

Zhang Huan listened and thanked him again.

After they all dispersed, the family returned to the house and sat together, looking at the official documents, Tianqi and silver on the table, and were very happy.

First of all, the household registration documents for those who have been eliminated from the people and have been exempted from labor and taxes.

However, the land is official land, most of which are fertile land, and ten acres of the family have increased their assets.

Zhang's mother was happy, but said, "My son, you have passed the exam for the scholar now, but you have to go to Mr. Yu's place to invite him to a banquet, and you also have to pay back the money from Mr. Wang. This way, you will bring all the money."

After hearing this, Zhang Huan said, "Yes, but mother, should I keep the money for a few taels? After all, it will cost money."

It's about wedding banquets.

"Then keep three taels!" Zhang's mother thought about it repeatedly and said.
Chapter completed!