Chapter 248: Autumn Day

On the ninth day of the eighth month of the 34th year of Jiajing, this is a memorable day for the seven "clubs" of Qionglin Society, because they will take an exam that determines their destiny. In the future, they will be officials or civilians, so they will take this opportunity. If they fail, they will have to go back and wait for three years before coming again.

No one is willing to waste another three years, so they are determined to win!

Last night, everyone went back to their rooms as soon as it was dark and agreed to get up today. After a while, the personal soldiers on the night side knocked on the door one by one and called the seven old men.

Tiezhu went to ask the adult to get up in person. Before knocking, the door opened automatically. He heard the inside say, "I'm getting up early." Tiezhu took a lantern and saw Chen Si wearing a jade square scarf, chestnut-colored straight boots, and soapy boots under his feet. He was dressed neatly, but... he forgot to tie his belt.

Seeing Tiezhu's eyes stopping on his waist, he touched silently, and his old face flushed and said, "What are you looking at?" He slammed the door and almost squeezed Tiezhu's nose away. Tiezhu followed him for so long and had never seen the adults in an orderly manner, and he rarely was so nervous.

When he came out again, Chen Mo had indeed tied his belt and glared at him angrily and said, "This is a secret."

Tiezhu nodded quickly and said, "Secret, secret."

When he walked to the main hall, he had already set up a light and nutritious meal. Tao Yuchen, who was wearing a pair of dark circles, was already sitting there, and said honestly: "I have insomnia, but I am still very excited."

He was beaten to death by silently and didn't say that he was the same. He just nodded with a very general's demeanor and said, "I won't wait for them, eat as soon as possible." Then he knelt an egg and peeled off absent-mindedly.

Tao Yuchen scooped a bowl of rice porridge, picked up some pickles, and started eating it. He saw that Chen Si had peeled the eggs to the point where only the egg yolks were left. He hurriedly reminded him kindly: "Senior brother, the egg greens have been peeled off."

Silent and calmly said, "The egg green is not nutritious, today I only eat egg yolks." Tao Yuchen was so impressed that he was impressed, and he didn't know if he admired his senior brother's face or something.

After a while, the Sun brothers came in, and they looked haggard. Sun Jian scooped a bowl of noodles for his younger brother.

Seeing that Sun Ying sat down and resurrected himself, Tao Yuchen asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well?"

"It's all my big brother who snored." Sun Ying said depressedly, carrying the noodles in the bowl.

"You grind your teeth and fart." Sun Yan took a pancake and creaked his mouth.

"Puff..." Sun Ying had just sucked a noodles into his mouth, and then he vomited it back, which made Tao Yuchen laugh.

"How is it, are you nervous?" Zhu Dashou and Xu Wei lived in the same room and walked in together. Xu Wei sat next to Sun Ying, helping him to calm down while laughing: "It doesn't matter, I'll be happy again and I'll be happy again next time."

Sun Ying was about to get better, but when he heard this, he coughed violently and said angrily: "I'm going to kill you and fall down on Luxi. Will you say good things early in the morning?" He was anxious and even brought out the local dialect.

Xu Wei laughed and said, "I'm telling the truth. You see, it's much better if Xiao Zhu passed the exam once. For example, if I took the exam three times, I can treat the exam as nothing and I'm not nervous at all."

Zhu Dashou interrupted with a smile, "Yes, it's just about getting up eight times a night."

Xu Wei blushed and said, "You spread rumors, you don't know what I'm doing when you fall asleep."

"The problem is that I didn't fall asleep." Zhu Dashou smiled bitterly and said, "Just just felt a little sleepy, you got up at night, and then you got up at night again. I made me sleep all night, and I didn't fall asleep when I lay there, my brain was buzzing."

Seeing that everyone was just as nervous, Tao Yuchen sighed and said, "If you want to say it, it must be Brother Junze. He started snoring since he lay down. He slept so well that he couldn't even scream." He and Wu Dui gave his roommate a very high evaluation.

Everyone was convinced and said, "We are not as good as Brother Junze... but he is too capable of sleeping, why don't you get up yet?"

It was not until everyone finished their meal that Wu Dui appeared. Surprisingly, the old man looked extremely bad, as if he was not sleeping at night, but carrying a sack of 200 kilograms and running around Hangzhou City.

Tao Yuchen said strangely: "Didn't you sleep well? Why do you look worse than us?"

"Hey, don't mention it. I started dreaming after I went to bed last night." Wu Dui Wuxian said depressedly: "I have been taking the exam for nine days and six nights in my dream. Do you think I can't be tired?" Everyone couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for him, Wu Dui finished drinking the porridge in a few sips, putting a few eggs on it, and stood up and said, "Let's go!"

Everyone took their own examination boxes, took two carriages and drove to the Gongyuan in the east of the city. In front of each car, there were lanterns of the "Hangzhou Provincial Examination". Today, the whole city was covered with martial law. Cars and sedans without such lanterns were not allowed to go to the streets.

At this time, the sky was still long and the night was short. When I arrived at Gongyuan Street located in the east of the city, it was already dark. There was a special point to arrive at this point, because Gongyuan was located in the east of the city, which meant an oriental civilization. This time point was also called Eastern Weiming. Wen and Wei agreed, which means that the time and place were in harmony.

The driver who drove the car asked for rewards. Although Shen Mo didn't believe in these things, he also liked the good luck. He gave the driver a lot and then got off the carriage.

The personal soldiers helped to move the examination box to Gongyuanqian Street, but were stopped by those wearing big red clothes. Each person could only bring one book boy in, help with the luggage, and serve him while waiting to enter. This is the meaning of the book boy's existence.

Shen An and seven other book boys, carrying bags and heavy examination boxes, followed Shen Mo seven, crossed the front street and arrived at the big square in front of Gongyuan. The square is about two miles in radius and is usually a prosperous market. Shen Mo even brought Aman to buy things.

Of course, the designer's original intention was definitely not to let someone practice a stall at the entrance of the Gongyuan, but to use it for candidates to gather. Shen Mo looked around and saw a magnificent archway on the left and right sides of the square. The archway on the left and the archway on the left and the archway on the left and the archway on the right was written with the words "Tengjiao" and "Qifeng" on the right. There was also a archway in front of the Gongyuan gate, with the four words "Tiankai Wenyun".

When I walked to the north of the square, I saw the four big words "Ming Jing to Recruit the Scholars" and "Seeking Talents for the Country" written on the backs of the archways on both sides of the left and right... This is a proof that this place is not a stall training place.

The tribute courtyard faces north and south, and the three main doors on the left, center and right naturally face south. On the middle door, there are four plaques with black characters "Hangzhou tribute courtyard" hanging. The signature is the famous Liu Ji and Liu Bowen.

Two feet outside the gate of Gongyuan, there is also a gate, which is a red wooden fence. There are two fence gates on the fence. Generally, there are this outside larger yamen to show that idle people should not enter.

The candidates gathered in front of this fence gate, and the seven silent people were already famous. People would greet each other wherever they went, and many people followed them and gradually became a big bunch.

Seeing that Tao Yuchen was a little uncomfortable, he asked him silently, 'What's wrong?' Tao Yuchen smiled bitterly and said, "I'm a little unaccustomed." Xu Wei laughed and said, "As a veteran of Qionglin Society, if you want to be often urged and rush back in the future, Xiao Tao should get used to it quickly."

Tao Yuchen smiled and said, "Looking at the fact that people are coming, why haven't you started yet?"

"It's less than the hour." Zhu Dashou said softly: "Someone came out to open the door only at the time of Mao."

The students are not experienced. As soon as the hour of Mao came, there were three cannons, and then three more sounds. The gate of the Gongyuan slowly opened and finally saw the scenery in the Gongyuan. All living beings couldn't help but hold their breath, and they were all nervous.

I saw two teams of soldiers wearing big red suits, one holding a red flag, and the other holding a black flag, coming out of the tribute courtyard, standing in front of the fence, shaking the flag together, shouting in unison: "God of kindness comes, gratitude comes, gratitude comes, gratitude comes, grudge comes, grudge comes, gratitude comes, grudge comes, revenge comes."

The candidates who experienced this first time looked at each other and kept looking up at the door plaque, thinking that we were not going to the wrong place, right? Why did you start to be a master?

Then a wise candidate whispered: "This is a ghost. The graceful ghosts who follow the candidates to repay their kindness gathered under the red flag, while the graceful ghosts who come to seek revenge of the candidates squatted under the black flag. After a while, the flags will be brought in, and the ghosts will be invited to the tribute courtyard... Otherwise, the Emperor Wenchang was shocked, they would not dare to enter."

While he was speaking, the two examiners appeared at the gate of the Gongyuan, accompanied by a group of examiners. The examiner named Ruan E, and loudly preached to the examinees: "The exam is opened according to the order, and you must not cheat, otherwise what will happen?" Then he said in a deep voice: "Open the door."

The crowd slowly entered the gate and walked into the gate, which was the Yimen Gate. After entering the Yimen Gate, there is a dragon gate, and between the Yimen Gate and the dragon gate is the search channel for candidates to enter the examination room.

Because the search was very careful, it took a long time, so many candidates did not go in and crowded, sat and rested in the square outside, waited for the sun to rise, and hid under the wall to find shade. After silence, they found that the wall of the tribute court was two high and covered with thorns, which was similar to the prisons in later generations, and they must be of similar use.

It was not until two hours before a soldier came out and said, "Shaoxing's search."

Chen Mo quickly followed the crowd. When Chen An arrived at the gate, he couldn't enter. Chen Mo had to carry the box and enter the tribute courtyard.
Chapter completed!