From the fifth round onwards, the rate of water seepage slowed down at the same time for all barrels, which showed that the quality of the barrels left behind was relatively even, and it was difficult to make a significant difference in a short period of time.

At this time, some people inevitably start to mutter: "Wait like this, when are you going to go?"

"You don't have to wait, the final result will be in five days. The person next to him glanced at him and reminded him lightly.

"Hehe, it's been until now...... the man sneered twice and shut up.

They could go, and it wouldn't make a difference, but everyone stayed in unison. If the yamen does not drive them away, they will never go.

The fifth-level wooden workshop defeats the third-level wooden workshop, which is not always happening. They even have a bold idea and want to wait and see - the county head of this county test may also be spent next to the family?

"Hmm, by the way, the results haven't come out yet. A voice suddenly raised, it was Zhu Gantang and they were back.

The examiners seemed to be a little surprised, but also a little happy: "There are so many buckets left until now? It's been half an hour, can you do it twice?"

After Master Qin praised the candidates, he turned his head to ask Zhu Gantang.

"Yes. Zhu Gantang promised, and the candidates were still inexplicable, so Master Qin took out a handful of straw paper cut into strips from his pocket.

He beckoned a servant, led him to the bucket, bent down, and pasted the note to the side of the bucket.

The straw paper absorbs water, and a little wet mark immediately appears in the center of the note, which soon expands, and finally stops when it is almost halfway wide.

Master Qin smiled, straightened up, and said in a long voice, "Pass ——!"

The little clerk hung his pen on the paper, and did not fall, and followed him to the next barrel.

In the crowd, one of the candidates breathed a sigh of relief.

It is clear that the examiner is controlling the progress.

Even if some buckets are a little leaky, if they seep too little, they may not be able to form a large-scale water stain at the bottom of the barrel in a short time, so they need to be inspected by other means.

To this end, the examiner arranged the "second test", that is, the second stage of the inspection method.

Straw paper is easy to absorb water, and a little water stain can be detected. As long as there is a certain amount of water seeping out of the barrel wall, it will be eliminated. This does not violate the rules announced by Zhu Gantang at the beginning.

Sure enough, the water on the wall of the next wooden barrel easily soaked half of the straw paper, and Master Qin shook his head at the little official, who quickly wrote down its number in the account book, and then the bucket was lifted.

Master Qin strolled among the barrels, bending down from time to time to paste a piece of paper.

With this method, more than a dozen barrels were eliminated in the blink of an eye.

Soon, he walked to the side of an unpretentious hoop barrel, and the candidates watched his movements intently, and then they all took a step forward and focused a little more.

In the previous period, all the wooden barrels had basically been seated, and this barrel was Qi Kun's!

When the note was pasted, Master Qin's eyes widened and he let out a light "huh", and at the same time, a considerable number of candidates with different eyes also let out a "huff" exclamation!

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" asked the other part of the candidates who had bad eyes or were in a bad position.

There was no need for them to ask, and then Master Qin straightened up and showed a note to them.

The note was extremely dry, and there were no wet marks on it!

That is to say, after all this time, Qi Kun's bucket still has not seeped water - not at all.

You know, this is not an ordinary wooden barrel, it is a barrel made in a hurry without conditions, without pre-and post-processing, and it is difficult to last!

Qi Kun's face was calm, and there was no superfluous expression. As if this was a very normal thing for him.

"Good foundation. Master Qin praised it, handed the note to the little officer, and continued to walk forward.

Qi Kun was the second to "hand in the papers", and the first one to hand in before him was Xu Wen, so Xu Wen's hoopless bucket was next to him.

When Master Qin saw Xu Wen's bucket clearly, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and his hand moved slightly, as if he wanted to lift it up to take a closer look, and he resisted that impulse.

He still sticks the note up as usual, and this sticker is another "hey" sound, and it is countless sighs of "oh"!

It was exactly the same, there were no wet marks on the slip of paper, and the drying pen looked as if it had just been cut out of the warehouse.

A barrel without hoops, a barrel connected purely by mortise and tenon joints, the waterproof performance can be so good!

"It's good that I didn't bet with him......" Zhong Wuxian was happy, and his heart was a little sour at the same time.

A fifth-level workshop, how can this kind of talent be produced?

"Remarkable. Master Qin praised it again, it was different from the words used when he was facing Qi Kun, and the fool could tell which one he admired more.

Xu Wen subconsciously glanced at Qi Kun, only to see him staring at his bucket, his eyes shining, not only did he not feel jealous, but he seemed to see some treasure!

This reaction......

Xu Wen frowned lightly again.

In this batch, Master Qin eliminated about half of the barrels, and now there are still thirty-nine left on the field.

Fortunately, this time, Yao's Wood Workshop was also brushed down a lot, but there were still ten barrels left, which continued to far surpass the third-level workshop.

"I can't do it either. An apprentice in the old woodhouse shook his head regretfully.

For them, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but at this time, he didn't seem too excited.

On the one hand, this is only one of the three rounds of the exam, and the final results are based on the results of the first two days.

On the other hand, after this exam, he already understood what in himself.

"If your skills are not as good as others, you can't do anything, you have to practice more!" Qian Ming said angrily, and the others nodded together, looked at each other and smiled.

Xu Wen looked at the sudden faces, and his heart suddenly beat heavily, as if something sprouted from the depths and flowed down the blood to the whole body.

After inspecting all the wooden barrels, Master Qin withdrew his hand and walked to the side, and Zhengse announced: "After a quarter of an hour, three inspections." If the paper is wet, it is out. ”

For some reason, this time, the three examiners and the mysterious stranger did not leave, but stood aside and waited with them for a quarter of an hour for the next examination.

A quarter of an hour later, Master Song stepped forward.

It's still the same straw paper, as long as it's more than a third wet, it will be eliminated, and the standards are stricter than before.

Master Song's way of checking was a little different from Master Qin's.

He pasted the note and left, not staying at all. He waited until all the notes were pasted before he turned around and came back to look at the first bucket.

"Thirty percent, out. ”

"Twenty percent, stay. ”

"Forty percent, out. ”

"Fifty percent, out. ”

He checked too quickly, and the little official followed him, and he couldn't write.

Soon he walked over to Qi Kun's bucket and tore off the note on it.

"No stains, stay. ”

The candidates were in a small uproar, and they couldn't even care about their own results.

There are no water stains again! Qi Kun is too good!

Master Song had no expression and continued to move forward. The next one is Xu Wen's bucket.

"No stains, stay. ”

The uproar among the candidates was a little louder. It's stainless again, this is also a cow!

And this bucket still has tenons and no hoops, how does it feel a little better than Qi Kun......

Xu Wen subconsciously glanced at Qi Kun, the other party's eyes were burning, and he couldn't take his eyes off the bucket. Then he quickly glanced over here, and with that expression, Xu Wen believed that if it weren't for the exam site, he would have rushed over to ask him about the barrel.

Qi Kun is a person...... Xu Wen's doubts were even more prevalent.

The examiners still did not leave, and continued to observe the carpentry exam.

It's the height of summer, and the weather is very hot, and even if you stand in a cool place, you will sweat profusely.

But even so, the examiners still had no intention of leaving, standing not far away, pointing at this side, and talking about something.

Ten categories, is this the only case for woodworking?

What does this mean?

Xu Wen glanced over there, and a thought flashed in his heart.

Another quarter of an hour passed.

At this point, entering the seventh quarter of an hour, those who can continue to stay in this round will receive seventy points.

This time, Zhu Gantang stepped forward in person.

And what he is holding in his hand is no longer rough straw paper, but sheets of rice paper as thin as cicada wings!

Straw paper absorbs water, but it's far worse than rice paper.

The most important thing is that the straw paper is thick and the rice paper is thin, the former must absorb water to a certain extent to see the traces, while the latter, almost a little water vapor will wrinkle, and the reaction to water is very obvious.

Zhu Gantang's inspection method is the same as that of Master Song, first paste the paper on the wall of the barrel with a little paste, and then come back to look at it one by one when it is all pasted.

He did it all with his own hands, and from time to time the movement of squatting down and standing up seemed a little clumsy, but no one laughed at him at this time, and all of them waited nervously to see the final result.

With this kind of inspection method, it is estimated that few barrels will remain, right?

I don't know what will happen to Qi Kun and Xu Wen......

"More than half, out. ”

"Thirty percent, stay. ”

"More than half, out. ”

Sure enough, it was too obvious to use rice paper. Zhu Gantang said "more than half" is still polite, most of the rice paper was completely soaked when it was torn off, and it was directly torn into a mess!

In a small part, the situation is relatively better, and the moisture soaks the rice paper, making it very soft overall. As long as it is not so soft that it cannot be formed when it is torn off, it is considered to be passed and can continue to stay.

The most interesting thing is, of course, Qi Kun and Xu Wen's buckets.

Zhu Gantang walked over and bent down to tear off one.

"No stains, stay. ”

"No stains, stay. ”

Announced twice in a row, with exactly the same wording.

Zhu Gantang showed a surprised expression on his face, but compared to the candidates, it was a big deal.

Sometimes the more expert you are, the more you know the difficulty of a thing.

It's all this time, and even rice paper can't measure the humidity?

These two people are just too wicked, aren't they?

Especially Xu Wen, even the bucket hoop is useless, purely mortise and tenon joints, how is this done?

The seventh quarter of an hour passed, and under this strict method of inspection, only twelve barrels remained.

At this time, no one cares which of the other ten barrels belongs to which one.

There is only one thing that everyone is concerned about -

How long can the two buckets of Qi Kun and Xu Wen last?