The lights in front of the county yamen are bright, and the red lanterns are bright all around. The students who were carrying the examination baskets, and the family members who sent the exams, Yan Kuimei, wandered back to Mu Yan to lure the back of the urn to lure the old man to the bones of the glue bar and used the glue bar arrogantly-" The father and son looked at it, Ouyang Zhi's little servant Laiwang stood in front of the yamen and waved from afar, and Ouyang Zhi was standing beside him.

Hurriedly squeezed over, Ouyang Zhi pointed to the long line and said, "It's just right, my family is in front, and we can go in as soon as the door opens." Lin Zimo took a closer look, didn't he? The people ranked third to sixth were none other than the Ouyang family members he knew, who were smiling at Lin Zimo at this time.

Chang took a breath, just now he saw this team with no end in sight, scared him to death, if he was at the end of the line, he would be tired of half his life when he got in. Carrying the examination basket, several people changed with their subordinates and stood there beautifully.

The students in the back stopped doing it: "Hey, the one in front, why don't you line up and add one privately." Several people didn't answer, and Lai Wang hurriedly said: "We were originally the subordinates of the house, and we came to line up for the master early, and now the masters are standing here, is there anything wrong?" The person behind him muttered, "Is there a great person?" When I entered the school and was admitted to Xiucai, I also bought ten or eight subordinates. ”

At this moment, the door of the yamen "creaked" open, and more than a dozen soldiers and officials came out to maintain order, and two small officials began to inspect and let the students in.

Chong waved his hand at Lin Huaide, who was worried about looking at them, and several people entered the gate. On the left side of the gate of the yamen, a temporary board room was erected, and one by one the students put the examination basket outside the door for inspection, and walked into the board room by themselves, and the clothes they wore were taken off from head to toe, leaving only a pair of pants for the soldiers to check. Although there was a brazier in the house, it was so cold that people shivered, and it was easy to check it, and I entered the second door with the examination basket, only to see a big examination shed in the courtyard, and the thick wooden pillars supported the top of the wood, and only the walls on both sides were nailed with wooden planks, and the front and back were all wide open, and there were long tables and benches neatly arranged inside.

Each table and stool is sat by four students, and the tables and stools are mottled, and some move slightly, "creaking" and making random sounds. Several people were dumbfounded, Ouyang Zhi had never seen this scene because his family had been pressing him and letting him accumulate thick and thin.

However, Lin Zimo has read a lot of novels before, and he understands a little: "The exam is the most important, don't think about anything else." "If the official doesn't repair the yamen, he doesn't even repair his own yamen, who cares about what table and chair you take for the exam! If you don't sit cross-legged on the ground for the test, it's good.

The little official came here. Lead everyone to find a seat and sit down, students in the same school, the exam number will not be next to each other, in order to prevent cheating. Lin Zimo's exam number occupied the position against the west wall, but fortunately, the seat where the four people sat together was made the most marginal by him. Looking at both sides, most of the candidates have already taken their seats, and the three people who sat with Lin Zimo have also arrived, all of them are older than Lin Zimo, and the last one, with a little gray hair, is still carrying the exam basket to prepare for the exam.

On the fifth watch day of February and a half, people can be frozen into dogs, Lin Zimo and their tables and stools are relatively strong, at least four people sat on them without making any strange sounds. There are many students from poor families or unprepared, all of whom are shivering from the cold, and the sound of blowing their noses with handkerchiefs comes and goes, opening the examination basket, and taking out the hand of pen and ink retracts their sleeves from time to time to keep warm.

Lin Zimo was neat and tidy, with a half-cut thin cotton glove hand, calmly arranging his things. Cotton pants and cotton jackets, cotton robes, and a navy blue cloak with gray rabbit fur on the inside, the three brothers' outfits are both low-key and warm.

The sun gradually rose, and a quiet and solemn atmosphere shrouded the examination shed, and after a while, I remembered the report of the officer: "My lord has arrived", Lin Zimo looked at it from a distance, and a man wearing a seven-grade official robe walked behind the table directly above, but the specific facial features could not be seen clearly.

Then, the adult said a few words, as if to encourage everyone, but they couldn't hear clearly. Then a few small officials held the wooden board and slowly walked back and forth in the aisle of the examination desk, so that all the candidates could see the exam questions glued to it.

Lin Zimo hurriedly picked up the pen and copied the topic. One question is from the four books, one is from the Five Classics, and finally a trial poem with five words and eight rhymes.

Lin Zimo has summarized the previous test questions he has seen, and the breakthrough of the Xiucai exam is a narrative, the lifting of people is a narrative essay and an essay essay, and the entrance examination is a pure essay. After a morning's time, Lin Zimo wrote both articles on straw paper, or continued Lin's strategy, conceived the vernacular in his mind, and then converted it into classical Chinese and wrote it.

The sun was already overhead, and the county officials had already returned to the back hall, and there were only a few officials walking back and forth in the examination booth, surrounded by soldiers with □□. Bending down to take out the food prepared in the test basket, Lin Zimo slowly began to eat lunch. The pea yellow that Sister-in-law Li is good at is made into a small plum blossom shape, one bite at a time, and the province is choking. Thinly sliced donkey meat, and boiled slightly salted eggs, wrapped in a thin cotton handkerchief, are not cold at all. With the sweet cabbage heart, the meat and vegetables are matched, and it is easy to swallow, and I ate it beautifully. As for the cool white water in the jug, Lin Zimo didn't dare to drink more, first, he was afraid that his stomach would be cold, but it was too troublesome to run to the toilet, and he would be disqualified if he didn't get it right.

The people next to him looked at him enviously, and immediately turned their heads, if they were caught looking left and right, they would be regarded as cheating. After eating, I cleaned up, took off the gloves in my right hand, and carefully wrote the test questions on the paper, and the fair Xiaokai obviously improved a lot.

As for the poem, after thinking about it, I simply plagiarized a miscellaneous poem, anyway, this era is an empty era, and I am not afraid of being seen. picked up the pen and wrote: You come from your hometown, you should know about your hometown. In front of the window in the coming day, the cold plum blossoms are not blooming.

Nodding with satisfaction, seeing that someone in front of him had already gotten up, he stood up with his raised hand, and his own little official came over to put away the exam papers, Lin Zimo lifted his exam basket and went to the gate to prepare to go out.

Seeing the eldest brother and a few people standing there from a distance, he hurriedly walked over, and under the guard of the soldiers, he didn't dare to make a loud noise, and waited quietly next to the eldest brother.

It wasn't until the bell rang that I saw the second brother and Ouyang Zhishi Shiran come out. The three brothers and Ouyang Zhi walked out of the yamen with the flow of students.