In February, Chang'an City is not yet covered in greenery.

Although the river thawed and the weather warmed up, the branches of the trees were still dry, the grass in the morning sun was sporadic and the cold wind was blowing, and the pedestrians on the street were still wearing winter clothes.

It was such weather that spring began.

The Qi family went into battle, and after a few days, they began to prepare the things they would use in the spring.

On the day of the Spring Festival, the family got up early in the morning, Qi Laoniu personally watched the people put on the carriage, Qi Baozhu made a lot of durable dry food, and Qi Baozhu personally cooked eggs and noodles for Qi Jing.

Yun Yao watched Qi Jing finish eating, checked all the belongings, and closed the lid of the exam box and went out.

Yun Yao's face was a little pale, and her expression was very bad, Qi Jing was worried and helpless, and told her a few words before leaving.

As soon as Qi Jing left, Yun Yao couldn't hold on to the bed and rested.

For Qi Jing's scientific examination, Yun Yao has spent all her mental strength in the past few days to make a delicate examination box, if you want to just do organ design and the like Yun Yao, she can do it completely with a pair of skillful hands, the key is that Yun Yao desperately damaged her body and used some mental power that she is not able to use now to open up the space of the examination box.

Opening up space consumes the most mental energy, and Yun Yao's body itself is not very good, so naturally it can't hold on.

Baozhu watched Qi Jing leave and took food and came over to look at Yun Yao, and saw that she was already lying on the bed.

Baozhu was startled, and quickly put down the food and invited the doctor to come and see, Qi Gu also brought a large family to look at Yun Yao, and the doctor checked the pulse and only said that Yun Yao was too tired to work.

This really scared the family. Qi Gu immediately asked the doctor to prescribe some tonic medicine, and personally opened the warehouse and selected many valuable medicinal materials to replenish Yun Yao's qi and blood.

Don't say how the Qi family tossed, just say that Qi Jing took a carriage to the Gongyuan, and saw many people surrounding the gate of the Gongyuan, one by one wearing single clothes and fighting in the cold wind.

Qi Jing frowned, and got out of the carriage with the test box.

As soon as he got out of the car, he saw Xiao Zhi walking towards him, and Qi Jing also greeted him with a smile: "Brother Xiao." ”

"Fourth brother." Xiao Zhi arched his hand.

Although it is said that the two families have decided to be married, they have not yet become married, and Qi Jing can't care about Xiao Zhi calling him brother-in-law. can only be called brother. But Xiao Zhi can call Qi Jing a fourth brother.

"It's so cold today." Xiao Zhi tightened the cloak on his body and looked at the sky.

Qi Jing nodded: "The north wind is blowing again, this year's spring is late, and it is not cold at this time in previous years." ”

Xiao Zhi sighed: "I don't know how many moves can be frozen in the Gongyuan this year. ”

What he said was not false at all, the tribute courtyard could not make a fire. The room was cold and damp. The lifters could only enter in single clothes. After three days of exams, even if you are in good health, you can't stand it, let alone if you are weak.

Qi Jing was also very helpless. Before he could say anything, he saw that a thin figure had fallen to the ground, and the scholar who came with him was looking for someone to help carry him to the infirmary.

Qi Jing also sighed.

Not long after, an errand opened the door of the Tribute Academy, inspected the candidates' belongings one by one, and watched the candidates enter the Tribute Academy in order.

Qi Jing and Xiao Zhi hurriedly followed the queue, and when it was their turn, there were already many people in front of them, and naturally, there were also people who were checked out to cheat and dragged out to sweep the floor.

Qi Jing handed his examination box to an errand officer, and was called by another errand to search his body, searched from head to foot, and carefully checked the examination box, and saw that there was nothing that could not be bringed, so he let him go.

He stood at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard and waited for a while, Xiao Zhi also searched over, and the two entered the Tribute Courtyard together.

When he entered the door, an errand officer issued a number plate, Qi Jing smiled at the errand officer, turned over his hand and took out a piece of gold and quietly handed it over, and whispered: "Brother, be accommodating, the two of us." ”

The errand didn't want to have such a good thing, so he changed the number plate that he wanted to hand to Qi Jing and gave him a very good number, and when Xiao Zhi arrived, the errand also gave face and a good number plate.

Seeing that Xiao Zhi was behind Qi Jing, he didn't see Qi Jing's operation, and he didn't listen to what Qi Jing said, and he didn't know that Qi Jing had bribed the officer.

Speaking of which, Qi Jing had inquired about the process of this scientific examination earlier, and he knew very well how much impact it would have on the exam if he got a bad number plate.

For example, if your room is next to a latrine, then you will really fall into blood mold.

Not to mention that you have to suffer for three days of stinking smoke, people who come to the toilet every day kick and tap and beat you in front of you, one by one so that you can't live in peace, that will affect the question, open you are upset, I am afraid that you can not write the question that can be answered.

But if it is a good room, it is quiet and clean, and it is not damp, which can make you more comfortable than others to answer the questions well.

Naturally, this comfort is not much more comfortable, and it is just a comparison.

Qi Jing was able to get a good number plate, but it took a lot of effort, there was a body search before the tribute courtyard, except for pen, ink, paper, inkstone and food, you are not allowed to bring anything else, and the gold and silver can not be taken to the tribute courtyard.

Qi Jing is different from those scholars, he had a good relationship with those Eryouzi in Lotus Town in order to make his family's life better, and he was also mixed on the street, and he had learned a few tricks from the famous clever hands in Lotus Town earlier, and it was possible to hide a small piece of gold under the nose of the errand officer.

In this way, he can bribe the errand who issued the number plate and be able to get him and Xiao Zhi a good number room.

Waiting for the Gongyuan, Qi Jing looked down, this number is really good, Tianzi Ding number room, although there are three particularly good ones in front, but I am afraid that it is really not his turn, and people are all reserved for friends or high-ranking families.

Looking at Xiao Zhi's license plate again, it's also very good, and the Tianzi Gui number room is not far from Qi Jing.

Qi Jing smiled: "Our brothers are quite lucky. ”

Those who can participate in the spring festival are all from all over the country, and they have all participated in the township test earlier, so they naturally know the sorting of the number room, Xiao Zhi is also very satisfied with the number plate, and said with a smile: "Yes, the luck is really good, I hope I can pass the exam this time." ”

The two of them talked and laughed, each found their own room, and walked in.

Qi Jing went in to take a look, and sure enough, it was a Tianzi room, it was cleaned very clean, the bedding was not damp, the horizontal board was solid, and the stool inside was not lacking legs.

He sat down and tried it, but it was stable, so he smiled and put the test box on the board that had been erected, and took things out in the same way.

Taking out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Qi Jing looked at the rough examination box on the outside and the delicate and abnormal on the inside.

This test box was made by Yun Yao herself, and there were many organs in it, and Qi Jing was really frightened when Yun Yao took the test box and taught Qi Jing how to use it before.

Since ancient times, I didn't say that I had seen it, and I never thought that there would be such an extremely exquisite object, not to mention ordinary people, Qi Jing dared to guarantee the ticket, even the palace could not find it.

This box looks at the first layer is very ordinary, that is, it is filled with pen, ink, paper, inkstone and dry food and other things, and the size of the space seems to be only such a layer, but when you pull the mechanism, the second layer will appear, the second layer of space is not small, and the folded quilt can be taken out to keep out the cold.

Flip the mechanism and there is a third dimension, but this one has a tarpaulin and a small stove.

Although the inspection is strict during the spring season, it is only when you enter the Tribute Academy, and when you really go in to answer the questions, there are only a few rounds of patrols, and the examiner does not come to inspect it very often.

That's why Qi Jing was so relieved and bold to bring in such an exam box.

Qi Jing looked at the examination box for a while, and there was an errand to take all the candidates to gather and worship the statue of the saint, and when he came back after worshipping, the examiner shouted to start the exam, and the door of the Gongyuan squeaked and closed, and from then on, until the end of the exam, all people were not allowed to enter or exit.

There was another pillar of incense, and after the examiner read out the examination discipline, the messenger came over to distribute the examination papers.

The first day of the test is to paste the scriptures, that is, to choose fill-in-the-blank questions, Qi Jing has been smart since he was a child, it can be said that he has never forgotten to become a lawsuit, he has read a lot of books over the years, the money earned by the Qi family in the early years was used to search for various books for Qi Jing, and some books that could not be bought Qi Jing also tried his best to find them, or borrow or copy, after all, he read a stomach full of all kinds of books, and he was never scared to paste the scriptures.

When the exam questions were distributed, Qi Jing smiled after looking at it twice.

I don't know which examiners came up with the questions this year, just by looking at the scriptures, I know that it is definitely not easy.

Without it, there are more questions on this scripture test.

I have to answer a full ten papers in a day, and there are about 100 questions, not to mention the degree of difficulty, which is really not small.

Qi Jing didn't answer like some candidates, he read it from beginning to end before he began to answer.

It's not that he wasn't in a hurry, but Yun Yao told him a joke earlier, and Qi Jing really remembered it.

The joke is that there is a national scientific examination, and the amount of questions is huge, and there are about more than 1,000 questions, and all the candidates are anxious to cry when they see it, thinking that they may not be able to finish it.

Then, all the candidates started to answer the questions at the first time, racing against time to answer quickly, that's it, there are still many candidates who have not finished answering, and those who have studied and read a lot have finished answering, but, when they waited to answer the last question, they found that a sentence was written on it: the exam only needs to answer the last question.

Yun Yao couldn't laugh when he spoke, Qi Jing was very helpless after hearing it, and said in his heart which country was so irresponsible, he took all the moves to make fun, and he was not afraid of being hated, and he was not afraid of the emperor cutting off his head.

Although he thought so, based on Qi Jing's love and respect for Yun Yao, he still took Yun Yao's words to heart, and when he saw that there were a lot of questions today, he thought of this joke and couldn't help but read the test questions first.

I kept seeing the last question, and found that the examiner was not as strange as the country Yun Yao said, so I was relieved. (To be continued.) )