Chapter 35: The Imperial Examination Begins
Tonight, the emperor had a long memory, and he drank a little casually, not daring to get drunk.
And told Chen Xiao that he wouldn't come every day now.
After drinking, when he was about to leave, the emperor said to Chen Xiao: "You can't let your fiancée suffer!" ”
Chen Xiao pouted again: "I know how to love my woman, I don't need you to care." I don't know, I really thought my fiancée was your daughter! ”
The emperor lost his temper, sighed, and said, "Besides, you don't want the imperial examination?" Can you put some heart on it? ”
"Hey, are you a guest for a drink, or is it my father-in-law? What's the matter? I'm sorry for you if I can't pass the exam? You don't really plan to marry your daughter to me, do you? They all said I had a fiancée! Chen Xiao was helpless.
The emperor was stunned, thinking that I really don't want to marry my daughter to you, but I can't control my daughter......
So he sighed and left.
Chen Xiao looked at the emperor's back and said, "Ya, is it so wide?" Do you really think you're the emperor? ”
Hearing this, the emperor almost fell down.
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Back in the store and after looking at the project, Chen Xiao's business is getting better and better.
It makes him very happy, and it's good to have money.
It has only been less than ten days since the restaurant was opened, but the income of two or three hundred taels a day, plus the silver tickets given by the emperor several times, adds up to six thousand taels.
At most, there will be half a month, and it will be easy to return to the cost, and then what you earn is pure profit.
However, as the business of the restaurant is booming day by day, the imperial examination is gradually approaching.
A day or two before the imperial examination, all the candidates who were qualified in the imperial capital or the county under the jurisdiction of the imperial capital began to live near the Gongyuan one after another.
Chen Xiao and the fat man handed over the shop to the guys in the store to take care of, and they also began to prepare for the imperial examination.
It is said to be a preparation, but in fact, it is to inquire about some processes or something.
After inquiring, there are three examiners in the Imperial Capital Mansion this time, one chief examiner and two deputy examiners.
The chief examiner is the Shuncheonfu Yin, and the deputy examiner is the waiter of the two ceremonial departments.
The exam is divided into three sessions, one for three days, and you can come out first after completing the questions.
After these news were clarified, the fat man and Chen Xiao did not pay too much attention to it.
The reason is very simple, Chen Xiao doesn't pay attention to it, because he is confident that he will be admitted.
The fat man didn't pay attention because he was more confident that he wouldn't get in.
Time flies, the next day, early in the morning.
After the fat man and Chen Xiao got up, they washed up and went to the Imperial Capital Tribute Courtyard.
The Gongyuan is built in the southeast corner of the imperial capital Chongwen Gate, and there is a memorial arch of "Tiankai Wenyun" in front of the gate.
Entering this archway, you will see the huge tribute courtyard, there is a plaque in front of the gate, and the word tribute courtyard is written.
At this moment, just entering the archway, at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, there are hundreds of officers and soldiers guarding outside the Tribute Courtyard, and there is a circle of soldiers surrounding the entire Tribute Courtyard.
In front of the door, there were many officials in charge of inspecting the candidates, and two rows of officers and soldiers stood around the door.
So many officers and soldiers, as well as officials here, normal people are scared.
The purpose is to deter these candidates so that they can enter the exam in a proper manner.
At this moment, one by one, the candidates lined up and walked to a temporary "room" surrounded by cloth in front of the gate.
Then, they were searched very carefully by the officials, and even took off their shoes, socks and clothes, and their private parts were carefully inspected to prevent cheating.
Not to mention, there are really cheaters.
I only checked a few of them, and found the cheat sheet he was carrying on the soles of a candidate's feet.
However, he was not allowed to wear any clothes, and was dragged out by several soldiers and left on the ground.
Then he was beaten by a few soldiers, and that's not all, his talent. The fame will also be canceled and he will never be hired, including his descendants, and it will be difficult to take this path in the future.
This is the severe punishment for cheaters, and it can be seen how strict the imperial examination system is.
And then, people were constantly caught cheating, some hiding cheat sheets in their hair, some stuffing them in their cheeks.
Some use the butt groove to hold the cheat sheet, and some birds have too long banana peels outside the bird, so they stuff the cheat sheet inside......
What's more, roll up the cheat sheet, stuff it into the back door, wait for it to enter the exam room, and pull it out.
It can be said that these people are doing everything to cheat and get into the exam.
However, these will be easily discovered by experienced inspectors.
Even if it's stuffed in the back door, the officials will be pulled out by you......
I have to say that these officials who inspect are also fighting.
If they are not careful, they can't do it, once they let go of the cheater and are discovered, it will be their dereliction of duty.
After rounds of inspections, the fat man finally arrived.
After he entered, it was nothing at first, but soon, a voice came from inside: "Big brother, my banana peel is not long, I can't hide ......"
"Brother, don't buckle me behind, hey...... Hurt...... Yes...... Hmm~~"
Soon, I saw the fat man blushing, holding his ass and coming out of it, and then with a very strange walking posture, he entered the tribute courtyard.
This couldn't help but make Chen Xiao and Chrysanthemum tighten......
Then, he went in too.
Strip naked and let it be inspected.
The official looked at Chen Xiao's little brother and said, "Brother, the tool is not small!" ”
"Generally, it's about 20 centimeters." Chen Xiao said.
Then under the envious eyes of several officials, he was carefully examined.
It's not as exaggerated as the fat man, just take a closer look, it's fine.
With doubts, he got dressed and came out, and after entering the tribute courtyard, he saw that the fat man was still holding his buttocks and walking like a duck, Chen Xiao was puzzled:
"What's wrong with them? I've also entered the check, right? It's like they've got you ...... something."
"Alas...... They checked my back door all kinds of things...... "The fat man was helpless.
"No, just take a look, right?" Chen Xiao said.
The fat man touched his fat buttocks: "Maybe my buttocks are too fat, and the clamp is too tight, which always makes them feel that they can hide things......"
Chen Xiao was speechless, and after putting aside this topic, he stood in the courtyard of the Gong Courtyard.
After a long time, thousands of people who took the exam arrived.
Chen Xiao probably looked at it, almost seven or eight thousand people!
He was shocked, he didn't expect so many people to come to participate in the imperial examination.
In other words, these are all talented students from the Imperial Capital Mansion and the nearby Zhili County.
This is only the area under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Capital Mansion, and today, in the entire Dragon Kingdom, the provincial capital tribute courts of dozens of provinces, the same scene is also the same, and the number of participants in each province may be even more.
However, there are only a few dozen places that can be selected in each province.
In other words, there are tens of thousands of talents in each province to take the exam, but only a few dozen of them are in the middle of the exam.
said, the township test is the most cruel, almost one out of a hundred talents, only one can be lifted.
Today, Chen Xiao is going to compete with the seven or eight thousand people in the imperial capital for the one percent quota.
And he, not worried at all, because, he cheats!
Thinking of this, he smiled!