This heavy rain caught everyone off guard, and at this time you can see the difference between being prepared and not being prepared.

Wu Shan and Li Chunfang were holding umbrellas and patrolling everywhere, and Leng Buding saw that the door of a room was tightly blocked, a gust of wind hung over, and the lanterns under the eaves were blown whirring, but the curtain that blocked the room was motionless.

"Lift."

The invigilator immediately opened the door curtain, and Wu Shan saw a young man sitting on a low stool and turned his head in surprise, holding a pen in his right hand, an inkstone in his hand, and a wooden board on his left side, and a cup of tea on the side, obviously, this is to prevent the teacup from accidentally dumping and staining the exam papers.

Wu Shan didn't speak, his eyes quickly turned around the room, there was an oil umbrella on it, the cracks on the wall were patched with oil paper, and the two plates were erected on one side for no use.

Wu Shan's gaze fell on the coal stove next to the trumpet plate, "Beware of coal poison." ”

Qian Yuan gave a grateful glance, but did not speak.

Wu Shan loosened the curtain and was about to leave, but Li Chunfang, who was behind him, tried to push the curtain and looked at the wooden stick on the lintel that was not there.

The rain is very terrible when you take the test, not to mention that the ceiling and walls of the room may leak wind and rain, the most important thing is that the room is too small, and there is no door, the general candidates are sitting in the direction of the door, once they encounter the wind and rain in this direction, there is no place to hide!

Qian Yuan had already prepared for it, he was sitting horizontally, and there was a recess in the box where a wooden board could be inserted, on the one hand, to put a teacup on the other side, and on the other hand, to protect it from the weather.

After the rain, Qian Yuan stuffed the exam papers into the box as soon as possible, found a wooden stick, a small hammer, and a few nails, fixed the wooden stick on the door, and then put a futon on it and hung it like a quilt, just to cover the door tightly.

However, the rain also brought another problem, cold, the beginning of February is about March of the solar calendar, the temperature in Beijing is not high, as soon as it rains, the temperature drops sharply.

If you want to use a charcoal basin for heating, you have to be careful of being poisoned by carbon, and if you don't use a charcoal basin for heating, you have to be careful of being frozen.

Every time there is heavy rain in the exam, the examination room will always carry a few corpses or a few candidates who have been frozen hard.

The honeycomb coal stove is more likely to be poisoned, Qian Yuan has already extinguished the stove, and he is a little uneasy in his heart, although he has reminded him before, but the ghost knows if the gang remembers, looking at the serious expression of the examiner just now, Qian Yuan is really afraid that something will happen to anyone in the gang.

Calm down, Qian Yuan continued to start polishing work, it was already the last Five Classics question, when the other candidates were shouting and even wailing, Qian Yuan sat steadily in the room and concentrated, and even because of the thick door curtain, the voice could not come in.

After checking the seven pieces of scratch paper from beginning to end, checking if there were any mistakes such as forgetting to evade, Qian Yuan began to formally transcribe it.

Until late at night, when he finally finished transcribing all seven questions, Qian Yuan sighed, just at the level of eight shares, he can really only be regarded as below average, and it is really difficult to say whether he can enter the department.

In the past two months, there has been a meeting in Suiyuan almost every three or four days, and aside from Xu Wei's cynicism, the fairest evaluation should come from Tao Dalin, who he evaluated...... It's all a matter of luck!

Qian Yuan opened the door curtain, only to find that the moon above his head was shining with bright moonlight, the rain had stopped at some point, and the ground in the alley passage was not a bluestone slab, just loess, which was already a piece of mud, and large and small puddles could be seen.

After moving his hands and feet, Qian Yuan smiled at the invigilator at the door, "It's hard work." ”

Bing Ding was speechless, he had been doing this for more than ten years, and it was the first time he had seen this kind of man, sleeping during the day, taking exams at night, not to mention the rest, he was tired and shaking when he stood here.

After thinking about it, Qian Yuan took out the coal stove to make a fire, boiled a pot of water, washed his face and scalded his feet, and poured two soup women to scald the bedding, because there was already a bedding as a curtain, and it would be a little difficult tonight.

When I woke up the next day, the other candidates were still busy in a hurry, Qian Yuan slowly came out and fried two meat dumplings, both of which were cut in advance and fried with oil, and the fragrance wafted for miles.

Outside the Tribute Courtyard, in the dense crowd, Yang Wen led the escort to occupy a large area, yesterday heavy rain, the temperature dropped sharply, the Tribute Courtyard sent four people out with hanging baskets, and went straight to the hospital, it is said that one has died.

"It's out, it's out!"

Dozens of scholars walked out of the dragon gate one after another, and finally three or four people shouted at the dazzling Yang Wen from afar: "Help!" ”

Yang Wen led people to rush up, and when he got closer, he breathed a sigh of relief, not the young master.

"Bo Mao, Bo Mao!" Chen Younian helped Xian Yan, "Hurry up, I suffered from the wind and cold, and my forehead was hot." ”

Yang Wen immediately asked Xian Yan to be carried into the carriage to see Lang Zhong, but he still stayed here, feeling a little anxious.

Well, at this time, Qian Yuan was still drinking porridge and eating fried rice dumplings in Pan Yunduan's envious eyes.

It wasn't until after noon that everything was packed up that Qian Yuan handed over the papers, dropped the box with an umbrella, and went straight to the Dragon Gate to wait, anyway, the second and third games were all this seat.

There are already a large number of scholars in the dragon gate ready to go out, some people have gloomy expressions, some people have tears in their eyes, and some people are in good spirits, not every room will be hit by wind and rain, there are two rows of rooms facing each other in the alley, at least half of them will not be affected by wind and rain.

Some candidates are talking about their articles, Qian Yuan is reluctant to take care of it and only stands on the periphery, but some people have sharp eyes, and a dignified scholar arched his hand and smiled: "This is Suiyuan Qian Zhancai, I don't know how to solve the problem of 'using it, and hiding it'?" ”

Qian Yuan recognized this person, a native of Gaolan, Lanzhou, Zou Yinglong, who had met in Xu Mansion before going to Tanzhe Temple to see each other.

Qian Yuan knew Zou Yinglong in his previous life, it is said that he was impeached and brought down Yan Song, and he was Xu Jie's confidant, but he didn't expect to be accepted by Xu Jie's door long before the examination.

Zou Yinglong visited Xu Mansion a lot of times, and almost every time he could hear the name Qian Yuan, and later came to visit Suiyuan, but Qian Yuan was quite indifferent to him.

"Before going out of the dragon gate, I dare not be wanton, so as not to be suspected of collusion." Qian Yuan calmly blocked back, this is the best reason.

Zou Yinglong sneered a few times, "I'm afraid that I have only eaten and drunk enough in the past three days, right?" ”

It's about you, Qian Yuan changed directions expressionlessly, but Zou Yinglong didn't give up, and wanted to face Qian Yuan directly across two steps, but he knocked down a person next to him coldly.

Zou Yinglong turned his head to look at it excitedly, but he breathed a sigh of relief, he was a gray-haired old man with furrows on his face, this belonged to the kind of person who had no future.

Generally speaking, after the age of forty before the Jinshi, it is difficult to make a difference in the career, even if the knowledge is good, the Hanlin Academy is unwilling to ask, the storage phase is the phase, the important thing is the phase, but first of all, the first thing to store, the forty-year-old Jinshi, when he can show his ambitions, I am afraid that he will have to give the officer.

This is also an important reason why the imperial examination prodigies in the Ming Dynasty emerge in an endless stream, Li Dongyang stayed up in the Hanlin Academy for twenty-five years before he became the first Zuo Chunfang Zuo concubine, and since then he has officially taken the helicopter, but you must know that he was only seventeen years old when he was a jinshi, and he was only a jinshi at the age of forty...... Twenty-five years, I'm afraid that the bones have melted!

The old man in front of him was obviously fifty or sixty years old, and Zou Yinglong, who was young and vigorous and took Xu Jie's line, of course didn't care, and only bowed his hand slightly and ignored it.

At this time, the dragon gate opened, and everyone went out one after another with umbrellas, and saw Yang Wen beckoning from a distance.

Qian Yuan held the gray-haired old man and grinned: "Brother Bolu has a letter, asking the junior to take care of you." ”

Before the old man could react, Qian Yuan rushed up with an arrow step and kicked Zou Yinglong away.

"What a character Zhenchuan Gong is, it's just that you accidentally knock him down, don't even apologize, you still treat "Li", cure a fart!"

"The sages' articles have been read into the dog's belly!"

There are not many people who know Gui Youguang, but there are not many scholars who don't know this name, and many of the scholars who handed in the papers in advance are from the south, and everyone knows the weight of the name Gui Youguang, and they have condemned it.

In front of everyone's eyes, Zou Yinglong could only get out of the way amid Qian Yuan's angry scolding.

Gui Youguang stood there with an umbrella a little helplessly, he couldn't say that he was magnanimous, but he didn't get angry about this little thing, and he didn't think that Qian Yuan was the kind of person with a full sense of justice, and he kicked this foot nine times out of ten on purpose, and he was just an excuse.