A few years ago, in order to borrow silver, Qian Junchen not only tried to get close, but also always praised Ren He's good handwriting, good article writing, and insightful strategy, so that Ren He, who was already arrogant, thought that he would definitely be able to Chinese. As a result, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and the whole person was stunned on the day of the release, and it was Ren who helped him back from Donghuamen.

A Shanxi candidate who lives in the same Longmen Inn and is also named Sun Mountain, does not know whether to comfort him or coax himself to be self-sufficient, and said that the Chinese-style ones are not Jinshi but tributes, and the imperial court wants to polish the Zhu Roll and Ink Roll when they will test, and let them go to Baohe Hall for re-examination after grinding. Some tributes were preparing to go to the palace to take the test, but they received news that someone in the family had died and wanted to go back to Ding Wei. Some of the tributes suddenly fell ill before the temple examination......

In short, until the last minute, none of those Chinese-style candidates know whether they will be brushed off, and those who are not Chinese-style may be by-selected for the one-hall examination.

Ren He thought so, felt that there was still hope, and waited until Gongshi retested.

It's a pity that the candidate who fell to Sun Shan guessed half correctly, and there were indeed a few Chinese-style candidates who were brushed off during the re-examination, but the last time the Chinese-style examination was not participated in the palace examination for various reasons, there were more former Gongshi, and people routinely took the palace examination with the undergraduate Gongshi, and they didn't have a chance to make up for it at all.

The more Ren He thought about it, the more unconvinced he became, and he made up his mind to take the exam again next year, but he didn't want to stay in the capital for a long time. felt that Han Si was the villain in his life, and if he wanted to be named on the gold list, he had to stay away from Han Si, and finally don't see this person again, and don't hear Han Si's name again.

Ren Ren was like a mirror in his heart, knowing that Han Si had become his inner demon, and he felt that it would be good to go back to his hometown in Ba County first and wait for next year's exam, so he rushed to the Chongqing Hall that had become a construction site alone, and asked Han Xiufeng about Qian Junchen's whereabouts.

"Are you going back?"

"My brother is not used to eating and living here, let alone working hard. He's determined, what can I say. ”

Han Xiufeng had a good impression of Ren Er, and besides, a sworn enemy like Zhou Xingyuan could release his suspicions, and he was not as disgusted with Ren He as he was before, so he thought about it and asked, "When are you going to leave?" ”

Ren Er also felt that Han Si was actually a good person, standing in front of a pile of old bricks that had been dismantled, and said, "I will leave early the day after tomorrow, and I will hire the car." ”

"The world is not peaceful, I heard Master Ji say that many people were robbed by thieves on the way to the exam a few years ago, you have to be careful on the way back."

"You know, we'll be careful."

"Hmm." Han Xiufeng nodded, and then said: "Master Qian seems to be very busy these days, it's not so easy to find others, you just go to the yard we just rented to guard, no matter how busy he is during the day, he will definitely go back at night, after seeing him, tell him well, no matter what, he is also a fellow villager, if you can, don't tear your face." ”

Thinking of Qian Junchen's character, Ren Er asked with a bitter face: "Fourth brother, Master Qian has already become the same examiner, he should be rich now, right?" ”

"I don't really know if he has any money or not. But it's only natural to repay debts, you just have to ask him. ”

"Okay, then I'll go first."

"Go ahead, and talk to him when you see him."

……

Looking at the back of Ren Er's departure, thinking of the two hundred taels of silver that Liu Shanyang lent to Qian Junchen, it was Han Xiufeng who used the public funds of the hall to help put it on first, until yesterday when he arrived with the door bags of those Chinese-style candidates who went to meet Qian Junchen, Pan Er couldn't help but smile and said: "Fourth brother, it's really an uncle who borrowed money these years, as long as you can borrow money, you have the ability!" ”

Han Xiufeng picked up a piece of rafters and put it aside, turned around and asked, "Brother Pan, do you mean Qian Junchen, or my uncle?" ”

"Of course it's Qian Junchen!"

"I thought you were talking about my uncle."

"Fourth brother, you want to be stubble, how can I say your uncle." Pan Er realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Fourth brother, there is one thing I have always wondered, don't you have to go to Xuetai Yamen to fill in the confession when you raise people to come to the capital to take the test, and don't you have to take the retest in the province first?" Master He, why don't they have to go back to fill in the personal confession, why don't they have to go back to the retest? ”

"Master He, they are old people, and they have already filled in the personal confession before coming to Beijing for the first time, and they have already re-examined. Ren He is a person from the new middle school, so before coming to Beijing to take the exam, he must first go to Chengdu to learn from the Taiwan Yamen to fill in the confession. ”

Han Xiufeng found a clean brick and sat down, picked up the bowl and took a sip of tea, and then said: "The main purpose of filling in the confession is to prevent someone from impersonating the scientific examination, and the re-examination in the province is mainly to save money." Think about it, if everyone comes to Beijing to try, how much travel money will be paid in the province, and how many cattle and horses will be sent out by the post stations along the way. ”

"So if you don't have good knowledge, you won't let me come if you can't get it?"

"Almost," Han Xiufeng smiled, and said: "This year is different from previous years, this year's Enke, next year's Ke will be opened as usual, Shandong and Zhili's first move is okay, after all, it's close." What to do with the first people in Liangguang and Yunnan-Guichuan, it will take more than half a year to come and go, and if something happens on the road, they will not be able to catch up with next year's examination, so they don't need to go back to fill in the confession. ”

Pan Er seemed to understand and said: "You don't need to retest? ”

"The re-examination is still required, but there is no need to go back to the province to re-test, and the imperial court will let them re-test in Beijing before the re-examination next year, especially those who donate their backgrounds, and they cannot participate in the re-examination without going through the re-examination."

"People can donate too!"

"Lifting people is fame, and you can't donate any amount of money, I mean those who didn't get into the show, first spent money to donate a prisoner, and then took the township test to raise people."

"I thought people could donate it, if only they could."

Thinking of the last time Wang Zhironghua, a member of the household department, helped him donate his background and donated an alternate history, he took out one hundred taels of silver without saying a word, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but joke: "Brother Pan, if you can donate people, do you plan to donate one too?" ”

Pan Erduo was shrewd and hurriedly said, "I'...... I just asked casually. ”

Han Xiufeng didn't bother to go around in circles with him, looked at him with a smile and asked, "To be honest with me, how much silver did your father give you before you came, and how much is left?" ”

Pan Er didn't want to hide it, after all, Han Xiufeng was not what it used to be, waiting in the capital to fill the vacancy not only wouldn't sit and make money, but he couldn't look down on his little silver at all, but he had been hiding it before, and now he was embarrassed to speak, seeing that Han Xiufeng finally asked, he could only say with an embarrassed face: "Fourth brother, don't hide it, my father gave me five hundred taels before I came." The reason why I have been hiding it from you is not because I am worried that you will fight the idea of five hundred taels, but because I want to keep it and wait for one day when you need it urgently, you can take it out to save the emergency. ”

"So good to me?"

"Fourth brother, the conscience of heaven and earth, I really didn't coax you, that's how my father explained before I came."