Fei Maozhong has already passed the hospital examination to gain fame for showing talent, while Fei Maoxian is a child, in other words, he has passed the government examination, so neither of them needs to participate in the county examination.

As for Han Chuang, he had already passed the county exam last year, but he was folded on the prefectural exam, so he didn't need to take the county exam this year, just take the prefectural exam in April.

Therefore, Xu Jin, Cai Yue, and Li Yingjun, plus two other classmates who need to take the county examination, went to the ceremonial room of the county office to register together.

The registration process is more complicated, first each of them fills in the identity information, and then the five people jointly fill in the mutual insurance policy, proving to each other that the other party's information is true and there is no impersonation.

Then find a county student who admits bail, to ensure that the information filled in by these five people is true, that they do not impersonate, do not hide their funerals, do not take in stand-ins, do not have false names, ensure that they are innocent, are not the children and grandchildren of prostitutes, and they have not committed crimes and engage in cheap business.

The so-called endowment is that the talent has achieved fame and fame, and is a talent who enjoys special state subsidies, and generally only a particularly outstanding individual in the talent can receive the state allowance.

So Xu Jin and others found the senior brother Wei Yang as a guarantor, he is one of the endowments of Shangrao County, and he can receive a few buckets of rice per month The state subsidy, of course, with Wei Yang's family background, he naturally doesn't care about these buckets of rice, this is just a kind of honor.

With Wei Yang's gifted student to report, Xu Jin's five people successfully passed the county test registration and got the admission ticket, and then only need the voucher to enter the examination room.

The next period of time is the pre-exam sprint, Xu Jin entered a state of hard study, the business of the five-spice lamb grocery store was completely handed over to Xiao Wan to take care of, he no longer asked, every day is to read, practice eight strands of literature hard, and occasionally go to Fei Mansion to ask Fei Hong for advice.

Fortunately, there is a little slave to help now, or Xie Xiaowan has to open a shop and do business alone, and she has to take care of Xu Jin's daily life and diet, one of them will definitely not be busy.

Since the last Lantern Festival, the little slave is obviously a lot closer to Xu Jin, when Xu Jin is immersed in hard reading, this kid will occasionally sneak into the study to make a cup of tea for Xu Jin, and by the way, there is no new "Shooting the Condor", of course, every time he leaves disappointed, during this time Xu Jin's energy is focused on the county test, how can he have time to write silently, after all, it also takes brainpower.

Time flies like a white horse, and inadvertently it will be February 16, and the first of the county exams will start the next day.

Xu Jin stopped studying hard, and instead took Xie Xiaowan and the little slave out on this day, as the so-called way of civil and martial arts, one by one, and moderate relaxation after tension, but the state can be adjusted to the best.

Everything is pre-planned, and if you don't prepare, you will be wasted, this is Xu Jin's criterion, success always favors those who are prepared, as for the set of "grinding guns in battle, not happy and light", Xu Jin has always scoffed, even if this kind of person succeeds by luck, it only belongs to the group of people who are free from the end of the crane.

After returning from the outing, Xu Jin was in a happy mood, took a walk in the yard after dinner, and talked with the little slave for half an hour, and when dinner was almost digested, Shi Shiran went back to sleep.

On the fifth watch of the next day (3 o'clock in the morning), Xie Xiaowan woke Xu Jin up.

Xu Jin immediately got up to wash up and eat breakfast, and then carefully checked the exam basket again to confirm that there was no omission, and then went out with the exam basket.

At this time, the sky is not yet bright, and the spring is cold, and the wind is like a knife, so it feels sour.

Xie Xiaowan tidied up Xu Jin's clothes and said gently: "I wish the Xianggong flag a victory, and the fish leaps into the dragon gate!" ”

Xu Jin smiled and nodded: "Cheng Niangzi Jiyan!" After speaking, he lowered his head and rubbed Xie Xiaowan's forehead with his chin.

In the dark, Xie Xiaowan's face was as red as a ripe apple, and she glanced left and right weakly, but fortunately, there was no one on the street at this time.

Xu Jin smiled, he liked to see the appearance of this little girl when she was shy, took the lantern in Xie Xiaowan's hand, and turned around freely.

Originally, yesterday I said that I would let the little slave take the lamp and send it to the examination room, but this kid fell off the chain, and now he is still asleep, Xu Jin is too lazy to wake him up, the child is the time to grow his body, and it is not good to get up too early, so he can only carry the lantern by himself.

Under normal circumstances, women are not allowed to send candidates to the examination room, just as in ancient times girls could not enter the ancestral hall.

The examination room of the county examination is located in the Confucian Department in the north of the city, because Shangrao County is the seat of the government, the hardware facilities are still quite advantageous, the Confucian Examination Department is very large, and there is a special examination room for thousands of people to take the examination at the same time.

If it is a small county in the place, it is a temporary examination shed, leaking on all sides, and sitting in it for a day in the cold spring season, hey, the taste is absolutely sour.

What's more, some particularly poor counties don't even provide tables and stools, and candidates have to carry their own tables and stools at home for the exam. If the candidate is far away from the county seat, he can only rent a table and stool from the city, and if he is reluctant to spend money on renting, he will bring a wooden board and a stack of bricks into the examination room, and the wooden block will be placed on his knee as a table, and the bricks will be placed under the buttocks as a stool. If the exam encounters a rainy day, it will be even more unlucky, and the feeling of soaking your feet in muddy water is really indescribable.

Of course, it is impossible for Xu Jin to encounter this situation, the Confucian Education Department in Shangrao County is still very tall, with a roof to cover his head, and the ground is also paved with blue bricks.

Xu Jin arrived at the examination room of the Confucianism Department and found that there were already many candidates waiting in line to enter the venue, which really responded to the poem: Mo Daojun is early, and there are even more early pedestrians.

Xu Jin lined up at the back of the line and waited to enter the venue, at about half past four in the morning, the sky was hazy and bright, the door of the examination room was finally opened, and the candidates entered the venue in turn, and there was a search (equivalent to a security guard) responsible for checking the candidates, in addition to the test basket, they would also search their bodies to prevent the candidates from being entrained. At this time, don't think about any privacy, even if Souzo reaches into the crotch of his pants and pinches your eggs, he has to endure it.

It was precisely because of such strictness that the entrance was very slow, Xu Jin waited for nearly half an hour to be able to enter, searched his body, checked the admission ticket, and then saw if his appearance matched the description on the admission ticket, so he let Xu Jin enter.

It's not okay to enter the venue, an official from the Confucian Department checked it again, and sang aloud about the insurance, the so-called singing insurance is to read the insurance policy filled in when registering before, and the student who made the insurance must watch from the side, confirm that it is the candidate, and nod in agreement.

Senior brother Wei Yang, who had been waiting here for a long time, smiled at Xu Jin and nodded, and the singing and security officials let him go when he saw this.

The seat numbers of the exam are all arranged, Xu Jin found his place to sit down, fortunately, this location has good feng shui, neither too inside, nor too outside, because the light is too poor inside, too outside If it rains and blows wind, the rain drifts in is also quite troublesome, once the test paper is dirty, but the results will be invalidated.

In addition, the worst position of feng shui is naturally the smelly number, the so-called smelly number, is the location close to the latrine, the smell of the smell, hey, cool, overnight meals can be spit out!

At 6 o'clock in the morning, nearly 1,000 candidates from Shangrao County all entered the venue and took their seats, and the chief examiner Liu Qingyuan and the invigilator of the Confucian Academy entered the venue, and the examination papers and draft papers were sent to the candidates.

Three bangs sounded, and the county test officially began!

Xu Jin was not in a hurry to do the questions when he got the test papers, he calmly sharpened the ink, picked up the pen and filled in his name and seat number outside the sealing line, and then began to read the questions.

The county examination is generally four to five examinations, which are decided by the chief examiner county official.

The first game is called the main field, and it is also the most critical one, as long as you pass, you basically get the qualification to participate in the second customs examination.

The content of the first test is two four-book essays, as well as a five-word and six-rhyme test poem.

When Xu Jin looked at the title, he was a little stunned, because the title of the first article turned out to be: The people are sufficient, the king is not enough, and the title of the second article is: Today's filial piety, is it said that he can raise?

These two questions happened to be written by Fei Hong and Xu Jin, and they were both bet on......

Xu Jin couldn't help but be speechless, this luck is too special, isn't it, could it be that Fei Hong has an inside story, and he already knows the content of the exam?

But after thinking about it, Xu Jin felt that it was impossible, not to mention that this topic was agreed on half a month before the exam, and Fei Hong's character alone could not do such a thing, and there was no need for this, this really happened to be the right bet!

What else can Xu Jin say, this luck really can't be stopped.

However, Xu Jin did not get carried away, first wrote an article on scratch paper, and then carefully revised it to make sure that there were no taboos, and finally finalized it, and then carefully copied it onto the test paper.

The imperial examination is quite strict on the paper, the slightest defacement will invalidate the results, Fei Maoxian twice failed the college examination, one of which was because he accidentally splashed a drop of oil on the test paper while eating.

In addition, the handwriting is also very important, if the handwriting is beautiful, the score will be relatively high, and the ranking can be higher, but Xu Jin's handwriting has nothing to say.

Xu Jin carefully finished transcribing the two articles, dried the ink, and then cleaned up the table and took out the lunch prepared by Xiao Wan from the examination basket.

During this period, Liu Qingyuan inspected several times from the side, and when he saw Xu Jin, he wrote the two questions in the morning, and couldn't help but smile and nodded, he was very optimistic about Xu Jin!

After an hour's lunch break, Xu Jin slowly began to write a test poem, if there is no accident, this county test must pass, so the mood is more relaxed.

The title of the five-word and six-rhyme test poem is: Early Spring Travel.

Xu Jin happened to go out with Xie Xiaowan yesterday for a spring trip, but it was just the right time, and after thinking for a while, this time he didn't even type the draft, and wrote directly on the test paper: "Youling Mountain Stone Man Palace"

The sun is warm and the mountain goes, and the pine gate is several miles oblique.

The hermit of the mountains and forests is interesting, and the family of the King of the Buddha is drummed.

The Spring Festival is late, and the wind is clear.

The clouds are gradually blending in, and the chirping has been added.

The spring under the ice is moving, and the tea in the smoke has not budded.

Self-pity and sick guests, come to explore.

The trial poem is not the key to scoring, and the first two four-book texts are the majority of the score, so as long as the trial post poem is not written indiscriminately, it will not have much impact.

After writing and putting down the pen and drying the ink, Xu Jin had nothing to do, so he sorted out the exam basket and prepared to leave the venue.

If there is no accident, this time the county has tried to decide, as for whether he can get the head of the case, Xu Jin does not dare to say, after all, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people.