Jia Ke rode a horse to lead the way, Jia Zhu sat in the car and followed behind, Zhou Rui sat on the edge of the car, and there were two small servants behind the car.

When I arrived at the examination room, there were already students waiting outside the examination room, and there were several lanterns hanging under the eaves outside the examination room, illuminating the originally somewhat dark space a little hazy. Outside the examination room, there were not only young young men like Jia Zhu, but also many old men in their fifties and sixties, with gray hair. But he was still called a boy and came to take the county exam. It makes people feel very pitiful when they look at it.

After a while, a team of officials came out of the yamen to guard the gate, and there was a person who looked like a master, calling the names of the candidates on it, he shouted one person, and one person went up, and the officials searched their bodies carefully, but the master held the document in his hand and carefully observed the candidate, and there was a description of the candidate's portrait and posture on the document.

After a while, Jia Zhu's name was called, Jia Ke stared at Jia Zhu uncomfortably in the back, only to see the official door, first touched Jia Zhu's whole body, then opened the basket, carefully observed each item, and finally cut the pastry into several petals, and then it was over. And the master also carefully observed Jia Zhu and saw that he matched the portrait and description. Only then was he allowed to enter the dragon gate.

Next, one candidate after another, after a strict inspection, entered the dragon gate. When all the candidates entered the dragon gate, the dragon gate was closed by the officials. I won't open it again until the test is over. The first thing candidates do when they enter the examination room, but under the leadership of the county order, they prostrate to Confucius, the Holy Prophet.

However, Jia Ke and they were waiting outside, and they didn't know the specific situation.

Jia Ke and the others waited until it was almost evening, when the dragon gate opened again, and the candidates rushed out. Jia Ke and Zhou Rui hurriedly looked for Jia Zhu among the high school candidates, and finally found him in the middle and hurriedly stepped forward to pull him out.

Jia Ke observed that Jia Zhu's face was still relatively good, but he was a little tired. So he sent Jia Zhu to the car and went back to Jiafu together.

Jia Zheng was waiting in the study for a long time, and there were still a few literati in the room, and when he saw Jia Zhu coming back, he had already prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone next to him, and asked Jia Zhu to write today's volume silently. Then let a few literati see it. These literati have already won the lift, and looking at Jia Zhu's scrolls, you can estimate the approximate ranking for him.

After reading Jia Zhu's papers, everyone said that the answers were very good, and there was no problem with the top few. Jia Zheng was overjoyed and asked Jia Zhu to go back to rest.

He and Jia Ke accompanied several people to the banquet, and during the banquet, they expressed their gratitude to several of them many times, and said that they would work a few times in the next few times. After a polite look at everyone, the banquet was dispersed, and Jia Zheng personally sent everyone to the door.

When the case was discovered the next day, Jia Ke and Zhou Rui went to watch it in person. I saw a big red paper pasted on the wall outside the yamen, and the candidates' seat numbers were written in turn according to the examination rankings.

And Jia Zhu's name is at the top of the list, although Jia Ke thinks that Jia Zhu's ranking should be good, but he didn't expect it to be the first. Jia Rui next to him shouted excitedly: "I won the second young master, and I won the first." So the Chinese hurried back to report to the house.

Jia Zheng had been waiting for their news in the study for a long time, and when he heard Jia Kelai report that he had won, he took the first place in the first exam. Jia Zheng was extremely excited, as if he had passed the exam himself. However, in Jia Ke's view, Jia Zheng is using Jia Zhu as his stand-in to fulfill his unfulfilled wishes.

Early the next morning, it was Jia Ke and Zhou Rui who sent Jia Zhu into the examination room. In front of the examination room, the number of candidates was only about half of the last time. The others were brushed off in the first game, and if this continues, by the fifth test, I am afraid that only more than ten people can be shortlisted for the government examination.

At the end of the exam, Jia Zhu was picked up again, but this time Jia Zhu's face was obviously not good-looking. When the middle school people looked at his test papers, they all said that they were not as good as last time, but they could also be among the best. Sure enough, Jia Zhu won the third place in the second game.

Then came the third game, and Jia Zhu's ranking fell to fifth place. And when Jia Zhu came out of the examination room at that time, he was already shaky.

In the fourth game, Jia Zhu was even worse in the exam, only hovering outside more than ten places. Jia Zhengda was furious, if he continued like this, the fifth game would definitely be nowhere on the list.

Jia Zheng is not as good as Jia Zhu, and he is extremely angry, if he doesn't think that he still has one more exam, I'm afraid he would have served the family law a long time ago. And Jia Zhu himself also felt tremendous pressure, thinking that the county test was within reach, but he didn't expect the county test to capsize.

In the Xiucai test, the fifth game of the county test is the most critical, because the first place in the fifth game is directly Xiucai. Other passers also have to take the prefectural and hospital examinations.

When participating in the fifth game, Jia Ke found that Jia Zhu was very different from the past, and his spirit was very excited. Jia Ke knew that he had taken too much of Fleur. It's going to be a fight to the death in the fifth.

Jia Ke looked at Jia Zhu's state, after this time, I am afraid that he will never be able to do without A Furong again. For him, no matter if he hits this time, it will be worth the loss.

Jia Ke was in no mood to care about him, and sent him to the field as usual. By the end of the fifth game, the candidates came out of the dragon gate, Jia Ke and Zhou Rui, but Jia Zhu was not found among the candidates.

Jia Ke was very anxious, he was not worried about Jia Zhu, but worried that Jia Zhu had some violations and ruined the reputation of Jia Mansion.

While they were anxious, several officials from the Dragon Gate carried a person out. Everyone saw that it was Jia Zhu, Jia Ke and Zhou Rui, and a few small guys, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Jia Zhu.

Jia Ke took out a piece of silver from his bosom and secretly stuffed it to the officials, before asking, "Big brothers." I wonder what happened to my brother? But what does it matter? ”

The official accepted Jia Ke's money, and patiently explained to him, saying: "It's okay, there is no chaos, it's just that he is paralyzed and unable to walk in the examination room, and the county magistrate ordered us to help him out and hand him over to his family." Jia Ke listened to his words, and then he was relieved. Jia Ke and the others helped Jia Zhu to the car and let him rest in the car. Everyone hurried back to Jiafu in a hurry.

Entering the corner gate of Rongfu, Jia Ke personally carried Jia Zhu to Jia Zheng's study. As soon as he entered the study, everyone in the study was frightened. Seeing that Jia Zhu was carried in by Jia Ke, they were all messed up. Jia Ke put down Jia Zhu, stood aside and listened to the orders, and did not participate in them. In the end, Jia Zheng was forced to calm down, stepped forward to look at Jia Zhu, and saw Jia Zhu, although his body was weak, but his eyes were full of brilliance.

I saw Jia Zhu pointing to Zhou Rui, everyone didn't know why, but Zhou Rui understood what was going on. But it was difficult to say it clearly in public, so he had to say to Jia Zheng: "The second master has been feeling a little unwell in the past two days, and the lady has found a pill, and it is very effective to eat, and now the second master is unwell, so I want to ask me to find the lady to find this pill to eat." ”

Jia Zheng was even more moved on the side, thinking that Jia Zhu was sick in the examination room, so he did not do well in the first few times. Busy people went to the inner house and asked the lady to bring the medicine for him to take.

It didn't take long to see Zhou Rui's family, took a sandalwood locket in, and came forward to give Jia Zheng a salute first, Jia Zheng said to her anxiously: "Don't pay attention to it, hurry up and give Zhu'er medicine." ”

Zhou Rui's family opened the box at this time, only to see dozens of pills neatly placed in the box. She took out one and put it next to Jia Zhu's mouth, and Jia Zhu opened her mouth to eat it. After a while, Jia Zhu was able to get up, first kowtow to Jia Zheng to make amends, Jia Zheng thought that he was taking the exam with illness, and when he saw that he was going to kowtow, where would he be willing to go. Hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and let him sit on the side.

Everyone saw that Jia Zhu was no longer in trouble, so they asked him about the scene of today's exam, Jia Zhu was very confident this time, and wrote the exam paper silently in front of everyone. The crowd took the exam paper and pondered it carefully, and then congratulated Jia Zheng together: "Your son's paper this time is really well written, and I will give the first name if the examiner is the examiner." After speaking, we congratulated Jia Zheng together.