Cao Yan didn't pick up Luo Ming's exam box, he felt that Luo Ming must not be as good as what he prepared, so he directly introduced the things he prepared: "Some jerky, snacks, fruits, tea, instant noodles, as well as mosquito repellent water and a carbon furnace with fuel." ”

There is nothing else in the Gongyuan, but water is still supplied, and the candidates can cook something to eat by themselves.

Speaking of this, it is a beautiful conversation, legend has it that more than a hundred years ago, a big man in this dynasty, during the scientific expedition, also brought in a small stove, lit a fire, and boiled tea.

As soon as I drank tea, I suddenly felt a spring of inspiration, and I couldn't stop, and won the first place in the government examination in one fell swoop.

Later, after he made his career, after becoming a minister, of course, before his career, others did not listen to him, once he inadvertently talked about the past as a joke, and his subordinates proposed in the court in order to pat the sycophants, so that the court allowed the future scientific examination to allow candidates to bring a small charcoal stove to make tea.

That's it! It's big and big, it's small, but the officials present have all survived the days of cold water and cold food, and they definitely don't want their juniors to do the same stupid thing, and if they oppose it, they will really be thrown feces at the door of their house in the middle of the night.

After some deliberations, the suggestion was quickly agreed, and it was not a big deal.

Of course, from the beginning of boiling tea, to the later can cook a little hot food, it only took a few years of development, after all, the stove has been brought in, and it is also easy to bring a small pot to cook some convenient food.

This is also the case, and now in order to allow candidates to eat convenient and fast hot food in these three days, many businesses have tried all kinds of ways.

Take this small carbon furnace as an example, a group of merchants have gone from the previous anti-human design that could only be doused with water to extinguish the charcoal fire, to the current direct sealing and extinguishing, and then to the fuel improvement later, which was only researched after the wisdom of countless people.

Luo Ming listened to Cao Yan's introduction, and consciously handed the two exam boxes in his hand back to Luo Xiaosan, but took out the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other exam supplies, and put them in the groove at the top of Cao Yan's exam box, because he saw where the exam box in Cao Yan's hand, pen and ink and other things were also placed.

Luo Ming opened the box he took from Cao Yan and looked at it, wondering where those things were placed, so as not to find them when he got them.

The box is divided into several layers.

The lower layer is divided into two compartments, one side is a large glass bottle of paste-like items, Luo Ming knew that it was blubber, as early as a month ago, everyone found that the blubber sold by Cao Yan's family was a good thing, bright, fire, and no smoke, at that time many people thought of using it in the carbon furnace of the imperial examination.

Therefore, once it was launched, it was instantly selected as the best fuel for the imperial examination carbon furnace, and on the other side of this layer is a small carbon furnace, which is a round flat shape, with two small ears on one side, which can be opened and closed.

The penultimate layer is the largest one, a large stainless steel lunch box, which contains several packets of instant noodles wrapped in oiled paper.

On the side of the small compartment is a bag of spices in a stainless steel tin box.

On the upper floor, there are several beautiful glass bottles, which contain air-dried five-spice, spicy and other flavors of mutton jerky and beef jerky, which make people have a strong appetite when they look at the color.

On the top are some pastries and tea leaves in stainless steel boxes, with a few oranges and a small jar of honey kumquats, as well as a teapot, a teacup, and a small bottle of perfume, on which is written Yi Yueru - a special perfume to repel mosquitoes and refresh the mind.

At the top is a slightly larger stainless steel basin, which is used to hold water.

"Sir, if you don't say that you are going to take the exam, we will definitely think that you are going to go on a spring outing when we look at this thing." Someone smacked his tongue.

"Fat Luo, take out those cans of jerky and divide them among everyone." One swallowed and reached for the glass bottles.

"I'm rubbing, are you saying this? Wait a minute, my brother is going to go in and be locked up for three days, so I hope this thing will live! Luo Ming slapped away the hands of those sins and quickly put away the exam box.

"You're so fat and hungry for a few meals and you won't die." A few people hated Luo Ming's stinginess a little, but they looked at Cao Yan.

"Hehe," Cao Yan looked at the few people who were drooling at him, and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, you go to Zhuangzi to eat." ”

"It's like, it's not like you can't find a place." Luo Ming said and suddenly scolded "grass".

"What?" Everyone followed Luo Ming's line of sight, and saw that Cui Juncai and the four of them were looking at everyone with hatred.

"B, I was stared at by the dog again, or my brother went over and beat them." One of them gritted his teeth.

"You don't need to be so inflated, this is at the gate of the Gongyuan, do you want to die?" Someone looked at the gate of the Nagong Courtyard not far away, as well as the surrounding sergeants, and hurriedly opened their mouths to persuade.

"Phew, they're cheap, oh, by the way, did you bet this time?" Seeing them, someone remembered to bet.

"No, the first place is not pressed, and the second who is interested in pressing!"

"Why can't the first be pressed?" Cao Yan was a little puzzled, does this gambling still make people press the first place, is there such a strange thing?

When the people around heard Cao Yan's words, they looked at him with disbelief: "Sir, haven't you been out for a walk recently?" ”

Cao Yan nodded, the weather is so cold, and there is a light rain when it's okay, there is nothing fun in the city, he has been in the village recently and has not come out to shake.

"First place, everyone thinks it's you, who dares to open the handicap!"

"Ahh Cao Yan was stunned, which made him a little stressed: "Who said that?" ”

"Who's to say that? Isn't that a matter of course? ”

"This ......" Just when Cao Yan was a little about to say something, suddenly there was a sound of gongs and drums in front of him.

It was the door of the temple that opened.

"I'm not going to talk to you, we're in." Luo Ming shouted as soon as he saw the door open, and then smiled in the direction of Zhang Mu'er: "Wait for my good news!" ”

After speaking, when Zhang Mu'er wanted to open his mouth to reprimand, he hurriedly pulled Cao Yan and squeezed forward.

"Why don't we line up in the back?" Cao Yan was stared at by those who squeezed him away, a little embarrassed, after all, in this city, if you want to say that the best queue in that place, it must be your own store, but now that she has taken the lead in cutting the queue, someone will collapse.

Luo Ming glared back viciously at a few people who were staring at him, and said fiercely: "Look at what, we have already had someone in front of us to help line up, what are you squeezing?" ”

Cao Yan looked up, and sure enough, at the front of the Gongyuan were all subordinates wearing servant clothes, not even a scholar.

In addition to the two servants of the Luo Ming family, there are a few others, who also feel familiar when they see them.

When the two of them replaced the next person who lined up for the two.

There were also a lot of gorgeously dressed people who crowded over, replacing their own servants like the two of them.

"Every year, there are at least a few thousand people who come to take the exam, and many of them come to occupy the position a few days ago, or wait for more than an hour to get in, and it is easy for people to stand hard." After standing up, Luo Ming explained to Cao Yan.

"Mr. ......"

"Mr. Fuhu......"

As soon as Cao Yan wanted to reply, those people around him who Cao Yan knew or didn't know greeted him one after another.

Cao Yan couldn't reply to Luo Ming's words at this time, so he could only smile and keep nodding to the surroundings.

The scene was lively and noisy.

As a team of sergeants and officers walked out, a man dressed as a general announced that he could enter.

The people in line walked towards the tribute courtyard one by one.

There is a need to check to enter the Tribute Temple.

About 100 people will be put in each time.

In the examination room, everyone needs to take off their coats, leave a pair of dirty pants, and untie their hair.

Many years ago, during the scientific expedition, this inspection was to be completely naked and check the back door, but more and more people opposed this initiative, thinking that it was insulting, and later allowed to leave a pair of shorts, and the inspection was not so disgusting.

However, for the people in front, these officers are not very strict.

Just hurriedly brushed everyone's hair a few times, and then opened the exam box that everyone brought, and checked it out, the people in front of it basically didn't bring the exam basket, after all, the basket was ventilated everywhere, covered with a piece of silk cloth, and it was a tragedy when the wind blew, so generally people with conditions at home like to bring some test boxes with fine workmanship and good sealing.

Others, some food and other items were wrapped in oiled paper, and the officers would unpack them and check them.

But the exam box in front of Cao Yan and Luo Ming, several errand officers looked at the two of them, just opened it and glanced at it casually, and then closed it, they should know the two of them.