After a night of speech, Shen Rui rested for a while, raised enough jīng gods, and February 17 was still ugly

By the time Yin Zheng (four o'clock in the morning) arrived outside the Yawai of Daxing County, there were already many people here.

Compared with yesterday's rì, today's rì is not a "main field", but the admission procedure is still according to yesterday's rì. The only difference is that before everyone enters the venue, the official carries a sign and comes out, and red paper is pasted on it, and the names of the top ten candidates in the "main field" are written on the red paper.

Shen Rui was ranked second when he handed in the papers, but he ranked third on today's list.

Seeing this, Shen Rui breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as you are in the top ten, it is really a headache to have two hundred people like yesterday crowded together for the exam.

Looking at the list of these ten people carefully, several of them are familiar, and the four classmates who handed in the "top card" with Shen Rui yesterday are all on the list.

The first and second names are the first time I've heard of them.

At the beginning of Mao, Shen Rui followed the team into the examination room.

There were already officials waiting, leading the top ten on the red list to the side hall.

There are ten sets of tables and chairs in the side hall, and five tables in a row, a total of two rows. Facing these tables and chairs, there is a row of Taishi chairs, separated by plum blossoms in the middle.

According to the names of Shen Rui and others, each person's test number was pasted on the table, and everyone took their seats according to the number.

Shen Rui was in third place, that is, in the middle of the front row, there was a three-foot open space from the left and right tables, but it was less than a zhang away from the Taishi chair in front.

After the officials brought everyone in, they went out, and the sky was bright outside, and the room was still very dark.

However, the examiner has not yet come, and the exam has not yet started, so everyone is more casual.

A student of Chūn Mountain Academy said: "As expected, that Tu Jiazi is not in the top ten, otherwise wouldn't it be ashamed to be on the same list?" ”

Another said: "If he's in the top 10, it's amazing." However, I heard that the people in remote states and counties do not know how to learn, and they are often dissatisfied with the county and government examinations. In order to cope with the errands, all those who only signed up were admitted...... When the capital is like that, everyone will have peace of mind......"

Although these Hanlin children are considered to be good in middle school among their peers, they do not count without passing the exam. Even if it is a county test, everyone will still be worried until the results come out.

However, if you are in the top 10 in the main field, usually the next ranking will not change.

Regardless of whether the number of Confucian children admitted in Daxing County has increased or decreased this year, the top ten candidates should not fall off the list.

After these two gossips, several students of Chūn Mountain Academy looked at the first and second.

These two people were not students of Chūn Mountain Academy, the one in second place was the first teenager to hand in the papers yesterday, and the first one in line was dressed plainly, both of them were sixteen or seventeen years old, and their bearings were somewhat similar.

The first and second teenagers seemed to know each other, and while the students of Chūn Mountain Academy were chatting, the two were also talking, and the words "Academy" and "Mountain Chief" were also mentioned in the words.

Among the five candidates on the side of Chūn Mountain Academy, except for Shen Rui, who is fourteen, the other four are all twelve years old, and they are all about to be strong. Coupled with the family background, his father, grandfather and uncle were born in Hanlin, so they also remembered to compete for the first place in the imperial examination.

Seeing that the first one fell aside, and the second and third didn't squeeze in, everyone was a little uncomfortable.

Shen Rui is still a classmate, and he is also from Chūn Mountain Academy, the Shen family's scholarly heirloom is not an ordinary family, but the two boys in front of him look like ordinary people, how can they take the lead? If he was really talented, he wouldn't have stayed up until sixteen or seven years before he started to take the county exam.

You must know that the senior brothers of Chūn Mountain Academy, who passed the college examination in more than sixteen or seventeen years, and the township examination with good results has ended.

With no anger, a primary school student asked, "Are the two of you classmates?" Which academy in the capital is from? ”

The first man smiled and did not answer, and the second young man raised his chin and said, "We are from Nancheng Academy......

When the elementary school student who asked the question heard this, his face was sneering, and he immediately turned off his voice.

Nancheng Academy is not a nameless academy, and every year in the county examination and government examination in Shuntianfu, there are often students from Nancheng Academy. Because the county examination and the government examination did not fall first in the college examination, the passing rate of the college examination of Nancheng Academy was also high. This is no less than that of Chūn Mountain Academy.

When Shen Rui heard this, his eyes lit up.

Isn't Nancheng Academy the Tianjia Academy? Although he had known for a long time that Nancheng Academy was a leader among civilian academies, Shen Rui did not expect their grades to be so good.

But if you really want to talk about it, the candidates of Nancheng Academy also took advantage of two advantages. The academy over there required students to be sixteen years old, and they studied for a few more years than the elementary school students at Chūn Hill Academy; In addition, the students of Nancheng Academy are mostly from the families of low-grade officials and ordinary cultivators in the capital, and they have a competitive advantage over the children of Chūn Mountain Academy when they compete here in the first place of the county trial.

Nancheng Academy has been passed down for several generations, and it is full of peach and plums all over the world, and it is very popular in Shilin in the north.

If the third master really concentrates on education and starts a academy, he can follow the model of the Tian family.

But now that the third master has the heart to start a career, the matter of opening a college is not over, and it is a pity to say it.

Although he knew that the two teenagers were students of Nancheng Academy and had a relationship with his family, Shen Rui did not bother with the relationship, and still closed his eyes and recuperated, thinking about these ten candidates in his heart.

Judging from the dress, except for the first and second two, everyone else is the son of a eunuch. Children of the poor family, it is not easy to talk about carp jumping over the dragon gate.

It is no wonder that when later generations mentioned the imperial examination, they divided the examination into "hot books" and "cold books".

Within three generations of ancestors, those who have made meritorious contributions to the imperial examination are called "hot people", and the families of three generations of people or other craftsmen and merchants are "cold people".

Zhang Jian, the champion of the late Qing Dynasty, was born in a "cold nationality", and took the "hot nationality" of a family with the same surname in the same county to take the exam.

Everyone got up early, and when others saw Shen Rui like this, they followed suit, and the side hall suddenly quieted down.

When Shen Rui took a nap, the bell outside that closed the examination room also rang.

It's already bright outside.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the county magistrate led four officials in.

At the beginning, there were a few words of exhortation and encouragement from the county order, and then the exam papers were sent down, which were still a few pages of fill-in-the-blank questions of the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as two current texts.

Shen Rui was facing the county order because his seat was in the middle.

When he was close to the county order, he saw that his eyebrows were deeply Sichuan, and his face was tight, but he looked quite official. In the year of not being confused, it is still a county order, and the future of the official career is also limited.

Today's rì is different from yesterday's rì, there are more than 200 candidates inside and outside the hall yesterday, and the county order is full of people at a glance.

At present, there are a total of ten candidates in this side hall, and the county order naturally looks at them one by one.

Shen Rui has seen several officials, and his father is a second-grade Jingtang, but he has no stage fright, plus he knows that there is no drama at the head of the case, and he has no heart for gain and loss, but calms down.

Because the county test is not famous, the top ten three generations of resumes and county orders also know it.

Although he didn't want to bear the suspicion of scolding high-ranking officials and lords in his heart, he didn't deliberately press back against Shen Rui. It's just because Shen Rui's three generations of resumes are beautiful, and his grandfather and father are all Jinshi.

The one he hated the most in his heart was the disciples of the Hanlin Courtyard. Some are just rotten Confucians, but when they enter Hanlin, they become golden, and their eyes grow on the top of their heads. Although he didn't deliberately suppress it, he didn't exalt those Hanlin disciples either.

Everyone in the world has the heart of "hating the rich", and the Jinshi from the second and third grades are the "hate" Hanlin officials.

In the final analysis, it is still envy, jealousy and hatred.

As for choosing the children of ordinary scholarly families to be the first and second place, it is because of the world's conditions, and the county order is just following the trend.

Although the five people in front of him stared, Shen Rui didn't care at all, and began to concentrate on answering the question.

He used to only think that he was a fast hand, and he was quite proud of his writing speed, but after yesterday's "main scene", he found that he was arrogant, and he was not the only one who "thought welled".

By the time I finished filling in the blanks, only two quarters of an hour had passed.

A servant came in with a teacup and a teapot and poured tea for the ten candidates.

Shen Rui thought about yesterday's submission time, picked up the teacup, took two sips of tea, and then began to solve the problem.

Today rì is not as good luck as yesterday's rì, and both topics are the first time I have heard of them, but because they are not the main field, this topic is more obvious than yesterday's rì.

It's just that the current text system, from the idea to the choice of words and sentences, is time-consuming.

By the time Shen Rui had completely conceived in his heart and made the two texts on the papyrus, more than an hour had passed.

His hands were a little sore, so he put down the brush and rubbed his wrist.

There was a dark shadow in front of him, Shen Rui raised his head, and saw the county magistrate walking to the seat and picking up a piece of straw paper to read

"It's a good word...... "The county magistrate's face gradually slowed down, not as stern as it was at the beginning.

Although I have also read the county order of the top ten exam papers yesterday, I think that the words of the candidates surnamed Shen are good, but the words are not right

The name of the person in front of him was matched with the real person, and seeing that Shen Rui was dressed plainly, and he was also fluent when he started writing, and there was ink in his stomach, he had a better impression of him.

Shen Rui couldn't answer, so he lowered his head and made a shy appearance.

As the parent official of Daxing County, the county magistrate is much more well-informed than ordinary people.

Although the news of Shen Shangshu's family breaking off and choosing an heir is no longer news, but after the top ten circles yesterday, some staff members said that they had a county order and privately mentioned it.

is a mere heir, there is a father who is a scholar, and a bachelor of James Mansion is a father-in-law, and the luck of this young man in front of him is jealous.

The county magistrate suppressed his sourness, and remembered the proposal of his confidants yesterday, and couldn't help but feel a little moved.

He carefully read the text that Shen Rui had finished, and the more he looked at it, the brighter his eyes became, and his face faintly showed joy.

Shen Ruiyin lowered his head and didn't see the change in the expression of the county magistrate.

After reading the two articles, the county order put down the straw paper and paced out.

Not only Shen Rui breathed a sigh of relief, but the other candidates also breathed a sigh of relief, but the gaze that looked at Shen Rui was a little complicated, and it was impossible to say whether it was envy or something else.

Shen Rui didn't think about it so much, he rested for another quarter of an hour, and his wrist was no longer sore, so he copied a piece of writing.

At noon, a servant came in with a food box, and a food tray was taken inside, and a plate was placed on each candidate's table, which was four beef pancakes, one the size of a child's fist.

In addition to the candidates, the four invigilators also each had a plate of pork pancakes.

The servant refilled the hot tea for everyone, and everyone put down their pens and began to eat lunch.

The food here is provided for free, and it is also a top 10 benefit.

Many people took out another snack from the examination basket, Shen Rui didn't like to eat anything outside because he loved Jie, but thinking of the strangeness of the county order, he was inexplicably moved, so he didn't move the examination basket, but like the first and second teenagers, he directly took the pork pancake and ate it......