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The next morning, the door to the exam room opened, and the candidates were finally able to show up.

After Shen Xi left the tribute courtyard, he went straight to the inn, didn't care about eating, and fell asleep. In the past two days, I have slept extremely badly in the Gongyuan house, and my body is as uncomfortable as falling apart.

slept until noon, Shen Xi got up to eat something, and was about to sit down to warm the book, when there was a knock on the door, and when he opened it, he saw that it was Su Cheng who came to visit.

After entering the door to greet the salute, Shen Xi hurriedly asked, "Brother Su, tell you the truth, where did those three exam questions come from?" ”

Su Tong smiled and said, "Why does Brother Shen ask knowingly? But I don't know how you did in this exam? ”

Shen Xi really didn't know what to say.

In fact, from Su Tong took three questions, Shen Xi already felt that this might be the leaked exam questions of this year's township exam, Su Tong didn't tell others, only told him the questions, in fact, he had fully expressed his trust...... It's just that this way of trusting is really tangled.

Shen Xi sighed: "Reluctantly, if you don't pass this time, you will take the exam next time." ”

Su Tong sighed lightly and nodded, "Brother Shen, in fact, I gave you the title not intentionally to embarrass you...... As you must know, since the exam questions have been leaked, those candidates who know the questions will not go into battle in person, or ask someone to do it, or quote the scriptures in advance for good reference, which is really unfair to us. ”

"There are only a few people admitted to the township examination, if you and I fail because of this, wouldn't it be a pity to wait for another three years?"

Shen Xi naturally understood Su Tong's mood, why can't I if others can cheat? But this kind of thing, but ignoring the laws of the imperial court, he has this thought, if he fails in this township examination, the township examination will inevitably be concocted in the future, and he may even find a way to get the exam questions. If you walk for a long time at night, you will encounter ghosts, and when the time comes, you may not necessarily end up in a bleak end.

Shen Xi originally wanted to ask Su Tong if he had found someone to do the exam questions in advance, but when it came to this, he felt that there was no need to ask again.

Regardless of whether Su Tong found someone to substitute for the article. can't escape the name of cheating, even Shen Xi himself has a bad conscience, he didn't find someone to take the exam for him, but he also learned about the exam questions in advance, and he thought about it for two days. This gives him an advantage that other candidates do not have, so even if he wins the township exam, he will not be able to go with his conscience.

Seeing off Su Tong, Shen Xi was a little absent-minded when he was reading the book, and at this time, Yin Wen came over to accompany Shen Xi under the leadership of Mrs. Yin.

Xiao Nizi hasn't seen her for two days, she seems to be much more beautiful, with two blushes on her face, she was there after seeing Shen Xi, no matter how much trouble Shen Xi had before, she saw her innocent and bright smile. was also thrown out of the clouds by him for a while.

"Young Master, is it not long before you leave?" Yin Wen finally mustered up the courage to ask.

"yes." Shen Xi nodded, "After the exam, I will leave Fuzhou, and I don't know if we will have a chance to meet in the future." ”

"Oh."

The disappointed look on Yin Wen's face was obvious, but she didn't pester, she just sat there in a trance, as if she was thinking about the scene after Shen Xi left, and occasionally frowned slightly. Fortunately, there are no sad expressions.

Shen Xi looked at it for a long time, smiled and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Yin Wen came back to his senses: "I didn't think about anything, if only I could go with the young master...... Hee-hee. ”

Xiao Nizi is not very old and doesn't know the taste of sorrow. Just said what she wanted to say in her heart, she felt very comfortable with Shen Xi, wanted to accompany Shen Xi to study, and wanted to accompany him everywhere, but as for why, she didn't understand much. For Shen Xi's departure. She also has reluctance in her heart, but she doesn't quite understand what it looks like after reluctance.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "What a white and flawless piece of jade! ”

Shen Xi didn't read the book again, but told Xiao Nizi a few fairy tales, Xiao Nizi was very happy, and when Mrs. Yin took her away, she was still smiling, as if they could see each other from time to time even after being separated for a while. But when Yin Wen walked out of the backyard door, Shen Xi clearly saw the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes through the gap in the window that she had cast.

The next morning, in addition to preparing for Shen Xi and Shen Mingwen to eat and drink for the second township test in the afternoon, Shopkeeper Yin also asked with some emotion: "I don't know when the little shopkeeper will leave?" ”

Shen Xi replied: "Today is the second session, and when the third exam is over, I will go back to my hometown with my uncle and third uncle, thank you for taking care of Shopkeeper Yin these days." ”

Shopkeeper Yin said with a smile: "Where does the little shopkeeper say, I just hope that the little shopkeeper will come back to see it when the time comes." ”

Shen Mingwen came down from upstairs with a yawn and asked, "Qilang, when did I say that I would leave after the exam?" Aren't we going to wait for the list to come back? ”

Shen Xi reminded: "When I was leaving, my grandmother explained that I couldn't delay the end of the exam, and I would return to my hometown immediately." ”

Shen Mingwen saw that Shen Xi was unmoved, and came over to persuade: "Qilang, let me tell you, wait until the list is released before leaving, we can live in the provincial capital for a little longer, and there will be a deer banquet after the laurel list is released, haha, it's very lively!" ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and asked, "Uncle, what do you mean, we can pass this township test?" ”

"Does it have to be missed? If you don't stay, you will have to get the news more than ten days later than others, wouldn't it be very boring? Shen Mingwen was a little unhappy.

Shen Xi thought to himself, is that because you are boring? After you go back, you will be locked up in a small dark room to study, I am different from you, I go back to reunite with my family, I can do whatever I want.

Shen Xi said: "Uncle wants to stay, just stay, anyway, I want to go back." My parents also didn't allow me to stay too long in the provincial capital. ”

Shen Mingwen said angrily: "Leave the silver, and if you love to go, you can go by yourself......"

Shen Xi nodded, and when he went upstairs, he didn't forget to remind: "Tell the uncle, the third uncle said, we have a total of more than three taels of silver, and it will cost two taels to return to the hometown, and the remaining one or two will be left for the uncle, you look at the flowers." ”

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The second test of the township examination will be held on August 11 and will be held on August 12.

The content of the second test of the township examination is one test theory, five judgments, and one sentence each.

The second exam covered a lot of content that many candidates had never been exposed to before. The test theory is actually a test theory, which allows candidates to discuss current political issues and make suggestions to the imperial court. The judgment is to let the candidates make a judgment on the "doubtful matter" to check whether the student can distinguish between right and wrong. Letters, tables, internal affairs, and subjects belong to the category of applied essays, and look at the candidates' ability to write various official documents.

On the first day, there are seven essays, and you have to write about 2,200 words, while the second exam is more complicated. Write more than 3,500 words.

But the requirements for the second session are far less high than those of the first one, and even if some projects can't, just write the article simply.

After all, the more than 5,000 candidates in the first exam alone have more than 12 million words, and the examiner must be careful about every word. It can't be like the children's examination and scientific examination, which is done at a glance and ten lines, so that it will occupy the vast majority of the time for grading, and the examiner will have no leisure to read other examination papers, and it is even more impossible to expect the examiner to read them.

Although the number of words to be written is more. However, due to Shen Xi's experience being much ahead of people in this era, and after Feng Yuqi's training, he was familiar with official documents, so it was completed before sunset, and Shen Xi handed in the paper after checking it several times to confirm that it was correct.

The next day, he went out of the examination room and returned to the inn, and Shen Mingtang, who was waiting in the guest room in advance, took out a letter, but the old lady had already found someone to write it, and hid it on Shen Mingtang since he set off from home to the provincial capital to take the exam, so that the two of them could read it in public before the last exam.

Lee's meaning is very clear. told Shen Mingtang to take Shen Mingwen and Shen Xi back to his hometown immediately after the end of the township examination, and after the exam on the same day, he had to leave on the same day, and asked Shen Mingtang to pick up people outside the Fuzhou Gongyuan, obviously because he was afraid that Shen Mingwen would run away from home after the exam.

Shen Mingwen said angrily: "Mother, when I am a child or what? How can Shichiro and I be so disproportionate? ”

Shen Mingtang said: "Big brother, my mother is also for our good, go back to my hometown early, and my mother doesn't have to worry too much." ”

Shen Mingwen knows the character of this third brother very clearly, if Shen Mingyou can follow him to mess around. This Shen Mingtang was obedient to the old lady, and he didn't dare to disobey it at all. Shen Mingwen said: "Third child, how do you say the life in this provincial city is going?" Don't say it against your will! ”

Shen Mingtang lowered his head: "It's good." ”

Shen Mingwen nodded with great satisfaction: "What's a good method?" ”

Shen Mingtang was stupid and couldn't say why. just said: "If the family can move to Fuzhou...... That's good. ”

Because the people of the Chamber of Commerce treated Shen Mingtang with great courtesy, not only let him make money, but also gave him an errand to take care of, Shen Mingtang ate well and lived well in Fuzhou City, and did decent and easy work, so he naturally wanted to stay in the provincial capital.

Shen Xi saw that Shen Mingwen still wanted to continue to induce him, an honest third uncle. couldn't help but say: "If it's okay, we have to go back, my grandmother said, if we delay, we will be punished when we go home." ”

The old lady said that "being punished" is to serve the family law, and a precept is greeted on the body. Shen Mingwen himself was beaten a lot, and he was a little afraid of the ring ruler, so he simply didn't say anything.

On August 14, candidates will take the third entrance examination.

The content of the third exam is five questions: classics, history, and current affairs, and each question requires more than 300 words. In Shen Xi's view, this is to investigate the students' knowledge of ancient and modern political affairs.

Starting from the second session, the content of the exam is no longer required to be written in Bagues, which is more conducive to the free play of candidates.

Because of this, it is more difficult to judge the quality of the content of the last two exams, but it is not as good as the four books and five scriptures in the first one.

Before the Jiajing Dynasty, there was no stipulation that the examination papers of the candidates' township examinations had to be sent to Beijing and Nanjing for "grinding and surveying" after they were reviewed.

The so-called "grinding survey", that is, the provinces will send the examination papers of the middle school to the Ministry of Rites for review and examination, which is generally completed by the Ministry of Rites in conjunction with the Hanlin Academy. Those noble officials will review each test paper to check whether the examiner has cheated in the marking process, and whether the examiner has marked the paper seriously, such as whether there are typos in the test paper, sentences that do not make sense, etc., and whether the examiner has marked it. Severe penalties will be imposed for mistakes and omissions in the marking process of the same examiner.

In the case of loss of supervision, the results of the candidates are actually determined by the provinces themselves, and the township examination only needs to be submitted to the Beijing Division for the record after the township examination.

After three days of the exam, each candidate needs to write between six or seven thousand words and ten thousand words, more than five thousand candidates, at least more than 40 million words, no punctuation, one exam paper, let the four same examiners choose from the good and bad, can only start from the four books, responsible, or will look at the five scriptures, and then the content of the next two exams, the same examiner itself is not very professional, and I don't have that time to read it through.

Because according to the regulations, the marking work should be completed at the end of August, from the end of the examination to the end of the marking, a total of less than half a month, the real time left for the same examiner is not even ten days, after all, there is still the time for the examiner to mark the papers.

The third exam is quite easy for all candidates, if the candidates think that the third exam has too much content, they can reduce two questions as appropriate, that is to say, only three questions can be done in scripture, history and current affairs.

In the first scene, the four scriptures and the five scriptures are also allowed to be subtracted as appropriate, but after all, this involves whether or not to be admitted in the end, and no one dares to reduce it, but in the third scene, there are only a few who do not subtract.

When the examination was completed on the evening of August 15, the entire Gongyuan was in an uproar.

After all, the exam has been completed, and it was stipulated that candidates were not allowed to speak, which was to prevent cheating, but at this time, the test papers were taken away, and the time coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At this time, the enlightened invigilator had opened the lock of the room, and a bunch of people gathered together, and some candidates who had taken the exam for many years knew the rules, specially prepared a wine jug and a few small wine glasses, and took them out to beckon the nearby students to sit down and drink two glasses.

Before midnight, all the outer curtain officials had evacuated, the lock of the house had been opened, the officers and soldiers who invigilated the examination had withdrawn, and the entire tribute courtyard seemed to be a big bazaar.

Everyone was there talking, some were talking about difficult topics, some were complaining about bad luck, and some were in tears after drinking. But more people are looking forward to this exam, hoping that their names will be listed in the final list of one in a hundred.

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