Shen Xi followed a family of women and children into the house, and the Li family, the Wang family and others hurriedly sent Shen Yongzhuo to the East Wing study to study.

On the way to the study, Li mentioned "How did Qilang do in the exam", and when he saw Shen Yongzhuo shaking his head, the family didn't ask again.

The Shen family originally asked Shen Xi to "accompany the prince to study", and there were not many regrets if he was not admitted.

Shen Xi returned to the house, and not long after he sat down, Shen Mingjun rushed back from outside. Shen Mingjun said that he would quickly arrange the printing workshop in Ninghua, and take Shen Xi back to Fucheng after the county test.

"Xiaolang, your grandmother told me about your and your eldest brother's grades, and your eldest brother is going to take the exam tomorrow, so let's pack up and prepare to go back. Your mother should think that we are thinking about it tightly, you prepare and pack everything that should be packed up. Shen Mingjun came in and urged to pack his things.

Shen Xi stood up, tugged at Shen Mingjun's back and said, "Dad, who said I didn't pass the test?" I've already passed the case today, but my eldest brother didn't get in, so I'm not embarrassed to mention it to him. ”

"Huh!? What did you say? ”

Shen Mingjun looked at Shen Xi in astonishment, and was stunned on the spot for a while.

After a while, Shen Mingjun had a big surprise on his face and asked, "Xiaolang, you read it right, right?" ”

Shen Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Dad, this is a major event involving your son's future and fate, do you think I can be wrong casually?" ”

Shen Mingjun was a little at a loss with joy, and rubbed his palm on the placket of his clothes: "Hey, tell your grandmother the good news, don't be here, go over and say it together." Hey, you're really, you didn't know when you came back from such a big event, and even your grandmother was kept in the dark......"

Shen Mingjun happily took Shen Xi and told the Li family the news that Shen Xi had passed the county test in the first game, and the Li family did not say anything after hearing it, but the Wang family next to him was full of doubts:

"Xiao Qi, you won't be confused in the exam, right? I haven't heard of a ten-year-old baby who went to the county exam, and you still said that you passed the first game? But when this county test is a casual one? ”

Facts speak louder than words, and Shen Xi really has nothing to explain. The Wang family was originally prejudiced against him, and now that her son hadn't even passed the first game, of course she didn't accept that her baby son would be inferior to Shen Xi.

Li scolded him: "Don't scream nonsense, you will call Qilang in the future." ”

Wang responded. turned her face away, showing her disdain for Shen Xi.

Li Shi thought for a while and asked cautiously: "Qilang, have you taken a closer look at the case when it happened, and you were really admitted?" ”

"I'm No. 1. It's at the bottom of the twenty seats in the middle of the main case, and the name is written upside down. Shen Xi said truthfully, "I see it really well, and there will be no mistakes." ”

Wang sneered: "If you write it upside down, it should be the first and second number of the first word, you must have read it wrong." ”

Li glared at Wang, and Wang immediately stopped talking. Li said: "Those who are literate at home either don't know where they are, or they are enclosed in the house to study. Alas! Boss, you go out and ask a literate person to go over there and have a look. Don't get me wrong, this is a big deal for our Shen family. ”

Shen Mingjun hurriedly responded, and after half an hour, Shen Mingjun stumbled back, and before he could even breathe, he said urgently: "Mother, I found someone to see it, Xiaolang's is indeed over." ”

Not only the Li family and the Wang family, but the whole family looked at Shen Xi with incredulous eyes.

The Li family was very happy and hurriedly pulled Shen Xi to incense the ancestral tablet. Telling the good news to the ancestors, only the Wang family looked annoyed and angry, and muttered when he entered the hall: "This county master is really a freak......

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After worshipping her ancestors, the old lady was so happy that her face was red. But after she came out, she was still a little worried: "Da Lang will continue the exam tomorrow, don't mention this matter to him for the time being, so as not to distract Da Lang from thinking too much." ”

The family suddenly stopped talking.

After all, how can you think about Shen Yongzhuo's face, if he knows that Shen Xi, who is eight years younger than him, has been admitted, but he is not on the list, it will definitely affect his performance in the recruitment and repetition.

Fortunately, now Shen Yongzhuo is locked in his room and reading. Others can't go over to bother, as long as the Wang family doesn't mention it when they go in to deliver food, Shen Yongzhuo won't know about it until the end of the exam.

Because Shen Xi passed the county test in the first game, the family's attitude towards Shen Xi has changed, and when they eat in the evening, the old lady specially let Shen Xi eat at the main table.

“…… Qilang has grown up, he has a future in the future, if he takes the test well in the future, and comes back with the first case, the government examination and the hospital examination will be smoother in the future, or it won't be long before there will be more talents in our family. ”

After all, the Li family has cultivated a talented son, and he has some understanding of the affairs of the science field.

After the last two of the county examination, the total score will be used to issue the case, which is called the "long case", and the list will be issued with the name of the candidate, and the ranking will be determined at this time, and the first place in the county examination will be the "county case first".

It stands to reason that if there is no major fault or mistake in the county examination, he will go to school as usual and send Xiucai. The top 10 candidates in the examination are the top 10 in the county, and when they go to the government examination, they need to mention the hall number.

But the reality varies from person to person, after all, the prefect and the county recognize, the prefect and a province may not agree, most of the time, the head of the case also has to participate in the government examination and the hospital examination, if the results are passable, the prefect and the school administration will most likely give face, and the fame of the show is not dangerous.

That's why Li made such remarks.

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On the second day, the second session of the county examination was held, and the examination was repeated again the next day, and the two were consecutive examinations. There will be no case in the middle of the two sessions, and the case will wait until the third day after the re-examination, that is, on the afternoon of the fourth day of the first month of March.

On the fifth day of March, 50 candidates selected at the three venues will have additional examinations.

In the supplementary examination, in addition to the assessment of the basic four books and five scriptures, it will also examine strategies, theories, as well as deviations and strange questions, such as poetry, fu, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, or arithmetic.

As for whether this additional exam is one or two, it will be decided by Ye Mingsu of Ninghua Zhixian County.

In the past three days, Shen Yongzhuo was locked in his room and studied hard after returning home, except for going to the examination room for exams.

Shen Xi was asked by his family not to disturb Shen Yongzhuo's study, he naturally would not use his hot face to stick to other people's cold butts, and first wrote to Fucheng to inform him of the good news that the county test was over at the beginning, these days in his spare time, no one forced him to study, and no one even restrained him, he could enter and leave the house freely. At ease. Just wait until the afternoon of the fourth day of the first month of March, after the second case, to go to the Confucian Education Department to see the county and the school officials.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, the county tried to commit the case for the second time.

The Shen family attaches great importance to it. Let the two brothers, Shen Mingtang and Shen Mingjun, personally accompany Shen Yongzhuo to the county school. Because the number of candidates recruited and re-examined is only about 100, there is no more congestion in the county school.

Because Shen Xi said before that Miss Lu Jia's face was pockmarked due to smallpox, Shen Yongzhuo was very entangled in his heart, and he didn't know whether he should pass the test. Originally, Shen Xi was comforting him. Let him not have too much psychological burden, but in the past few days of exams, he always remembers this, but it has become a stumbling block in his heart.

In the afternoon of this day, Shen Xi had already gone to the Confucianism Department, and with him were twenty candidates who had passed the first session.

Among these candidates, there are mainly young people in their twenties, and there are only two teenagers, including Shen Xi, who has just turned 10.

The oldest of them is Liu He, the "second Liu Lao" in his forties, and this Liu He came. smiled and greeted the same candidates present, and the atmosphere was easily brought up by him.

Although these candidates don't know each other very well, they are also candidates of the same class in the end, if any of them will soar in the future, they can still have a head to climb, maybe they can be on their thighs.

Shen Xi was originally the most popular one, because he passed the county exam at the age of ten, and it can be said that his future is limitless.

But maybe people who read have their own pride, and feel that it is almost too embarrassing to be with a little kid, and Shen Xi is the most boring one of them.

Until the end of the hour. People began to come in at the entrance of the Confucian Education Department, all of whom were candidates who had been admitted in the recruitment and re-examination, and there were thirty people in front of them, and Liu Lao Er and others hurriedly went up to greet them.

Shen Xi probe tried to find Shen Yongzhuo's figure in it. But he was short, and in the end he had no choice but to stand on the chair and look out, and in the end, he was relieved that Shen Yongzhuo was last among the thirty people, but he had passed the test.

"Big brother. There you are. Shen Xi hurriedly caught up.

Shen Yongzhuo was confused about the marriage, and when he heard Shen Xi ask, he said "um", and then reacted: "Huh? Seventh brother, why are you here? ”

"I've been admitted, big brother, don't talk about this, I've been helping you occupy a seat a long time ago, and when the county magistrate comes over, you can get closer to him."

Shen Xi pushed Shen Yongzhuo into the door, and it was not until he was close to the plaque in the main hall that Shen Xi pulled Shen Yongzhuo to sit down, and Shen Xi sat in the second row behind Shen Yongzhuo.

"Shichiro, you haven't said it yet, you're ...... When did you get in? ”

"The first one is over, and my grandmother and aunt won't let me tell you, so that you won't be distracted by the exam." Shen Xi explained with a smile, and at this time, the lobby of the Confucianism Department suddenly fell silent.

It turned out that Ye Xianling came in with the main book, the secretary office of the county government and the teachings and teachings of the Confucianism Department.

The teachings of the Confucian Department are equivalent to the principals of the county schools, and the scholars are only admitted to the county schools after passing the children's examination, in order to prepare for the higher examinations, and the scholars who enter the school are also called Xiucai.

Candidates who participated in the county examination met their parents and the principal of the county school, and naturally had to kneel down solemnly, and the show had the privilege of not kneeling when they saw the county officials, but the candidates who had taken the county school examination were at most "preparatory talents", and there was still a distance from the real show talents.

After the ceremony, Ye Mingsu personally instructed, in fact, he just took out some high-sounding words to admonish the candidates, and at the same time encouraged the candidates present to achieve good results in the fourth exam the next day and be among the best.

Although Ye Mingsu looked at Shen Xi differently during the first exam of the county school, in this meeting, Ye Mingsu turned a blind eye to Shen Xi.

Holding a county exam in a small county like Ninghua doesn't even need to be named, and when the county magistrate selects candidates, he completely looks at the names of the candidates.

Passing the county exam at the age of ten at the age of Shen Xi will inevitably lead to suspicion, Ye Mingsu deliberately did not have any contact with Shen Xi, also to show his innocence.

But the more this is the case, the easier it is to make people think more, after all, Shen Xi is a childish man standing among fifty people, which seems to be an eyesore.

The meeting was not long, and the teachings of the Confucianism Department did not even say a word.

The Confucian Department of the small county is not as big as a temple, and it is not a school in the real sense, and the Confucian Department itself is only a nominal county school institution.

At the end of the meeting, Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi went home together, and firecrackers were already prepared at the door of Shen's house at this time.

The two brothers of the Shen family have taken the county examination at the same time, which is a major event of the glorious lintel, and the county only takes 50 people a year, and as a result, two people from the Shen family are admitted, just like "one door and two masters".

And another young man from the Shen family, who was studying hard in the cold window, was quietly standing in the corner of the door at this time, looking at the two brothers Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi with envy, and secretly clenched his fists.

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PS: The second update!

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