"Yan Qing, we will go to the provincial capital tomorrow, where are you going to live?" Chen Zhi asked.

"Brother Chen, I haven't decided yet, but I should be staying in the inn." Xie Yanqing shook his head and said.

"Yan Qing, then are you interested in sharing a small yard together, I still have a few friends, plus you are a total of five people, the cost should not be too much." Chen Zhi said with a smile, Originally, four people in a courtyard could also share a house, but through getting along in the past few days, he felt that Xie Yanqing was a person worthy of intersecting, so he asked Xie Yanqing.

Xie Yanqing thought about it, it seems that it is indeed good to share a courtyard, and the cost of sharing a courtyard for five people should be about the same as the cost of living in the inn with Xie Dawei, but the courtyard is not as noisy as in the inn, which is more conducive to his study. So he quickly nodded and said, "Brother Chen's invitation, I can't ask for it." ”

Because they arrived in the provincial capital relatively early, and there are not many students in the provincial capital now, Chen Zhi and they easily rented a small courtyard in the dental store, with a total of 20 taels of silver for a month and a half, but they also had to pay another 3 taels of silver for the intermediary fee of the dental store.

This time, Xie Yanqing and they spent six days on the road, today is the fourth day of the fifth month, and the eighth day of June will start the college exam, plus the time to wait for the release of the list, at most they will only stay in the provincial city for a month and a half, so Chen Zhi and they have only rented for a month and a half.

The courtyard they rented was a courtyard type, with three wings on the front, two wings on each side, and a small kitchen in a small corner next to the gate, so although each candidate was accompanied by someone, it was enough for two people to live in one room.

Since there was only one kitchen, and the people who accompanied Xie Yanqing and the candidates were all men, they also hired a cook to help cook, and the cook's salary was 300 wen per month, of course, the money they spent on eating every day was settled.

Xie Dawei is also very satisfied with this result, because in this way, it is much cheaper than in the inn. Although the inn they stayed in Fucheng last time was better, and it was so expensive because it was closer to the Gongyuan, but no matter how it was said, the general inn cost 300 yuan a night, and if you lived for nearly two months, the cost would be more than that.

In addition to Chen Zhi, the people who shared the house with Xie Yanqing this time also included Zhu Qingru, Wang Ming, and Yuan Sheng. Among the five of them, except for Xie Yanqing, the accompanying people were all scholars.

Among these people, Chen Zhi happens to be weak this year, he is enthusiastic and good at talking, and it is easy for people to let down their guard and talk to him easily. Yuan Sheng is as his name suggests, his heart is very high, his arrogance is very heavy, and he always looks proud, but he is the youngest of the four Chen Zhi, and he is only sixteen years old now.

And Zhu Qingru is cowering and taciturn, he has never said anything along the way, with a shrewd face, but he looks like an honest person, 24 years old this year, Wang Ming is completely indifferent, he doesn't like to deal with people, his whole body exudes cold air, as if he wants to freeze everyone close to him to death, 18 years old this year.

But without exception, the scholars of these people are all restrained and cautious, and those scholars have always nodded to Xie Yanqing and Xie Dawei, for fear of offending people somewhere.

This made Xie Yanqing feel for the first time how obvious the class division was in ancient times, and also made Xie Yanqing want to work harder to change the status of his family.

Xie Yanqing and Xie Dawei lived together in a wing room on the left, and they were all two people in one room, because there were only six side rooms, one for each of the five candidates and their escorts, and one for the cook, and the six wings were divided up like this, and there was no redundancy at all.

As soon as they arrived at the room, Xie Yanqing and Xie Dawei began to clean up, because they couldn't wait to take a break because they had been traveling all the way. Especially for Xie Yanqing, after sitting in the carriage for so many days, Xie Yanqing was really upside down and had a sore back, and now as soon as he saw the bed, he wanted to lie down.

Xie Dawei didn't know where to get a basin of hot water, Xie Yanqing wiped his body and immediately ran to the bed, finally able to sleep in the bed, Xie Yanqing sighed comfortably.