On the second day of the second month of the second month of the third year of Zhenghe, the dragon raised its head.

For the people everywhere, the dragon raising its head is an important festival, and it is a good day for the first time to be shocked, to pray for rain and to know the spring sowing of farmers. But for the students of the Great Song Dynasty, this day is also a big day for the fish to leap into the dragon gate, whose children are mules or donkeys, it depends on the day to pull out for a walk.

Before dawn in the morning, Huang Laoqi and Yao Erniang packed up and set up the incense table in front of their house early, and offered three animal sacrifices and the tablets of the ancestors of the Huang family, but unfortunately the Huang family has never cultivated a genealogy, so only the spiritual seat of Huang Laoqi's father and grandfather and a big god card with "ancestors and ancestors" written on it, but such a sacrifice will not make people laugh.

A prosperous family like the Huang family, if he really wants to boast about his ancestors, it will make people laugh, and the sincerity of the old man will naturally make others have nothing to say.

At the beginning of the fifth watch, Huang Dalang got up to bathe and change clothes, changed into a test-taking Confucian dress presented by the Hongwen Museum, led the two concubines Wan Chunnu and Zhou Yannu, worshiped the ancestors according to the regulations, and prayed for God's blessing to let him pass the children's test smoothly. After that, he said goodbye to his parents in a proper manner, ordered the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and stickers used in the exam, let Fushou carry the bookcase, and Kong Bo set up a donkey cart and waited to open the city gate and go out of the city to go around, and then entered the city and went to Huanggang County.

Huangzhou is the state capital, under the jurisdiction of Huanggang, Huangpi, Macheng three counties, although the Huang family lives in the city, but the hometown belongs to Huanggang County. The reason why I went out of the city and went around and came back is because in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Huangzhou Prefecture also left the ruins of the old city in Huanggang County, and there was such a regulation of going around the city from the newly cast new city in today's place.

The ox cart arrived at the county office, Huang Dalang got out of the car and looked around, it was not the side door of the state yamen, and then looked at the patrol team at the door, naturally he was still familiar with the head of the fast catching team, and there was also a big bowl grinning and said: "Da Lang is here, today with others, it is the bad day of loach and fish." But for Da Lang, it is a good day for Xiaolong to stick to the scales and show his talents! I saw that many of them were sour with beards and long beards before I went in, how could there be such a clever man as Da Lang, I want to come to Da Lang to high school today, even if it is the first case of Bo, it is easy! ”

Kong Bo on the side listened, and with a smile, he presented two silver judgments wrapped in red paper and two team leaders, and said: "I borrowed two auspicious words, and I am happy and happy!" ”

Ma Dawan smiled and took it, and then gave the head of the fast catching team a look, and the two immediately snorted, and then used their respective knives to fight in front of Huang Dalang, and made a few postures like singing, and shouted: "I have come to speak openly for the little minister, the gods and ghosts are easy to dispel, and there are no taboos!" ”

This kind of opening is to borrow the evil qi on the body of the public to deter the little ghosts and ghosts, and they dare not embarrass the students and ask for a good fortune. Others are naturally hard to find, but what is Huang Dalang's identity, his uncle is the lord of Huangzhou, and the old man is good friends with Ma Dawan, and now he has enough rewards, and he is two taels of silver, so he can naturally afford to enjoy it.

As if making a play, Huang Dalang followed the two into the yamen, and saw that the person sitting behind the door was not an outsider, it was Hu Yu, the little priest, and there was a piece of incense on his case, but this guy was playing with a pen at this time, and he also opened his mouth to blow, wanting to make this incense head look more burning.

"I've seen Professor Hu!"

Huang Dalang paid homage to him, and sent a post and a farewell to Hu Yu for inspection, Hu Yu quickly completed the formalities, and also said some pleasing auspicious words. It's just that now Kong Bo can't follow up, and the reward can only be done by Huang Dalang himself, he asked Fushou to open the bookcase and take out a tube of pens, and said: "Professor Hu is forgetful, the last time he came to my house to eat, he pulled down the pen after the inscription." ”

Hu Yu naturally knew what was going on, and took it with a smile, it was the best wolf of Cao Ji in Huangzhou, this pen could be exchanged for at least three taels of silver, and he was immediately overjoyed, so he personally led Huang Dalang to the examination room.

This examination room is the inner hall of the official office, and as soon as I enter the outer door, I see that there are at least thirty or forty people waiting outside the hall at this time. Huang Dalang glanced at it a few times and found that there were only a dozen or so students from the Hongwen Museum in the crowd, and most of the others were young and middle-aged, and there were really a few gray-haired old children.

There is a way that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi", Huang Dalang learned from the dream that the children's examination at this time can at most be compared to the junior high school entrance examination of the primary school graduation of later generations, which can not be understood by the future generations of people who cannot graduate from primary school, but now it is a very normal situation, although the content of the children's examination is just the meaning of the scriptures, and occasionally let you make a poem and the like, but you don't care about people's IQ arrears after you don't recharge ah!

Immediately, Huang Dalang took the bookcase from Fushou's hand, and walked to the Hongwen Museum to wait, and after half an hour, he saw that everyone had come, and there were as many as fifty-five people. Then there was a government official who opened the way, and led the Huanggang County Order, the county Xuezheng and the county lord Bo to come, and let the students enter the back hall with a "open dragon gate".

The rules of the exam are also simple, and there is no search for cheat sheets, but the people who want to take the exam will open the bookcase or recruitment bag they bring and check it, and they will pass. After all, there are only more than 50 people taking the children's exam, and there are not only three joint invigilators in the examination room, including the county order, the school administration, and the main book, not to mention that the students are five people who are jointly guaranteed, and one person cheats and five people are unlucky.

After the official start of the exam, the messenger issued paper and ink that had been researched in advance, and then someone hung the three major board questions high, Huang Dalang naturally knew the rules of the examination room, so he spread out the paper and prepared to answer.

At this time, the content of the children's test is actually very simple, basically it is the scriptures, Moyi plus additional questions according to the examiner's personal preferences, but basically it will not be too difficult, and it will definitely not add a section such as "Cai Jing, the big tiger, has finally fallen for the second time, what do you think?" "This kind of topic.

The so-called scripture is to open a page of the scriptures, cover the left and right sides, only open a line in the middle, and then cover the three characters with paper stickers, so that the test can be filled. That is, fill in the blanks now. Moyi is a simple written test of the words and phrases of the scriptures, which is equivalent to the current silent writing of ancient poetry.

However, when Huang Dalang made preparations and looked up at the topic, he was still shocked.

First of all, all the parts of the Sutra are from the Analects, which can be said to be sent to the sub-questions, and the parts of the Later Moyi are also from the "University", "The Mean", "The Book of Songs", "Mencius" and "Spring and Autumn". The part that can be added is a bit tricky, it is actually an arithmetic problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage, and the number of rabbits and chickens is particularly large...... Chickens and rabbits have a total of 336 legs!