Shen Ze and Gao Yu have lived in the Gao family's house for the past few days, but they have really read books for a few days with peace of mind. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to memorizing the article that his eldest brother gave him with the title of "To the Tao is the king, you can't stop", Shen Ze also reviewed his own book "Spring and Autumn" and the three annotations "Three Legends of Spring and Autumn".

This Gao family house not only covers a large area, but also has an elegant environment, although it is in the downtown but there is no hustle and bustle.

It is the time when the autumn is high and cool, cook a pot of fragrant tea with the spring water in the courtyard, and in the fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the courtyard, hold an ancient book and read it casually, it is really very comfortable. Shen Ze felt that he was becoming more and more like a literati.

Now it is also August, and mid-autumn August is the season of osmanthus fragrance.

Shen Ze felt that his father-in-law Gao Hua seemed to like osmanthus very much, and in the backyard of the Gao family in this courtyard in Jinan City, in addition to planting several large golden osmanthus trees, most of the potted plants placed on the two long platforms under the windowsill of the main house were all kinds of osmanthus bonsai.

At this time, the golden osmanthus flowers in the courtyard are in full bloom, and the courtyard is full of rich osmanthus fragrance. Golden osmanthus flowers are golden, the fragrance of flowers is the most lush, the leaves are thick green, the ornamental value is the highest among many osmanthus flowers, and it is also the most widely planted osmanthus variety in Daming. In the courtyards of large families, almost every household will plant a few golden cinnamon plants

But his father-in-law obviously not only prefers Jin Gui, but also likes Dan Gui and Four Seasons Gui. The bonsai on the platform of the two slips are basically cinnamon and four seasons cinnamon.

???? The original pile osmanthus grows vigorously, the knots are very long, and the bonsai made is not compact and not good-looking. The osmanthus potted plants in this backyard are all grafted with old pile tassels as rootstocks.

???? The osmanthus root and branch grafted by the old tassel pile have different shapes, and they are very fond of the literati.

The aroma of osmanthus is the most elegant and quiet, and Shen Ze likes this osmanthus bonsai very much. When Shen Ze first came to the courtyard of the Gao family, as soon as he saw the osmanthus flowers in the courtyard, he immediately went to the hall where he lived and moved into a pot of osmanthus bonsai. Every day when he sleeps, Shen Ze falls asleep smelling the elegant and quiet sweet fragrance of dangui, which is very pleasant.

As for the four seasons, the aroma is the lightest, but it blooms the most persistently, from autumn to spring, only in summer.

Shen Ze felt that in winter, a pot of small leaves of four-season osmanthus was placed in this house, and he could continue to sleep in the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which was really good.

Uh, of course, Shen Ze can't live here in winter, and he suddenly feels that after returning to Qingzhou, he will also have to get a few pots of Four Seasons Gui bonsai. In winter, when the flowers wither, the four seasons of cinnamon can still be fragrant indoors, which is also quite good.

The township examination of each subject is held in the mid-autumn season, and when the list is released, it is also the time when the osmanthus is fragrant, so the dragon and tiger list of this autumn is also called "laurel list"!

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After reading the book for a few days, it soon came to the fifth day of the first month of August, the day when the Gongyuan issued the examination card, and today the number room of the first courtyard in the Gongyuan is open, so that the candidates can go to the Gongyuan to step on the field, and also understand what items need to be prepared when entering the house.

Shandong Gongyuan is located in Yunlu Street, not far from Yifeng Street, where the Gao family house is located, commonly known as Gongyuan Lane, and it is very convenient for the Gao family to go to the Gongyuan.

However, when Shen Ze and Gao Yu went to collect the exam cards, the tall shopkeeper still sent a clever guy to accompany them.

Shen Ze and Gao Yu, led by the young man from the Gao family's shop, came to Shandong Gongyuan in Gongyuan Lane.

Shandong Gongyuan sits in the north and faces south, the Gongyuan is surrounded by two walls that are more than one zhang high, the wall is full of thorns, and the four corners are erected to hope for the tower, some people therefore call the Gongyuan also called "thorns".

The gate of the Gongyuan is a quaint archway-style building, and there is a plaque of "Gongyuan" hanging in the center. There are two memorial arches built in the door, respectively inscribed "Ming Jing to take scholars" and "for the country to seek talents", these two memorial arches are regarded as pointing out the essence of the Tribute Academy.

As soon as Shen Ze and Gao Yu walked into the gate, they saw a long and improvised simple color shed next to the gate, and many talented people wearing shirts and scarves on their heads were queuing up in front of the color shed. In the color shed, many scribes are checking the various documents in the hands of those talented men one by one.

Seeing this, Shen Ze naturally knew that the shed must be the place where the township test cards were issued. To receive the examination card, candidates need to hold their household registration documents and the certification documents of Xiucai's identity, plus the certificate of passing the subject examination. Therefore, those scribes need to carefully check all kinds of documents in the hands of these talented men in the colorful shed, and these three documents are all right, before they can issue examination cards.

Shen Ze and Gao Yu saw that they were receiving the exam card at this color shed, and they were also busy taking out the three documents they were carrying and went to line up in front of the color shed to get the test card.

After sending a team for nearly an hour, Shen Ze and Gao Yu received their test cards.

Shen Ze saw that there was a lot of information about the candidate's appearance, age, place of origin and location on this exam card, and said in his heart: This exam card is roughly equivalent to the admission ticket of later generations.

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Candidates who have obtained the test card can enter the examination room today with the test card to see the location of their own number room, which can be regarded as stepping on the field in advance, saving too much time and energy to find the location of their own number room when they get the test. It is said that there are as many as five or six thousand in this Shandong Gongyuan, and if you don't step on it in advance, it is really possible to be blind.

Since Shen Ze and Gao Yu are here, they naturally have to go into the examination room to have a look, and they can be regarded as stepping on the field.

The entrance to the gate is the second gate, also called the "dragon gate". The meaning of this "dragon gate" is very good, and I wish these talents can jump over the dragon gate and the carp turn over. This has changed from a talent to a lifter, and the social status is indeed a qualitative leap, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "fish leaping over the dragon gate", because the social status of the lifter is very high, and the lifter can be an official. In this official-based society, there is no doubt that one can get a title of lifter, and at that time, it will really be regarded as a complete carp turning into a dragon.

After passing through the dragon gate, there is a convenient door with four doors in parallel is the first to enter the courtyard.

In front of these four doors, there were some officers and soldiers wearing uniforms to conduct a simple body search on the candidates, so as to prevent the candidates from taking the opportunity of stepping on the field to secretly bring cheating things into the number room in advance.

Of course, this body search is relatively simple, mainly just in case.

Because after entering the examination room today, candidates are only allowed to check the location of their number building in the aisle of this examination room, and are not allowed to enter, and this room is closed by a fence today.

In addition, there are officers and soldiers standing guard in every aisle in the examination room today to prevent candidates from secretly hiding things in the number room. Therefore, it is basically impossible to steal cheating supplies by taking the opportunity to step on the field.

After Shen Ze and Gao Yu were searched, they walked into the courtyard where the examination room was located.

The courtyard where this examination room is located is very large, accounting for about half of the Gongyuan. There is a Mingyuan building in the south of the courtyard, which is the commanding height of the whole hospital, if you go upstairs and look around, the Gongyuan has an unobstructed view, and the examiners such as the invigilator, the invigilator, and the patrol supervise the candidates here.

Of course, candidates are not allowed to go up to this Mingyuan Building, they are only allowed to walk around the examination room.

In the middle of the entrance is a corridor, and on both sides are rows of houses. Shen Ze saw that the number houses were arranged in the order of "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, Universe Flood and Desolation" in the "Thousand Character Text", and the order of this column was written in eye-catching red paint on the top of each row of houses, and the number houses of each column were arranged in the order of the heavenly stems and earthly branches.

Only when you enter the examination room in person, can you experience its shock, standing in a row as far as the eye can see, a row of bluestone buildings are neatly arranged in the examination room, there are four or five thousand rooms, it is really very spectacular.

The number on Shen Ze's exam card is written as "Yunzi Lie Yishen Number", and Gao Yu's exam card is "Lizi Column Jiachen Number".

Shen Zehe and Gao Yu walked along the bluestone road in the Gong Courtyard, intending to take a look at the location of their house.

Because this tribute courtyard is idle for too long on weekdays, there are a lot of weeds growing in the cracks of this stone slab, which makes this tribute courtyard very desolate.

???? The function of this Shandong Tribute Institute is very simple, except for the triennial Shandong Township Examination, this Tribute Institute is vacant almost all other times.

???? After the township examination, the relevant officials will lock the tribute courtyard, and it will be three years before they meet again.

??? After many years of wind and rain, the stone roof truss is fine, but the wooden roof is about to suffer. After years of soaking, even the best wood has to rot.

The building was simply cleaned when it was time for the exam, but the manpower and cost were limited, and the repair and maintenance work was impossible. As long as this is not a collapsed house, it is generally used for this purpose.

The space in this house is very small, open to the south, each room is six feet high, three feet wide, four feet deep, only two wooden boards are set up in it, it is a table and a bench for the examination during the day, and the two door panels are placed flat and together at night to sleep on the bed, there is a wooden fence on the open side, and the candidates can lock it when they enter the shed, and the candidates are in it for the examination and food and accommodation, and it will be opened on the day of the paper.

When Shen Ze came to the "Yunzi Lie Yishen" room where he was going to take the exam, he couldn't help frowning.

???? If it's just a narrow space, it's just that the roof of this house is still a little leaky, which is a little embarrassing, and I'm afraid it will be unlucky if it rains.

Fortunately, this autumn is cool and sunny in the future, and there will probably be no rain.

Shen Ze smiled bitterly and shook his head, this is really bad enough, it seems that I can only pray that it will not rain during the township test, otherwise I will try it myself, the roof will leak, and I am afraid that this paper will be wasted.

Shen Ze was looking at his house and worried, when he heard a person next to him shouting in a loud voice: "My mother, how can this house expose half of the sky, if it rains, it will be all over!" ”?

When Shen Ze heard this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the shouting guy. Then Shen Ze followed the guy's gaze, and then found that the house he was in was not the worst, and the house opposite him on the east side of the aisle could directly see half of the sky! Obviously, this piece of house belongs to this shouting guy.

Seeing this, Shen Ze couldn't help but laugh a little, it seems that there are still people who are more unlucky than himself.

There are five officers and soldiers wearing uniforms in the aisle between each of the two rows, and there are many candidates who come to see the number house, and once a candidate gets close to the number house, those officers and soldiers will immediately shout loudly. If there is a loud noise, it will also be stopped.

The officer and soldier heard the shouting of the owner of the house across the aisle from Shen Ze, and immediately shouted: "If there is any louder noise, immediately fork out!" ”

The examinee who was assigned to half of the open-air number room, who opened his mouth and wanted to complain a few more loudly, couldn't help but swallow the words when he heard the words.

On weekdays, these talents are all pretentious and self-righteous figures, and the cheers of an officer and soldier are naturally ignored and they will not be ignored at all. But now that the exam is coming soon, people are under the roof, and they have to bow their heads! It's still easy to annoy those officers and soldiers, and when the time comes for the exam, they will give you a little bit of badness. It was that Xiucai who closed his mouth very interestingly.

Not only will the loud noise be stopped, but if it is too close, it will also be stopped, so Shen Ze didn't get too close to look at his own house, so he didn't have to be scolded by those big-headed soldiers. He just took a general look and remembered the location. Anyway, it's the same inside this house.

However, Shen Ze felt that this time he stepped on the field was not in vain, at least after stepping on the field, he knew that in case of rain, this large piece of tarpaulin to cover the rain must be prepared.

Immediately, Shen Ze went with Gao Yu to see his house. Gao Yu's house has an intact roof, but this location is not good, it is very close to the toilet, which is considered a "stinky number"!

Shen Ze and Gao Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly, this township test, their brothers' luck didn't seem to be very good.

Shandong Gongyuan is actually composed of three courtyards, and the candidates can only enter the first courtyard, that is, the courtyard where the number house is located.

In the middle of these two courtyards is the "Zhigong Hall", and there are several small courtyards in the east and west of the hall, which are the office accommodations of the "outer curtain officials" such as the supervisor, the palm scroll, the promotion, and the supervision and examination.

In the middle of the courtyard is the "Jukui Hall", which is the office of the chief and deputy examiners, and there are also several small courtyards on both sides, which are the places where the "inner curtain officials" such as the examiners, the internal invigilators, and the inner palm rolls work and live.

Of course, these two-entry and third-entry courtyards naturally do not allow candidates to enter and watch today.

The time of the Daming Autumn Township Examination is generally the ninth day of August, and today's fifth day is the day when the candidates issue examination cards, and it is also the day when the chief examiner, the same examiner, the internal supervision test, the inner palm roll and other "internal curtain officials" enter the examiner.

Today's chief examiner, the same examiner, the inner invigilator, the inner palm paper and other "inner curtain officials" after entering the court, the third courtyard of the tribute courtyard will be locked, and the inner curtain officials are not allowed to come out of the examination room to prevent the leakage of the existing examination questions, until the completion of the marking work of the township test, the third courtyard has been closed, and there is something to do can only be greeted by the "outer curtain officials" through a few doors with curtains, and the exam questions are also from the door with curtains to the hands of the "outer curtain officials" who invigilate the exam.

In the past few days, the examiner will think of the questions of this subject for the township exam. As for those deputy examiners and fellow examiners, they are fine, they can just drink tea, chat about poetry and songs, and so on.

The chief examiner of this subject is indeed Wang Shouren, who was rumored to be presiding over the Shandong Township Examination a long time ago! He was recommended by his fellow Zhejiang countryman, Lu Wei, who is currently the governor of Shandong, and was appointed by His Majesty Emperor Hongzhi to preside over this year's Jiazike Township Examination. As for the deputy chief examiner, it is in accordance with the usual practice, and it is served by Shandong Tixue Yushi Lu Gao.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when the first department was opened, the township examination was presided over by the province. However, there are many drawbacks in this province to preside over the provincial township examination.

The term of office of this province is three years, and during his tenure, this student will inevitably preside over a college examination, so the new talents in this province can be said to be from his disciples. At that time, if this new talent is a new talent, just in time for the township examination presided over by this student, this student is likely to be inclined to those talents selected by himself when he selects candidates at the marking point.

Although the test papers of this township examination are all re-transcribed and confused, when this mention is in the draft, if you meet a student you like, you may be familiar with the candidate's style, and it is not too difficult to point him to a person.

Therefore, as the chief examiner, he presided over the township examination in this school, and it only lasted for a short time in Daming. Immediately, it was changed to the method of being recommended by the local government and selected by the emperor, and the chief examiners of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, plus the nine towns, were selected and used.

The two courtyards in the back did not allow this candidate, Gao Yu and Shen Ze took a turn in this examination room, found their own location and went home.

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