Listening to Xu Mingyuan's words, the numb-faced scholar couldn't help but be stunned, but he immediately came back to his senses, laughed angrily, and said coldly: "Boy, do you know who Master Wu is?" If it weren't for the fact that the exam was about to start, I wouldn't mind letting you know a little bit about the noble and the lowly. ”

"Have you ever seen someone ask a dog's name?" Xu Mingyuan asked with a smile.

The hemp face changed his face, his face turned red, and he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to rush forward to make a move on Xu Mingyuan. However, the two scholars beside him, who were also dressed in brocade clothes, hurriedly grabbed him and persuaded him softly: "Don't have the same knowledge as him first, if you start here, it won't be as simple as getting rid of the qualifications for the township exam, and then you will settle accounts with him after the exam." ”

Hearing this, the numb-faced scholar snorted coldly at Xu Mingyuan and said, "Boy, you wait for me." He flicked his sleeves and turned away.

And when Liu Tangren saw that Xu Mingyuan was a bad friend and a numb-faced scholar who was obviously a child of a wealthy businessman, he also smiled a little coldly, turned around and stopped talking. None of the scholars said much, but the eyes that looked at Xu Mingyuan were a little gloating, and they waited for Xu Mingyuan to be taught a lesson by the numb-faced scholar after the township test.

Although Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui bluntly sarcastically mocked Xu Mingyuan and ridiculed the Ma face scholar with some admiration, the family background of the Ma face scholar was not something that the two dared to provoke. In their eyes, although Xu Mingyuan is knowledgeable, he should be similar to them in terms of family background, and now he has provoked that numb-faced scholar, which is not good.

"Brother Xu, how is this good?" Zhao Qingliang said softly with some concern.

And Feng Rui also gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind and said: "Brother Xu, after today's township test, Qingliang and I will go with you, at least there will be a foil." ”

Xu Mingyuan looked at the sincere expressions on the faces of the two, and he also felt warm in his heart. If ordinary people encounter such things, they will avoid them, and these two people have no family background, but just because of Xu Mingyuan's previous words, treating each other as friends is really rare.

"Don't worry, I have even beaten the son of the deputy protector of Chengdu Mansion, and he can't afford to jump in front of me for his little catty." Xu Mingyuan smiled and said softly: "You two don't have to care about this matter, you can take the township test well to be worthy of your hard work in the past few years." ”

Hearing this, the two also nodded seriously, but it seemed that they still didn't take Xu Mingyuan's first words seriously, but only thought that Xu Mingyuan comforted them.

The team slowly moved forward, and it was finally Xu Mingyuan's turn to catch them today, and today's catch was not led by Guo Dongcheng, but the inspection was the same as the hospital test. The two catchers looked through the bookcase carefully, broke the two baked cakes, and searched Xu Mingyuan's body before letting him in.

The gate of the Gongyuan is also called the Dragon Gate, so although the fence is a wooden fence, this gate is still quite magnificent. On the middle door is the black character "Gongyuan" on the red plaque, a pair of stone lions in front of the door, and two vertical plaques, which read: "The imperial examination takes the scholars, and the country is virtuous." "Eight characters.

Xu Mingyuan smiled at Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui and nodded, crossed the threshold with the bookcase, and entered the Tribute Courtyard. As soon as he entered the gate of the Tribute Academy, a small official immediately stepped forward, took the name card in Xu Mingyuan's hand and checked it, and after confirming Xu Mingyuan's identity, he handed him the seat number of the imperial examination.

As in the courtyard examination, all the students had to wait for the Governor Xuezheng to speak before they could start the first township examination, so all the students stood on the stone flat behind the entrance of the Gongyuan and waited.

Xu Mingyuan watched Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui also enter the door one after another, and the three days of people casually found a corner to stand, Xu Mingyuan leisurely looked at the scholars around him who participated in the township examination, while Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui continued to ask questions in a low voice, making the last little effort.

Knowing that Xu Mingyuan was a student of the academy, the students who were next to them before were few of them who talked loudly after entering the Tribute Academy, so Xu Mingyuan stood with Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui, and no matter who looked at it, they were three poor students, which was not eye-catching at all.

Xu Mingyuan's gaze swept over the scholars, the older ones were over half white, and the younger ones were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the age gap between grandparents and grandchildren was standing together in this tribute courtyard, which couldn't help but make people sigh.

Xu Mingyuan didn't know how to judge these scholars who spent their lives on the imperial examination, maybe it was worth it in their own eyes, but at least Xu Mingyuan wouldn't do it.

It's not right or wrong, as long as you can be worthy of your own heart and have enough reasons, then what you do is your own choice.

Xu Mingyuan used to mock those who had lost their hearts by the imperial examination, perhaps they were used to complaining, so they felt intolerable because of Xu Mingyuan's status as a student of the academy.

The scholars who took the exam entered the Gongyuan one after another, and with the ringing of a bell, the gate of the Gongyuan slowly closed, and the stone floor in the Gongyuan was already full of people.

There was a stone platform at the front of the crowd, and after the bell rang, a fat official in a green official robe walked up to the stage, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said aloud the rules of the township test.

This fat official Xu Mingyuan still remembers that it was the Lord Zhao who came out of the hurry on the day of the release of the test list, but he didn't see that Li Chuan and Master Li today. The rules of the township test are not much different from the rules of the general test, and Xu Mingyuan looked at him a little bored after listening to it for a while.

At the foot of the stage stood a tall forty-year-old official dressed in a purple silk robe, with a jade belt hook hanging from his waist, and a square face, who was Sun Rongchen Sun Xuezheng.

Xu Mingyuan's gaze stayed on Sun Rongchen's body for a while, and then moved to other places. If he didn't have Zeng Fuzi and the Bai family behind him, I'm afraid that even if he participated in this township test, it is estimated that he would not be able to escape the end of the name change.

He wrote down this Sun Xuezheng, the term of office of the Admiral Xuezheng is generally three years, maybe he will meet him in the court in the future, and Xu Mingyuan will also have a snack.

After Lord Zhao finished speaking, Sun Xuezheng went up again and said some words of encouragement, and then announced the official start of the township test.

At the beginning of the township test, there was immediately a small official guiding the students to go to their respective examination halls according to the seat number to wait for the examination, Xu Mingyuan glanced at his seat number, Ding Kaotang, Jiaxu seat. He smiled and patted Zhao Qingliang and Feng Rui on the shoulders, and walked towards the direction of the examination hall guided by the little official with the bamboo box on his back, and the three of them were not in the same examination hall.

The examination hall of the Gongyuan is much larger than that of the academy, with forty tables and chairs, and windows on both sides, which is still bright.

Xu Mingyuan found the examination hall, found his own place to sit down, this time he sat in the third position by the window, and after placing the four treasures of the study, he began to study ink.

All the scholars entered the examination hall one after another, and the experienced people also began to study ink like Xu Mingyuan, and some of the first-time participants were still looking around curiously.

After grinding the ink and resting the brush on the inkstone, Xu Mingyuan glanced at the people sitting in the examination hall, but he didn't expect that the hemp face scholar and Liu Tangren were also in this examination hall.

The two also saw Xu Mingyuan, the numb-faced scholar raised his fist at Xu Mingyuan, and Liu Tangren looked at him with a gloating expression.

Xu Mingyuan directly ignored the two of them, turned his head to look out the window, there was still a distance of one zhang between the neat rows of examination halls, but the direction of opening the windows was staggered, so the scholars between the two examination halls could not see each other.

It will be tested every three years, except for a few warehouses used as yamen, there is basically no use on weekdays. Because no one cleaned up, there were a lot of weeds growing in the ground between the examination halls, and it was the time to grow freely, and the lush green grass was very eye-catching.

His threat was ignored by Xu Mingyuan, and the Ma Facebook scholar was also a little annoyed. It's not that he is idle and has nothing to provoke Xu Mingyuan, it's just that he has a long-standing grudge against the students of the academy in his heart, so he wants to vent Xu Mingyuan.

At that time, he also wanted to enter the academy, but his family background was not qualified, let alone his talent. So he looked at the students who were wearing blue college uniforms, both envious and jealous.

In Shuzhou City, the identity of a student in the academy can be said to be a very worthy thing to show off, even among those rich children, it is also rare.

There are many children of big families in the academy, if they can make friends with one or two, maybe they will be able to soar, which is the reason why many wealthy businessmen rack their brains to send their sons to the academy.

Thinking that he would be able to smash his fist on the face of Xu Mingyuan, a student of the academy, the numb-faced scholar also had a smile on his face and slowly sat down.

"I'd like to see how good you are." And Liu Tangren also sat down slowly, sneered at Xu Mingyuan's silhouette, and began to start grinding ink.

After all the students entered their respective examination halls and sat down, a young official with an ordinary appearance dressed in a cyan silk cloth and silk official robe, with a hooked belt around his waist, walked in the door, followed by two young officials holding the examination papers. This young official Xu Mingyuan has never seen it, and the official robe should be an official of the ninth grade.

The young official first glanced at the scholars, and after making sure that there were no absentees, he nodded, and only after a bell rang did he signal the two officials to hand out the test papers.

After getting the test papers, Xu Mingyuan looked through them first, as Bai Molou and Zeng Qingyi said before, the first test of Moyi and Jingyi in the first imperial examination was a test of Moyi and Jingyi, which was less than the first test of the college examination. Because the township test is divided into three sessions, the second one is the poetry and the scriptures, and the last one is only five policy theories.

Compared with the hospital exam, there are too many things to write in the township exam, which makes Xu Mingyuan a little distressed and what to do when he finishes writing, is it difficult to sleep again?

Thinking of Zeng Qingyi's name as her father Zeng Shangshu sleeping in Tanhua, Xu Mingyuan couldn't help but smile, read the question carefully, and wrote his name in the position specified in the test paper, that is, he picked up the pen and began to write ink.

Xu Mingyuan has also been reading books a lot this month, so he is still confident about the things on these scriptures, and when he sees the question, the answer is already on the pen, and he still writes like a god.