Except for Liu Zhengqing's occasional visit to Mr. Wen Duan for advice and rice, Chu Feng's life can be described as peaceful.

Every day is just practicing calligraphy, painting, carving, and reading, although it is simple, but it is still full of interest.

Liu Zhengqing still goes to Mr. Cheng Yuan every three days, in addition to his own entry into the country, it is also a very wonderful thing to watch the scenery change day by day on the way.

The days passed smoothly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of the spring township test in late April.

Merchants from all walks of life gathered in Hangzhou, and the business of eating, wearing, living and traveling was lively because of the township test. Even on the deserted Sanxing Qiaotou waterway, there are a few more small boats, and every day there are fishermen who fill boats full of lotus canopies to sell.

Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves He Tiantian. At this time, the spring is the strongest, and the wind, flowers, moon, and shadows are infiltrated into the bones of spring, as if they have been crushed and burned out, and they can't get rid of the word "spring...... In such an atmosphere, who can not remember Jiangnan?

The place where the township test was held was next to Sanqiao Street in Taipingfang in the south of the city.

As early as three days ago, the popularity began to gather in the neighborhood. After all, most of the students who came to participate in the supplementary recording of the Spring Festival this year are not natives of Hangzhou, so it is necessary to explore the road in advance.

In this era, the management of business was very strict, and no one dared to set up a stall on the ordinary street to do business, except for the market prescribed by each city, otherwise he would soon be arrested by the government officials.

Therefore, even though there are more and more people here, there is no lively scene of buying and selling between the east and west markets on Sanqiao Street, and there are more scholars exchanging and discussing with each other, and so on.

The township test is completed in one day, and the scholars do not need to stay in the examination room, so there are not too many things to prepare.

The day before the exam, Liu Zhengqing was a person who had been taught by Mr. Wen Duan early, and the things that needed to be brought in had already been prepared, but on this day, he still invited Chu Feng to take a stroll in the east and west cities, one was to relax and relax, and the other was to look around to see if he had forgotten to prepare, and then make up for it.

At this time, it is not cost-effective to buy things again, most of the goods have already increased in price, if you buy again at this time, it will really become a big wrong.

Liu Zhengqing's family was not wealthy in the first place, so naturally he would not do similar things, so he prepared early, but the food on the day of the exam had not been processed, but that was his wife's business. If you look at Liu Zhengqing's own personality, you can't go hungry if you don't eat a few meals once in a while, but it doesn't matter.

Although the township test lasted only one day, in the morning, because of the need to verify identity, body searches and other things, the time to go was very early, and basically the scholars were required to be in place. If you count the time on the road and the time to prepare, you basically get up at the end of the hour, but it really responds to the old saying "three watches are lit up and five watches are when men are studying", but reading has become an exam.

Because of this, breakfast becomes a matter of trade-offs. Either get up early to eat, or get up late but hungry but have energy, you can't have both, but there is always a wife who cares about her husband so much, and she has to find ways to do it at the same time.

"The insiders are going to let me take it to eat on the road, and the car is hired, saying that when the time comes, she will get up early to do it, and my food in the car will still be hot." Liu Zhengqing looked at the crowd in Dongshi, rubbing shoulders one after another, and said in a volume that was two degrees louder than ordinary speaking.

The surroundings are too lively, the prosperity overshadows the voices, and the voices overshadow the prosperity.

Chu Feng's shoulder was accidentally bumped, his body was slightly sideways, and he took two quick steps before he caught up with Liu Zhengqing's footsteps again.

"My sister-in-law is really virtuous and virtuous, and Brother Liu is so lucky."

Listening to Chu Feng's praise, Liu Zhengqing laughed twice, and said, "This is also the woman's opinion, how far are we from Sanqiao Street?" You don't have to hire a car. I don't know how many carriages will go there when the time comes, they will all be blocked at that end, and I guess they will have to go. If you want me to say, you might as well just walk. ”

Unexpectedly, the "grand occasion" of traffic jams would also happen in the Xuanhe period, Chu Feng imagined that picture, and couldn't help but smile: "That's a rare scene, I must go and see it then." ”

Liu Zhengqing was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "Huh? Don't you know? ”

"What?"

"Those of you who are related to the township test, those who copy, obfuscinate, and mark the papers, you have to go to live on Sanqiao Street tonight, and you will not be released again until the list is released." Liu Zhengqing explained, "If it weren't for why my brother called you out today, although this township test is not prosperous, and it does not have the scale of the government test, but from the beginning to the release of the list, you have to toss it for five or six days." When the time comes, you will really become a monk in the temple, and you will not have anything else to do except sit and meditate. So, I must come out for a spin today, and save myself from being driven crazy in a few days. ”

Only then did Chu Feng know that there were such regulations. Instead, he thought to himself, it's only five or six days, it's always easy to get around, as long as he can practice calligraphy and painting, where he lives is not particularly important to him.

It's just that Liu Zhengqing's words later shattered Chu Feng's thoughts......

"By the way, you people are similar to us, in order to prevent fraud, you also need to verify your identity and search your luggage before entering. It is impossible to bring calligraphy and painting inside, and the same is true for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, which are all prepared inside. It's just that someone is going to eat or something, and you don't have to fire it yourself. Hey! ”

Liu Zhengqing snickered later, no matter how he listened to it, there was a smell of schadenfreude.

Chu Feng's face was slightly pale, if he didn't let him bring anything, how should he spend the next few days?

He is not a good social person, and he locks a few people he doesn't know in a courtyard and doesn't let him go out, no matter how he listens, there is a smell of reality shows...... Ay! That's it! At this point, it is impossible to push away this job, take one step at a time, and then talk about it!

The two of them walked through the crowd, took a circle, and after making sure that there was nothing to buy again, they went straight to the Confucian Temple.

The Confucian Temple of Hangzhou City is on the Pingjin Bridge Yanhe Street in the north of the Renfang in the east of the city, which is also the location of Hangzhou Chengfu School. Since the Tang Dynasty Taizong Zhenguan has fallen, schools around the country will set up Confucian temples to commemorate the ancestors, and the school in Hangzhou City is no exception.

Liu Zhengqing also studied in this school when he was young, but later his family fell into the middle of the road and couldn't get the money to study, so he changed to study at home.