"Guizhi, hurry up, try the little tandoor I bought for my son." Moth shouted repeatedly: "Uncle Lian, let him buy a stove and come back, the mud is wet, if you really enter the examination room, if you don't ignite the fire, won't you starve to death to the son." ”

"Eh, it's on!" Lian Laosan's daughter was squatting in front of the stove, blowing vigorously with a blowtorch and her cheeks.

The soot from the charcoal burned fluttered in all directions, and even Guizhi's face was full of pot smoke, as black as the god of the stove, which looked very funny.

Next to him is a large pile of green gang charcoal.

Even the third child knew that the moth was a knife mouth tofu heart, and he complained about eating her, but he was not angry. He just smiled and rubbed the small copper pot with a loofah.

"Hey, uncle, how do you use so much force, the pot is going to be wiped through by you, or I'll come, it's a little uneasy." Seeing Lian Laosan's clumsy appearance, Mozi was in a hurry, so he snatched the loofah from his hand.

"Hehe, I'm just stupid." Lian Laosan handed over the pot with a smile, and asked again, "Moth girl, what else can I do?" ”

Moth: "Uncle Lian, please, I won't bother your old man with the delicate work." If you drop a few more plates, all the utensils I bought for my son will be ruined. Not to mention spending money, some items cannot be bought back for a while. Tomorrow is the day when Childe enters the examination room, and it is delayed and his future is ruined. Let's not say anything, just hit our heads and die on the wall. ”

After a few more words, Mozi said: "Uncle Lian, otherwise, you boil a basin of water for your son, wring a hot towel and send it over." Poor to see, Childe has been in the study all day. Although it was cooler on this day, the house was sunburned all day, and the inside was like a steamer. ”

"Okay, I'll go." Lian Laosan hurriedly went to the room to boil a basin of hot water, brought it into the study, then wrung out the water, and carefully handed it to Wu Jie, who was writing the side: "Childe, towel." ”

Seeing Wu Jie frowning and writing, even the third child was extremely nervous, and he only felt stiff. Since following the carriage more than twenty days ago and discovering that Wu Jie was able to enter and leave the palace freely, even the third child was more afraid of Wu Jie.

He also knew that his master must be a figure with good hands and eyes, as long as he was hit by the lifter and the jinshi, it would be quite easy to enter and exit in the future.

Besides, he is a talented master, and he will be a master of Juzi and Jinshi in the future. Scholars, especially those who have meritorious reputations, are the literary and opera stars in the sky, and they are no longer human.

Lian Laosan was born as a grassroots petty officer, and the Ming Dynasty respected literature and regarded soldiers as mustard. Affected by this environment, being able to be Wu Jie's family, he feels that he has light on his face, and he is also whirring when he walks.

"Thank you." Wu Jie politely took the towel, wiped his face, looked at the busy moths and Lian Guizhi in the yard, and shook his head helplessly: There are too many sundries, and it is really troublesome to bring them into the examination room.

However, none of these things are indispensable, and none of them are indispensable.

Tomorrow is the day when Shuntianfu Township will try to enter the examination room.

The township test is divided into three sessions, each of which lasts three days. When candidates enter the examination room, in addition to the four treasures of the study, they also have to bring a lot of common utensils.

After all, the government is not responsible for the nine days of eating, drinking, and Lazar of the candidates.

Therefore, candidates also have to bring food, dishes and chopsticks, drinking water, charcoal, vegetables, rice, and cook in the examination room.

Of course, you can also bring dry food. The problem is that the weather is still very hot, and if you bring dry food in, you will have to spoil it in less than two days. Can't swallow it without saying it, and there is a danger of food poisoning. Moreover, the rules of the township test are really strict. During the examination period, unless there are special circumstances, neither the examiner nor the official is allowed to go into the shed, and it is impossible to provide drinking water. So, even if you bring dry food in, you will choke to death.

It's not that Shuntianfu is afraid of trouble, or to save money. There are too many candidates, and it is too troublesome to be responsible. As far as Wu Jie knows, there are about 3,000 Xiucai who came to participate in the Shuntianfu Township Test today.

This is still good, if it is replaced by a large cultural and educational province like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the number of reference people for each township test can easily exceed 5,000.

Wu Jie has never paid much attention to mundane things, so he handed over all the things he needed for the exam to Moth. Originally, he still thought it was a trivial matter, but after Mozi bought the things he used home, Wu Jie was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but groan: It's too much and too thoughtful, the problem is that these things are all indispensable, one less thing, and when you enter the examination room, it will give you a headache. If I were to do it, it would be annoying.

Nowadays, the yard has been piled up into a hill, including: a bamboo big test blue, about 1.20 meters high, with four iron wheels installed underneath, hanging ropes and dragging, you can also carry it on your back, it looks like the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", Ning Caichen's back is a little similar. The test basket is divided into several grids, which can put a stove, a pot, and about 20 catties of charcoal, two catties of rice, and a few radish, and a bag of salt; There is an examination bench, which is made of purple bamboo, with two wooden planks on the bottom side, straight prismatic bamboo pillars on three sides, and a door at one end, which can be opened and closed. It contains the four treasures of the study, flint, tea, and oil lamps.

In addition, there is a thin quilt and a long shirt tied into tofu blocks, which can be placed directly on your head when you enter the examination room.

Looking at so many things, Wu Jie suddenly felt a little sad and angry: The Yamen of Shuntian Mansion is really hateful, and he is reluctant to even give out the lamp oil, and he needs to bring it to the candidates, which is too unusual.

Where is it like the children's test, all the objects can be provided directly in the examination room. When the weather is hot, Bao Yingxia also provides cold water for the scholars to prevent heatstroke and cool down.

Hearing Wu Jie's "thank you", even the third child was even more cramped, blushing: "Master, this is what a villain should do." I heard that as long as you win the lift, you can do it from the seventh grade official, according to the master's ability, this time you have to get a big master to do it. ”

Wu Jie smiled and said gently: "Lao Lian, we are not a family, but a family, don't be a master." ”

"Yes, sir."

Wu Jie was helpless, and said: "To be an official, to be an official in the name of a person, and your future achievements are also very limited, how can you also win the Jinshi." However, things in the exam room are not accurate. In this Shuntianfu Township Examination, more than 3,000 Xiucai signed up, but in the end, only 75 were admitted, and only one out of 30 or 40 people was able to win. Shuntianfu is outstanding, and the competition is particularly fierce. I don't dare to guarantee it either. ”

Hearing Wu Jie say this, Lian Laosan mustered up the courage and said: "Master, you will definitely be able to win, I heard that the chief examiner of this exam is Master Bao Yingxiabao, your mentor." Anyway, they are all their own people, and whoever they take is not to take, so they naturally cheapen their own disciples first. ”

"You don't even know the rules of this imperial examination, and after the candidate's paper is finished, he has to find someone to transcribe it, and then paste the name. Even if the old man wants to take care of me, an unsuccessful disciple, he doesn't know which copy of my scroll is. ”

"Ah, I see, but I don't know."

Wu Jie was suddenly a little curious, and asked, "Lao Lian, how do you know that the main examiner of this subject is Master Bao?" ”

Lian Laosan hurriedly replied: "Master, you probably don't know, Lord Bao is in the city today to show up the sedan chair and praise the street!" The villain happened to get the order of the eldest sister of the moth, and went to the street to buy a stove for you. Seeing the excitement, I went over to see the freshness. But I came back late, and I complained about eating moths! ”

As he spoke, Lian Lao San scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Oh, it turns out that today is the day of the sedan chair and the street!" Wu Jie knocked on the door of his head, there is such a rule in the imperial examination system.

It turned out that every time the big competition came, the chief and deputy examiners sent by the central political axe to the two capitals and various provinces had to avoid the examination room for a few days. The day before the exam, the magistrate would go to them to hold a ceremony to worship the Qin and give the talisman, and then set up an incense case in the southwest direction to invite the saint Confucius.

Before the time came, the yamen had already carried out the eight-carrying sedan chair that had been prepared and carried the two examiners to the street. In front of the procession, there is an agitation class, followed by a soap class that plays "avoidance" and "silence", two bright sedan chairs go to the streets, followed by a long follow-up team, and then a team full of horses and guns. This process lasts for two or three hours, which is simply a major festival, and the common people have poured into the streets to see the demeanor of the great master Wu Jie said: "In fact, on the scientific field, the relationship between teachers and students may not work. ”

"Anyway, Childe can win, and he will definitely be able to win." Even Lao San's face was solemn, and he remembered the night he followed Wu Jie, and clenched his fists vigorously.

Wu Jie didn't know what Lian Laosan was thinking, so he only smiled: "Cook earlier, don't be too greasy." "I have to go to the Gongyuan early tomorrow morning to order Mao, and I can't get up if I eat too greasy, or if I eat too much.

"Yes, the villain will go and talk to Sister Moth."

Waiting for the third child to leave the study, Wu Jieyou picked up the pen and wrote the title of the Tianfu Township Test on paper, which was naturally in Chinese pinyin. Then he went through the standard answers to the first few questions in his mind to make sure that there were no mistakes, and then he put the paper on the candle and lit it.

When it was time to eat in the evening, the sky was still bright, and it was estimated that it was about four o'clock in the afternoon of Yanjing time in the future.

It's too early for dinner.

Moth has experience in preparing the diet before the exam, and knows that Wu Jie eats lightly before the exam, but he can't be too vegetarian. I said the recipe and asked Lian Guizhi to do it.

Lian Laosan's daughter is really good at craftsmanship, she bought four catties of hairy crabs, carefully removed the paste, and made it into the favorite crab roe soup dumplings of Jiangnan people. I boiled another pot of cinnamon fish soup and fried two plates of pea seedlings.

This meal Wu Jie ate well, and he actually held it up a little, and after eating, he no longer studied and went straight to bed to sleep.

But after baking cakes on the bed for a long time, the sky outside was still bright, and my body was sore from sleep.

In the tree in the courtyard, there was a knowing thing that kept screaming.

Mozi and Lian Laosan couldn't help driving away with bamboo poles, but the insect flew over and over, and refused to leave, so anxious that the two jumped to their feet.

Wu Jie slept hazy and tired enough, but he thought in his heart: Finally wait for Dabi, this is the most critical one. It's over, Jackie Chan is a tiger, can't get by, kitten ass.

(To be continued)