Lu Fengyi made a blank face: "Master Bao thinks that there is something inappropriate about the official's question." ”

Bao Yingxia: "It's not inappropriate, it's just too difficult, don't say what you do with these five things, even if you do it first, it will take two days to copy a penny, isn't it a little embarrassing for those talents?" ”

"Yes, indeed." The other examiners in the lobby also whispered to each other.

According to the imperial court system, in addition to the chief and deputy examiners, there are 16 examiners in the township examination of the two capitals and the political envoys of each student, plus 18 people together.

Each of these eighteen people has different responsibilities.

The principal and deputy examiners are responsible for selecting questions and rankings. Among them, the deputy main examined the questions of the first two sessions, or strategy, or scripture, or historical theory; And the examiner gave out the last eight-strand essay and trial post poem.

As for the other 16 examiners, they read the papers in their own rooms, and after the preliminary examination, they selected the appropriate papers and handed them to the chief and deputy examiners, so that they could arrange the nouns. The preliminary trial is also very important, if the talents can't even pass the first level, it is naturally a dream to make a name for themselves. Therefore, unlike the people who are the main and deputy examiners who are called grandmasters, these examiners who are divided into rooms are called room masters by the scholars who are in the middle of the examination.

Bao Yingxia and Lu Fengyi have been living in the Gongyuan for several days, and they have each come up with their own exam questions, but today is the first time they have seen them.

Seeing that everyone was a little scratchy, Lu Fengyi sneered. When everyone quieted down, he said in a weird manner: "It's not good to be a little harder, I'm here to reduce the burden on you." If my question is easy, anyone can answer it, more than 3,000 papers, divided into 16 rooms, each room is 200 sheets, only one day of marking time, isn't it too troublesome? According to this official, it is better to be more difficult, it will be naturally no problem, no, hehe, there is no need to take the test! Anyway, only seventy-five people will be selected for this Shuntianfu Township test, and the number of people will be enough when the time comes. ”

Hearing him say it politely, everyone's faces were a little ugly.

This Lord Lu is a difficult marquis who has a name, and he was a bitter and mean person when he was an official outside Beijing before. In addition, he has always been very stinky in the officialdom, depressed, tossing people, and full of tricks.

The printer who came to engrave the inscription immediately made a fuss because he was going to be locked up in the tribute courtyard for more than ten days. As a result, this Lord Lu was alarmed, and he was beaten half to death with an order. There was another examiner who had a verbal conflict with him, and he was reprimanded all the time, just like training his grandson.

Previously, there was a candidate who didn't know how to provoke him, and he was pulled out by him, and even Gu Dao inserted a finger.

Everyone shook their heads secretly: This Lord Lu is also from Jinshi, how can he do things so badly. It is estimated that it has been suppressed for a long time before, but now it is of great use, and it is suddenly impossible to hold it. Once the so-called power is in hand, the order will be carried out.

Bao Yingxia was so self-contained, she only smiled and didn't speak.

Before he could speak, Lu Fengyi waved his sleeves: "It's night, everyone go down and rest, you will have to be busy in the future!" He actually crossed Bao Yingxia and gave an order.

Examiners, you look at me, I look at you, but they don't move.

Lu Fengyi's face darkened: "It's all scattered." ”

Then they departed.

The next day, because they slept late, the examiners got up late, and they didn't eat until noon, and they came to the lobby one after another to listen to errands. Lu Fengyi had already sat upright in the lobby, with a face like that of the king of Hades. When everyone arrived, it was naturally another reprimand, saying that you were so slack, disappointing the court, and living up to the emperor's expectations, which made everyone uninteresting.

Someone whispered below, piercing Lu Fengyi's mask: What to pretend, Lord Lu has just gotten up, a little later than us. But before they had lunch, we came to the lobby and waited, so what could I do?

Hearing this, the examiners were also annoyed. You Lord Lu is old, you don't have a good taste, you don't eat much, and it's okay if you don't eat a meal, but you put a stinky face in front of us, hypocrisy, it's really hypocritical.

"Okay, let's go back to each room and see how the candidates are doing."

Everyone left one after another, but at this time, Lu Fengyi stopped the examiner of Tianzi and asked, "How is it over there?" ”

The examiner of Tianzi replied: "Lord Yulu, everything is fine, and the scholars have also gotten up and are answering the papers!" ”

"Is there anything wrong?"

"I didn't see anything out of the ordinary." The Tianzi examiner felt that he was afraid that he would inevitably be scolded by Lu Fengyi again if he answered like this, thought about it, and then said: "There are two scholars who can't answer the papers, and they can't stop crying there. ”

"Ah, who can't do this?" Lu Fengyi stood up abruptly and asked loudly.

Tianzi number examiner: "Lord Lu, how do I know the names of those two scholars?" ”

"Bastard thing, I don't even know the name, what does the court want you for?" Lu Fengyi's face was annoyed.

The Tianzi official felt that he had suffered great humiliation, and his face turned purple. Just as he was about to retort, Bao Yingxia, the chief examiner who was sitting quietly reading the book, raised his head: "Lord Lu is cautious." ”

Lu Fengyi also ignored Bao Yingxia, and scolded the examiner of Tianzihao: "I don't know the name, don't you know the exam number, say, what is the examination shed number of those two candidates?" ”

The examiner of Tianzi was busy saying: "One is Tianzi No. 16, and the other is Tianzi 141." ”

"Yes, got it." Lu Fengyi took out a piece of paper from her arms and looked at it carefully.

The Tianzi number examiner knew that this was the candidates' seating list, and he also looked at it. I saw Lu Fengyi's fingers swiping quickly on it, and finally landed on Tianzi No. 30, the name of a person named Wu Jie. Then, with a long sigh of relief, he muttered in a low voice, "It's okay." ”

Then, Lord Lu raised his head again and glanced at the examiner fiercely: "What are you looking at, are you idle?" Don't step down yet, keep an eye on your number zone for me. ”

The next day was a kind of torture for the examiner.

He was constantly called over by Lord Lu and asked him what the situation was in the examination area he was responsible for and how the candidates were.

asked very carefully, and even asked how the talents ate, what their expressions were when they answered the questionnaire, and whether they were writing fast.

In a whole day, he called him over more than ten times.

At the beginning, the examiners of other rooms were also called over for questioning. But later, the officials in the other room were not summoned into the lobby again, but he was called more and more diligent.

The poor examiner is also an old man, and he was called over and over again so many times that his feet were swollen from exhaustion.

When I wash my feet at night, I press it with my fingers, and it is a small pit, and I can't get up for half a day.

"I think I am also a dignified Jinshi, and as soon as this exam is over, as long as there are a few people in the Tianzi room, I am also a respected room master, and I can be regarded as a beautiful person. Is there a miserable room master like me? ”

The examiner of Tianzihao can understand that this Lord Lu is eyeing all the examination booths of Tianzihao. At first, he thought that he had offended Lu Fengyi somewhere, so that he was tortured by him so much. But when I thought about it, I remembered that Master Lu would take out the list every time and mark it on the No. 30 examination room.

His body was shocked: Could it be that candidate No. 30 is an acquaintance of Lord Lu, yes, it must be yes, cough, I'm really stupid!

(To be continued)