Although Lin Jin doesn't need to go to the examination room, she has a lot of things to do, plus the matter of the big sacrifice in the clan, although she doesn't interfere much, but she doesn't really do nothing, she is waiting for ready-made, so she hasn't had a good birth every year.

After the opening of the first month of the county, Liu Xianglian took the registration card and the letter of guarantee to register, and when she came back, she told Lin Jin about the successful registration.

Lin Jin glanced at him and said with a smile: "After you enter the examination room, don't look around, just wait in your seat with peace of mind." ”

Liu Xianglian asked curiously, "How are you going to send me the answer?" Also, if it's too late and I can't finish copying it, don't blame me then. ”

For the imperial examination, the most difficult thing is the transmission of the answer when cheating, but this matter has become very easy here in Lin Jin. Because when she entered the library she carried with her, she found that in reality, she could reach the places that overlapped with the library, and because she was in the library, she would not be discovered.

This "superpower" is a guarantee for Lin Jin's confidence in cheating in the imperial examination. She said half-truthfully, "I asked the master for help, and I will send you the answer with a spell when I get back." As for the question of not being able to finish copying, I won't let that happen. ”

Liu Xianglian didn't believe in those things that the gods were chattering, and after hearing her words, she raised her eyebrows and looked at Lin Jin, and said with a look of surprise: "Master? Forget it, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, I'm not interested in getting to the bottom of it, anyway, when the time comes, just pass the answer to me. ”

On the second day of the second month of February, Long raised his head, Liu Xianglian took Kaolan on her shoulder, sat in a carriage, and went to the examination room accompanied by Lin Jin, who was dressed in a low-key manner and did not look like him and herself at all. When he arrived at the place, Lin Jin stayed in the carriage, he got out of the carriage, and after a series of strict inspections, entered the examination room.

After all the candidates entered, the county magistrate was promoted to the seat, and all the candidates got up and saluted, and after they sat down, the official brought the test papers, which began to be distributed from the front to the back. After Liu Xianglian got the test paper, according to Lin Jin's instructions, after shopping around from beginning to end, because this test was only the memorization of the "Four Books", he found that he could still answer some questions, so he studied the ink in an orderly manner, and slowly picked up the test paper and answered it himself.

Before Liu Xianglian got the test papers, Lin Jin had already taken pictures of the test papers of the first candidates she could see from the edge of the library, and when Liu Xianglian got the papers, she had already used the library computer to make several copies of the test papers and took them to the outside of the examination room.

As soon as she got the test paper, Lin Jin beckoned to a vendor at a tea stall outside the examination room, and then when the tea vendor brought the tea, she quietly passed the test paper to him.

In real life, there are many scholars like Wu Jiugong who have cut off the road to the imperial examination because of some accidents, but not all people are like Wu Jiugong behind them, even if they have cut off the road to the imperial examination, they still have a rich net worth and do not worry about their livelihoods, therefore, in order to make a living, some of them are like writing poems and essays for others, making people sought-after, and participating in the imperial examination cheating,...... There is no shortage of such things.

From the day the plan for cheating in the imperial examination was made, Lin Jin sent a person named Xiao Cao from the Cao Gang to help her find a down-and-out literati who were engaged in cheating on Gusu's side.

For the sake of insurance, the affairs of these three people were all arranged by Xiao Cao, and Lin Jin did not contact them. She does everything through Xiao Cao. The follow-up after getting the test paper was also passed on by Xiao Cao's tea vendor.

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In Yangzhou, on the first day of the second lunar month, Lin Mansion, Yang Wan ordered to go down early, and the meals in the kitchen in the last few days, try to pick cakes that imply high school and please eloquence, and after Lin Jin left home to go to Gusu, she burned incense and prayed in front of Kui Xing who invited her back three times a day, begging Kui Xing to protect Lin Jin Nengzhong. On the day of the imperial examination, the offerings in front of Kui Xing suddenly became several times richer, if it wasn't for the fact that the offering table was too small to fit in, she wanted to add a few more offerings.

……

On the evening of the fifth day of February, Liu Xianglian came out of the examination room with a tired face. Lin Jin and the little girl beside her, Yanmo, greeted her together, looked at Liu Xianglian's face, nodded and said, "It looks okay, you don't need to find a doctor to diagnose your pulse, right?" ”

Liu Xianglian waved her hand weakly, "I'm fine, I don't need to ask a doctor." He took the tea handed over by Mama Tao and drank it cleanly, pounded his waist and complained: "It's really an old sin." You don't know, the test number is only three feet wide and four feet deep, the size of a small sedan chair, and in such a large place, there is also a place for the toilet and cooking.

For the past three days, I have been confined to such a large space for three days, using two planks as tables and chairs during the day, and sleeping on these two planks as beds at night. When I woke up in the morning, my whole body was stiff and painful, and I wanted to punch and move my waist and legs, but as soon as I raised my hand, I touched the roof......"

After getting into the carriage, Liu Xianglian couldn't help but continue to complain: "Taking the exam like this, when I think of the next two court exams and the hospital exam, I feel a headache, and I can't stand it when I think about it." I saw that there were many old men with white beards in the examination room, and I don't know how many times they had taken the exam, and it was hard for them to bear such a crime. ”

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Rongguo Mansion in Beijing, February 12 Flower Festival, Daiyu's birthday. The custom of the Jia family is not to celebrate the birthday of the child, because of the young age, so as not to fold the blessing, so Daiyu's birthday has added some more to the example of Sanchun in previous years.

Daiyu didn't care about whether her birthday was lively or not, and whether the birthday gifts given by the people around the Jia family were heavy. Because she received a letter from home earlier and knew that Lin Jin would take the imperial examination this year, her mind was all on Lin Jin.

Mama Tang specially went to the kitchen to show her skills, made Shou noodles for Daiyu, and when she brought it over, she saw her frowning and sitting in front of the window, and said with a smile: "Girl, don't worry too much, Uncle is a successful person, since he decided to end this year, the time to come to the article should be here." ”

Daiyu shook her head and didn't speak. is different from her, and the people who followed her into Beijing, even Mama Wang and Xue Yan, all have great hopes for Lin Jin in the exam, but as Daiyu, who is studying with Lin Jin, knows the level of Lin Jin's craftsmanship. Although she has been away from home for a long time, Lin Jin's article may have improved a lot, but with Lin Jin's qualifications and understanding, Daiyu feels that no matter how much he improves, he is still in the middle of the exam.

In Daiyu's opinion, Lin Jin is still young, and since she is not knowledgeable, she should devote herself to studying, and she should not be too ambitious to go to the imperial examination so early. It's just that when she knew about this, it was already a foregone conclusion, and her father didn't object, so she only thought that her father intended to exercise Lin Jin. Since she thinks so, it stands to reason that she shouldn't care about Lin Jin's exam results, but she is still very worried, this kind of worry is between relatives alone.

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On February 20, the county trial list, Lin Jin High School, but the ranking is average, not to mention the top three, not even the top ten, only ranked twenty-first. Although the ranking is not high, she won in the end, so there will still be some party invitations, but they were all rejected by Lin Jin on the grounds of preparing for the government exam.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the Jiufu test in early April. Because there is a precedent for the county test, Liu Xianglian and Lin Jin have more thorough preparations this time, and they continue to go through the process of the county test. On April 22, the government test list was released, and Lin Jin passed the government test with the seventeenth place and got the title of child.

Because the college examination was scheduled in August, Lin Jin did not wait for the list to be released, and after the government examination, in order to have less contact with the candidates, he took Liu Xianglian away, left Gusu, and went to other places.

After the government test list was released, the students who were admitted to the school wanted to contact their feelings and make contacts, and when they posted a post to invite Lin Jin, they learned that she had gone to other places to play. In the face of her behavior, for a while, there was nothing to say. Some are envious of her carefree and free-spirited, and feel that she doesn't take her achievements seriously, but is confident; Some felt that she was too young to realize the importance of the imperial examination; Some are jealous that she has a young age and a good background, even if she doesn't get in this subject, it's nothing, and there is the next subject, so she doesn't say anything sour; ……

Whether it's good or bad, Lin Jin outside can't hear it anyway, and even if she hears it, she won't care. At the end of July, a few days before the start of the hospital examination, she and Liu Xianglian returned to Gusu.

As a big city, whether it is the county examination, the government examination, or the hospital examination, it is held in Gusu, so Liu Xianglian and Lin Jin are familiar with the way, continue to follow the previous path, and soon finish the hospital examination.

The results of the academy examination will be released seven days later, and the next day after the list is issued, Xinke Xiucai will go to meet the great master as usual, perform a hairpin ceremony, and eat a hairpin banquet.

On the day of the college exam, Liu Xianglian left Gusu by boat and went to Luzon, so it was time for Lin Jin to go to this matter. She was afraid of revealing her identity and didn't want to participate, but there was no good excuse, and she couldn't go. Therefore, she found a laxative in the pharmacy, took it, couldn't afford to get sick, and alarmed the county magistrates of Gusu.