After entering the academy, I followed the instructions and went straight to the meeting place.

At this time, the place where the academy met was in a spacious courtyard, and rows of stools were neatly arranged in the courtyard. The female students who attended the venue were allowed to sit on their own, and there were about 200 seats. Although Mu Qingwan was a relatively early candidate, she had already reached her thirties and forties as a teenage girl. Generally, girls are relatively late in enlightenment, so looking at it, most of them are thirteen or fourteen years old, and there are relatively few ten-year-olds like Mu Qingwan.

The girls gathered in a group and chattered. Occasionally, there are a few scattered girls who sit alone.

In order to keep a low profile, Mu Qingwan only wore a simple and uneye-catching tender lotus dress today, and the material was only a common material for ordinary rich families, ignoring her outstanding appearance and putting it in a bunch of girls, which was not too eye-catching. In particular, Mu Qingwan is an outsider, and there are basically no acquaintances in Pingcheng, so no one comes forward to say hello.

Mu Qingwan was at ease, so he sat quietly in the corner alone, looked around the courtyard, and listened to the girls' speeches.

Dajing is the official dialect, just like modern Mandarin, but there are dialects in different places. Some of the girls in it spoke with a dialect flavor.

There is no restriction on the background of the entrance examination of Qingyun Academy, and both rich and poor, officials and businessmen can take the exam, so the number of people who take the exam is large.

Of course, the cost of reading is very expensive, pen, ink, paper, inkstone and bundle all cost a lot of silver, and it is not easy for ordinary families to provide a student to study, let alone the girls in the family. Moreover, there were many restrictions on women in ancient times, and women could not participate in the imperial examination, and generally girls could only hire female gentlemen in the house if they wanted to study, so in Dajing, the girls who read and wrote were basically the daughters of the rich or official families, and the general family was only limited to the descendants to get more resources, of course, such as the capital or the family, for the reputation of the house, the outstanding concubines also had the opportunity to study.

Yide Academy in the capital is the only academy in Dajing that only admits female students, and only recruits children of official families, such as wealthy families, although they have a lot of money, but they do not have the opportunity to enroll. E-Tak College has many restrictions and high thresholds.

In ancient times, scholars were highly valued, and Qingyun Academy was the number one academy in Dajing, if the girl in the family could enter Qingyun Academy to study, then the family's reputation would also rise, not only that, but other women in the family would also become sought-after marriage partners. There are many benefits, so as soon as the news of Qingyun Academy's recruitment of female students came out, the sensation caused can be imagined.

Listening to the conversations of the people around me, most of the female students who took the exam were from Jiangnan, but there were also some who came from all over the country.

More and more candidates arrived, and the stools in the courtyard were slowly filled. According to the regulations, the time is gradually approaching, and the female students who come in are gradually thinning.

There was still a quarter of an hour before the deadline, when five or six girls came into the academy, one of whom was dressed in red, with a proud face, and was surrounded by several girls. It was actually the girl on a horse that I saw when I was having dinner with Mu Chen a few days ago. It is not surprising that the daughter of the Li family in Taiyuan took the exam. It's just that this kind of pomp and circumstance feels a bit exaggerated.

The time is over, and no more candidates will come in.

The two ladies walked in and stood on one of the steps in the courtyard, condescending to the candidates. In the courtyard, quiet, the girls invariably looked in the direction of the two ladies.