Time flies, half an hour has passed. A student walked into the courtyard with a roll of paper and stood on the steps.

"Look, the results are in."

The candidates in the audience were nervously waiting for the final results.

"What I have in my hand is the list of candidates who passed the first assessment, and the names I read are the list of candidates who passed the first assessment, and the candidates who do not have names on the list should leave by themselves."

"One, Six, Seven......"

After every twenty people's numbers, someone will come and take the eliminated candidates away.

The people numbered in front of Mu Qingwan were eliminated a lot, all of them were just teenage girls, and after some people were eliminated, they cried on the spot. Of course, most of the people who participated in the selection were delicate women, and the more arrogant ones actually sprinkled in public, and at this time, a strong mother-in-law would come in and forcibly take people away. The people behind were also honest when they saw this, and they had no choice but to accept the reality in the end.

At the same time, the results of the first exam, and the works of the outstanding candidates, were also selected and posted on the bulletin board of the college. The notice board of the seowon is large, the size of an entire wall, and more than 50 works are posted on it.

The people waiting outside the academy to accompany the exam all gathered around to watch, and there were also many students from Qingyun Academy inside. Mu Chen, Hu Zhao and Ji Xiang Ruyi also got up, and soon found the exam paper with Mu Qingwan's number, among the many works, not to mention the content, just a beautiful hairpin flower Xiaokai, it is particularly prominent, this is the result of Mu Qingwan's deliberate clumsiness. Looking at Mu Qingwan's exam papers, Mu Chen and the others were full of pride.

Mu Qingwan passed the first exam without suspense, and Jin Ling'er also passed the assessment. At the end of the first round of exams, nearly half of the more than 200 candidates were directly eliminated, and the courtyard suddenly became empty.

"The content of the second exam is the content of the optional examination, including six categories: piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, mathematics, and archery, from which each person chooses any two of them for assessment, and candidates have one of the top ten to pass the second exam directly, or the top 30 of both rankings passes."

The second exam took into account the situation of the candidates who participated in the selection, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are generally the content taught by the official family or the lady of the family, while the family of the merchant pays attention to accounting, so it sets up a number of items, and the military general is heavy cavalry shooting, so an archery item is set.

The second exam was divided into six exam rooms, which did not conflict with each other. The order of the two items can be arranged.

The number of people who choose the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting should be the most, the qin needs to be played one by one, and the chess needs to be played in pairs, which takes a long time. Books and paintings are what I am good at, and I use time and space relatively quickly. In ancient times, mathematics was not paid attention to, and merchants were generally used more, but businessmen were the lowest professions, although Mu Qingwan did not agree, but he did not want to be different, if it was spread out, it might affect the reputation of his family. Archery is a general's specialty, and Mu Qingwan's grandfather is a general...... After thinking about it, Mu Qingwan decided to choose book and shooting.

"Qingwan, which two did you choose?" Jin Ling'er leaned over to Mu Qingwan and asked.

"I want to choose books and shoots, what about you?"

"Ah, there is no one like me, I want to choose chess and numbers. Do you know? I was lucky enough to pass the last exam, and I'm actually not good at it. My family is an imperial businessman, and my father said, if I can go to Qingyun Academy to study, it will be a great thing? Although I can't read, I'm very good at arithmetic, and there should be no problem in the top ten. Jin Ling'er looked proud. However, Qingwan, how could you choose archery? Ordinary women don't know this? ”

It turned out to be the Jin family of the imperial merchants, and Mu Qingwan also followed Mrs. Mu to do business, and the Jin family of the three imperial merchants was no stranger, and the Jin family was mainly engaged in the trading of tea, wine and restaurants.

"My grandfather was a military general, and I also grew up in Biansai from childhood to adulthood, and the people there are good at riding and archery, and I can do some of them." Mu Qingwan explained to Jin Ling'er.

"I see, then you should be fine. There are very few girls who can shoot arrows, don't worry, you have no problem getting into the top ten. Mu Qingwan was relatively young, and Jin Ling'er thought that she was older and her sister, so she smiled and comforted Mu Qingwan.

"Well, hopefully."

"Hehe, it's a pity that my handwriting is not good-looking, otherwise I can test calligraphy with you, and I can play chess."

……

The second exam began, and the two men separated and went to their own exam room. However, when Jin Ling'er left, she agreed with Mu Qingwan that the two would meet again after the exam.

Mu Qingwan first went to the place where the archery assessment was carried out, and the assessment was relatively simple, shooting arrows from a fixed position. The girl's arm strength is weak, so the range is only five meters, and ten arrows are the standard. If the number of shots is the same, additional tests will be carried out according to the situation.

The person in charge of the assessment is a tall and strong sweater, with a big beard, staring at a pair of bull's eyes, and it is even a little scary to look at it.

Sure enough, there were only a dozen scattered people who chose to shoot! However, Mu Qingwan saw a familiar face in it, it was a horseback girl from the Li family in Taiyuan.

At the beginning of the assessment, I saw that she took the lead in stepping forward, tried the bow slightly, and shot five arrows in a row at the arrow target, hitting the bullseye again and again. Put down your bow, take a break, and continue to shoot the remaining five arrows. The speed behind it slowed down a bit, but it still kept shooting steadily. In the end, ten shots and ten hits.

The other candidates around were dumbfounded, and saw the girl in red smiling brightly, with some arrogance, and her clothes fluttering, so chic. After shooting the arrow, the girl did not stop, and turned directly out of the examination room.

"Who is that man? It's amazing. ”

"I don't know, that's Li Yuxin of the Li family in Taiyuan, it's very powerful." The person who answered also had pride in his tone.

"That's amazing."

……

The assessment continued, and the strength of the later players was obviously very weak, and some people couldn't even pull their bows and arrows, and obviously wanted to come over and take advantage of it.

Mu Qingwan looked at the situation in front of her, and then looked at the number of people who had not yet been assessed, and made a plan in her heart.

Ten shots and ten hits are very simple, but Mu Qingwan only shot seven arrows, and most of them were around the seven rings, even so, but he also ranked second in archery.

The bearded man in charge of the assessment looked at Mu Qingwan attentively, his eyes rolled, and he didn't speak.

After the archery assessment, Mu Qingwan went to the location of the calligraphy assessment again.

In the place where calligraphy is assessed, some people have already left, and the assessment requirement is to write a poem at random, either by oneself or by copying the predecessors.

Mu Qingwan found a place to sit down, picked up the pen and wrote a seven-character quatrain of a contemporary master, without delaying for too long, almost in one go, using the hairpin flower Xiaokai used in the last exam. After writing, Mu Qingwan left the examination room directly and did not stay for too long.

The second exam was more casual, and Mu Qingwan felt that it was still early, so she went to other exam rooms to look at other exams.

The chief examiner of the piano art assessment is actually Mrs. Qingyun, and in the piano room, the candidates play a short piece of the piano in turn and get a score at the same time. Miss Qianjin in ancient times spent a lot of time and energy on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so there were a few who played very well, but for Mu Qingwan, who was highly skilled, it could only be regarded as unsatisfactory.