Hearing Li Tong's words, Zhou Dongping not only did not readily agree, but was silent, his brows furrowed. After a long time, he waved his hand backwards and motioned for Li to return to his place.

Li Tong didn't understand what he meant, but this was the exam room, not the place to speak, so he had to take a few steps back and sit back.

In the following time, Li Tong found that Zhou Dongping was looking at the heads of the cases in the examination room on the surface, but his eyes glanced at the articles in front of him from time to time, and his frowning brows never let go, and he found that he couldn't understand Zhou Dongping at all.

Zhou Dongping has been a county magistrate for ten years, a school administrator for five years, a prefect for two years, and an invigilator almost every year in the past 17 years. Could it be that Zhou Dongping is not satisfied with these two articles, and wants to find another better eight-strand article than this?

Or is it because these two articles are so well written, surpassing him to some extent, that he is unhappy and jealous? It's impossible, Zhou Dongping has never been so narrow-minded.

So why is that?

But before he could think about it, another candidate rang the bell, and then was led over by the officer to hand in the paper.

As soon as Zhou Dongping saw this person, his face, which had been gloomy, suddenly became clear, and he asked with a smile: "Wu Yumou, from Fuxing County?" ”

"Yes, sir." Wu Yumou bowed respectfully.

Zhou Dongping nodded and looked down at the test paper in front of him.

Li also got up, walked behind Zhou Dongping, and reviewed the test papers with him.

There are six or seven thousand test papers in the government examination, and it is impossible for Zhou Dongping to correct them alone, so he can ask his master to bear it together. The master is one with the owner, sharing blessings and misfortunes, advancing and retreating together. Therefore, this practice is also tacitly approved by officialdom.

After looking at it for a while, Li Tong's brows furrowed. After hastily reading the second article, he glanced up at Wu Yumou, and then retreated and sat back in his seat.

He knows this Wu Yumou.

The government exam is not a trivial matter, not only these candidates have to do their homework in advance, but they, the invigilators, also have to do their homework to the candidates in advance. How many local candidates are there, and how many are the candidates who have returned to their hometowns for the examination. And among them, how many are the second or third generations of officials who have returned to their hometowns from places where the literary style is prosperous? What is the approximate level of the county heads. They all have some understanding of these situations.

This Wu Yumou is the head of the county case in a large county, because there are more people taking the exam in the big county, although the number of people admitted to the county examination is twice as much as that of the small county, but there is only one county head, so the gold content of the county head of these counties is greater than that of the small county.

Wu Yumou's father served in the Hanlin Academy in Beijing. When you are a jinshi, you need to be ranked high, and you can only enter Hanlin after passing a certain exam, so you can naturally learn more than the average jinshi. Wu Yumou has a family history, and he is also a leader in this year's candidates. Zhou Dongping was very concerned about him, and felt that the head of the house was likely to be taken away by this candidate.

I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods. If there was no Du Jinning Zhuyu in front, Wu Yumou's two articles would be good. But when the articles of the two are put together like this, his two eight-strand articles are completely inadequate.

I think this person has also done his homework, so I did what he liked and wrote two eight-strand essays. But because Bagu Wen is not a style of the rules of the imperial examination, not many people study it, and there are not many people who are good at writing Bagu Wen. Even if Wu Yumou did his homework and learned Baguwen, in Li Tongtong's opinion, his fire was still far behind.

Li looked at Zhou Dongping together.

Sure enough, Zhou Dongping's face was as warm as a spring breeze at first, but after reading the article, it suddenly became winter, and his brows were so furrowed that he could kill mosquitoes.

He suppressed the irritability in his heart, tried his best to squeeze out a smile at Wu Yumou, and encouraged him: "Go back and prepare for the hospital exam." ”

Although Wu Yumou was extremely confident in himself, seeing Zhou Dongping's face change back and forth, his heart also fell together like a roller coaster. Hearing this at this time, and seeing Zhou Dongping give him a smile, his heart suddenly settled down.

He took a deep suck, "Thank you, sir." ”

At this time, the messenger brought another person in, and said, "My lord, hand in the papers in this life." ”

There are invigilators in each examination booth, and the papers can be handed over to the invigilator, not necessarily in front of Zhou Dongping. The reason why the errand officer brought this candidate here is because he is one of the top ten to hand in the papers. For the ten candidates who handed in the papers, according to the old practice, Zhou Dongping would meet the previous one.

Because it is very likely that the head of the government will appear among these ten people.

Zhou Dongping glanced at the newly handed in test papers, and was about to wave his hand to ask the messenger to lead them out, but when he saw the candidate's name, he changed his mind again.

"Fang Shaohua, originally from Lishui County?" He asked.

"Yes, sir."

Zhou Dongping nodded, lowered his head and carefully reviewed the test papers.

This person he knew was a candidate who came back from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he ranked third in the county examination. He wanted to see how big the gap between this person and Du Jinning was.

Fang Shaohua was worried.

The county test was pressed by Du Jinning and Liang Xiankuan, although he was convinced, he was still unwilling. "There is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people" He has a deep understanding of this sentence recently, so he didn't dare to let out wild words, and he must take down the head of the house. But he is determined to get good results in the government examination, and his ranking is above Du Jinning and Liang Xiankuan.

At this point, he especially wanted the invigilator to praise his essay.

Li got up again and stepped forward to watch the article with Zhou Dongping.

Zhou Dongping didn't speak, even if he didn't have anything to do now, Wu Yumou didn't dare to leave without permission. But he didn't want to leave. He wanted to see how well the candidate's article was written, and what Zhou Dongping would say about him.

And this time, Zhou Dongping's face was not as ugly as when he read Wu Yumou's article. He nodded when he finished reading the article, and the other party Shaohua said: "The article is well written, go back and work hard, and prepare to take the hospital exam." ”

Fang Shaohua was overjoyed, bowed deeply to Zhou Dongping, and thanked him.

"Alright, let's go." Zhou Dongping waved his hand and motioned for the messenger to lead the two away.

Before leaving, Fang Shaohua glanced at the exam number in the front row, looking for Du Jinning's figure. It turned out that two test numbers were empty, but Du Jinning was nowhere to be found.

Could it be that this guy has turned in the paper ahead of schedule again?

He muttered in his heart, and after following the messenger out of the house, he couldn't help but ask Wu Yumou: "This brother, may I ask if someone can hand in the papers before you hand in the papers?" Is that person's name Du Jinning? ”

Wu Yumou glanced at him faintly and ignored him.

He could hear the prefect's words just now, this person is from the same county as the thirteen-year-old county head. The person in front of him is also seventeen or eighteen years old, he looks like a dog, the materials of his clothes are also the best, and his family is either rich or expensive. Why is it such a waste material, crushed under a little fart child who has not grown any hair? He doesn't bother to pay attention to such people.

Watching them go out, Li Tongtong finally couldn't help but ask Zhou Dongping: "Although this article is better than the second one, it is not at the same level as the first one, why are you ...... Dongweng?"