The county magistrate waited for a while, glanced around the courtyard, and then slowly spoke: "The official's surname is Liu, the county magistrate of Zizhou County, and he will be in charge of this Lishui County test with the Rong County Instructor from today." All the candidates are people who read the books of the sages, and they are expected to abide by the rules of the examination room, and must not do anything that violates the rules. ”

His words fell, and there was a faint voice in the courtyard of the second entry, thinking that the Rong County Sect also said these words inside.

After a while, a person walked out of it, but it was the one who entered the inner courtyard with Rong County's teachings just now, and it should be Rong County's teaching. He said two words in Liu County's ear, and Liu County's order nodded to a man in blue next to him. The man in blue opened the bag in his hand, revealing the test paper inside.

The officials who were present to listen to the orders and invigilated the examination were all brought from Zizhou County by Liu County, and there were nine people staying in the outer courtyard at this time. The man in blue first distributed the stacks of divided test papers to them, and they distributed them in pieces in the examination room, while he himself entered the inner courtyard with the Narong County Instructor.

Soon, the test paper was sent to Du Jinning. She first took a brief look at the test paper, confirmed that the test paper she got was not a blank paper, and there was no situation where there were half words and half no words, and the handwriting of the test paper was relatively clear, so she rolled up the test paper and put it into the test paper bag she prepared.

This test paper bag is made of lambskin, which is waterproof, stainproof and fireproof, and has a lid made of sheepskin, which is very easy to access.

After loading the test papers, she put the test paper bag into the test basket at her feet under the desk, then poured clean water into the inkstone and began to grind the ink.

"Ahh An exclamation came from the corner of the cloister on the left.

Everyone turned their heads to look over there, and saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old examinee standing up hurriedly and lifting a test paper, but the ink dripping down the test paper indicated that the examinee had not yet started to write the test questions, and his exam had already ended.

In order to prevent some candidates from making secret marks on the test paper, any dirt on the test paper will be regarded as a waste paper, and no matter how well you answer, it will be a zero score. In the scientific examination room, there will be no chance of reissuing the test papers.

So this candidate came for nothing today.

There was no noise in the examination room, so although the teenager's encounter caused a commotion in the examination room, no one exchanged words and ears, everyone just cast sympathetic glances at the teenager, and at the same time secretly congratulated themselves in their hearts that they had not had such an unfortunate thing, and they were more careful with the test papers, inkstones, ink, etc. in their hands.

Du Jinning sighed secretly, withdrew his gaze, and concentrated on grinding the ink.

Many candidates took advantage of the time they were waiting to sharpen their ink, but Du Jinning waited until now to sharpen their ink, which was also based on the consideration of the safety of the test paper.

In addition, she does the questions quickly, and she doesn't have to race against time to polish the ink in advance.

The process of grinding ink is actually a process of meditation. After grinding the ink in the inkstone thick and fine, Du Jinning has adjusted himself to the best state. She first placed the inkstone in the far corner of the table, and then pulled out the innermost test paper from the test paper bag, which was the first page of the test paper, unfolded it and placed it on the table, and pressed both sides with a paperweight.

When she was checking the test paper just now, she had actually gone through today's county test questions quickly.

In addition to disrupting and arbitrarily transferring county orders and teachings, the management of questions and questions has also been relatively well done. These test questions were not issued by the Liu county order just now, but by the county order of another county. After they came up with the question, they printed it themselves, and after the printing was completed, they directly handed it over to their cronies for safekeeping. It wasn't until yesterday that he received a notice to find out where the test questions he had sent were sent that the cronies would take the test questions to the county where they were located to distribute the test papers.

And these test questions, although they come and go, there are not those question types, but the content still changes.

For example, the test paper she just took is not all about the scriptures, but a mixture of the scriptures, Moyi, arithmetic, scriptures and poems. This is to put the content of the three days of the county examination in one day. In fact, according to the eyes of Du Jinning's later generations, it is very reasonable to ask questions like this, after all, the first day of the county examination is extremely important for candidates. If you do well in this paper, it doesn't matter if you don't take the exam in the future. This will be much easier for both the candidate and the proctor.

She dipped her pen in ink on the inkstone and answered the question easily.

Although the questions are relatively complete, the proportion of the questions in the Tijing test is still the largest, which is enough to account for the entire test paper. According to Du Jinning's unforgettable memory, it was easy to answer this kind of question, so it was only half an hour's work, and she finished answering the scripture question.

After answering this test paper, she did not rush to put it away, but put the pen on the pen holder, first let the ink on the test paper completely dry, and then carefully rolled it up.

She picked up the test paper bag, first pulled out the test paper inside, pressed the corner of the test paper with a paperweight, and then put the finished test paper in her left hand, covered the lid, and put it in the test basket.

Unfolded the second test paper, she was about to take a look at what the Moyi question on it was, when suddenly there was a "bang", a test paper flew from nowhere, and the hood covered her face, blurring her vision, and the old man next to her exclaimed: "Ah, my paper." ”

Du Jinning took off the test paper on his face, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that the test paper on his desk was pressed with a paperweight, and he didn't hold a pen dipped in ink in his hand. Otherwise, the gust of wind just now either blew her test paper away, or because of this sudden incident, the ink stained the paper.

She was about to hand the paper back to the old man when an errand came running up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The old man hurriedly got up and bowed his hand: "Poor master, the wind blew my test paper on this son's face." As he spoke, he pointed to the test paper that Du Jinning was holding.

Seeing that Du Jinning wanted to hand the test paper back to the old man, the messenger quickly stretched out his hand to stop: "Wait." He gestured towards the front steps.

Because of the noise that took place here, the eyes of the prefectural magistrate sitting on the steps of the gate had already turned to this side, and when he saw the messenger gesturing to him, he quickly got up and walked towards this side.

Du Jinning's movements as he handed over the test paper froze, and he looked at the errand officer, and then at the county order, and his brows couldn't help frowning

These people, don't they think she's cheating?