At this time, Huang Chengming's little servant was squeezing out of the crowd with grievances. Finally squeezed out of the crowd, looking at the new clothes he had only made for two months, and the shoes that his mother had made for him, he wanted to cry without tears.

I hope that next year, there will be no students like Du Jinning who are highly expected by the academy, otherwise a little guy like him can be tired to death.

He fell off one of his shoes, and it was not good to go back barefoot, so he had to spend money to hire a mule cart, and then returned to the county hall.

As soon as I got out of the car and paid for the car, I heard a familiar voice sound behind me: "I'm back, I'm back." ”

The little girl turned his head to look, and saw a gentleman from the academy running in, and after a while, his master hurriedly walked out and asked, "How is it?" How many is Du Jinning? ”

"First."

Huang Chengming and the three gentlemen finally landed on the ground: "First? Good, good, good. ”

As long as Zhou Dongping can read the file and judge impartially, the head of the government will not run.

"Who's the second?" Huang Chengming asked again.

"Liang Xiankuan."

The seat numbers of several students who came to participate in the government examination from Boyue Academy, Huang Chengming specially wrote them on a piece of paper for the little girl to hold, and when he looked at the list just now, he searched for several seat numbers, and at this time, he didn't wait for Huang Chengming to ask again, so he reported all the way: "Li Congyang is fifteenth, Luo Dan is twenty-sixth, and Qin Zhongming is sixty." ”

"Gone?" Seeing that there was no sound when the little guy read this, Huang Chengming asked.

The little guy nodded.

"Not bad." Huang Chengming nodded with satisfaction. The faces of the three cooks also raised smiles.

Seven students came to participate in the government exam, and they won five in the first one, which is not bad. The other two were already ranked low in the county examination, and it was not surprising that the government examination was not enough. The most rare thing is that the first and second places are all students of their Boyue Academy, and this achievement is already outstanding no matter which college it is placed in.

Although there are still two exams, the first one is the most important, directly brushing down ninety out of six candidates, and the rest can take the second exam, only about 300 people. And Qin Zhongming, who was the worst ranked among the people who were recorded in the academy, could be ranked sixty, and as long as there were no accidents, these people would be sure to pass the government exam.

"Okay, let's all rest assured." Huang Chengming waved his hand to the three cooks, "Tell them the news, so that those who have passed the first session can prepare well for the exam." ”

The second exam will be held tomorrow.

And Du Jinning's side also heard the news that Fang Shaohua's little servant reported back: "Young master, you are ranked fifth." ”

"Fifth?" Fang Shaohua felt that even if he was pressed by Du Jinning and Liang Xiankuan, he could still be ranked third, how could he be fifth?

"You know who the third and fourth are?" Fang Shaohua asked.

If it was someone else, if it was Wu Yumou who was third or fourth, he would have to be skeptical of the impartiality of the examiner.

The little guy shook his head: "It's the seat number, and the villain doesn't know." However, the villain listened to the person next to him, and it seemed to be the head of the case in another county. ”

Du Jinning listened, and interjected next to him: "Do you remember those two seat numbers?" Say it and I'll listen. ”

The seats of their heads are lined up from the middle to the sides. Wu Yumou once said that he was the head of the largest county, and the seat number was naturally the number of Block A.

The little guy said two seat numbers.

Du Jinning turned his head to Shaohua and said: "Wu Yumou should be behind you, he is either a sub-brand or an ugly name, and he is not among these two seats." ”

Fang Shaohua's mood was a little better.

"Alas, when I came back, I thought that the students in Gui Province were not good, and the little three yuan should be picked by me. I knew how ridiculous this idea was when I took the county exam, and it's even more so now. But look at that Wu Yumou also understood this truth. All of a sudden, I felt very relieved. Sure enough, someone can be as unlucky as themselves, or even more unlucky, is the best way to heal psychological trauma. ”

"......" Du Jinning was speechless.

"Okay, let's go back and prepare for tomorrow's exam." She didn't bother to pay attention to this teasing, turned her head to Liang Xiankuan and said, "You still go to live in the county hall, right?" ”

Liang Xiankuan nodded: "Yes." ”

Du Jinning looked left and right: "Then I'll go back to the county hall with you now." "Although Huang Chengming will definitely send someone to see the rankings, they still have to go to the county hall to tell them.

……

On the second day, Zhou Dongping got up, dressed up and ate something, and came to the front of the mansion.

Li Tong and the others are already waiting here.

"Ready." Zhou Dongping saw that everyone had arrived, and walked out first.

A doorman came to Li Tong's side and asked in a low voice, "Why hasn't Dong Weng come out of the exam questions this time?" ”

The questions of the last exam, but Zhou Dongping came out the night before, and he took them out and discussed them with them. It stands to reason that the second exam is not as important as the first one, so you have to prevent the leakage of exam preparation questions, and there is no need to have no test questions at this time, right? After all, this question is not arbitrary, and you have to analyze the type, difficulty, and knowledge point of the question. These take time.

Li Tong shook his head and didn't speak, and he was also very puzzled in his heart, not knowing what kind of medicine Zhou Dongping was selling in this gourd.

It's not easy for them to ask about this kind of thing, otherwise it's like harboring evil intentions and wanting to get the question and leak it to others as soon as possible.

The group took a car to the Fuxue, everyone took their places, and began to count the errands and city guards with the officials, and assign tasks.

Li Tong, as a master, has always been by Zhou Dongping's side. It wasn't until this time that he saw Zhou Dongping ask someone to grind the ink and start to come up with the question.

Li took a closer look.

After seeing the topic written by Zhou Dongping clearly, he frowned, and couldn't help asking: "Dong Weng, your topic...... It's a little out of place, right? ”

As a rule, the first and third exams of the government examination are all scripture and meaning questions, which are only of different depths; The second exam was a test of poetry and arithmetic. Because the Great Song Dynasty attaches great importance to poetry and the arithmetic is declining, the proportion of trial poems is relatively large, and there are generally three questions; The number of arithmetic questions is not only small, there are only two questions, and they are not deep.

But Zhou Dongping's current topic is two trial poems and five arithmetic questions, which is very different from the proportion in the past. And judging from Li Tong's arithmetic level, the arithmetic questions of these five questions are one difficult and one difficult.

"Nothing out of place." Zhou Dongping said, "Some time ago, the adults of the household department proposed to increase the proportion of arithmetic during scientific examinations, thinking that this is the most practical in reality; Poetry is a great way, but it has no practical use. I think so. This expedition is a way to support the views of the adults. ”

Li looked at Zhou Dongping together and was silent.

Zhou Dongping's words were awe-inspiring, but Li Tong deeply suspected that he came up with such a large number of arithmetic questions because he wanted to make it difficult for the candidate named Du Jinning.

In the case of arithmetic, the level of the children of the family and the children of the common people, the students from large places and the students from small places, are very different from each other. The children of the family and the students of the big places, because of the family history or the high level of the academy master, are much higher than the other two people.

Du Jinning is not only a poor student, but he has only spent time in Lishui County, and judging from the resume he wrote, he is still a farmer. Arithmetic must be a weakness for him. As soon as Zhou Dongping's topic comes out, he may not be able to keep his first place.

Zhou Dongping said that he had let go of the past and said that he would not be unfair, but subconsciously, he still didn't want to let Du Jinning be the head of the house, right? That's why I thought of such a way, so that people couldn't grasp his handle, and he could take down the name of the head of Du Jinning's Mansion and put it on others' heads.

This is a dignified conspiracy!

He still has such a righteous and bright excuse, so that people can't find fault with it.

At this moment, Li Tong expressed deep sympathy for the candidate named Du Jinning.