Fu Lin'an finished eating, talked to Ying Qi for a while, and then went back to the study.

Because he was approaching the end, he hadn't slept with Maki for a long time.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, the imperial court announced the chief examiner of this examination, with one chief examiner and three deputies, and eight examiners at the same time, all of whom were from Hanlin.

As soon as the lifters in Beijing heard that the examiner was Du Yun, the right attendant of the household department, they went to the street to buy Du Yun's poetry collection published in his early years, hoping to get a glimpse of the examiner's preferences.

The Fu family naturally sent a small servant to the bookstore a long time ago, and as soon as the bookstore opened, they bought all the books related to Du Yun.

Ying Qi hadn't seen Fu Lin'an for several days, and the atmosphere at home had gradually become tense.

Mrs. Fu burns incense and worships Buddha every day, hoping that God will bless the weather to warm up.

In fact, it's not just her, basically each family has a move to end, will burn incense to worship the Buddha, for a time, the incense of the Fayuan Temple in the capital is extremely prosperous.

Merchants in the streets and alleys have also raised prices, and every year of the imperial examination, prices will be raised by three times.

I heard that in a certain year, the merchants in the capital opened their mouths and made the prices too high by more than seven times.

In the end, it was the imperial court that stepped forward and asked the merchants to raise their prices by up to three times, otherwise they would arrest people.

On the night of the eighth day of the third lunar month, the Fu family gathered in Zhaohui Hall, and no one could sleep.

Fu Lin'an was about to wait at the gate of the Gongyuan when he was about to be ugly on the ninth day of the first month (from 1 a.m. to 2:59 a.m.), so now except for Fu Lin'an who was still resting, everyone else gathered in Chaohui Hall, and the people in the big room also came, after all, if Fu Lin'an could pass the exam, this would be the glory of the door.

Because Fu Linan and Han Hongyi went to the Ministry of Rites to submit their papers, the two of them entered the venue at about the same time.

Ying Qi pursed his lips, it is estimated that the Han family is in the same situation now.

At about the end of the child's time, Fu Lin'an took Liuquan to Zhaohui Hall to say goodbye.

Zhou Shi held his hand tightly, and his eyes were already full of tears: "Son, if you feel uncomfortable halfway, don't hold on, even if you take the test again in the future, don't hurt your body." ”

Fu Yanli also nodded: "Everything that can be explained has been explained, what your mother said is also reasonable, the weather is cold this year, I'm afraid you can't help it, if you feel bad, don't do it." ”

"Save the child." Fu Lin'an said.

After the group had finished explaining, Fu Lin'an looked at Ying Qi, and his eyes were gentle: "Don't worry at home, wait for me to come back." ”

Ying Qi didn't want to cry, but as soon as he said this, her eyes couldn't help but moisten.

She bit her lip and nodded.

After saying goodbye to his family, Fu Lin'an took Liuquan and set off to the Gongyuan.

When I arrived at the Gongyuan, I happened to meet the carriage of the Han family.

Fu Lin'an and Han Hongyi stood in line one after the other, although they were standing together at the moment, but after entering, the number room must not be connected together.

Fu Lin thought to himself in peace of mind, not asking for anything else, just begging not to give him a stinky number.

The so-called stinky number is the number room next to the latrine.

Han Hongyi whispered a few words with Fu Lin'an, and what he said was just an inconsequential matter, Fu Lin'an could see that Han Hongyi was very nervous now, in fact, he was also very nervous, but compared to Han Hongyi, he seemed to be hiding well.

There was a commotion ahead, Fu Linan looked up, and it turned out to be an old man who had been searched out.

Han Hongyi turned around and said: "The evening festival is not guaranteed, and if you don't pass the exam, you will be a person, and now even your reputation has been changed." ”

When it was Fu Lin'an's turn, he took off the cotton clothes outside and handed them to Liuquan to collect.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and Han Hongyi, who also took off his cotton clothes, couldn't help but shiver: "It's really cold this year." ”

Compared with Han Hongyi, Fu Lin'an was not so cold because he had done similar cold training before.

In addition to single clothes, shoes and socks must also be single-layered, and no mattresses and thick mattresses are allowed to be brought in.

The examination tools of the lifters, the roll bag is not allowed to be filled, the inkstone is not allowed to be too thick, the pen tube must be hollowed out, the water is filled with porcelain, and the charcoal is only two inches long. Only baskets, small stools, food, inkstones, stoves, charcoal, etc. are allowed to be brought in.

Even the examination basket, in the earlier decree of the imperial court, there were clear specification restrictions.

Before entering the examination room, you have to go through the inspection of the first gate and the second gate, if the first door is not checked out, and the second gate is checked, then the soldiers of the first gate will be questioned.

Therefore, the inspection of the head door is particularly strict.

Fu Lin'an was almost stripped naked and stood there for the soldiers to check.

Even his hair had to be loosened, for fear that someone would hide the straps in the bun.

The contents of the examination basket were checked several times by several soldiers, and it was not until he went out of the door that he found that several of the charcoal in the examination basket had been crushed by the soldiers.

Although the first door has been inspected very strictly and carefully, but when it comes to the second door, it is still carefully inspected.

It's just that the time taken by the second door is not as long as the first door.

Finally, after the inspection, Fu Linan was already shivering from the cold.

He carried the examination basket and entered his room under the command of the soldiers.

Although the room had been repaired earlier, Fu Linan still found that there was a small crack in the roof.

He couldn't help sighing, and said in his heart, it's not a stinky number, but his room is leaking, and I just hope that it won't rain in the past nine days.

Liuquan saw that Fu Lin'an had already entered the tribute courtyard, so he returned to Fu's house.

When Mrs. Fu heard that Fu Lin'an had entered, she hurriedly said Amitabha, and then asked Zhou to help her up, and she had to worship the Bodhisattva.

Although the examination lasted for nine days, it was divided into three sessions, so Fu Linan could come back for one night in three days.

Compared with the township examination for nine days in a row, the general examination that can come back twice halfway is much better.

Looking at the sky outside, he couldn't sleep well and couldn't eat anything.

She was always thinking about Fu Lin'an, what if he got cold in the examination room, what if the assigned room was smelly, and what if the charcoal in the stove was not enough.

Qingqiu saw that she had been fidgeting, and had the heart to comfort her, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

Over there, Fu Linan has already got the exam paper, and on the first day, the test is the scripture meaning in the four books, and the scripture is actually based on the Chinese sentences of the scripture book, and the examinee writes an essay to clarify its meaning.

He glanced at the question, thought it was not difficult, thought about it for a moment, and then picked up his pen and began to answer the question.

After answering the question, he realized that his hands were frozen.

But fortunately, the handwriting is not bad.

On the second day, the test was a poem, and the topic was to get "the clouds make up for the lack of Cangshan", and the word "mountain" was obtained, with five words and eight rhymes.

Fu Lin'an thought about it, found a poem with a slightly similar idea in the poem he had prepared before, and then changed it and copied it on the volume.