Soon the three of them returned to the examination hall, and at this time, the bell for the end of the examination had just rang, and a large number of candidates poured out of the examination hall.

Most of the candidates looked relaxed, with smiles on their faces, and it seemed that they generally felt that they had done well in today's exam, just as Zhao Xiuwen commented, today's argumentative questions are relatively easy to get started.

"Fanning!"

Someone shouted in the distance, Fan Ning saw Su Liang and Duan Yu at a glance, and saw Li Dashou again, he was waving to this side.

The three of them hurriedly stepped forward, Dong Kun and Lin Hong were also there, and Lu Youwei also ran over at this time.

"Everyone did well in the exam today!" Fanning asked with a smile.

"Not bad, at least checked a few times and found no typos."

"Today's questions are not difficult, easy to get started, and they all seem to have done well."

At this time, Su Liang suggested: "Fanning, let's find a place to eat!" I didn't have enough food at noon, and I was going to starve to death. ”

Fan Ning smiled happily: "Let's go to Wushan Restaurant, I invite everyone!" ”

Wushan Restaurant is not far from the examination institute, and generally speaking, after noon, the restaurant is closed and becomes a world of teahouses.

However, these days are an exception, and during the imperial examination, it is a time when the business of various restaurants in Pingjiang Prefecture is prosperous, and wine and food are served from morning to night.

When the group came to Wushan Restaurant, there were already many scholars who had just finished the exam sitting in the restaurant.

The crowd set up three tables by the window on the second floor, and nine people sat in a circle.

A bartender stepped forward and asked, "Are you a candidate for the imperial examination?" ”

"Exactly! But are candidates preferential? ”

The bartender smiled: "The government has a rule that you are not allowed to sell alcohol to candidates during the exam, and the shop will send you a good dish." ”

Fan Ning waved his hand and said: "I won't drink the wine, two portions of each of the eight immortals in your store, sweet and sour sea bass, steamed osmanthus fish, Tibetan roasted mutton, stewed hooves, stewed chicken, steamed crabs, and some seasonal vegetables, it's almost." ”

"How many crabs do you want?"

"Two for each person, for female crabs!"

The bartender was a little embarrassed, "Generally, half of the male and female crabs, and all the petty officials want the female crabs, and the small shop is not easy to run!" ”

"Yes, half male and half female."

"Thank you for your understanding, I don't know what the petty officials want? The small shop has lychee paste water, bayberry thirst water, sugarcane water, ginger honey water, mung bean water, and sweet bean soup. ”

Fanning asked the crowd, "What do you want to drink?" ”

"Drink sugar cane water!"

Dong Kun said with a smile: "The sugarcane water here is good, very sweet. ”

"I want sugar cane water too!" Su Liang also smiled.

"Me too!"

Seeing that everyone was unanimous, Fanning smiled at the guy: "Then come nine cups of sugarcane water, and ask for a big cup." ”

"Great! Sit down, and you'll be right away. ”

The bartender went down, only to hear him shouting from the stairs: "Nine large cups of sugar cane water on the second floor!" ”

Fan Ning asked Lu Youwei beside him with a smile, "Why are you listless?" ”

Lu Youwei shook his head, "Today's argumentative essay I wrote a little off-topic, the title is "The Unrighteous War of the Spring and Autumn Period", but I spent too much pen and ink on the Battle of Changping and wrote "The Unrighteous War of the Warring States", I will definitely plant it this time." ”

"You're writing about war?" Fanning asked again.

"yes!"

Lu Youwei lamented, "I mainly wrote around the battle for hegemony between Wu Yue and the battle of Changping, I wrote almost 3,000 words, and I wrote 1,000 words in the battle of Changping alone, and then I felt too verbose and wanted to delete the battle of Changping, but if I deleted it, the framework of the whole article would be messed up, and the key was that it was too late to ...... in time."

In the end, Lu Youwei cried so sadly, whimpering and wiping his tears, "I failed the first exam, I really have no hope this time!" ”

Everyone looked at him sympathetically, the Battle of Changping actually wrote a thousand words, even if the inquisitor was lenient, he would not accept this article no matter what.

Everyone knows that Mingren and Mingli must be eliminated first, but they didn't expect that the third person to be eliminated was actually Lu Youwei.

Mingren, who was sitting on the other side, stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Lu Youwei's shoulder and comforted: "If you want to open a little, when the list is released, there will be more than 2,700 people crying with you." ”

Although this is excessive, it is true, more than 2,780 people were admitted to the examination, and only 55 people were admitted in the end, but it was not more than 2,700 people who wanted to cry bitterly.

Fan Ning also smiled and comforted Lu Youwei, "You are the first time to participate in the imperial examination, it is normal to fail the exam, how many times have people taken the exam, and they have continuously accumulated experience before they finally got in, think about it, there were only two students in our county school in the last year, and all the others fell off the list, and I didn't see anyone crying bitterly, so we should be calmer." ”

Li Dashou also sincerely persuaded him, "Ah Lu, I never thought that I could be admitted to the exam, the key is that I want to know what the exam is, what kind of atmosphere it is, a hundred drills, it is better to have a real battle, with this experience, I will have confidence in the next imperial examination." ”

Everyone persuaded Lu Youwei, and Lu Youwei stopped crying.

At this moment, two bartenders walked briskly with large plates, their sugar cane water was squeezed, and two large plates of red and yellow crabs were served.

Everyone poured ginger vinegar one after another, picked up a big crab and twisted its legs and peeled its shell, full of crab roe and crab paste was mouth-watering.

At this time, a group of scholars came up from the top of the stairs, and there were as many as seven or eight people.

I only heard someone laugh and say: "Everyone just let go of their stomachs to eat today, I'm in for a treat!" ”

"Lao Fan is generous today!"

Fan Ning stopped chewing crabs, looked up at the staircase, he saw the fourth uncle Fan Tongzhong at a glance, and saw that he was full of spring breeze, and it seemed that he was also feeling good about himself today.

"Yo! You're here too. ”

Fan Tongzhong's eyes were vicious, and when he saw Fan Ning at a glance, he stepped forward and said triumphantly: "A-Ning, you did well in the exam today!" ”

Fan Ning smiled, "I did average in the exam, and I shouldn't be as good as the fourth uncle!" ”

"That's it! Your experience in the imperial examination is not enough, and if you accumulate it a few more times, it should be about the same. ”

At this time, Fan Tongzhong's eyes turned, and when he saw Mingren and Mingli brothers again, he immediately laughed, "What a coincidence, you are also here!" ”

Mingren and Mingli didn't have Fanning's confidence, so they hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "Fourth uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"You two come here, I just need your help with something."

Fan Tongzhong couldn't say anything, and pulled the two brothers downstairs.

Fanning shook his head, the two brothers were like two little flying insects that hit the spider web, and they were caught by the spider of the fourth uncle, and the consequences can be imagined.

After a moment, Fan Tongzhong walked upstairs with a smile and waved his hand to Fan Ning, "A-Ning, you eat slowly, let's go upstairs to the elegant room, if there is any difficulty, just come to me." ”

A group of students went up to the third floor with laughter, and at this time, Akihito and Mingli slowly walked upstairs, and the two of them were like frosted leaves, and their entire spirit was wilted.

The two of them sat on their seats, both with gloomy faces and without saying a word.

"Akihito, Mingli, what's wrong?" Everyone has never seen the two people who have always been optimistic have such a frustrated moment.

Fan Ning smiled and asked, "How much was blackmailed by him this time?" ”

Akihito sighed, "The five taels of silver I just took were borrowed by him, and so was Mingli!" ”

"Since it's just borrowed, it must be returned, after all, he is your fourth uncle!" Lin Hong didn't quite understand the frustration of the two.

Mingli also sighed, "Forget it! Never mind! The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, this time we are unlucky. ”

After he said this, everyone laughed, it seems that the fourth uncle of the Fan family brothers is also Pixiu, and he can only enter and not leave.

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The next day, the imperial examination continued.

Today's exam is the top priority, and the test countermeasures, and the countermeasures questions account for the largest proportion of the score in the entire imperial examination, accounting for about nearly half of the score.

Therefore, there is a saying that the person who has the countermeasures has the imperial examination, this sentence not only refers to the solution test, but also the provincial examination and even the palace examination.

However, if you lose too many points in other subjects, it doesn't make sense to answer the questions well.

Fanning had already told all his companions more than two months ago that this time the strategy question would be tested to persuade farmers, and Fanning didn't know how his companions were prepared?

Others didn't know, but Fan Ning knew that Su Liang and Li Dashou had seriously followed their own advice, and spent a month going deep into the fields to understand the farmers' suffering.

Before dawn, the front of the examination hall was lit with lanterns, which were brightly lit, illuminating the entrance of the examination as if it were day.

There was no re-examination today, the progress of the team was much faster, and you could enter the examination hall after the search.

"Fanning!"

Su Liang quickly caught up with Fan Ning from behind, and laughed quietly: "To be honest, I'm looking forward to it!" ”

Last night, Zhao Xuezheng gave his argumentative essay a grade of A, which greatly encouraged Su Liang, and he went deep into the countryside to investigate for more than a month, and he had a very thorough understanding of the agriculture of the Great Song Dynasty and the suffering of the peasants.

It makes him full of confidence in himself.

Fan Ning smiled slightly: "I'll send you two words, calm down!" Grasp these two words well, and I believe you will definitely get a high score today. ”

Su Liang nodded, "I remember, Fanning, and I wish you a high level today!" ”

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Time passed little by little, Fanning sat in the examination room and waited patiently for the bell to ring, the inkstone on the table was already full of ink, and the pen was resting on the inkstone.

The name and volume number are already written on the volume.

The morning sun pierced through the dark clouds, fading the thick night, and dyeing the earth with a hazy gray light, and a wisp of cyan revealed in the gray light.

Fanning loved the feeling of the early morning, and he took a deep breath of the crisp air, which was so cool that his mind was refreshed.

'Knock-knock-'

The bell for the start of the exam finally rang, and the bell in the examiner's hand rang immediately.

Almost all of the test takers held their breath and waited for the question to appear in front of their eyes.

When it finally came, the soldier came with a plank, and Fanning could see the title on the board.

"Nine Strategies for Xingnong"

Fanning let go of his heart and exhaled softly.