As the annunciation officer ran away, the scholars at the door of the inn fell into a huge loss, everyone felt empty, but there were more than 3,000 people gathered here! At one time, only four people passed the test.

Everyone is slowly waking up from the harsh reality.

They all realized that the probability of passing the exam was too low, although everyone knew that only one out of 200 people could pass the exam, but it was only a cold number.

And now, the cruel reality has made them truly understand what it means to be on the list, and what it means to be one in a hundred.

Su Liang sighed, "When I heard the two people in Pingjiang Mansion, I thought it was you and me, but it turned out to be nothing to do with us!" ”

"We're a boy, so it should be a little late, but we've heard of these two!"

"I heard that this Meng Tong is Ouyang Xiu's senior apprentice, but Zhang Chao doesn't know very well."

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "Zhang Chao is a poor student sponsored by the Zhu family, and he is one of the more outstanding protégés of the Zhu family in recent years. ”

"I see!"

Su Liang said, but stood on tiptoe to look south, and suddenly, he pointed to the south and shouted: "I'm here to report the good news again!" ”

Everyone was looking at the north, but they didn't expect the annunciator to come from the south, and everyone rushed to the south.

The first announcer waved his hand, and the surrounding peers stopped the scholars, and the announcer opened the good news and said loudly: "There are three people in the old Caomen Inn, Qian Yun of Jiangxia County, Ezhou, Zhang Zhi of Chenliu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Luo Yunkai of Ruyang County, Caizhou!" ”

The cheers were loud and loud, and on the side of the Ezhou Shizi group, a scholar was thrown high.

In a group of people in Kaifeng Mansion, a scholar was so excited that his face was flushed, and he thanked everyone again and again.

The annunciation officer accepted the happy money and left, and as soon as he left, two teams of annunciation officials rushed from West Street, and everyone was boiling, surrounding the two teams of annunciation officials.

One of the teams shouted: "My side is a boy trying to report the good news, please try to get closer!" ”

Hearing that it was a children's examination, the scholars walked to the other side, but there were still hundreds of candidates for the children's examination gathered around the annunciation officer.

Fan Ning and Su Liang also hurriedly stepped forward and stood behind the crowd.

The annunciation official opened the good news and said loudly: "There are three boys here who have tried to make the list, the first one is Jiang Jun of Jiangdu County, Yangzhou!" ”

A teenager shouted and jumped up excitedly, and several fellow villagers next to him congratulated him.

The annunciation officer glanced at the young man, waited for him to be quiet for a while, and said in a loud voice: "The two people below are both scholars from Pingjiang Mansion....."

Fanning's ears 'whoosh!' The ground stood up, and Su Liang's eyes began to look stupid.

I only heard the annunciator shouting: "Both of them are Wu County scholars, Wu County scholars Fan Ning, Wu County scholars Su Liang, congratulations to the two of them on high school!" ”

Su Liang shouted excitedly, hugged Fan Ning's neck and jumped and shouted, "I passed the exam!" Got the test! ”

At this time, the eyes of the other scholars became sad, a total of only fifty candidates for the children's examination were admitted, and there were twenty inns to report the good news, and there were three people here, indicating that there would be no more in the future, and many scholars covered their faces and wept in despair.

Fan Ning could feel the sadness of the other scholars, he restrained the excitement in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to stuff five or six taels of silver to the annunciation officer.

The annunciator was overjoyed, and immediately took out a cannon, lit it and threw it into the air, only to hear 'Bang! There was a loud bang, and suddenly the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the shredded paper flew up.

"Congratulations!"

The announcer handed the admission letters to the three teenagers and continued to run north.

At this time, the other scholars stepped forward to congratulate Fan Ning and Su Liang, and Su Liang was still immersed in great joy and did not react at all.

Fanning returned the salute to everyone one by one and expressed his gratitude.

Only then did he drag Su Liang, who was in a demented state, back to his residence.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Cheng Yuanyuan rushed up and asked urgently, "Have you passed the exam?" ”

Fan Ning pointed at Su Liang and said with a smile: "This is what it looks like in the exam, he has already been stunned, hurry up and get a basin of cold water to wake him up!" ”

Cheng Yuanyuan was overjoyed, where was she willing to bring water to splash her lover, she excitedly pulled Su Liang's arm and shouted: "Ah Liang, wake up!" ”

Fan Ning found that Su Liang was really a little wrong, and he was also a little worried, so he slapped Su Liang with his backhand.

Su Liang shouted, covered his face and pointed at Fan Ning and yelled, "What are you hitting me for?" ”

Fanning was angry and funny, "You stinky boy, you passed the test!" ”

"What?" Su Liang was at a loss.

Cheng Yuanyuan shook his arm excitedly and shouted: "Ah Liang, you have taken the provincial test"

Su Liang finally returned to his normal excitement, he hugged Cheng Yuanyuan and shouted: "Yuanyuan, I passed the exam!" ”

Fanning turned his head and rolled his eyes, this kid is taking advantage of the opportunity!

Cheng Yuanyuan pushed Su Liang away infinitely shyly, "Ah Liang, you want to celebrate!" ”

Su Liang was also a little embarrassed, he scratched his head, and said with a smile: "Okay!" Today I have a treat. ”

He suddenly came to his senses and said to Fanning, "That's not right! Fanning, you also passed the exam, why didn't you treat yourself? ”

Fan Ning gave him a blank look, "You gave the annunciation official good news?" ”

"Ugh!"

Su Liang realized that he came back in a daze, and he hurriedly said, "I'll please, I'll please!" ”

Cheng Ze next to him stepped forward to congratulate the two of them at this time, he was obviously a little worried, Su Liang was admitted to the provincial examination, according to the normal process, he should be given the same Jinshi background after the palace examination.

In this way, his sister is a little unworthy of him.

He was thinking in his heart that it would be best to cook raw rice first before cooking.

At this moment, a wide carriage stopped at the mouth of the alley, and Juppé jumped out of the carriage and ran over, his face filled with excitement that could not be concealed.

"Aning, congratulations on your admission."

The bright smile on Juppé's face melted Fanning's heart, and he stepped forward, scratched the back of his neck and asked with a smile, "How did you know so quickly?" ”

Zhu Pei put his hands behind his back, shook his body, and said triumphantly: "I have inside information, in fact, I knew about it last night, but I just wanted you to feel the surprise of the annunciation officer, so I didn't tell you." ”

"It's from the Ministry of Rites?"

Juppe shook his head, "I'll tell you when I go back, it's time to celebrate!" ”

Su Liang jumped over, put his arm around Fanning's shoulders and said with a smile: "Jupei, you haven't congratulated me yet!" ”

Zhu Pei smiled faintly, "I know, and congratulations on your entrance examination, I think you should write a letter to tell your family quickly." ”

A word reminded Su Liang, he turned around and ran towards the courtyard, shouting while turning around: "I'll be fine right away, let's celebrate together!" ”

Fan Ning also hurriedly said: "I also have to write a letter home." ”

Zhu Pei smiled and took out a letter and handed it to him, "Look at this!" ”

Fanning was stunned when he took the letter, and asked for a while, "When did I write this letter?" ”

It was a letter he wrote to his parents, and it was clearly his handwriting.

Juppe chuckled a little smugly, "Looks like I'm imitating well!" ”

Fanning looked closely, but he still didn't see that this was imitation handwriting, and it was clearly his own handwriting.

"When will you imitate my words?" Fanning asked, surprised.

"Three years ago! After you went to the county school, I had nothing to do, so I imitated the handwriting of several people, and you were one of them, including the handwriting of my father and my grandfather, who did not recognize that I imitated it. ”

Fan Ning didn't know whether to be angry or to smile bitterly, he opened the letter, only to see Zhu Pei imitate his tone and write a letter to his parents to report the good news, writing extremely respectfully, which also made Fan Ning slightly moved.

"Thank you! I'll send it out in a moment. ”

Everyone sent a letter in the old Caomen tile shop, and then they came to the best time building nearby, and at this time, Akihito also rushed to hear the news, and naturally there was no shortage of congratulations.

At this time, the list of good news officials in various places has ended, and 596 candidates have received their admission notices, and the remaining 100,000 candidates can only silently taste the taste of falling off the list.

The most obvious is the business of the major restaurants, except for the scholars who are in a bad mood and come to buy drunk, the rest of the scholars almost do not go out, and the business of the major restaurants seems to be deserted.

I heard that it was two children from the children's department who came to the restaurant to celebrate, and the shopkeeper came out to congratulate them in person and exempted them from the food money.

The shopkeeper held a roll of banners, spread them on the table, prepared pen and ink, and said with a smile: "I implore the two little jinshi to leave ink treasures for our store!" ”

Su Liang hurriedly waved his hand, "I can't do it, let Fanning give you an inscription!" ”

He pushed Fanning up, who hesitated and looked at Juppé.

Zhu Pei smiled: "This is the rule, the new branch of the Jinshi must give an inscription to the restaurant, but you have a question here, don't forget Zhu Lou's side." ”

Fanning thought for a while and smiled: "Then write a couplet!" ”

He dipped his pen in ink and wrote down a couplet:

Talk about four seats, pour thousands of cups a day.

Let's drink wine and get drunk on the high platform by the moon.

Below is inscribed his name, 'Gusu Fanning'

"Good!" The shopkeeper applauded and applauded, and hurriedly took it away, and he had to hand over the couplet to the proprietor.

Zhu Pei did not follow and insisted that Fan Ning write a couplet to Zhu Lou as well.

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and smiled: "I write an absolute, Zhu Lou can be used as a reward for the next link, I believe it will definitely cause a sensation in the capital and overshadow the limelight of Alum Tower." ”

Jupei's eyes lit up, "You write to me?" ”

Fan Ning took up the pen and wrote a couplet: smoke along the eaves of smoke swallow eyes.