Coming out of the county school palace, Jiang Yun went straight back to the home of Zhao Fulai, the old boatman who stayed overnight.

"Big brother, you're back, where did you go just now?"

In the courtyard, seeing Jiang Yun coming back, Zhao Fulai's little granddaughter Zhao Nannan ran up happily.

"Big brother is going to take the county exam tomorrow, I just went to see the examination room!" Jiang Yun gently pinched the other party's fat little pink face, and said with a smile.

"The big brother is a celestial Qu star, and he will definitely pass the county exam!" said the little girl obediently.

"Nannan's mouth is so sweet, and the big brother has candy to eat. Jiang Yun immediately took out a bag of candy he bought, peeled a candy, and stuffed it into the other party's mouth.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious! Big brother is so good!" said the little girl, grinning contentedly, eating the candy.

Jiang Yun stuffed the whole bag of candy into the other party's hand, and the little girl hurriedly grabbed it and jumped up happily.

"Big brother, when you are admitted to Tongsheng, can you do Nannan a favor?"

Jiang Yun said: "Okay, what are you talking about?" ”

The little girl said: "Nannan also wants to study, but grandpa doesn't agree, and the eldest brother goes to help Nannan persuade grandpa to be good." ”

"No problem, the eldest brother promised you, I must persuade grandpa to let Nannan study. Jiang Yun readily agreed.

After getting Jiang Yun's promise, the little girl jumped up and down with joy.

In the townships and counties of the dynasty, there are also women's schools, and even women's imperial examinations, which are held in an uncertain period, but the specifications are naturally much smaller than the serious imperial examinations, and the female champions are only equivalent to the fame of lifting people, but with the emergence of more and more female scholars, some women's heroic spirit is better than many talents, this situation is also changing, and there are many calls for equality between men and women in the government and the opposition.

The next day, before dawn, Jiang Yun got up. The county test starts on time at the hour, and the gate of the school palace is also closed at this moment, and if you are late, you can't enter. Before that, there is a cumbersome admission procedure, and it takes a lot of time for more than 2,000 candidates to enter, so you have to go early.

After hastily eating some rice porridge and steamed buns, Jiang Yun packed up the necessary things, said goodbye to Zhao Fulai's grandchildren and granddaughters, went out, and went to the county school examination room in the east of the city.

"Grandpa, the eldest brother will definitely be admitted to the middle school child's examination, right?" Looking at the dark shadow of Jiang Yun leaving, Zhao Nannan took his grandfather's hand at the gate of the courtyard and asked.

Now Zhao Fulai has finally determined that Jiang Yun is really a schoolboy who came to the county seat to take the exam, not the talent he thought before, or even a person.

"Yes, I will be admitted. Zhao Fulai casually perfunctory his little granddaughter's inquiry, but he was also muttering in his heart, in recent years, every time the county exam, there are 2,000 people who have applied for the exam, and in the end only 60 are on the list, this is only a prospective child, and it has to go through a screening of the government examination, and half of the people have to go, and finally the child who can be admitted to the middle school is only thirty people, which is completely one in a hundred.

He didn't know how to say that the other party could pass the exam, he just said a perfunctory word, and he didn't believe it very much.

"Is the big brother the star of the heavens, and in the future, he will have to take the Xiucai, the exam, and the Jinshi?" asked the little girl in a delicate voice.

"This ...... This grandfather doesn't know. "Zhao Fulai didn't perfunctory his little granddaughter now, and the Wenqu star in the sky went down to earth?

He didn't think that Jiang Yun would have this ability, but he remembered the scene when he saw the other party, sitting firmly in the middle of the boat, and moving the boat forward, and he wondered in his heart, since this Jiang Gongzi was still a schoolboy who had not yet entered school, it was naturally impossible for him to control the water, so what was the matter with his method of manipulating the boat, could it be the hands and feet of the boat? But he had inspected the boat himself, and it was an ordinary awning boat, and there was nothing special about it.

"No, no, is the big brother the star of the heavens!" The little girl was not satisfied with her grandfather's ambiguous answer, and shouted coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, what you said is right, the big brother is the star of the heavenly Qu Xing!" Zhao Fulai coaxed his little granddaughter dotingly.

When Zhao Nannan heard this, she was happy again, she thought in her heart, when the eldest brother was admitted to Tongsheng, and persuaded her grandfather to agree to her to continue to study at the county middle school girls' school, her grandfather would agree.

When he walked out of the old boatman's house, it was still dark, there was still a little morning star shining in the sky, and there was silence in all directions, Jiang Yun was carrying a lantern and walking in a secluded and dark alley, just bowing his head and hurrying away, from his hurried footsteps, it could be seen that he was still a little uncalm in his heart.

The main reason is that he himself does not have much confidence in this county examination, more than 2,000 candidates, and only 30 children were admitted in the final examination, and the admission rate of one in a hundred miles is completely a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops.

Out of the alley, into the street, you can see, although it is still night, there are many pedestrians in a hurry on the street, without asking, you can know that these people who are hurrying with their heads are all candidates rushing to take the exam, or accompanying relatives and servants, all of them are moving in the same direction.

After walking for a while, more and more people came out of the alley beside the road, more and more people gathered together, and the lanterns carried by the pedestrians glowed in the dark night, looking from afar, it looked like a long dragon winding forward.

Jiang Yun silently walked forward with the flow of people, looking small and inconspicuous in the long dragon-like team.

"Dad, I won't take the exam, I'm going home......" In the team that moved forward silently, a discordant voice came from Jiang Yun's side.

"You rammer, what nonsense are you talking about, if you say such bastard words again, Lao Tzu won't split you!" came from the side of another sharp scolding.

"Dad, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that I won't be able to pass the exam,"

"I'm afraid of a fart! Why are no other people afraid, just you are afraid of being like this, look at your cowardice, it's a shame! Let me tell you, this time you give Lao Tzu a good test, if you don't take a child test back, Lao Tzu will discount your legs!"

Jiang Yun heard the sound and saw that the two people next to him were arguing, a thin young man and a middle-aged man, listening to their words, it was obviously the father and son, the son was temporarily frightened, and he retreated, and was naturally severely reprimanded by the father.

"Dad, I'm still not going, let's go home. The boy was still scared, and he stood on the side of the road and refused to move.

"You uncompetitive rammer, if you don't want to die, walk with me quickly! Is it easy for our family to work hard for you to study, at this time you actually said that you won't take the exam, do you want to be angry with Lao Tzu!" The middle-aged man hated iron and steel, and he was so angry that he roared angrily.

Ignoring this little episode on the side of the road, Jiang Yun still moved forward silently, and the pedestrians next to him were all the same, no one stopped to watch the excitement, no one laughed, no one persuaded them, everyone's hearts were heavy, thinking about the next county test, who would pay attention to such idle things.

Walked for a while, came to the east of the city, walked on the avenue to the county school palace, only to see the long dragon on the road is stronger, if you look from a high place, you can see, although it is still night, but the entire Linshui county has moved, a long dragon, in the county streets meandering and wriggling, the direction is one, towards the county school palace in the east of the city, the examination room of the county examination converges.

Walked to the destination, the sky is not yet bright at this moment, it is still dark all around, in front of the gate of the county school palace, it is already crowded, crowded with candidates waiting for the exam, there are still a lot of cars and horses parked on the road next to it, and some candidates from wealthy families come by carriage.

Many vendors took the opportunity to push carts to walk in the flow of people and sell breakfast, the price is of course much higher than usual, but there are still many candidates who have not had time to eat breakfast and rush to buy it. The whole scene was full of people, and it was noisy, like a big vegetable market.

Dozens of officials armed with iron rulers and sticks all set out, maintaining order in the field, with the bullet pressure of these officials, although the scene was messy, but it was not out of order.

After Jiang Yun arrived, he found a secluded place and stood silently, waiting for the entrance to begin.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the hour was approaching, the candidates who were rushing to take the exam were almost all gathered at the scene, and then I saw the door of the County School Palace slowly open, and a large group of people who had been waiting inside walked out of it.

Walking in front of the leader, wearing a black veil, wearing a lake-green official robe, with a red bird jade belt tied around his waist, he was in his fifties, and his expression was solemn and solemn.

Behind him, followed by a group of county officials, the most eye-catching, naturally followed by Liu Chaozong's teachings Wang Xuan, behind him, followed by two county school instructors, followed by several county officials, canons, scribes.

Wang Xuan, the instructor, is the deputy chief examiner of the county examination, and the other two county school instructors, the wardens of the ceremonial room, serve as the examiners.

Behind Liu Chaozong, there were two other people wearing green official robes, these two people were not officials from Linshui County, but supervisory officials sent by Fucheng. In the entire Qingling Prefecture, there are a total of eight counties, including Linshui County, and the county examinations of the eight counties are held at the same time.

The two prefectures sent down the overseers to Linshui County, a teacher of the prefecture, and a prefecture of the city of the rite experience.

The county learns and teaches, the official position is from the eighth grade, held by the people, the government is taught by the government, the official position is from the seventh grade, the Jinshi is held, the government is taught by the school, the official position is nine products, the people are held, the Fucheng rite room experience, the people are held, and the official position is from the nine products.

These two Fuxue instructors and ceremonial room experience sent by the prefecture are only responsible for the supervision of the county examination in Linshui County, and do not participate in the specific marking and admission work