Quest World.

In the twenty-third year of Guangxu, in early February.

It's the day of the annual county test in Jingyang County.

The county test site was not set up in the county office, but in a market in front of the county office. After New Year's Day, the market began to build an examination booth, and it was not until five days before the entrance examination that it was finally completed.

The examination booth sits in the north and faces south, and there are barricades around it to prevent people from crashing into the examination room. In the south of the examination room, there is the east and west gates, surrounded by wooden fences, there is a large courtyard, and the north of the courtyard is the main gate, commonly known as the dragon gate.

This gate has the meaning of carp jumping over the dragon gate.

"Hold on."

"This man hid a rat's ...... in the valley road"

While Xu Xing and other students from the Weijing Academy were waiting in front of the examination booth, two officials with water and fire sticks in their hands and knives at their waists brought out a poor scholar wearing wooden flail items from the examination room.

The poor scholar's back was loosely braided, his long shirt was scattered, and he muttered to himself as if he had lost his soul, constantly whispering "insulting Sven".

The candidates waiting in front of the examination booth consciously moved out of the way of an aisle so that the officials could pass.

"Brother Xu, have you seen ......?"

Chen Jian'an patted Xu Xing's shoulder, leaned into his ear, and whispered: "This candidate is dressed shabby, and there are at least seven or eight patches on his clothes, and this kind of person is the target of the search." ”

"Regardless of whether there is entrainment or not, it is also embarrassing to be stripped naked ...... the examination room."

"But that man just now was also clever and hid the rat in the valley road."

Speaking of this, Chen Jian'an's eyes showed disdain.

The "search" of the examination shed is filled by the official to check whether the candidates are carrying or not carrying entrainment.

As for the rat hair, someone made a brush out of the rat's whiskers and wrote "small print" on the paper. This kind of word is as thin as dust and is specially used for cheating.

A four-book chapter and sentence collection annotation was written, hundreds of thousands of words, and finally only the size of a palm.

What Chen Jian'an despised was not that this candidate cheated, but that this candidate was smart and hid the "Rat Hao" in Gu Dao. Gu Dao is basically a place that must be inspected by searchers.

Xu Xing nodded after hearing this.

The search for examinees is better than the college entrance examination in later generations.

After entering the examination booth, he first searched his body, disrupted his braids, took off his clothes, and was ...... naked.

In addition, the food carried is finely chopped with a knife to prevent cheating.

But nothing is absolute.

Rich people will always have a bit of privilege.

Candidates who have greeted them will be much more merciful.

"But the students of our Taste Scripture Academy, they don't dare to be embarrassed."

Chen Jian'an smiled quite proudly.

Weijing Academy is one of the four major academies in Guanzhong and has a great reputation.

The people who gave lectures to these students were all great Confucians and high-ranking officials.

Even the teaching and learning of the college are all from the background.

It is common for the officials of the county government to watch the dishes and dishes, and the officials who act as searchers are also old fritters. The candidates who can enter the Weijing Academy and take the exam in this county are all wealthy.

Selling face is a common thing.

"It's time for the exam, you can go quickly."

Chen Jian'an glanced at the long queue and urged Xu Xing.

He is a native of Huxian County, and if he wants to take the county test, he will also take the county test in Huxian County. The county test time is different in each county, and the county test in Huxian County is in late February, which is nearly a month apart from the county test in Jingyang County.

"Good ......"

Xu Xing retracted his mind and walked straight towards the gate.

Just now on the periphery of the examination shed, there were a large number of relatives and friends who came to see off the candidates, two or three thousand people, and he didn't observe the candidates in the same room much. But when he was queuing up at Yuanmen, he suddenly had a lot of confidence in his heart.

There were not many young people like him, only about 300 people, and most of them were the children of rich families who were richly dressed.

The rest of the middle-aged, middle-aged and elderly candidates can be about five or six hundred, these people look poor, revealing a shabby energy, with patches on their bodies one by one, and the word desolation written on their faces.

Although the imperial examination does not pay attention to "sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat", but reading has always paid attention to talent, and memory and understanding are indispensable. I have no memory, I can't memorize the Confucian scriptures and the righteousness of the sages, I don't have understanding, I don't have the eight strands of rigidity and rigidity, and I don't have any spirituality at all.

These middle-aged, middle-aged and elderly candidates have not been on the list after taking the exam for so many years, which is basically a fate to accompany the exam.

Therefore, Xu Xing's real competitors are only these 300 young people.

The county tried to take fifty people.

Basically, it's a six-in-one.

In addition, with the education he received at the Taste Book Academy, coupled with the talent of [Erudite and Knowledgeable] and so on.

This time the county test is basically stable.

……

Things are exactly as Chen Jian'an said.

After the search in the examination room checked Xu Xing's documents and certificates, and found out that he was a student of Weijing Academy, he was really polite to him, but after a little search, he opened the gate and let him go.

Before Xu Xing could react, the search had ended.

"Why?"

"He's a candidate, and we're a candidate?"

The first few candidates who had just passed the search were about to explode their lungs, and muttered dissatisfiedly.

When they were passing through the gate, the officials wanted to count even the hairs on the back of their buttocks, but when it was Xu Xing's turn, they just searched casually, and they didn't take it seriously at all.

There is no oligo, only unevenness.

"What are you shouting about?"

"People are students of the Taste Scripture Academy? Can you cheat? ”

The official frowned and shouted.

Several candidates suddenly blushed and trembled with anger.

Taste Jing Academy is equivalent to graduates of prestigious universities, and they can be hired directly without an interview. And if they don't have enough academic qualifications, they have to face these difficulties. Something that is meant to be.

They stamped their feet, snorted a few times, and then flicked their sleeves to the public hall of the examination room.

Before the parting exam, they didn't dare to be angry with the officials.

Otherwise, if you offend the villain, Hugh said that this year's exam, I'm afraid the exam will not go well in the next few years.

The officials of the county government are basically hereditary.

Xu Xing also followed the heels of these people and entered the court together.

The public hall of the examination room not only sits on the county order of Jingyang County, but also sits on a group of students who guarantee the candidates. Candidates salute the county order one by one, and ask the students who are the guarantors to subscribe to the bail.

"Student Qin Huaigu guarantors Xu Xing."

Leaning less, Qin Xiucai got up, bowed to Wu County's order, and said loudly.

Qin Xiucai is also a student of Weijing Academy.

I have a good relationship with Xu Xing.

In the middle of Enron, he spent all day drinking with Xu Xing, his classmates.

After accepting the bail, the little official waiting at the door of the public hall led Xu Xing to the examination room.

It seems that the examination room is also tired of the allocation of examination rooms.

The examination room assigned to Xu Xing not only has a quiet environment and is not exposed to cold winds, but also is far away from smelly numbers.

Crucially, there are also two braziers in the house for heating.

In February, the weather is still a little cold.

"It's conventional."

"Wu County Ling and your mountain chief are good friends, and they specially ordered us."

The little official seemed to see Xu Xing's doubts and smiled.