In less than an hour, Xia Yuan had already finished the question, and after writing it, he checked it to see if there were any typos or the like, and when he found that there were none, he put the pen aside and began to drink water and eat.

The attitude of the exam is also very important, you can't just lie down and sleep in the daytime, so that those examiners who patrol the venue can see that the impact is not good, drink water and eat, and then wait to see the excitement is a beautiful thing.

As for what to see what's lively.

Compared with the last time he came to participate in the township test, Xia Yuan already had experience, and he was no longer the little budding newcomer he was at the beginning.

In order to prevent leakage of questions, no matter when you finish answering, you have to stay until the end, and if you want to hand in the paper in advance, don't even think about it.

And as a veteran, he knows very well that the first day of this exam is the most chaotic, especially the first half of this first day is even more messy.

There are those who have a psychological breakdown due to the difficulty of the question, and then shout hysterically, there are those who are caught hiding cheat sheets and begging for mercy, and there are also those who take something less or cry when the pen is broken.

People like this are going to be starved. Phew, it was a sergeant who was like a wolf and a tiger who dragged him out, and at least he was disqualified from this examination, and he would come back to retake the exam after three years, or he would be directly dismissed from his reputation and sent into exile.

The last time he came to participate in the township test, he saw a lot of excitement, to be precise, he should have heard a lot of excitement.

The most shocking and incomprehensible thing to him was of course the ones with the cheat sheets, and it was really hard to imagine where those people hid the cheat sheets.

You must know that when the body was searched, those experienced old officials didn't even let go of the skin swallow, and they still picked it up

Forget it, I don't want to do this, I get upset when I think about it.

Soon, there was a burst of cries and cries from the southeast, followed by the tapping of a group of sergeants on the ground.

Xia Yuan silently shouted in his heart, this is the first one, he wants to see how many people can win the lottery in this test.

It's not that he's bored, it's just that the exam is too long and too boring, and only by finding something boring to do in the boredom can he seem less boring.

Even for this reason, he specially brought something that could be eaten and relieve boredom, so Xia Yuan took out a piece of maltose from the examination basket, snorted it with his mouth, and then spit it on the ground.

The next thing to do is interesting, this maltose is sweet, and it will become sticky when soaked in saliva, and the sweetness will increase, as long as you wait quietly, soon a large number of ants will gather over, and then start to find a way to transport this maltose away

Well, it's not really interesting.

Sighing, Xia Yuan propped his arms on the board, looked down at the piece of malt candy quietly, and began to look forward to the early end of this trial.

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At this time, in the warm pavilion of the Forbidden City, Zhu Youzhu raised his head from the case, looked at the sky outside through the glass window, and asked, "Is it time now?" ”

"Back to the emperor, it's already halfway through the hour."

Even if it is more than halfway, the Gongyuan has been open for at least an hour.

Thinking in his heart, Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but say to himself: "I don't know how that Xia Yuan is doing in the exam now, but he is stumped by Xie Qing's exam questions." ”

"No matter what Master Xia says, he is also a year-old Xie Yuan, and the slave maid thinks that he should not be stumped."

"Although this is true, I know that Xie Qing's topic is tricky and weird."

He knows very well that when it comes to the imperial examination, the northerners are far inferior to the southerners.

I'm afraid that in this triennial examination, there is no one among the northerners, and those on the list are all Jiangnan scholars.

In fact, in terms of exams, the southerners of the Ming Dynasty are indeed worthy of pride, and in their hearts, the northerners are really not a single one who can fight.

If Xia Yuan was the Xie Yuan of Yingtianfu, Zhu Youzhu absolutely believed in his strength, but unfortunately it was only Xie Yuan of Shuntianfu.

Although it hurts a little to say it, the gold content of Shuntianfu Jieyuan is indeed lower.

And this time the main exam is Xie Qian, Xie Qian is a typical Jiangnan scholar, his hometown Yuyao, and Wang Shouren are fellow villagers.

Not to mention that because of this person's position as the chief examiner, his son has not been able to take the exam, so he must be holding back a fire in his heart, and it is understandable that he will come up with a tricky and mean strange question.

After pondering for a while, Zhu Youzhu sighed again, "I hope he can be admitted." ”

He had already moved the idea in his heart, as long as Xia Yuan could pass the examination this time, and then wait until the ranking was completed in the palace examination, he would arrange it in the Zhan Shifu.

It's a prince anyway, the prince of a country, what is it to sneak out of the palace all day long.

It's better to get it directly to the East Palace, so that you can teach the prince to read, and you don't have to let the prince climb over the wall all day long.

Even Zhu Youzhu thought that even if it was the top three, he would put it in exceptionally, in his heart, there was nothing more important in this world than the education of the prince.

And the sad thing is that in this world, the only person in this world who can make the prince obediently read and study is this Xia Yuan, at least for now.

Therefore, he is quite concerned about whether Xia Yuan can pass the exam, and it is even estimated that he is more concerned than Xia Yuan himself.

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In the East Palace, Zhu Houzhao was slightly anxious in the hall, and the reason for the anxiety was naturally because of today's test.

In previous years, he definitely didn't care about what he would do to take the temple test, but this time it was different.

He thought about it, as long as the master could pass the examination, he would go to ask his father to put Xia Yuan in his East Palace, otherwise if he entered the Hanlin Academy or went to another yamen, how could he learn his peerless magic skills?

And when I came to the East Palace, I could be with myself every day, and I didn't have to climb over the wall all day long, and I was actually quite tired to climb over the wall every day.

As for the palace test or something, it is not within his consideration at all, although Zhu Houzhao is ridiculous, he also knows that this palace test has not failed, as long as he participates in the palace test, he is a jinshi.

In other words, the temple examination is a place to be ranked.

So. Can the master pass the exam?

Is it difficult to take the exam?

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Xia Yuan, who was in the examination room, could think that someone was worried about him, but he would never have thought that there was a father and son among them, and this father and son were also very attentive.

Seriously, Xia Yuan himself is not so concerned, for this exam, he maintains a very ordinary heart, it is good to pass the exam, and if he doesn't pass the exam, he will talk about it next time, anyway, if he is admitted, he will be an official, and this is an official.

He currently has a very complicated mentality about being an official, everyone knows that being an official is good, and of course Xia Yuan knows it, but being an official in this year is not necessarily more comfortable than the social animals of later generations.

Not to mention anything else, it is too early to get up, there is a word called Dianmao, which refers to going to the yamen to report at Mao, and what time is Mao, five or six o'clock in the morning.

This makes him embarrassed as a person who sleeps all day until he wakes up naturally.

"One hundred and three, one hundred and four."

At this time, Xia Yuanzheng looked intently at the ants on the ground moving maltose, this maltose is very large, and there are many ants coming to move, and they are constantly gathering here.

A few more came.

"One hundred and five, one hundred."

(End of chapter)