Township examinations are held in provincial capitals once every three years.

Generally speaking, it is held in August, so it is also called autumn festival, and there is basically no change in time.

The chief examiner was specially sent by the imperial court.

Gu Yi and the city where they are located belong to a big city in Yuzhou, it is very prosperous, but in fact it is not a provincial city, the provincial city is next door to them.

This also means that Gu Yi and Gu Changlin have to go next door to take the exam.

Knowing that they were going to stay away from home, Mrs. Gu was very worried, "This court is too, why is it not like the previous exam, how good is it to take the test directly in our city, and you have to go to such a far place." ”

Gu Changlin didn't feel anything: "It's always been like this, we have taken advantage of it, and students from other places still have to run to us every time." And the organization that loves to wear black clothes has solved all the bandits in this neighborhood, so we don't have to worry about safety when we travel. ”

Speaking of bandits, everyone's attention was diverted at once.

In fact, as a scholar, most bandits will not do anything to the scholars who rush to take the exam, after all, during the period of the scientific examination, the importance of the scholar will soar, if there is really a candidate in which realm there is a problem, the court will not let it go easily.

So in order to avoid trouble, at this time, the bandits know that they will not mess around.

But everything is afraid of a case, of course, no matter how cautious your life is, bandits are still safer if they don't have them.

The father and son are going to go far away, of course Mrs. Gu will not just let the two of them travel, Boss Gu and Gu Laosan will also follow together, and when the time comes, they can let them do tedious things such as renting a house and buying things, Gu Changlin and his son also need someone to pick them up outside after the exam, otherwise if the body can't hold up in the middle of the exam, it won't be okay to come out, which is a very common way to match at the moment.

Gu Boss and Gu Laosan didn't feel troubled, they were quite willing to help, and there were two scholars in the family, which was a matter of glory and ancestry, and the whole family had a bright face.

Gu Changlin also nodded.

For the August exam, Gu Yi and they set off more than half a month in advance, the distance between the two cities is not particularly far, and they arrived in a few days, and the inn near the examination room is expensive these days, so after Gu Yi and they arrived, there was still room left, but there were not many.

Gu Boss and Gu Laosan trembled when they heard the price, and when they heard that they also had a room, they hurriedly said: "Otherwise, we can just make a floor shop in the second room, and we can open another one for us." ”

Gu Yi asked for three rooms, one for the father and son, Gu Yi said that he was afraid that there would be movement in his studies to disturb each other, and Gu Boss and Gu Laosan lived in one room.

Gu Boss and the two felt that what their nephew said made sense, this study is to have a quiet environment, but this house price is so expensive, they live in a frightened place, so they decided to squeeze into a room with Gu Changlin.

Gu Changlin: ?

Eventually, the three rooms were opened.

After they came, it would take a few days before the exam, it was the township exam, and the inn was basically full of scholars, and there were people talking about it all the time, and there were people flattering some famous figures, Gu Yi and they stayed in the inn, they didn't go out much, they didn't talk to anyone, Gu Yi knew, as soon as he said his name, maybe other people really knew.

Not necessarily

It's a good thing.

In addition to their own strength, they must also be cautious in some aspects of life, and there are definitely many people who are jealous of others and secretly stumble.

There are also in order to get rid of opponents in advance.

One less on the list, one more position will come out.

Sure enough, when I was about to enter the examination room, there was a storm in the inn, and some people had diarrhea.

Boss Gu and Boss Gu both had palpitations, "This is also terrible, fortunately, we heard that the second child bought a small stove to cook and eat, otherwise who knows if it will be affected." ”

There are people coming and going in this inn, and no one can say for sure, in case someone takes advantage of the chaos to add something to the meal, then I don't know who made it.

Gu Changlin was also a little frightened, and pulled his son to check whether everything was good.

In the past few days he has been in the inn, he has heard someone discussing his son Lianzhong Sanyuan, and he is also very good at teaching, so the body of the little sheep has grown faster over the years, although his face looks a little immature, but that body really does not look like an ordinary sixteen-year-old boy, so although everyone discussed it vigorously, they did not match Gu Yi and the real person.

Before entering the examination room, both father and son carefully checked their belongings, in case someone threw a small note in.

Fortunately, after a series of processes, they all entered the examination room safely.

Just like at the beginning, Gu Yi, a candidate who is particularly prominent, naturally sits under the nose of the examiner for the exam, and the top ten candidates in the college exam are treated like this.

And Gu Changlin's seat was relatively random, but fortunately, he was lucky this time and didn't sit on the edge of the thatched house again.

Gu Yi sat in the examination shed and cleaned up his things, looked at the size of the space, and sighed in his heart, this place is extremely cramped, when he was a child before, it seemed spacious, but now that he is in shape, he is a little aggrieved, but patience is over, and this idea is nothing to him.

There are three township examinations, each of which takes three days, and after one exam, he goes out of the examination room in the afternoon, and continues to come in the next day, which is actually equivalent to taking the exam for nine consecutive days, and the results can be counted and released after half a month after all the exams.

At the time of this kind of exam, the mental pressure is also quite high.

When Gu Changlin and Gu Yi were taking the exam in the examination room, Gu Boss and Gu Laosan did not rest, they took turns to guard outside the examination room, for fear that their brothers and nephews would suddenly be carried out from the inside by the official messenger one day, and they had seen several people outside coming out like this.

Fortunately, for several days in a row, there has been no problem.

On the last day, Gu Lao Da and Gu Lao San stomped their feet outside, and said with emotion: "I finally finished the exam today."

, they didn't take the exam well, and we didn't wait for it well. ”

The whole time I was terrified outside.

Gu Laosan also nodded, dark circles appeared under his eyes, and he looked very tired, "Yes, the exam is over." ”

The two stared blankly at the door of the examination room, waiting for the people inside to come out.

It wasn't until the afternoon that the voices inside finally became noisy, and Gu Boss and Gu Laosan stood up from the ground and said excitedly: "I'm going to come out, I'm going to come out." ”

The two walked forward, looking for their brother and nephew in the crowd.

Gu Yi and Gu Changlin were not seated together, at this time

The examination room will not allow candidates to walk around after the end, so there is no need to find people, they all come out under the arrangement of the official after the exam, and they can only see where the people are after they come out, this time it was Gu Yi who came out first, and Gu Boss greeted him, and both pairs of eyes looked at Gu Yi's face, "Little sheep, do you feel uncomfortable?" ”

When he was questioned, his hand was already up.

Gu Yi's search for his father moved his gaze back, and said, "Fortunately, even if you stay in such a small cubicle for a long time, your body can't stretch." ”

While speaking, Gu Changlin also came out of it, and Gu Yi stepped forward to support him, "Dad." ”

Gu Changlin greeted the eldest brother and third brother, his state looked more tired than his son, but his spirit was fine.

He walked flutteringly, and along the way, Gu Boss and Gu Laosan helped him back, if it weren't for Gu Changlin's old age, the two of them would want to carry Gu Changlin back directly.

Walking slowly towards the inn on the road, a few people were still talking, and Gu Changlin couldn't help but laugh happily as he spoke.

Boss Gu looked over suspiciously, the people who took the test were almost gone, what was there to be happy about.

Gu Yi looked at his father helplessly, "It's been so long and you've been happy enough, haven't you been happy enough?" ”

The smile on Gu Changlin's face couldn't be held back at all, "This kind of thing has just finished the exam, how can it be enough so soon." ”

Hearing their conversation, Boss Gu also reacted, "Second brother, you said that you guessed the question correctly." ”

Gu Changlin nodded, "I've done two tricky questions before. "The key is that after the exam, many candidates are crying and complaining!

And he, who wrote about it before!

Gu Changlin actually has no confidence in the township exam, so many students from all over the world come to participate, and in the end, only a few or ten people are admitted, and how many people can't pass the exam for a lifetime, of course he doesn't think that he will be able to do it.

But this township test was too difficult, but it gave him a little confidence in himself, after all, the exam question was something he had done before!

Because the question was too outrageous at the beginning, it was extremely difficult to write, and Gu Changlin was deeply impressed.

Gu Yi also didn't expect that most of the questions in this imperial examination came from the Four Books and Five Classics, and there were too many questions, of course, they couldn't be repeated all the time, so the truncation questions began to arise later, that is, one sentence was extracted from different sentences, and the other one was put together, and the meaning of the two sentences was completely different, or a few L words were pulled out of the sentence separately and put together, pinching the head and removing the tail, and looking at it, I didn't know what to do.

Anyway, there are all kinds of weird questions.

One of the questions that came up this time was: Can a person be inferior to a bird? Shiyun: King Mumuwen. The first half of the sentence is from < University's >, which is truncated from a sentence, meaning that people are not as good as birds? Later from the < Book of Songs> Mu Mu is the meaning of singing praises to King Wen.

The two don't seem to have a half-point relationship, and they don't make sense when they are connected.

This is Gu Yi's previous life to listen to the small team of people summarize, one of the strange questions of the scientific examination, at that time, because of the meaning, when it was time to learn by himself, he remembered it suddenly.

I didn't expect to really encounter this.

There is another question that is easy to misunderstand, which Gu Yi himself pointed out.

Such a question that exists like a dragon and a phoenix makes the candidates wail one by one, of course, some of them are outstanding

should be able to deal with it, but people like Gu Changlin who can think of a good enough idea to solve the problem in advance will also feel glad.

After returning to the inn to rest for a day, when they woke up the next day, Boss Gu discussed the next itinerary with them.

The exam results will not come out for more than half a month, and now the question is whether they will wait here for the results or go home and wait for the results.

Gu Yi looked at his father, he didn't care where he was, anyway, the government would come to report the good news when the result came out.

Gu Changlin hesitated, after sleeping for a night, the previous happy emotions had almost dissipated, and he fell into the anxiety of whether he could be admitted or not, and finally he made a decision, "Then let's go home and wait." ”

The inn in the provincial capital is expensive, and it can't drop much during this time, and many candidates have to wait for the results here.

If he can be admitted in the end, it doesn't hurt to spend a lot of money and so on, but if his son is admitted by himself at that time, he will fail the list, and Gu Changlin can't accept it when he thinks about it.

When the time comes, it will be more painful to go back with the mood of falling off the list.

So after thinking about it, it's better to go back and wait.

Gu Yi listened to his father's opinion unconditionally, and Gu Boss and Gu Laosan didn't make a decision, as soon as Gu Changlin said this, everyone made up their minds.

It's already noon when I get up today, so I'm not busy going back today, the two brothers Gu went to rent a carriage and go back tomorrow, and everyone walked around the provincial capital together to see if there was anything in Fucheng, so that they could buy it back.

But as it turned out, there wasn't much difference either.

The relationship between the two cities is next door, and they are also prosperous over there, and many shops here also have the same style over there, and the style is also very similar.

In the end, they chose some gifts casually, followed Gu Yi to buy a lot of snacks, and went back to the inn with a bulging belly to rest.!