Soon, Li Qiao found her own house.

The small room is about two meters high, one meter wide, and less than one and a half meters deep, with only two planks in the brick grooves specially left in the walls.

During the day, one of the two planks is a table and the other is a chair.

At night, these two planks are put together, and that is the bed that the candidates use to rest.

Li Qiao finished looking, and then carried the test basket in.

Forget it, this condition is already very good, I heard that some places are not only dilapidated, but also have snakes, rats, insects and ants in them.

At the very least, it's pretty clean.

At this time, it was about ten o'clock in the morning, Li Qiao put the pen and ink inkstone in the examination basket on the table, and then leaned against the wall to close his eyes and recuperate.

There are more than 7,000 candidates this time, and when all these candidates are searched and enter the number house, it must be afternoon, and he has nothing to do at this time, so he can only close his eyes and recuperate.

The next three days are to use his brain highly, and he can't eat or sleep well because of this condition, so he should take advantage of this time to recuperate.

It was not easy to read books in ancient times!

Li Qiao is like this, and so are the other candidates, who all stay in the small number room, waiting for the rest of the candidates to enter.

No one moved, no one spoke.

Soon it was noon, and an errand officer came to ask the candidates if they wanted hot water.

There is a toilet in the Gongyuan, which is at the end of the house, so there is no need to be as afraid of drinking water as Tong Sheng, Li Qiao asked for a bowl of hot water, and ate lunch with the steamed buns that were broken miserably.

After lunch, he slept on the table until the sun set in the west, and suddenly there was a gong sound from Mingyuan Tower in the distance.

This means that all the candidates have entered the number room, and it is time to issue the test papers.

Li Qiao suddenly became energetic.

The township test has finally begun.

Because there are many candidates in the township examination, it is no longer necessary for candidates to copy the questions by themselves like the children's examination, and the test papers of the township examination are printed in advance, and they are directly sent to the candidates by the errand officer at this time.

Along with them, there were some straw paper, charcoal fires, and candles.

It's already evening, and the candidates will definitely have to fight with the lights.

Li Qiao looked at the candle in his hand, and felt some sympathy for the last candidate who came in, he slept in the number room for a day, and he was in the spirit of a thief at this time.

But the last candidates who came in waited outside the Gong Yuan for a day, and they must be tired at this time, especially some of the older ones, who should just want to rest at this time.

Retracting his thoughts of running away, Li Qiao focused on the test paper.

This test is Moyi and the scriptures, not poetry, nor strategy, and it is a pure test of basic skills.

Li Qiao roughly scanned the topic, and her scalp was numb.

Compared with the children's exam, the questions in the township exam are much more remote, and there are even some of the most partial:

Candidates are required to answer the principle of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project.

"Historical Records of the River Canal" and "Hanshu Gou Xun Zhi" both mention Shu Shou Li Bing, praising his merits, therefore, there is a question in the Book of Posts that is related to the original text to fill in the blanks, and there is a question in Moyi that not only requires the analysis of the original text, but also requires the candidate to write the principle of Dujiangyan.

Li Qiao: "......"

This is one hundred and eight layers of hell!

Which imperial examination examines these?

Wouldn't it be too arbitrary to ask questions on the holy side?

The imperial examination is a major event related to the fate of countless people, and it is not a tool used by the saints to have fun and play tricks on people!

His hearing is better than ordinary people, but at this time he doesn't need to listen intently, there are many gasps and exclamations in his ears.

When other candidates saw this question, they were not only numb on their scalps, but also numb all over their bodies.

But the questions in the imperial examination are all made by the saints, and these candidates can't scold the saints, they can only gasp a lot.

Li Qiao took the movements of the surrounding candidates into his ears, he sighed lightly, and began to study the ink.

Jun's heart is unpredictable, but he knows the answer.

Moreover, the admission quota for this township examination is 40 people, no matter what kind of questions the candidates answer this year, they have to admit 40 people.

So it's still the same old saying, better than other candidates, take half a step more than other candidates, then you win.

I hope Zhuang Wen, Meng Yue, and Xu Ying can stabilize their mentality and keep these words in mind.

In addition to this question, although the other questions are remote, they are still within the normal range, so don't panic, just treat this question as an additional question, and if you can make it, you will be happy.

It doesn't matter if you can't answer, there are few who can answer in the entire Gongyuan.

Moreover, the most important article in the saint, as long as the last article is well written, he is not afraid of failing the exam.

Thinking like this, he began to answer questions on straw paper, and Moyi questions need to be organized in language, so he has to write on straw paper first, answer on straw paper, and then copy it on the test paper.

His hard work in the past year has not been in vain, with his extraordinary memory, these questions are not difficult for him, and he writes quickly.

After a while, it was dark, and he lit a candle.

The candle was half-burned, he blew it out and prepared for bed.

The light of a candle was too dim, and he was so confident in this one that he didn't have to answer the question at night, and he would definitely be able to finish it in two days.

Putting the two planks together, he curled up on a one-meter-long plank ready to sleep.

It's just that he sleeps a lot during the day, and he doesn't feel sleepy at this time.

Moreover, the house is too small, the plank is only one meter long, and his height of one meter eight is crammed on this small plank, which is really uncomfortable.

He looked up at the moon above him.

There was a beautiful first quarter moon hanging in the night, so beautiful that he was stunned, he hadn't looked at the moon above his head for a long time.

I don't know what Tao Zhu is doing at this time, can he also look at the moon?

Thinking of Tao Zhu, he didn't feel sleepy, and he tossed and turned for a long time, and then he went to find Zhou Gong in a daze.

When he woke up, the sky was bright, and the early morning of the eighth lunar month was already a little cold, he rubbed his face, and then stood up and moved his hands and feet slightly.

Curled up all night, his bones frozen.

Today is a sunny day, so he ate dry steamed buns with hot water, and then began to answer questions.

There were many questions in this scene, and there were 400 questions in Moyi and Tijing combined, and it took him a whole day to write them.

As for the Dujiangyan principle, which he regarded as an additional question, he answered it very smoothly.

When he was reading in his last life, out of curiosity, he deliberately studied this problem, and at that time he watched the relevant small animation on the Internet, and the small animation explained clearly and clearly, especially easy to understand, and he always remembered it.

Moreover, in order to deal with the examination questions of the Holy Lord, who always received hell, he deliberately paid attention to Dujiangyan in this time and space when he studied water conservancy projects, so this additional question did not bother him.

On the third day, he copied the written answers onto the test paper, and after copying and checking again, he was relieved to confirm that they were correct.

At this time, it was just past noon, his stomach was rumbling with hunger, and when the exam was over in the evening, he swept away the remaining steamed buns, and then sat and waited for the paper to be handed in.

The township test is not allowed to hand in the papers in advance, nor is it allowed to move around at will, so he can only sit and wait.

stayed up until the evening, and finally waited for the gong sound on the side of Mingyuan Tower, he exhaled a long breath, and the first scene was finally over.

After the errand officer collected the test papers, many candidates lined up to leave the examination room.

This time, in addition to the Dujiangyan question, the other questions are also more difficult than the previous years' questions, which requires a lot of brain power.

Therefore, at this time, most of the candidates are vain, tired, and some of them are thin-boned, and they are even more shaky and look like they can fall down at any time.

These candidates can't scold the saints, and when they meet people they know, they can only look at each other and smile bitterly.

Li Qiao looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh, the imperial examination is not only a fight for luck, but also a fight for physical strength.

As the flow of people out of the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, he immediately looked around, wanting to find Tao Zhu's figure.

"Here!"

Tao Zhu came to the gate of the Gongyuan after lunch, and he came early, so he stood at the front at this time.

Behind him stood Li Ershan, Li Xia, Li Chunsheng, Zhuang Quan, Zhou Yun Manor.

When Li Qiao heard the sound, he immediately followed the sound and looked over, and when he saw Tao Zhu's familiar and good-looking face, he immediately laughed.

When he came to Tao Zhu's approach, he hadn't spoken yet, but Tao Zhu said with a distressed face: "I've lost weight." ”

The smile on Li Qiao's face widened, he took Tao Zhu's hand, looked at Tao Zhu carefully, and then said with satisfaction: "You are not thin." ”

He is too familiar with Tao Zhu's body, his eyes are the most standard scales, and he can see at a glance whether Tao Zhu's body shape has changed.

However, Tao Zhu's eyes were bloodshot, this must have been a good night's sleep.

"That's not it, uncle, Uncle Zhu has increased the amount of food at every meal in the past three days, lest he lose weight." Li Ershan couldn't help but say.

In the past, Tao Zhu didn't eat when he was full, but in the past three days, he put down his chopsticks after eating, and he would add food in the middle of the night, lest he lose half a pound of weight and make Li Qiao worried.

"It's hard work, Brother Zhu." Li Qiao couldn't help but clench Tao Zhu's hand.

"What kind of hard work is this, you are hard work." Tao Zhu shook his head, his eyes were on Li Qiao's body and he was reluctant to move away.

Squatting in that small house for three days was too hard.

"Fortunately, I used to do farm work, and I was physically strong, so it wasn't really hard for me." Li Qiao said with a smile.

"Anyway, I'm guilty, I'll make you something to eat when I go back."

"Okay, I've been eating dry steamed buns for three days, and I miss your cooking so much."

The two of them didn't say anything else, but just held hands and looked at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, they had to wait for Zhuang Wen.

Zhuang Quan and Zhou Yun were timid, and they didn't dare to go out alone on weekdays, so they wanted to stay and go back with the Zhuang family.

Zhuang Wen came out quickly, his steps were a little unsteady, and he also had dark circles on his face, but when he saw these people waiting for him outside, he had a smile on his face.

"Let's go back, let's go back, I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep when I go back."

Although he was born in a peasant family, he had never done any farm work since he was a child, and because of his old age, these three days were too difficult for him.

Now he just wants to lie in a comfortable bed and find Zhou Gong.

Seeing this, Li Qiao nodded with a smile: "Okay, let's go back quickly." ”

Since Zhuang Wen didn't say anything about the right answer, he wouldn't take the initiative to mention it.