Brother, you are wrong.
In order to make the imperial examination relatively fair and to prevent candidates from intentionally contacting the examiners, the examiners will not be announced to the public before entering the examination room, especially the chief examiner. No one knows who the chief examiner is except the court officials.
Of course, if you come to the capital and blindly select an official to visit, and the other party happens to be an imperial examination examiner, as long as there is no evidence of cheating, it can be regarded as a coincidence and will not cause any trouble.
Therefore, many candidates are keen to bring their own articles to visit officials everywhere after coming to the capital, just to try their luck and see if they can get the favor of the examiners.
Gao He has done this before, and he used all the silver from the half leather bag he got from selling his ancestors to bribe the gatekeepers of officials everywhere, asking them to put their visiting cards and articles in front of their father at home.
Now you tell me, I actually only know one examiner?!
Gao He's eyes were filled with tears.
My money!!!
After Xu Yanmiao verified his identity, he smiled and said, "Go in, don't forget to look at the table on the gate and enter the room according to your number."
Gao He bowed and said, "Thank you, sir."
When he walked into the gate of Gongyuan, he looked back frequently and kept exclaiming.
"You became an examiner at such a young age..."
People are really incomparable.
*
Xu Yanmiao called out the names seriously and patiently reminded each candidate to look at the table after verifying the name.
Dozens of soldiers stood on both sides of him, scanning the clothes of the judges with eagle-like sharp eyes. If they found something wrong with the other party, they would immediately rush over to search.
Time slowly reached dawn.
"No one should come." It was time
to lock the gate of the tribute courtyard.
Xu Yanmiao stood up, picked up the soybean oil lamp, and was about to blow out the flickering light.
"Wait! Wait!"
An urgent call came, Xu Yanmiao looked over, and a yellow-faced man wearing a square scarf rushed over, his face flushed: "Sir, I... I am also a judge, here to take the imperial examination!"
The torch on the gate wall of the tribute courtyard reflected the wind and salt on his face. At first glance, you can tell that he has just finished a long journey.
Xu Yanmiao frowned slightly: "But... the seats have been arranged. Without your name, there is no place for you in the numbered room."
——The candidates need to go to the Ministry of Rites to register for the examination. On the deadline, the Ministry of Rites arranges the seats and sends them to Gongyuan. If you don't have a name, you haven't registered, so there is no seat.
——Many cheaters were caught before, but they can't enter Gongyuan for cheating and their seats are still reserved in the examination room, so there is no conflict.
The yellow-faced man's eyes were bloodshot with anxiety, and he begged bitterly: "I came late because I met robbers on the road. They robbed my clothes and took me to the mountains to work as a coolie. Later, they robbed other rich families, but the spoils were not evenly divided. They fought among themselves and several of them died. Only then did I have the opportunity to escape. Senior official, please, let me in! I took the exam five times before I passed the exam and came to participate in the Spring Examination. Please!"
Xu Yanmiao checked the system.
[It's true...]
[This is really unfortunate.]
The yellow-faced man couldn't hear Xu Yanmiao's voice, he just kept begging: "I was late because of something and couldn't go to the Ministry of Rites to apply for a name. This is entirely my fault. Now I can only shamelessly ask for mercy from the senior official. I am really ashamed."
"But this imperial examination is of great significance to me. I came from a remote mountain village. If I fail to take part in the examination this time, I will have to return home. My father is a gambler and wants to sell my mother and sister. I persuaded him that he could live a good life by selling me out to become an official. That's why he temporarily didn't touch my mother and sister. But he has become more and more impatient recently. If he knew that my money was robbed and I couldn't enter the tribute hall this time... Sir, I beg you! I kneel down in front of you, please give me a chance! I will cherish it and work hard to write a good policy paper to repay your kindness!"
At the end, he cried.
Xu Yanmiao looked down and saw a long red mark on the palm of the man's hand where he pulled the reins, like a long red nematode. Some hemp scraps from the reins fell on the palm of the other person who had been cut open.
Seeing that he was really miserable, Xu Yanmiao also felt sympathy. He glanced at the time and saw that he only had one cup of tea left before locking the door of the tribute courtyard, so he said, "Go and see if there is any vacant seat on the table. If there is, I will put you up there."
"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"
The yellow-faced man rushed to the door like a man who had been hungry for three days, and looked at the table carefully. Finally, he found a seat. The seat was not very good, as it was next to the toilet, but the yellow-faced man could not care less and quickly told Xu Yanmiao about it.
Xu Yanmiao seized the last bit of time, added his name, and quickly checked if he had any belts on him before letting him in.
"Take the test well."
The yellow-faced man said with tears in his eyes, "Thank you, sir!" He hurried into the Gongyuan.
Xu Yanmiao also climbed up to the Zhigong Building.
The Minister of War smiled and said, "Just now I saw another man enter the courtyard. Which man is he? He is so lazy and came only when the house was almost locked."
Xu Yanmiao took a look at the exquisitely decorated Zhigong Building, pulled a chair and sat down, and at the same time told the Minister of War about the yellow-faced man.
The Minister of War exclaimed: "Fortunately, he was lucky to meet Xu Lang. Xu Lang is kind-hearted. If it were me, I might not let him in."
Xu Yanmiao said casually: "He took the exam five times, which is not easy. I will help him if I can."
Then he opened the window and looked into the rooms from the Zhigong Building.
The questions for the first exam were distributed by the soldiers. After the candidates received the questions, some spread out the paper and started to write the answers, while others grabbed the pen and pondered. The examiners upstairs - such as him, saw all these situations clearly.
"So it's true. Looking down from the podium, you can really see it clearly." Xu Yanmiao muttered.
The Minister of War was at a loss: "What are you talking about? What podium?"
Xu Yanmiao waved his hands: "Nothing, I just expressed my feelings." He continued to read on curiously.
But this time he didn't say anything.
[I'm talking in my heart, but no one will hear it, right?]
*
[I'm talking in my heart, but no one will hear it, right?]
"Here it comes!!!"
A little further away from Gongyuan, a group of officials secretly occupied a house. After paying enough money, they happily went to stay in a hotel.
Hibiscus flowers were planted at the door of the house as a fence, densely packed, just blocking the sight of outsiders.
"Thanks to Xiao Bai Ze, who would know the situation in Gongyuan after it was locked up!"
"Yes, yes!"
"My cousin is in there, I'm so worried."
"Well, it's okay, my eldest grandson is also in there, they are so grown up, can't they take care of themselves."
[Hahahahaha! Who is this, hahahaha, the exam started half an hour ago, and he ran to the toilet three times hahaha! ]
[The person taking the exam next to the toilet was so miserable, he was almost fainted by the smoke. ]
[Eating hot pot with spicy oil the night before the imperial examination, if you don't have diarrhea, who will? ]
[Oh no! My grandfather is the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple! This is even more unreasonable. Guanglu Temple is responsible for organizing banquets for the court! It is also responsible for the daily meals of the people in the palace. You can let your own children eat hot pot the night before the exam? And spicy pot? ! ]
[Uh... I'm sorry, Shaoqing Wan, I blamed you wrongly. You even stopped him from eating his favorite salty crispy food mixed with pepper and salt, for fear that he would get an upset stomach. Who would have thought that he would climb over the wall to eat hot pot. 】
After saying "They are so grown up, can't they take care of themselves?", the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple suddenly drank a glass of wine, and said murderously: "Eat, eat, eat! He only knows how to eat! He'd better die in the tribute courtyard!"
The official next to him, the Langzhong of the Ministry of Personnel, sighed and cast a sympathetic look.
Fortunately, my cousin is not greedy.
After thinking about it, I decided to comfort my colleague.
"Shaoqing Wan, this... it's normal for young people to be greedy. This is a lesson for him. If he comes back in three years, he will definitely pass the exam!"
Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple sighed, frowning, "But he is already 27! Let alone 27, when I was seven, my mother was in confinement after childbirth, and I was the one who did the laundry, cooking, and cooking at home. I knew that I couldn't be greedy. If I got an upset stomach, I wouldn't be able to work."
The doctor of the Ministry of Personnel's Examination Department swallowed the words "You were beaten and thrown around by your family, and he was raised like a gold nugget by his family. How can it be the same?" and patted Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple on the shoulder, hoping that he would accept his fate.
[Huh? Why is there someone still laughing in the examination room? What did they see? 】
【Wuhu, are there really people who fall for the idioms "hotel fierce dog" and "drug store flying dragon"? I'm not born with a quirk, but Minister Li suggested saying "the lady's yang desire". If I hadn't rejected it, it would have fooled half of the candidates. 】
【You're laughing like this, don't you think these two idioms are about aphrodisiacs? 】
【Really! 】
"Hahahahahahaha——"
The Langzhong of the Ministry of Personnel's Examination and Reward Department patted the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple on the shoulder and laughed: "Xu Lang and the Minister of War are too stingy to deliberately ask such a question. If anyone answers it wrong and is lucky enough to become my colleague, I will laugh at him for the rest of his life."
Another official was also amused: "'Flying dragon in drugstore' is okay, although it is in Yuefu, it is indeed uncommon, but 'fierce dog in hotel' is in Yanzi Chunqiu! How did you think of it for aphrodisiac?"
The Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple also shifted his attention from his eldest grandson and smiled implicitly: "I'm afraid that 'the public dog is fierce, and people come in with weapons' can also be misinterpreted into other meanings."
The Langzhong of the Ministry of Personnel's Examination and Reward Department simply laughed: "What was it misinterpreted into? It can't be: people holding weapons are as fierce as male dogs, right?"
[How miserable! He's from the same department as me. This examiner helped his cousin review for three whole months. Three months! And his cousin gave him such a big surprise. Hahahahahahaha, a hotel fierce dog refers to a man who takes drugs and does things in a hotel and becomes as fierce as a male dog. Hahahahahahaha——]
The examiner of the Ministry of Personnel stopped laughing and banged his head against the pillar with a "bang bang bang".
Other officials hurriedly pulled him back: “It’s not worth it! It’s not worth it!”
The doctor of the Ministry of Personnel’s Examination and Reward Office struggled desperately: “Let me go! Let me get killed! Three months! I coached him for three months! 'The male dog in the hotel' means: there was a dog in the hotel that was too ferocious, so no customers came into the store to buy wine, causing the wine in the store to become sour—he couldn’t even remember such a simple allusion!”
“I, I, I—I’m so mad, wuwuwu—”
Other officials hurriedly comforted him: “Calm down, calm down, if you don’t remember this, maybe you can remember the others?”
The doctor of the Ministry of Personnel’s Examination and Reward Office wiped his tears: “That’s right…”
[Hahahahahaha——]
[‘I don’t know what to think’, how did he think that ‘mei’ and ‘mei’ are homophones? ! 】
【Sister, I think about it hahahahaha——】
【Brother, you are wrong~】
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