Chapter 36: County Examination, Six Candidates Eating Goose Legs
The sixth day of the second month in the spring of the twenty-eighth year of Daqian Rende.
The entrance of the county examination hall in Lin'an County.
An Xin looked at them, yawned, and asked lazily, "Have you brought your pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?"
"Um!"
"I brought them all." Several people stood straight while carrying their exam baskets and nodded.
The first examination of the county examination, also known as the main examination, is very important in the county examination. After that, there will be four re-examinations before the county examination is considered complete.
Students taking the exam all know the importance of this first step.
An Xin pointed at the lunch box in Mingyue's hand and said, "Are you like the other candidates who brought a dry biscuit with them to eat during the lunch break just to save trouble?
The exam is very demanding, I’m afraid you won’t have enough brains to use~”
"..." The six people who were told they didn't have enough brains felt offended.
But what can they do when they say that the person they love is their own little headmaster?
An Xin still looked sleepy, and continued with her mouth open and yawning, "In order to replenish your energy in the examination room, I specially taught Aunt Gu to braise a few geese last night.
There are six braised goose legs in this lunch box. Take one for each of you and use them to fill your stomach during your lunch break."
An Rui was touched and said, "Cousin, you are so kind to us."
"Mr. Xiaoshan is so nice!" For Liu Boxing, who loves meat, it is so unfriendly to have to eat dry biscuits at noon after five consecutive exams.
A big goose leg made them forget about it, and they were just implied by their own headman that they were stupid.
The other four people were also very moved, but this did not prevent them from despising An Rui and Liu Boxing.
An Xin looked around and saw about four to five hundred people at the entrance of the examination room.
More than half of them are candidates, and the rest are their family members who brought them here.
"Bang!"
With the third cannon fired this morning.
The door of the examination room is open at any time.
Hundreds of candidates taking the county examination entered the examination room after inspection.
An Xin watched as Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai and six others lined up with their exam baskets, and were allowed to enter smoothly after being searched.
"Little Principal, please go back early. We are leaving now." Jiang's father, who came to see Jiang Zhou off, said goodbye politely and left.
Several other parents also said goodbye and left.
An Xin: "Uncle, don't look anymore. They won't be out until at least the afternoon. Let's go back too."
Uncle An retracted his worried look, got on the carriage, and returned to the academy with An Xin.
After coming back, An Xin watched Uncle An go to the classroom to teach the newly recruited students. She raised her hand and yawned, preparing to go back to take a nap.
Uncle An looked at his niece who was so careless, and felt angry and amused at the same time, and shook his head.
In the examination room of the government office.
The magistrate, in his official uniform, led the county school's instructors and students on government stipend to take roll call.
The candidates whose names were called came forward to submit the guarantee slip, mutual guarantee, personal confession slip and then received the answer sheet.
After the examination papers were distributed, the instructors and the students on government stipends and other irrelevant people were ordered to leave, leaving only the county magistrate and necessary examination personnel.
The magistrate personally went to lock and seal the gate, then returned to his seat and waited for the test questions to be announced.
Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai and six others were scattered throughout the examination room. When they opened their test papers.
Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai, and Zhu Shijing only raised their eyebrows slightly when they saw the questions on the test paper.
Jiang Zhou, An Rui and Liu Boxing, who were sent by An Xin to take the county examination, had no idea what was going on. When they opened the papers, they were dumbfounded.
The test paper contains two questions from the Four Books and one question on poetry. The Four Books questions are also called the first questions, which are questions from the main text of the Four Books and require explanation.
The three were dumbfounded because the questions in the county exam, which they originally thought was difficult, were not as difficult as those in their own hillbilly exam, which was usually difficult for them.
The speed at which the six people took the exam was the result of regular training by the great devil An Xin.
While other candidates are still struggling with the test questions.
The six brothers have finished the test. In order to avoid being bored in the afternoon, they plan to lie on the table and rest for a while after dinner.
The magistrate, who was sitting at the top, smelled the aroma of goose meat and looked down.
I saw six candidates sitting in different seats in the examination room, all with their heads down gnawing on the delicious-looking goose legs in their hands.
The magistrate seemed to be able to see the students sitting around them drooling over their greed.
It’s just that they were all very well-behaved and didn’t make too much noise to disturb others taking the exam.
Although the magistrate felt that several people might not be able to answer the test questions, he chose to give up.
But out of curiosity, he stood up as if nothing had happened and walked around the examination room.
When I passed by six people, I glanced at their test papers and was surprised to find something.
6◇9◇Book◇Bar
The answers were already neatly written on their draft papers and they just had to copy them onto the test papers in the afternoon.
If the six people were not sitting far apart and it was impossible for them to copy each other's answers, he would have suspected that several of them were cheating.
After Li Ziyu and the other six had eaten and drunk their fill, they lay down on the examination table and closed their eyes to rest.
Many candidates were like the county magistrate at first, thinking that the students were in such a state because they could not answer the test questions. They looked at them with disdain and paid no more attention to them.
The second test question was distributed in the afternoon.
The whole poem is written in a regulated verse with five words and six rhymes.
The six people still finished these simple questions very quickly.
The magistrate was not surprised after discovering this, but he still decided to find out later where these weirdos were taught.
Not only is the test done quickly, but the accuracy is also high.
If An Xin heard the magistrate's inner thoughts, he would surely tell him proudly.
The examinations invented by modern people allow you to answer the questions correctly even if you don’t know the answers.
If anyone has finished answering the questions at the You hour, they can hand in their papers. However, they will not be allowed to leave until fifty candidates have handed in their papers.
The first batch of candidates to appear are called the top candidates.
The second batch is called, put the next card.
The candidates who were released at the end of the evening can only be called the last card.
Needless to say, Li Ziyu and other five people were also the first group of candidates to walk out of the examination room.
The six people remained indifferent to the contemptuous looks given to them by the students of Cangyun Academy.
Whether the test results were good or bad would be revealed in three days. Even Jiang Zhou, who was always sharp-tongued, didn't bother with those grandsons because he was in a good mood.
Li Ziyu and the other three were still picked up by their families. Leng Xiangbai and An Rui, who were homeless, were taken back to the academy by Dazhuang in a horse-drawn carriage.
After coming back, An Xin didn't ask them how they did in the exam.
Let the two of them wash up, eat, and go back to rest for the next exam.
An Rui excitedly wanted to talk about the exam, but was ruthlessly dragged away by his father.
Leng Xiangbai had to have his meals delivered to him by An Xin during this period because he was taking exams. Not only were the meals nutritious and delicious, they were also very healthy.
He understood that An Xin didn't ask because he didn't want to put pressure on them, so after dinner he didn't say much and went back to rest.
The first county exam list will be posted in three days. I don’t know how the six of them will perform in the exam, or whether they will fail.
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(End of this chapter)