Chapter 241 Children's Examination
"Elbow! Seven Fish Fish!"
Xiao Jiuer didn't care what the adults were excited about. She was only thinking about eating grilled fish.
"Okay! Xiao Jiuer! Let's go kill some fish and eat them!"
The children are not used to calling "Master Xiaojiu" like adults do.
They still like to call her "Xiao Jiuer", feeling that this is closer.
By the canal, the children used knives to gut the fish, put them on clean sticks, and then took them to the campfire to roast them slowly.
Tietou and his friends cut a lot of banana leaves from the forest and put the roasted fish on the clean banana leaves.
"Xiao Jiu'er, try it!"
Hei Guo took a piece of fish belly meat and fed it to Xiao Jiuer. Xiao Jiuer smacked his lips and said, "It's bland!"
"That can't be helped. I didn't know I was going to grill the fish, and I didn't bring any salt."
“Yes, I do!”
Xiao Jiuer rummaged through his little pocket and took out a handful of snow-white salt.
Dolls: "..."
Xiaojiuer has everything in his pocket.
Xiao Jiuer imitated Salt Bae's posture and added seasoning to all the grilled fish.
At noon, the whole village enjoyed the delicious grilled fish.
Speaking of which, the villagers haven't tasted meat for a long time.
Although every household has some money nowadays, most people are still reluctant to buy meat.
Although we have a lot of chickens and ducks at home, we keep them for laying eggs and don't kill them for food.
Today, each of us got two grilled fish, which was a relief for our meat craving.
The villagers did not rest after eating, but continued to work with their hoes.
For the next few days, the whole village did nothing but plant trees.
There were more than 20,000 fruit trees in total. It was originally estimated that it would take ten days to plant them all, but they were all planted in less than eight days.
There's no way around it. Everyone is so enthusiastic right now, and it seems like they have endless energy.
After planting the trees, the highlight of spring plowing is over.
But the labor task of the whole village is still very heavy.
In addition to the fields owned by each household, the reclaimed land and fruit trees belong to the collective.
Collectively owned vegetable and fruit trees require the joint maintenance of the entire village.
Planting vegetables in the newly reclaimed land is relatively easy, but the fruit trees planted in Wild Bear Ridge, which requires climbing over two rocky mountains to reach, are time-consuming and laborious to maintain.
Heihe Village held a special meeting to divide all the reclaimed land and fruit trees into more than 100 parts, with each household receiving a part and responsibility assigned to each household.
If the care is not taken well, we will be held accountable.
It is specifically reflected in the silver and money that will be distributed at that time.
Although the village head tried his best to be fair, there is definitely no absolute fairness. Fortunately, no one in the village had any objection.
In the blink of an eye, the annual Tongshi exam of Dayu Dynasty is about to begin, and the candidates are all Tongsheng like Ye Yanshun.
Seeing that Ye Yanshun was about to take part in the children's exam, but the Ye family acted as if nothing had happened, Zhao Xingjian was almost worried sick.
At the dinner table, Zhao Xingjian finally couldn't help it.
"Everyone, Yanshun has an exam tomorrow, why don't you react at all?"
"What kind of reaction do you want?" Luo Qiuyue said lazily, "He's the one who has to take the exam, not us. We can't help him."
"Yeah!" Ye Yanping nodded, "Mom is right!"
"I support Ashun in my heart!" Ye Yan'an said.
"So, you're going to do nothing?"
"What should we do?" Ye Yanping scratched his head. "Would sending him to the exam room tomorrow count?"
Zhao Xingjian sighed, "Although the Tongshi exam is only an exam to obtain the qualification for the imperial examination, it also takes three days. During these three days, they have to go through the county exam, the prefectural exam, and the academy exam.
These three exams are progressive. Only after passing the first level can you have the opportunity to enter the second level.
Candidates eat, drink, defecate and urinate in that small cubicle, which is really hard. Therefore, their families have to prepare food, warm clothes, oil lamps, and felt sheets to keep out the rain..."
After Zhao Xingjian said this, the Ye family finally understood that a small child test could be so troublesome.
They had never heard of this before, so they really didn't know.
"After dinner, I started making meat patties," Yunniang said. "A Shun loves the meat patties I make the most."
"It's best not to cook anything with meat in it," Zhao Xingjian said. "Cold meat patties can easily upset your stomach, which won't be good for your exams. Making some sugar patties is more suitable."
"Okay, then I'll make some sugar cakes and some vegetable cakes."
"Vegetable pancakes aren't suitable either." Zhao Xingjian laughed. "Like I said, during the exam, you'll eat, drink, poop, and urinate there."
Those who took the imperial examinations wished they would be constipated and would not eat any vegetables.
"What a torture!" Luo Qiuyue shook her head. "I'll prepare everything for him today and give it to him in town tomorrow."
The next morning, the Ye family set off in an ox cart.
The ox cart drove very fast all the way. When it arrived at the school examination hall, the candidates were preparing to enter the examination room and queuing outside the venue.
Eight yamen runners were standing in front of the venue to check items.
Not only should you carefully check the items you carry with you, but you should also carefully check the clothes and pants that everyone wears and brings with them to prevent anyone from cheating by bringing in smuggled items.
So in this era, it was almost impossible for a woman to disguise herself as a man to take the imperial examination.
The team moved slowly.
Little Dumpling had sharp eyes and spotted Ye Yanshun in the middle of the team at a glance.
"Su Su!" The little girl called out in a baby voice, attracting everyone's attention.
But Ye Yanshun didn't react at all.
The little dumpling frowned, "Crude!"
Ye Yanshun immediately turned around in surprise, "Xiao Jiuer!"
When he saw that his whole family had come, he was surprised and happy and ran out of the queue.
"Silly boy, you waited in line for nothing." Luo Qiuyue smiled and touched his head.
Ye Yanping handed him the bundle and said, "Here are the sugar cakes made by your sister-in-law. There are plenty of them. Remember to eat them well and don't go hungry!"
"Okay!" Ye Yanshun was very touched. "I didn't expect you to come, so I prepared some rice balls."
"Rice balls become hard when they get cold. The sugar cakes I made for you are soft and won't choke you when they get cold." Yunniang stretched out her hand, "Give me the rice balls!"
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Ye Yanshun took out a rice ball from his bag.
Luo Qiuyue reminded him, "I've prepared a cotton jacket and trousers for you. It's cold at night, so remember to put them on. There's also a felt sheet inside to keep out the wind and rain. There are also candles. Light a couple more when it gets dark and you can't see clearly. It's always enough."
"good!"
"Are the pens, ink, paper and inkstone ready?" asked Zhao Xingjian.
"Everything is ready."
"Come in quickly!" the Ye family urged.
"Okay!" Ye Yanshun took two steps forward and turned back, "Why didn't you tell me to do well in the exam?"
The Ye family laughed, "Do you still need to remind me?"
"I wish you success in the imperial examination!"
Only then did Ye Yanshun happily line up to enter the examination room.
Inside the examination hall.
Wu Yong stopped Zhou Huaining and said, "Sir, the county magistrate is the chief examiner for the county exam. You can't run away from this battle!"
Zhou Huaining whispered, "But I, your son, have never taken the imperial examination. If I were to be the chief examiner, what would I ask them to do?"
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