Eating big melon is so refreshing

On June 16th, the deadline for handing in the papers was between 18: and : in the afternoon. The lunch was so bad that Xiao Chunya forced herself to eat half a bowl of rice. When it came to handing in the papers, she could not bear even a quarter of an hour and raised her hand to hand in the paper.

Luo Xiaopang writes faster than Xiao Chunya. When he saw her handing in her paper, he also raised his hand to hand in his paper. What’s interesting is that Xiaopang’s room is in the first room of the second row, and Xiao Qiulin’s room is in the last room of the second row.

The test questions on the third day were the teachings of a sage and a poem. Even if you wrote slowly, you should have finished it an hour ago, so there was no need to continue.

Lin Shaoxuan and Meng Haoran had a tacit understanding and raised their hands to hand in their papers almost at the same time.

In less than five minutes, 20 people gathered.

The small door of the Imperial Examination Hall was opened, the people were let out, and then the small door was closed again.

Zhao Erlang, Grandpa Luo and others who were waiting in the teahouse opposite saw the people released from the Imperial Examination Hall and hurried over to greet their children.

"Dad, the lunch was terrible."

Xiao Chunya complained, "It must be a change of cooks. The food was delicious yesterday and the day before yesterday."

Zhao Erlang said, "Have you eaten yet?"

"I ate half a bowl and couldn't eat any more because my stomach was growling." Xiao Chunya said, "We are all cooks, why are our cooking skills so different?"

These people basically went across the street to drink tea and eat snacks. It was a bit expensive, but it was good to fill their stomachs.

Grandpa Luo directly rented a carriage. Although the inn was very close to the Imperial Examination Hall, staying there for three days and two nights consumed a lot of brain energy. Even if he was energetic, he still trembled when he walked.

Lucky Inn

I took a shower and went straight to bed. When I woke up, it was already midnight. The inn was very busy at this time. Many people woke up at this time. Some ate in the room, and more people went to the first floor to eat.

"I don't want to go downstairs."

Xiao Chunya was making a fuss in the room. "I want to eat something cold. The exam is over, so I don't have to worry even if I have diarrhea."

"You are not afraid, but I am." Jiang would never allow her daughter to eat anything cold. She was already weak after just finishing the exam, and if she ate anything, she would probably get sick, not to mention diarrhea.

"Auntie."

"You absolutely cannot eat it tonight. I'll give it to you tomorrow at noon." Jiang said with a look of disinterestedness. She came here specifically to prevent her daughter from eating carelessly.

Xiao Qiulin said, "Don't embarrass the shop assistants in the middle of the night. The stalls selling jelly and cold noodles have already closed down."

"Well, a bowl of cold noodles will do."

"That's no problem. Many candidates order cold noodles, which are delicious with sauce." Zhao Erlang went downstairs to order food. He was most worried that his daughter would have no appetite. As long as she wanted to eat, it would be fine. He thought his daughter looked too pitiful when she was thin. She still looked better when she was chubby.

Have a good night's sleep.

Sleep in the next day, eat after waking up, and go back to sleep after eating. Almost all the younger candidates are like this, but the older candidates are too worried. They don’t want to sleep again after waking up the next day. The more they answer the questions, the more nervous they become.

The feeling of worrying about gain and loss filled the entire inn, not only in Hongyun Inn, but also in other inns.

Nearly 800 people took the exam, but only 45 were admitted. Who wouldn't be nervous? Even Lin Shaoxuan, who had the memory of the previous exams, couldn't be sure whether his results this time would make the list?

The changes in history make him happy and sad. The test questions this time are too difficult, but the next test will probably be even more difficult than this one because the level of the candidates has improved. How can the difference in level be shown if the test questions are not difficult?

★★★

The chief examiners and accompanying examiners of the Imperial Examination Hall stayed up all night with bright lights on. They started marking the first day's exam papers on the second day of the exam, and marked the second day's papers on the third day. If the scores of the first and second day's exam papers were not ideal, it would be a waste of time to not review them for three days.

Nearly 800 candidates were selected after these two exams. More than half of them were screened again, and only more than 100 were left. Then the top 45 were selected from them.

"Sir, these 20 essays are all good. This candidate answered all the questions correctly, but the handwriting is... ugly."

Mr. Wang, who was accompanying the examinee, had an expression on his face that was hard to describe. I really don’t know if this examinee practiced calligraphy regularly. How could his handwriting be so ugly?

The prefect knew who it was just by looking at the handwriting, because he had seen the first paper collected on the first day and was deeply impressed.

It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover. Such a chubby and cute little prince can write such ugly and domineering words. There is no other person like him in the Daye Dynasty.

The prefect said, "Those who answered all the questions correctly will be placed at the front. It doesn't matter if their handwriting is ugly or not." He said this with a clear conscience. He has a strong backing and we can't afford to offend him!

Lord Wang looked a little stunned. He said awkwardly, "Lord Liu, the academician who presided over the provincial examination, likes to talk about a person's handwriting the most..."

"Don't worry, she is a girl and has no chance to take part in the provincial examination." The prefect said, "Liu Xuezheng has pissed her off, and we don't know who will be in trouble."

Lord Wang suddenly realized that this paper was written by Guangning Xiangjun. The previous prefect was dismissed, the Wang family was raided, more than 200 people on Chang Street in Jinyang County were shot like hedgehogs, and the magistrate of Guoxiang County was rewarded, all of which were inseparable from this little Xiangjun.

The prefect curled his lips. The girl was doing practical things, unlike Liu Xuezheng who only knew how to scold people. Had he ever done anything practical for the people?

"Sir, we have screened twice and selected 60 people in total. Please take a look."

"it is good."

The real headache was how to rank these people with similar scores. The examiner had to read their papers from beginning to end, but he had a method: he would compare the two papers together and put the better one aside. This made things much simpler.

We were busy until 3 a.m. and finally figured out the rankings. Then we had people write their names on a red list. Because the brush used for writing was made of gold powder, it was called "getting your name on the golden list"!

The papers of both the admitted and rejected candidates should be kept for future reference. After working hard for several days, all the adults can finally have a good sleep.

Although being the chief examiner seems impressive, they are actually exhausted and have to endure scolding from the examinees who say that they set tricky questions and that they are inhumane. They also have to send people to stake out at various locations every day, and every year countless candidates who fail the exam jump off buildings or into rivers.

Others write brilliant articles, but yours is shit. Others can recite the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, but you are full of questions! You can even blame the examiner for this. The examiner feels wronged. Who said being an official is awesome? That must be a corrupt official. All honest officials work so hard, but they don’t even get a few compliments!