Fang Jin still didn't believe it. After all, they had been in the same village for so long and he always saw Qin Yan. He couldn't understand why he was like this for so long and how could he suddenly stand up as if nothing had happened.

Moreover, the villagers have always said that Qin Yan’s leg cannot be cured. How is that possible?

"The doctor said he couldn't stand up anymore. If he hadn't gotten a prosthetic leg, how could he have been healed?"

Fang Tong was even more unhappy and shouted, "Have you been crazy from studying? You tell my son he cheated when you see him, but you, is it because you cheated that everyone else looks like a cheater?"

"The last time you were arrested and thrown in jail, it was because you bought some test papers and had your grades taken away. Don't do it again this time, or you won't be able to take the exam next time!"

At this moment, many candidates had complicated looks, and some looked over with hatred.

Many of the people who took the county exam this time had passed the last time, but because someone cheated, all of them had to retake the exam this year.

Although these scholars have studied hard for so many years, not everyone of them is confident that they will pass the exam.

Every year I don’t even know what the questions will be. Sometimes I feel that it is a bit of luck that I pass the exam, but who can guarantee that they will always have this kind of luck?

How many people have spent their entire lives taking exams just for fame and fortune, only to be confused by others.

To say that one has no emotions at all, one must be a saint.

Fang Jin was aware of these gazes. He suddenly panicked and quickly started to explain.

"What nonsense are you talking about! They brought me to the government office just to help me cooperate with the investigation. If there really was a problem, I should be like those people and never be able to take exams again. I only stayed in jail for a few days and then got out because I didn't cheat!"

He explained loudly, sparks flying and the tense atmosphere around him finally eased a little.

Fortunately, this is the imperial examination venue, and no students dare to cause trouble here, unless they don't want to take the exam.

Otherwise, Fang Jin would not even have time to explain and would have been beaten.

Now that everyone was no longer paying attention to him, Fang Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, he hated Fang Tong even more in his heart. He didn't know what he was so proud of. Even if Qin Yan could take the imperial examination, so what? He was still a member of the Qin family. Fang Tong was just a stepfather who married into the family.

When he thought of this, he completely forgot what kind of wife he married.

Not far away, Qin Gaofei, who was also there to take the exam, was also stunned at the back of the team. He was much more surprised than Fang Jin, and his emotions were also very strong.

Seeing Qin Yan standing in the queue to take the county exam shocked him several times more than knowing that Qin Yan and Qian Fengping's family were doing big business in the county.

Qin Shucai looked calm in the team, as he had already guessed what was going on.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his father rushing forward without a second thought, so he quickly reached out and grabbed him, looking at him expressionlessly.

"Dad, what are you going to do? Can't you see the yamen runners around? Or are you planning to cause trouble and make me fail the exam this year?"

Qin Gaofei suddenly became intimidated and behaved a lot more obediently, but his heart was boiling like a frying pan.

Soon, Qin Yan's turn came to the front of the queue, and Fang Tong also retreated far away and watched from afar.

Qin Yan handed over everything on him, and the yamen runner opened his examination basket and began to check everything one by one.

All the food and biscuits that I brought were torn open to check if there was anything stuck inside. Even the cake was broken into pieces and the meat paste had to be stirred with something inside.

Qian Fengping stood aside, touched her forehead helplessly, and whispered: "What happened to me? I can't bring things like this to the child next time."

Qin Yan, who was being examined, looked calm. The things he brought were not outrageous. These were all normal examinations. He just needed to cooperate normally. To put it bluntly, he just had to do whatever he was told to do.

"Okay, everything is fine, let your hair down."

Qin Yan untied her hair, and the bailiff reached out and touched it, and found nothing hidden, so he started the next step.

"Okay, take off your clothes and go into that little room."

Qin Yan walked into the small room in front. Outsiders could not see him here, but he could see the candidates standing in line for inspection in front. Basically, everyone had taken off all their clothes.

He saw from behind that the candidate in front of him had his buttocks spread apart by the yamen runners for a look. Although he knew that this was basically a common procedure and was mentally prepared, he was still a little nervous.

When it came to him, the yamen runners conducted a normal inspection, but did not pry him open to see. He unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

After all the checks were completed, he would stand aside, put on his clothes, take the books and put them aside, and his book basket would be taken into the examination room by the next yamen runner.

Qin Yan walked in and found his examination room. It was really very narrow. He couldn't even raise his arms. It was basically only wide enough for two people to sit.

He crawled under the table in front and found that there was only space for sitting at the back. He put the book basket aside and found that there was a clean toilet at the back that could also be used.

Other than that, there's nothing here.

He stood behind the table and first wiped the table and the place where he sat with the cloth brought to him by his family, and then took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and placed them carefully on it.

Then just wait for everyone to come in.

With so many candidates, it would take the guards at the door a while to check them all. He was at the front of the line, so he would probably have to wait for a while.

With nothing to do, he emptied his mind and tried to calm himself down. Sitting here, he unconsciously felt more nervous than outside. There was nothing he could do about it, he could only adjust on his own.

He was in a daze, and suddenly saw Fang Jin walk past him, and then sit down diagonally in front of him.

What a coincidence.

Fang Jin also saw it. He was in a bad mood and snorted coldly.

It was almost half an hour later that the gong in the examination room started to ring.

A team of yamen runners walked in neatly and stood in the corridor, basically in the middle of the passage. There would be one of them in front of three or four candidates, and they could clearly see the four people around them.

After all this was finished, the papers were distributed. Qin Yan got the paper. The first part mainly tested two essays from the Four Books and a test poem.

He first took a quick look at the questions. The first question was okay, as it was from "The Great Learning". But the second question was a splicing question, from "The Analects of Confucius". The title was "The Lord's Wife's Yang Desire", which was a bit difficult.

The moment he saw the question, his brain began to automatically think of ways to solve it, but it didn't make him frown at first glance.

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