The Jade in the Red Chamber is the Royal Courtyard

"I, I!" The person who had originally scolded the old gentleman was speechless all of a sudden, and even he didn't dare to say anything. If he was really kicked out by Tonghua Academy, how could he be with him? The family explained that the old man in the family must not beat him to death.

"Hmph! Since you don't even dare to speak, why are you asking nonsense? Why don't you back down!" the old man said coldly. "Since you want to enter Tonghua College, you have to abide by the rules of Tonghua College. If you don't want to be in Tonghua College, leave immediately!" The old gentleman continued with a cold glance at the students in front of him.

The students looked at each other in blank dismay, and they didn't dare to say anything. The rigor of Tonghua College had already awed the group of people.

"Now, except for the person I mentioned who will enter the inner court for the exam first, the rest of the people are giving me the time to stand for three incense sticks. Remember to stand uprightly, and if anyone is still lazy, just go back. Let's go." The old gentleman simply motioned to the book boy beside him to bring him a chair, and sat under a lush tree with his eyes closed to rest his mind. There was also a book boy holding an umbrella for the old man and even a book boy for the old man. holding tea.

The few people who have passed the customs have already entered the inner courtyard directly under the guidance of the staff of Tonghua Academy, and some of the other people who are still suffering are deliberately walking in front of them with their heads held high.

Jia Baoyu was already exhausted. How had he ever suffered such pain?At home, even if your steps are a little stronger when you are walking, the maid will say: "Second Master, slow down!" Zhong has never suffered such pain before, just now he sat on the ground regardless of his identity, hoping to enter Tonghua Academy, but he didn't expect that old man to let them stand for three incense sticks, Jia Baoyu had long greeted the old man's eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart.

Thousands of old people, ten thousand old people scolded hundreds of times in my heart.It's almost noon now, Jia Baoyu is sweating profusely and is tired and hungry, and wants to quit, but seeing the people around him gritted their teeth, there's nothing he can do about it Yes, I had no choice but to forcefully support my shaking legs, one stick of incense, two sticks of incense... Finally someone couldn't hold it anymore, and burst into tears, the old man waved his hand and the staff came up He helped the man up and called out the book boy who was standing there beside him to let them leave Tonghua Academy quickly.

Jia Baoyu's eyes were about to spurt blood, and he looked at the departing people with envious and jealous eyes. He wanted to leave so much, but he didn't dare. Finally, someone couldn't support them again, and seemed to have passed out on the ground. The people from Tonghua Academy seemed to drag the person out quickly, and asked the book boy to take him away. More and more people passed out , the people in Tonghua Academy became more and more busy, and when Jia Baoyu finally made up his mind to pretend to pass out, he heard the person who reported the number shout: "Three incense sticks are over!" The person seemed to pass out but got up all of a sudden.

As if he didn't see it, the old gentleman slowly opened his eyes and said indifferently: "This time it's not bad, the first test is considered to be passed, took them to the inner courtyard, and called the second group to come in." .” The old gentleman stood up, turned around and went into the room, as if preparing to welcome the second batch of candidates.

Jia Baoyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, if he hadn't shouted that the third stick of incense had arrived, he might be the next person to faint.

Jia Baoyu dragged his exhausted body slowly into the inner courtyard. It was already ten o'clock in the noon, and the inner courtyard was very cool. There were all kinds of pavilions, towers, pavilions, rockery and other things in the courtyard, but in the middle of the courtyard there was A few luxuriant trees cover the middle of the yard, and beside it are rockery and pavilions stretching into the distance.

"Students have worked hard, let's take a rest here and have lunch before taking the exam!" The examinees became nervous again just after leaving the cool courtyard. They didn't know what the second set of exam questions was, but they didn't expect Heard such a sound like the sounds of nature.

"Lunch?" The eyes of many students lit up in a flash. Everyone didn't expect this. They thought that they would not be exhausted today, but they didn't expect that this academy is very humane and prepares for everyone. lunch.

"It's just under the big tree. Everyone has it. Everyone must eat well." The staff of Tonghua Academy continued to smile and said, with a bit of sly look in their eyes. Except for the students staring at the staff of Tonghua Academy, the rest of the people didn't notice anything.They were all whispering, and then the three of them sat on the stone benches under the big tree in groups of two, waiting for the people from Tonghua Academy to serve them.

The staff of Tonghua Academy smiled slightly and waved their hands lightly, and immediately a few servants came out with wooden barrels or dustpans in their hands, and now a large coarse porcelain bowl was placed in front of all the students Immediately afterwards, a pot of millet porridge was placed on the stone table, and then a dustpan made of wattle woven by farmers was placed. Pickle sticks, the only good thing is another small enamel basin filled with eggs.

"Everyone can eat!" After saying this, the smiling staff member of Tonghua College smiled slightly, then turned and left.

"Just feed us something like this? What's going on in this Tonghua Academy?" Everyone, look at me, I look at you looking at these things on the table and lose your appetite. There are only a few students who should be commoners Seeing these things turned out to be full of joy. Those few commoner students failed the first test because they were dazzled by the high-spirited talk of those elders. After the three incense sticks of time just now After waking up, these commoner students simply came together, and there was another person with the commoner students, that is, the son who supervised the censor Xing. This son was originally standing well, but The person behind him was Jia Baoyu. Jia Baoyu couldn't stand anymore, and felt embarrassed to sit down, so he dragged Mr. Xing to sit down with him. Mr. Xing didn't want to sit down at first, but he heard that Jia Baoyu is the son of the Rongguo Mansion who was born with jade in his hand. He fell in love with him out of curiosity, but he didn't expect that because of this haha, he would stand for three more incense sticks for no reason.

Mr. Xing secretly resented that he shouldn't be disturbed by such a novelty, so he simply walked together with those poor students, because these poor students are the only ones who have a normal heart. Just get mixed up among the young masters.

These poor students gathered together, and everyone looked at each other and laughed when they saw these things. They saw that the servants were the only ones who added porridge, some picked up eggs and shared the food equally with everyone, and some were distributing coarse food. Noodles, and some people even said how to match these words and things to taste the best.The porridge is the most common millet porridge, the pancakes are the thickest rough noodle pancakes, the pickles are also pickled radish sticks@子, and only the eggs are boiled in plain water.But Mr. Xing tasted something sweet like never before.

"What is this?" Baoyu looked at the eggs and asked in surprise. He had eaten eggs, but he had never seen an egg with a shell. The eggs he ate were either boiled in brine or steamed. In short, there are many tricks, so I don't know this thing that hasn't been shelled at all.

"Eggs!" Another person picked it up, stretched out his hand, broke the shell, and then opened it to eat. This person is from a small rich family, but he knows that the white water eggs are not as luxurious as Baoyu's family.

"Is it delicious?" Baoyu asked again foolishly.

"It's not delicious!" The man frowned tightly, "This is just swallowing it, and it's choking!" Just as he was talking, the man was choked by the egg yolk, so he quickly filled a bowl of millet porridge and drank it .

"What is this?" Baoyu asked looking at the original millet porridge.

"Millet porridge, this one...well, don't you want to eat some?" The little rich man thought it was a little funny seeing Baoyu's silly look, so he put a bowl of millet porridge in front of Baoyu, and Baoyu picked it up. With a thick enamel spoon, I reached out and stirred it in the bowl, then drank it in my stomach. "Puchi!" Baoyu couldn't help but vomited on the ground! "What, what is this? Why is it so unpalatable!" Baoyu panicked.

The man looked at Baoyu in surprise, not understanding why such sweet millet porridge turned into something unpalatable in Baoyu's mouth. "This millet porridge is not bad!" The man said a little at a loss.

"Forget it, forget it, this thing is so loud that it is still talking, this Tonghua Academy is really embarrassing!" Baoyu said with emotion.

But I didn’t want Baoyu’s emotion to attract some dandy’s consecutive praises. Some rough pancakes were broken and still scattered everywhere, and those eggs were also broken, or they were still on the ground. They were originally good. The courtyard is now a mess.

"The second exam is now over!" The staff of Tonghua College suddenly appeared in front of everyone and shouted loudly.

Everyone was surprised at once, and looked at the staff of Tonghua College as they walked around the tables and kept nodding their heads as if they were thinking about something.

"This? What is the second test?" Some students quietly asked the people next to them.