You’re such a nuisance, I have to be woken up by you every time!” The demoness on the bed’s slender jade hand stretched out beyond the quilt rubbing her sleepy eyes and snapped.
The young girl opened her dark eyes but found that Zhu Pingan had already put on his clothes and was about to go out, those strange cloth bags that he usually carries were not sat on his back, neither was the piece of broken wooden board, and he brought nothing with his empty hands, so he could not help but be very curious.
“What are you doing with empty hands?” The young girl asked curiously.
“The government test is open, I go to take the test, on the table I left a hundred Wen Qian, three meals a day you are responsible for it, in and out pay more attention to some.” Zhu Pingan turned back and instructed, and was about to leave.
“How come you don’t take anything for the exam?” The young girl on the bed questioned one after another, “Aren’t you known as a rice bucket Zaiyu, and how come you don’t even bring a pen to the exam?”
“The Prefectural Exam is different from the County Exam, we are only allowed to bring one examination guide, the rest are not allowed, our own examination centre is responsible for providing it.” Zhu Pingan faintly returned.
“Oh, test a scholar back oh” said the young girl on the bed smilingly looking at Zhu Pingan.
“You sister, this is just a government test!
Zhu Pingan closed the door of the room speechlessly and went downstairs.
The eldest uncle and other students got up early in the lobby and called for another table of good wine and good food, and called on every student who knew the government examination, exhortation, pride and enjoyment. Zhu Pingan also enjoyed a rare encouragement from his eldest uncle, even though a glance could tell that his eldest uncle’s heart was not in the right place.
Zhu Pingan along with the crowd to go to the examination room, the street is crowded, endless, Anqing government also deployed a lot of magistrates and sergeants stand in the street all over the maintenance of order.
The examination room of the government examination is obviously much better than the county examination, this is a big mansion, on which hangs a plaque with the inscription “Anqing government examination room”. At a quarter past dawning, the gate of the courtyard was opened, and all the scholars were divided into four rows according to the examination guide under the command of the government officials and the sergeants, and they were inspected in turn, and the inspection was quite careful, and anything except the examination guide was blocked out of the gate.
Outside the gate did not see their own townspeople students, to see the Tongcheng XiaLuoming and others encountered some time ago, XiaLuoming and others seem to be quite confident, see ZhuPingPing vaguely still have a contest than the look, each other hit a face, distant salute, with their respective teams entered the gate.
After entering the gate, under the leadership of the four lantern-carrying officers, the four rows of students went to the four examination centres. At the entrance of the examination centre, there was a simple cloth-mantled fence, and every candidate entering the examination centre had to go to the cloth-mantled fence to be checked before entering.
Zhu Ping arranged in the team also followed into the cloth mantle to accept the inspection, the cloth mantle has four sergeants in charge of the inspection, to take off shoes and socks open clothes inspection, strict prevention of entrapment, even the clothes sandwich is also a careful inspection, fortunately allowed to wear a lingerie rough check, otherwise it would be a little embarrassing.
After entering the examination room by the special responsible for guiding the seat, the seat is a small independent room, can only accommodate a table and a chair only, three walls in front of the four wide open. Seats are arranged according to the results of the county examination, Zhu Pingan also divided into a good seat, far away from the toilet, stove and so on.
After Zhu Pingan sat down, some people brought the ink, paper and inkstones needed for this exam as well as the test papers one after another.
There are three exams in total, the first exam is on the Four Books and Five Classics, which lasts for one day. The Four Books and Five Classics exam is simple, mainly divided into two parts, the first part is to write an eight-legged essay based on the topics in the Four Books, and the second part is to test the memorisation of the Four Books and Five Classics, and the exam questions will specify the passages to be written silently to explain their meaning and reasoning.
Seeing the test questions, Zhu Pingan already had a good idea. The second part of the recitation is Zhu Pingan’s speciality, and Zhu Pingan can recite the passages mentioned in the test; the first part of the question is not difficult, although Zhu Pingan has not tried to solve the problem in his spare time, but he can solve the problem appropriately and correctly.
During the examination period, you can rest three times a day, someone will send food and water, although the food in the examination room is a meat and a vegetarian combination, but the taste is far from good, even the soup is also not available, stop there is a bowl of water, but just barely to eat.
In the middle of the examination, Zhu Pingan went to the toilet twice, to pull the small bell next to the table, to ask for permission to be allowed, each time there are special people to follow, no matter you are squatting toilet or urinating, these people are not moving an inch, and do not mind the panic of smoke.
At dusk, one after another people hand in the paper, Zhu Pingan will be the book of the examination paper carefully checked again and again to confirm that there are no omissions before pulling the side of the small bell, some people over to ask what is the matter, know that after handing in the paper, there are two people over, one of them is responsible for a piece of white paper will be the examination paper of personal information paste, will paste the name of the examination paper in a wooden similar to the lunch box box; the other person is responsible for Zhu Pingan desk pen, ink, paper, ink and so on, and so on. The other person is responsible for Zhu Ping An’s desk of pen, ink, paper and inkstones and all other things are all received in the basket mentioned, only by the inspector to signify the yamen over to lead Zhu Ping An to leave, outside the setting sun has set the mountain.
Zhu Pingan just out of the examination room will see Tongcheng XiaLuoming and other people have been in the examination room outside the chat, see Zhu Pingan at this time out of the examination room, XiaLuoming and other people can not help but have a smug look.
“How is this field for Xian brother Zhu?” Feng Shanshui walked up and enquired.
“The questions have been done to the best of my ability.” Zhu Pingan replied with a simple smile.
“Finished the questions wouldn’t that be a sure thing, heh heh heh, then I would like to congratulate Xian Di Zhu in advance for making it to the A list again.” Feng Shanshui arched his hand and smiled.
“How dare I, it’s enough to just ask for Sun Shan.” Zhu Pingan said with a simple smile.
The name of Sun Shan is the list, Sun Shan is the last one on the list, show your heart, do not want what A list, as long as you can go on the B list is enough. Anyway, the government test is also the qualification examination of the hospital test, good or not, second or not, as long as there is so quota is also enough. The court examination is the real main event, why rush for a moment it.
“Hehe, but I dare to bet that Zhu Xian Di will be able to pass the high school A list in this government test.” Feng Shanshui smiled and waved his folding fan, quite a bit of Zhuge legacy.
“Heh heh heh,” other people have laughed without saying anything.
“I but do not dare, huh, that also in advance congratulate a few brothers in the gold list, little brother can not withstand the hardship of the examination room, and first go to the inn to rest.” They were obviously waiting for someone, besides, they were not familiar with each other, so Zhu Pingan did not stop being an eyesore there, so he arched his hand and bid farewell.
“Hahaha, Xian brother Zhu is afraid that he can’t tolerate the examination centre meal and went to find some wine and food for himself.” Feng Shanshui said with a smile.
When the crowd heard Zhu Pingan say that he was going to the inn to rest, and also heard Feng Shanshui laugh that Zhu Pingan couldn’t endure the food at the examination centre, they couldn’t help but think of Zhu Pingan’s title of “rice bucket” and “Zai Yu”, and all of them couldn’t help but laugh.
“Unfortunately, Brother Feng was right.” Zhu Pingan turned back with a sprightly naive smile, and in the midst of the laughter of the crowd Shi Shi left the examination room, leaving the crowd with a cyan coloured back.
