Quick Travel: The Long Road to Resurrection

On the day of the college examination, Honglian Luqi still got up in the middle of the night to cook breakfast and bring food to the examination room.

When they arrived at the place, Lin Ning got off the carriage. First, someone came to check the items brought by the candidates.

First, he carefully inspected Lin Ning's test basket, including the pens, ink, and food inside. Then, he untied the cloth from his bun and carefully inspected every strand of hair, and then his clothes, shoes, and socks.

Lin Ning felt that this moment was simply the most embarrassing time in his life.

After confirming that everything was correct, I wrapped my hair with a cloth towel and a hair tie, straightened my clothes, and waited for the academic administration to call my name.

Lin Ning heard his name being called by the academic administration and immediately entered the examination room.

Obviously the atmosphere was different this time. When the test questions were handed out, Lin Ning remained the same, working hard.

Still before noon, he was finished.

When it was time to hand in the paper, he walked up quickly, handed it in, and walked out with the test basket in hand.

Went out and got on the carriage and returned to the yard to rest.

Let’s talk about college examinations. In order to prevent examiners from practicing favoritism, candidates’ test papers are sealed with their names affixed.

After the college examination, the admitted candidates also need to fill in their age, place of origin, height, appearance and characteristics. The seal will be issued by the academic officials of each state and county, and then reported to the academic administration.

When the day came for the results, the Lin family's servants had been waiting early in the morning.

Of course, he won the prize, and Lin Ning went to attend the Hairpin Banquet again.

The next step is to prepare for the preliminaries before the provincial examination. Only if you meet the requirements can you take the provincial examination.

The rural examination is held every three years and is held on Zi, Wu, Mao and You. It is called the Zhengke.

For celebrations such as the emperor's longevity and enthronement, an additional number will be added, which is called enke.

If the year of the celebration coincides with the year of Zhengke, the Zhengke of that year will be changed to Enke, and the original Zhengke will be moved forward one year, or postponed one year.

The year of the Provincial Examination can be called the year of the Great Competition. It is held in August, so it is called Qiuwei.

The rural examination is divided into three sessions, with the ninth, twelfth and fifteenth days being the main session.

Candidates must enter the examination room one day before each session.

The examination room for the rural examination is called Gongyuan. The Gongyuan in each province is built in the southeast of the provincial capital. During the examination, the army will be stationed around the Gongyuan in sections and patrol back and forth.

Gongyuan examiners are divided into chief examiners and deputy examiners, one from each province, responsible for propositions, grading, and admission. Both of them are appointed by the emperor and are exclusively officials with Imperial Academy backgrounds. Most of them are ministers, cabinet bachelors, Hanlin Academy...

Besides, the examination room rules for the provincial examination are more stringent than before. Not only before the examination, candidates must be checked to see if they are involved, but also after the examination.

As for the clothes, shoes and socks worn by candidates, it is stipulated that they must wear unstitched clothes, single-layer shoes and socks, furs cannot have sides, and blankets cannot have linings.

The inkstone should not be too thick, the pen tube must be hollowed out, the wax stand must be hollow and have a bottom, and any food containing cakes or steamed buns must be cut open and inspected.

In short, it is not comparable to the previous exam.

The nearest official year is next year, so Lin Ning took his servants back to the Lin Mansion in Kyoto.

Daiyu received Lin Ning's letter and happily opened it. It was the news that he would return to Beijing soon.

Daiyu said with tears in her eyes: "Ning'er is finally coming back."

Mu Chan echoed: "The young master is back home, so that the girl won't have to worry about him all the time."

Immediately ordered the maid to clean Lin Ning's yard carefully again.

He also ordered the boy to wait at the port day and night, for fear of missing Lin Ning's disembarkation.

After a few more days,