A Timely Wife

During the next few days, the three of Li Ruosong studied and prepared for the exam in their respective rooms. Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize brought three meals a day to the room. They completely ignored the sarcastic remarks of the students outside. This point makes people outside slowly shut up, think about it, if you hit the opponent once, and the opponent returns, you can continue to hit the opponent a second time, but if you hit the opponent once, twice, three times Next, the other party ignores you, no matter whether it is looking down on the other party or annoyed by the other party's ignorance, they have no interest in bullying people, and the date of the exam is getting closer and closer, these people also need to prepare for the exam of.

Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize went to get the number plates of the three of them. Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan had already passed the examination of scholar last year. Although the test scores of the two were not outstanding, they both passed the test. At the beginning of the year, the two were happy to accompany Li Ruosong to participate in Enke.

No one else took part in last year's Tongsheng Examination in Liujiagou. It wasn't that these children didn't want to take the exam, but that the Yueweitang was completed not long ago. Except for Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan, the others just took part. It's useless, it's better to study hard for another two years, and then take it when the next exam starts.

When Chou Shi, Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize woke up Li Ruosong and the other three, they washed their faces with cold water, and walked to the Gongyuan with the salutes they had packed the day before.

At this time the sky was still dark, Wang Ziqing was walking in front, carrying a lantern in his hand, Li Ruosong was carrying his own package, holding Li Ruoshan in his left hand, Zhou Jinyan in his right hand, and Wang Zize in the back. Keep several people safe.

At three o'clock in the ugly hour, a group of five people came to the gate of Qingjiang Mansion Tribute Courtyard. A row of lanterns was hung in front of the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, illuminating the front area brightly. It was not too early for Li Ruosong and others to go out. Many candidates were waiting there with lanterns.

There are two rows of soldiers standing at the gate of the Gongyuan, which are used to maintain order. Every soldier stands there with high spirits and serious expressions. Li Ruosong is also a person who has led soldiers. The generals had a good impression.

On the left side of the gate stood a few middle-aged men in academic and political attire. Li Ruosong knew that these people were the examiners who were checking the candidates' salute at the gate. If there was anything involved in the salute, the candidate could go home directly.

Li Ruosong and the other five were also waiting there quietly. At Yinshi, the gate of the tribute courtyard opened, and the examinees lined up in an orderly row and entered the tribute courtyard one by one. Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize stood there consciously and did not follow. Without leaving, Li Ruosong asked Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan to stand in front of him, and the three followed the queue slowly forward.

From time to time, candidates were driven out by the soldiers at the gate. Some candidates were driven out with a guilty conscience and ran away in despair with their parcels covering their faces. Some candidates were very arrogant and kept making noises at the gate of the Gongyuan. But they were carried out by the soldiers with their arms, and those who made a lot of noise were taken away by the yamen servants. It is estimated that they will not be able to get out for three to five days.

Some ulterior candidates followed behind and left the queue, and some who felt that they couldn't be checked out pretended to be calm and stood in the queue. Although there were some small episodes from time to time, the overall order was still orderly.

"Floating tickets." Xuezheng said.

Li Ruosong took out the floating ticket from his pocket, offered it with both hands, and said, "Please check."

Xuezheng raised his eyes and glanced at Li Ruosong, only to see the three characters Li Ruosong written in the middle of the floating ticket, on the right was written 21 years old, tall and faceless, and on the left was written No. [-]. Xuezheng read the words on the floating ticket , looked at Li Ruosong carefully again, and said, "Bring the package."

Li Ruosong took off the package and offered it with both hands, saying, "Please check."

Xuezheng opened the package in front of Li Ruosong and carefully inspected it. There were not many things in Li Ruosong's package, including two sets of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, two sets of clothes, six pieces of bread, and one water bag.Xuezheng inspected very carefully. All pens, inks, papers and inkstones were inspected one by one. But I looked at it bit by bit, and all the noodles were broken into small pieces, and the water bag was opened directly to pour out the water inside, and then filled it for Li Ruosong after checking.

"Go in." Xuezheng waved his hand and let Li Ruosong go in.

Li Ruosong took his package, tied the knot again and walked inside.

Inside the tribute courtyard is a long passageway, with a soldier standing every few steps on both sides. Everyone is looking at the candidates walking in the middle of the road. It seems that as long as the candidates make a little movement, they will take action Same.If you are a little more courageous, you may be so frightened that your legs will go limp before you go inside.

However, Li Ruosong is used to being stared at by such good-looking people. You must know that the gang of Yanwutang in Liujiagou are much more powerful than these soldiers. People can definitely win against these soldiers.As for Li Ruosong, who has been the captain of the squadron, although he looks gentle, he seems to be just a scholar, but according to Chengdong's words, Li Ruosong is the standard type who looks thin in clothes and fleshy in clothes, and he must not be caught by Li Ruosong. That gentle face was deceived, if he really started to fight, Li Ruosong, who was black, accurate and ruthless, would have no problem hitting five at a time.

Li Ruosong, who was calm and composed, walked all the way to the innermost room. This is the second inspection. Candidates who check here must all take off their clothes. Li Ruosong obeyed the examiner's request and took off their clothes one by one. The inspection is also extremely detailed, even the buttocks have to be looked at.

Speaking of this kind of inspection, it is not that the examiners deliberately insulted these candidates, but because of helplessness, a group of candidates who were entrained in the previous imperial examinations were always caught, some with writing on their clothes, some on their bodies, and some Some are made into interlayers of clothes, some are made into booklets, the smallest booklet is only as big as a knuckle of the middle finger, and some candidates wrap the cheat sheet with a tarpaulin and put it in the valley road, with a thin rope on the outside. After leaving the examination room, you can pull out the cheat sheet by pulling the rope.

What is even more admirable is the examinee who cheats by passing letters with flying pigeons. I met such an examinee last year. He sent the questions home with pigeons. Answer one by one, and then send it back with a carrier pigeon, but the truth is one foot tall and the magic height is ten feet high. No matter what method these candidates use to cheat, they will always be spotted by the examiners. Someone has tried and failed.

After checking all of Li Ruosong's things, he entered his number room smoothly. I remember that before coming here, Chengdong said to himself with sympathy that you were going to stay in the birdcage for several days. What did he say at that time, yes, It seems to say that it's okay, just stick to it and it will pass.

But now Li Ruosong feels that he may not be able to hold on. He is used to the new gadgets made by Chengdong at home, such as the thing called the toilet. After washing his hands, he flushes it with water, and it is clean and has no peculiar smell. Now let’s look at the bird cage. Li Ruosong was a little bit moved by the pungent smell of the barrels that had been used by countless people. This is what the ancients said that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

Candles are distributed uniformly by the Tribute Court. After the candles are distributed, the examiners will also distribute the exam questions. A soldier stands next to each number room to prevent the candidates in the number room from doing things like flying pigeons to pass letters. It's an extra layer of regulation.

Li Ruosong felt a little sympathetic to these soldiers. Although he was suffering a bit, he still had a stool to sit on and a bed behind which, even though it was rudimentary, he could still sleep. These soldiers were even more miserable. They could only stand there until someone came to follow them. He changes shifts.

With the sound of a gong, Enke's first history examination began. Li Ruosong opened the examination questions and took a look. He chose three of the five questions. The Nine Worlds have their own opinions on the emphasis on the outside and the inside. The second topic is that Zhu Qing used his skills without the intention of applying for business, and Wang Lin used the fact of applying for business but concealed his name theory. The third topic is Jiaorong and Jin Li Ruosong didn't look at the next two topics. He felt that these three topics were very suitable for him, and he didn't need to continue to make other choices.

The idea of ​​the first question is to suppress vassals. During the fifth Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty was still in the stage of external expansion, so the frontier soldiers were more powerful. By the time of Qin IX, the vassal kings were quite powerful and had already threatened the rule of Qin IX. Then, Qin Jiushi took a series of measures to reduce the vassal, which virtually eliminated a military disaster that was very likely to come.

The idea of ​​the second topic is to discuss the law. Zhu Qing was a cruel official under Qin II. Although he was not as ruthless as Shang Yang, he adopted Shang Yang's method. Because it was too strict, he was eventually beaten to death by the people under his jurisdiction. , and although Wang Lin used the heavy laws of the Legalists, he firmly refused to admit that he was using the Legalist ideas, but strictly followed the laws of the Great Qin Dynasty. Although the people complained a lot, no one dared to question them.

The idea of ​​the third topic is to control barbarians with barbarians. Jiaorong is a nomadic people with very strong military strength around the Qin Dynasty. In the middle of Qin Dynasty, the national power declined, and Jiaorong colluded with another military power, Jin Dynasty, to attack Daqin. The emperor of Daqin at that time was Qin VII. Although the emperor did not have any outstanding literary and martial arts during his reign, he handled this matter very skillfully. He directly sent envoys to discuss an alliance with Beifan. Jiao Rong happened to be in the middle of Da Qin, and this hand-to-hand attack was very successful. Jiao Rong surrendered in less than three months. Half of the land was given to Bei Fan, and the other half was merged into Da Qin. Very confident, he quickly wrote his answer, dried the ink, and knocked on the small gong in front of him. After a while, an examiner came over. He was a little surprised to see that Li Ruosong had written the answer so quickly. He looked Li Ruosong up and down, Li Ruosong stood there with a calm expression and let the examiner look at him.

The examiner saw that Li Ruosong's eyes were calm and did not look away, so he nodded secretly in his heart and asked, "Should I take a break or continue answering the questions?"

"Continue to answer the questions." Li Ruosong replied.

The examiner didn't say much, but gave Li Ruosong the questions of the second exam.