Take the imperial examinations with the red envelopes of the writers

Maoshi is approaching, and the sky has just revealed a fish-belly white, which blends with the faint morning mist and dyes the entire Yangzhou city.

The streets near the Gongyuan of Jiangling Mansion were already crowded with bustling candidates and their relatives sending them to the examination.

People kept coming from all directions with lanterns, and the sparks of the lanterns lit up, adding a bit of fireworks to the depressing dawn.

"Master, Young Master, we can't make it through." The coachman drove the carriage to the vicinity of the Gongyuan. There were so many people that the carriage couldn't move forward.

"It's not far away, let's get down here." Su Yan looked out the window, the white wall of the Gongyuan not far away was shrouded in the morning light, and there were many lanterns hanging on the wall, brightly illuminating it.

He raised the curtain and got out of the carriage first, opened his beautiful almond eyes, and looked at the crowd around him.

As expected of a hospital exam, he had never seen so many candidates of all kinds.

There are young green onion teenagers about his age, still childish, surrounded by their parents to give the last instructions before the exam; there are young candidates with nervous faces, holding the exam basket tightly as if they are drawing strength; there are also many bearded A middle-aged man with a wife and children by his side to take the exam for him; there is even a gray-haired old boy who still wants to take the exam with a cane, and he doesn't know how many times this is his first hospital exam.

Everyone is nervous and looking forward to this key exam that determines whether they can finally get a scholar.

It was the first time that Su Yan realized the cruelty of the imperial examinations. Some people were few champions, some were old children, some were enlisted on the gold list, and some were not named Sun Shan.

There is the happiness and chicness of "the spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day" after enrolling in the imperial examination, and there is also the loneliness and helplessness of "enduring the false name and singing it in a low voice!".

Su Yan was feeling emotional when he heard the voice of the yamen servants maintaining discipline from the side. The gate of the Tribute Court had been slowly opened, and some officials yelled loudly to ask the candidates to line up in two lines and wait for the documents to be checked before entering the venue.

Going to line up.

Su Yan took over the long ear test basket from his father Su Yue.

Well, this basket is really heavy.

The test basket is a kind of utensils specially used to hold various test supplies and food that candidates carry when they enter the imperial examination.Usually it is a multi-layered beam basket with a cover. In order to store more things in different categories, the test basket is mostly rectangular.It is not so much a test basket as it is a rattan box.In order to obtain an auspicious meaning, candidates from wealthy families will also carefully carve or inlay blessing patterns on the lid and both sides of the handle of the test basket.

Seeing his father's calm expression, Su Yan couldn't help but calm down.

He raised his head, and signaled to his father with sparkling eyes, don't worry, the little exam, no problem.

Su Yue watched his youngest son raise his head, the clear almond eyes on his white and tender face seemed to be expecting him to say some words of encouragement.

He coughed and cleared his throat, "Take the exam well!" Then he shifted his gaze to his youngest son's exam basket containing ample food, and added in a strange way: "Eat well, don't starve yourself."

"Don't worry, dad! Leaving aside the exam, starving yourself is absolutely impossible!" Su Yan puffed out her chest and replied confidently.

Little senior brother Zhou Yunwen listened to the conversation between the father and son, silently glanced at the same type of food in his test basket as Su Yan, and recalled his stunned expression when he saw the carefully prepared food by Chef Feng for the first time , I hope that other candidates in the examination room can calm down... Well, it should be possible, right?

Su Yan and Zhou Yunwen were lined up in the same line, but their expressions were relaxed, and they were particularly eye-catching among the tense-looking examinees.

It was Su Yan's turn to go in. He bent his eyes and said with a smile to Zhou Yunwen: "I'll go in first! I wish my little senior brother a title on the gold list! Success will come soon!"

"Hmm! You too! Nomination on the gold list! It's almost a success!" He patted Su Yan on the shoulder, and then watched the younger brother's back disappear into the gate of the Gongyuan.

After entering the door, Su Yan followed the people in front of him and walked for a short distance before officially entering the area of ​​the examination room, waiting for the officials standing aside to check the documents one by one.

While waiting, Su Yan looked at the Gongyuan in Jiangling Mansion with great interest.

This tribute courtyard looks like a large courtyard with a huge area, which is divided into many small courtyards arranged in an orderly manner.

Each small courtyard is divided into rows of long and narrow alleys, which are barely wide enough for two people to walk across from each other.Each row of narrow alleys is divided into an examination room with a depth of four feet and a width of three feet. This examination room is the "number room".

Finally it was Su Yan's turn. A bearded official looked at his citation documents, checked his birthplace and other personal information, and found that he was the double case leader of the county and government examinations. He immediately treated him more politely and personally He led him to the place where the pre-examination inspection was conducted.

The tall and thin officer who was waiting here had just finished picking up the luggage of the previous candidate. He was a sloppy candidate.

The official saw that Su Yan was neatly tidied from head to toe, and he was a beautiful young man with bright eyebrows and white teeth, and he did not hide his serious eyes, so he couldn't help but feel good about him, and he was very fond of him. He smiled appreciatively at Su Yan.

"Mr. Su is the double case leader of Changxi County County Examination and Minzhou Prefecture Examination. He is young and promising, and his future is immeasurable." The bearded man said to the tall and thin official, signaling him not to treat Su Yan's things roughly, and casually Just go through the process.

"Su Yan chief, nice to meet, nice to meet." The tall and thin official stood up and cupped his hands, politely took Su Yan's paperwork and registered, but just let Su Yan take off his coat and shake casually.

Su Yan also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he didn't expect that there would be such benefits in double case chiefs.He just caught a glimpse of the disheveled look of the candidate in front of him, carrying shoes, socks and an exam basket, with disheveled hair.It's great that I don't have to do that myself.

However, he still put the three-drawer examination basket on the table in front of the tall and thin official, and took the initiative to open the drawers for the official to check.

The bottom of Su Yan’s test basket box is made of pine wood, and the outside is hand-woven with solid and dense bamboo strips. The four corners of the test basket and the outer frame are also reinforced with metal components, and the bottom of the handle is engraved with delicate and simple patterns. .

In the three-drawer basket, on the top layer are roll bags made of oilcloth, brush washers, pen holders (pen holders), water bags, Langhao pens, ink sticks, inkstones and other high-quality stationery; on the middle layer, Feng Da is wrapped in oil paper The exquisite meals, bowls and chopsticks, teacups, salt, sauce vinegar, eggs and other ingredients carefully prepared by the chef are neatly arranged and exude a tempting fragrance; the bottom layer is a small cocking stove Daily necessities such as rugs, number curtains, thin quilts, pillow cushions, candles, etc., are all neatly arranged.

It really is the case!

The tall and thin official sighed in his heart, and then he flipped through Su Yan's utensils very gently, and then picked up his chopsticks and gently flipped through his various ingredients.

There are many meals that he has never seen before!

The tall and thin official was full of emotion, this chief Su is really a wonderful person.He smiled at Su Yan, indicating that the inspection was complete, returned the paperwork to Su Yan, and told him the location of the room graciously.

A powder plaque is hung on the forehead of each numbered room, and the font size is used to distinguish them.These numbered rooms are arranged according to "Tianxuandihuang..." in the thousand-character text, and of course the taboo names of saints such as "Di" and "Huang" must be excluded, as well as such ominous words as "Huang" and "Diao".

The toilets in the examination room are located at the back of each small examination room. The ventilation is not smooth, and the cleaning is not timely. The smell can be imagined.The rooms closest to the toilets are called "smelly rooms", and they are the rooms that candidates are most afraid of being allocated.To be assigned to the stinky number, unless the psychological quality is against the sky, and you can keep a clear mind to answer the questions in the stinky sky, otherwise it will probably be a dismal three-day trip to the college exam, and you can only fight again next time.

Su Yan found his number room, which was still in the middle of the third row in front, very far away from the stinky number, so he couldn't help smiling with satisfaction.

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