[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

All children who take part in the county examination must fill in a form including birthplace, name, age, three-generation resume, and physical appearance to register in the county ceremonial room.In addition, the five people who took the same exam will be married to each other, and then they will be born in the county as a guarantee to ensure that they are the native place of the county, and that they have a clean background, that they are not the descendants of advocates, you, or Zaoli, and that they have no parents who have lost their parents. Candidates to apply for the exam.

Wang Yue's resume is absolutely clean, his family's ancestors were still officials, and it was easy to pass the review of the court house. As for the county clerk's birth guarantee, the private school has a group of students to take the exam every few years. If it is ready, the students don’t need to worry about it. Parents only need to prepare a gift worth two taels of silver, and then put a red envelope to the person in charge of the school. The school will do all the things like asking for a birth guarantee and so on. Qidang.

The county examination is divided into four sessions, one session per day. The examination room is in the county office, and the examiner is the magistrate of the county.Because it takes four days to take the exam, even though the county seat is very close to home, it is impossible for Wang Yue to run back and forth every day. Fortunately, the Wang family used to live in the county seat, and Wang Gou'er knew a few friends in the county seat.

Because Wang Gou'er enjoyed a few years of blessings when he was young, and was pampered by his mother at home, he couldn't bear hardships, spent money and wasted a lot, which is why his family is now down.

But there is one thing that is extremely rare for Wang Gou'er. The few friends he made were all extremely righteous, and they never ignored Wang Gou'er just because his family was in trouble.

However, because their family is not rich, they usually have no way to help the Wang family, but it is extremely easy to borrow a few days in the county.

It just so happened that Wang Gou'er had a friend who lived near the ceremonial house in the county seat, and it took only a few minutes to walk there, so the Wang family and his son lived in his house this time when they went to the city for the exam.

Wang Gou'er's friend's surname is Li, and his first name is Li Yuan. He is nicknamed Li Sanmao. Because he loves fish very much and knows how to play a three-legged cat, everyone calls him Li Sanmao. .

He is currently working as a nursing home for a large family in the county seat. The family is still well-off. When Wang Gouer and his son went to the city, he specially packed a house for Wang Gouer and his son to live in, saying that it is for Wang Yue to prepare for the exam and strive for the exam. Get a good grade.

Wang Gou'er brought Wang Yue into the city two days in advance. That night, Li Sanmao asked his family to prepare a table of delicious food for the father and son.

But it wasn't too late to worry about Wang Yue's exam, but it was just a little exhausted and they left.

Wang Gou'er and Li Sanmao made an appointment, and when Wang Yue's exam results came out, they would call other friends in the county to congratulate Wang Yue.

Li Sanmao naturally had Wang Gou'er to deal with, so Wang Yue stayed in the house to review his homework, and studied hard behind closed doors for a day. Early the next morning, when the sky was still very dark, Wang Yue and Wang Gou'er had already got up, and Wang Yue Good clothes, checked the things that were prepared in advance last night, and checked again and again that nothing was lost. Only after the father and son left the house.

Rejecting Li Sanmao's kindness to send them to the exam, the father and son took to the street.At this time, there were already many people on the street going to the ceremony room.

Because it's only February, and the capital city belongs to the north, it's three points colder than other places. Even if you're wrapped in a cotton jacket outside, it can't stop the biting cold wind.

The father and son shivered from the cold wind, quickly wrapped their clothes tightly, and walked forward with their heads buried in their heads. It took only a quarter of an hour to reach the ceremony room.

More than a dozen torches were inserted outside the ceremony room, and it seemed as if it was dawn under the light of the fire, and there were already dozens of people waiting to enter the venue outside the ceremony room. I don't know if it was because of the temperature of the torches, or because more people gathered, or It was because of nervousness that Wang Yue felt hot and short of breath all of a sudden.

"Don't worry, don't worry! Ban'er, don't worry! You just take the exam, it doesn't matter if you are good or not, you are still young!" Wang Gou'er hurriedly comforted him. When the people next to him heard his words and looked back, they were really too young. , I'm afraid they are only seven or eight years old, even Jiangnan Wenxiang rarely has such an old person. Someone couldn't help shouting: "This is too young, can you take the exam?"

When Wang Yue heard this, she felt a little upset, what's wrong with Xiao, Xiao also did better in the exam than you!

Now Wang Yue couldn't care less about being nervous, he just wanted to take the exam well so that they wouldn't dare to underestimate his own ideas.

Wang Yue glared at the person who spoke, the person looked at it, although he was angry, he didn't care about it with children, and what he said just now was indeed wrong, so he had to turn his head away angrily. , ignore here.

After a while, the door of the ceremony room was opened, and several yamen servants poured out from the ceremony room. They pushed the door and shouted: "Open the dragon gate!"

It's starting to come in.

Stimulated by this, the crowd became excited again, and the inspector in charge of inspection shouted at the crowd a few times before returning to silence, and then everyone started queuing up to enter the arena.

The family members who accompanied the candidates to take the exam also began to exhort in a low voice at this time. Wang Yue heard some threats and temptations, saying that if you fail the exam, you can do whatever you want, and if you do well in the exam, you can do whatever you want, and there are also whispers of comfort It doesn't matter if it's good or not, some people are more nervous than the examinee, and ask the examinee to comfort him instead.

The performance of the candidates is also different. Some are confident, some are nervous, some are in a trance, and some are ambitious and can joke with others. It is really a variety of exams.

Wang Yueshun's crowd stepped into the line and waited patiently.He arrived at him in a short while, and Wang Yue hurriedly greeted Wang Gou'er to withdraw. He stepped forward and stood in front of the yamen officer in charge of the search. The yamen officer searched very carefully, not only carefully referring to the portrait on the document, but also the following about him The descriptions of his appearance and body were compared one by one, and he was searched all over, the padded jacket of his coat had to be taken off, and even the snacks in the basket were crushed, lest someone would bring a cheat sheet in.

After entering the door, a group of students waited on the side first, and waited for someone inside to call their names, then entered the courtyard and lined up in several rows.

After a while, all the candidates entered the arena. There were about a thousand people, and it was crowded.

There are only so many people taking the exam this year, which is quite a lot in the vicinity of the capital, but I heard from the master in the private school that there are thousands of students in the county where the style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River is prevalent every year. Compared with the fiercely competitive Jiangnan, Wang Yue has no choice but to be grateful that she was reincarnated in the capital.

At this time, the chief examiner led the first instructor to sit down in the hall, and the first instructor gathered the guarantor students and stood under the hall, and then the first instructor called people in according to the list.

Candidates who have been called enter the lobby of the central hall to receive the test papers, sing a certain number of life insurance loudly, and sing a certain number of life insurance after being confirmed by the babysitter, and then the candidates take the roll paper and take their seats according to the seat number on the roll paper.

After Wang Yue entered the middle hall, he called out the name of the guarantor for him as instructed by the teacher in advance. The janitor immediately stood up and responded, and the instructor first handed the test paper to Wang Yue.

"What a young examinee? Can you memorize all four books and five classics?" The county magistrate saw a seven or eight-year-old child coming in, and couldn't help laughing: "Master Li is very good at governing!"

The Xuezheng official called Mr. Li also smiled and said: "This is the credit for your lord's diligent attention to Xuezheng many times since he took office. How dare your subordinates monopolize the credit?"

The two exchanged a few official accents back and forth, and Wang Yue had to stand with her, silently silent. After a while, the county magistrate remembered Wang Yue, and asked a few questions for Wang Yue to answer.

These questions are very simple. As long as you can keep calm, most candidates can basically answer them. Wang Yue has seen a lot of things in his previous life, and officials who are higher than the county magistrate have seen a lot. Naturally, he will not be afraid of the county magistrate. With Ling's power, he answered the question very smoothly.

The reason why county magistrate Liu Zhixuan asked such a simple question was because he was afraid that the examinee would be too young and frightened, and would lose face if he couldn't answer.He has no enmity with this child, why bother to offend others for nothing.

That's why Liu Zhixuan asked these simple questions, but he didn't expect the child to be so calm. He couldn't help but get excited, and the questions that followed went deeper, but he didn't expect the child to answer them very smoothly.

There were more than a dozen questions coming and going, which attracted everyone's attention to Wang Yue. If it wasn't for the reminder from the academic and political officials, the county magistrate would probably drag Wang Yue to continue answering the questions.

Waving Wang Yue to enter the arena, the county magistrate smiled and said to the academic official: "He is an excellent seedling with a solid foundation. I am afraid that the first round must be passed. If you can produce an eight-year-old scholar, it is for you For me, it’s all political achievements!”

"Yes!" The school official smiled and echoed, he knew that the county magistrate had moved the heart of nurturing the children.

But it's no wonder the county magistrate would put his mind on an eight-year-old boy. It's because Wen'an County is too close to the capital, and it's at the foot of the emperor. Even a street vendor might have a relative in the palace.

There is Shuntian Mansion on top, all affairs in the county must be reported to Shuntian Mansion, and the county magistrate dare not be self-reliant in everything, so although the risk of doing wrong things is reduced, it is extremely difficult to make credit for it.

The county magistrate assigned here seems to be very useful, but after all, he is not as free and easy as outside, and he has to be restrained when doing things.

When he first came here in the first year, the county magistrate was still full of ambitions and wanted to do a big business, but after several setbacks, he calmed down honestly.

It's just that the annual examination of the Ministry of Officials is approaching, which is related to the place where the county magistrate will take office after the expiration of his term and his promotion path, but the political achievements in the hands of the magistrate are only empty. Even if there are people behind him, I'm afraid they can only comment on it.

If the evaluation is only mid-to-low, not only is there no hope of promotion, but the next person will be assigned to those middle-level towns. How can these places be rich and easy to make political achievements?

Seeing that his road to promotion was hindered, wouldn't it make Liu Zhixuan anxious, but he didn't expect Wang Yue to appear at this time.

An eight-year-old scholar will cause a sensation even if he is placed in the south of the Yangtze River. If he can introduce an eight-year-old scholar, this will be his political achievements. If you move around, even if you can't be promoted immediately, you can find a rich place as a place of employment.

However, the academic officials also agree with the county magistrate's approach. There is a vacancy in the Imperial College. He intends to take this vacancy but suffers from the fact that he has no leverage. Jijiu's blue eyes, just a Ph.D. from the Imperial College, is not easy to catch.

Both of them pinned their hopes on Wang Yue, but at this moment, he didn't know how many people's expectations were on him, so he still took the examination papers and looked for his seat very calmly.