In response to this situation, Dajiang had the foresight to take the initiative to walk behind. He had long been accustomed to it. Everyone said that scholars looked down upon each other, but one also had to see who it was.
Gentlemen like his third brother-in-law, who have extraordinary talents, are not arrogant about their talents, and are willing to answer questions and give advice. The three talented men in the county school have been defeated.
What's more, these classmates who still live nearby can no longer catch his third brother-in-law on weekdays. When they are not in the county school, they go back to the village. It would be strange not to ask for advice at this time.
However, Gu Wenyu, who was accidentally squeezed to the back, was left speechless.
Even though we saw how popular his cousin was yesterday afternoon, did everyone forget that the annual exam is coming soon?
Fortunately, during the previous exchanges, questions followed questions, and answers followed answers. No one stopped, and finally we arrived in front of the county school gate.
At this point, if you want to enter, you must first check your identity before being allowed in.
Even if he is a familiar face but does not have a wooden sign representing a registered student in the county school, he still cannot get in. It is useless to have a classmate vouch for it, because the concierge is very stubborn.
Especially today.
Although the identity verification step is different from the scientific examination, it is still easy to pass as usual by taking out the wooden sign issued by the county school.
It's just that when you enter the county school, it will be much more rigorous than the monthly exam.
As long as you are near the academy area today, except for the test basket, no other items are allowed to be brought into the examination room, not even a bite of food.
The subordinate staff and yamen who were guarding the school today had only one front door open to pass through. They also had to be searched just like the previous county examinations, but their attitude was much better.
Of course, the main reason is that for this reason, the candidates have experienced many battles and are very proficient in stripping and hairdressing, and no one wants to cheat with cheat sheets in the base camp.
If I take a scientific examination in another place and get caught cheating with cheat sheets, I can still pretend to be an ostrich, but I get caught in the county school?
I really have no face to face my parents in my hometown.
After all, he finally became a scholar, but failed in a mere year-round examination. Not only was he expelled from his academic career, he also brought shame to the county school, and the consequences were even more unimaginable.
At worst, he would be despised by his teachers and classmates; at worst, it would be easy to deal with the county magistrate, Jiaoyu and others, and not allowing him to die as an apology would only add insult to injury.
The county magistrate who ruined his family, the prefect who exterminated his family.
In short, it's over. Not to mention family members, everyone in the tribe will be implicated. It's better to take the annual exam honestly. If you don't do well in the exam, you won't be expelled from your honor.
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and it's not worth taking the risk to grab a junior student spot either emotionally or rationally.
So the process of entering the examination room was smooth and fast this time. Soon, Gu Wenxuan entered the academy and found his seat.
Of course, this is partly due to the small number of candidates, but apart from not having to be locked up in a small cell to take exams, the number of tables and chairs in the classroom has also been reduced by half.
Super spacious.
Much more comfortable.
Needless to say, Ojiang was in the same class as him and was one of the top ten junior students. Just like the monthly exam, his uncle and uncle were separated again.
But Gu Wenyu?
They were in the same classroom examination room as him, and he sat in the front and middle seat, while Gu Wenyu happened to be in the last seat in the first row after entering.
However, before it was time to close the door and ring the bell to hand out papers, the examiners from the province, accompanied by the masters, were already patrolling the place, and the candidates were not allowed to look around. Gu Wenxuan, who was sitting in the front row in the middle, felt that it was even harder to turn around and take a look. The only thing he could like was that the county school had another big exam this year.
——Every candidate who is not allowed to bring in cloaks and is only allowed to wear the "school uniform" issued by the county school will receive a brand new thick cotton robe this time, regardless of whether he or she is a child.
It has to be said that Chengxian Yu is still very talented.
Ever since Cheng County Magistrate became the head of the Qingyang County School, the welfare benefits of students have been significantly improved. It is said that he is responsible for the large number of books in the library.
Although most of these resources come from gifts from local squires, the county school's current welfare benefits are still inseparable from this person's prestige.
Compared with the county magistrate who once served as a county magistrate in other places, the county magistrate who is still in office seems to have done nothing. He has been in office for many years and has been unable to suppress a mere county magistrate.
To put it in his wife's words, this parents-in-chief was just unlucky. It happened that the children of his generation took the college entrance exams and did very well, so he had a lot of political achievements.
Regardless of mentioning it, the county magistrate will not leave at the end of the year and will leave after the new year. But at this time, we are waiting for this order to close the door, hand out papers and start the exam.
Gu Wenxuan didn't know how long he had been waiting. Since he couldn't look around, he simply let go of his mind, didn't think about anything, closed his eyes and waited.
The exam finally started.
Exam questions?
After getting the paper and opening it, Gu Wenxuan's first impression was that compared to last year, this year's exam questions were not difficult, but the questions were very tricky.
The exam has just started on the first day, and it is necessary to verify whether the candidates have missed any corner of the Four Books and Five Classics while familiar with them.
It’s not difficult to say sincerely. Most of the test questions are very biased, but they can be found in the Four Books and Five Classics, so they can’t be considered out of line.
The examiners who set the questions are talented people.
At the same time, the number of questions is overwhelming.
The person who answered the questions and drafted the rice paper seemed to be free of charge. This was not a gift from the local squire. How rich could the imperial treasury be?
It's easy to pay taxes as a common people just by taking the annual exam. Or is it because the county magistrate didn't want to do it and deliberately didn't leave any wealth for the next county magistrate?
It was not even the third day, but Gu Wenxuan had a hunch that the number of questions in this year's annual exam must be in line with the number of questions in the provincial exam, but the provincial exam only lasted three days.
The examiners who set the questions are really talented!
Just for the amount of questions today, I either had to write so hard that I broke into a hot sweat, or I had to think so hard that I couldn't think of anything, so I broke out in a cold sweat.
Shaking his head secretly, Gu Wenxuan, who thought he was very compassionate, didn't dare to think about it any more. Otherwise, if he won the first place in this year's exam, he would not be able to face his wife!
In the examination room separated by a wall, Dajiang was much more serious than his third brother-in-law, and his inner drama was not as rich as his third brother-in-law's.
After getting the paper, he read it from beginning to end. Once again, he was secretly lucky that he had a good brother-in-law. He was always worried that he would become arrogant, so he thought of ways to find out the wrong questions to train him.
Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?
If the difficulty of the test questions in the next two days is similar, I might be able to get in the top five, and then give it another try. Maybe I can try it out in August next year.
If she had been more successful and had won the exam a year earlier, the burden on the third sister would have been lighter, and she would not have been supporting her parents' family now that her nephew was about to be born.
What does it look like to not be able to support the third sister, but to keep dragging the third sister down. (End of chapter)