County Examination

The next day, before dawn, An Chuxia woke up in a daze when she heard someone walking in the yard.

Hearing Gu Fangmiao's even breathing, he did not light the light. He took his clothes from the bedside and groped on it, opened the door and walked out.

"Xiao Xia, you are awake. Is it because we are too disturbing to you?" Gu asked with his head spread out from the kitchen with flour.

"Without a teacher's wife, it's still late, so we should get up too."

An Chuxia walked into the kitchen and saw Gu's pancakes. She asked in confusion: "My wife got up so early to pancakes!"

An Chuxia, who had not experienced the ancient examinations personally, did not realize the cruelty of the ancient imperial examinations.

Gu Shi shoveled the last few cakes out of the pot and put them in the basin, and then replied: "Because you are not allowed to go to the clean room during the exam, and you cannot eat or drink more in the morning.

So you have to bring food and water and wait until you rest before you can eat.

Even if there is any inconvenience, if you endure it, the county exam will be almost over.”

An Chuxia not only saw Gu in the kitchen, but also An Jinchen who was burning fire in front of the stove, "Brother, you got up so early too?"

Gu pushed An Chuxia and handed her a basin of warm water, "Take it out and wash it up!

Your brother got up earlier than me, just to give you a few delicious braised pork, so that you can take it to grab it in the pancakes."

After saying that, Gu went to the west room to pull out the lazy guy from his house from the bed.

"Stupid girl, get up quickly, they can't sleep even if they take the exam.

You are so happy that you sleep like a pig, and you still need someone to shout!"

Gu Fangmiao sat up with Gu's strength, stretched her waist, and then said loudly: "Grandma, it was because she was too nervous last night and couldn't sleep, so she woke up late today.

If Sister An hadn't filmed me asleep last night, I might not have been able to get up today."

Gu pointed at his granddaughter's forehead with his finger and said with a look of regret: "You have the nerve to say, get up quickly! Your sister An is almost finished washing up.

Then you will waste time because of you, let’s see how your grandfather dealt with you!”

Thinking of Gu Fang's dark face, thinking of her grandfather's black face, Gu saw her granddaughter get up and walked out of the room to work on something else.

Gu Fangmiao combed her hair and just walked out of the house, she saw Runsong holding a basin of warm water and walking towards her, "Miss Gu, I'll put the warm water on the wooden rack, go and wash!"

Gu Fangmiao scratched her head and said embarrassedly: "Brother Xu, you don't have to be so polite, I... I'll do it myself!"

Runsong looked at the little girl's rosy cheeks and her eyes flashed, "It's okay, hurry up and wash it!

You can also call me Brother Runsong like Xiaoxia, without calling me by your surname.”

After saying that, he put the basin on the wash rack and his ears were red and he hurried out of the main hall.

Gu Fangmiao looked at Xu Runsong's wide back and murmured for some reason, "Brother Xu, what's wrong? Why does it feel strange!"

After An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao finished washing up, they solved their personal problems. Then they took the exam basket and got on the ox cart. Under the eyes of their family, Runsong and An Jinchen were sent to the county examination room.

When we arrived at the examination site, there were already many students and their families coming to the examination.

At this time, the sky was already a little dawn. With the sound of gongs, a yamen official walked out and shouted loudly: "Line up, men and women on the left, and women on the right, and after searching, you can enter the examination room."

An Chuxia saw a long formation lined up by the male candidates, and there were no more than ten female students on the right.

Although there is no need to take off all the clothes during the exam, An Chuxia and the others were still led into the small room next to them one by one by two female officials to conduct a careful search.

Including taking off your shoes and untiing your hair.

Fortunately, their hair was like the man, just combed into a bun on the top of their heads and wrapped in a square scarf.

This greatly reduces the time they can comb their hair again.

The same goes for the man. Because the hair was spread out during the search, everyone was checked and their hair was a little scattered.

After a series of searches, all the candidates finally entered the examination room before dawn.

Here are rows of tables that are distanced, and each table has a row of numbers.

A group of people stood on the stairs of the courtyard. At the front was a man in his forties, wearing a green seventh-rank official uniform. He should be the chief examiner of the county magistrate today.

At this time, an official walked out from the side with a booklet in his hand and called it, asking the guaranteed student to come out to claim it. After ensuring that it was correct, he took out the wooden sign he received when registering and sat at the table number.

After An Chuxia was confirmed by the student who was guaranteed to be a student, she glanced at the examination room when she walked towards her seat and found that Dong Linlin was sitting not far behind her.

The two people's eyes collided, and the fire flashed by, and the disdain between Dong Linlin's expression became more obvious.

But after all the students were in the position, the official history handed over the test papers to everyone's desk.

An Chuxia took out all the things she needed for the exam and placed them on the table. She grinded the ink in the porcelain jar in advance, and then put it in the inkstone, which saved the grinding time.

This body has experienced three county tests, but as expected, the specifications of the county test questions have not changed much.

An Chuxia has experienced a series of exams in modern times, including college entrance examinations, postgraduate entrance examinations, etc.

She has a lot of experience in the exam. She has long simulated and performed countless times in the county exam questions she remembered by the original owner like before the modern college entrance examination.

Five county examinations.

The first scene is the main scene, and two articles of the four books and one poem with five-character and six-rhythm.

Although An Chuxia was confident after reading the paper, she was not arrogant and still read it carefully before answering the questions.

Her brush writing is not very good, but she has the advantage of neatness.

In addition, An Chuxia is mature in mind, has a world of mind, and the lines are graceful and upright.

When An Chuxia finished halfway through the paper, she stopped to drink some water, sat on a chair and closed her eyes to rest.

She has been very controlling the time, but after half of the test paper, she found that many students seem to have finished reading the test paper, grind the ink, and pick up the brush to answer the questions.

This is too much.

I wonder if others wouldn't help but come to beat her when they saw that she had finished half of the test.

In order to synchronize with everyone, An Chuxia felt that she was necessary to wait for other students.

Dong Linlin, who was sitting not far behind, saw An Chuxia sitting on the chair with her eyes closed, with a sarcastic expression on her fair face.

I thought that a fool is just a fool. No matter how many times I come to take the county exam, I will always hand in the blank paper.

Guo Chenglin, the magistrate of Lushan County, who was also standing in the first invigilator, swept the examination room and was surprised to find that someone was sleeping in the county exam.

The county magistrate, whose face was fairly fair, turned dark now and actually slept in the examination room where he was invigilating the exam. How could he bear it?

So County Magistrate Guo put his hands behind his back, walked with his 8-shaped steps, and walked to the table of the female student who was brave enough to sleep in the imperial examination.
Chapter completed!