This spring, four thousand talented people from all over the world gathered in Shuntian Mansion.

After more than ten years of hard work, everyone wants to get a good ranking in this talent promotion ceremony.

After all, if you pass this examination, you will be a Gongsheng student.

Gong students will not be dismissed from the palace examination.

Whether it's first-class, second-class or third-class.

They all had the opportunity to truly serve as officials in the court.

Whether we can achieve great success in the future depends on this one.

If you fail the exam, you have to wait another three years.

Four thousand candidates, many of whom were either cold or nervous, took the exam papers with trembling and cold hands and began to unveil the papers that would determine their fate in life.

The examination is the same as the provincial examination.

Each session lasts for three days, nine days and six nights.

The first round is still three questions on the Four Books and four questions on the Five Classics.

The questions are basically big ones, which are the words of saints in the book cut out in sections.

After Zhao Ce took over the test questions, he still read all the questions.

I have a general understanding of this topic in my mind.

As he thought, there were indeed many questions in the examination that he had simulated at home.

And not only did he imitate it, but some of his classmates who imitated with him also hit one or two questions.

After all, there were many imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of questions that could be asked continued to decrease with each exam.

Except for some that cannot be used to solve the questions, if given enough time, Zhao Ce is confident that he can hit all the questions.

But this time I was lucky.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Ce started to write a draft.

"The middle one is the great foundation of the world"

"The medium is the foundation of the world; the harmony is the foundation of the world."

"..."

The sun is getting higher gradually.

The temperature in the exam room has also risen a lot.

The sound of chattering teeth nearby also gradually stopped.

At noon, Zhao Ce asked for some hot water and had lunch with pancakes and dried meat.

After eating, he didn't rest.

Continue to do the questions.

At night, it is the most difficult time.

The temperature dropped sharply.

To prevent candidates from burning their own papers in the examination room, the charcoal basin can only be placed outside the examination room.

Along with the whistling cold wind, the heat is almost unfeelable.

Zhao Ce asked the examiner who was patrolling the field to buy some hot water and poured it into the thermos prepared by Su Cai'er.

Holding the thermos in my arms, I finally leaned against the exam room and squinted for a while.

Many people have already submitted their papers on the first day.

The people left in the examination room felt increasingly uncomfortable.

This is a double torture both physically and mentally.

It was getting slightly brighter, and many people who had been awake all night because of the cold got up early, asked for hot water, had breakfast, and continued to answer questions.

In the row of examination booths where Zhao Ce was, there was a sudden noise.

Zhao Ce raised his head and saw two officers and soldiers carrying a stretcher and carrying out a man with purple lips from the cold.

The man was lying on a stretcher with his eyes closed and his face lifeless.

I don’t know if he fainted or died...

After being carried all the way, many people who saw it started to tremble again.

Zhao Ce withdrew his eyes, calmed down, and continued to finish the article.

Not long after.

Zhao Ce has written all the drafts of the articles and started to formally copy them.

He wanted to finish all the answer sheets today, but he didn't dare to rush.

I took a deep breath before writing cautiously.

After all, if you make a mistake in a word, you will have to start copying the article again.

During lunch, I even ate and copied at the same time.

When it came time to apply, I finally made it within time, wrote all the articles, and checked them again.

After handing in the most important essay on scriptures and meanings, Zhao Ce also breathed a sigh of relief.

After walking out of the dragon gate, they saw Xu Fang and Chen Liang waiting beside their carriage.

After Zhao Ce passed by, Xu Fang quickly put the cloak on Zhao Ce.

"The master is out."

"Madam has prepared hot water and meals at home, and asked us to go back as soon as we receive the master."

Zhao Ce nodded, got in the car, and asked Xu Fang about the situation of the others.

Xu Fang said that many supervisors who took the exam with him came out.

But of those from my hometown, only one or two came out.

Zhao Ce thought to himself that if he didn't come out until tomorrow, it would probably be over.

For things like the imperial examination, the first day is the most important.

If you take the exam until the third day, your body will not be able to hold on, and your mind will not be able to cope with it. M.

After arriving home, Su Cai'er saw that Zhao Ce's face was not bad, but she still took him to take a hot bath.

When Zhao Ce was taking a bath, Su Caier brought a bowl of Chinese medicine and handed it to him.

"Husband, this is the prescription sent by your husband."

"It is said that drinking a bowl after the exam can have a preventive effect."

Zhao Ce looked at this bowl of Chinese medicine and knew that there was nothing wrong with his body.

After briefly asking about the medicinal ingredients in Su Caier's prescription, she took it and drank it.

After drinking and eating.

After playing with my little baby on the bed for a while, the little baby yawned.

Both father and daughter fell asleep quickly.

The next day.

Zhao Ce silenced his essay in the examination room and went to see Li Dongyang who was waiting for him.

Li Dongyang was a person who had presided over the imperial examination. After roughly reading his article, he nodded slightly.

"not bad."

"At a glance, there is something to behold."

There is not much else to say, and Zhao Ce is asked to go back and prepare for tomorrow's exam.

After receiving his comments, Zhao Ce bowed his hands and left Li Mansion.

After Zhao Ce left, Li Dongyang took his article and read it carefully again.

After reading it, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"This kid does have something..."

"He actually found a starting point in the last debate."

"If this continues, there is hope for the imperial examination."

After saying that, he happily asked someone to put the article away.

...

When Zhao Ce returned home, Qiu Shubai and others also returned.
To be continued...