At dusk, a large area of ​​burning clouds appeared in the west, indicating that tomorrow will be a good weather.

After Lin Weiran saw Wang Bai and Huang Hui away, he drank tea alone in the flower hall. Until the twilight appeared in the courtyard, the wild girl wearing a constable uniform returned slowly.

Hu Niu jumped out with a bamboo stick in her hand. The bamboo stick was slashing in the air, humming a drama in her mouth, which seemed to be entertaining herself.

cough……

Lin Qingran sat in the flower hall, saw this scene in his eyes, and coughed heavily with the majesty of the head of the family.

Huh?

Hu Niu was about to stab the moth in the courtyard, but when she was moved, she looked up at the flower hall. Her bright big eyes looked curious and said, "Brother, are you at home? I thought you were going to flowers again.

Where is my sister!"

Ahem...

Lin Qingran originally wanted to show his brother's supreme majesty and scolded the wild girl fiercely, but when he heard these words, he coughed with guilt.

"Brother, have you eaten? I've eaten at Huang Dafu's house. Today is his wife's birthday!" Hu Niu said in a crisp voice holding a bamboo stick.

Lin Xuran looked at the girl's carefree appearance, but she lost her anger. She said seriously: "Hu Niu, you should know that Brother Hu Niu is appointed as the chief examiner of the provincial examination, right?"

"I heard it!" Hu Niu walked into the flower hall and replied seriously.

Lin Qingran sighed slightly in his heart and said seriously: "Brother is going to stay in the Guangzhou Gongyuan for half a month. During this period, you can't handle anything. You have to take good care of yourself!"

"Why do you have to stay for so long?" Hu Niu asked in surprise with glaring at her eyes.

Lin Qingran patiently explained: "I have to review more than 2,000 papers, and I have to be there for food and accommodation until the list is published!"

"That's it! Then I won't go back to Changlin Village for now. I'll help you see the city here!" Hu Niu raised her chin and said with considerate look.

Lin Qingran looked at this enthusiastic girl and did not attack her. In fact, Hu Niu is indeed capable of handling things at the moment, although her public aspirations are indeed a little more serious.

After explaining to Hu Niu, Lin Weiran took a sedan chair to the Xiguan Mansion.

He had supper at Hua Yingrong and told her some things, which was a farewell refusal. Although others were in the Guangzhou Gongyuan, the essence was no different from traveling far away.

On August 1st, Guangzhou Gongyuan.

The sky was pitch black, and more than 2,000 candidates gathered here again, squeezing the square in front of the Gongyuan gate, and lanterns shone here like daylight.

The ceremony was as usual, everything was carried out in an orderly manner, which was the last re-exercise.

After the ceremony, the officials walked into the tribute courtyard.

Lin Qingran is no longer the examiner of the examination papers belonging to the outer curtain, but the most important examiner of the provincial examination. After watching the yamen run the big god, he led the other eight examiners into the right side of the courtyard road, while Wang Baizhe led the

Walked a group of officials and walked in from the left.

Mingyuan Tower, from Gongtang and Jukui Hall, is located on a central axis, and it also divides the activity areas of candidates, outer curtain officers and inner curtain officers.

Two people walked on the wide corridor and walked through the rows of test houses.

When Lin Qingran passed the examination room, he looked at the alley with the word "lai". However, after many years, he could no longer find any familiar traces. There was only a sense of familiarity here.

Qin Shaoyi, a conscientious professor of Confucianism in Yongzhou Prefecture, walked behind, found that the front was slower, looked up at Lin Weiran, as if he had guessed something, and his eyes looked at the man in a complicated way.

He passed the imperial examination on the same list, but Lin Yan was the top scorer and was even given the title of "Da Ming Wen Ke" by the emperor. However, he was on the list of the three-year and Jinshi, and could only be assigned to work in the remote Huguang.

Now, although he was lucky enough to be appointed by the same examiner, he was too far behind this talented talent, as if he was looking at a mountain.

However, he also understood that if his career would be more smooth, he would have to make good use of this relationship like the Xiangshan magistrate Li Jialiang, instead of having any jealousy.

The Ming Dynasty was a country that paid great attention to etiquette. Everything had already taken a fixed form, and the provincial examination would naturally be no exception.

When the officials arrived at Zhigongtang, there was already a table of incense.

The incense and candles were all available. The officials stood in an orderly manner under the hall. The inspector Pan Jixun stepped forward, then turned around to face everyone, and had an imperial edict on his hand.

His voice was deep, but he said loudly: "There is an imperial edict!"

"Long live my emperor!"

Lin Qingran and other officials knelt down and responded in unison.

The imperial edict is a hasty, and it is a very official saying, "The imperial examination is a great ceremony for the country to stimulate talents, and it is related to the stability of the Ming Dynasty and the people's living and working in peace and contentment! You must be fair and just..." and so on.

At the end of the speech, Lin Weiran stepped forward to receive the order on behalf of the officials.

Then, there was a ceremony of invitation to the gods, and Wenchangjun, Kui Xingye and others were invited to preside over the provincial examination.

After the ceremony, Lin Qingran led the eight examiners directly to Jukui Hall, which belonged to the inner curtain.

When we arrived here, the matter was not over. Everyone came to Jukui gathered and respectfully performed the three kneeling and nine kowtows in front of the tablet of Saint Kong, and then held the ceremony again.

"I will be impartial for the country and the country, and I will not follow my personal feelings, not accept requests, and not accept bribes. I will be betrayed by the gods." Lin Qingran and Song Dasheng were in the front, and the seven examiners were in the back, and they swear to the poison again.

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After the ceremony, the sealed test questions are being opened.

On the Feihong Bridge, Guangzhou rear guard commander Ruan Hui led people to guard here. He neither allowed the officials of the inner curtain to go out nor allowed people outside to come in. It was like a knife cutting off all contact between the inner curtain and the outside world.

Lin Qingran led the examiners to send the test questions here, stopped under the bridge, and handed them to Ruan Hui himself. The promoter Wang Bai and the sealing officer had already been waiting on the opposite side. After obtaining the test paper, they put these originals.

The rolls are printed in the yard on the other side of the court.

At this moment, the sky is only slightly bright.

At this point, their inner curtain officer's work was undoubtedly completed. However, due to the last accident, no one dared to take it lightly, but no one asked to go back to the room to rest. The examiners were all using tea in Jukui Hall and waiting.

The bell rang out.

Although Lin Qingran was also nervous and worried about problems with the countryside exam, the Qi-raising skills during this period were effective. He sat calmly on the head seat and drank tea slowly, and chatted with Qin Shaoyi in his fellow students.

The bell came late, and the people hanging around finally came. The Guangdong provincial examination in the 40th year of Jiajing officially began.
Chapter completed!