Daxing County is Jing County, with a spacious main hall of half an acre. However, the county magistrate in front brought the seat where the officials were located, and the aisle between the candidates also occupied a part of the aisle, with two hundred young people squeezed on the ground.
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I didn’t realize anything when I was not full before. Now all the candidates have entered the venue, and they look so crowded and the smell has suddenly increased.
Because Shen Rui practiced breathing for several years, his five senses were sharper than ordinary people, but he suffered a serious crime.
There was a smell of greasy smell coming from behind. Shen Rui couldn't help it. When he looked back, he saw a burly boy sitting behind him, with a simple face. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, his body was taller than an adult man. He was on his body.
Wearing white-washed clothes, although simple, looks clean.
The smell was emitted by his table, looking at the chopping board that was indescribable to be red or black, with knife marks on it.
What kind of board is that? This smell is so sensible. When the honest boy saw Shen Rui turn around, he smiled a little.
This honest boy had a pair of bull eyes. When he didn't smile, he looked at ordinary people, but when he smiled, he seemed a little stupid.
Shen Rui was not very curious, so he nodded to the boy and turned around.
I heard someone snorting and said, "I don't have any sitting style, I am a gentleman."
Shen Rui looked in the voice and saw that it was the candidate on his left hand side, on the seat opposite the aisle. Although he did not leave any beards, he looked about thirty.
Since there is a Tong Sheng who still cannot pass the college entrance examination at the age of fifty, it is not uncommon to come to Yingxian County to take the Confucian scholars in his thirties.
But this person is probably not very energetic, otherwise he would not be so bored in the exam room.
As for why he raised his chin high and looked disdainful to others, it was probably because he was burned by money. It depends on his dressing. Although he was wearing a single dress, he was made of plain satin, and even his shoes were also satin.
He had a gold ring on his fingers, and was inlaid with rubies the size of a pigeon egg.
Look at the tables and chairs used by this person, although they are also red, black and red, but they are different from the willow boards used by the boy behind Shen Rui, with a faint smell of sandalwood. This is the best sandalwood.
If you really want to talk about it, the person in front of you has not even passed the child test, but he is still a "people" and a "commoner" identity. This dress has surpassed the people. However, the capital is full of power and wealthy people, and luxury has become a trend. Not to mention good people, they are slaves.
It is also common to wear gold and silver.
Compared with this person, Shen Rui's original color elm-wood table and chair that had not even painted paint looked shabby. In addition, Shen Rui was dressed up, and the upper half of the silk silk and satin were missing, and he used fine cloth. If he didn't look at it,
Demeanor is the dress of a young man who is ordinary farming and reading.
The boy behind him was willing to get close to him, and the person next to him was disdainful of him because of their positioning of Shen Rui's identity.
Shen Rui glanced at him and withdrew his gaze.
He made up his mind to make two articles with a large number of flowers and must be among the top ten.
The top ten in each game can be tested separately in the next game.
When it was early morning, it was dawn and the first county examination in the 15th year of Hongzhi, Daxing County, Shuntian Prefecture began.
After the test questions and paper were sent, Shen Rui picked up the brush.
Those fill-in-the-blank questions will naturally be completed in one breath. Even here, he took a chance. One of them happened to be what I had done before, so I silently fell down. As for the second article, because he had to think about it for a while, he would
Put down the pen for the time being.
As soon as he looked up, Shen Rui was startled and saw a man dressed in a short shirt holding a pot in his hand, standing aside, and whispering to the older young man next to him: "Young master, do you want hot water?"
Even though he had heard that some people were selling food and water in the exam room, he thought it would be a while at noon, but he didn't expect that less than an hour after the exam started, someone started to sell it.
After looking around, Shen Rui found that there was not one such person, but two or three.
There were candidates who brought their own cups and bought water. It was okay if they didn’t bring cups. The water seller had coarse porcelain cups prepared here.
The older young man next to him had already taken the blue and white porcelain cover bowl from the basket, and then took tea leaves. When the hot water was injected, the tea fragrance was everywhere.
The water seller was holding a small ingot in his hand and blushed, "Thank you for your patronage."
When he turned around and looked at Shen Rui, Shen Rui changed from watching the opera to a person in the opera.
His eyes turned around Shen Rui. The water seller straightened his back, still kind and whispered: "Do you want hot water, guy?"
This guy at the hall has the most ignorant eyes. Although Shen Rui is wearing a cloth clothes, his calmness is not like the common people. In addition, he looks light and the guy has also become negligent and speaks angrily
Speaking of things, after all, there is only a scholarly family, a family of learning, and children are enlightened early, and the boys should try it early. If it were a commoner, they would start studying in their teens and have many people who would get to try it late in their twenties.
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Shen Rui nodded and took the white porcelain bowl from the basket: "I'm working hard"
The guy hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, a bowl of water is fifty-money..."
Shen Rui took out a blue cloth purse from the test basket, grabbed a handful of copper coins from it, counted out fifty pieces, and handed them to the mate.
The guy took it and counted it again. Fang took the kettle and poured half a bowl of hot water for Shen Rui, and went back along the aisle.
Shen Rui held the purse, but he was thinking.
His test outfits were prepared by Xu himself.
It was prepared last night, and Shen Rui checked it himself. Although he didn't know why the things Xu prepared for him were so simple, Shen Rui didn't ask too much. It was answering questions, not interpersonal communication, as long as the pen, ink, paper and ink
No problem, other things are trivial.
When he arrived, he bought water just now, Shen Rui felt something was wrong.
A cup of hot water costs less than a penny, but it can be sold for fifty pennies. Rather than buying water, it is better to say that it is by buying water. It is just that this is a scientific examination practice, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has become a custom.
It's right.
Xu put two coarse cloth purses in the exam basket and contained a lot of copper coins. For this reason.
At this moment, someone behind Shen Rui said, "I only have ten cents, will I get ten cents?"
Then the guy's voice: "Oh, do you want to pay the debt? Everyone else gave him fifty cents, and you just need ten cents. Are you the son of the prime minister's family?"
Thinking of the honest smile of the boy behind him, Shen Rui couldn't help but turn around.
The honest boy was holding a few copper plates in his hand, his face full of fear, and his forehead was already sweating.
Shen Rui's eyes fell on the exam table, and he saw a thick porcelain cup full of hot water.
The water vapor was short, the guy's expression became colder and colder, and the honest boy's eyes were red when he was anxious.
I heard the guy say, "If you want to pay credit, it's not impossible, but the tea money will be...
Before he could say that the honest boy had seen Shen Rui turn around, and immediately stuck out his long arm and grabbed Shen Rui's shoulder as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw: "Brother, lend me forty cents."
If he didn't act according to the card, the guy was stunned, and Shen Rui was also slightly stunned.
Seeing that Shen Rui did not respond, the corner of his mouth cracked and tears as big as beans rolled down.
The seats of the candidates are next to each other except the aisle.
As soon as this piece is pulled, all the candidates around them will pop over.
The guy couldn't help but stared at the honest boy's luck.
This is also a common method for Sou. If the candidates who study and elders who have entered the examination room know the rules, they will prepare for scattered silver and copper coins. If the boys who come out of the mud legs don’t know the rules, they will be scared and convinced.
I brought money here tomorrow.
I didn't think that the boy was not playing cards according to the rules. This was in the examination room again. Soon was soon, but it was not easy to make it public. If the hustle and bustle, the candidates couldn't get it well, this guy would be disappointed.
Shen Rui was implicated in innocently and felt a little impatient, but he just regretted that he was troubled.
I didn't take much anger towards this honest boy.
The family who can afford to read is not a poor person after all, and it is not impossible to make up fifty cents. It is just that the young man has no guidance and has not brought money into the examination room. This guy looked at him and smiled, but he was a shady person.
Yes, the more people have no foundation, the more they want to make a fortune, so they make things difficult.
As the boy borrowed money, Shen Rui turned around and took out forty papers from his purse and put them on the boy's table.
The young man was crying sadly. When he saw the copper coins, he burst into tears and laughed. He thanked him repeatedly. He took the copper coins and handed them to the client.
Although the guy's face was still not good-looking, he did not dare to provoke this honest boy again.
He cried and laughed as he said he was a big fool, but he still came to take the boy exam? Whose parents were so ignorant that they let this fool out?
As for the boy who was taking out a copper slap in front of him, he could not afford to be offended by a scholarly family.
A storm passed like this, and Shen Rui calmed down and solved the problem in his heart.
The hot water I bought cooled down and Shen Rui didn't drink a sip.
Although he answered the questions quickly, he had a group of ten people in the exam room, and he didn't know when he could go out. In order to avoid getting rid of the problem, it would be better not to drink water.
After Shen Rui finished the second article on the draft and copied the answer sheet, another hour had passed.
Shen Rui also handed in the paper at this time, but he didn't. After handing in, he was waiting for others. It would be better to wait.
The water seller continued to walk through the aisle, but this time he was holding not a kettle, but a baked cake basket, with bags of baked cakes wrapped in oil paper.
A glass of water costs fifty cents. If this snack is costly, it is naturally several times that of hot water. Perhaps it is because the money the candidates carry with them is worthwhile, and the original notice asked the candidates to bring their own food, which is not too outrageous.
Go. This time I have a choice, fifty cents of sesame cakes with beef, and twenty cents of ordinary ones, you can buy them or not.
Shen Rui didn't want it, and the stupid guy behind him had no money to buy it. Both of them brought their own food.
The older young man with gold ring next to him obviously looked down on this rough food, and waved his hands impatiently.
But the guy refused to leave, only one of them laughed.
The young man with gold ring was full of annoyance and had already started to chase people, but the guy just refused to leave. In the end, he took out a small ingot and angrily. The guy left a few bags of oil paper and left with a smile...