After the first case of the county examination was discovered, the second session of the county examination was held the next day, and the smoke of gunpowder was ignited again.

The 80 players in the second table will continue to compete for the remaining 20 spots. As before, some people will be eliminated, and ten of them will be selected.

The time for the examination passed quickly, and after the second make-up examination, the dust settled on the 40 candidates who passed the county examination, and they were permanently qualified to participate in the prefectural examination.

On 24 February, the first additional test began.

Unlike the previous three games, this time the candidates will not be eliminated. The 40 candidates selected for the three main examinations participated in the additional examination, mainly to determine the ranking of the candidates and select the head of the county examination.

The additional test is generally one or two sessions, all of which are decided by the county magistrate according to his mood. If after the first additional test, the magistrate feels that it is necessary to take another test, then two additional tests will be conducted, but generally large counties will only conduct two additional tests.

In the additional examination, in addition to the basic Four Books and Five Classics, strategies and theories, as well as deviant and strange questions, such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, fu and arithmetic, will also be examined.

On the day of the exam, it also starts at dawn.

Because the Confucian Department of Shicheng County exists in name only, there is no place to provide 40 people for the examination, so the examination venue is still in the big examination shed in Dongshi, so it seems very empty.

The number of references dropped from more than 300 to 40, so there was no need to rush to the examination room so early to queue up for admission, and everyone did not feel too much nervousness, everything seemed warm and harmonious.

The inspection of the yacha is not so strict, after all, the candidates have already obtained the qualification to participate in the government examination, if you cheat just to rank high, the benefits you get are far from matching the risks you take.

When everyone met outside the examination room, they all seemed very polite and showed the style of a gentleman. The deepest bond in officialdom is the same township or department, and now although it is far away from officialdom, there is a faint friendship.

Lin Haoran met a few acquaintances here, Zhao Dongcheng and he passed the county test in the first game, and Jiang Ronghua did the same, and Gu Qingfeng, who only passed the last game.

greeted each other, all revealing cordiality, even Jiang Ronghua smiled at Lin Haoran.

The atmosphere of the exam is obviously less tense than the initial tension, and no one will be eliminated this time, but it is a battle for honor to determine the ranking of the county examination and the determination of the head of this year's case.

After checking the "personal confessions" of the people, the examination officially began.

After all, the forty people were all ordered by Xiao Zhixian himself, and the questions in this make-up exam will naturally not be deliberately difficult, otherwise the candidates will really hand in the blank papers, and it will be the county's own face.

The exam questions were in order, and everything went smoothly.

At noon, Xiao Zhixian began to release test questions for poems, strategies, and theories, as well as an arithmetic question.

"Today there is a lender of a thousand dollars, and the monthly interest rate is thirty dollars. Today, there is a lender with 800 dollars, and he will return it on the 15th, and he asks how much interest is there? ”

The monthly interest is 30 percent of the 1,000 yuan, that is, 3 percent, and if you borrow 800 yuan, the monthly interest is 24 yuan. Since it was only borrowed for fifteen days, it had to be multiplied by fifteen thirtieths, that is, the interest was 12 cents.

Is this my test?

Is it a test or am you humiliating me?

Can you not do it, I'm afraid that my IQ will drop to the second grade of elementary school!

Lin Haoran looked at this question for a long time, and a kind of sadness welled up in his heart. I thought that the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was very serious, but it turned out to be such a child's play, and he used this kind of math problem to humiliate him, a former calculus genius.

The first time he put the rehearsal, he handed in the paper and left the examination room.

"The county is not thick, this arithmetic is ridiculous!"

When he walked out of the examination room and was about to leave, he heard the two scholars who were handing in the papers with him complaining about math problems, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he even met like-minded people.

Lin Haoran stepped forward, said hello, and said, "You also think this arithmetic is ridiculous? ”

"Exactly, Brother Tai is a fellow person!" The old scholar was overjoyed, as if he had met a confidant, so he stretched out his finger and gestured in the palm of his hand and said, "This question is really ridiculous! It is not surprising that a thousand dollars know that it is thirty, but it is not told how much the interest rate of eight hundred months is? ”

Ahem......

Lin Haoran was stunned for two seconds, and then there was a cough, thinking that he had met someone who could make friends, but it was like eating a fly raw. I have already given a thousand dollars and thirty, and I don't know how much interest is for eight hundred dollars, so you are ridiculous!

"Yes! Regardless of the interest rate of 800 months, why ask the 15th? What is the monthly interest, it should be calculated in months! The other scholar shook his sleeves vigorously, looking angry.

cough cough cough ......

Lin Haoran looked back at the indignant young scholar, and coughed even more, as if he had eaten a handful of flies raw, and he didn't understand where his resentment came from.

Dare to love only in January and February can fulfill his mind, and he can't touch the north in half a month? And with your IQ, ask how much is the interest for six or seven months, are your fingers enough?

"Brother Tai, why don't we look for the county to ask for an explanation...... Brother Tai, the direction is wrong, the county is respected in the examination room! The older scholar saw that he had another confidant and proposed, but when he saw the previous scholar hurrying away, he shouted loudly from behind.

Dangerous!

It's dangerous!

How these days net is to meet the best!

Lin Haoran's footsteps were fast, he felt that if he didn't go faster, he couldn't help but expose his murderous side, and he had to shoot these two idiots to death with bricks! Dare to love this is not the county to release water, but the high-achieving students of this era are too scum, and the scum is purple.

It's just that I can't do this kind of elementary school question, and I even want to pull him to the magistrate to ask for an explanation, isn't this going to find a beating? And if people are stupid, they have to admit it, let alone come to pit Lao Tzu.

Perhaps because of this depressing incident, he didn't stop much along the way.

Back on Qingyun Street, when passing by Fugui Restaurant, the mood was slightly relieved. He glanced towards the lobby of the restaurant, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

Under his single-handed planning, the business of this restaurant has been greatly impacted, not plummeting, but it is obviously much worse than before.

Vassalage is not only the right of wealthy merchants, but also ordinary people. With half of the restaurant being favored by scholars, many ordinary diners have one more choice, and many people choose half of the restaurant to eat.

Just as he was about to move, he saw Chen Yuan's external support from the thin housekeeper and walked out of it. Probably in a good mood, he didn't leave, and greeted the other party.

Chen Yuanwai's eyes were quite complicated, and just now he checked the account book, and the sales of drinks fell by fifty percent compared with before. This is not just a profit loss of 50%, after all, some expenses of the restaurant are fixed, so the profit loss is not only 50%!

"It's just a shit luck with your cleverness, how long do I think you can get stuck?" The others didn't speak, and the shopkeeper Xu next to him snorted coldly, and seemed to have a stomach full of resentment towards Lin Haoran.

"Shopkeeper Xu, are you dissatisfied with the county's respect for me being first-class?" Lin Haoran glanced at him lightly, and immediately asked with a straight face.

"That's not what I meant!" Shopkeeper Xu's face changed slightly, and he immediately denied it.

"Then why did you say such bastard things when I just came back from the exam!" Lin Haoran didn't mean to spare him, so he continued to say in a deep voice: "Otherwise, today we will go to the county government to find the county respectful evaluation, is it because I have passed the county test with my cleverness, or do I rely on real talent and real learning?" ”

"I didn't say that you relied on being smart in the county, you don't want to spew blood!" When the shopkeeper Xu heard that he was going to the county government to find the county honor, his feet immediately became weak.

His original intention was that this person revitalized half of the restaurant with his cleverness, but he never thought that this person would actually be involved in the county test. If he really makes trouble with the county honor, then he still has good fruit to eat?

"Bastard, don't apologize to Lin Gongzi yet!" Liu Yuanwai scolded the shopkeeper Liu and said.

Although the shopkeeper Xu was extremely unwilling, he was sick by this kid, and he could only bow his head and apologize immediately.

Liu Yuanwai's eyes flashed with a hint of intelligence, and he gently arched his hand and said: "Congratulations to Lin Gongzi for passing the county exam, he will definitely be named on the gold list one day." You have a lot of adults, so don't bother with such stupid people! ”

Lin Haoran shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't mean to really embarrass the shopkeeper Liu, so he arched his hand to Liu Yuanwai and said, "Thank you for your auspicious words, farewell!" ”

At this moment, there was a loud shout in front, and a young man fled in panic from the direction of half a restaurant, followed by a tall and sturdy middle-aged man.

"Master Chen, help! Master Chen, help! ”

The young man seemed to be trying his best to run here, but as if he had seen a savior, he hugged Chen Yuanwai's feet and begged for help.

"No one can save you today!"

The tall and sturdy middle-aged man had already come behind him, grabbed him by the collar, inserted the kitchen knife in his hand behind him, and swung his huge fist towards his face, and blood splattered straight up.

This scene happened very suddenly, and it happened in front of several people, which was really visually impactful, and it seemed quite bloody.