After descending from the boat ladder, he and Xu Wei broke away from the group and got on a carriage at the pier and went directly to Beijing.

After dozens of miles of small bumps, he finally stood in front of the first city in the world. Looking up at this majestic city, I was amazed and felt my own insignificance.

The tall city walls, the towering towers, the magnificent arrow towers, the corner towers, the soldiers in armor, and the moat that is tens of meters wide, this is definitely as safe as a mountain.

No wonder the Son of Heaven dares to play the banner of "the Son of Heaven guards the country", guarded by this majestic city, even if he is in the desert, he is afraid that those thieves are helpless.

The carriage entered from the Yongding Gate, and the streets were very wide on both sides, and there were many shops, as if you had come to heaven. This central axis points to the far side, where is the Forbidden City.

It is worth mentioning that the current Emperor Jiajing did not live in the Forbidden City, but moved to the adjacent Xiyuan, that is, Zhongnanhai in later generations, which is the center of power of the Ming Dynasty today.

After turning around, the carriage stopped in front of the Cantonese Hall. Lin Haoran waved goodbye to the fat man Xu Wei, and at the same time hoped that this evil and hateful talent would be able to take the high school entrance examination.

Living in the capital is not easy!

Originally, the price of the Beijing inn was not cheap, and now it is in the test period, and the price of the inn in the city is soaring. Therefore, the guild hall was born and became the first choice for many people.

Guild halls are generally built by donations or fund-raising by Beijing officials of the same origin, and there are guild halls in various provinces and some large prefectures, and the offices in Beijing in later generations have the same effect, and it is said that there are 200 guild halls at the peak.

The guild hall is usually operated like an inn, and the service objects are mainly compatriots in Beijing, so as to achieve self-sufficiency management. However, in the year of Dabi, the hall will be emptied of the idle people, etc., and specially provided for these lifters and their attachés to live, basically free of board.

The location of the Guangdong Hall is not bad, it seems very quiet in front of the door, and out of the alley is the bustling street, but I don't know how far it is from the Beijing Gongyuan.

It was already dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun was hitting me, but the air was still chilling.

However, unlike the cold and shivering in Guangdong, the air here does not seem to have any moisture, so it is just cold and painful, but it is more bearable.

Lin Haoran came to the front of the Guangdong Hall and was about to knock on the door, but the door was already open.

"I'm the shopkeeper of this hall, I don't know what Childe is doing?" A middle-aged man in a thick cotton coat opened the door and asked him.

"Under the surname Lin, it is the son who went to the exam, I just arrived in the capital today, I don't know if there is a place to live inside?" Lin Haoran endured his aching fingers and asked with a smile.

"Are you a lifter who went to Beijing to participate in the examination? Why is it only here now? The shopkeeper did not answer his question, but looked at him with suspicion.

"I was a person from Enke last year, and I left for Beijing to participate in the examination soon after the list was released, but the distance is far away, and I just arrived, and the others have already arrived in Beijing, right?" Lin Haoran chose to come here, naturally because he wanted to find Chen Qingshu's acquaintances.

On the night of the Japanese attack, the ship was eventually burned, but the vast majority of those who raised the men survived and were rescued by the sailors who came to their aid and were taken to another ship.

"Huh?" The shopkeeper showed a surprised expression on his face, and then said ecstatically: "It turns out that you are really a man, please come inside!" We all thought that the road was far away, the time was too hasty, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Japanese robbers were rampant, and we thought that you were going to participate in the Zhengke Township test next year! You're the first to arrive, it's warm in the house, please come in! ”

"Huh? I'm the first! This time it was Lin Haoran's turn to be surprised, he was afraid that he would have to drift at sea for half a month, but it turned out that he was the first to arrive.

"That's right! But when you arrive, I'm afraid that someone will come one after another, so I'm afraid we can have two or three more Jinshi in Guangdong! The shopkeeper enthusiastically pushed him in the door, and said with a look of pleasure.

Lin Haoran followed the shopkeeper into the backyard of the hall and arranged a room for him. The room was very simple, with only a table, chairs and a bed, and an oil lamp on the table.

"Master Lin, the rooms here are like this, please don't dislike it!" The shopkeeper smiled authentically.

"This is better than my family, how can you dislike it!" Lin Haoran said with a smile, took out a silver ingot and stuffed it to him, and said, "Please also ask the shopkeeper to prepare some hot water for me, I want to take a bath, and help me buy a few buns!" ”

The shopkeeper first pretended to shirk, and then happily accepted it, and it didn't take long for Xiao Er to bring hot water.

Soaking in a hot bath, it seems that all the way through the journey is soaked in water.

From Guangzhou City to the capital, thousands of miles away, but now he has come over. However, except for some hardships on the island, other places seem to be quite comfortable, especially the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

After taking a bath, he felt very comfortable, and the shopkeeper sent someone to bring hot buns.

These days, whether it is on a sea ship or an official ship, he has been studying and preparing for exams. In the sea ship, he studied more of the Bagu text, and in the official ship, he discussed the strategy with Xu Wei.

Although Xu Wei's views are extreme, he has to admit that he knows the current politics very well, and he can also put forward many effective suggestions.

However, Lin Haoran also discovered his weakness, this person seems to be too obsessed with current affairs and denounces bad government, and he is a little arrogant, but he left the eight strands of literature behind, so this time Enke was taken in a thrilling way.

It's just that Lin Haoran didn't dare to do this, before he finished the imperial examination, Baguwen categorically couldn't be lost.

After eating the steamed buns, he laid out the paper on the table, took the ink and grinded it, then turned out the "Mencius", selected one of the sentences at random, and began to make the eight-strand text.

As he said to Xu Wei, he is currently only concentrating on one thing, and that is the "title of the gold list".

For this goal, he put aside all distractions, and gave up the temptation to go out to visit the Jingshi, and concentrated on the room to prepare for the exam.

When writing articles, he paid special attention to the tempering of calligraphy. Because during the temple examination, there will be no more honorary records, but the original volume will be presented directly, so calligraphy is also an important scoring criterion.

"It's also pleasant, and it's silent!"

As he slowly wrote the last sentence on paper, a flowery essay was generated. He nodded in satisfaction, but when he looked up at the courtyard, he couldn't help but be stunned, and he didn't know when a layer of snow had been covered outside.

On the night of his arrival, a winter snow quietly came, dyeing the entire capital white.