After the examinee hands in the test paper, the marking mechanism moves like a machine.

The examiner sealed the candidates' papers in boxes, came out of the examination alley, and walked along the wide blue brick road to the north, to the courtyard in front of the public hall.

The Outer Curtain Officer and the Governor are all seated here, supervising the preliminary processing of examination papers.

Candidates' original papers are collectively referred to as "ink papers", and the collection center will sort out these "ink papers" one by one, and eliminate some of the examination papers with "imprints".

If there is a clear handwriting mark, or if it is unintentionally burned or rained or torn, such papers will be sent to the public court. After being verified by the prison officer, it is transcribed with a blue pen, which is commonly known as the "blue list", and these test papers are all written down.

Examination papers without a seal will be marked with a seal bell and sent to the sealing office. The personnel of the sealing office sealed the candidates' information with thick paper, which is one of the important measures against fraud.

The sealed examination papers will be sent to the transcription office for the second important anti-fraud measure, "transcription". Handed over to these more than 100 small officials who are good at writing for transcription, because the use of Zhu pen transcription, so commonly known as "Zhu Juan".

In order to prevent the use of typos, these scribes were also required to write copies on the volume and mark the error at the top of the page.

After the transcription is completed, both the "ink scroll" and the "red scroll" are sent to the reading office, and the scribe in charge of reading them is checked to see if the two volumes are consistent.

After verifying that there are no errors, the "ink roll" and "red roll" are sent to the palm scroll office, which will number the red roll and the ink roll uniformly, and make sure that the "ink roll" can be found according to the number of the "red roll".

The "ink scrolls" are "sealed with roots", and the "red scrolls" are handed over to the supervisor, who divides the scrolls into four bundles, marks them with seals, and personally forwards them to the examination papers.

Behind the Supreme Hall is the Hall of Caution, which is connected by a bridge, and is guarded by a sergeant here day and night.

The outer curtain and the inner curtain are separated by this stone bridge, and the outer curtain official sends the rolls here, but cannot go to the bridge. The sergeant on the bridge will send the examination papers, and the six examiners of the township examination will wait for the examination papers on the opposite side.

At this point, the duties of the outer curtain officer are completed.

The examiners who live in Jukuitang can no longer have contact with the outside world, even if they want to cheat, but all they get is a "red paper" without any candidate information, and there is almost no possibility of favoritism.

Judging from this kind of measures, it is simply difficult to reach the sky if the township test wants to commit fraud, so as to ensure the fairness and justice of the township test.

In the hall on the second floor of the drunken red building, laughter and laughter.

After the end of the township examination, these candidates crowded to Gongyuan Street as if they had made an appointment, and came to the most prestigious Qinglou.

In this autumn season, the building is full of spring, and the tenderness of the girls caresses their fragile hearts like a spring breeze, and gently soothes them in their ears.

Regardless of whether you do well or not, you need the comfort of the girls at this time, and you also need to be watered with alcohol.

Lin Haoran naturally couldn't avoid vulgarity, and got together with a group of candidates from Gaozhou Mansion. Because the names of "Little Sanyuan" and "No. 1 in the Scientific Examination" are placed here, the candidates who can take the initiative to come to him cannot be considered bad.

Like the top five candidates of the same year's college examination: Dianbai Chen Qingshu, Maoming Long Wenhua, Xinyi Sun Guangming and Shicheng Zhao Dongcheng, in addition to the first Zhang Yishan of the Lianzhou Mansion and Chen Kaiping, the first of the Leizhou Mansion.

There is still some truth in the fact that things gather like and people are grouped. Since everyone's grades were good, there was no frustration, and they took the initiative to talk about the topic of exam papers.

It's just that in this banquet, there is a small figure, sitting next to Lin Haoran, quite fond of the snacks on the table, holding the broad beans with chopsticks, eating with relish and tiger.

The appearance of the tiger girl on this wine table is undoubtedly extremely inappropriate. It's just that Lin Haoran still brought this playful little girl, in his opinion, it is more important than anything else to let this girl have insight and open her eyes.

"Good! Good! This time the solution must be Brother Li! ”

At the two wine tables in the northeast corner of the hall, there was a sudden burst of cheers.

The people looked over in confusion, but they saw that they were circulating the papers, and they were fascinated there. At first, I thought it was a good poem, but Chen Qingshu walked over and brought the truth back, and it turned out that Li Xueyi was sharing his answer sheet for the township test.

As a candidate of the same year, he naturally knows Li Xueyi.

Although Lin Haoran was admitted to the small three yuan, and was also ranked first in the scientific examination by Song Ti, he was not convinced. Many candidates are more optimistic about Li Xueyi, who has accumulated a lot of money, and set him as the number one favorite for Xie Yuan, while Lin Haoran was only ranked at the bottom of the top five.

But I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but those answers came to Lin Haoran's table. Naturally, it will not be all the answers, but the three most important four-book questions.

Hush!

After Zhao Dongcheng read the exam papers, he gasped and handed the exam papers to Lin Haoran with a complicated face.

Lin Haoran didn't care, but after reading the exam papers, his heart also jumped suddenly, this is indeed a very powerful cow man. If this is really what he answered that day, it is really not a compliment to say that he is the township test Xie Yuan.

"Haha...... I heard a joke today! A gambling house actually set that nerd in western Guangdong as the first favorite candidate for Xie Yuan, do you think it's ridiculous? Long Tengfei stood up from the table, suddenly looked at this side defiantly, and said, "What kind of place is that in western Guangdong?" It used to be a place where some barbarians lived, and now it's still a den of thieves, but some people have just been civilized, and they even came up with Xie Yuan, and they don't pee and take pictures! ”

As soon as these words came out, it was not only Lin Haoran who was scolded, but also offended the entire wine table.

"Who do you say has just been civilized?" Sun Guangming immediately stood up and looked angrily at Long Tengfei over there.

Long Tengfei snorted coldly, and said with disdain on his face: "Just say how do you drop?" In each township test, there are only a few people in the four prefectures of western Guangdong! ”

The township examination of the four prefectures in western Guangdong is indeed not competitive, and there are very few people who have won the township examination over the years. Gaozhou Prefecture is the first of the four prefectures, and Maoming County is undoubtedly a large county in western Guangdong, but the number of people in each township examination is only three or four.

It has to be said that the differences in regional economies have indeed caused a gap in talents, so it is very wise for the imperial court to divide the north and south volumes. It's just that the imperial court probably wouldn't have thought that there is also a huge gap within a province, and candidates from western Guangdong also need to take care of it.

Everyone naturally had a deep understanding of the poor results of the Yuexi Township Examination, but now they are being ridiculed so nakedly, and they can't swallow this breath.

"What kind of skill is it to turn over the old yellow calendar, or let's try to compete?" Sun Guangming gritted his teeth secretly and immediately said sarcastically.

When Long Tengfei heard this, he laughed wildly and said, "Haha...... Then let's compare and see if there are more people in your table, or more people in my table? ”

"Good ......" Sun Guangming was about to respond, but was pulled by Long Wenhua next to him, and changed his words: "Zhang Bang still has some time, why don't we have a literary fight here?" ”

Hearing that it was Wendou, many people stopped their chopsticks, and they suddenly came with some interest. Dai Shuisheng, the leader over there, also put down his wine glass and looked at this side with great interest.

"Good! How do we fight? Long Tengfei readily agreed, then looked at him and asked.

"Let's compare couplets!" Chen Qingshu said.

It's just that as soon as the words fell, they were booed everywhere, and they all felt that there was nothing new in this.

For the sake of face, Kong Guangming took a peach and a plum and said loudly: "There are requirements for this couplet!" The upper link must be the things and things of the place, and the same is true of the lower link! For example, if you want to have a peach, you have to find a plum here! ”

"That's interesting!"

After listening to it, everyone nodded slightly, feeling that this comparison was very fresh.