Lin Jue walked out of the pass, raised his eyes and wandered through the chaotic crowd, and only for a moment saw the figures of Lu Wu and Xiaohu standing on a low wall waving at him. Lin Jue hurriedly waved his hand in response, and Xiaohu and Lu Wu squeezed forward, laughing and jumping with joy.

"Hahaha, uncle, I saw you at a glance, how are you different from others?" Lin Hu laughed.

"How is it different?" Lin Jue was clueless when he asked.

"Everyone is unkempt and looks like they haven't washed or slept for a few days, but Uncle is still full of energy, refreshing and refreshing. Look at these people, one by one, as if they were fleeing. Uncle is conspicuous among them like a flock of chickens and cranes. Lin Hu said with a smile.

"Phew, you can't speak, what kind of chickens stand up to the cranes? That's the one that stands out from the crowd. Midori said angrily.

"Yes, yes, yes, I stand out from the crowd, I'm such a fool, I actually said the opposite. Of course, a character like Uncle is a noble white crane, how can it be a chicken? Lin Hu blushed and hurriedly said.

Lin Jue laughed and said: "If you don't understand, don't drop your bookbag, so as not to be laughed at." It's still green dance that learns quickly, and words like standing out from the crowd have also been learned. ”

"That's it, Sister Green Dance is the smartest and most beautiful woman I've ever seen, just like ...... It's like ...... That's right, it's like a golden phoenix flying out of a chicken coop. Don't look at your low background, but you will never lose to those rich daughters. Lin Hu said loudly.

"Hahaha." Lin Jue laughed out loud and nodded in praise: "Yes, I didn't use the wrong word now, for example, it's good." However, if you compare our yard to a chicken coop, don't you still say that I am a chicken? ”

"This ...... Bah, I said the wrong thing again, uncle, don't be angry, I won't drop the text anymore, it's really tiring to talk like this. Lin Hu said with a flushed face and frustration.

Lin Jue laughed and said, "I'm playing with you, let's go home." I've got to take a nice shower, and then we'll go out and find a big restaurant and have a good meal. Although the sugar cake is delicious, I ate it every day for the past three days, but it is enough. ”

Lin Hu jumped up, picked up the package and carried it on his shoulder, Lin Jue turned his head to look at Lu Wu, who had been staring at him and smiling, and said, "Let's go." ”

Lu Wu smiled and nodded: "I should make a few more dry food for my son, and my son will eat sugar cakes for a few days." I think Childe has lost some weight. ”

Lin Jue smiled: "When you go back, you can make more delicious compensation for me." To be honest, even the delicacies of the mountains and seas may not be able to be eaten in the house. ”

Midori said, "Childe has suffered. ”

Lin Jue smiled, reached out and took her little hand and squeezed it in the palm of her hand, pulling her to follow Lin Hu and squeeze out the bustling crowd.

The waiting time for the release of the list after the autumn season is generally about half a month to 20 days, depending on the specific situation. However, because the number of candidates in Liangzhejiang Road has more than doubled this year, it is expected that the time for the release of the list will be even longer. Sure enough, the day after the autumn season, Hangzhou Xuezheng Yamen posted a notice, announcing that the date of this year's list will be around the end of October, so please wait patiently for Yunyun.

Everyone was actually very understanding, and there were not too many complaints. Because everyone knows that the evaluation of the examination paper needs to go through several cumbersome processes, and it is not possible to focus on marking the paper after the examination. In order to put an end to fraud in the imperial examination, the Great Zhou Dynasty not only made great efforts to check the admission of candidates and cheating methods, but also established various systems to prevent fraud in the invigilation and marking of papers.

In fact, the prevention of invigilation began more than ten days before the big exam. The Autumn Entrance Examination is generally a chief examiner and several deputy invigilators appointed by the Imperial Court Rites Department to preside over the invigilation and marking of the Autumn Entrance Examination. Once the chief examiner and the deputy examiner are confirmed, these people must immediately enter the Gongyuan and not have contact with the outside world, so as to avoid fraud in bribing the examiner to leak the examination questions. Because these people lived together and locked the door of their courtyard, the system was given the figurative name of the 'locked courtyard system'.

After the big exam, all the answer sheets are gathered and escorted to a special marking place. But before that, there are two procedures that need to be processed. One is called Mi Feng, and the other is called Transcription. The sealing is to paste the candidate's name, place of origin and other personal information with paper, so that it cannot be known to the public. After that, a special person will transcribe all the answers in the common font of the pavilion style. In this way, when the test papers are sent to the chief examiner and the deputy examiner, these people have no idea of the candidate's name and origin. The unified transcription of the test paper cannot be distinguished from the handwriting, which greatly ensures the fairness and impartiality of the marking work.

It can be seen that the imperial examination system of the Great Zhou Dynasty has actually reached a considerable level of fairness after experiencing more cheating and other messy things. Whether it is for the students who take the exam or for the officials who invigilate the exam, it is almost to the point of being harsh to the point of almost unreasonableness. This also shows from the side how serious the fraud and cheating in the imperial examination were at the beginning. Because it was too unpleasant, there was the emperor's will that 'overkill must be overcorrected'.

For the candidates, waiting for the release of the results is not only an ordeal, but also an expectation. Although some people are depressed and depressed because they did not do well in the exam, and some even commit suicide in the dormitory, many more people feel good about themselves after coming out of the examination room. They all think that they can pass the exam, so they have great expectations for the release of the list. However, for many people, this is actually the easiest time. For better or worse, but it's finally over. Before the list was released, everyone was hopeful. During this time, you don't have to read poetry and books as hard as before, you don't have to stay up late to suffer, and you don't have to be willing to be lonely. The emotions and desires that were suppressed in my heart before have burst out intensively during this period of time.

Because of this, the city of Hangzhou is unprecedentedly lively and prosperous. The Qinglou Song House is full every day, the tavern teahouse business is booming, the grasshopper boats on the West Lake are in short supply, and the red boats are endless. Everywhere is melodious singing, laughter and joy.

Many people use pleasure to drink and feast to relieve their worries about the results of the big exams, which is the best way to relieve tension and numb themselves. This is actually a kind of escape psychology for them to come to the cold reality once the list is released.

No matter how drunk and dreamy these crazy candidates are in Hangzhou, this is a good thing for the Qinglou restaurants and ordinary people in Hangzhou. Tens of thousands of people live in the city of Hangzhou to consume, which makes the business more prosperous and earns more money, so why not. As for the trouble caused by these students, it is negligible compared to silver.

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Lin Jue didn't go around to relax himself after the autumn season, but only took Lu Wu and Lin Hu to the restaurant for a good meal, which could be regarded as celebrating the end of the autumn season. Early the next morning, Lin Jue took Xiaohu to Songshan Academy to meet Fang Dunru. According to the previous agreement with Fang Dunru, after the big exam, Lin Jue will come to report the situation of the exam to his teacher, and at the same time send Fang Dunru and his wife to leave Hangzhou and go to the capital.

Of course, Lin Jue's trip now has an additional purpose, that is, he wants to ask Fang Dunru if he has re-entered the court as an official, and the purpose is to set off a change with Yan Zhengsu. This is also the association and question that Lin Jue has been haunting in his heart after seeing the title of this year's policy article in the house, and the teacher may give him a clear answer.

However, when Lin Jue arrived at Songshan Academy, he found that the door of the small courtyard where Fang Dunru and his wife lived was locked, and the home was empty. The vegetable garden and flowers in the small courtyard have long been dilapidated and have obviously been left untended for a long time. According to Lin Jue's understanding of Mrs. Fang, it was absolutely impossible for Mrs. Fang to let the courtyard fall so dilapidated. There are all kinds of signs that the small courtyard has been emptied.

Lin Jue was a little uneasy, he didn't know what was going on, so he took Lin Hu to Xue Qian's residence on the side of the bamboo forest not far away to meet him, and asked what happened. Sure enough, from Xue Qian's mouth, Lin Jue's guess was confirmed. Fang Dunru and his wife had indeed boarded the ship to leave for the capital on the day the autumn examination began four days ago. At present, the post of head of Songshan Academy has been succeeded by Xue Qian, Fang Dunru knew that Lin Jue would come to visit, so he left a letter in Xue Qian's hand, asking him to hand it over to Lin Jue when Lin Jue came to the mountain.

Lin felt very surprised, Mr. had clearly agreed with him to give them a ride at the end of the big exam, why did he say goodbye? And it was chosen when he was taking the autumn exam, as if he was deliberately avoiding the day he had chosen to leave. Recently, the behavior of Mr. and Mrs. seems to be a little strange, just like the day of the last Mid-Autumn Festival Oiran Contest, as soon as the competition is over, Mr. takes Mrs. and Mrs. in the car without saying goodbye, always as if he is hiding something, which is very puzzling.

Fang Dunru said in the letter that he told him the reason for entering Beijing this time, and that Fang Dunru entered Beijing this time to re-enter the court as an official and serve as the middle prince of the imperial history of the imperial history platform. Fang Dunru said in the letter that he could have gone to the capital to take up his post later, but he was worried that the weather would turn cold, and Fang's wife was weak and afraid of the wind and cold, so she chose to go directly to Beijing by water when the weather had not yet become too cold, so as not to suffer the pain of displacement after the waterway was frozen for ten days.

Regarding the autumn examination, Fang Dunru told Lin Jue in the letter that he believed in Lin Jue's ability and thought that Lin Jue would definitely be admitted to the imperial examination. He wasn't worried at all that Lin Jue would fail the Qiu Yu test. Instead, he warned Lin Jue not to relax, the spring of the new year is the final test, Lin Jue must not relax himself, he must hurry up to prepare for next year's spring exam, he is waiting in the capital for Lin Jue to go to Beijing next year to meet Yunyun.

Lin Jue was silent for a long time, but he was helpless. The reason given by the gentleman is also very valid, it is true that the weather is cold, and once the northern section of the canal waterway is frozen, the convenient waterway will be blocked, and it will be extremely inconvenient to go to the capital. My wife is afraid of cold, and she really can't stand the wind and frost on land, and it is also the best choice to go by water. However, Lin Jue believes that this reason is still untenable in the current time period, and the northern channel of the canal is frozen at least in November every year, and now it is only the end of September. In fact, there is still plenty of time, and I don't care about delaying for three or four days. Obviously, the gentleman deliberately chose the time to leave, so that he deliberately did not let himself be sent off.

Lin Jue didn't know why, but the matter had come to this point, but there was nothing to be done. After sitting at Xue Qian's house for a while, reporting some of his exams, and listening to Xue Qian's teachings, Lin Jue got up and left. Anyway, Mr. just went to the capital, and he can see him and his wife at any time, but it's not a big deal, and it's not life and death and never see him again. The next time we meet, I will definitely blame Mr. I, and find out the real reason why he did this. Could it be that Mr. really married a concubine, for fear that he would know and laugh at him? But how long can this matter be hidden? Sir, this is a bit naïve.