Everyone's thoughts are different, and Zhang Huan naturally couldn't imagine that someone in Jinling would arrange the imperial examination.

Someone in front of "Zhang Huan" called out his name, Zhang Huan hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, walked to the front, and responded: "I am Zhang Huan." ”

"Show the sign. , looked at the young man in front of him, and said lightly.

Zhang Huan hurriedly handed over the sign he got from the yamen, and after the tolerance inspection, he didn't find anything wrong, and like the previous few people, he was given a bronze medal with a number, and asked him to take this bronze medal to find his seat.

Zhang Huan is still taking the imperial examination for the first time, and he doesn't know how the previous imperial examinations were examined, but this arrangement makes him feel very fresh.

Holding a small bronze medal with exquisite workmanship, Zhang Huan entered through the gate and walked inside.

The examination room is in a tight position, the more you go inside, the less noisy the sound is, the green plants on both sides have been tender green, and when you smell it, there is a faint aroma, which makes people feel refreshed.

It can be seen that the county attaches great importance to this imperial examination, and the place where the examination room is arranged, the environment is beautiful, and it is very quiet.

This is a very large hall, I don't know what it used to do, but now it is all vacated, and rows of tables and chairs are arranged.

Before entering the examination room, the official at the gate had already inspected his entry into the well, and his body and the pen and ink in Tilan were carefully inspected and reviewed, because the examination time was not long, so he was not allowed to bring food into the examination room this time.

During the inspection, Zhang Huan was not embarrassed.

At this time, stepping into the door of the examination room, my eyes swept over the inside and found that the area of this examination room was very large, looking at the pattern, it was formed by the two halls chiseled together, and there was no separation between the candidates, one person, one table, one desk, one seat, and there was nothing on the desk.

When Zhang Huan came in, there were not many people inside, and according to the number on the card, he quickly found his seat, and as soon as he sat down, there was the sound of pulling tables and chairs next to him.

The sound was still loud, Zhang Huan subconsciously turned his head to look, and was suddenly startled, sitting next to him was a candidate with gray hair, it seemed that this person was older than Mr. Yu.

The other party looked at him, his expression was blank, he didn't say anything, Zhang Huan smiled and nodded at the other party and withdrew his gaze, but he secretly sighed in his heart, it seems that there are not a few people who participated in the imperial examination this time, and even such an old gentleman has come to take the exam, and he has to answer the exam seriously.

After a while, the candidates who followed one after another also walked in, not all of them were in this examination room for the test, and the people who came in were probably only about thirty percent of the people they saw when they lined up at the door.

The candidates looked for their places one after another, and those who found them breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sat down, and they couldn't find it, and they looked around with an anxious look on their faces.

During this period, there were also a few episodes, caused by the search for a seat, and there was a temporary chaos in the examination room, and under the reprimand of the examiner, Fang calmed down.

Because of these few things, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more tense, and some older candidates even turned pale.

Zhang Huan was quite nervous, this was his first time participating in the imperial examination, and it coincided with the time when the King of Chu hired people, if it was done, he would be able to show his ambitions, and he would take the exam a few years late, but he was afraid that the opportunity would be difficult to find.

waited for the exam questions to be announced, but my heart was relieved, and most of the exams were posted.

The so-called sticking of scriptures is to paste a few words of the scriptures and make them fill, which is a modern fill-in-the-blank question, which is actually not difficult, and the test is mainly memorized.

There are three meanings in the back, which are to let people talk about the meaning inside, and they are relatively shallow.

Until Zhang Huan finished three exams, walked out of the door of the examination room, and was blown by the cold wind, he still felt like he was dreaming, and he was a little top-heavy.

Shaking his head a little dazed, he walked out.

I could smell the smell of oil cake from afar.

Zhang Huan took the exam three times in a row, and at this time he was already a little hungry and unbearable.

Zhang Huan touched the money bag and found that there was still a lot of surplus, stood in place and thought for a moment, and finally made up his mind.

Taking out a few coins, he approached the oil cake stall and said to the busy boss, "Boss, come with ten oil cakes, give me one, and wrap the rest." ”

"Okay! This little brother, please wait a while, it will be fine immediately" The sesame oil cake that had just come out of the pot was sandwiched out by the boss, and with a slight drop of oil, it was wrapped and handed over.

Zhang Huan handed over the money, took the oil cake bag, and while walking, he ate a piece of oil cake, and the food was in his stomach, and he suddenly didn't feel hungry.

The rest of the oil cakes, he plans to eat on the road, now the weather is cold, a day and a half away, when he arrives home, there are five left, the oil cakes are hot, and they can also be eaten by his younger brothers and sisters.

There is little meat at home, and all they eat is wild vegetable gnocchi, and the younger brothers and sisters are too thin, and there are younger brothers and sisters who are clamoring to eat oil cakes.

Thinking of this, the oil cake in the entrance was suddenly a little difficult to swallow, and put the remaining oil cake package into the package, Zhang Huan walked quickly towards the place mentioned by Mr. Yu earlier.

When he came, he was in a caravan hitchhiking, and he didn't have a lot of money, so he went back and hired a car to go back, which was too luxurious

But it was too far to go back, so before coming, Mr. Yu gave him a chalk site, and when he went back, he went there to find an acquaintance of Mr. Yu, who happened to have a carriage returning to Baiming County on the evening of the 6th, and then he would be brought back by the way.

Sure enough, when I got there, the other party readily agreed, and asked questions about the examination room, and Zhang Huan answered them one by one.

Seeing that he had a certain amount of talent at a young age, this man even entered the examination room, became more and more polite, and along the way, he also invited him to eat with the people of the caravan, and the atmosphere was very good.

Still didn't say anything all the way, and soon, he arrived at home.

As for how he did in the exam, after Zhang's father and Zhang's mother asked, they didn't understand it too much, so it was okay.

When I met Mr. Yu, after asking, I was silent for a moment, thinking that these questions were not very difficult, and the possibility of passing the exam was very high, but I didn't point this out directly, just asked him to go back and wait for news.

He was tired along the way, and after eating and bringing food to his younger brothers and sisters, Zhang Huan fell asleep.

When I got up early the next morning, I was relieved.

It was still the same as usual, when he came together, he took a machete and rushed to the foot of Baiming Mountain to chop firewood, and still worked to subsidize the family.

Time passed day by day.

April is the warm spring huā blooms, and the earth recovers.

At first, Zhang Huan was still thinking about the previous imperial examination, but as he had more work, he also left this matter behind.

On this day, Zhang Huan still went to the foot of Baiming Mountain to enjoy firewood.

Seeing that the sun was rising and the firewood was almost cut, Zhang Huan tied up the firewood and walked home with the firewood.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I heard the sound of horses' hooves on the official road in the distance.

Zhang Huan was stunned, stood and looked over there, only to see that there were many people on the official road, all stopping to watch.

Maybe someone was married, he didn't like to watch the excitement very much, took a few looks, and walked to his house.

After entering the courtyard and putting down the firewood, Zhang's mother made him clean water, which was cool water, and he washed his face and hands.

When the mother and son were talking, they heard someone shouting outside: "Zhang Huan lives here?,

It was a man's voice, listening to voices and questions, not acquaintances.

Zhang Huan was stunned, looked up at his mother, and found that Zhang's mother was also stunned.

It was at this time that an acquaintance entered the courtyard, a neighbor, pointed outside, and said, "Zhang Huan, go and see, it's someone from the Yamen!

Someone from the Yamen?

Hearing this, Zhang's mother's first reaction was fear.

looked at his son with a pale face: "Son, what's going on, why did the yamen come here?,

Zhang Huan immediately thought of the imperial examination.

"Mother, don't be afraid, maybe it's not a bad thing. , Zhang Huan said soothingly, out of the courtyard.

There were two officials standing outside the door, followed by a few villagers, one of the leaders, and when he looked at one person coming out, he asked, "Are you Zhang Huan?"

Zhang Huan arched his hand: "It's Zhang Huan down there, I don't know what you are." ，

"Xianggong, hit, hit, third place on the second list"

Xianggong was originally the title of prime minister, but now anyone who has won the show can be called Xianggong.

"Zhang Xianggong, this time I got the talent in the show, so that Baiming County will be glorified, the county commander asked me to send you ten taels of gifts, as well as the deed of ten acres of land, you have collected it" confirmed Zhang Huan's identity, spoke very politely, and said: "You can go to the county every month to receive six buckets of Tang rice." ，

One stone and one hundred catties, ten buckets and one stone, and six buckets are sixty catties of elk rice, which is not without a small supplement to Zhang Huan's family.

Ten taels of silver are broken silver.

When the people around listened to it, they all took a breath of cool air, and many people secretly said that they were still good readers!

Zhang Huan was in a trance for a moment, he didn't expect to have these windfalls.

After taking the paperwork, the deed and the silver, he relieved.

Lian thanked the officer, took some broken silver, about two taels, and sent it over, seeing that Zhang Huan was not stupid, the officer was very satisfied, and said: "Zhang Xianggong, according to the official system, you can directly take the examination this year, if you don't take the test, or if you don't take the test, you must report to the yamen in August to do business." ，

"Also, you can wear a green shirt now. , the official pointed out.

Zhang Huan listened and thanked him again.

After all the people dispersed, the family returned to the house, sat together, and looked at the official documents, land deeds, and silver taels on the table, and rejoiced.

First of all, there are household registration documents for people who have been discharged from the people, and both labor and taxes are exempted.

The fields are official land, most of which are good land, and ten acres of land has increased the family's asset power

Zhang's mother was overjoyed, but said: "My son, you have now taken the Xiucai exam, but you want to go to Mr. Yu to thank him, invite him to the banquet, and return Mr. 's silver, so you can bring all this money." ，

Zhang Huan listened and said, "Yes, but mother, do you want to keep a few taels of silver? ，

It's about the wedding feast.

"Then let's keep three or two," Zhang's mother thought about it repeatedly and said. (To be continued.)