See you in the world

Chapter 138
The county seat of Xinlin County is more than 100 miles away from Niujiao Town, and the Tongsheng Exam will be held on the first day, so Yunjing and the others have to set off one day earlier.

On the day of departure, Yun Jing and Li Qiu woke up early in the morning.

After washing up, despite Li Qiu's repeated warnings two days ago, he still confirmed repeatedly: "Jing'er, have you got everything ready? Brushes, ink sticks, inkstones, paperweights, and water for grinding ink, are you sure they are all ready?" Have you brought it? You don’t need to bring the paper, it will be distributed in the examination room to prevent cheating.”

Although it has been confirmed again and again, Yun Jing checked it again before replying: "Master, everything has been brought."

"Well, prepare a few more writing brushes, and the same for others, in case of accidents during the exam," Li Qiu nodded.

Yun Jing said: "Master, don't worry, I have spare parts with me, and they have been checked, there is no problem"

"That's good……"

In this era, the imperial examination is a very serious matter. Han Chuang has studied hard for many years just for this day. Even if it is just a child's exam, it is worth being cautious about it.

Maybe there will be chances in the next year and in the future if you fail once, but once you fail, it will inevitably bring pressure to the scholars, and you will doubt yourself. There are still many situations, and as someone who has experienced it, Li Qiu knows it all too well.

He believed in his apprentice, but that didn't mean he could treat him carelessly.

Then Li Qiu took out a small iron card from the box he carried with him, handed it to Yun Jing and said, "Jing Er, this is your test card, keep it well, don't lose it, if you lose it, you won't be able to enter the test room, This year's imperial examination will not be your fate."

The iron plate is three fingers wide and half a palm long, very brand new, bright silver, there are at least seventy or eighty similar small iron plates in Li Qiu's box.

These are the exam cards for the students who are going to take the imperial examination in the school this time. As the head of the mountain, Li Qiu kept them when they were sent by the county a few days ago.

Not only Yunjing and the others took part in the Tongsheng Examination, but also other students who got up earlier than them. After all, the imperial examination is difficult, and not everyone can pass the entrance examination in the first year. .

When the county sent the test cards that day, Yun Jing also saw it. The battle was not small, there were 20 people escorting them, and each escort was very skilled. Judging from the breath alone, most of them were probably more skilled than the others. Headhunter Wang of Niujiao Town.

When the examination card was delivered, Li Qiu had to sign, draw, stamp and seal it, and the mayor of Niujiao Town had to be present to prove it. This shows that the Dali Dynasty attached great importance to the imperial examination.

Now there is a mayor in Niujiao Town, a middle-aged man in his thirties, who is at the peak of his life.

When the new mayor took office, Li Qiu, as the head of the school, also went to greet him, but he sneered at the man behind his back. He told Yunjing that the new mayor was actually a Jinshi, and he came from the capital. I don't know why he became the mayor of Niujiao Town.

After he came to take office, I didn't see him doing any serious business. He wandered around the eldest princess's mansion, presumably because he wanted to meet the eldest princess to show her face in front of the other party by chance. Can fly to the top.

It has to be said that there is no shortage of people who are good at franchise in such things as the system.

These situations flashed in his mind, Yunjing looked at the test card in his hand, it had Yunjing's name on one side, and some simple information about Yunjing was engraved on the other side in small characters.

Looking at it for a while, Yun Jing was a little curious, because he found that the edge of the test card was irregular, as if it had been deliberately made.

"Don't be surprised, Jing'er. There is another half in the county. When entering the examination room, if the test card does not fit, you will not be able to enter the examination room. The other half is different every year, so as to prevent someone from pretending to take the exam." Li Qiu was on the side explained.

Regarding this, Yun Jing had no choice but to say that the Dali Dynasty really took great pains to prevent cheating.

Everything was ready, Li Qiu said: "Let's go, let's go to the school, and after breakfast, we will go to the county with the others. If there is no accident, we will arrive in the afternoon. The inn has already been prepared. We will take a rest when we arrive. Get familiar with the examination room, get some sleep, and enter the examination room for the formal exam tomorrow morning."

Li Qiu has experienced this kind of sending students to take exams many times, and the arrangements are well organized.

About to leave, Yunjing said to Xiaobai who was basking in the sun by the pond in the yard: "Xiaobai, I'm going to take the county exam, and if I don't come back today, you have to take good care of your home."

"Let's go, Jing'er, what can it understand?" Li Qiu smiled and shook his head.

Xiaobai over there heard Yunjing's words, turned his head and glanced at him, and even let out a coo, as if to say that he knew, but he didn't know what animal he learned from.

Then, it continued to stare at the half-meter-deep pond.

At the bottom of the pond, a tortoise the size of a washbasin is hiding at the bottom of the water, but won't come out, obviously very afraid of Xiaobai...

The master and apprentice came to the school in a bullock cart without hurry.

The mountain is very lively today, there is a long line of carriages one after another, like going to the market, the market is not so lively, those are family guards who are going to refer to the students, etc., they will accompany the children to the county town take an exam.

The imperial examination is a matter of future destiny, and the family members of those reference students are obviously more nervous than the students themselves.

After eating in the school, the head of the mountain, Li Qiu, gathered all the students who wanted to refer to him.

Yunjing swept his bladder and found that the number of people who went to refer to this time was actually 86 people!

And this is just the number of references from their school in Niujiao Town. If the entire Xinlin County is added up, the number of references is definitely more than a thousand.

It's really thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.

After distributing the test cards, Li Qiu seriously told the reference students the rules of the test room. Faced with such a major event in life, no matter if you have taken the test or are taking it for the first time, you should listen carefully.

"I won't say much about the importance of this exam, but you have to remember that during the exam, it is strictly forbidden to make noise after entering the exam room. Once you disturb the order of the exam room, you will be expelled from the exam room, and the test results will be cancelled. Then, don't If you cheat by chance, once you are caught, you will be banned from taking the exam for ten years, and you will be banned from taking the imperial examination for life, and you will even be deprived of your student status or even convicted and imprisoned. Remember that, did you hear me?" Li Qiu said with a smile on his face. Seriously.

"Understood", a group of teenagers were uneventful, but everyone looked very serious.

Li Qiu didn't know if they listened or not, he said everything that should be said, if someone still made a mistake when the time came, then there was nothing he could do.

Finally, he said: "Okay, you have studied hard for many years, and only then did you cheer up for the exam and show your true talents and learning. I wish you all the fame and glory in the exam in advance. Let's go!"

Then, a group of people went down the mountain in an orderly manner.

This time, besides Li Qiu, there were three other gentlemen accompanying him to the county seat. As soon as they left, the whole school seemed empty.

The rest are either some students who have already passed the entrance examination, or some people who are really unsure of themselves. Those who have achieved fame are cheering them on, while those who have no fame have a look of bewilderment about the future...

This time there are 86 students in the school taking the exam, how many of them will be able to get the honor in the end?

No one knows, because the imperial examination is too difficult, thousands of people compete for the twenty places, and dozens of them refer to it. In the end, it is worth celebrating if one or two can pass the exam. I dare not think about it if there are too many. There are those who didn't pass the exam, as far as Yunjing knows, this was the case last year!

For many people, the imperial examination is an opportunity to change their destiny and social status, but this opportunity is too slim, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is as difficult as reaching the sky.

A group of people came to the foot of the mountain, boarded a carriage such as a carriage, and then set off in the direction of the county.

The reference students, the parents of the students, and the guardian servants all add up to more than 300 people. The scale is really not small. This kind of thing happens once a year. When they walk through the fields, the busy farmers are no strangers to it.

Starting from the school, they bypassed the town, and then went to the official road.

In the first part of the journey, the parents of each student repeatedly told their children what to do, over and over again, some children listened carefully, while others were a little impatient...

Hurrying, especially long-distance travel, is still a boring thing in the present moment of inconvenient transportation.

After walking for an hour, the student's parents were exhausted and ran out of words, so they let their children go.

Then, some acquaintances invite to chat to relieve boredom, while others simply take a rest.

"Ah Jing, over here, come to my carriage, it's spacious, Fatty and the others are here too, let's have some fun together"

Wang Bolin's father finally 'let go' of him, and went to chat with familiar people in the carriage, and then he couldn't wait to stick his head out of the carriage window and wave to Yunjing.

Li Qiu patted Yun Jing's shoulder with a smile and said, "Jing'er, go, it's good to relax before the exam."

"Okay Master, I'll go then"

After saying hello, Yun Jing got off the bullock cart and walked quickly towards Wang Bolin and the others.

It's not that he's stressed about tomorrow's exam, it's mainly because the road is too boring.

Stepping into the carriage of Wang Bolin's family, Yunjing found that there were no adults there. The carriage was very spacious. Chen Yijian, Zhou Jintai, and Wang Bolin each occupied a space, and Yunjing didn't seem crowded at all when he came up.

"Ah Jing, have you ever been to the county seat?"

As soon as Yunjing came up, Wang Bolin asked.

"I haven't been there before, what's the matter, don't you know? This is the first time I've been there." Yun Jing shrugged after sitting down, without the curiosity of being in the city for the first time.

After seeing the scene of Niujiao Town, Yunjing is no longer curious about the so-called big city here.

Wang Bolin patted his forehead and said: "Ah, I forgot, by the way, let me tell you, I have been to the county town many times, and there are many beautiful girls and daughters-in-law there, hehe, Ah Jing, you look so good-looking , Be careful if you are kidnapped and you won’t be able to come back.”

Yun Jing had a black line on his forehead at that time, this guy, three sentences cannot be separated from women, don't you say that women will die, he said speechlessly: "There is an exam tomorrow, do you still have the mood to think about this?"

"Then what else can you think about?" Wang Bolin asked back as a matter of course.

go to hell……

Not wanting to talk to him anymore, Yun Jing looked at Zhou Jintai and said, "Fatty, don't be nervous, treat it normally, you have learned everything you need to learn, just perform normally, don't feel pressured"

Zhou Jintai was so nervous when he saw it, he didn't speak at the side, and kept stuffing food into his mouth.

"You're not nervous." He raised his head and smiled, chewing something in his mouth, and couldn't speak clearly.

Are you still nervous?The fat all over his body is shaking, okay, and then Yunjing said: "Look at the swordsman, he is not nervous, he is still in the mood to read a book"

Chen Yijian, Yunjing and the others have given him the nickname "Swordsman" ever since he failed in the battle with the sword.

"What's the use of reading when things are coming to an end?" Zhou Jintai pouted.

At this moment, Wang Bolin stared at the side and yelled: "No way, no way, you don't think the swordsman is reading some serious book now, do you?"

???

Therefore, both Yun Jing and Zhou Jintai looked at Chen Yijian who was reading with his head down.

The guy blushed, threw the book in his hand on Wang Bolin's face and said: "Well, when I got in the car just now, Lin Zi said that I got a good book, and I just wanted to see what is good about it. Bar"

"Usually you still read it with such enthusiasm?" Wang Bolin put the book away preciously and said contemptuously.

Yun Jing wanted to beat them to death, and said, "What time is it, are you still in the mood to read these? Can't you just focus on the exam?"

After finishing speaking, Yun Jing shook his head and said, "Show me too..."

"Hahaha, Ah Jing, you are not a good person either!" Wang Bolin and the others immediately laughed.

Talking and laughing along the way was not boring at all. After four or five hours, they walked halfway to the county town, stopped at a roadside wild shop to rest, had dinner and continued on their way.

The roadside wild store is located at the intersection of Yisancha Road. It is not small in scale and has two floors. The three roads in front lead to the other three towns respectively, for people who are on the road to rest and stay. The arrival of Yunjing and the others makes this store Earn a lot.

Here, Yunjing and the others also met teams from three other towns who were going to rush for the exam. Although they didn't know each other, they went hand in hand for the rest of the way.

That shop is not a black shop, and they didn't 'just happen' to encounter grievances...

The rest of the group was not so excited. Although the spring sun was not harsh, the journey was already boring, and the warm sun made people drowsy.

The good thing is that the families of the students rushing for the exam are all well-off. Naturally, there are servants for things like driving. If you are sleepy on the road, you can just take a rest.

Yun Jing didn't sleep, he was in good spirits, and returned to Master Li Qiu's car, looking at the scenery along the way.

In fact, there is nothing to see. Most of the roads are barren mountains and wild mountains. Occasionally, you can see fields, and you can only see some poor farmers busy in the fields.

Afterwards, Yun Jing realized that the imperial court probably made an effort, and the busy farmers he saw were all using farmyard manure.

One thing Yunjing is quite entangled with is that until now, the imperial court has no policy to determine the taxation issue, maybe the court is still arguing...

In the afternoon, around four o'clock, after driving for half a day, the county seat of Xinlin County was finally in sight.

The destination is approaching. At this time, the spirits of the people who have been bored all the way are getting better again.

Looking at the county seat of Xinlin County in the distance, Yun Jing said in his heart that it was as expected, and it didn't make his eyes shine.

Said to be a county town, it is several times larger than Niujiao Town, with a few earth-walled huts and better buildings, but after all, it didn't make Yunjing feel the prosperous scene in his heart.

There is a city wall around the county seat, if that can be called a city wall.

The city wall is only four meters high and built of stones. Many places have obviously been in disrepair and collapsed. They are filled with soil and tamped down. It is estimated that it will be soaked when it rains.

Well, Yunjing couldn't help muttering in his heart, what he saw on TV in his previous life, any small town or county had a solid city wall, the streets were clean and tidy, the houses were gorgeous, the people were well-dressed, and the conversation was elegant... those f-cking things were simply Insulting people's IQ!

What is the real situation?The roads are uneven, the buildings are old, and most of the people are dressed in shabby clothes...

As expected, Yunjing was not surprised to see the situation in Xinlin County.

But in the critical period of the imperial examination, the public security issue in Xinlin County is very serious. There are soldiers guarding the gate of the city, and they carefully check the passers-by one by one.

When it was Yunjing's turn, it was much simpler. They only needed to show their examination card or school status, and they were allowed to go. They did not face strict investigations, and the guards were very polite to them.

After entering the city, they went straight to the inn that had already been booked.

"Jing'er, what are you looking at?"

Seeing Yunjing looking around, Li Qiu asked curiously.

Yun Jing smiled and said: "Master, when I went to the teahouse with you to listen to books, I often heard the storyteller say that places with many people are prone to grievances and grievances. I wonder if we will meet by chance."

"Where are so many grievances and grievances just happened to us? What the storyteller said are all things that have already happened, and most of them are just fabricated, so they can't be taken as real. Besides, tomorrow is the imperial examination. Wait a minute Who dares to make trouble at this time? Once it affects the imperial examination, it will be easy to go to prison!" Li Qiu shook his head and said dumbly.

Well, Yunjing also felt that he was thinking too much.

After all, the county seat is much bigger than Niujiao Town, and there are many more people. There are many shops along the street, and there are many pedestrians coming and going. It gives Yunjing a glimpse of the real ancient town style.

Half an hour after entering the city, Yunjing and the others finally arrived at the reserved inn.

There were so many of them, it was obvious that one inn could not accommodate them. The surrounding inns had already been booked out, waiting for them to check in.

The dynasty's imperial examinations still had a great influence. Along the way, Yunjing found that people were talking about the imperial examinations.

After coming to the inn to settle down and resting for a while, Li Qiu was busy gathering the students together again, and then took them to familiarize themselves with the examination room.

When Yunjing and the others came to the examination room, they found that martial law had already been imposed, and there were soldiers guarding every few meters around, and the streets around the examination room were full of policemen patrolling...

(End of this chapter)