The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Sheng Yuan entered the tribute courtyard, followed the prompts to the girl's inspection room, and deftly let the female inspection officer inspect her.

After passing the Tongsheng test, she is not too proficient in this procedure.

Sheng Yuan smiled when the inspector checked her from the hair strands to the red pockets to the soles of the shoes, and then turned his attention to her basket.

With a serious face, the inspector opened the three-layer examination basket, and went through the various medicine powders on the first layer, all kinds of rice noodles on the second layer, and the stationery on the last layer, and finally showed a restless look. expression.

Although it was the first time for a female inspector to appear in the examination room of the Tribute Academy, she had never eaten pork or seen a pig running?
No matter how bad it is, you can discuss it with colleagues who have experienced it.

Therefore, in their impression, it is a great pleasure to break the various snacks and steamed buns prepared by the candidates into pieces during the inspection.

Those of her seniors have never seen any candidate who is so... um, it saves them so much time, even the best tea leaves are ground into tea powder!

Seeing the reaction of the inspecting female officer, the smile on Sheng Yuan's face became more obvious: Hehe!Didn't expect it!
After much consideration before, she ground the refreshing and reassuring pills into a powder. It would be very convenient to put them in an incense plate and light them, or paste them on acupuncture points with water, or take them with water.

As for the food that needs to be eaten for three days, Sheng Yuan used great perseverance to reject all kinds of pastries, candies, and dried meat. He sought an imperial doctor for research and discussion, and used various beans, grains, dried nuts, dried vegetables, and dried yams. , Dried fruit, and ground enough rice noodles for her to eat for half a month, and then add sugar powder, honey, meat floss, jam, osmanthus, and salt to enrich her three meals.

At the beginning, her parents were not at ease when they heard about her plan. The imperial doctor ensured that these things were nutritious and not easy to deteriorate. They ate three big bowls for each meal to ensure that she could enter and exit the field as she entered, and that she would never hold back in terms of physical fitness. .

"Pass!" The female inspector didn't know whether it was out of sight or out of admiration for Sheng Yuan, she yelled "Pass" especially sonorously.

Sheng Yuan combed a high ponytail, dressed quickly, tidied up the basket, and bowed his hands politely.

Then, under the half-smiling gaze of others, he strode forward along the warning sign.

This is the first time a girl has participated in the township examination, and it is also the first time that the imperial court's Ministry of Rites has dealt with it.

So there was a lot of controversy.

Bear the brunt of the debate over whether the seats in the examination room should be changed.

Originally, the number plate of the examination room and the number of the scholars were unified, but this time there were girls joining, and some officials planned to change the number plate of the examination room and the number of the scholars in view of the principle of "not letting the house officer and the chief examiner have a preconceived impression". distinguish.

From No. 60 to No. 61, the test houses are all used by girls, and from No. [-] onwards, they are used by gentlemen.

But as soon as the idea came out, it received a wave of opposition.

The objection is that it is more likely to cause injustice.

After arguing like this for a long time, the final result was that the seats remained the same, but an extra space was built, placed far away at both ends of the examination room.

The Ministry of Etiquette of the imperial court reached a consensus that the reconstruction process of the examination hall is very fast, but it will be difficult for the reference candidates. After all, the original smelly house has only one end, but now it has become a pincer between two ends. Tsk tsk, only the examinees can feel the taste.

Sheng Yuan did a good job, her position is in the middle, as long as the two sides are adjacent to each other and there is no moth, the smell here should not be too unbearable.

Clutching the scholar number sent by the scribe in his hand, Sheng Yuan deliberately approached the hall sign before entering the examination hall, and said, "Well, it is indeed No. 56 Beipan!"

The cautious little girl straightened the house card and saw that it was placed firmly, so she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to do the first thing when entering the hall—cleaning the test house!

There is no way, the examination hall of the Gongyuan will be vacant for half a year after the provincial examination every year. During this period, except for necessary repairs, no one will clean the exam hall for you.

Even if the exam halls have been repaired, many of them are not useful. In case of wind and rain, it is mostly raining outside and leaking inside, which is extremely unfriendly to candidates.

So if you want your exam papers to not be damaged by wind and rain, only candidates have to prepare well in advance, just like Sheng Yuan, at this moment, she shook off the tarpaulin inspected by the inspector!
She prepared two big pieces of linoleum, one piece, she was going to fasten against the roof of the house, and the other piece was rolled up and tied above the examination table.

Speaking of which, the environment of the examination room at the Gongyuan in Kyoto is much better than that outside of Beijing, especially since Emperor Jinghe came to the throne, he has urged the Ministry of Rites to modify the area of ​​the examination room.

Let's put it this way, in the original exam room, the taller candidates had to bend over and sleep on the makeshift bed with their legs tucked up.

Now the conditions of the Kyoto Gongyuan Research House are much better. Not only the building materials have changed from thatch and wood to bricks, but the area has also expanded a lot.The current test house is more than six feet in length, width and height, and a little girl like Sheng Yuan is well-off in it.

Of course, the increase in the area of ​​the test house does not mean that the interior decoration has been upgraded.

The walls and floors are still so simple that moss grows, and the bed boards and desk tops are still detachable.

Looking at the weeds and flowers swaying in the wind in the corner of the Kaoshe, Sheng Yuan scratched his head, and generously poured a spoonful of water from the two buckets of water picked up by the waterman in the principle of sharing the joy with everyone.

Just take it as a lucky draw!

"Girl, the cleaning appointment you made is here." Just as Sheng Yuan was moved by herself, she spent several times the money to hire a handyman, and the cleaning came.