A poor family counterattacks, she is beautiful and sassy on the way to the imperial examination

Chapter 67 Chapter 67
"Hey!" The soldier touched his forehead, which had been smashed out of a bag, and was about to curse.

I saw the thing that fell to the ground with a ding dong just now, glowing with dots of black and green luster.

He bent down to pick it up and looked at it, his jaw almost dropped in shock.

This token is made of black black gold, with a unicorn pattern cast on it, this token is comparable to the order of a prince or princess.

How could the person watching the city gate not know him.

Not to mention entering this small provincial capital in the middle of the night with the token in his hand, even if he wanted to enter the gate of the imperial city, few guards guarding the gate would dare to stop him.

The soldiers didn't dare to utter any more slander, and hurried down with the lanterns to open the city gate.

Ling Yun stepped forward and took the token that was handed back by the guards at the city gate with both hands.

In the astonishment of everyone and Mu Tan's clear eyes, he continued to drive the carriage and led them into the city.

Although everyone has doubts in their hearts, this is not the time to ask questions.

In addition, everyone is unfamiliar with the two coachmen, who are they?Why do you want to do this?Whether others are willing to say it is not certain.

Time has not allowed them to find an inn to rest and go to the examination room.

An Chuxia also let go of this doubt first, and let Runsong and Lingyun, who were driving the car, send her and Gu Fangmiao to the Gongyuan in the provincial capital where they took the provincial examination.

The two closed the compartment door and changed into clean clothes inside and out.

An Jinchen and Mu Tan started to make up two items to be brought into the examination room for food, and then wrapped separately the two thick felt blankets that Gu Shi had prepared for them.

Because there are no cheat sheets in the things you bring, no interlayers are allowed, and the things you cover at night are only blankets made of thick cloth.

Fortunately, the place they are in belongs to the south, and the night in August is not very cold, otherwise such thick cloth blankets really can't withstand it.

The small stove is not big in size, and it is an object that many candidates will bring. The charcoal is also wrapped in oilcloth to prevent other things from getting dirty.

Finally, I put all the things into two bags, so that they can carry them into the examination room after getting off the car.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the Provincial Urban and Rural Examination Institute established in the southeast of the city. At this time, there were already many candidates queuing up there to undergo the examination and then entered the examination room.

There should be fewer female students here. It seems that the few female candidates have already been searched and entered.

After An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao got out of the car, they took the test basket and the package containing food and drink supplies from An Jinchen and Mu Tan.

Amidst An Jinchen's nervous nagging, he trotted to the entrance of the Gongyuan, and there were some male students queuing up to be searched.

Looking at the two female students who ran over in a hurry, they both showed strange eyes.

An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao were successively brought into the small house next to them by the female secretary to undergo the most stringent inspection.

The search this time was stricter than the previous ones, and An Chuxia and the others were almost stripped down to their obscene clothes.

It gave An Chuxia an urge to scold her.

The package he brought was turned upside down, and when he searched the test basket, although he wasn't that rude, he checked everything carefully.

Fortunately, the food prepared by An Chuxia, the fried polished rice, the flour made from oatmeal, and the dried meat don't need to be broken up and inspected, and it can be seen at a glance that there is nothing hidden inside.

The food we eat is protected from poisonous hands, and it is hard to swallow without being checked and rubbed.

When the two were checked out, An Chuxia's entire face was black, Gu Fangmiao blushed, she lowered her head and just wanted to get out of here quickly.

After An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao passed the search, they went along the corridor to find their own houses.

An Chuxia found her own dormitory along the passage, took out a candle she brought from the test basket and lit it.

Seeing that the height of the front eaves is no more than six feet, the depth is four feet, and the width is only about three feet, the whole house will not exceed one and a half square meters at most.

An Chuxia sighed, if she was taller, she would bump into her head when she walked in.

Hearing the sound of mosquitoes buzzing, An Chuxia found out the braided wormwood rope from the bundle, and took out one to light it up.

This is the most common method of deworming in ancient times.

After putting the things away, An Chuxia took out the chopping board used as the examination table, put it together with the board on which she was sitting, and took out a thick felt blanket to spread on it.

I tried to lie down with my legs bent, so that I could really lie on the wooden plank in this narrow space, and it was impossible to stretch out.

After the twists and turns along the way, An Chuxia didn't have a good rest, and the wound was still red and swollen because of the rain.

Before going to bed, she took out the ointment and smeared the wound. Then she blew out the candle, lay on the wooden board, adjusted her posture and fell asleep slowly.

Candidates will face another test after entering the dormitory.

The test of weather and environment.

Because each of the three exams in the township examination lasted three days, and it would take nine days after the three exams. During this period, I had to eat, drink and sleep in this dormitory.

In the eighth month of the lunar calendar, it is the season of the "autumn tiger" in the south. Mosquitoes are rampant and the weather is extremely hot.

An Chuxia slept with only one piece of clothing covered, and the smoke from the burning wormwood made the mosquitoes less aggressive.

Several days of heavy rain made the dormitory very humid. An Chuxia felt a little stuffy after being woken up by early candidates the next morning.

She found wood sandalwood pills from the test basket that had been prepared for her in advance to relieve the heat and humidity, poured out two pills, and swallowed them slowly in her mouth.

She thought to herself that it was lucky that she gave half of it to Miao Miao, as her body, who has been exercising regularly, was a little tired from the tossing along the way, and now she was already showing signs of catching a cold.

What's more, she usually just eats a lot and looks slightly fat, but in fact she is a little girl who often reads and does not exercise, and has some qi deficiency.

An Chuxia stood up and stretched her body, took out the small stove and put charcoal on it to light it up, then took the ceramic pot to fetch water from the vat next to the house and brought it back to burn.

She felt that the most humane thing in this examination room was the water tank.

After putting the clay pot on the small stove to boil water, An Chuxia began to wash and organize herself.

While washing, An Chuxia found a piece of paper pasted on the partition wall of the dormitory. Male students can go to the clean room at the end of the alley on the left, and female students can go to the clean room at the end of the alley on the right.

An Chuxia walked out of the dormitory suddenly. When she came out to fetch water just now, she seemed to see that her dormitory was not far from the end of the alley.

When she saw that the dormitory where she was counted from the end of the alley happened to be the fifth one, and there were only four dorms away, An Chuxia should be glad that she was not the closest one.

I should still be sad that I am not lucky to leave, and I can also smell that smell that makes people dizzy.

She decided not to take pills from today, maybe a stuffy nose is also a good thing, stuffy is a little stuffy, at least she doesn't have to enjoy the influence of the smell.

Taking advantage of the fact that there are still few people going to clean the room, there is no smell.

After An Chuxia entered the dormitory, he quickly made a bowl of polished rice and oatmeal porridge with boiling water, tore a few pieces of dried meat into shreds and mixed it in, then wrapped the dried pickled radish wrapped in oil paper, and had a nutritious meal. Convenient breakfast.

After eating, An Chuxia cleaned up, poured the remaining boiled water in the clay pot into the bamboo tube, and saved it for drinking when she was thirsty.

Then I took out the wooden board that was used as the bed board last night, and inserted it into the dormitory again, and used it as an examination table in the grooves on the walls on both sides.

Take out the paper, ink, pen and inkstone from the test basket, put them in place, grind them with dripping water, and get everything ready.

When the first ray of dawn rose, the official historians walked in and began to distribute the opening papers to the candidates.

(End of this chapter)