Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 293 Heading to Fucheng
Mrs. Chen also showed a smile on her face: "When you say that, I really think Xiaobei is a good kid. He is a righteous person, he can't eat or wear clothes, and he even picked up two orphans. He is also very capable. , the mouth is sweet, and the work is very thoughtful."

Du Jinning smiled wryly: "Mother, don't be too happy. If he doesn't want to, I won't force him. I'm not partial to outsiders, I just think that the twisted melon is not sweet. He is not happy, and he will never treat my sister sincerely. OK."

"That's true." Mrs. Chen agreed with this very much.

When Du Fangfei was choosing a relative, Du Jinning also said this to her again and again.

"He won't disagree, let's see what I do." Du Fangling said suddenly, very confidently.

Seeing Chen Shi and Du Jinning looking at her in surprise, she suddenly became shy, her face flushed red, but she still said hard words: "I, Du Fangling, am not bad in appearance, and I am not the lazy one. Look down on me, what kind of fairy do you want to marry?" He glared at Du Jinning with feigned anger, "Don't look at me like that, anyway, don't talk about it, Lu Xiaobei will naturally come to propose marriage .”

Du Jinning was very happy to hear this.She has a strong temper herself, so she also appreciates strong women.She felt very good about Du Fangling doing this.

Chen Shi is a traditional woman, she disapproves and said: "Sister Ling, you must not mess around. If you do something out of the ordinary, and Lu Xiaobei looks down on you, wouldn't it ruin your reputation?"

"Mother, where do you want to go?" Du Fangling pouted, "I won't do anything out of the ordinary, don't worry."

Since Du Fangling said so, Du Jinning didn't care about her marriage anymore.She packed up her things, and before dawn the next day, she went to meet some classmates at the gate of the academy, and went to Fucheng together.

The government examination also requires janitors to be guarantors, and the number of guarantors is one more than that of the county examination.The Academy was also worried that none of the students would be able to take him on a long trip, so he not only sent three guarantors to follow him, but also sent Mr. Huang Chengming to go with him.Some parents are worried about their children and go with them.If there are servants in a good family, they will bring two or three servants with them.Therefore, the team was very large, with as many as thirteen carriages and mule carts alone.

Du Jinning didn't want to carpool with others, so he asked Qin Laoliu to hire a mule cart.The driver was Qin Laoliu's cousin, a middle-aged man in his early forties named Wang Fulai.Wang Fulai is a good character, quick-witted, and is a relative of Qin Lao Liu, who knows everything. Du Jinning is more convenient and reassuring.

Besides Wang Fulai, Du Jinning also brought Lu Xiaobei along.

Although Wang Fulai is a relative of Qin Lao Liu, he is relatively unfamiliar after all. Du Jinning is worried that he will lose the chain at a critical moment.With Lu Xiaobei following her, she felt relieved.And not only does the exam need someone to take care of her outside, but she still has a lot of things to do when she comes to Fucheng this time. With Lu Xiaobei's help with running errands, she can save a lot of time and energy.

The convoy was large and crowded, Liang Xiankuan and the other two children from well-to-do families also brought a few guards on horseback to look after them, and some youngsters on the road did not dare to think of them.Worried that the road would be difficult to walk in the rain, they deliberately picked a time when the weather was better to go on the road in advance, so the road went smoothly. Except for two classmates who lay down because of motion sickness, everyone was fine.When it was almost the end of the application period, the convoy had already arrived at Shili Pavilion outside Fucheng.

It was already mid-April, which was equivalent to the end of May in modern times, and it got dark late.Although it was already five o'clock in modern times, the sky was still quite bright, and there was still some time before closing the city gate. Huang Chengming was not in a hurry to enter the city, and directed the motorcade to stop at Shili Pavilion, letting everyone get out of the car to rest one time.

"Everyone come here, let me say a few words."

Huang Chengming is the leader of the team. Everyone took the exam this time under his command. When he called him, everyone gathered around.

"After a while, there were too many people entering the city, and there was another inspection, so the convoy couldn't stop. After entering the city, there was no wide space for so many of us and the cars to stop and talk, so I said everything here, later When you enter the city, everyone will go to their respective residences, and there is no need to stay any longer." Huang Chengming said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Huang Chengming continued: "There are four gentlemen and seven students in our group, and three students have residences in Fucheng. After you settle down, you need to send someone to the guild hall to tell me, and leave the address, so that there will be more I can find you if there is anything. The rest of you will live in the guild hall with me."

Having said that, he glanced at the family members and servants who were standing not far away in twos and threes, and said again: "The family members and servants you are bringing with you, please restrain yourself, and do not have any quarrels and conflicts with others in the county hall. Conflict. Conduct is one of the most important aspects of studying and becoming an official. Even if it is not you but your family members who misbehaved, once it is spread, your government examination will be in vain. If you let the next county examination examiner know , it is estimated that it will be very difficult for you to pass the county examination next year. So I hope everyone must pay attention to this."

In order to make it easier for the people in the county to travel to and from different parts of the capital, and also for the candidates who enter the city every year to take the exam, there is a safe place to stay, so each county will set up a county hall in the prefecture or even the capital.Although the county hall is government-owned, the accommodation is charged, which is equivalent to an official inn.Because the fees are moderate, and not everyone can live in it, they need to have a certain status, which seems to be more classy, ​​so they are more favored by officials and scholars.

And precisely because the county hall is a place where "talking and laughing, there are great Confucian scholars, and there are no white people in communication", once there is talk and conflict, the consequences will be particularly serious.

In previous years, when a candidate came to take the exam, the uncle who came with him to take care of him behaved wretchedly, annoyed a Juren who went to Beijing with his family, and immediately wrote a letter to the magistrate who was the chief examiner, stating that the candidate had misbehaved and indulged his family For molesting a woman from a good family, the examinee failed the government examination, and the next county examination also failed repeatedly.

The Tongsheng Examination is a county examination, a government examination, and a three-level hospital examination.If you pass the county and government examinations, you will be a child student; if you have obtained the qualifications for a child student, even if you fail to pass the college exam to become a scholar, you don't have to take the exam again, and you can directly participate in each college exam in the future.However, if you only pass the county examination and fail to pass the government examination to qualify as a child, you have to start from the county examination every year.Once the county examination is blocked, the following government examinations and hospital examinations will naturally be ineligible to participate.

So the examinee was sadly delayed for several years, and was not able to pass the county examination until the county magistrate appointed a few years later did not know what happened back then.

The gentlemen of the academy have all talked about this matter, beating the students to restrain themselves and their families when they take the exam, so as not to cause such a thing.

After hearing this, everyone nodded solemnly, expressing their understanding.

For this reason, the elders or servants they brought with them all chose the honest and reliable ones, and they beat them in advance.If you can't find a reliable elder, you might as well go for the test alone, so as not to be implicated by your family.

(End of this chapter)