Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 97
There are three exams in Dali, two consecutive days, and you are not allowed to leave at noon. The third exam lasts a whole day.

Compared with the county examination, the government examination is much stricter in all aspects, and among the many students who pass the county examination, only the first 150 are admitted.

A prefecture generally governs ten counties. The 300 people in a county who pass the county examination mean that there are at least 3000 people in the prefectural examination. If it is a larger prefecture, there will only be more people.

150 people are selected out of 5.00, and the admission rate is [-]%, which is very low.

Li Xiaozhen feels sorry for the candidates of this era.

It has been almost four years since time traveled back in time, and this is Li Xiao's first real trip away from home.

It was also the first time for Li Dashan and Li Yuan to travel far away. Although some of them were official, Li Dashan had to carefully confirm the direction and route every time he arrived in a town.

When we arrived in Fucheng, it took two hours longer than expected, but fortunately it was still dark, so Li Dashan's family of four shamelessly found Jixiang Restaurant.

The restaurant owner had something to do at home, and he happened to be away today, but fortunately he told the people below that the Li family could take good care of him when they arrived.

The rented accommodation in Fucheng was very small, with only two wing rooms and a small kitchen. Li Xiao looked at it and it looked like it had been modified for renting.

Li Xiao's guess was correct. This was indeed a renovated courtyard, most of which were rented out to candidates or students.

The courtyard is very close to Qingfeng Academy in Fucheng, and is also very close to the examination rooms for various examinations. It is simply a "school district room".

There are houses here that are basically converted into small courtyards like this. Most of them have two wing rooms, and there are even single rooms without kitchen doors.

Shopkeeper Liu sent a letter to Fucheng two or three days after learning that Li Qingsong had passed the county examination, and he immediately helped rent a house in Fucheng.

However, housing in school districts is in demand, especially in the early stages of exams.

Because of the reputation of Jixiang Restaurant, he finally rented the small courtyard for a month.This was Li Xiao's first visit to Fucheng. On the way, he discovered that Fucheng was different from the county town in its prosperity.

On the fourth day of April, except for Li Qingsong, a student waiting for the exam, who stayed behind with Wen Shu, Li Dashan took Li Xiao and his daughter to visit the city.

The location of the courtyard is indeed good. It is only half an hour away from the academy. The family of three looked around the academy for a while before leaving.

The three of them also stopped by the place where the exam would take place a few days later. It was a quarter of an hour away, not too far or too close, but just like the academy, the surroundings were very quiet.

There are some shops and vendors 200 meters away from the examination room, but most of them are tea shops, snack shops or bookstores, and they are not noisy at all.

There is a very special feature of these shops that attracts Li Xiao, and that is the "front and rear double doors".

To be precise, the entrance to the examination room of these shops is actually the "back door", but because the "back door" is somewhat taboo for students, these shops renamed the "back door" to be the same as the front door, regardless of front or rear!

On weekdays, one side of the room is basically closed before the exam, and only when the exam is coming, will it be "opened on both sides."

Because Li Xiao was lazy, he walked through a large teahouse and walked to the street on the other side of the shop.

There were actually quite a lot of people in the teahouse. It looked like a lot of people who looked like candidates were hanging out together. There were not many empty seats in the teahouse.

But the whole teahouse was not noisy at all, because everyone seemed to deliberately control the volume when talking. Even the waiter serving tea had a very good control over the volume!

Apart from the teahouses, the streets were much more lively. Although it couldn't be said to be bustling with people, it was still very lively.

The streets in Fucheng are very wide, visually estimated to be six or seven feet wider than those in the county town.

Li Xiao just held his parents' hands and walked leisurely on the street for two hours. If he hadn't been thinking about how his eldest brother had to eat, Li Xiao would have probably been able to continue shopping!
(End of this chapter)