prosperous age

Chapter 50
Early in the morning, Wu Zhankui took his brother-in-law and nephew into Pengze County, but he didn't take them directly to the county government office to register. Instead, he went to find Gao Xiucai first, and bought some gifts on the street along the way.

If you ask someone to do something, although you still have to send money according to the usual practice, you can't come to the door empty-handed, right, this is unreasonable.

Of course, Father Wei didn't buy any expensive things, he just collected his hands.

At the address given by Master Sun, I found Gao Xiucai.

Under normal circumstances, a student like Gao Xiucai should be studying in a county school at this time.

Although he is already a scholar, he doesn't need to take the county examination, government examination and college examination, but the Jiangxi township examination will start at the end of the year. Shouldn't he enter the county school?

In fact, this is really the case. During this period of time, Gao Xiucai really didn't go to the county school much.

At this time of year, many candidates who are preparing to take the county examination come to their door and ask for guarantee for them.

For those candidates who are familiar, everything is easy to talk about, but more are unfamiliar, it depends on who the referrer is, unfamiliar, it will definitely not be guaranteed, no matter how much money is given.

It's just that Gao Xiucai didn't expect that the exam was about to start, and someone would come to the door.

After reading Master Sun's letter, Gao Xiucai knew what was going on, so naturally everything was easy to talk about.

After accepting the gift and money, he just asked Wei Guangde to study hard and prepare for the county examination half a month later.

This is to collect people's money and eliminate disasters for others.

Of course, he wasn't trying to eliminate the disaster, but just doing a favor.

I handed over the written guarantee documents to them, and chatted casually for a while.

Knowing that Wei Guangde and his party had to go to the county government office to sign up, they didn't say much, and after all the things they had to do were done, they left naturally.

After leaving Gao Xiucai's house, their next stop was of course to go to the county government to register.

The county government office in Pengze County is located in the center of the county seat, which is similar to the movies and TV shows that Wei Guangde has seen, but there is also a little difference. Perhaps the protection of historical sites is not complete. At least before Wei Guangde saw the gate of the county government office, he saw a building from a distance. Zhaobi.

Zhaobi is facing the gate of the county government, and there is a memorial archway in the middle.

Before Wei Guangde came to the county, he usually went to the market to buy some delicious and interesting things, but he didn't go to the government office like the county government office to have a look. This was the first time Wei Guangde saw Peng Ze The appearance of the county government.

In his last life, Wei Guangde had never been to any such well-preserved historical sites. When he saw the Pengze County Yamen for the first time, he still felt a little emotional.

When Wei Guangde first saw the gate of the county government office, what Wei Guangde thought of was "the gate of the government office opens to the south, don't come in if you have a reason and no money", and then the second sentence was "the gate of the government office opens to the south".

It’s true that the Pengze County Government was built facing south, and the walls twice the gate of the county gate were not built at the same level as the gate, but were built at a certain angle and slanted outwards. The walls on both sides resembled the character “eight”.

It seems that this is a regulation. Wei Guangde remembers that he seems to have read the records in the book. In fact, all the county government offices in the Ming Dynasty are similar. They were all built according to the imperial system. If there are differences, they will only be slightly modified according to local conditions.

Entering through the side door, the on-duty saw Wu Zhankui and Wu Qianhu were very polite, "Wu Qianhu, do you need me to go in and inform you?"

"No, I signed up for my nephew today."

Listening to the conversation between Menzi and Wu Zhankui, it seems that Wu Zhankui still comes here from time to time, and he is still a little familiar with Menzi.

After passing through the corridor, he was led by his uncle to a row of houses on the left. Looking at the sign hanging in front of the door, Wei Guangde knew that these rooms were the houses for the officials of the Pengze County Government, and the other three rooms were either at the back of this row of houses. Or it is on the other side of the corridor, because Chinese architecture pays great attention to symmetry.

In fact, from the screen wall to the archway, to the gate of the county government office and the corridor behind it, to the second and third halls of the lobby, they are all on a central axis.

Following his uncle and Father Wei, Wei Guangde stepped into the ceremony room for the first time.

The internal organization of the county government is actually a bit similar to that of the imperial court. The imperial court has six departments, and there are corresponding institutions at the county government level, that is, the six rooms.

The office in charge of the imperial examination has always been the ceremony room, so Wei Guangde's application is naturally here.

Uncle knew everyone in the ceremony room, and chatted with the person in charge of the ceremony room. Knowing that Wu Zhankui brought his nephew to sign up for this county examination, the scribes in the ceremony room were still a little surprised.

Without him, it's just a matter of time.

Indeed, there are still more than half a month before the exam, so I only come to sign up at this time.

After Wei Guangde stepped forward to greet him, he explained the reason why he came to sign up at this time.

Knowing that some candidates could not refer to it because of their filial piety, several officials in the room understood.

If an elder in the family has passed away, it is true that you cannot take the exam, otherwise you will not only harm yourself, but also a few classmates who have protected each other.

On the paper handed over by the clerk, Wei Guangde carefully filled in the name, place of origin, age, and three-generation history, and also wrote the names of the other four of the five people who had been co-examined, and finally wrote Gao Xiang's name in the guarantor column.

It is also an open secret that the students who are in charge of serving as guarantors for candidates need to pay money, unless they are their own nephews or students.

Of course, if you encounter someone who is stingy, maybe even your nephews and students, you may not be able to do without a filial piety.

The front part was quickly filled out, but Wei Guangde didn't know how to write the description of his physical characteristics, and his husband hadn't explained how to write it before.

"Face armor, white complexion, short stature, no beard."

Just when Wei Guangde was hesitating, he heard the clerk on the opposite side say a few words in a low voice. Wei Guangde looked up in surprise, but the man looked at Wei Guangde's face carefully before nodding, "Let's just write it like this. No moles and marks either."

It was only now that Wei Guangde realized that the facial armor was probably referring to his own face shape, and it was easy to understand with a pale complexion and no beard. What does this short stature mean?
Among his peers, Wei Guangde thinks he is tall. Although he is only 13 years old and has no measuring tools for later generations, Wei Guangde thinks his height will not be less than 1.5 meters, maybe close to 1.6 meters.

It was an era of overnutrition in future generations, and the height of children generally surpassed that of their parents, so even his current height would not look short in future generations.

Of course, this height may have Wei Guangde's personal feelings in it, and there may be a certain error.

Regarding this point, Wei Guangde is not very sure, but he is not much shorter than his brother Wei Wencai and cousin Wu Dong, and my mother also said that she is afraid that she will grow up to be taller than her father Wei Meng.

Well, maybe people calculate it according to the height of an adult. If you think about it this way, Wei Guangde is indeed a little shorter, just a little.

After filling out the registration form, Wei Guangde took out Gao Xiucai's bond settlement document and mutual guarantee document, and handed it to the clerk together with the registration form.

The guarantee documents came from Gao Xiang and Gao Xiucai, and the mutual guarantee documents were obtained from Mrs. Sun, including the other four candidates. Because their previous mutual guarantee documents also needed to be revised, Wei Guangde brought them together this time.

The clerk stamped Wei Guangde's registration materials after he got the procedures and checked them to be correct, and gave the examination certificate.

However, Wei Guangde was not in a hurry to leave. After watching the scribes replace all the other mutual guarantee documents into the registration materials, his work this time was considered complete.

What Wei Guangde didn't notice was that when he was filling out the registration form, Wu Zhankui handed over a small package to the scribe in the ceremony room, and Wei Guangde's examination certificate was naturally adjusted slightly.

(End of this chapter)