Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 562 Exam

  Thursday Lang listened for a while and said that he didn’t understand, so he knocked on the bowl and said, “It’s better to eat quickly. If you know it, you can’t control it. This is an official business.”

  Man Bao looked at Bai Shanbao.

  Bai Shanbao met her gaze and took a mouthful of food and said: "Before you become an official, you have to go to school."

   "Yes," Man Bao gave him a piece of meat and encouraged him: "Eat more and read a book if you are full."

  Shirajiro looked up from the bowl, "Isn't it a holiday today?"

  Bai Shanbao also stared at Manbao, "I want to read a book, you have to accompany it, otherwise you all play, I can't go in."

  Man Bao said that there is no problem at all.

  It’s not fun outside now anyway.

   Bai Erlang listened, and angrily pulled half of what he thought was the best braised pork steak into his bowl. He missed Qili Village and missed his friends in Qili Village?

  As long as it’s a holiday, he can go to play with them, play in the village, play in the river, play in the mountains, play in the reeds...

  It’s like now, there are only two friends, there is no fun outside, they always read books.

  Thursday Lang is not satisfied. One thing he admires Yaomei most is that she can always read the book and can always exercise self-discipline.

  He was dizzy when he saw the word.

  Thursday Lang was full, packed up the dishes and chopsticks, and said, “I’ll go for a walk and bring you back dinner in the evening, so you don’t have to go out and buy it.”

  He said: "There should be a lot of people going outside tonight. You are young, don't run outside."

  Man Bao asked curiously, "Four brother, should we also buy some joss sticks and paper money to come back for the road sacrifice?"

"There are people in our family who are offering sacrifices. Who are you offering here?" Chu Lang waved his hand: "Does the labor ancestors fly here from the village for your handful of paper money? Don't worry, there are family members. There will be many sacrifices to the ancestors."

  Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang, who wanted to join in the excitement, stopped thinking after hearing this.

  Five days after the Qingming Festival is the Fuxue exam.

  Mr. Zhuang took Bai Shanbao long ago to hand in his guide, recommendation letter, etc., and he was qualified for the exam.

  Dajin’s study system is very relaxed, and most of the students at the government school are recommended by the county school underneath.

  Except for a few particularly outstanding county students, other county students must take an exam to enroll after being recommended.

  Of course, non-county students who want to go to the prefectural school can also recommend the exam by themselves, but you have to get a recommendation letter from an official or a prestigious person.

  Otherwise, you can only ask for self-recommendations from the academics of the school, and take a big exam first, and then you can take the test of the school only after you get the few places for the exam.

  So the scholars in Dajin can't do anything else. They must do well in eloquence or poetry, otherwise they won't even be able to get exam places.

  If you don’t account for both, then you have to pray that the ancestors will be strong enough to give him a good family background, so that even if they are not good at eloquence and do not do well in self-recommended poems, they can still get a place for the exam.

  This is not only the case of Fuxue, but also the Six Schools of Guozijian School.

  All localities will recommend excellent students like the Six Schools of the Imperial College. When these students arrive in the capital, depending on the recommendation, some can directly enroll, or some must pass an exam first.

  Six schools will take an exam every year, and those who fail will be removed. Those who are excellent in character and academics can go directly to the official position, or take the Jinshi exam and then go to the official position.

  Of course, students who are not six schools can also directly sign up for the Jinshi exam, but the six schools of the Guozijian represent the highest educational institution in the country, and the pass rate for students educated through it is higher.

   Therefore, the official career path that Bai Jiahe Zhuang established for Bai Shanbao is an extremely formal and popular one. First enter the government school examination, achieve the best one, and get a letter of recommendation for six schools.

  Then go to Beijing to take the test, enter the sixth school, and then go to the Jinshi after learning.

  Mr. Zhuang felt that it was enough for Bai Shan to be admitted to the school before the age of fourteen, so he was not very nervous this time, and let Bai Shan not be too nervous.

  Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, “We’re just trying this time. We failed the exam this year. We will come again next year and the next year.”

  Bai Shanbao nodded nervously.

  Man Bao encouraged him, "You can definitely do it!"

  Bai Shanbao asked, “What if you fail the exam?”

   "Then come out and invite us to have a delicious meal."

  Bai Shanbao was in a daze and asked, “Should it be you who invited me? I didn’t pass the exam, so sad.”

   "What if you don't try your best to eat our meal?" Man Baoli said straightforwardly: "If you feel bad about this meal, what should you do?"

   "It's just a meal, am I?"

  Man Bao: "Who knows, anyway, if you fail the exam, then the pain will get worse. If you pass the exam, we invite you, it will be more joy than joy."

  The scholar who was waiting in the line heard it, and couldn't help but turned his head to take a look at Man Bao, and then to Bai Shanbao, seeing that he was only twelve or thirteen years old, and he couldn't help but raised a heart slightly.

  Are all the teenagers so good now?

  Shouldn’t this age be to go to the county to study?

  I think so, but in fact, there are quite a lot of candidates at the same age as Bai Shanbao, seventeen or eighteen.

  Although the teenagers are also nervous, they are also very confident, at least their heads are high.

  The older the candidates became more calm, and at the same time they felt a lot of anxiety. They found that there seemed to be a lot of candidates taking the government examinations this year.

  Mr. Zhuang naturally found out, he sighed and felt that Bai Shan might not have a chance this year.

  The number of candidates has increased, but the number of places is the same, and the difficulty of the exam questions has also increased.

  But Mr. Zhuang didn’t say anything, he just reached out and patted him on the shoulder, encouraging: "Go in."

  Bai Shanbao took the test basket from Daji, and Mr. Chongzhuang saluted and turned around to line up.

  Man Bao watched him walk into the examination room, then looked around and asked: "Sir, shall we go home or wait here?"

  The exam is for two days, and the door will be opened when you arrive. You will continue to line up early in the morning to enter the exam room tomorrow.

  However, the important questions are all finished today, and the poems to be supplemented tomorrow are limited questions.

  Mr. Zhuang thought for a while and then said: "I'll go home first. Feel free to do it, but you have to stay here and watch it. If someone calls inside, someone will support you."

  Good luck.

  Man Bao thought for a while and said: "Then we will stay."

  Shirajiro turned around and pointed to a tea house and said, "There is a tea house there. Let's go there and wait."

There were a lot of people waiting in the teahouse. The upstairs and downstairs were all occupied, so the store put the tables and chairs outside. The four of them took up a table and sat down, drinking tea while waiting for the examination room to open. .

  　 The next chapter is around ten in the evening

  (End of this chapter)