In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 352 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 23

When they arrived at the county town, many scholars lined up at the entrance of the examination room with their prepared exam supplies and waited in turn to be checked. While waiting in line, Jia Lang and his friends occasionally saw people being found to have cheat sheets or whose identities did not match, and then being thrown out of the examination room or thrown into prison by the yamen runners in dishevel.

"This is a really strict inspection!"

Jia Lang couldn't help but think of the previous times he was discovered, and couldn't help but sigh. The teacher next to him happened to hear it, and the teacher smiled and patted Jia Lang on the shoulder: "Brother Lang is young, you don't know how the imperial examination is a smooth road for many people, in order to squeeze into this smooth road, how many families have to use their entire family's strength to support such a person!"

Lang'er was of a different status from them and was young, so naturally he couldn't think of it. But for those poor people who had studied hard for more than ten years, if the examination was not strict, they would have no chance at all.

If the imperial examination was not strict enough, one can imagine how many powerful families in this world would use their power to supplant children from poor families.

Jia Lang nodded to show that he understood and stopped talking. Soon it was Jia Lang's turn in the line. He first handed the examination basket he brought to the yamen runner for inspection. After making sure that there was no problem, he followed the runner's instructions and entered the body search room.

Jia Lang used his mental power to take a quick look and confirmed that the situation was consistent with what he had predicted, and immediately put down his nervous heart. Everything went smoothly afterwards, and Jia Lang passed the inspection smoothly according to the method he had predicted and entered the examination room.

After entering the examination room, Jia Lang found her room according to her number. She was lucky because her room was far away from the toilet and she could hardly smell any stench.

Soon the time for the exam arrived and the door of the examination room was closed by the yamen runners. The invigilators sat at the front and signaled the yamen runners to set the questions.

Today I participated in the first round of the county examination. The chief examiner was the county magistrate. There were five examinations. The first one was eight-part essays. The second one was test poems. The third one was about economics. The fourth one was about regulated verses. The fifth one was about policy essays.

Candidates were not allowed to leave the examination room during the period. If they wanted to go to the toilet, they had to be accompanied by a yamen runner, and two people were not allowed to go to the toilet at the same time. They were allowed to hand in their papers only after they had finished all five exams. After handing in their papers, their names would be sealed on the spot, and the door of the examination room would not be opened to let people leave until the minimum number of people had gathered.

Jia Lang originally did not have a deep understanding of the eight-legged essay, but with the help of the study materials Lin Ruhai gave her, she can now write a few of them. The only trouble is the appearance of the paper. After finishing the draft, she needs to copy the article onto the answer sheet. There are regulations on font size and spacing, and typos are not allowed. This is the biggest challenge for Jia Lang, who has always been impatient.

Fortunately, Jia Lang has flexibly applied Yixiu's calligraphy skills to a high level over the years, so as long as Jia Lang calms down, there will be no problem.

Except for the test poem, which was a bit difficult for Jia Lang, he had no problem with the other four exams. After all, Jia Lang had been an emperor, so he naturally had a greater advantage in economics and policy essays than the pure scholars who took the same exam.

When Jia Lang went to take the imperial examination, Aunt Li knelt in the Buddhist temple and prayed with a pious heart. She also held a bottle of poison in her arms. If Jia Lang successfully entered the examination room, she would pray to Buddha to bless her to pass the exam. If Jia Lang failed, she would die with her daughter.

Aunt Li closed her eyes tightly, feeling extremely anxious. She didn't dare open her eyes to check the time. She just hoped that time would pass faster. As long as there was no news about Jia Lang by noon, it would prove that Jia Lang had succeeded.

"Auntie Li, are you here to ask for divination for your brother Lang as well?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice woke Aunt Li up. Aunt Li opened her eyes and turned around. It was Aunt Fang, the mother of Jia Lang's classmate. Jia Lang's school was located between the Jia clan's land and the next village. The students who went to school were either from the Jia clan or from the next village.

Aunt Fang's son Jia Xing was a member of the Jia clan who lived in the same place as Jia Lang. Although the blood relationship between the two was very distant, they were from the same clan, classmates and lived not far from each other. Jia Xing became familiar with Jia Lang, and brought Aunt Fang to get acquainted with Aunt Li.

"Yes. Aunt Fang, are you here to draw divination for Xing Ge'er as well?"

When Aunt Li saw Aunt Fang, she was surprised to find that it was already bright outside and the exam had long passed. She immediately realized that Jia Lang had passed, and the breath in her heart was instantly relieved. After she came to her senses, Aunt Li was extremely surprised and even looked at Aunt Fang with much more affection.

"The teacher said that our Xing'er's level is still a little bit behind, so this time he is asked to give it a try first..."

Aunt Li naturally couldn't really agree with what Aunt Fang said, and hurriedly denied it: "I heard from our Lang'er that the teacher only wrote less than five letters of recommendation this time. Xing'er was able to try, I'm afraid the teacher was just being modest."

In the temple, two mothers who wanted their sons to be successful were praising each other, while in the examination room, two candidates were still writing furiously. This was Jia Lang's first time taking the imperial examination, and to be honest, he didn't feel much pressure.

After all, after passing the examination to become a scholar, there is still the provincial examination, and after the provincial examination there is the metropolitan examination. At my age, even if I really passed the examination, it would be impossible for me to take part in the provincial and metropolitan examinations right away. After all, even if I passed the examination, no emperor would be willing to grant me an official position when I was only in my teens.

The reason why Jia Lang chose to take the examination for scholars now is to enhance his reputation as a talented man. With this reputation, even if the Jia Mansion is raided a few years later, he will not be implicated at will.

Although Jia Lang knew that Jia Huan, Jia Zhong, Jia Baoyu and even Jia Lan were not implicated after the Jia Mansion was raided, they were still affected by the reputation of the Jia Mansion and were imprisoned for a while.

He couldn't go to jail, it was too dangerous. As long as he made a name for himself before anything happened to the Jia family, people would know that Jia Lang, the talented scholar, had been sent out to the capital a long time ago. Then when something happened to the Jia family, no matter how many people they arrested, they would not catch him who was far away in Jinling.

Just for the sake of reputation, after the Jia Mansion was raided, he had to take in the women and children in the Jia Mansion no matter what. To do this, he had to go to the Rongguo Mansion before that.

Presumably, after learning that she had become a scholar at such a young age, Jia's mother would have trusted dreams very much. In order to protect the future of the Jia family, she would have prepared some assets in advance for Jia Lang to arrange. As for the amount of assets, that was not up to Jia's mother.

By the time he went to Rongguo Mansion again, Jia Baoyu's spiritual jade should have been cracked a lot by Lin Daiyu's tears. In order not to give it to Fairy Jinghuan, he, the soul-calling bird fairy, had to absorb the spiritual energy in advance.