Chapter 562 Examination

Zhou Zhoulang listened for a while, and expressed that he didn't understand, so he knocked on the bowl and said, "It's better to eat quickly, you don't care if you know, it's an official's business."

Man Bao looked at Bai Shanbao.

Bai Shanbao met her gaze, took a bite of his meal and said, "Before becoming an official, you have to be admitted to a government school."

"That's right," Man Bao gave him a piece of meat and encouraged him, "Eat more, and read a book when you're full."

Bai Erlang looked up from the bowl, "Isn't today a holiday?"

Bai Shanbao also stared at Man Bao, "I want to read, you have to accompany me, otherwise you are all playing, I can't read it."

Man Bao said there is no problem at all.

It's not fun outside anyway.

Hearing this, Bai Erlang angrily pulled half of the braised pork that he thought was the most delicious into his bowl. He missed Qili Village, missed the friends in Qili Village?

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

Unlike now, there are only two friends, and there is no fun place outside, and they always read books.

Zhou Zhoulang was very satisfied. The thing he admired most about Yaomei was that she could always read books and be self-disciplined.

But he was dizzy when he saw the words.

Zhou Zhoulang was full, cleaned up the dishes and said, "I'll go out for a walk, and bring you back dinner in the evening, so you don't have to go out and buy."

He said: "There should be quite a lot of people at the road festival outside tonight, you are young, don't run outside."

Man Bao asked curiously, "Fourth brother, should we also buy some joss sticks and paper money to sacrifice on the way back?"

"There are people in our family offering sacrifices. Who are you offering sacrifices to here?" Zhou Zhou Lang waved his hand and said, "Do you have to work for your bunch of paper money, and the ancestors flew here from the village? Don't worry, there are family members here, There will be no shortage of sacrifices from the ancestors."

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

Five days after the Qingming Festival is the exam for the government school.

Mr. Zhuang had brought Bai Shanbao to lead him a long time ago, handed in his recommendation letter, etc., and obtained the qualification for the exam.

Dajin's schooling system is very loose, and most of the students in the prefecture school are recommended by the county school below.

Except for a few exceptionally outstanding county school students, other county school students have to take an exam after being recommended to enter.

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

Otherwise, you can only ask the officials of the government schools to recommend yourself, and take a big exam first, and only after you win the few exam places can you take the government school exam.

Therefore, the scholars of Dajin are not good at anything else. They must do well in eloquence or poetry, otherwise they will not even get a place in the exam.

If neither accounted for, then you have to pray that the ancestors are strong enough to give him a good family background, so that even if they are not good at eloquence or do not do well in self-recommended poems, they can still get the exam quota.

This is not only true of the prefectural schools, but also the six schools of the Guozijian Middle School.

Various places will recommend outstanding students like the Six Schools of the Imperial College. When these students arrive in the capital, depending on the recommendation, some of them can be admitted directly, and some must first pass the exam.

Six Schools exams are held every year, and those who fail will be expelled, while those who are both good in character and learning can directly become an official, or they can take the Jinshi exam and then become an official.

Of course, students who are not from the Six Schools can also directly sign up for the Jinshi Examination, but the Six Schools of the Imperial College represents the highest educational institution in the country, and students educated through it have a higher pass rate.

Therefore, the official career path formulated by the Bai family and Mr. Zhuang for Bai Shanbao is an extremely formal and popular one, first enter the prefectural school examination, do the best one, and get the recommendation letter to go to the sixth school.

Then go to the capital to take the exam, enter the sixth school to study, and go to the Jinshi exam after learning something.

Mr. Zhuang felt that it was enough for Bai Shan to be admitted to a government school before the age of fourteen, so he wasn't too nervous about the exam this time, and told Bai Shan not to be too nervous.

Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "We just have a try this time. If we fail this year, we will try again next year and the year after."

Bai Shanbao nodded nervously.

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

Bai Shanbao asked casually: "Then what if you fail the exam?"

"Then come out and treat us to a delicious meal."

Bai Shanbao was stunned, and asked, "Shouldn't you invite me? I didn't pass the exam, so sad."

"What if you don't try your best to eat our meal?" Man Bao said confidently: "What if you feel sorry for this meal and performed supernormally?"

"It's just a meal, what about me?"

Man Bao: "Who knows, anyway, if you fail the exam, the pain will be added to the pain. If you pass the exam, we will invite you, and that will be the happiest."

The scholar who was waiting in line at the side heard it, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Man Bao, and then at Bai Shanbao. Seeing that he was only twelve or thirteen years old, he couldn't help but feel slightly aroused.

Are the teenagers now so powerful?

Shouldn't this age be to go to the county school?

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

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

The older candidates are more calm, and at the same time feel a lot of uneasiness. They found that there seem to be a lot of candidates taking the prefectural examination this year.

Mr. Zhuang naturally found out too. He sighed and felt more and more that Bai Shan might not have a chance this year.

There are more candidates, 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 him, "Go in."

Bai Shanbao took the test basket from Daji, saluted Mr. Zhuang and turned to queue.

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 it arrives at Youshi. Tomorrow, we will continue to queue up early in the morning to enter the exam room.

However, the important questions are all finished today, and the poems with limited questions will be made up tomorrow.

After thinking for a while, Mr. Zhuang said: "I'm going home first, you can do whatever you want, but Daji has to stay here and watch, in case someone calls inside, there will be someone here to help."

Good luck.

Man Bao thought for a while and said, "Then let's stay too."

Bai Erlang turned around, pointed to a teahouse and said, "There's a teahouse there, let's go there and wait."

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

The next chapter is around ten o'clock in the evening