Chapter 62: 62nd

This bullock cart is many times more luxurious than Li Zhuzi's. The wheels should have been reinforced. Even if it is walking on the bumpy dirt road, it will not be particularly bumpy.

It's just that although the ox cart has a canopy, the surroundings are covered tightly, but after all, it can't match the temperature of January, and the cabin is shivering cold.

The brazier cannot be grown casually. It is surrounded by straw and wood, and if one is not careful, water will run out.

Therefore, most people do not light a brazier for safety.

Of course, the braziers in the carriages and ox carts of high-ranking officials are all buckled with copper frames, which cannot be compared with those in ordinary people's homes.

Li Jin felt that the coldness on her body was still within her tolerance, but she had been sitting in place for more than a few hours, and she was about to freeze under her calf.

There were a few quilts in the carriage, and Chen Xiran stomped and handed Li Jin a bed.

"Let's take off our shoes and get warm first, or we'll sit still like this and we will get frostbite on our feet when we get to the county seat."

Li Jin thinks that the same is true, so he takes off his cloth shoes in response to kindness.

Now the clothes on his body are made by Qin Muwen from inside to outside, including shoes. The soles are very soft, I don't know how long Qin Muwen has been able to take them one by one.

The inside of the bullock cart was small, and the two big men couldn't lie down completely, they could only leaned in the corners wrapped in quilts.

Li Jin said, "Does the master who drove the car come to rest?"

He didn't speak loudly, and the wind outside was so fierce that he couldn't hear him. Therefore, Chen Xiran was asked about this.

After all, the master driver and the bullock cart belonged to Chen Xiran's family, and Li Jin was not good at taking the lead.

Originally, Li Jin wanted to hire a ox cart with a canopy with the students who signed up with him. Everyone would share a small amount of the fare, which would be less than 100 yuan.

But Chen Xiran directly said that his family had a bullock cart. Before his father went out to take this cart, everyone was resting during the Chinese New Year, and the bullock cart at home was empty.

"A Jin, just follow me all the way. If the road is boring, you can endorse it together."

Li Jin was still feeling that Chen Xiran's consciousness was really high, so he agreed.

But it wasn't until he got into the car that he realized that it was cold, and he didn't want to move a finger, let alone endorse his mind.

When Chen Xiran heard Li Jin's words, he shouted: "Master, is it cold?"

"I'm not cold, I'm used to it!"

The master drove very steadily. The three of them set off early in the morning. Now just after noon, he shouted: "We'll be there in half a day."

Chen Xiran was relieved.

Li Jin covered the quilt and warmed it for a while. After it was finally not as cold as before, he got up and took out the pancakes he had prepared for several people.

There is also sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus, which is not high in alcohol, so you can warm yourself up in winter.

When it was dark early in the winter, when Li Jin and his party arrived, there were already people on the side of the low county wall.

"One more..."

Chen Xiran rubbed his hands and said: "One hour and three o'clock is a curfew, we came just right."

With that said, he wanted to enter the city.

Li Jin stopped him. He had asked Mr. Song before that he knew that the county seat was divided into inner and outer cities.

There was a curfew in the inner city. After the drum was knocked at one or three o'clock, everyone did not get out and was forbidden to pass.

Those who are still walking on the inner city street after Mu Gu beat them at least forty times.

Of course, the curfew ended when the morning clock struck, and it was five and three o'clock before the ban was imposed.

This is how the idiom Chen Zhong Mu Gu comes from.

Li Jin said: "We will not enter the inner city today. Although we can just get in right now, we haven't found an inn to stay. In case the houses near the city gate are full, we will count it as a night off. Gauntlet."

After a pause, he went on to say, “It’s better to live in the outer city tonight. Anyway, this time I’m just signing up, not really taking the exam. It’s okay to be farther away from the county government.”

Chen Xiran knew he was in a hurry when he heard the words, so he followed Li Jin and asked if there were any vacancies in the inn.

If you really want to be gauntled by taking off your pants, then this face can be lost.

At this time it was getting late, the inn would definitely increase the price, but they could only admit it.

Finally I found an inn that was not facing the street. The environment seemed clean. The first floor was a place to eat and the second floor provided accommodation.

Xiao Er knew they were scholars when they looked at them, with envy in her eyes.

"The rooms here are simple, there is no suite, and it's cheaper. One room is 120 yuan a day."

The three of them don't care whether it is simple or not. Chen Xiran is concerned about another point: "Can you provide charcoal fire?"

Xiao Er said: "We have this, and hot soup."

So we finalized three rooms.

The oil lamp was on in the inn, and Li Jin's brows were bright and handsome, and the jaw line was tough. I can't see the tiredness of the boat.

Xiao Er watched him register, then got up and led people upstairs.

"Today you came too late, it is one hundred and twenty wen a night, if you have to renew your stay tomorrow, and you renew the rent in the daytime, it will be ninety wen."

Li Jin shook his head helplessly when he heard this, and as expected, the fare increased at night. But the big environment is like this, he can only accept it silently.

Li Jin and Chen Xiran lived in two rooms next to each other. Each room had only a one-meter-wide bed and a table. It was really simple.

Xiao Er said: "If you take a bath, you can go to the backyard. Our shop is small and does not send hot water. The charcoal basin will be delivered in a while."

Chen Xiran just wanted to fall asleep, but when the door rang from Li Jin, he packed up his clothes and went to take a bath.

The soup bath in the backyard is a wooden barrel, separated by a half curtain.

The chef in the back kitchen boiled hot water and poured it in directly, which was really convenient.

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It was the first time that Li Jin came to this world to take such a bath. The hot water temperature was too high, so that the fatigue of the whole body was soaked.

After he took a shower, he asked the master for two basins of water to wash his hair. After washing, put it on and go straight upstairs.

Chen Xiran also happened to take a shower, and looked at Li Jin's appearance, and joked: "If you have a cinnabar mole on your face, you really look better than those guys."

Li Jin thought for a while, and replied solemnly: "My wife is the best looking."

Chen Xiran was silent, feeling that he was crushed by all aspects.

Indeed, Li Jin's husband is well-behaved and good-looking, even if he is standing next to an outstanding person like Li Jin, he will not lose his style.

He said angrily: "I have decided, I will quickly pass the exam, marry a daughter-in-law, have a son, your cub will marry my family sooner or later!"

This time it's Li Jin's turn to have nothing to say, he can't silently curse Chen Xiran for failing, right?

Forget it, let's hope that Chen Xiran's first child will not be born within three years.

In ancient times, there was a saying that "female juniors hold gold bricks", but if the wife or husband is much older than the man, many people will be cold-eyed and criticized.

It's not that Li Jin doesn't want Baozi to marry Chen Xiran's family, but he thinks that getting married is his own business, so he can directly arrange an arranged marriage for his children so early, and he may not be happy in the future.

The matter of getting married, wait until the buns grow up.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Jin habitually got up early. After washing, he was silent for half an hour before Chen Xiran heard movement.

Then a few people went downstairs to eat together, and breakfast was plain porridge with pickles.

The master who drove the car went to feed the cows. Li Jin and Chen Xiran packed up various papers and prepared to go to the county office to collect the registration form.

When the two went to the county office, they had to pass the inner city guard, because they came from a village within a hundred miles of the county seat, so they could avoid the guide.

Just register your name and place of origin.

The guards looked at them and knew that they were students who had come to register for the childbirth test, so it was not difficult to let them in.

When Li Jin and Chen Xiran arrived, there was already a long line in front of the county hall.

Li Jin estimated that there were at least thirty or forty people in front of them, none of whom were familiar faces.

It suddenly occurred to him that in the literature he had read in his previous life, there was such a sentence: "The town gathers thousands of children and makes up a dozen of them as students." Students are scholars.

Only those who have passed the county test are considered children. This sentence means that there are only ten students out of a thousand children.

This probability is simply too low.

When they arrived early, the door of the concierge room had not yet opened, and only the servants stood solemnly around.

Although no one came to maintain order, as soon as everyone arrived here, they consciously remained silent, and followed the previous person in line, no one jumped in line, let alone dared to make a loud noise.

When the time arrived, the door of the concierge room opened, and the students present stepped forward one by one to submit their resumes, mutual recognition and recognizance.

The resume is the age, place of origin, etc., and it is stipulated that candidates cannot register within 27 months of their parents’ bereavement. Mutual agreement and recognizance refer to the mutual insurance of five candidates, and the scholars and villagers have insurance.

Registration is a meticulous job. Although there are only more than 30 people in front of Li Jin, more than an hour has passed when it is his turn.

He submits the documents he has prepared and fills in the registration list on the side.

Li Jin's writing now has his own style in order, and the adult who checked the documents over there even couldn't help but look twice.

After Li Jin submitted it, he waited outside for Chen Xiran.

Chen Xiran didn't say a word in the morning, pulling Li Jin and began to talk endlessly: "This is too serious, I actually stood for more than an hour in the cold winter without stomping my feet. When I could finally lift my feet, I almost lost consciousness."

Li Jin also felt that the soles of the shoes were all icy ballasts, coldly running up from the soles of the feet.

"Let's have some hot soup, and then I want to go to the bookstore."

After finally coming to the county town, I naturally couldn't go back so soon. Li Jin planned to find some books to help him understand this era.

In addition, the county test is presided over by the county magistrate, and there are many students in the bookstore. If you can inquire about the magistrate’s preferences, it might be helpful for the test.

After all, Mr. Song also said that the county test is usually four or five. How to get it depends on the county official's arrangements.

If there are five games, the last exam will most likely be the county magistrate's own questions to select candidates.

Chen Xiran had no plans, but he also decided to follow Li Jin. Anyway, Li Jin would tell him any news.

Nor can it be said that he is too dependent on Li Jin. The main reason is that Chen Xiran only likes gossip and doesn't like books-related content.

Personal character.

Li Jin first told Chen Xiran his thoughts.

"You go to the biggest teahouse in the county, and there are people around you who say that the county magistrate likes it. Just remember it, don't ask questions."

Chen Xiran agreed: "Okay."

Li Jin went on to say: "I will go to the bookstore to inquire, and we will return to the inn in the afternoon to summarize."

Li Jin asked someone to find out the location of the bookstore, dusted his robe, and walked towards the bookstore.

Here, Li Jin found that there were five bookshelves for imperial examinations. Books like "Four Books" and "Five Classics" occupied three bookshelves, and the other two bookshelves were all arithmetic!

A foreign examinee asked, and the shopkeeper smiled and said: "Your Majesty will respect arithmetic, astronomical phenomena, manufacturing by the Ministry of Computing and Engineering, and the tax system of the Ministry of Households from this year..."

The author has something to say: 　　 [I changed a few typos in the last chapter, and the result was locked until now... You can’t unlock it without waiting for the review... Qwq little angels wait patiently and so hard~]

The dates here are all in the lunar calendar. So January is the New Year.

[Gauntlet: It is one of the ancient "five punishments". It is a light sentence for beating the prisoner's back, buttocks or legs with bamboo or wooden boards, and is designed for minor crimes. 】

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