The Xue family got the son of the case leader and the entire Xue family also became stable.

The second day after the list comes out is the day of the house examination.

The prefecture test will be carried out in the prefecture that governs the county, and will be presided over by the prefect.

The process is like the first level, but there is one more person who can guarantee the loan, and the others are basically unchanged.

Because of the results of the game, Xue Pan from the Xue family was mediocre from the beginning and directly caught the eyes of many scholars in Jinling.

When a family who has the conditions to get the Xue Pan County test paper, everyone should praise Xue Pan's paper, which is clean and tidy and has a solid foundation.

But this praise ended here, and no one thought that Xue Pan had anything special.

Because as the difficulty of this exam increases, it depends on more than just the basis for daily reciting.

Which level of the next level is not related to your understanding of the article, the judging and solving questions?

Their families who were born to read, the books passed down from generation to generation and their understanding of articles have been accumulated over the years.

That is called the foundation of a scholar.

They are not like the children of businessmen. They just rely on spending money to go to a good academy and try to compete with their scholarly family members in the exams.

Therefore, the first case was to amaze these individuals at most. The young man was smart, and no matter how many there were, there was nothing else.

On the day of the test, the people who came to Jinling Mansion to take the test were not just students from the county where Mai Fan was.

The students who have tried these counties have been summarized into one place, and the total number of people Mai Fan referred to during the county examination was just as much as the number of people Mai Fan referred to during the county examination.

With so many people participating in the examinations of the government, the number of admissions remains unchanged.

After the entire mansion trial, only sixty people were selected, of which the top ten were grade A, which would be bonus for the last level of the scholar's test.

The other fifty people are B, which means that their knowledge is slightly or lacking.

To outsiders, these are sixty places, but to their students who write exams, they actually only have fifty-two places.

Because there are eight counties and districts under the jurisdiction of Jinling Prefecture, eight small cases have emerged in these eight counties and districts.

According to previous rules, the first case is equivalent to passing the second level directly.

Didn’t the remaining people have to break their heads for these fifty-two places?

Perhaps because he knew that he was hating, Mai Fan came here early in the morning and found a relatively secluded place, and sat in the carriage and didn't get out.

Looking out from the gap in the carriage curtain, sure enough, the waiting students would have a few dirty words when they were too bored.

Mai Fan's mind was not on this group of people at all. He was the youngest among them. Instead of the kindness he had to show when he saw anyone in the past, he did not conform to his villain's character, so he was so lazy that no one would see him.

It’s a blessing that the process of the prefecture examination was faster, and the prefect of Jinling Prefecture was still a considerate and kind official.

When the time for the entry of the duty period came, the gate of the government office opened. The yamen runners at the door inspected the students, and the group was led to the examination room of the outer courtyard.

This exam is much stricter than the previous few.

The examination subjects, subdivided scriptures, miscellaneous articles, and policy discussions are conducted separately, and the examinations are written, rhetoric and political opinions and current affairs.

The exam process was completed in one go, and it was no longer like the first level. After the exam, you could go home or go to the place where you stay to rest.

This government examination will take three days before and after, and all the food, drink, defecation and urination of these three days must be solved in the courtyard of the government office.

In addition to the instructors, candidates are not allowed to bring anything in this exam. Pens, ink, special paper, etc. are provided by the examination room. The first two exams are taken for one day, the third one takes two days, and the overnight quilt is also provided by the examination room. Each candidate is separated and each takes up a place.

Maifan was lucky. He was assigned to a central location, which was a little far from the stinky place. In addition to the slightly cold weather, the bedding assigned by the county government was a bit hard and there was nothing big problem.

At this time, he was very glad that he came from a wealthy family.

If we pay attention to the amount of books, the Xue family basically doesn’t have much.

But if we talk about exquisite life, there are really few families in Jinling City who can compete with the Xue family.

Because paper, ink, pen and inkstone are not allowed to be brought in, but personal clothing and food are not included in this prohibited area.

When Mai Fan went in for the exam, he was wrapped in a fox fur cloak sewn specially for the scientific examination at home, and a cotton coat lined with silk cotton inside.

The knee pads and shoulder pads are all sewn from wolf skin, and the hand-warming hand stove is the purple clay cloud disk in Jingdezhen.

Even if the quilt that keeps cold at night is not of good quality, Maifan only needs to cushion these fur protective gear under his body and cover the cloak outside on his body to sleep warmly.

If this is just a living place, others will not be able to see it very much and will not be very jealous.

But when it comes to eating, it usually takes exams like this. At meal time, the yamen runners will enter the examination room and sell a hard and dry cake with the students. At most, a pot of hot water is given, so everyone will eat it together.

People with slightly better conditions will bring some food that is not easy to break, but at most it is snacks and the like. No matter how good it is, it will lose its original taste because it is dry.

But when Mai Fan was having a meal, others could really see the value that money could create.

The square box he was carrying didn't put anything in it, and it was filled with tools to pack food.

A set of small stoves connected by white porcelain, some golden silk charcoal that hits fire, are made pack after pack, and only water is needed to add warm food pieces.

Don’t look at the food in the small bag that looks very good, but when I get back on the stove, the smell of hot soup and hot water fills the entire examination room.

This made the examiner in charge of the invigilator sniff. Seeing that it was getting late, he said something to the officers on the patrol and retreated to the backyard to have meals.

Another examiner who came to take over the shift understood what was going on when he smelled this smell.

This is because the food brought by the candidates is seduced to greed.

It’s no wonder that the other party is like this. The beef stewed with Mai Fan was made by the chef at home, which took five hours to simmer over low heat.

In order to improve the taste and nutrition of beef, not only do a variety of seasonings from the Hu people are added to the ingredients, but also a few Chinese medicines that are very nourishing.

This beef piece is gently inserted with chopsticks. The texture is clear and the sliver is separated. When paired with ordinary white cakes, it is also a delicious food in the world as long as it is soaked in this soup.
Chapter completed!