After dinner, Gu Jiao cleaned up her house, went to the west room to give Xiao Jingyin quilt, and then went back to her room to sleep.

Two months have passed since the last dream, and Gu Jiao has never dreamed again since.

Unexpectedly, she dreamed again that night.

But what she dreamed of was not Xiao Liulang, but her "self".

She dreamed that she became the daughter of the Gu family, met Gu Jinyu from the Hot Spring Villa, and returned to the capital with Gu Jinyu.

She lived in a house with carved beams and painted buildings, and more than a dozen servants served her every day, and her family, who had never been masked, loved her.

The servants respectfully called her Miss Gu, but the good times did not last long.

Gu Jinyu is beautiful, quiet and elegant, well-educated and talkative.

On the other hand, she has a crooked face, a vulgar behavior, doesn't know a single word, and she speaks even more clumsy.

Under Gu Jinyu's strong contrast, she became a complete joke.

Everyone was saying that the Gu family brought back a wild girl from the countryside.

The servants began to laugh at her, and the daughters began to alienate her, and even the family who once loved her seemed to have no idea how to face her.

In order to save what should be her own, she did some bad things under the instigation of someone who is interested, which made everyone extremely disappointed with her.

Finally, she was sent to a village outside the capital. She was depressed and heartbroken every day, and eventually died of illness in a cold winter.

After Gu Jiao woke up, she was very surprised why she had such a dream.

When she dreamed of something related to Xiao Liulang, she knew that it would happen, but it would not be true if it was put on herself.

For nothing else, just because the "she" in the dream is not her at all.

She is not ignorant, nor is she stupid.

She would not care about what others think of her, would not be jealous of Gu Jinyu, would not be instigated, and would not use those tricks that were so mentally retarded to Gu Jinyu.

She really wants to kill someone, and she will do it cleaner than wiping the floor.

As for being heartbroken if you don’t get the love of your family, that’s even more.

So, why did she have this wild dream? Can't she be so stupid?

On the other side, Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin's carriage took several long journeys and finally arrived at Pingcheng, Fucheng.

They did not come early, and the inns beside the examination room were all full. They settled for the second best and chose the inns that were separated by the street.

Two taels of silver per room is simply a huge price.

But there is nothing we can do about this. Who asked the candidates to wait for the living? They could only pay the money.

When the government examination is over, the first batch of candidates who failed the exam will leave, the price will drop by half. When the hospital envoy is over, the price will drop by half again.

Feng Lin and the coachman were greedy and ate unclean things on the road, and they had a stomachache so much that they almost couldn't get on the road. Fortunately, there were diarrhea medicines prepared by Gu Jiao.

Xiao Liulang is well, but he is a little uncomfortable when he falls asleep every night.

Two days later, the government examination began.

The location of the palace examination is in the Gongyuan of Pingcheng. At the time of the Mao period, the candidates brought the examination to the venue.

Unlike the examination documents of the county examination, the government examination issues a test card to each candidate as a fish bone. The government office calls it the examination quotation, which contains the candidate's name, examination shed, and seat number.

The tribute court in Pingcheng has four major examination halls. Most of the examination halls with A-sized examination halls are the first test cases in various counties and the former rankings, and Xiao Liulang is also among them.

The large examination room is divided into countless small examination rooms, one for each person, and the place is not big, but it contains a desk, a cattail mat and a narrow wooden bed.

Candidates are not allowed to bring in anything except the exam. The candidates' pens, ink, paper and inkstone are distributed uniformly by the Gongyuan. In addition, there are three meals a day and quilts that can be sent overnight are also sent by a dedicated person.

If the candidate is tired, he can rest at any time, as long as he does not cheat and does not violate the examination room discipline, no one will interfere even if he sleeps for four days and four nights.

There is no situation where the government examination is determined, so candidates must finish the three exams obediently. Except for those who can walk out of the exam room under the guidance of a dedicated person, they are not allowed to leave the exam at the rest of the time.

Once you leave, you cannot return to the examination room regardless of your situation.

The first scene was the Book of Words.

The posts of the scriptures in the official examination require more than three scriptures. The Book of Filial Piety and the Analects of Confucius are required. Candidates can choose one of the remaining scriptures in the Book of Songs and the Book of Zhou and write them dictated according to the specified paragraphs.

This seems simple, but it should be noted that except for the "Book of Filial Piety", the other three books have only 2,369 characters in total, more than 90,000 words. Even if the "Book of Zhou" with the largest number of words is removed, there are still more than 50,000 words, and the amount of memorization is huge.

The number of questions in the postscript is also very large, and you have to write until the afternoon as soon as possible. Usually, people will hand in the papers one after another at dusk.

Xiao Liulang only wrote for half an hour before stopping writing and going to bed.

His test paper was covered under white paper and pressed with an inkstone.

The invigilator was stunned.

Is this... finished answering?

No, this is impossible, no one can answer so quickly!

Unless you memorize these scriptures, you can start writing without thinking.

This is not something that ordinary geniuses can do. Who do he think he is? Did the young man who once offered wine--the little Marquis of Zhaodu?

The invigilator felt that he could not answer, so he gave up and stopped writing.

It’s still the head of a county trial, it really embarrasses their county town!

After the exam, a special person came to collect the papers, first made a name, and then put it in a special box. Even the invigilator could not see the papers. When he saw it, the name was already blocked, so he didn't know which test paper belonged to which candidate.

Perhaps it was Xiao Liulang who impressed the invigilator in the first game, and the invigilator also paid special attention to him in the next two games.

The second essay tests the candidates' rhetoric ability, and the wording and writing are not limited, so it is the easiest of the three.

Xiao Liulang only took half an hour to go to bed.

Can you...can't give up so much? How simple is the essay! Can't even write this? How did you pass the first exam in the county exam? Can you be so unstoppable in this class?

The last game was the eight-legged essay, which took the exam for two consecutive days, which shows the difficulty.

Especially this time, the governor Zhuang, who came from the capital, gave the title himself. Zhuang picked two sentences from the "Analects of Confucius" - poor but not flattering, rich but not arrogant, quick-witted and cautious in words, so that the candidates could put them together to solve the title.

But in just a quarter of an hour, two candidates fell down under too much pressure.

They were carried out and the exam was invalid.

The invigilator secretly scolded the fuck, why don’t you give me such a difficult test question?

He thought Xiao Liulang would give up going to bed in less than half an hour this time, but he didn't expect that he would sit there and not move.

"'Poverty but not flattery, rich but not arrogant, quick-witted and cautious in words', why did Mr. Zhuang assign such difficult homework? Aheng, please help me!"
Chapter completed!