Chapter 246 (Part 1)

After several literary meetings, the eve of the provincial examination was held. At this time, the candidates needed to make some material preparations for the examination.

As mentioned earlier, there are three exams in the provincial examination, and each exam will take three days. Within these three days, candidates cannot leave the account halfway, so they should not be careless in preparation before the exam. Otherwise, they will have no place to cry after entering.

So when it was the sixth day of the lunar month, the more mature Wu Dui finally couldn't help saying, "I'm talking to you, brothers, should we buy items and prepare for the exam?"

The six people nodded and said, "It should be like this." Then they talked about what to buy. Sun Ying said, "Princess, ink, paper, ink, ink, and inkstone, and candlesticks in circles are bound to be indispensable."

Wu Dui smiled and said, "You also have to bring tableware, food, door curtains, and tops."

"What do you want to make a curtain?" Tao Yuchen said strangely.

"Isn't you experienced?" Xu Wei sneered: "For the convenience of invigilating, there is no door in that number house. The whole side facing south is empty, which is conducive to the examiner's invigilating, and it also facilitates flies and mosquitoes to flock to the crowd." Seeing Tao Yuchen trembling, he laughed and said: "And this season is sunny and scorching in the sky, and it is raining heavily. If you don't have any cover, you will definitely get bitten by mosquitoes and insects, and it will be hot and hot. How to take the exam?"

Zhu Dashou felt deeply: "Yes, you must bring a door curtain, and it must be made of oil cloth."

Tao Yuchen smiled and said, "Okay, but what about bringing the 'number top'? Does that number room have no roof?"

"Yes, yes." Wu Dui smiled and said, "But that room has been in disrepair for many years. It has winds along the way, and the structure is dense. It often rains heavily outside and lightly inside. It doesn't matter if it gets wet. What should I do if the test papers are wet?"

"But you can't bring a roof in, right?" Sun Jian, who was talking less, couldn't help but say.

"We are blessed." Zhu Dashou smiled and said, "After more than a hundred years of rural examination, all problems have been solved by his predecessors... Use a square of oil cloth, sew bamboo sticks on both ends, roll it up and hold it in to enter the venue. When using the oil cloth, the bamboo sticks will be stretched on the wall, and it will be a top that will not leak. This thing is now sold in the test shop, but it costs only a few dozen cents."

After solving the problem of "home", the topic quickly attracted the "home" and asked silently: "How big is the No. 1?"

"As big as a beehive," Xu Wei sneered, "It is said to be three feet wide and four feet deep, the back wall is eight feet high, and the front edge is six feet high. However, only the old ones in the early years met the standards. Later, they were expanded twice during the Chenghua and Zhengde periods. The local officials who were responsible for the construction cut corners and reduced the size privately, so that the already small houses were wide and could not be covered with the eaves. If you are unfortunate enough to move into such a house, you can only treat it as a one-time trial."

A few people who had never been to the tribute court were silent. After listening, they felt sore all over their bodies and their necks were numb. They couldn't help but sweat all over and said, "How can I sleep?"

"He is facing north and the wall, and his feet are facing south and the room is extended out of the room." Xu Wei smiled and said, "Fortunately, it was the August exam, so it was not freezing."

"I have a problem." Sun Ying raised his hand: "Do you want to move the bed in? Then I can't move it."

"I just told your brother that the wisdom of seniors is infinite," Xu Wei rolled his eyes and said, "You asked again." Everyone has been together for a long time and has a very good relationship, otherwise he would not have spoken so politely.

Zhu Dashou smiled and took over the conversation, saying, "There are two smooth hardwood boards in the number room, called the number board..."

Several novices took a breath together and said, "It is the legendary 'holy board' that is inseparable from eating, sleeping, and exams?" The word 'number board' has been abstracted and even sacred in the hearts of scholars, because only students who have participated in the provincial examination can see their true appearance. For those scholars who have not been able to enter the tribute school for their entire lives, they have no chance of this 'holy board' for life.

"It's just two wooden boards." Xu Wei sneered.

"But that thing is too useful." Zhu Dashou smiled and said, "I'll tell you something, so I won't be confused when I go in." The four novices praised me for being kind, and Zhu Dashou said, "On and down brick walls on both sides of the house, there is a brick gap left at one foot and five inches high and two feet and five inches high above the ground, called the 'upper and lower brick holder'. Each board is one inch and eight inches thick, and it can be inserted into the brick holder."

"If you put both number boards in the brick holder below, you can put them together and fill the house, and then you will become a bed, and you can lay the bedding and lie down to rest. If you don't sleep, you can move the number board on the brick holder above, and then turn it into a table and chair. Just two wooden boards can be combined at will according to different needs such as sitting, writing, diet, etc., which is really admirable."

"I have to prepare some food."

"There is also a basketball test..."

Everyone was talking enthusiastically. Tiezhu came in from outside, leaning in Shen Mo's ear and muttering a few words. Shen Mo's mouth smiled and said, "I have something to do to go out. You guys make a list first, and go out to purchase when I come back."

Everyone laughed and said, "Go and go quickly."

Shen Mo said, "No problem." Then he followed Tiezhu out and saw the familiar oil-walled car parked by the small bridge not far away, and there was a large cart covered with oil cloth next to it.

Shen Mo immediately felt much better, so he jogged over, and Tiezhu behind him quickly advised: "Sir, calm."

Shen Mo glared at him, calmed down his excitement, and walked over as slowly as possible. When he saw Miss Yin lifting the curtain and chuckling at him, his mood that had just calmed down became hot again, and he rushed into the carriage in two steps in three steps.

Seeing Shen Mo's face sweating, Miss Yin angrily said, "It's such a hot day, I still have to run away."

Shen Mo immediately said unjustly: "If I walk slowly, you will blame me for being insincere again. No wonder Teacher Kong said..."

"It's hard to raise women and villains?" Miss Yin stretched her eyebrows and said with a smile.

Shen Mo quickly clarified: "No, it's 'How can I accept it or not?'"

Miss Yin smiled and said, "When did the Master say this?"

"Yong is the sixth," Shen Mo smiled and said, "The Master said, 'Is it not a goblet? It's a goblet."

He made Miss Yin laugh and said angrily: "You were a gentleman at first, but now you have become more and more evident." As he spoke, he brought out a bowl of colorful and mouth-watering cold drinks like a magic trick.

Shen Mo laughed and took the cold drink, couldn't wait to scoop a large spoon and stuff it into his mouth, which made Miss Yin anxiously say: "This ice cheese has just been lifted from the cellar, don't eat it soon and it's frozen to the stomach."

Shen Mo closed his eyes and enjoyed the refreshing, delicious, sour and sweet feeling. He suddenly felt salivation full of salivation, the heat was gone, and the whole body was comfortable from the inside to the outside. Then he smiled with a happy face: "This time I added bayberry, it really made salivation even more."

Miss Yin rolled his eyes and said with a wry smile: "It's really a great official who moved his mouth and the little woman ran off her legs. Do you know how difficult it is to find fresh plums in this season?" Since the beginning of the burrow, the weather has been hot, so she used juice, milk, medicinal tea, ice cubes to make a 'crystal ice dew' to cool down the silence.

Chen Si really liked it very much, but he felt it was too sweet and said casually: "If there are some plums, they will be sweet and sour, and the taste will be better." He said at the time, but he ate the 'Balmberry Ice Dew' this time, which shows that... it's good if someone hurts it.

The silent and touched nonsense made Miss Yin laugh and hurt her stomach until he ate a bowl of cold drinks and wanted a second serving. He stopped his smile and said, "Too much is too much, eating it will hurt your body."

Seeing Chen Si making a face, Miss Yin had to divert his attention and smiled, "Look at what I brought first?" She said that, and reached out and pointed to the side.

The silent eyes stopped in her jade-like little hand for a while. After Miss Yin blushed, she looked along what she pointed, and saw a large wooden box with exquisite smile and said, "What a beautiful box."

Miss Yin said helplessly: "This is a box."

"The square ones are almost the same." Silently smiled, "What is this for?"

Miss Yin smiled and said, "You might as well open it and take a look."

After a careful look at the exquisite materials, there is also an elegant wooden box with landscape paintings on the back... In fact, it is more suitable to say that the cabinet is divided into four layers on the front, three of which are large drawers, and two small drawers on the middle. At the prompt of Miss Yin, he pressed the spring and opened the top layer and found that the entire drawer was a large food box. The food box was divided into many honeycomb-like grids, each of which contained the same food, including moon cakes, honey orange cakes, longan meat, lotus rice, ginseng, rice, pickled cucumbers, ginger, duck, etc., which were dazzling enough for him to eat for several days.

Silently looked at Miss Yin gently, making her pink face turn red, and said sweetly, "Look at the one below."

Chen Si opened the small drawer on the left side of the second floor again, and found that it contained pens, ink, paper, inkstones, and candlesticks, all of which were the best and most expensive. Then he opened the small drawer on the side, which was a drawer of medicine. He couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm not going to practice medicine, why do I bring so many medicines?"
Chapter completed!