This is a county town with only tens of thousands of people. From the perspective of the earth, it is just a market town, but it is a prosperous place with hundreds of miles around.
"My wife and I have been here several times before, and we are quite familiar with it. Master, please come with me!" After two hours, Qianqian calmed down on the surface, paid ten yuan for the fare, and took Ye Qing to find an inn.
This Zhang family's old shop has two rows of rooms, separated from left to right, with twenty rooms, but it looks quite clean. When Qianqian entered, she said: "Boss, please arrange a quieter room. My young master is here."
I have to rush for the exam and I don’t want to be disturbed.”
"Quickly come to a room... do you want three meals a day? If you want, I'll have to pay extra!" The boss agreed loudly, picked up a brand A, recorded it in the record, and asked again.
Qianqian didn't make a sound at this time. Ye Qing knocked on the cabinet: "Yes."
"A-character upper house is worth three denarius a day, three meals a day, a total of half a day!"
One tael of silver is equivalent to half a month's consumption for an ordinary family of five. This consumption is actually considered a luxury.
"Actually, ordinary rooms can also be..."
"It's time to get married. The young master's future is very important. We can't affect the exam!" Qianqian said with a serious face.
This calculative generosity awakened familiar memories of Earth's college entrance examination. Ye Qing was startled, and his heart felt warm. He wanted to laugh but couldn't. Then he saw Qianqian taking out her wallet, pretending not to feel bad, and paid the money.
After getting the room license, the waiter took the two of them to see the room in the backyard.
It is a quiet wing with an integrated interior and exterior. It is fully furnished and there is a wooden barrel inside, which is obviously used for bathing.
"Please wait a moment, sir. I will bring you the food and hot water shortly. Do you have any other instructions?" The waiter briefly introduced and then asked.
"No, you go down first." Ye Qing waved his hand, and the waiter retreated.
After a while, the waiter knocked on the door and brought food and hot water.
There were three dishes and one soup. Ye Qing only ate half of the cake in the morning. Now he was really hungry and wolfed it down immediately. Qianqian, on the other hand, had a small appetite and was preoccupied. After eating a little, he watched Ye Qing eat.
In fact, it's not like she hasn't seen the corpse before. The Ye family is quite kind, but they still punish slaves who break the rules severely, and they also have slaves and maids to watch. The first time they saw the bloody whipping, the new maids trembled in fright.
That's normal.
There are even those who really violate the bottom line and are punished with a stick.
However, this was completely different from Young Master Qing's own killing. When Qian Qian closed her eyes after hearing the echo, it seemed that Wu Tiezi's dying expression was still in front of her eyes.
However, she was educated, had a strong temperament, and knew the importance of things. However, she was melancholy thinking: "It would be great if both the master and his wife were here!"
The master had been born a child, owned hundreds of acres to his name, and planned to purchase land. He had a comfortable life and had room for improvement. Even her maidservant was given the privilege of being literate, and the clan members were even more friendly.
Unexpectedly, after the master and his wife went there together, the young master's treatment took a turn for the worse. This time, he was even forced to a dead end. It is no wonder that this happened to the young master...
The girl's heart was full of emotions, and her emotions and reason were spinning.
"Qianqian, your eyes are so strange, what are you thinking about?" Ye Qing looked a little creepy.
"Uh, it's nothing... Master, eat quickly and eat more..."
After finishing his meal suspiciously, Ye Qing washed his face and took out the registration items from the package: "You rest here while I go and register."
"Okay!" Qianqian watched Ye Qing leave, dumbfounded for a moment.
After leaving the inn, Ye Qing continued walking eastward along the street. The registration places for children in the county were usually in the county government office.
Gradually, he approached the prosperous area of the county town, which was mostly filled with black tiles and whitewashed walls, spacious and exquisite small courtyard buildings. Following his memory, Ye Qing saw the county government office.
I didn't go in first, but I stopped and looked at it, and I saw the county government office.
This is a large courtyard with a screen wall, a gate, a lobby, a second hall, and a large garden at the back, dotted with halls, small buildings, and wing rooms.
Ye Qing is no stranger to this. Once upon a time, he was a guest here.
I remember that when I used Taoism to look at it, I saw that the hall was filled with white and red clouds, and there were even gods watching over it.
Now Ye Qing looked at the stone lion and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Entering along the side door, he saw two businessmen. Ye Qing walked on the right path without hesitation and turned to the registration office. He stood at the gate and looked into the main room - there was a long queue inside.
There is a desk inside, and a clerk is sitting there. There are two tables and chairs at the bottom. Several clerks are holding pens and writing down notes one by one.
There were not too many people applying for the exam, but Ye Qing was waiting quietly at the back. In front of him was an old man with white hair. Looking at it, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel pity.
Confucian imperial examinations on earth do not select very old people because they have few years left to serve the imperial court.
The Taoist imperial examination is for selecting Taoists. This old man has gray hair, so how can he stand a chance of winning?
Taking the exam now is just an obsession, and the government is limited by the Red Emperor's order and has no choice but to accept his registration, but it is just a formality.
After entering, the five officials watched at the same time, asking for names, ages, and resumes. Almost at the same time, the golden rooster on the case fluctuated, obviously to determine the authenticity!
Many candidates are unclear, but Ye Qing knows very well that this is the special nature of the Taoist world. Of course, the level of this golden chicken is not high, but it is more than enough to deal with ordinary people who have not practiced the law.
After a quarter of an hour, it was Ye Qing's turn.
The middle-aged official who recorded the records looked at it and only asked: "Place of origin, name, hand deed."
"Ye Qing, Pingshou County, Cangzhou!"
"A member of the Ye family?" The middle-aged official looked at him, and there was some commotion in the team behind him, looking at Ye Qing.
"Yes, this is my contract."
"Quiet, quiet..." The middle-aged official shouted majestically, carefully examined the contract, and said: "Continue!"
The four scribes asked nervously and took notes. A total of more than ten questions were asked, and they were recorded one by one. There were also specialized people who looked at the height and appearance and recorded them.
In fact, this description is not a photo, it is very vague, it is just an auxiliary means, and it is also an attempt to impersonate without eyes, but it is patrolled by gods, all of which failed shamefully.
Seeing that everything was complete, the middle-aged official said kindly: "Yes, let's put your fingerprints on it."
Ye Qing picked up a pen and wrote down his name, pressed his fingerprints, and listened to the words: "This is your license plate. Just hold it. If you lose it, you won't replace it. You will take the license and take the boy's exam on time tomorrow. There is another procedure.
Go to the second hall to seal it."
"Yes!" Ye Qing accepted the test card and responded. When he arrived at the second hall, the person in charge was a middle-aged official who quickly bowed and saluted.
The middle-aged official didn't ask any questions. There was a small gold seal on it. When a document came over, he stamped it.
In fact, you don't need to worry about it. You are queuing up to take the exam. Even if your talent is good, depending on your luck, it would be good if you can get one out of ten selected.
Moreover, during the exam, not only were the gods patrolling, but there were also Taoist priests from the county, so no one could cheat on such an occasion.
The moment Ye Qing put the golden seal on the document, he felt a kind of power coming over him, and his heart trembled. This process was also followed during the examination in the previous life, and he knew that the seal was on him.
This seal can be used for a week. As soon as the patrolling ghosts and gods see it, they will know that it is the person who is taking the exam, and he will be cared for and supervised.
After leaving the county government office and arriving at the street, there were crowds of people coming and going. Ye Qing felt the "Sichuan Forest Notes" in the sea of consciousness, and his heart felt as calm as water for a moment.
According to history, tomorrow will be the key to whether we can struggle to survive from the catastrophe.
But when Ye Qing turned around the street, he stopped and turned around.
At the end of where his eyes fell, two people were walking calmly on the street, their clothes inadvertently flying, and their moods were indescribable.
Ye Qing smiled with an unknown meaning. These two people were Taoists, obviously sent to supervise the examination. Even if his cultivation is gone, Ye Qing still has his eyes and can see the practitioners at a glance.
When we passed each other, one person looked at him and asked, "This person, have we met before?"
It was obvious that the attention he had just paid attention to had been noticed. Ye Qing showed no signs of surprise. He just bowed and said indifferently: "No, but I saw that the two gentlemen have extraordinary bearings, so I looked at them a few more times and asked your pardon."
crime."
The tone is very polite!
Ye Qing has a deep understanding of these Taoists.
In the early days of this world, people from all the Taoist sects were selected. This was really as deep as the sea once they entered the Immortal Sect. From then on, Lang Jun became an Immortal. As various Taoist sects competed for luck, internal and external fights were fierce.
However, since the three Dao Lords came out of the Heavenly Court, they began to cut the hills of each Dao lineage. After the Red Emperor reformed, the "Enter the Dao Sect and Ascension" was changed to the "Dao Sect Imperial Examination". All the talents in the world returned to the Dao Sect, and made the talents the center
The Daoting used it to completely eliminate the hidden dangers that threatened the Taoist gate, and the original mountain gate gradually declined.
Even so, each immortal sect still maintains certain specifications and privileges. For example, supervising the imperial examination is one of their privileges. Those who enter the immortal sect are all people who know that the imperial examination will be disadvantageous, or are people trained in their own reservations.
The interests are different and unlikely to merge, so they have the right to supervise.
The common problem of these Taoists is that they have both low self-esteem and arrogance. The low self-esteem comes from hundreds of thousands of years of oppression, but the arrogance feels that they are the orthodox Taoists. Nowadays, the imperial examinations have deviated from the Taoism.
But now we are limited to the rules of heaven and dare not make mistakes. After the great catastrophe, these various Taoist sects that had been suppressed for hundreds of thousands of years broke out. Some people even dared to shout: "Heaven has lost its virtue, attack the sky, and restore the old system!"
Although it was Fa Tian, he was actually pointing at the three Taoist Lords, which showed the true colors of these people. No, after hearing these words, Ye Qing was still very respectful. Another Taoist turned his face slightly, without any smile.
, said calmly: "I see, scholar, do it for your own good!"
Saying that, he ignored it and left.
Seeing them go away, Ye Qing slowly went back, still showing no expression on his face. After a hundred steps, he relaxed slightly.
"Bah, locusts of the Tao!" Thinking of their performance in the future, Ye Qing secretly sighed, his original mood gone.