Gu Wenjing looked into other rooms, then turned around to carry the bucket to fetch water.

As soon as he entered the house with a bucket, Gu's father hurriedly said, "Didn't you tell me to rest? The exam is about to happen, you have to accumulate strength!"

Gu’s father took the bucket from Gu Wenjing and put the dirty rag in and rubbed it.

Of course, Gu Wenjing couldn't stand by and watch Gu's father work. While helping, he said, "Doing small things is nothing, how can you rest as a father's son instead of working?"

A warm current surged from Gu's father's heart. He didn't say anything. The father and son cleaned the house together.

But what Gu Wenjing didn't expect was that sharing a rent with someone was a waste of time, but after sharing a rent, all kinds of trivial matters emerged one after another, which was simply annoying.

Several scholars are not calculating on the surface for their face, but the scholar's family and scholar's children may not be calculating.

Gu Wenjing, who had been in the house, had a quarrel with He Zhengming's book boy for the position of drying clothes. He only realized the calmness of the storm under the surface. In order not to affect his reading, Gu's father never mentioned it to him.

Fortunately, before Gu Wenjing's patience was exhausted, the time for the provincial examination to start was up.

Gu Wenjing took the exam basket prepared by Gu's father for him and walked to the Tribute Academy with several other scholars.

They lived close to each other, so they were not in a hurry. Unexpectedly, when they went outside the Gongyuan, they found that many candidates were waiting in line early. These people were probably coming to queue up early in the morning.

They hurried to the back of the line and lined up.

Gu Wenjing stood in the last of the six people, and He Zhengming stood in front of him.

There were two teams in line to enter the tribute school. Gu Wenjing subconsciously looked at the other candidates.

The candidates standing in line here are all scholars, and there are also differences between scholars, including young and strong scholars in their twenties; there are young scholars in their twelve or thirteen years old, and even old scholars in their 40s and fifties.

Gu Wenjing glanced around and suddenly his eyes were about to change. He just saw a young scholar in blue and brocade clothes throwing something into the test basket of another simple young scholar.

Although he did not see clearly what it was, at this point in time, one person threw things into another person's basket, and then he thought about it and knew that it would not be a good thing.

Gu Wenjing subconsciously searched and checked his own basket, but found nothing extra that shouldn't have appeared. Then he whispered to He Zhengming who was standing in front of him: "Check your basket to see if there are any extra things that shouldn't have inside."

With Gu Wenjing's reminder, He Zhengming immediately understood what he meant and quickly lowered his head to check his own basket.

Seeing He Zhengming checking the basketball test, Gu Wenjing glanced at the young scholar dressed in plain clothes, and then looked over there with a look of surprise: "Hey, isn't that Brother Li?"

He pretended to meet an old friend and walked from his team to the next team. When he passed by the young scholar, he accidentally bumped into him. He smiled and apologized, "I'm sorry! I didn't pay attention!" However, no one noticed that he quickly said a few words to the young scholar: "Check the basket!"

After saying that, Gu Wenjing walked forward in a hurry, found a scholar in green clothes and shouted familiarly: "Brother Li, are you here to participate in this year's provincial examination? I heard you..."

The scholar in Qingyi turned his head and looked at Gu Wenjing with a puzzled look: "May I ask you..."

Gu Wenjing's face showed an embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person. I once knew a friend who was as handsome as my brother. I saw that your back looked very similar to my friend, but I didn't expect to recognize the wrong person."

The scholar in Qingyi was disturbed by someone for no reason, but when he heard Gu Wenjing's words, he smiled unconsciously: "It's okay, I just recognize the wrong person. It just happens that my surname is Li, and my name is Li Cheng. This is really fate!"

Gu Wenjing didn't expect that he just made up a reason to recognize the wrong person and actually found a "Brother Li". He just wanted to take this opportunity to pass by the young scholar and remind him.

Gu Wenjing smiled and said to Li Cheng: "My name is Gu Wenjing! It is also an honor for me to meet a talented person like Brother Li!"

The smile on Li Cheng's face became deeper and he pulled Gu Wenjing and said, "Brother Gu stood in front of me! Let's line up together."

Li Cheng asked him to go to the team with great integrity, and Gu Wenjing quickly refused: "Brother Li, you are polite, I came with my fellow villagers, so it's not easy to leave alone. When the provincial examination is over, I will have another good drink with Brother Li!"

Li Cheng let go regretfully: "Okay, I'll get the same thing when I saw Brother Gu today. After the provincial examination, I'll invite you to drink at Yanyunlou."

Gu Wenjing returned to his team. When he passed by the young scholar who was reminded by him, he heard the boy's soft "Thank you!"

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Gu Wenjing returned to his previous position, He Zhengming turned his head curiously and asked, "How did you meet that scholar?"

He Zhengming didn't know that Gu Wenjing was a fake friend, and he didn't hear the conversation between Gu Wenjing and Li Cheng, and he really thought that Gu Wenjing knew Li Cheng. It's just that He Zhengming thought he was Gu Wenjing's classmate and friend, and the circle of friends basically overlapped, so he was curious about when Gu Wenjing had a strange friend he didn't know.

Gu Wenjing glanced at the blue-clothed scholar who threw things into the young scholar's basket. He saw that the other party's clothes were extremely luxurious, and he must have had an extraordinary background. He had no intention of causing trouble, so he just said vaguely: "It's just a friend who hit it off at first sight, and I haven't seen each other twice! I just went to say hello."

He Zhengming didn't think too much, and soon the topic changed to other aspects. He talked to Gu Wenjing about who was the popular candidate for Jie Yuan in this provincial examination.

During the time when He Zhengming was preparing for the exam, he often went out to have a tooth sacrifice. After spending a long time in the restaurant, he heard a lot of news, such as which scholar won the Little Three Yuan, and which scholar became a teacher named Daru, and his background was also extraordinary.

Then Gu Wenjing heard Li Cheng's name from He Zhengming.

It turns out that Li Cheng was also a candidate in Jieyuan Seed and had a very famous talent. Li Cheng's father was also a juren with a wealthy family. It is said that he had distant relatives in the capital who served as officials.

Gu Wenjing's eyes fell on Li Cheng again. Today, he was kind-hearted to help others. He deliberately made a mistake and actually gained a "Brother Li". Things in the world are so wonderful.

During the chat, the gate of the Gongyuan opened.

Candidates can enter the examination room after being searched by officers and soldiers one after another.

Searching for the candidates to have any entrainment. In the modern era when studying was not the only way out, people cheated on the exam, let alone in the ancient times when the imperial examinations were the official.

Even if the consequences of cheating are extremely serious, there are always people who are lucky.

Gu Wenjing saw that the officers and soldiers found paper entrained from the clothes of some scholars and pies or buns with notes of paper from the examination basket. Then these scholars who tried to cheat were dragged away by the officers and soldiers, and the fate would definitely be very desolate.

In modern college entrance examination cheating, there will be severe punishment, not to mention cheating in the ancient imperial examination. In the ancient imperial examination system, the imperial examination system was related to the foundation of the country, and the fraud in the imperial examination often involved countless people.

These scholars who dared to cheat would be sentenced to wearing shackles for three months, beating 100 sticks, and being exiled to the frontier. They would not be allowed to be enrolled in the imperial examinations within three generations.

Unfortunately, no matter how severe the punishment is, some people will be lucky and take risks. Because once they succeed, the benefits will be too great.

Although scholars can not kneel when they meet officials and their social status is improved, scholars and juren are completely different from each other.

There is also a saying that scholars are poor. A scholar who is not good at doing well is really poor. But if he passes the imperial examination, he can be exempted from taxes and labor service. Countless people bring fertile land to join him. There is absolutely no juren, and he is already qualified to become an official.

It can be said that passing the exam is a one-step success for ordinary people, so every provincial examination can always capture a group of scholars who take risks.

Looking at the captured scholars and among the scholars who were still queuing up for body search, some people couldn't help but turn pale and quietly turned around and left the team.

The young scholar who was reminded by Gu Wenjing couldn't help but feel scared when he saw the scene of the cheater being ruthlessly captured by the officers and soldiers just now, and he couldn't help but look at Gu Wenjing with gratitude.

If Gu Wenjing hadn't reminded him, he would have asked the officers and soldiers to search for his own basket of test without any notice. The extra sheet of paper filled with fly-headed small regular script that appeared in the basket would have been enough to make him doomed.

He felt cold in his heart, and he had no idea who was so cruel that he actually framed him in this way.

As more and more candidates entered the tribute school, fewer and fewer people lined up in front of the teenager, it was his turn soon.

The officers and soldiers in charge of body search and the officers and soldiers who checked the baskets searched the young man, but found nothing abnormal, so they let him in.

Before entering, the boy looked back at the candidates behind him, and then his eyes fell on the scholar in blue who had not had time to restrain his expression of surprise on his face.

This young scholar and the blue-clothed scholar obviously knew each other. When the young scholar saw the expression on the blue-clothed scholar's face, what else was there to understand?

He sneered, turned around and stepped into the tribute courtyard.

Before it was his turn, Gu Wenjing took all the expressions of these two people into his eyes, and he had already made up all kinds of scenes in his mind.

#Is the grudges and hatreds between classmates a moral depravity or a distortion of human nature?

When Gu Wenjing saw the Blue-clothed scholar throwing things into the Young Scholar's Basketball Exam, he would think of checking his own basket exam immediately. He was worried that Zhang Xiucai, who was envious and jealous of him, would also be like the Blue-clothed scholar's Basketball Exam, and would do something secretly like the Blue-clothed scholar.

Although this little trick is simple, it is indeed very effective.

Once the officers and soldiers find cheating in the candidate's basket, no matter whether you are framed or not, just drag it down.

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When it was Gu Wenjing and others' turn, they successfully completed their search and entered the tribute court.

The number rooms in the Gongyuan are randomly selected, and the location is all up to you depending on your own luck.

Gu Wenjing was lucky and got a lottery room away from the toilet without leaking rain. The examination conditions of the Great Qi court were much worse than those of his first world, and the lottery room was dirty, dark and cramped.

Gu Wenjing took out a rag from the test basket and wiped the wooden boards that acted as desks and beds bit by bit. The dark blue rags were wiped into dark black. He did not waste water to clean them and threw them aside.

When he cleared his room and looked up at the room opposite, he saw a familiar face from the room opposite through the small window that had not been closed.

But he had seen the other party, but the other party didn't know him.

The candidate in the room diagonally opposite him was the scholar in blue who had framed a young scholar who had seen Gu Wenjing.

At this time, the scholar in blue was tidying up his dirty room with disgust on his face.

Gu Wenjing looked at it for a while and then withdrew his gaze.

At midnight, the test paper was sent down by several officers and soldiers. The examiner and a group of people walked slowly by and inspected the examination room.

Gu Wenjing only took a look, wrote down the appearance of the examiner and the deputy examiner who was following the examiner, and then lowered his head to continue answering the questions.

Compared with those candidates who have to write a sloppy draft on draft paper, Gu Wenjing is much more relaxed and comfortable. He directly put a sloppy draft in his heart and then took the pen to write it on the answer sheet. He wrote the pen as if he had the help of his god, and he had not made a mistake in a word.

He is efficient in answering questions, but the weather is stuffy in August. In the narrow room, it is like a sauna. Sweat falls drop by drop. He is afraid that sweat will wet the test papers, so he always wipes the sweat on his arms and forehead from time to time when answering questions.

When it was time to eat, Gu Wenjing did not cook the stove and cook, but picked up the test basket. Gu's father went to buy pancakes and white porridge for him early this morning.

Gu Wenjing, who had experience in the imperial examination, knew that when entering the examination room, pancakes and other items would be poked and checked by the officers and soldiers responsible for the inspection. The messy pancakes had no appetite at all, so he asked Gu's father to ask someone to help with pancakes. One pancake was so thin that it was light-transmitting that it could be seen at a glance whether there was any entrained items. So the officers and soldiers did not make things difficult for him. All of these dozen pancakes were returned to him well.

Moreover, the pancakes are simply delicious and easy to preserve in high temperatures. Gu Wenjing didn't want to cook in this room like a sauna. He just caught cold white porridge and ate pancakes. He felt full after eating five pieces.

Gu Wenjing looked at the test paper covered with oil cloth. The fullness in his belly made him feel so tired that he lay on the wooden bed with a coat on his stomach, with a robe on his stomach, and closed his eyes and got up to sleep.

If you don’t sleep at noon, you will lose energy during the past half day of the afternoon, so even if the weather is so hot that he can’t sleep, the board is too short to make his legs and feet unable to stretch out, and he feels uncomfortable in sleeping, he also forces himself to sleep peacefully.

After sleeping for about an hour, Gu Wenjing woke up. He poured out a small jar of clean water he brought in and threw it on his face little by little. The cold water stimulated him to wake up completely.

Gu Wenjing took off the oil cloth, took out the test paper below, and continued to answer the questions.

Write it, take a break, and it gets dark.

When distributing the test paper, I also gave each candidate a few candles. This candle was for candidates who had not finished the test questions to continue to do the questions at night.
To be continued...