Guo Yun glanced at everyone and continued: "Fan Ning has not performed much in the past two years. He has always been the first place in the county school Luming Academy, but Wu County's strength itself is not weak. Fan Ning's ability to win the county ranks is enough to make people not underestimate him. He ranks third in my opponent list."

Guo Yun took out another name and pasted it on the wooden board, "Yan Qing, the top county scholar in Kunshan County, was thirteen years old. He only stood out in January this year and ranked first in the county scholar selection competition participated by more than a thousand students.

I have read his test paper, and he wrote very well in one stroke. Although he was only thirteen years old, his countermeasures had a high vision and thorough understanding of the problems. I don't believe that this was written by a thirteen-year-old boy. I'm afraid even ordinary adult scholars can't write it.

If he participates in the adult imperial examination, I think he can enter the top ten of the examinations. With that, I ranked him second in the opponent's list."

Guo Yun took out the third name and pasted it on the wooden board.

"Liu Ran, I believe everyone still remembers him. He is a small man with a bad appearance. He ranked first in Wujiang County. At the beginning of the year, he competed with us and ranked sixth. He didn't seem to be very good, but I tell you that he concealed his strength in the competition at the beginning of the year."

Guo Yun's last words made a whisper in the lobby that had been quiet. This news was so shocking that it was deliberately concealing its strength.

He deliberately concealed his strength and even ranked sixth. What if he did his best?

Ten counties with great confidence were immediately poured into cold water. Everyone thought to themselves that it would not be so easy to recruit all five tribute scholars.

"I don't know Liu Ran's true level, but with his scheming of hiding his strength, I will list him as the first place in the opponent's list."

Speaking of this, Guo Yun's voice became louder again.

"I said this not to hurt everyone's confidence. I just want to tell everyone that we still have opponents and should not be careless. We must be cautious and calm in answering questions. As long as we do the above points, I believe that we will eventually win five tribute scholars."

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At the fifth o'clock in the morning, someone started knocking outside the door. Fan Ning woke up from his dream and immediately sat up. In the darkness, Su Liang and Duan Yu also got up.

"Is the time here?" Su Liang asked yawning.

Fanning looked out the window and it was still dark, but there was already movement in the yard outside.

"It should be the fifth update, get up!"

Everyone finished packing up last night. In fact, there was only a cloth pocket with only a floating ticket inside, which was the admission ticket. It recorded the characteristics of the candidates in detail, such as height, face shape and other physiological characteristics, and there was also a guarantor.

There is also a pot of water, and the examination institute is only allowed to bring these two things into the venue.

Fanning wore a thicker blue linen robe. The three exams were taken separately. There was no need to spend the night in the exam number and there was no need to bring a bedding mat.

He put on a half-old headscarf and put on shoes and socks.

At this time, there were ten county sects standing by the well in the yard. Everyone was busy washing their faces, rinsing their mouths and brushing their teeth. No one spoke. Everyone was busy with their own affairs. The atmosphere seemed a little nervous.

At this time, Zhao Xiuwen quickly walked into the yard, clapped his hands and said loudly: "Breakfast is ready. Go to eat after washing up, try to eat as much as possible. The food provided by the Examination Institute at noon will be very good. A meal in the morning is very important."

When registering, each person paid 200 cents, including the exam fee and a lunch. The exam usually starts from 3:00 to 3:00 and ends in the afternoon, and takes about four hours.

After breakfast, ten county scholastics and academic officials Zhao Xiuwen and two assistants took three ox carts to the examination institute.

After walking less than a mile, Zhao Changgeng suddenly screamed, "I forgot to bring my floating ticket!"

Zhao Xiuwen's face suddenly sank. The thing they needed to carry the most was floating tickets, that is, the admission ticket. I forgot such an important thing, so why do I take the exam?

Zhao Xiuwen immediately said to an assistant teacher: "Go and help him get it!"

Zhao Changgeng hurriedly said: "In the cloth bag at the head of the bed!"

The assistant coach agreed and jumped out of the ox cart and ran away.

The ox cart continued to travel south, Zhao Changgeng patted his chest and smiled: "Fortunately, I remembered it in time, otherwise I would have thought of it only when I arrived at the examination hall, and that would be done!"

No one around paid attention to him. Zhao Xiuwen's face turned gloomy. It was never a good sign that such a mess appeared on the eve of the exam.

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When everyone arrived at the examination hall, it was not dawn, but the square in front of the examination hall was already crowded with people. There were long queues in front of the ten entrances, and almost all more than 2,700 candidates arrived.

The first step to entering the examination room is to identify evidence, that is, to prevent substitutes from taking the exam. The second step is to search. Candidates are not allowed to carry any paper or items except floating tickets and kettles.

Once a violation is violated, severe punishment will be carried out depending on the severity of the circumstances. From warning to cancellation of the examination qualification, if you are found to be a test, you will even be disqualified from the juren who will be the candidate for the exam.

"Don't get separated, come with me!"

Zhao Xiuwen led everyone to the side door. They were taking the boy exam. Unlike normal candidates, they had a special entry channel.

Fan Ning looked around and looked around. He was looking for the other six junior brothers. It was not dawn and there were too many people. They were not seen. The six of them lived at Dong Kun's home. There should be no big problem during the entry stage. The key is to play on the spot.

There were two teams in front of the entrance of the boy's test. Su Liang touched Fan Ning with his elbow and whispered: "We are the candidates from Changzhou County ahead of us."

Fanning suddenly became interested and looked at the ten scholars in front. The ten scholars from Changzhou County, like them, each carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder, and the team was arranged from short to high.

"The three in the front!"

Su Liang winked at Fan Ning, "That is, the three great gods, Jiang Feng, Yao Xi, and Luo Zaidao, with them here, the other forty-seven county senators can only compete for the remaining two places."

Seeing that these three people were quite arrogant, Fan Ning looked back at them, but the three people didn't look back, as if there were only three of them in the entire team.

Fanning smiled and said to herself, "Maybe this is called being proud of her talent!"

At this time, the two academic officials stood aside and chatted, but Guo Yun's eyes kept sweeping towards the team of scholars in Wu County, who was looking for Fan Ning.

The scholars who can make it into his opponent list should not be careless. Although Fanning only ranks third in his list, he still cannot be underestimated.

Guo Yun's eyes finally fell on Fan Ning's face. Although the scholar was dressed in ordinary clothes, Guo Yun could feel his unique temperament.

The other scholars seemed very nervous and pursed their lips, but this scholar gave people a feeling of being careless and seemed to care nothing.

Guo Yun looked at Fanning's eyes again, but Fanning just so happened to look at him. Fanning's eyes were cold and sharp, piercing his mind like a knife.

Guo Yun was shocked and hurriedly avoided Fan Ning's gaze. He was secretly surprised. Could this young man be Fan Ning?

"Zhao Xuezheng, who is that boy wearing a light blue scholar's uniform?" Guo Yun asked at Fan Ning.

Zhao Xuezheng smiled, "His name is Fan Ning, Guo Xuezheng should know this name!"

Guo Yun nodded, it was indeed interesting, but he didn’t know how to learn it.

With the guarantee of academic administration, the county scholastics' identification was quickly confirmed, and it was soon the turn of Wuxian County. Behind them, Kunshan County and Wujiang County scholastics also came one after another.

"Next Fanning!"

Fan Ning hurriedly walked forward, and their floating tickets had been handed over in advance. The examiner looked at the characteristics of the floating tickets. He was five feet three in height, thin in shape, slightly long face, and long eyebrows like swords.

The examiner nodded and asked again: "Where is the one?"

"Student from Jiangwan Village, Mudu Town, Wuxian!"

The examiner then glanced at Zhao Xiuwen. Zhao Xiuwen took out his private seal and stamped Fan Ning's floating ticket. This was his guarantee.

"It's OK!"

The examiner took a test card and handed it to Fanning, "Go in and search!"

When they walked into the small door, the two soldiers were already waiting. They skillfully searched Fanning's whole body, not even letting go of her hair, shoes and socks.

With the last wave of his hand, “Pass!”

Fanning hurriedly came to a small stool and sat down, put on his shoes and socks, and put on a headscarf.

At this time, Su Liang also searched and came in. He asked with a smile: "Fan Ning, what is your volume number?"

The number on the exam card given to him by the examiner was the volume number. This volume number is very important because the Song Dynasty imperial examination system implemented the name system, and the names were blocked. It was not until after admission that the name was torn apart.

The four subject exams do not hand in the papers at the same time, but are divided into three days to hand in the papers. In this way, the papers for the same person are more scattered, so you need to write the book number behind the papers and then collect the test papers based on the number.

This volume number is also called the lucky number. Candidates are superstitious about this number. There were also auspicious numbers in the Song Dynasty, mainly three, six, and nine, representing the meaning of "sup, slip, and long".

The other four are also numbers that everyone is afraid of.

Fan Ning looked at the test card. Ding Liuqian, Ding refers to the special symbol for the boy's test. He smiled and said, "I am Ding Liuqian, where are you?"

Su Liang said proudly: "I am Ding Liuliu!"

"What a great deal, congratulations!"

"This is actually meaningless, I must be a foil this time."

"That's not necessarily the case, just give your all, don't think too much about the others!"

The two of them soon arrived at the examination room. The examination room consisted of thirty long alleys, each with a hundred cottages, which could accommodate a total of 3,000 people for the exam at the same time.

Fanning found Lane 8, and his test room was on No. 24, Lane 8.
Chapter completed!