Sheng Yuan entered the Gongyuan, followed the prompts to the female inspection room, and skillfully allowed the female inspection officer to inspect her.
Having passed the Tongsheng test, she is not very proficient in this procedure.
When the prosecutor finished checking her hair, red pockets, and shoe soles, and then turned his attention to her carrier, Sheng Yuan smiled.
With a serious face, the prosecutor opened the three-layered examination basket and read them one by one from the various medicinal powders on the first layer, to the various rice noodles on the second layer, to the stationery on the last layer, and finally revealed his uneasy expression. expression.
Although it was the first time that the female prosecutor appeared in the Gongyuan examination room, she had never eaten pork and never seen a pig running away?
If not, you can still discuss it with colleagues who have experienced it.
Therefore, in their minds, it was a great pleasure to break the various snacks and steamed buns prepared by the candidates into pieces during the examination.
Her seniors have never seen any candidate be so...well, so saving them time, even grinding the best tea leaves into tea powder!
Seeing the reaction of the female prosecutor, the smile on Sheng Yuan's face became more obvious: Hehe! Didn't expect it!
After much consideration before, she ground the refreshing and reassuring pills into powder. It would be very convenient to put them in an incense tray and light them, or to stick them on acupuncture points with water, or to take them with water.
As for the food needed for three days, Sheng Yuan used great perseverance and rejected all kinds of pastries, candies, and dried meats. After consulting with the imperial doctor, he used various beans, cereals, dried nuts, dried vegetables, and dried yams. , dried fruits, and grinded rice noodles enough for her to eat for half a month, and added condiments such as powdered sugar, honey, meat floss, jam, osmanthus, and salt to enrich her three meals.
At first, her parents were not reassured when they heard about her plan. The imperial doctor ensured that these things were nutritious and not easy to spoil. They ate three large bowls of these things every meal to ensure that she could enter and exit the show as she pleased and that she would not be held back in terms of physical fitness. .
"Pass!" The female prosecutor shouted "Pass" in a particularly sonorous voice, either because she was out of sight or because she admired Sheng Yuan.
Sheng Yuan had her hair combed into a high ponytail, quickly dressed herself up, arranged her basket, and bowed her hands to others politely.
Then, under the smiling gaze of others, he strode along the signboard.
This was the first time that girls participated in the rural examination, and it was also the first time for the court's etiquette department to respond.
Therefore, some debate is inevitable.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the debate over whether the seats in the examination hall should be changed.
Originally, the examination room number plate and the scholar number were unified, but this time with the addition of girls, some officials planned to change the examination room number plate and the scholar number in view of the principle of "preventing the room officials and examiners from having preconceived impressions." distinguish.
Examination rooms No. 1 to 60 are all used by girls. From No. 61 onwards, they are used by gentlemen.
But as soon as the idea came out, it received a wave of opposition.
The objection is that doing so is more likely to cause injustice.
We argued like this for a long time, but the final result was that the seats remained the same, but an additional respectful place was built, placed far away at both ends of the examination room.
The Imperial Court Etiquette Department reached a consensus that the renovation process of the examination room will be fast, but it will be a hardship for the candidates. After all, the original stinky room only had one end, but now it has been flanked by two ends. Wow, only the candidates themselves can feel the feeling.
Sheng Yuan did a good job. She was in the middle. As long as there were no mistakes on either side, the smell shouldn't be too unbearable.
Holding the scholar number sent by the scribe in his hand, Sheng Yuan went to the examination room and went to the examination room to check it: "Well, it is indeed Bei Dan No. 56!"
The prudent little girl straightened the dormitory sign and saw that it was firmly placed. Then she rolled up her sleeves and prepared for the first thing before entering - cleaning the test dormitory!
There is no way around it. The Gongyuan exam building will be vacant for half a year after the provincial examination every year. During this period, except for necessary repairs, no one will clean the exam building for you.
Even if the examination rooms have been renovated, many of them are of no use. On rainy days, they often leak when it rains outside, which is extremely unfriendly to candidates.
Therefore, if you want your exam papers to be protected from wind and rain, you can only prepare yourself properly, just like Sheng Yuan. At this moment, she shook away the oilcloth that the prosecutor had inspected!
She prepared two large pieces of linoleum. One piece she planned to tie against the roof, while the other piece was rolled up and tied above the exam table.
Speaking of which, the examination room environment of the Gongyuan in Kyoto is much better than that outside Beijing. Especially since Emperor Jinghe came to the throne, he has frequently urged the Ministry of Rites to modify the area of the examination room.
Let's put it this way, in the original examination room, the taller candidates had to bend down and sleep on makeshift beds with their legs curled up.
The conditions of the current Kyoto Gongyuan examination hall are much better. Not only the building materials have changed from thatch and wood to bricks, but the area has also been expanded a lot. The current examination room is more than six feet long, wide and high, and a little girl like Sheng Yuan will be well off in it.
Of course, the increase in the test room area does not mean that the interior decoration has been upgraded.
The walls and floor were still so simple that moss grew on them, and the bed board and desk top were still removable.
Looking at the wild grass and wild flowers swaying in the wind in the corner of the examination room, Sheng Yuan scratched her head. Based on the principle of everyone having fun together, she generously took a spoonful of water from the two buckets brought by the waterman and poured it over.
Just consider it a good luck!
"Girl, the cleaner you asked for is here." Just when Sheng Yuan was moved, the cleaning man she spent several times the amount of money on came over.
