Soon the three of them returned to the examination hall. At this time, the bell for the end of the examination had just rang, and a large number of candidates rushed out of the examination hall.

Most of the candidates looked relaxed and had smiles on their faces. It seemed that they generally felt that they did well in the exam today. Just as Zhao Xiuwen's comments, today's discussion topics are easier to get started.

"Fanning!"

Someone shouted in the distance, Fan Ning saw Su Liang and Duan Yu at first sight, and Li Dashou again, and he was waving to this side.

The three of them hurriedly walked forward, Dong Kun and Lin Hong were also there, and Lu Youwei also ran over.

"Everyone did a good exam today!" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"It's not bad. I checked at least a few times and found no typos."

"The questions are not difficult today, they are easy to get started, and they all seem to have done well in the exam."

At this time, Su Liang suggested: "Fan Ning, let's find a place to eat! We didn't eat enough at noon and we were going to starve to death."

Fan Ning smiled happily and said, "Let's go to Wushan Restaurant, I'll invite everyone!"

Wushan Restaurant is not far from the Examination Institute. Generally speaking, after noon, the restaurants are closed and become the world of teahouses.

But the imperial examination days are exceptions. During the imperial examination period, the time for business in various restaurants in Pingjiang Prefecture is booming, with wine and food supply from morning to night.

The group came to Wushan Restaurant, and many scholars who had just finished the exam were already sitting in the restaurant.

Everyone put three tables on the window on the second floor, and nine people sat around.

A bartender stepped forward and asked, "Are you guys who are candidates who take the imperial examination?"

"That's right! But are there preferential treatment for candidates?"

The bartender smiled and said, "The government office has regulations that it is not allowed to sell wine to candidates during the exam, and the small shop will give you a good dish."

Fanning waved his hand and said, "I won't drink wine. I'll get two servings of water from your store, sweet and sour sea bass, steamed mandarin fish, roasted lamb in the book, braised hoof ginger, stewed chicken, steamed big crab, and some vegetables, it's almost done."

"How many crabs do you want?"

"Two for each person, I want a female crab!"

The bartender was a little embarrassed, "Often half of the male and female crabs, and all the small officials wanted female crabs, so it was difficult to handle the small shop!"

"Yes, half of the male and female."

"Thank you for your understanding. I don't know what drinks you want? The shop has lychee paste water, bayberry thirst water, sugarcane water, ginger honey water, mung bean water, and sweet bean soup."

Fanning asked everyone, "What do you want to drink?"

"Drink sugarcane water!"

Dong Kun smiled and said, "The sugarcane water here is good and very sweet."

"I want sugarcane water too!" Su Liang also smiled.

"Me too!"

Seeing that everyone had a unified opinion, Fanning smiled at the clerk and said, "Then let's have nine cups of sugar cane water, you need a big cup."

"Okay! Everyone sit down and come soon."

The bartender went down and heard him shouting on the stairs: "Nine glasses of sugar cane water on the second floor!"

Fan Ning asked Lu Youwei beside him with a smile, "Why are you listless?"

Lu Youwei shook his head, "I wrote a bit of a subtitle in the discussion paper today, and the title was "The Battle of No Good Deeds in the Spring and Autumn Period", but I spent too much writing on the Battle of Changping and wrote "The Battle of No Good Deeds in the Warring States Period". This time I must have fallen."

"Are you writing about war?" Fanning asked again.

"yes!"

Lu Youwei lamented, "I mainly wrote around the battle for Wuyue and the Battle of Changping. I wrote about 3,000 words, and the Battle of Changping just wrote 1,000 words. Later, I thought it was too long-winded and wanted to delete the Battle of Changping, but if I deleted it, the framework of the whole article would be messed up. The key is that it was too late to go in time...."

At the end, Lu Youwei cried so hard that he was so sad that he wiped his tears, "I failed the first exam, I really had no hope this time!"

Everyone looked at him sympathetically. The Battle of Changping actually wrote a thousand words. Even if the examiner tolerated him, he would not accept this article no matter what.

Everyone knows that Mingren and Mingli will definitely be eliminated first, but they did not expect that the third person who was eliminated was Lu Youwei.

Mingren, who was sitting on the other side, reached out to hold Lu Youwei's shoulder and comforted him: "Think about it, when the list is released, there will be more than 2,700 people crying with you."

Although this is too much, it is a fact. More than 2,780 people were admitted in the exam, and only fifty-five people were admitted, but not more than 2,700 people were going to cry.

Fan Ning also smiled and comforted Lu Youwei, "It was your first time to take the imperial examination. It was normal that I couldn't pass the exam. How many times did people take the exam and kept accumulating experience before finally getting the exam. Think about it, there were only two students from our county school in the last class who passed the exam, and all the others failed. I didn't see anyone crying. I should be calmer."

Li Dashou also sincerely advised him, "A Lu, I never thought I could pass the imperial examination. The key is that I want to know what the exam is and what kind of atmosphere it is. It is better to practice one in a practical situation. With this experience, I will have confidence in the next imperial examination."

Everyone persuaded Lu Youwei, and Lu Youwei stopped crying.

At this time, two bartenders walked over with a large plate of platters. Their sugarcane water was squeezed, and two large plates of red and yellow crabs were brought up.

Everyone poured ginger vinegar and picked up a big crab and twisted legs and peeled the shell. The full crab roe and crab paste were mouth-watering.

At this time, a group of scholars came up from the entrance of the stairs, with as many as seven or eight.

I heard someone laughing and said, "Everyone can eat with your stomach today, I'll treat you!"

"Old Fan is generous today!"

Fanning stopped chewing crabs, looked up at the stairs, and saw the fourth uncle Fan Tongzhong at a glance. He saw his face full of spring breeze. It seemed that he felt good about himself today.

"Yo! You guys are here too."

Fan Tongzhong's eyes were vicious and saw Fan Ning at a glance. He walked up to him and said proudly: "Aning, you did a good exam today!"

Fan Ning smiled, "I did the exam just the same, probably not as good as the fourth uncle!"

"That's it! You don't have enough experience in the imperial examination. If you accumulate a few more times, it should be almost done."

At this time, Fan Tongzhong's eyes turned and saw Mingren and Mingli brothers again. He immediately laughed, "What a coincidence, you are here too!"

Mingren and Mingli didn't have Fan Ning's confidence, so they quickly stood up and smiled and said, "Fourth Uncle, it's been a long time since we saw each other."

"You two come here, I happen to have something to ask you for help."

Fan Tongzhong had no choice but to pull the two brothers downstairs.

Fanning shook his head. The two brothers were like two small flying insects hitting the spider web. They were caught by the spider Fourth Uncle, and the consequences were imaginable.

After a moment, Fan Tongzhong walked upstairs with a smile and waved to Fan Ning, "Aning, eat slowly, let's go to the upper room. If you have any difficulties, come to me."

A group of students from the mansion went up the third floor with a smile. At this time, Akihito and Mingli slowly walked upstairs. They were like leaves hit by frost, and their whole spirit was decayed.

The two of them sat on their seats, both with gloomy faces and without saying a word.

"Mingren, Mingli, what's wrong?" Everyone had never seen that the two who had always been optimistic had such a moment of depressing.

Fanning asked with a smile: "How many times have he blackmailed this time?"

Akihito sighed, "He borrowed the five taels of silver I just received, so did Mingli!"

"Since I'm just borrowing it, I'll definitely pay it back. After all, he is your fourth uncle!" Lin Hong didn't quite understand the frustration of the two.

Mingli also sighed, "Forget it! Forget it! Do not make any public about family scandals, we are unlucky this time."

After he said this, everyone laughed. It seemed that the fourth uncle of the Fan brothers also belonged to Pixiu, and only entered and did not leave.

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The next day, the imperial examination will continue.

Today's exam is the top priority, and the countermeasures and countermeasures account for the largest score in the entire imperial examination, accounting for nearly half of the scores.

Therefore, there is a saying that those who get countermeasures will get the imperial examination. This sentence not only refers to the interpretation test, but also the provincial examination and even the palace examination. The palace examination only tests one countermeasure question and the temporary question is to test the real talent of the scholar.

However, if you lose too many points in other subjects, it will be meaningless even if you answer the countermeasures questions well.

Fanning told all his companions more than two months ago that this time, he was trying to persuade farmers to take the countermeasures. Fanning didn’t know how his companions were preparing?

Others don’t know, but Fan Ning knew that Su Liang and Li Dashou were obeying their suggestions seriously and spent a full month going deep into the fields to understand the sufferings of farmers.

Before dawn, the front of the examination hall was full of lanterns and brightly lit, illuminating the entrance to the examination gate as daylight.

I did not check my identity again today, and the team progressed much faster. After searching, I could enter the examination institute.

"Fanning!"

Su Liang quickly caught up with Fan Ning from behind and laughed in a low voice: "To be honest, I'm looking forward to it!"

Last night, Zhao Xuezheng scored his argumentative essays of Class A, which greatly inspired Su Liang. In addition, he went deep into the countryside for more than a month to investigate and understand the agriculture of the Song Dynasty and the sufferings of farmers very thoroughly.
To be continued...