Zhang Xiucai quickly understood what Shao’s father meant. This was also a good thing for him. After all, his family was not very wealthy. Studying was a expensive thing. It would be a little bit easier. When he was about to nod and agreed to share the lease, Xiucai Jiang suddenly said, "Although my villa is not big, there are still a few more people to live in. I wonder if you two would like to live with Jiang?"

Not only Zhang Xiucai was stunned for a moment when he was invited by Jiang Xiucai, but also Xiao Ying and Shao's father were a little surprised.

Judging from Jiang Xiucai's behavior, he obviously would not be willing to invite Zhang Xiucai, who was not as good as him, to live in his villa, but now he actually took the initiative to invite the two of them!

Jiang Xiucai didn't know what the three of them were thinking, and showed a polite smile on his face and said to Xiao Huang: "Brother Shao and Jiang are similar in age, so you can also learn from each other and supervise each other."

One is less than twenty years old, and the other is almost thirty years old. The ages are so close that they are a little far away.

However, Xiao Ying also understood that the man surnamed Jiang wanted to show goodwill to him, a young scholar, who might be a young scholar in the future, so he made an invitation. As for scholar Zhang, it was probably just a follow-up.

It is naturally good to not be able to squeeze into the inn, so Xiao Huang smiled and nodded, "Brother Jiang, you are polite. The three of us are from Qingyang County, so we should naturally learn from each other."

So Xiao Ying and Zhang Xiucai moved into the villa bought by Jiang Xiucai's house in the city. The villa was really not big. The three of them moved into the house with the people around them and they were crowded. There was still a room left. Shao's father took the initiative to go and live in the same room with Jiang Xiucai's Shutong.

How could Xiao Ying let his biological father live with his servants? So he firmly asked his father to live with him in the same room.

Shao's father was worried that he might snore at night and would affect his son's rest, so he refused. When the father and son were in a stalemate, Jiang Xiucai took the initiative: "It's better for me to live with Brother Shao, and my uncle live alone in a room."

Shao's father quickly refused, how could he let the master squeeze into a room with his son and live alone?

Jiang Xiucai smiled and said, "Uncle, you don't have to be polite. Brother Shao is young and promising and has extraordinary talent. I can learn more if I live with him."

Xiao Ying suddenly felt that this a bit arrogant scholar Jiang Xiucai was not so hopeless. At least he could do it very comfortably when he wanted to make friends with someone.

Under Xiao Yan's strong persuasion, Shao's father finally nodded and agreed.

Jiang Xiucai ordered Shutong to move his things to the guest room where Xiao Rong lived, and moved his father's belongings to the room where he lived, but was even stopped by Shao's father: "I'm so embarrassed to let you, the master, move out, so I might as well stay in the guest room."

In fact, this is also a little selfish intention of Shao's father. Even if he lets his son live in the same room with Jiang Xiucai, he hopes that his son can live better. Of course, the room where the owner of Jiang Xiucai lives is better than the guest room.

Jiang Xiucai thought for a moment and nodded: "My room is indeed bigger than the guest room, so let Brother Shao move to my room." He was not very happy to let a stranger completely occupy his room, and it was acceptable to divide his room half to Shao Qingyun, a classmate.

Xiao Rong ignored these details and asked him to discuss the scope of questions that might be tested in this provincial examination, commonly known as the pre-counter question. Both of them have experience in the provincial examination, but they gave him a lot of advice.

*******

Time flies very quickly, and the day for the provincial examination to start.

Xiao Ying took the exam supplies prepared by Shao's father for him and went to the examination room with Zhang Xiucai and Jiang Xiucai. The weather was still very cold, but the three of them could only wear a few single clothes as candidates. The court stipulated that the candidates should not wear mezzanine clothes to prevent infiltration.

This season when the cold and dew are heavy, especially in ancient times, the weather is even colder. Except for Xiao Rong's inner strength, the other candidates' faces turned blue with cold.

To queue up to enter the examination room, you need to go through two levels of inspection. One level is to check whether the clothes and items the candidates are wearing meet the examination regulations to prevent cheating. The second level is to ask the candidates to take off their clothes and check their whole body in a cramped small room. To be honest, the second level of inspection is a serious insulting meaning, but in this era, fame and fortune are the steps leading to the people. Too many people will take risks to prepare to cheat and get a good result, so this level of inspection is essential.

Of course, Xiao Ying would not let the officers and soldiers take off all their clothes to check their bodies. He directly hypnotized the two officers and soldiers who were checking for him with their mental power, and then stayed in the small room for a while before going out. The two officers and soldiers who were hypnotized by him naturally thought that they had checked him and no one would find out that something was wrong.

Candidates take the exam in closed wooden houses. This wooden house is very simple and will leak when it rains. Once a candidate is not careful, it will cause a fire and it will spread rapidly to a large area of ​​wooden houses. It is not uncommon to burn the candidates to death, and more candidates will die of illness. It can be said that several candidates who enter the examination room at this time of year will lose their lives, but even so, people still flock to it.

Xiao Rong was very lucky. The examination room he was assigned was close to the toilet. He looked at the fat green-headed flies flying around in the wooden house, and suddenly felt disgusted. He quickly spent a lot of effort to clean up the entire wooden house without hesitation, and arranged a small barrier to separate the smell of the toilet. Only then did he feel much more comfortable.

Feeling that his body was almost exhausted, Xiao Rong couldn't help but smile bitterly. He didn't expect that his energy would be consumed because of this... But he was already very good. The unlucky guy next door who was closer to the toilet than him had already fainted and was carried out of the examination room by the officers and soldiers. He probably had to wait three years to start over again.

I insisted on surviving the provincial examination these days. Although I had a barrier and had used the method to clean myself several times, Xiao Ying still felt that he was probably smelly. The first thing he did after leaving the examination room was to take a bath several times.

When Shao's father heard that Xiao Ying was given a bad numb, his face changed and he began to sigh. As a scholar, he had also experienced the imperial examination, so he naturally knew how much the impact of bad numb had on candidates. Unless he had a strong person with excellent psychological qualities, basically all the candidates with bad numb had failed the exam, and even if they failed the exam, they would not be at the end of the list.

Shao's father had no hope for his son's pass the imperial examination this time, but he still suppressed his disappointment in front of Xiao Rong.

After the exam, Xiao Ying and Zhang Xiucai and Jiang Xiucai got together to talk about the situation of this exam.

When the two men heard that he was assigned to the stinky horn, they showed some sympathy on their faces and comforted them: "You are still very young and have extraordinary talent, but this time they are just unlucky." Although they both said implicitly, they obviously did not think that Xiao Ying would be able to pass the imperial examination this time.

Xiao Rong smiled faintly: "Although the position of this exam was very bad and I couldn't perform well, I consciously performed as I should. I dare not say that I will be the top of the list, but it is certain to be on the list." His tone contained strong confidence and a faint pride.

He was still humble in saying this. As a monk, his brain domain development level is far from comparable to ordinary people. The content of the imperial examination was determined to be dead. How could he not even be able to handle the four books and five classics? What's more, he also included some of the natural ways he had learned when writing articles. As long as he didn't have a grudge against him and deliberately wanted to brush him off, the examiner would feel comfortable and applaud when he read his test paper.

However, Xiao Ying felt good, but Zhang Xiucai and Jiang Xiucai felt that he was bragging and talking big, but he just said it because he was not good at face.

Xiao Ying didn't bother to defend himself. The facts were better than words. In a few days, the day would be the day to release the results, and he would know it at that time.

Shao's father felt that his son was not bad for being assigned to the stinky test this time, but it was the day when the results were released in a few days. Due to the hope in his heart, he might be able to win a juren at the end of the list... He did not propose to go back to Shaojia Village early, but still lived in Jiang Xiucai's house and waited for the results to be released.

On the day the results were announced, Xiao Ying and several others set a good seat by the window in the restaurant near the government office in advance, and then asked Jiang Xiucai's book boy to check the rankings.

Originally, Shao's father wanted to go, but when Xiao Ying saw the crowded crowds of people there, he decisively stopped Shao's father. There were so many people, it would be bad to ask Shao's father to squeeze out something. Anyway, Jiang Xiucai had also said before that he would ask his book boy to pay attention to check his rankings with Zhang Xiucai.

Xiao Ying was quite calm. Anyway, he thought that he was inevitable to pass the imperial examination this time. The only difference was whether he understood Yuan. Zhang Xiucai and Jiang Xiucai were a little restless. They kept paced, standing at the window from time to time looking into the distance.

Xiao Ying didn't find it strange. He had almost the same understanding of the situation of the two of them over the past few days. It was not the first time they took the provincial exam, especially Zhang Xiucai. His family was not good and failed many times. He was not young anymore. If he failed to pass the imperial examination again, there would be no hope. Although Jiang Xiucai's family was rich, he was just an ordinary gentry family. He was the youngest son at home. As an old son, he was very favored by his parents. However, his elder brother was mediocre and narrow-minded. He had always been jealous of being favored and able to study. His parents were old and his elder brother had almost taken over the family business. He spent a lot of money on his studies and was all out of the public. If he failed to pass the imperial examination again this time, his elder brother would definitely use this as a raft to drive him away...
Chapter completed!