Zhang Ping won the No. 358 test room and Lun's test paper.

Chen Chou won the Yabu and the No. 43 test room.

The site of the test institute is extremely large, with twelve rows, each with 60 test rooms, totaling 720.

The walls separated by adjacent test rooms are not bricks, but a whole piece of stone slab. There is a canal between the two rows of test rooms opposite each other, lotus flowers are planted in the middle, and windows are found on the wall behind the test room. At this time, the lotus outside the window is tinging, which helps the tester to relieve the mood.

To prevent cheating, twelve test rooms are used separately. In this way, there is no one in the opposite side of the tester and the back of the tester. The adjacent test room is not the same tester, which can eliminate the behavior of interoperability.

Zhang Ping entered the third-last test room in the eleventh column.

The test room was not big, and there was a narrow couch, a table and a chair, a short table and a square stool in the room. The table was filled with pens, ink, paper and ink, and the short table and square stool were specially used for eating to prevent the test paper from being dirty when eating on the table. There was also a basin stand in the corner of the wall, with a washbasin on it, and a small bucket of water was placed under the basin stand.

There is a copper bell at the door of each test room. The rope on the bell fell through the wall and hung by the door. If there is any problem, you can call the bell at any time to call the guard.

There is also a small compartment in the test room for use as a toilet.

Zhang Ping carefully looked at the test room up and down. The roof was sealed with fine wooden boards, and there were no beams, the narrow couch had no bed railings, and there were no nails on the wall, so as to prevent the test from being unable to open and hang.

There were thin mats on the floor of the test room. Zhang Ping clewed it with his hands and pasted the mat on the floor. It was probably convenient to remove it after the exam, so there was no need to renovate the floor.

The walls of the test room have been repainted, and the tables and chairs are also newly painted. There is no trace left by the previous test.

There is an oil lamp on the short table, flints are placed in the table bucket, and a plate of mosquito coils.

The guards outside the door patrolled back and forth, stopped in front of the door, and looked at Zhang Ping with a vigilant look. Zhang Ping stopped looking, sat on the cold couch, fanned the wind with a palm fan, and the guard stopped for a while before leaving.

At night, Zhang Ping was a little tired of answering the answer sheet. He stopped writing and rested. He lay on the couch and suddenly found that a few bamboo strips on the couch could be removed.

He took off the bamboo strips and saw that the backs of the bamboo strips were engraved with marks, disrupting the order of disassembly and arranged one by one again. The marks were actually formed into a line of curved words.

Zhang Ping grew up in a Taoist temple and recognized that this was a talisman. It was about one of the testers in the previous subjects. He wanted to use the so-called power of ghosts and gods to answer the questions, so he engraved the talisman on the couch. Before leaving, he was afraid that he would be discovered, so he broke up the bamboo strips and reinstalled them. These strokes were different from the handwriting, so they were not paid attention to by those who were renovating the exam items.

However, usually, if you want to do this, you will draw Wenchang Talisman, Kuixing Talisman, etc. This talisman is a ghost, and it is a ghost who asks for death in vain.

Zhang Ping looked at the bamboo strips and thought for a moment. The oil lamp swayed, and a thin whimper suddenly appeared in the cracks between the doors and windows.

The sound was sometimes far and sometimes near. When the screen opened the rear window to identify it, he saw a faint light flashing in a window in the opposite interview room.

The whimper came from the direction of the window. A black shadow shook on the window paper, the lights suddenly went out, and the whimpering sound was silent in the night.

The empty test rooms across the canal stood quietly in the dark night, as if everything just now was an illusion in a dream.

The next morning, the next door next to Zhang Ping was carried out of the test site on a stretcher.

In the morning, the field service came to deliver food, but no one answered the door, and pushed it in and saw that he foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, unconscious.

The medical officer came to check and said that he had epilepsy. Fortunately, he didn't bite his tongue, but he couldn't continue the exam. He could only be considered as handing over the paper and carrying the person out of the test.

The tester lay on the stretcher, his hands twitched slightly, and suddenly sat up suddenly and shouted: "There are ghosts! There are ghosts!"

Several guards pressed him on the stretcher and hurried forward. The patrol officer looked at Zhang Ping and other examiners standing by the door, frowned and waved his hand: "Everyone went in, there was no one or two people in the scientific examination that year. After stepping out, he would be accused of handing over the paper or cheating."

Zhang Ping and the others returned to the room.

Zhang Ping remembered that the lights were on last night, which was the empty room opposite the No. 356 test room.

After this incident, the trial was peaceful and no strange things happened until the end of the exam.

Three days after the examination, Lan Jue was released from the courtyard. He was carried to the Wenguan Pavilion of the Imperial City in a sedan chair. He and other officials involved in the review of the papers will continue to be locked up here until the review of the papers are over.

It is reported that the examination was extremely successful. Except for one of the testers who was taken out of the examination room due to illness, the others were successfully answered.

Lan Jue and the other officials were very pleased when they heard about it. But at this moment, Lan Jue's immediate superior, the pillar of this examination, Gong Songming, the Minister of Rites, was sent back to his house to recuperate due to fever and dysentery and could not participate in the review of the papers.

After Lord Gong fell, two old men who were as old as him also fell. The court had to transfer other people to review the papers, and temporarily transferred two young and strong grand scholars from the Hanlin Academy. However, Lord Gong's position was extraordinary and he needed to find someone at least of the same level to replace him. Lan Jue and the officials all guessed that they would probably have to let Taifu Yun come over to the scene. Unexpectedly, a decree from the little emperor actually sent Tao Zhoufeng, the Minister of Justice, to replace Gong Songming, to preside over the review of the papers.

In terms of heart, Tao Zhoufeng was the best student of the Taifu Liu Xian, who was the best scholar of this dynasty. He was a great scholar of this dynasty. He was far more suitable for this position than in the Ministry of Justice. Moreover, Tao Zhoufeng had a good temper and never liked to make decisions by himself. He liked to let his subordinates make decisions the most. The officials who reviewed the test papers had much more authority, so the officials were convinced and excited, and felt that the little emperor was wise and powerful.

Wenguan Pavilion is located in the southwest corner of the imperial city. Lan Jue and the other eight officials who were reviewing the papers sleep in the side hall every night and in the main hall during the day. The main hall is separated by four inner rooms, and each two officials read a piece of the papers in one room, and Tao Zhoufeng drinks tea in the outside hall to take charge.

The first reading is the four parts of Dian, Lun, Ya and Xian. Each part recommends ten papers. The second reading is examined by Tao Zhoufeng, and thirty of them are selected from the forty papers. This is the list of selected papers in the current subject and sent to the imperial court for preparation for the palace examination.

Lan Jue gave the question of the Classic Department. His nephew Liu Tongyi took the exam for the Xian Department, so he could only read the Lun Department and the Ya Department. Lan Jue originally wanted to read the Lun Department, but Li Fangtong, a great scholar who had impeached him, also wanted the Lun Department. Li Fangtong was the nephew of the Secretariat Li Rong, and Li Rong's daughter was about to become Princess Huai. In other words, Li Fangtong was about to become the nephew of the emperor's uncle and father-in-law, which was one generation higher than the emperor.

Lan Jue thought he could not afford to offend this royal relative. Lord Li was sharp and hated evil. It was not easy to stimulate him if he was far away. He was good to everyone, so Lan Jue chose Yamen.

As it turned out, Lan Jue's choice was very smart. A few days later, Lord Li and Lord Liu, who was marking the papers with him, were pinching them all the way to Tao Zhoufeng.

Lan Jue carefully watched the inside of the Ya Department. Li Fangtong and Lord Liu were arguing over the two test papers. Only the last place recommended by Lun's department was left. Lord Liu liked one test paper, Li Fangtong liked another test paper, and he was so fussing that he wanted Tao Zhoufeng to judge. Tao Zhoufeng said: "The emperor's imperial edict says that this imperial examination can promote talents without having to be obsessed with the old deeds. Although choosing forty test papers is an old example, there are always exceptions, just like the Ministry of Justice Hall is a minister of justice, and you can sit here. Since it is difficult for both of you to make a decision, it can be seen that these two test papers are outstanding. Lun's department will choose eleven test papers and decide from the forty-one test papers. I will write a memorial for the emperor."

Tao Zhoufeng wrote more than 5,000 words of memorials overnight, and the young emperor approved five words - and it was decided by you.

Tao Zhoufeng received the approval, and the remaining thirty-nine papers have been selected and they have begun to read them again.

When he was reading again, Tao Zhoufeng held a paper from the Xian Department and couldn't put it down and admired it. The two presiding judges from the Xian Department also praised the book, calling him the character of a sage and a beautiful article. He must be the top scholar in the current subject, so he immediately selected it.

After the selection, Lan Jue also went to look at the paper.

It is indeed a good handwriting, good answers, and a handsome article, which is impeccable. The test paper is open to the test paper, and the expected name is Liu Tongyi.

The next twenty-eight papers were quickly selected, but when they reached the thirty, they were stuck on the two papers where Li Fangtong and Lord Liu fought. Li Fangtong and Lord Liu each had their own opinions. Tao Zhoufeng was hesitant about the two papers, and the remaining twenty-nine papers had been opened, and the list was copied and the results were ready to be released. Tao Zhoufeng had not finished hesitating.

Among the twenty-nine people who have been selected, Lan Jue did not see Zhang Ping, and he felt a sense of regret in his heart. Perhaps this young young man had a good mind, but was not suitable for the examination. It was a pity for the court.

Thinking of this, Lan Jue was a little funny. The screen entered the court. It must be Li Yan and Li Fang's same faction, so what does it have to do with him? When will he have such leisure time?

At that moment, Li Fangtong had already begun to attack Lord Liu, questioning whether the other party had accepted the bribes from the selected candidates.

Finally, Tao Zhoufeng said: "Otherwise, open these two papers first, open the names of these two papers, and then everyone will review and decide."

When the two papers were opened and sealed, Lan Jue saw his name, he was stunned as if Tao Zhoufeng, and then he was happy.

The person Li Fangtong chose was Zhang Ping.

The test paper recommended by Lord Liu is named Ma Lian.
Chapter completed!