Zhang Tuozi originally arranged for Li Yanzhi to sleep on the counter of the oil shop, but when he came back from Lu Xiucai's house, he went to the counter and gave the bed to Li Yanzhi to sleep. The next day, he threw the business to his wife and took him to the county magistrate room to register. When he went to the court room, Lu Xiucai was already waiting there. With him helping to clear the registration process, the registration process was smooth.

The exam time was three days later. Li Yanzhi did not go home during these three days and lived in the city for review. Lu Xiucai felt that Zhang Tuozi's house was noisy and wanted to pick up Li Yan until he lived in his yard for a while. Zhang Tuozi was really unhappy. Li Yanzhi thought to himself: "It's just a small county exam, why should I watch it even bigger than the sky!" He said that he was willing to live in the oil shop, and Lu Xiucai let him go. However, Zhang Tuozi was so happy that he laughed and loved that Li Yanzhi gave him face. At night, he killed a chicken to entertain this love-loving and righteous little prodigy.

Three days later, the exam began and the exam time was set very early. Li Yanzhi was a child's body and was sleepy, but the exam time could not be missed. So before Li Gang woke him up, he used a hot towel to wipe his face, then poured him a mouthful of warm water, and said, "Waste." Li Yanzhi purred and rinsed out a few times in a daze, and even rinsed his mouth. Then Li Gang carried his younger brother up and walked to the exam site. Zhang Tuozi carried a basket of things behind him, and Li Yanzhi continued to sleep on his elder brother's back.

The examination location is located in the lobby of Youxi County County Government. Tables and chairs are set up on both sides of the lobby and under the corridor for the examination. It was not dawn when Li Gang arrived at the county government, but the candidates who took the exam were already lined up. Because it was not yet dawn, the lights were lit in front of the yamen. The examiner was the magistrate of the county, sitting high on the stage outside the gate, with the yamen runners separated on both sides and named them according to the book. Li Gang then woke up his younger brother, and Zhang Tuozi carried the bamboo basket for him, which contained pens and inkstones, and some food.

"Xiqian Village, Li Zhe!"

When Li Yanzhi clicked his name, he was still rubbing his eyes! Li Gang pushed him over. The magistrate was stunned when he saw him and said, "Is this a dwarf or a child?"

Li Yan opened his eyes and glanced upwards, saying, "Is that an old man or a master?" Li Gang and Zhang Tuozi were so scared that they were sweating when they heard him contradicting the magistrate. Who knew that the magistrate laughed and asked, "Who is the guarantee for this child?"

The insurance scholar Lu stepped forward and said, "It's a late birth."

The magistrate smiled and said, "This is the child prodigy you mentioned in the letter yesterday?"

Lu Xiucai said: "Yes."

The magistrate smiled and said, "It's indeed a bit tricky!" Then he waved to Li Yanzhi and said, "I've received the test, let's go for the exam."

Li Gang and Chang Tuozi breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Yanzhi stepped forward to get the paper. The test papers for this county were arranged by the county magistrate house. The papers that Li Yanzhi got were 14 pages, each page was 14 lines, each line was 18 characters, with red lines, and several sheets of white paper were drafted.

Although the seat number is printed on the test paper, there is actually no rigid rule that you must take the seat by number. Therefore, when Lu Xiucai taught Li Yanzhi that night, he secretly reminded him: "As soon as he enters the examination room, grab the seat immediately! Don't grab the first row, because it is too close to the eaves, and the sun is too hot at noon! If it rains, it will be even more troublesome! Don't sit too inside, because the light inside is not good. The county exam is during the day, and according to the rules, you are not allowed to light the lights. If you sit too inside, the sun cannot see clearly before it goes down the mountain. So you have to grab the second and third row seats, where is the best!"

But Li Yanzhi was too young. Although he had been taught by Lu Xiucai, how could he compete with others after entering the venue? He didn't care. He chose a remote corner to sit down and lie on the table to sleep. There was no prohibition on sleeping in the examination room, so no one came to care about him. But when the county magistrate came to inspect the exam, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly and thought to himself: "Are he a child after all."

Li Yan slept until the sun was 30 o'clock before getting up. At this time, the sun was full, and the place where he sat could see the question clearly. The county exam in the Ming Dynasty was only one test, and the form was to write two eight-part essays. The questions were selected from the four books, and they were generally not big questions, but just small questions.

The so-called sub-questions are questions with incomplete meaning, or to cut off one or a few words from the Four Books, or cut off a sentence with complete meaning and only leave half of the sentence. This is called cutting off the upper question. If the second half of the sentence is cut off and only leave half of the sentence, it is called cutting off the question. When answering the questions, candidates must not write out the words that were cut off directly, but they must include the meaning of the cut off to show you understand. Such questions have no meaning, it just tests whether you have memorized the Four Books and then can write them into a essay. What is stuck is a person's basic thinking ability and level of hard work.

Li Yan looked at the topic directly, cursed boredom in her mouth, grinded the ink, picked up the brush and finished the draft without typing it. He was the last one to start writing, but he was the first to hand over the paper. The county magistrate couldn't help but look at it differently, so he ordered Li Yan not to leave first, and he only read one article, and then said repeatedly: "No, not bad! It's rare for a seven-year-old child to do this."

Li Yanzhi replied: "The misunderstanding prize is still a misunderstanding prize, and the parents still need to be praised by their parents." The magistrate is also called the parent official, and the people under the rule often call the magistrate of the county "parents" and the elderly parents, so Li Yanzhi dealt with this.

The county magistrate laughed and drew a circle on the spot. When the chief clerk of the house next to him saw it, he hurriedly said, "Why don't you thank the lord!"

Although Li Yanzhi is not used to kneeling down until now, the situation is so he has to kneel down and kowtow to thank the magistrate for his kindness. It turns out that the chief examiner is satisfied with the candidate's article and can click on it on the spot. Just now, Li Yanzhi's first exam has been passed!

Since Li Yanzhi was interested in the imperial examination, he naturally aimed at the final Jinshi. However, he has been studying the Four Books and Five Classics carefully for less than two years. Although he memorized the Four Books, he still didn't understand the Five Classics. Therefore, he was not anxious about the boy's test. He came in to practice military training with a mentality of winning and losing happily. He didn't want to pass the exam.

After the county test starts, the examination room is closed. Candidates cannot go out and people outside cannot come in. They have to wait until the specified time to open the door for the candidates who have finished the examination to appear. In the term "showing cards". The first time to play cards is usually between Wei and You, Li Yan handed in the paper at the second half of the time, and then clicked on the spot to pass. When he came out, he happened to play cards and was the first to leave the examination room.

Li Gang and Zhang Tuozi were looking out of the door, and when they saw him coming out, they hurriedly asked, "How are you doing in the exam? How are you doing in the exam?"

Li Yan said straight: "I heard that it seems, maybe, maybe it's past."

Li Gang asked: "Then have you passed or not?"

Zhang Tuozi had more knowledge. He didn't know that Li Yanzhi had been directly selected by the magistrate and said to Li Gang: "You don't understand now! After the exam, the results will be released in three or four days! You will only know at that time!"

Li Gang said, "So that's it." He took Li Yanzhi home to wait. The two were anxious, but Li Yanzhi didn't take it seriously. The next day, he asked Li Gang to take him around the city to see the terrain and properties of Youxi County. Although Li Gang heard his younger brother, he was full of his heart trying this in his county.

On the fourth day of the ranking date, Li Yanzhi was still sleeping, but Li Gang and Zhang Tuozi had already gone out to look at the ranking. The ranking of the ranking is in the shape of a circle and written in a clockwise direction. The first place is in the middle of the circle, and the following is in the ranking, with the head of the name facing outward and the bottom facing the mainland, so this list is also called the "wheel list".

After the list was released, Li Gang and Zhang Tuozi didn't recognize the words. They just looked at the circle composed of names and were anxious and kept saying, "Please help to see if Li Zhe was beaten, please help to see if Li Zhe was beaten!"

But most of the people who came to the list care about themselves or their relatives and friends, and no one paid attention to them. Finally, a frustrated person took a look for them and said, "I won, I'm fifth."

Li Gang and Zhang Tuozi then shouted: "Really? Really? Fifth? Fifth?"

"Yeah, fifth place."
Chapter completed!