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Hearing this, Gu Mingda and the other five were all shocked.

Coincidentally, the commotion over there also came to an end at this time. Several soldiers rushed forward and held down the candidate who was still making noise.

The candidate was still struggling to explain, but was directly dragged into a small room beside him by the soldiers along with his examination basket.

"Do you think he was wronged?" Zheng Qi asked in a low voice.

As the first person among the five to find the cheat sheet in the examination basket, Zheng Qi couldn't help but feel sorry for his own kind when he saw this situation.

"He might have been framed by someone because he was not careful." His companion said kindly.

Gu Mingda looked at them. The oldest of his companions was only 25 years old now. They were all still young and would not speculate on others with malice.

Unlike him, who had been taking exams for many years and had been in the imperial examinations for a long time, he had long been accustomed to all kinds of people. Every year, there were young men who had just started their studies and old students with white hair who were still determined to fight for fame.

There are gentlemen who are open-minded, and there are villains who are worried.

Gu Mingda originally believed in his heart that it was Zhang Guangzong or Wang Yaozu who harmed people, but now he was not sure when he saw the cheating scholar being dragged away.

After all, there were too many people who failed the exams because of years of examinations, and no one could guarantee how many cheaters would come out.

"Whether it is true cheating or being wronged, the superiors will judge. This is not something we can say at will. If we say too much, it will attract the attention of the officers. Let's take care of ourselves first." Gu Mingda reminded his companions softly.

"Brother Gu is right."

"We all listen to Brother Gu."

Unconsciously, the companions changed their names for Gu Mingda. This Jiebao team originally had a tendency to regard Gu Mingda as the big brother. After checking the exam basket, they really regarded Gu Mingda as the big brother and believed in what he said.

They waited for a while, and finally it was their turn to undergo the initial examination.

Perhaps because a cheating scholar had just appeared, the examinations after this person were extremely strict. Gu Mingda and the other five were checked over and over again, and even their hair was pulled several times, for fear of missing something.

Fortunately, the five had done self-examination in advance, so this stage was safe.

After the initial examination, it was time to sing a guarantee. The clerks in the government office compared the contents of the guarantee letter one by one to confirm that the appearance of the five people was consistent with the description in the guarantee letter, and that no one had impersonated them.

After singing the guarantee, the five people were finally able to enter the examination room. They would not be assigned to the same place, but the seat number would be determined by drawing lots.

"God bless, God bless, please don't give me a toilet number! Please don't give me a toilet number!" Zheng Qi muttered in a low voice.

The so-called toilet number refers to the number near the toilet.

There are thousands of candidates in the examination room, but there are only a dozen toilets. All the toilets are placed in one place, and there is a mixture of feces and urine in them. The smell can be imagined.

During every college exam, there are always some unlucky people who get the toilet number near the toilet, and there are always some candidates who faint in the examination room because they can't stand the strong stench.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally very difficult to get good grades.

"Zheng Qi, No. 22, A."

Listening to the clerk reading out his seat number in the examination room, Zheng Qi immediately looked at Gu Mingda, who was very familiar with this examination room, with a look of help.

Gu Mingda nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's not a toilet number."

Zheng Qi cheered and followed the clerk into the examination room.

Gu Mingda thought about the difficulty of walking to the examination room today. He felt that his disaster should not be over yet. Maybe he would be assigned a toilet number during the exam.

"Gu Mingda, No. 41, C..."

Listening to the clerk reading out the seat number, Gu Mingda had a feeling that it was as expected. The toilet was placed in the C area of ​​the examination room, and he would most likely get a toilet number.

But the next second, the clerk suddenly said, "You got the wrong one. No. C has been released. Gu Mingda, you are No. 51 D."

Gu Mingda was stunned when he heard this, and followed the officer to the D area. He felt like the sky above his head suddenly cleared up after years of haze. The D area had nothing to do with the toilet number.

The examination room was still so narrow and dilapidated.

Gu Mingda carried the examination basket with pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and stepped in.

He checked the furnishings inside as soon as possible.

The table was good, and the bench was not broken.

The top of the head was not leaking wind or rain.

Such an examination room with everything intact and not a toilet number was almost unique in his nearly 20 years of taking exams.

When he passed the examination as a Tongsheng, it was rare that there was no accident before the exam, but it rained during the exam and the examination room leaked. He struggled to finish the test paper and fell seriously ill after coming out.

Gu Mingda quietly told himself that now that he had a normal examination room, he was afraid that the candidates around him were not normal.

He once encountered a situation where he wrote his paper well, but the candidate next to him collapsed while answering questions, suddenly went crazy, and randomly splashed ink on the papers of the candidates around him.

He was chosen by the crazy candidate and ruined the paper.

Gu Mingda sat in the examination room for about an incense stick, and heard the sound of the cloud board from afar.

Then, the heavy door of the examination room was closed.

"Close the door and lock it, sit quietly and wait for the paper." This sentence was shouted several times to ensure that nearly a thousand candidates in the examination room could hear it.

Not long after, the police came to distribute the red grid rice paper for writing the answer sheet, and Gu Mingda checked it carefully.

The rice paper was smooth and without any missing corners or stains.

He had just written his name and other information when he saw several officers holding wooden boards and patrolling the entire venue. The wooden boards were posted with the test questions.

Gu Mingda had developed an extremely cautious character after failing the imperial examinations for many years.

He read the test questions several times, word by word, and made sure that he had not missed or read them wrong. Then he began to think about how to solve the questions.

The test was held on the first day of the day. The test started at the beginning of the morning and the papers were collected at the beginning of the evening (five o'clock in the afternoon).

At noon, Gu Mingda took the pancakes prepared by Zhang Yunniang in the morning from the test basket and swallowed them one by one.

He had almost answered the test questions. He could hand in the paper early by copying them on the answer sheet in the afternoon.

Yes, hand in the paper early.

Gu Mingda did not plan to stay in the examination room for a long time. According to his luck, he felt that the longer he stayed, the more likely it was that an accident would happen.

The accident happened before he finished eating the pancake.

"You can't pass the exam! You can't pass the exam! You all can't pass the exam!"

Gu Mingda watched a middle-aged man in his forties rush out of the examination room next to him.

He put down the pancake immediately and hid the pile of papers in front of him behind him to prevent the madman from destroying his answer sheet.

The middle-aged man rushed to Gu Mingda's examination room and stretched out his hand as if he was going to grab the paper.

He looked at the pile of miscellaneous items on Gu Mingda's desk, but didn't see any paper. He widened his eyes and a question mark slowly appeared on his forehead.

"Paper! Where's your paper? Where is your paper!"