Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

After all the candidates entered the examination room, the chief examiner announced the start of the examination, and the invigilator began to distribute the examination papers with the clerks.

The first test today mainly consisted of calligraphy, calligraphy interpretation, poetry, etc., with two simple policy questions.

Qin Yunhe looked at the first test paper and felt that three days was more than enough. If he answered the questions well, he might not even need to answer them at night.

The contents of calligraphy and calligraphy are actually similar to those of the college entrance examination, but they are more difficult. However, poetry and prose are what Qin Yunhe is good at.

As for the policy questions, the first round was not that difficult, and because Mr. Gu was an expert in policy questions, after his guidance, Qin Yunhe was able to deal with it easily.

Qin Yunhe felt relieved, carefully organized the test paper, planned the order of answering the questions, and then patiently ground the ink and began to answer.

Before the exam, the teacher told him that he should not be nervous when answering questions, as panic would easily lead to mistakes and omissions, and he would not be able to answer the questions he might have answered correctly. Even if he messed up the paper due to panic, it would affect his score.

Before noon, Qin Yunhe asked the clerk in the field for water to cook porridge in preparation for lunch.

After taking the annual exam, Mr. Gu criticized Qin Yunhe for not eating lunch on the first day of the exam because he was concentrating on answering questions. Before taking the exam, he reminded him again that the provincial exam did not need to be an annual exam, and he must eat well and sleep well to do well in the exam, and he must not skip meals just to answer questions.

The examination environment is already bad, and if you don’t ensure sleep and food, it’s easy to get sick. If you fall ill in the examination room, it will not be worth it.

So Qin Yunhe planned early on to eat every meal on time and even made a plan for what to eat.

The room was really small and Qin Yunhe was afraid of dirtying the test paper, so he could only lean sideways awkwardly to place the stove properly, then carefully add charcoal and light it, fearing that the test paper would be damaged or dirty. After some effort, he finally managed to light it.

He successfully finished his first meal in the provincial examination hall by soaking the cooked porridge with the cut-up sesame cakes. However, it was inconvenient to wash the pots and dishes in the narrow room, so he could only tidy up and put them in the corner of the room. He also packed up the rice bags and other things. Only then did Qin Yunhe breathe a sigh of relief and feel a little sense of accomplishment.

I continued answering questions in the afternoon and everything went smoothly. After dinner, it gradually got dark.

Qin Yunhe packed up the furnace and other things, hung up the curtains, laid out the mats, and then curled up in the cell to rest.

Unexpectedly, just before he fell asleep, a mosquito started buzzing towards his face. Qin Yunhe had no choice but to get up again, take out the mosquito coil, light it and put it in the corner of the cell.

As the sky gradually darkened, Qin Yunhe fell asleep and felt himself getting colder and colder until he woke up from the cold.

Normally, August is not that cold, and I don’t feel it at home. But I didn’t expect it to be so cold at night. I opened the curtain and looked outside, and found that some rooms still had lights on, which obviously meant that some candidates were still answering questions.

There was no other way, so Qin Yunhe lifted half of the felt cloth under his body in the dark and covered himself with it before he fell asleep again in a daze.

When Qin Yunhe woke up the next day, he felt worse than having no rest after a night of half-sleeping and half-awake. He suddenly understood why some candidates would answer questions by candlelight in the middle of the night, because after waking up from this sleep, he felt much less energetic than the night before.

Enduring the discomfort from a night of poor rest, Qin Yunhe boiled some hot water and ate some sesame cakes, chewed a few slices of ginseng, and finally recovered a little bit of energy.

After tidying up the room, Qin Yunhe took out the test paper and continued to answer the questions. However, because he did not get a good rest at night, he obviously felt that his answering speed had decreased.

At noon, I just boiled some hot water and ate some dried sweet potatoes for lunch.

After lunch, he continued answering questions until the evening, and he no longer felt like eating dinner.

One was the fatigue of sitting in a small cell without being able to move for two days in a row, and the other was that the smell in the cell was really unpleasant.

The examination room itself was small and closed, and there were so many candidates who needed to solve physiological problems, so the smell was bad. And in the dormitories, since everyone had to urinate in their own dormitories, the environment was really worrying after these two days and one night.

In the end, Qin Yunhe cooked some porridge and ate some dried sweet potatoes.

Because his speed of answering questions dropped today, Qin Yunhe was a little worried that he would not have enough time, so after dinner, he lit a candle and decided to answer questions at night. He continued to answer until nearly midnight, when he stopped.

Looking at his work that night, he breathed a sigh of relief, packed up his things, lit the mosquito coils, covered himself with the felt cloth, and lay down to rest.

However, the next morning, Qin Yunhe was woken up by the cold again. It was raining outside...

Fortunately, his number curtain was waterproof and warm, and the test papers were packed up last night, so they were not affected. However, other candidates asked the invigilator to change their test papers because they were soaked by rain.

While feeling thankful, Qin Yunhe boiled some water and ate some dried sweet potatoes. After eating, he continued to answer the questions. He also had a quick meal at noon and then started answering the questions again.

At the end of the afternoon, when the examiner announced the end of the exam and the papers were collected, Qin Yunhe had just finished answering the test paper and was once again thankful that he had answered the questions last night.

The first exam was finally over, and Qin Yunhe packed up his things and left the exam exhausted.

The first person I met after I appeared on the stage was Lin Zhaotang. He also looked a little tired, but much better than Qin Yunhe. After all, he had experience in the provincial examination and seemed much calmer.

"How are you? Are you feeling okay?" Lin Zhaotang obviously noticed Qin Yunhe's fatigue, so he asked with concern.

Qin Yunhe smiled bitterly and said, "It's OK, but it's more tiring than I thought. I even took a mock exam at my teacher's house before, but when I really took the exam, I found that it was still different. How about you, Brother Lin? Is everything going well?"

"I'm doing pretty well."

The two chatted for a few words outside the venue when Qin Si came out.

Qin Si looked very tired when he came out, and his face was a little pale.

"Fourth brother, how are you?" Qin Yunhe hurriedly went up to him and asked with concern.

"I'm fine, I just didn't rest well these past two days."

Feng Zhuo was the last one to come out. When he came out, he had a frown on his face and a gloomy look on his face, giving off an aura that said "keep away from strangers".

"Brother Feng, what's wrong with you?"

Feng Zhuo saw the three people take a deep breath and then slowly exhale, then said: "Nothing, I just feel like I'm going to die."

According to Feng Zhuo, he caught the legendary stinky number. From the first day, he hardly ate anything, let alone slept well.

Qin Yun felt uncomfortable in the stinky cell, let alone Feng Zhuo. His family was well-off and he had never suffered any hardship since childhood, yet he encountered the stinky cell as soon as he got there.

Qin Yunhe and the others didn't know how to comfort him, so they could only silently accompany him back.

On the way back, Feng Zhuo said almost nothing. When he arrived at the inn, he returned to his room in silence.

They had to go back to the site the next day, so a few people bought some more sesame cakes and put them into two bags of rice. When they handed them to Feng Zhuo, he still said nothing.

After curling up in the cell for two nights, Qin Yunhe was finally able to sleep on the bed today. When he lay on the bed, he felt like he was lying in a cloud. It was so comfortable that he didn't want to move. He just lay down with his clothes on and fell asleep in a few breaths. He slept until Lin Zhaotang came knocking on the door to call him in the morning.

After this good sleep, Qin Yunhe felt that he had recovered most of his energy and was able to take the exam again.

However, Qin Si, who slept in the same room, seemed not to be feeling well.

"Fourth brother, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Si's condition should have recovered a lot after a night's sleep, but when Qin Yunhe looked over, he felt that his brother was still seriously lacking in energy, and seemed to be even worse than when he first appeared.

"I'm fine, maybe I caught a cold." Qin Si said as he put on his shoes, but he suddenly staggered.

Seeing that he was not in good condition, Lin Zhaotang came in, touched his forehead, and then frowned.

"Brother Ruyuan, your forehead seems a little hot."