There are three provincial examinations in total, each lasting three days.
You will enter the examination room on the 8th, 11th and 14th day of the first lunar month, and leave on the 10th, 13th and 16th day of the first lunar month. For each examination, you will have to stay in the examination room for two nights. You can go home and sleep for one night in between.
The examination room in the Imperial Examination Hall was very small and cramped. The examinees had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the room for so many days. You can imagine how uncomfortable it was.
Those who are not physically strong enough may not be able to survive these nine days of examinations.
In addition, people with poor mental state will find it difficult to survive.
Mr. Li was a man of good learning, but he gave up on taking the imperial examination because he couldn't keep his mind stable.
As far as Li Qingzhi knows, every year there are candidates who break down and cry while taking the provincial examinations.
The entrance time for the provincial examination was not as early as that for the county examination, prefectural examination and imperial examination, but candidates still had to arrive at the examination hall early and queue up for examination.
Li Qingzhi waited in line for a long time before it was his turn to be searched.
Those who were responsible for searching them were minor clerks and bailiffs drawn from the yamen.
Some of these people were okay and behaved honestly during the body search and followed the rules and regulations. But there were also a few yamen runners who, when they met an older scholar who was dressed simply, would be very rude and arrogant in their words. They would also deliberately mess up other people's things and dirty the food they brought with them.
Fearing that they would lose their qualification to take part in the provincial examinations if they caused a commotion, the scholars did not dare to get angry and could only endure it. As a result, these people became more and more unscrupulous.
There are always some people who, with a little bit of power in their hands, display the evil of human nature to the fullest.
Li Qingzhi was unlucky because the person who searched him was such a person. Fortunately, he was young and well-dressed. Although the pen and ink he used were not the best, they were not bad either. The person who searched him was afraid of offending him and was quite polite to him.
But when he turned around, he started cursing at the old scholar behind Li Qingzhi.
Li Qingzhi likes living people, but people like this are really not cute at all.
After entering, Li Qingzhi found his own room.
The location of his cell was not very good, as the toilet was not far away.
With so many people crowded together, after a few days, the whole Gongyuan would probably smell bad, but it would definitely smell worse the closer to the toilet.
This smell will undoubtedly affect the state of the candidates.
Of course this does not include Li Qingzhi.
Li Qingzhi used his golden finger to adjust his sense of smell so that he could not smell anything for the time being.
In fact, even if he could smell it, such a small smell would be nothing to Li Qingzhi who has been in the apocalypse for so many years. But he would rather not smell it, right
It was just a coincidence that not long after Li Qingzhi sat down, he saw Du Yongning sitting opposite him.
The two of them were familiar with each other, and Li Qingzhi smiled at him.
Li Qingzhi remembered that Du Yongning was a bit of a clean freak and couldn't stand the smell of the toilet, but today, Du Yongning was in a good mood and smiled back at Li Qingzhi when he saw him.
They were not angry because of the bad seats, but some candidates around them were heartbroken after finding themselves sitting next to the toilet.
Li Qingzhi sighed secretly. These people's mentality was unstable. They might not be able to perform at their normal level during the exam.
Li Qingzhi saw this situation, and Du Yongning naturally saw it as well.