Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 442: Su He and his brothers' palace examination begins

Su He's father also said: "We should all be more careful in the future. Drinking too much will cause us to make mistakes. We, as elders, should also set an example and not get drunk again."

Everyone also said that they would drink in moderation in the future, but it is impossible to not drink.

Su He went to the store to check it out. Business was booming and it already had a large number of loyal customers. It was not appropriate for her to stay in the store for a long time. After looking at the situation, she went directly to the back to drink tea and chat.

She asked the shopkeeper to bring the account book over and looked at the recent sales performance. She was very satisfied. She asked which items were selling well and which were not popular, and then thought about how to modify them. She took out a pen and paper and scribbled a few pages. Finally, she confirmed it and prepared to go to the farm tomorrow.

In this way, Su He was never idle wherever he went. He ran between the farm and the shop, busy with business.

Su Pei and his family's provincial examination is just around the corner. Tomorrow is the provincial examination. Su He's mother has prepared examination baskets for the four children. Inside are snacks, fried rice and noodles made by Su He for the brothers, as well as the best writing brushes, inkstones and paper produced by the family. Food is mainly based on convenience, which is not troublesome to satisfy hunger. If she was not afraid of being noticed, Su He would bring more meat floss and preserved fruits for her brothers.

At this time, people had not eaten meat floss and preserved fruit. Especially for preserved fruit, because a lot of sugar was used, Su He did not tell the recipe. Meat floss was something Su He thought of when he was preparing for the exam. This recipe can be sold. When I go back this time, I will find Shopkeeper Wu. He will definitely like this. It is the favorite of the elderly and children.

Su He's brothers were sent to the examination room by their parents, sister, and teachers. They wore dirt-resistant grey gowns and each carried their own examination baskets to line up. The long lines stretched for hundreds of meters.

Su He and the others watched as the teams of examinees entered the examination hall one after another. Soldiers were guarding a few meters outside the examination hall. The government office attached great importance to the examination, and it was said that there were invigilators from the capital.

Only after all the examinees entered and the gates of the examination hall were closed did the carriages and horses outside gradually disperse. This examination lasted for three days, which meant that the examinees had to stay here for three days and could only leave after the examination was finished on the afternoon of the last day. During these days, they had to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and write examination papers in the small examination room. Except for going to the toilet, they could be taken there by the guarding soldiers, and they were not allowed to move around at other times.

Therefore, there are students who faint or become exhausted during every exam, because the candidates range from teenagers to gray-haired old men, with all ages, which also leads to more unexpected accidents.

Especially when you are unlucky enough to have a stinky exam room next to the toilet, basically no student can do well in the exam there, the stench is so bad that you don’t have the mood to write the paper. But there is no way to solve this problem, there will be no vacancy in the exam room every time.

After Su He knew about it, he thought, why can't the toilet be placed separately? As long as it is in the yard, who would go to the toilet to cheat? This is also the reason why Su He prepared some dry food for his brothers, so as to avoid going to the toilet as much as possible, as it would waste time and affect performance.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye for people outside. On this day, Su Hejia was waiting outside the examination room early. After the bell rang, candidates began to hand in their papers and walked out of the examination room one after another, most of them looking exhausted.

They drank a big bowl before stopping, and finally felt comfortable. They finally relaxed, but it would be a lie to say they were not tired, because this was a test that exhausted both the mind and body.

Su Run was the most anxious, and said hastily: "It was so uncomfortable in the examination room. I was not far from the stinky room and could faintly smell the stench. Fortunately, the mask that Su He prepared for me worked."

In order to prevent the brothers from getting the bad numbers, Su He made a special anti-odor mask. Chrysanthemum and refreshing herbs were placed in the interlayer of the mask, which can both avoid the smell and refresh the mind. There is also a killer weapon, nasal congestion.

The other brothers were lucky as they were far away from the smelly cellar and did not have to use the masks they prepared.