The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Early in the morning, Wu Zhankui took his brother-in-law and nephew into Pengze County. However, he did not take them directly to the county government office to register. Instead, he first went to Gao Xiucai and bought some gifts on the street.

When you ask someone to do something, although you still have to send money as usual, you can't just go to the door empty-handed. This is unreasonable.

Of course, Father Wei didn't buy anything expensive, he just scraped together some.

Arriving at the address given by Master Sun, I found Gao Xiucai.

Under normal circumstances, a talented student like Gao Xiucai should be studying in a county school at this time.

Although he is already a scholar and does not need to take the county examination, government examination or college examination, the Jiangxi Township Examination will be held at the end of the year. Shouldn't he study in a county school?

In fact, this was the case. Gao Xiucai really didn't go to the county school much during this period.

At this time of year, many candidates who are preparing to take the county examination come to our door and ask for guarantees for them.

For those candidates who are familiar with it, everything is easy to talk about, but most of them are unfamiliar. It depends on who the recommender is. If they are unfamiliar, they will never guarantee it, and it doesn't matter how much money they give.

It's just that Gao Xiucai didn't expect that someone would come to visit him when the exam was about to start.

After reading Master Sun's letter, Gao Xiucai knew the whole story, so naturally everything was easy to talk about.

After accepting the gifts and money, he just asked Wei Guangde to study hard and prepare for the county examination in half a month.

This is to collect people's money and eliminate disasters for them.

Of course, he is not trying to eliminate disaster, but just doing a favor.

I handed them the written guarantee documents and chatted casually for a while.

Knowing that Wei Guangde and his party had to go to the county government office to register, they didn't say anything more. Everything that needed to be done was done, so they naturally said goodbye and left.

After leaving Gao Xiucai's home, their next stop was of course to go to the county government to register.

The county government office in Pengze County is located in the center of the county. It is similar to the movies and TV shows that Wei Guangde has watched, but there is a slight difference. Perhaps the protection of historical sites is incomplete. At least before Wei Guangde saw the gate of the county government office, he saw a building in the distance. Zhaobi.

The screen wall faces the county government gate, and there is an archway in the middle.

When Wei Guangde came to the county before, he usually went to the market to buy some delicious food and fun things, but he didn't go to government agencies like the county yamen to have a look. This was the first time Wei Guangde saw Peng Ze. It looks like a county government office.

In his last life, Wei Guangde had never visited any well-preserved historic sites like this. When he saw the Pengze County Government Office for the first time, he still felt a little emotional.

When Wei Guangde saw the county government gate for the first time, what he thought was, "The government office opens to the south. Don't come in if you have reason or no money." Then the second sentence was, "The government office opens to the south."

It’s true that Pengze County Government Office is built from the north to the south. The walls on both sides of the County Government Office gate are not built horizontally with the gate, but are built diagonally outward at a certain angle. The walls on both sides are like the character "eight".

It seems that this is a regulation. Wei Guangde remembers seeing records in books. All county offices in the Ming Dynasty were actually similar. They were all built according to the imperial system. If there were differences, they would only be minor modifications based on local conditions.

Entering through the side door, the man on duty was very polite when he saw it was Wu Zhankui and Wu Qianhu, "Wu Qianhu, do you need me to go in and inform you?"

"No, I signed up for my nephew today."

Listening to the conversation between Menzi and Wu Zhankui, it seems that Wu Zhankui still comes here from time to time and is somewhat familiar with Menzi.

After passing the corridor, he was led by his uncle to a row of houses on the left. Looking at the sign hanging in front of the door, Wei Guangde knew that these rooms were the rooms for the ceremonial staff of Pengze County Government. The other three rooms were either behind this row of houses. Or on the other side of the corridor, because Chinese architecture pays great attention to symmetry.

In fact, from the screen wall to the archway, to the county government gate and the corridor behind it, to the second and third halls of the lobby, they are all on a central axis.

Following his uncle and Father Wei, Wei Guangde stepped into the ceremony room for the first time.

The internal establishment of the county government is actually somewhat similar to that of the imperial court. The imperial court has six departments, and there is also a corresponding organization at the county government level, that is, six rooms.

The person in charge of the imperial examination has always been the ceremonial room, so Wei Guangde naturally had to register here.

The uncle knew several people in the ceremony room. After chatting with the people in the ceremony room, he found out that Wu Zhankui brought his nephew to register for the county examination. The clerk in the ceremony room was still a little surprised.

Nothing else, it's just a matter of time.

Indeed, the exam is about to start in more than half a month, so it’s time to sign up.

After Wei Guangde stepped forward to greet him, he explained the reason why he came to sign up at this time.

Knowing that there were candidates who could not take the exam due to filial piety, several officials in the room understood.

If an elder in the family has passed away, it is indeed not allowed to take the exam. Otherwise, it will not only harm yourself, but also the classmates who protect each other.

On the paper handed over by the clerk, Wei Guangde carefully filled in his name, place of origin, age, and resume of three generations. He also wrote the names of the other four of the five people who had taken the exam. Finally, he wrote Gao Xiang's name in the guarantor column.

It is also an open secret for gifted students to vouch for candidates, and they all need to pay, unless they are their own nephews or students.

Of course, when you encounter someone who is stingy, maybe even your nephews or students, you probably need to be filial.

The first part was filled out quickly, but when it came to describing his physical characteristics, Wei Guangde was a little confused about how to write it. His husband had never told him how to write it before.

"The face is armored, the complexion is white, the body is short, and there is no beard."

Just when Wei Guangde was hesitating, he heard the clerk opposite whisper a few words. Wei Guangde raised his head and looked over in surprise. As a result, the man looked at Wei Guangde's face carefully before nodding, "Just write like this, you There are no moles or marks on his face.”

Only then did Wei Guangde realize that the facial armor was probably referring to his face shape. The white complexion and beardless appearance were easy to understand. What did short stature mean?

Among his peers, Wei Guangde felt that he was taller. Although he was only thirteen years old and without the measuring tools of later generations, Wei Guangde felt that his height would not be less than 1.5 meters, maybe closer to 1.6 meters.

Later generations were an era of overnutrition, and children were generally taller than their parents. His current height would not look short even in future generations.

Of course, this height may be due to Wei Guangde's personal feelings, and there may be a certain error.

Wei Guangde is not sure about this, but he is not much shorter than his brother Wei Wencai and cousin Wu Dong. My mother also said that she is afraid that she will grow up to be taller than her father Wei Meng.

Well, maybe people calculate it based on the height of an adult. If you think about it that way, Wei Guangde is indeed a little shorter, just a little.

After filling out the registration form, Wei Guangde took out Gao Xiucai's guarantee documents and mutual guarantee documents, and handed them to the clerk together with the registration form.

The guarantee document came from Gao Xiang and Gao Xiucai, and the mutual guarantee document was obtained from Master Sun, including four other candidates. Because their previous mutual guarantee documents also needed to be revised, Wei Guangde brought them together this time.

After the clerk got the procedure and checked it was correct, he stamped it, processed Wei Guangde's registration information, and gave him the examination certificate.

However, Wei Guangde was not in a hurry to leave. After watching the clerk replace all the other mutual insurance documents into the registration information, he was finally done with things this time.

What Wei Guangde didn't notice was that when he was filling out the registration form, Wu Zhankui handed a small bag to the clerk in the gift room, and Wei Guangde's test certificate naturally had some slight adjustments.