Chapter 50 50 Registration

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

Although you still have to give money according to convention when asking someone to do something, you can't go empty-handed, it's not reasonable.

Of course, Father Wei didn't buy anything expensive, he just made up his mind.

He went to the address given by Master Sun and found Gao Xiucai.

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

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

In fact, it is true. Gao Xiucai has not been to the county school much during this period.

At this time every year, many candidates who are preparing to take the county examination come to him and ask him to be a guarantor for them.

For those familiar candidates, everything is easy to say, but for more unfamiliar candidates, it depends on who the introducer is. If they are not familiar, they will never guarantee them, no matter how much money they give.

But Gao Xiucai did not expect that someone would come to his door when the exam is about to start.

After reading Master Sun's letter, Gao Xiucai knew the whole story, so everything is easy to say.

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

This is to take money from people and help them get rid of disasters.

Of course, he is not getting rid of disasters, but just helping them.

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

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

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

The county government office of Pengze County is located in the center of the county town, which is similar to the movies and TV shows Wei Guangde has seen, but there is also a little difference. Perhaps it is because the historical sites are not well protected. At least before Wei Guangde saw the gate of the county government office, he saw a screen wall from a distance.

The screen wall is facing the gate of the county government office, and there is also a memorial archway in the middle.

Before Wei Guangde came to the county, he usually went shopping in the market and bought some delicious food and fun things, but he did not go to the gate of the government office such as the county government office to take a look. This is the first time Wei Guangde has seen the appearance of the Pengze County Government Office.

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

When he saw the gate of the county government office for the first time, Wei Guangde thought of "The gate of the government office faces south, don't come in if you have reason but no money", and then the second sentence was "The eight characters of the government office face south".

It's true. Pengze County Government Office was built facing south and the walls on both sides of the gate were not built horizontally with the gate, but were built at a certain angle outwards. The walls on both sides looked like an "eight".

It seemed that this was a regulation. Wei Guangde remembered that he seemed to have seen records in books. All the county offices in the Ming Dynasty were actually similar. They were all built according to the court system. If there were any differences, they would only be minor modifications based on local conditions.

Entering from the side door, the duty officer was still very polite when he saw that it was Wu Zhankui, Wu Qianhu, "Wu Qianhu, do you need me to go in and inform you?"

"No, I'm here today to sign up for my nephew."

Listening to the conversation between Menzi and Wu Zhankui, it seemed that Wu Zhankui would come here from time to time and was a little familiar with Menzi.

After passing through the corridor, Wei Guangde 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 houses were the Ligongli House of Pengze County Government. The other three houses 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 gate of the county government 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 Wei Laodi, Wei Guangde stepped into the Lifang for the first time.

The internal organization of the county government is actually a bit similar to that of the imperial court. The imperial court has six ministries, and there are corresponding institutions at the level of the county government, that is, six rooms.

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

My uncle knew several people in the Lifang, and talked with the person in charge of the Lifang. He knew that Wu Zhankui brought his nephew to register for this county exam, and the Lifang scribe was still a little surprised.

It was nothing, just time.

Indeed, the exam will start in more than half a month, and it is only at this time that you come to register.

Wei Guangde went forward to greet the examinees, and then explained the reason why he came to register at this time.

Knowing that there were examinees who could not take the exam because of mourning, the clerks in the room understood.

If an elder in the family passed away, it was indeed impossible to take the exam, otherwise it would not only harm oneself, but also the several classmates who guaranteed each other.

On the paper handed over by the clerk, Wei Guangde carefully filled in his name, native place, age, three generations of resumes, and the names of the other four of the five examinees, and finally wrote Gao Xiang's name in the guarantor column.

It is also an open secret that the students who guarantee the examinees need to pay money, unless they are their own nephews or students.

Of course, if they are stingy, even if they are nephews and students, they will probably have to pay a tribute.

The front part was filled in quickly, but when it came to describing his physical characteristics, Wei Guangde was a little confused about how to write it, and the teacher had not explained how to write it before.

"The face is armor-shaped, 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 looked up in surprise, and the man looked at Wei Guangde's face carefully before nodding, "Write it like this, there are no moles or marks on your face."

At this moment, Wei Guangde realized that the face shape was probably referring to his face shape. The white face and beardless face were easy to understand, but what did the short stature mean?

Among his peers, Wei Guangde felt that he was tall. Although he was only thirteen years old and did not have the measuring tools of later generations, Wei Guangde felt that his height would not be less than 1.5 meters, and might be close to 1.6 meters.

In later generations, it was an era of overnutrition, and children's height generally exceeded that of their parents. Even if he was in later generations, his current height would not look short.

Of course, this height may have some personal feelings of Wei Guangde, and there may be a certain error.

Wei Guangde was not sure about this, but he was not much shorter than his brother Wei Wencai and his cousin Wu Dong. His mother also said that he was afraid that he would grow up to be tall, taller than his father Wei Meng.

Well, maybe they calculated it according to the height of adults. If you consider it this 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 document and mutual guarantee document and handed them to the clerk together with the registration form.

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

After the clerk checked the procedures and found them to be correct, he stamped and used the seal, 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 the other mutual guarantee documents with the registration information, he was completely done this time.

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