Fortunately, the weather is neither cold nor hot now, and most candidates wear lined robes, making the search relatively easy.
Each item in the examination basket must be checked, including breaking open the buns candidates bring in to check for hidden notes.
The Autumn Examination consists of three sessions, on the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth, each lasting three days, totaling nine days.
During this period, candidates eat, drink, and sleep in their tiny examination rooms.
Jiang Youzhi's room is the second one in the front of a long row. Upon entering, he glanced around disdainfully; it was too dirty.
With thousands of examination rooms, one can't expect the government officials to clean them properly for you.
The room had stone slabs, with weeds growing tall in the crevices, and there were cobwebs and dust everywhere.
Jiang Youzhi didn't enter at first; he lit a medicinal herb ball given by Yun Jiao and threw it into a corner, then stepped back a bit.
