It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 294

Jiang Yan and others were taken to a small courtyard. The steward took out three pieces of paper and asked everyone present to randomly draw one and read it from the beginning.

Jiang Yan was the first to go. The sheet she received was made up of different sentences with no connection between the context.

Because he didn't know how many words he had to get right to pass this level, Jiang Yan read as fluently but slowly as possible, thinking in his heart that his ancestors must bless Uncle Jiang Hu and the others behind him to remember a few more words.

After Jiang Yan came Jiang An. This young man was Jiang Yuan’s “favorite disciple” at the time, but his memory was slightly inferior to Jiang Yan’s.

The content of the one he got was similar.

Because she was very confident in Jiang An, Jiang Yan just listened attentively at first, but as she listened, she couldn't help but compare the differences in the two people's pronunciation of words.

Jiang An was actually able to read the "full text" at almost the same speed!

Jiang Yan didn't want to be surprised. In her limited "listening experience", except for the demonstration recitation of the text played by the Chinese teacher, everyone couldn't help but read faster and faster in the second half.

The speed was described as taking off at a breakneck pace. Even after repeated reminders to stop, the speech was still very fast. Jiang Yan had already made muscle memory of this and had made the same mistake several times.

Jiang Ai, Jiang Yun, Jiang Ying...

After everyone in Dongshan Village had their turn, the manager kicked Jiang Hu and the other two, who were reading haltingly and interruptingly, out of the queue for selection.

The next test was to write twenty commonly used characters, which quickly eliminated half of the remaining people.

In the end, only Jiang Yan, Jiang An, Jiang Ai and Jiang Ying were still standing in the yard.

The screening speed is too fast... Will the next test be more difficult, in an effort to get rid of all of them?

Jiang Yan had just finished complaining when he heard the steward and the servant beside him say, "Take them for a trial job."

It can't be that fast? Is it that they are short of staff, or is there a shortage of talent in the county?

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The workload assigned to them is large, trivial and boring, but it is not difficult to do if you look into it carefully.

On the first day of the trial work, Jiang Yan and his three colleagues had to sort out two large boxes of bamboo books according to time and category, and stick a small piece of paper on the outside of each bamboo book to mark it.

That night, Jiang Yan and the others had two pancakes mixed with half white flour and a bowl of dried vegetable soup with a faint meaty flavor.

The old scholar sitting at the table next to them, who had been on trial for three days, had an extra white flour bun and a few more pieces of meat with bones in his soup bowl.

If you ask Jiang Yan and the others why they knew it so clearly, it was not only because they secretly stretched their necks to observe when they passed by to get food, but also because the old scholar was equally curious about the four newcomers.

Although the old scholar had no one to recommend him and failed to pass the imperial examination, he believed that his knowledge was far superior to that of Jiang Yan and the other three, whether in classics and history books or in painting and writing.

But it was already difficult for him to enter the palace for a job trial, so how come four people were admitted this time, and three of them were girls?

Is it because he is old and a bit of a fool, not smart enough or likable enough?

The old scholar called Jiang Ying and Jiang Yan, who were still glancing at him from time to time with envy at his bowl of food, over, and the two sides had a cautious conversation and exchanged what they had.

"Your situation is so difficult!" When Jiang Ying heard that the old scholar and his friends had to write an article on the spot and answer questions about governance laws that sounded complicated just by the words, she silently withdrew her admiration for the food they had.

"What about you?" The old scholar immediately realized that he had just panicked. The work the four of them had to do was obviously different from his.

Especially after Jiang Ying briefly explained their test, the old scholar felt more relieved.

He smiled and encouraged the young people in front of him: "You should also work hard and strive to get your wages as soon as possible."