When the list of successful candidates was posted, the people who reported the list would all fold their hands and rush to each household to get some reward money for the good news.
Most of the steady and confident talented scholars waited in restaurants and inns for the announcement, but many could not wait for the announcement and crowded under the list early in the morning to see if they were on the list. Even though Ryan Cui got up so early and ran so fast, he could only squeeze outside the third ring road when he got to the top of the list.
He regretted not riding his horse over at first, but after standing there for a while, the people in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth... circle squeezed in, making it so tight that he couldn't even turn around, so he no longer regretted it.
With so many people crowded in, how could the horse have room to stand? He couldn't carry the horse on his head. If people pushed his little white horse away, he would regret it and have nowhere to go.
He waited peacefully from dawn to early morning, when the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall finally opened. Several guards from the palace army came out, holding a yellow paper and sticking it on the wall.
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