Time flew by in the blink of an eye, and in no time at all, August had arrived.
The Autumn Imperial Examination, held once every three years, was one of the few ways for those at the bottom to break through the rigid ranks of society—its importance was self-evident.
Anyone who wanted to participate in the Autumn Examination would come, no matter how far away they lived.
The four gates were already teeming with crowds.
The sides of the streets, restaurants, and residential houses were all filled with unfamiliar faces.
Early in the morning, Lu Chang'sheng went to the Black Mountain Prefecture's yamen, and passed the name registry process.
Unlike the Imperial Examinations he remembered, in this world there was no need for 'guarantors'; instead, one had to get through the name registry procedure.
The requirements for registry were not high—one just needed to correctly recognize a text supplied by the examiner to pass.
