The Ning Dynasty's Imperial Examination Hall is located at the easternmost part of the inner city, right next to the Mingzhi Workshop Grass Field.
The spring examination has lasted several days, and today is the day when the Imperial Examination Hall's gates open.
Once the 800 strikes of the evening drum on the drum tower were completed, a bell resonated within the Imperial Examination Hall, and someone called out loudly, "Stand up and leave your seats. Anyone caught writing after the bell will be disqualified, wasting ten years of hard study—don't let it ruin you!"
A cacophony erupted within the Imperial Examination Hall, as the scholars rose en masse, standing obediently inside their cubicles, while some continued to furiously scribble, counting the bell tolls in their minds.
When the twelfth bell rang and stopped, the curtain official loudly declared, "Submit your papers!"
