Aside from two wooden planks, the examination cell provided each candidate with only charcoal and candles; there was nothing else.
After receiving the charcoal and candles from the guards, Zhao Yan carefully stowed them away and covered them with an oilcloth. Although he had already inspected the roof of the examination cell, whether it would leak during a rainstorm remained an unknown.
After spending his first night at the Gongyuan with an aching back and sore limbs, Zhao Yan felt as if he had been given a beating; the wooden planks were truly impossible to sleep on.
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