As soon as the sky was bright, the entire Yan family moved early, and the servants tried to slow down, as if they were afraid of alarming the master's family.

Li Luan'er got up almost in the middle of the night, busy preparing clothes and supplies for Yan Chengyue, and hurriedly asked the people in the kitchen to get some meals that could be full and there was no soup and water, and only after all the preparations were made did Yan Chengyue get up, first asked him to have breakfast, then freshened up, and changed into new clothes before sending him to the carriage.

On this day, there are many people who are as busy as Li Luan'er, that is, Li Fu, Li Lianshu, Qin and Li Mei, almost all of them have not slept all night, and they have been preparing things for Li Fu all night.

In the old mansion, Shi Lan and the Lin family also got up in the middle of the night and were busy preparing.

Yan Chengyue put on a blue shirt and got into the carriage, and walked slowly towards the palace, and when he got off the bus at the palace gate, it was just dawn, and he happened to see many people who participated in the palace examination or came in a sedan chair or a carriage, Yan Chengyue waited for a while, and after seeing Li Fu and Yan Chengxin, he said something to the two before standing in line and waiting for the call.

After a while, officials from the Ministry of Rites came out to summon the people who participated in the palace examination to enter the Wenhua Palace.

The Wenhua Hall on the periphery of the palace of the Dayong Dynasty is specially prepared for the palace test, and almost all the sons of heaven since the establishment of the dynasty are here to point the top three, and here they call the new science and technology scholars and give wine.

The Wenhua Hall was built very high, and the inside was extremely open, and when these lifters entered, they saw that the officials were already sitting on the imperial seat, and many officials were sitting on the two sides, and there were several cases in the middle, which were specially used for these lifters to write test papers.

There were already eunuchs who stepped forward to roll call one by one, and then arranged seats for these lifters, Yan Chengyue didn't know how, he was arranged in the middle of the first row, which was the closest to the official family, and it was the most conspicuous, but he had always been peaceful and self-sustaining and not afraid of anything, and sat down peacefully.

The man saw Yan Chengyue and laughed innocently twice, and Yan Chengyue also nodded to him.

After a while, the official announced the start of the palace examination, and the officials of the Ministry of Etiquette sent the test papers, Yan Chengyue read it once and became a bamboo in his chest, picked up the pen and wrote, his thoughts did not pause at all, and he quickly finished writing the test papers.

At this time, Emperor Deqing couldn't sit still anymore on the imperial seat, got up and turned around, stopped in front of Yan Chengyue for a while, saw the article he wrote and couldn't help nodding, walked a few steps and looked at Li Fu's article, the corner of his mouth hooked a smile, and then stood in front of Yu Entong and looked at it for a while, the more he looked at it, the bigger the smile became.

In the end, Emperor Deqing bypassed Yan Chengxin's sister-in-law Yu Enshu in the second room of the Yu family and stopped, and couldn't help frowning after reading the article he wrote.

As soon as he walked on his front foot, Yu Enshu on his back foot wiped his sweat, and when Emperor Deqing sat on the throne, he happened to see it, so he looked down on him even more.

After the palace examination was completed, the officials of the Ministry of Rites took back the test papers and gave them to Emperor Deqing, and these people stood up and lined up to quit one by one after seeing the ceremony.

As soon as he came out of the Wenhua Palace, Li Fu ran to keep up with Yan Chengyue's steps: "Brother-in-law, how did you answer this question today?" ”

Yan Chengyue smiled: "It's not bad, what about you?" ”

Li Fu also had a smile on his face: "I also think it's very good." ”

Yan Chengxin also followed, and was about to speak, but he didn't want a man with five big and three rough to interject: "This brother Tai, Yang Yuanqing in Xiashan Mountain, I don't know how ...... Brother Tai is"

Yan Chengyue arched his hand: "In the people of the lower capital, Yan Chengyue is also." ”

While speaking, Yan Chengyue pointed at Yan Chengxin and said to Yang Yuanqing: "This is Yan Chengxin, the second brother below." ”

pointed at Li Fu again: "This is my brother-in-law Li Fu, I don't know what is going on with my brother?" ”

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand: "It's nothing important, but I feel that I want to make friends with my brother, after all, I also took the palace exam this time, and it's okay to go back left and right, why don't you do the east in the next place, how about inviting a few brothers to have a meal?" ”

Yan Chengyue smiled, glanced at Yan Chengxin and Li Fu a few times, and the two hurriedly said, "Why don't we three brothers invite Brother Yang to dinner." ”

Yang Yuanqing is a sincere person, how can he not agree, he was stunned to invite Yan Chengyue a few, Yan Chengyue couldn't bear to brush off his kindness, so he found a clean restaurant and a few people went in to find a small private room to sit down, Yang Yuanqing called Xiao Er to ask Yan Chengyue to order a few dishes, Yan Chengyue didn't know what Yang Yuanqing's family conditions were, and didn't order those expensive dishes, ordered a few home-cooked dishes, and asked for a pot of sake and that's it.

Yan Chengxin and Li Fu also understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, the home-cooked food that both of them ordered was extremely cheap, and Yang Yuanqing felt that he didn't want to go in the end, but he ordered two expensive dishes.

After the food was served, a few people chatted over a drink.

Almost as long as most of the people who can participate in the palace examination can be admitted to the Jinshi, but the order of the ranking has changed slightly, since Yang Yuanqing can appear in the Wenhua Palace, he is also talented and learned, and Yan Chengyue sees that he should be a kind person, so he intends to make friends, and his speech and behavior are so close.

Yang Yuanqing is really true-minded, seeing that Yan Chengyue is close to him, he is even more enthusiastic, and he has not been able to explain his own affairs to the bottom of the day, Li Fu and Yan Chengxin who listened to it are really a little embarrassed, and said that this thing is stupid to read, how can such a solid eye, do things and talk will not turn around, how can this be good if you are released to be an official?

However, several people admired Yang Yuanqing's talent through the conversation, but they really didn't expect such a man with five big and three rough skills to be so talented, which really makes people have to say that people can't be good-looking.

But after a while, Yang Yuanqing drank a little too much, and said with a big tongue: "I, our family has been digging in the soil from my grandfather's generation, but my Yang family ancestors are good at management, and finally accumulated some small wealth, and when it came to my father's generation, he did some small business, but he made a fortune, but in these years, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are really powerful, and there is the pressure of officials above, what can we do if we have some money, my father can't ...... In fact, his old man wanted me to be admitted to the famous family to pay less taxes, and those who had fame and became officials did not dare to bully our family, but I didn't expect that I really loved to read and wanted to be a good official. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing drank two more glasses of wine, and his head became even more dizzy: "I not only love to read, I also love farming, when I have nothing to do, I go to my village to wander, and I see that the crops grow like drinking honey is sweet, I have also planted the land, that year I exchanged some rare things from foreign merchants, and I tried to plant them when I went back, how do I know that I really planted them into ......"

No one took what he said seriously, Yan Chengyue just smiled and listened, and when he later said that the things he got from Fanbang had been completed, Yan Chengyue really paid attention and asked busily: "What are the objects, you also tell us, we have a long experience." ”

Yang Yuanqing laughed for a while, patted the table and said: "It's all good things, there are such big crops that don't know what the name is, after planting, the soil bears fruit, and there are several on one plant, the big one is about a catty, and the small one is almost half a catty, good guy, I planted half an acre of land and finally weighed it, guess what?" ”

"What's wrong?" Li Fu was also interested, and hurriedly asked.

"Half an acre of land has more than 600 catties......"

"Huh?" The three of them exclaimed at the same time: "This ...... Are you mistaken? ”

Yang Yuanqing lay on the table and laughed and cried: "How can I remember wrong, I remember clearly, it really cost more than 600 catties, and it is not a good land, I was also scared at the time, thinking that this object will have a higher yield in the future, but my father insisted on not telling me to serve the ground again, saying that I was going to take the top prize, how can I be a Riba person, I ......"

"You're really capable of it." Yan Chengyue shook his head and sighed: "Brother Yang, if you can go home, you will bring the objects you planted so that we can see how about it?" ”

Yang Yuanqing didn't hear it clearly, and didn't reply, Yan Chengxin asked him again before he agreed: "It's done, why can't it be." ”

The three of them saw that he was really drunk, so they settled the account and took him out, Yang Yuanqing didn't count it before he went out, and shouted loudly: "I said that I was a treat, how can I tell you to break the bill, I Yang is a talker, I ask for a case, I, I will pay for it." ”

After speaking, he took out a piece of silver and walked to the counter, everyone saw that he was drunk, and they knew him in general, so they really accepted his money and returned Yan Chengyue's silver.

Yan Chengyue smiled helplessly, dragged Yang Yuanqing out of the hotel, got drunk and asked him where he lived, and called a carriage to send him back.

When Yan Chengyue returned home, it was already dark, Li Luan'er waited for a whole day, saw him come back and hurried up to ask how the exam was, Yan Chengyue smiled and replied yes, after changing his clothes, while eating, he told Li Luan'er about meeting Yang Yuanqing today, talking about Yang Yuanqing, a scholar who prefers farming, Li Luan'er smiled: "The people take food as the sky, according to me, this Yang Yuanqing can't say that he can grow some fame in farming." ”

Yan Chengyue immediately said when he heard it: "The lady is right, it is like this, he really grows high-yield grain, according to him, he planted half an acre and produced more than 600 catties." ”

"Oh?" Li Luan'er was even more surprised: "What kind of food is it." ”

Hearing Yan Chengyue's description for a while, Li Luan'er was shocked: "It's actually a sweet potato?" ”

"The lady knows the grain?" Yan Chengyue asked in surprise, and later thought about Li Luan'er's farm background, but he couldn't really know him.

Li Luan'er laughed: "I know, this is really a product of a foreign country, it is said to be a special product of a place called America, the yield is extremely high, and it is drought-tolerant and does not pick the ground, it is really a good food, especially in the year of famine, it can be used, this surnamed Yang has really made a great merit." ”

Yan Chengyue kept Li Luan'er's words in his heart, thinking about how to make friends with Yang Yuanqing in the future.

After another five days of the palace test, it was time for the roll call, on this day these new scholars were all dressed in green, wearing black-winged hats, and waiting outside the Wenhua Hall with hairpins on their heads and faces.

After a while, a eunuch came out with a gold list and sang loudly: "The spring of the sixth year of Deqing...... Yan Chengyue, the champion of the capital city, Yang Yuanqing, the Shandong people, and the ...... of Tanhua"

After that, he took out a long red list, starting from the rumor, and the second list finished reading the third list.

Yan Chengyue listened to them one by one, and was very happy in his heart, this rumor turned out to be his second brother Yan Chengxin, and the sixth place was Li Fu, his family took the exam so well, he was naturally happy, and at the same time, he could imagine how happy Li Luaner was when he got the news.

After the singing, Yang Yuanqing, who was standing next to Yan Chengyue, was still a little confused, and asked Yan Chengyue tremblingly: "Brother Yan, in the bottom, in the bottom of the list, no, it's not a dream, you pinch it in the next hand."

"Oops!" Yang Yuanqing almost jumped up: "Brother Yan, you are too ruthless, why does it hurt so much." ”

Yan Chengyue smiled: "It's not a dream, right?" ”

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, I can explain to my father this time." ”

After the singing, the new branch of the scholar went to the royal garden to look for flowers and hairpins, and the group moved over, naturally Yan Chengyue chose flowers first, this time, he really chose the peony as Emperor Deqing said, but it is not that Yan Chengyue loves peony more, it is really his wife Li Luaner who likes peonies very much, and he naturally chose it in order to please his mother.

This list is a little inconspicuous cuckoo, Tanhualang is interesting this time, in the past, Tanhua was a handsome young man, this time it was a forty or fifty-year-old man, this old man is also a love of old man, choose to choose a red peony.

After the three of them put on the flowers, the other Jinshi began to pick the hairpins, and then they crossed the horse to parade the street.

The new champion, Bangyan and Tanhua rode on a high-headed horse to hit the front street past, after a while, the street was tightly blocked, many young girls stood on the restaurant on both sides of the road, all holding flower handkerchiefs and sachet flowers and other things to throw down, the big girls and little daughters-in-law on both sides of the road also greeted enthusiastically, and even some were stunned to squeeze to the front to see the demeanor of the new branch champion, almost called the horse to kick.

Fortunately, Yan Chengyue's equestrian skills were excellent, and he restrained the horse in time, so it didn't cause a big disaster.

In the palace

Empress Zhao asked with a gloomy face: "The brother of the concubine, has her brother-in-law been hit?"

A little palace maid cautiously replied: "Hui Niangniang, they all won, the brother-in-law of the noble concubine Niangniang won the champion, and her mother's brother won the sixth place."

With a crisp sound, the teacup in Queen Zhao's hand fell to the ground and fell in half, and her face became even more gloomy: "It's cheaper for her, hmph, I'm afraid she's going to be arrogant from now on, where will there be a place for the palace to stand in the future."

Thinking of Emperor Deqing coming angrily a few days ago, when he saw her, he slapped her, and then threw out the fact that she called the Zhao family to make a scientific examination cheating case, which really scared Queen Zhao, she was shocked and scared, annoyed, angry and ashamed, and had mixed feelings in her heart, she didn't dare to hate Emperor Deqing, only hated Li Fenger more, and wanted to cramp and peel Li Fenger, but Li Fenger was so blessed, this scientific expedition, her brother-in-law and maiden brother were hit, so, there was someone to support her in the future.

Thinking about Li Feng'er now being favored by officials in the palace, and having children by her side, Li Fuyan Chengyue outside the palace, her sister Yingwuhou, and her brother Li Chun, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, Li Feng'er is really standing firmly, no one can threaten her, Queen Zhao's heart is even more uncomfortable, and her whole heart is like slowly cutting with a knife, and she almost shed tears in pain. R1152