In the blink of an eye, it was the day of autumn. Early in the morning, the gate of Hangzhou.

"Hey, wait!" Before going out to catch the exam at the beginning of the month, Ying Ruolan hurried out again, and Aunt Gui beside her was holding a small copper basin in her hand. "This is the water boiled by the branches of the locust tree, Yue'er come, wash your hands." She said nervously, "I heard Mrs. Cai say that before the exam, I dipped my hands with locust branches and water, and I was sure that I would be able to pass the exam." ”

At the beginning of the month, he couldn't cry or laugh, and stretched out his hand to dip the water in the copper basin.

"And this, my mother specially went to Jiuli Temple to ask for Dengke cakes, I was hungry in the examination room for a while, remember to eat it." As she spoke, she handed another food sac to the moon. "And this—"

"Okay, Ruolan, if you continue like this for a while, Yue'er will be late, and she won't even be able to enter the examination room." Hang Zhongxuan on the side smiled helplessly.

As soon as Hang Zhongxuan said this, Ying Ruolan was too frightened to say more, and she was still a little nervous in her heart.

"Alright, mother. It is Yue'er who should take the exam, what does the mother have to be nervous about. Seeing her like this, she shook her head and smiled.

Ying Ruolan nodded, and suddenly exclaimed, "Oops, I forgot to make balls, you guys go quickly, I'm going to make balls, and when you come back from the exam, you have to eat the balls." Talking and babbling to urge the beginning of the month.

Hang Zhongxuan couldn't help but chuckle, "Okay, Yue'er let's go." ”

"Whoa." Yue Yue nodded and pursed his lips and chuckled, while setting off with Hang Zhongxuan and going to the imperial city.

The examination room is located in front of the Wenxing Altar in the southeast corner of the imperial city. Every year on the fifteenth day before the autumn festival, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Engineering will be here, according to the number of candidates of the year to build the examination room, the examination room is wooden, four feet long and wide, blocked on three sides, and only one side is open window.

During the examination, after the candidates have experienced the identity artifacts, they will draw lots to enter. Both the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Observatory will appoint several people to invigilate the examination. Admission at the morning time, the paper will be handed in at dusk, and then the paper will be sealed by a special person and handed over to the secretary of the province for marking.

However, since Su Xiao took power, the power of the secretary province has gradually transferred to the Ministry of Rites, coupled with the style of inaction of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the annual Ministry of Rites Examination has gradually become a tool for the Ministry of Rites to seek personal gain.

At the beginning of the month, he went to Chang'an Gate with Hang Zhongxuan, because he was an official of the Ministry of Rites, Hang Zhongxuan entered first, and waited outside with other candidates at the beginning of the month.

In early autumn, the sky is blue, and the branches along the road are full of sparrows, and occasionally one or two fly down to peck at food. The wind in Anyang City was attached to a layer of dryness and slight coolness, and Xiao Sa's intention was immediately obvious, which aggravated a little depression before the exam.

At the beginning of the month, she looked around and found that there were hundreds of candidates, including dozens of women, which really surprised her. I thought that the Queen Mother was a little late in issuing the decree, and there should be only a few women who entered the exam.

Just thinking about it, there was a dragon gate officer from Chang'an Gate, beside him lined up two teams of officers and soldiers, after reading out the sage training, the candidates were divided into three teams one by one to examine the entrance. Therefore, many women took the examination this year, and a female official physical examination was also arranged.

When I entered the examination room, I hadn't yet entered the room. After everyone grabbed the number and registered, they scattered around, standing together in three or two, and most of the women were under the locust tree in the southeast corner of the examination room, and they also went there after registering at the beginning of the month.

There are also many women under the tree who gather in pairs, but there is a woman wearing a concubine-colored short jacket, who is as cold as a plum, cold and bright. Standing alone, no one dares to come forward to get close, so it is extremely eye-catching. When I got closer, I saw that she had willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, and a little tear mole under the tail of her right eye.

The first day of the first month was stunned, this is Su Yunli?

Yun Xiang once said that Su Yunli's eyes were a little tearful. It is rumored that she is both talented and beautiful, and it is indeed true that she can see her today.

Probably feeling that someone was looking at her, that Miss Su suddenly turned her head to look at her with a confused expression. Yue Yi was stunned, and found that it was really rude to stare at people like this, so he hurriedly looked sideways.

And Su Yunli looked at her in a slight stunned manner, this person was born, and he should not know him.

At this time, the invigilators of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial History Observatory also arrived one after another, and to the surprise of the beginning of the month, she found a familiar figure in it-the Le Ling she met in the Nanshan Building, no, Qing Dai said who he was? Imperial History?!

No wonder as soon as he arrived, many officials stepped forward to talk, it turned out to be really court officials.

Over there, Min Shuo also noticed the beginning of the month, and was a little surprised in his heart, originally thought that she was just an ordinary boudoir show, and he could meet her here. Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly became suspicious in her heart, could it be that she is from the Eastern Party?

At the beginning of the month, she naturally didn't know that Min Shuo was suspicious of her in her heart, just like she didn't know that most of the female candidates in this session were arranged by Su Xiang in order to make a scene, because when she just looked at Min Shuo, through behind him, she saw another person standing not far away, that was Li Maoran.

It's really a narrow road. At the beginning of the month, I couldn't think of anything else except to marvel at this sentence. Fortunately, I had already seen him that day, and now I was not so shocked in my heart when I saw him again.

However, this also just explains why he saw Li Maoran in Anyang City, but he didn't expect him to come to respond. But at the beginning of the month, I didn't understand, I remember that he didn't learn well at the beginning, and he was able to enter the Ministry of Etiquette at this time.

Compared with the calmness of seeing Li Maoran at the beginning of the month, and at this moment, Li Maoran's shock when he saw the beginning of the month was far greater than the first encounter on the street that day.

It's just that at this time, there is no room for any more action, because the Longmen official announced that the time has come, and the candidates will enter.

Next, the candidates scattered around entered the examination room one after another, and some palace people distributed the question papers. The volume is a theory of history - on the cause of the death of Wei. This question is not difficult, and the candidates have picked up the pen after getting the paper, but at the beginning of the month, they looked at the topic and thought about it for a long time without writing.

Outside the examination room, with Min Shuo's means, he learned the identity of the beginning of the month after a while, Hang Yue, the daughter of Hang Zhongxuan, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Rites. has no power and no power, his father is arrogant, he has never been attached to the party, and he has not been promoted for many years.

Min Shuo raised her eyebrows slightly, her father is the head of the Ministry of Rites, she should know that the Ministry of Rites has always been boring, even so, she still came to participate in the test, is it the same as Su Yunli who is too well protected and has nothing to do about these things? Or is there some other reason? Thinking about it, I felt curious, so I paid more attention to her actions.

Time is passing, and some fast candidates have already drafted a few drafts, and at the beginning of the month, they are just writing and drawing on the manuscript paper, with few numbers.

Min Shuo looked at it in his eyes and felt a little weird.

Soon it was noon, and she was not idle and ate dry food, but she still did not write. Min Shuo was a little impatient, wondering if she came to join in the fun, but in fact, he couldn't write it at all, just when he was about to give up, he finally started writing at the beginning of the month.

Min Shuo looked sideways at the sundial on the side, and there was still an hour before he had to hand in the papers. Is it too late for her to start writing now? Looking back at the beginning of the month, I couldn't help but be surprised. Unlike other candidates who type on the manuscript paper first and then transcribe it on the question paper, at the beginning of the month, they write directly on the question paper.

Isn't this girl crazy? He mused.

It didn't take long for him to know he was wrong. At the beginning of the month, he waved his pen and wrote a book, but a thousand-word essay was completed in half an hour. There was still half an hour left after I stopped writing. After she finished writing, she reviewed it twice, then put the question paper aside and began to pack her things.

Min Shuo was a little amused by her strange approach, this girl is really funny. Raised her eyes and looked at her exam room number - ninety-nine? When the paper is marked, let's see what she writes.