Since forcibly pestering the old man Li Tong Li, Li Mu, who has no worries about food and clothing, has not bothered to go out to make a living, and a day later, that is, on the day of the Spring Festival, he sat in the special official sedan chair of the old man Li and rushed to the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy at the time point.

As soon as he got out of the sedan chair, he saw that his roommate Feng Mengde was still standing at the door and looking around, so Li Mu walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Chuxin, what are you looking for?" It's almost time for the exam, and you haven't gone in yet? ”

"Brother Li, where have you been in the past two days? Don't you want all the baggage of the inn? I brought it for you, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, everything is available! "I haven't seen Li Mu for two days in a row, Feng Mengde thought that something big had happened to Li Mu, and it really made him worry for a long time.

"Brother Chuxin, thank you. However, I didn't plan to bring these pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, whether it was the four treasures of the paper room, or the cotton clothes and bedding, and the Gongyuan was ready. If we bring it in alone, we have to check it repeatedly, and if it is considered to be suspected of fraud, it will be even more troublesome. ”

In view of this, Li Mu got down from the sedan chair and handed over the burden brought by Feng Mengde to the sedan chair man to take back to Old Man Li's house. Then, Li Mu didn't bring anything except a high-quality silk robe, and came to the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy empty-handed. With those candidates who entered the examination room one after another with quilts on their backs, Li Mu didn't have any luggage, it was too easy.

Like Li Mu, who entered the examination room empty-handed, it was the first time in the life of the inspector in charge of the body search, and he saw that Li Mu was proud and well-dressed, and seemed to be from a wealthy family, so he said kindly: "This candidate, although it is spring now, the weather is still very cold. If the quilt is thin at night, you can let the passing inspector add another set. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, if you really need it. The grass people will definitely speak up. ”

After the security check. Got the room. In this small single room of less than three square meters, a bed and a table are all there is. There are three consecutive exams, each for three days, for nine consecutive days, and you are not allowed to leave your small room for a single step.

Eating, drinking, and Lazar are all done in a single room of three square meters per person, and the nine days can be arranged at will, but they can't talk to each other, and they can't make a casual sound. If there is any suspicious behavior, it will be treated as cheating.

Compared with other candidates who are in a hurry to answer questions when they get the exam papers, Li Mu doesn't know anything about the four books and five classics, that is, he came to travel, and by the way, he saw how the ancient examination room was examined.

Since the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination system has been formally established, and Confucian classics such as "Poems", "Books", "Zhou Li", "Rites", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn", "Mencius", "Analects", "University" and "The Mean", as well as poems from the Sui and Tang dynasties, have always been the basic content of the imperial examinations, and have remained unchanged for thousands of years.

In terms of type, it is mainly the scriptures and the questioning. Poetry and essays, scriptures and inks. The thick stack of exam papers is as thick as half of Li Mu's head.

In addition to the two essays of the policy question and the essay on the nine-day exam, and the simple feeling after reading the Confucian scriptures, a total of 300 similar fill-in-the-blank questions and the Moyi of noun explanations can only be shelved. Not to mention poetry and songs, Li Mu, who doesn't want to plagiarize, is completely out of play.

It's not that Li Mu wants to give up, it's really that he can't memorize the Four Books and Five Classics at all, what questions are he asking? For example, the four peons lead me to see the Quartet, what is the next sentence? Or, is it that a gentleman distinguishes things by his family, the previous sentence?

And the so-called Moyi, if you explain it in your own words, Li Mu is not incomprehensible, and the most hateful thing is that he can only use the annotations of ancient celebrities to answer. This requires not only memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics backwards, but also memorizing all the answers, which is no different from the future Baguwen.

Fortunately, Li Mu had the foresight, and he had long planned to make money and donate money to become an official in Lin'an, and he wanted to get ahead by exams, and he was not this material at all.

During the nine-day exam, Li Mu's two test-taking essays and one review took less than half a day to solve. The rest of the days, day or night, Li Mu did not intend to waste them at all, and spent all of them on meditation and practice to recover the lost power.

Food and clothing, with the arrangement of the staff of the Tribute Academy, in this extremely quiet environment, Li Mu, who came to take the exam, completely became a retreat practice. As the bell rang for the end of the exam, Li Mu also stretched his waist, his spirits were greatly lifted, and he hurriedly handed in the exam papers, just as he wanted to pull Feng Mengde to find a restaurant to eat and drink to celebrate liberation.

was dragged home by the old man Li who was waiting at the gate of the tribute courtyard, and Li Mu, who had lost face in front of his friends, complained dissatisfiedly: "Old man, you are not my father, why do you care so much where I want to go?" After holding it for so many days, it still doesn't let me relax and relax? ”

"Li Mu, you are a walking person of this generation, can you have a face? You will hand in a blank paper in the examination room, and you are the first one in the world. ”

Li Mu may not know that as a scholar in Langzhong, he was fortunate to meet the saint before the exam, what a glory it was at this time? Coupled with his superb medical skills, he took over the queen's illness, and it seems that there is a way to solve the problem that has entangled the Imperial Medical Department for many years, and Li Mu has now become the target of attention from all forces in Lin'an.

will test the examination room, Li Mu's every move is all in the eyes of the examiner. After answering the question in half a day, the examiner thought that Li Mu was a genius, and after getting the exam papers, he scrambled to read the papers first, and almost killed a group of old scholars in the Ministry of Rites.

The scriptures, Moyi, 300 questions, not a word was written, and the poems and songs were not done. If it weren't for the unique opinions of the essays and scriptures, this group of old scholars would really want to abolish Li Mu's qualifications.

"Speaking of white rolls, it's too much, I've written the essay on the question. Besides, old man, didn't you say that everything is inferior, only the doctor is high? So I suddenly woke up, fame and fortune are floating clouds, and I still want to be my doctor. ”

Obviously not, Li Mu can even defend himself so confidently, I don't know what Li Mu really thinks Li Tong, I really think it is his misleading, the old man can only sigh and say: "Li Mu, how should I say that you are okay?" Where you should be serious, where you shouldn't be serious, why are you so serious? I don't look down on this exam, but if you can pass the exam before, it means that the Moyi of the Thesaurus is not a problem for you at all.

Isn't it blatantly contempt for the imperial court and the examiner to be messed around like this in the examination hall now? It may be nothing to offend the emperor, but if you offend the scholar class, you don't want to mix up in the court. ”

It stands to reason that candidates' examination papers need to be copied anonymously and then forwarded to the examiner for review. But Li Mu attracted much attention before the exam, and he even got involved with the emperor and queen, so naturally this Li Mu's roll is too special.

In particular, the matter of Li Mu's handing over the white scroll immediately caused an uproar in the upper class of scholars. If it weren't for Empress Dowager Yang still counting on Li Mu to treat the queen, how could the puppet-like Li Zong withstand the bombardment of the prime minister's group.

However, even so, Li Zong, who was oppressed by the prime minister's group, still called Li Mu to the imperial study alone, and yelled with an ugly face: "You bastard, such a mess, do you think that if you can cure the queen, I will definitely protect you?" (To be continued.) )