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The incense slaves in the incense courtyard, ten miles, can hardly find a single one who can recognize his own name. And if you want to find someone who can read and write in addition to knowing your own name, you have to find at least a hundred people.

Therefore, Yuanxiangyuan is surprising, there are less than fifty incense slaves, and there are four who can read and write, and all of them are women. Of course, how many words can be recognized, and how many can be written, but at least they are not blind. The four of them are the words commonly used by the incense envoys on weekdays, even if not everyone can write them all silently, but as long as they see it, they can basically recognize it.

These four people are An Lan, Gorse, Guizhi, and a Lychee.

Goldfinch and An Lan learned from Granny An; Gui Zhi was later taught by others under the arrangement of the king's master; Lychee is because his father is a showman, so before entering the Yuanxiang Temple, he more or less recognized some words.

However, in addition to the four of them, there are two other people who want to compete for the position of incense envoy, who were specially found from outside by the king. One is named Wang Yuniang, twenty-eight years old, born white and pure, although the dress is slightly simple, but a pair of hands are as tender as tofu, obviously pampered. The other is named Wang Hua, who is Wang Yuniang's cousin, one year older than Wang Yuniang, and has begun to rise taller, and he also has a white complexion, wearing a simple straight jacket on his body.

Therefore, there are six people, competing for the position of two incense envoys.

On the surface, it seems that everyone has about a thirty percent chance, but in fact, they all know in their hearts that the candidates for these two positions have been decided by Wang Zhangshi.

However, An Lan did not withdraw from this exam because of this, and neither did Guizhi.

The purpose of the goldfinch is not to make the incense envoy, but purely to cheer. The lychee was pushed over by the incense envoy on its own head in a daze, looking to see if it could be cheaper, if not, there was no loss.

According to the practice of previous years, the examination is divided into three sessions, the first of which is to write the name of the incense product silently; the second is to identify incense; The third one was made by the incense envoy who was in charge of the invigilation, and all three were smooth and gò, which was the final winner.

The place of the examination is located in the incense room on the left side of the main hall in the front yard of the Yuanxiang Temple, which is a special place for the fragrance of the Yuanxiang Temple, so the interior furnishings are not luxurious, but they are full of elegance.

An Lan and Jinque didn't dare to delay, as soon as the morning dawned, they were already waiting at the door of this incense room, and Guizhi and Lychee were with them. No one dared to delay this kind of assessment, and after a while, Lian Xi'er also led Wang Yuniang and Wang Hua over, followed by Lian Xi'er was Lu Yunxian and several other incense envoys.

In addition to Lian Xi'er and Lu Yunxian, as well as the incense envoy He Gu on the lychee, the other two incense envoys who came over were all men. Among these people, He Gu is the oldest, in her early thirties, but when it comes to seniority in Yuanxiang Academy, no one can surpass Lu Yunxian.

Therefore, after Lian Xi'er opened her mouth to let people open the door, Lu Yunxian followed up and asked: "Even the incense is long, and the incense is ready?" Why haven't you seen anyone send it yet? ”

"This time, the incense was prepared by Wang Zhangshi himself." When Lian Xi'er said this, she glanced at Lu Yunxian and He Gu, and then said, "The incense slaves who participated in the exam this time have something to do with you, so Wang Zhangzhi ordered the other two incense envoys to help me, and you can't enter the incense room for a while." ”

Lu Yunxian was stunned, then glanced at An Lan, who had already begun to prepare to enter the incense room, and Aunt He next to him had already spoken: "It should be like this." ”

Lu Yunxian retracted his gaze and nodded.

After Lian Xi'er led them into the incense room, Lu Yunxian said: "These girls, I don't know who can have the ultimate good luck." ”

He Gu glanced at Wang Hua and Wang Yuniang, who were following Lian Xi'er, and shook her head with a sneer: "In my opinion, this luck has already been set, so don't be delusional." ”

Lu Yunxian glanced at Aunt He: "Then you still let Lychee come over." ”

He Gu also glanced at Lu Yunxian: "Aren't you the same, these days, I see that An Lan is getting closer and closer to you." ”

Lu Yunxian rolled up the silk silk in his hand and said with a sigh: "I see that girl can read and hyphenate, and she is a motivated person, and it is rare not to learn those nonsense and dirty things from the people next to her." She has been working under me on errands, and she has always been unimpatient, not fighting or grabbing, and she has worked hard without merit over the years, and I should plan a few points for her. Besides, this place is becoming more and more unseemly now, that Wang Meiniang, how majestic it was back then. Although the road is crooked, who would have thought that this good person would say that it would be gone. After being proud for so many years, what he finally got was a punishment of thirty rods and a thin coffin. To put it bluntly, they are all hard-working people, I really can't say when they will be unlucky, and now they can help them is a handful, as for whether they can succeed, it depends on their luck. ”

He Gu was a little surprised that Lu Yunxian would say this to her, and mentioning Wang Meiniang's death seemed to arouse the chill in her heart, so she felt more and more that Lu Yunxian was reasonable, and then thought that Lu Yunxian finally gave Wang Meiniang a ride, and couldn't help but feel a little related in her heart, so she said: "I really didn't expect you to be such a person in the past, it can be seen that after a long time, it is difficult for you to be a person who values love and righteousness." ”

"People's hearts are flesh and blood, and there are a few people who are really cold-blooded." Lu Yunxian smiled and said helplessly: "There is a saying called upward and downward effect, the people above don't have this heart, how dare you and I show a difference." At the end of the day, we're all just minions who look at people's eyes. ”

He Gu agreed very much, and nodded again and again: "No, it's hard for you to think like this, if it's ......" It's just that He Gu said this, and suddenly stopped. Lu Yunxian glanced at her and didn't ask, but he had a bottom in his heart. Although Aunt He's time in Yuanxiang Courtyard was shorter than her, Aunt He had worked in other incense courtyards before entering Yuanxiang Courtyard, and Aunt He was much older than them. So speaking of which, the qualifications of this errand are not necessarily shallower than her, so there are many incense envoys in the Yuanxiang Courtyard who listen to Aunt He, and now that she has the favor of Aunt He, it will be much more convenient to act in the future.

went to see Wang Meiniang on her last journey, and the benefits she got were more than she imagined, and these can be said to have been given to her by An Lan. If An Lan hadn't come over to let her see Wang Meiniang that night, she wouldn't have gotten such an opportunity, and she wouldn't have been what people want today.

Thinking of this, Lu Yunxian glanced at the incense room with some concern, Wang Zhangshi specially selected two people from outside to come in, and even prepared the exam questions himself, in such an unfair situation, can An Lan win smoothly?

At present, the position of the incense envoy, the king has to change his own people, and the position of the incense envoy is even more impossible for him to let a person who does not listen to him sit on it.

When Lu Yunxian was pondering and worrying about this, in the incense room, An Lan and the others had already taken their seats. There are already a few cases and pen, ink, paper and inkstone, one case per person, and then the pen can be written on the paper.

After Gui Zhi sat down on his knees, he frowned slightly. Although she temporarily embraced Buddhism, she still had some awe in her heart for these literati things, and she had no confidence. So he raised his eyes and looked at the door, and just happened to see Shi Song and Shi Zhu, each holding a long box and walking in from the outside.

Lian Xi'er took the box in their hands, opened it, and after checking it, she lit a stick of incense next to it, and then said: "In these two boxes, there are a total of twenty kinds of incense, and one stick of incense will be for you to identify." When the incense is burned, the incense is withdrawn, and you begin to write down what each of the twenty incense materials is, which is also the time of one incense stick. ”

Twenty kinds of incense were taken out one by one, and each one was placed on the table for observation for a while, and then passed down.

After three rounds of transmission, the incense burned out, and Lian Xi'er ordered the two invigilators to take back all the incense products, put them back into the box, light a stick of incense again, and said: "Start writing, remember, you can't make a word wrong, and if you make a mistake, you don't have to participate in the second game." ”

Six people successively picked up the pen and dipped the ink.

An Lan glanced at the golden finch, and the two of them were very calm on their faces, these twenty kinds of incense products were basically available in the Yuanxiang Courtyard. They go to work in the incense field every day, and after a few years, they have long recognized these incense products, and it is not difficult to write the names of these incense products one by one.

Wang Yuniang and Wang Hua faintly showed a little joy on their faces, and when they first came in, they were still a little nervous. It wasn't until I saw those incense products that I knew that the names of the incense products that my uncle asked them to memorize last night were not fake, and it seems that this source incense courtyard is really what their uncle said, and this so-called exam is just a show.

After Lychee lifted the pen, she frowned slightly, and thought about it for a while before she began to put down the pen.

Only Gui Zhi, after starting to write a few names, stopped, and then quietly raised his face to look at the caryophyllus. Then, when the two invigilators had walked to the front, she picked up a dried thatch flower from under the desk, held it up, and gestured to the caryophyllus.

Lian Xi'er saw it, it should have fallen when she just passed the incense, and was about to open her mouth to ask the invigilator to get it, but Shi Zhu had already walked towards Guizhi, and Lian Xi'er closed her mouth again.

On the left side of Guizhi is Wang Yuniang, and in front of Wang Yuniang is An Lan.

If it weren't for the incident that Wang Meiniang told before, An Lan wouldn't have paid much attention to Shi Zhu's every move.

Therefore, as soon as Shi Zhu moved at this time, An Lan immediately noticed that something was wrong, her hand paused slightly, and the corner of her eyes began to chase after Shi Zhu's figure, and with the action of dipping ink, she turned her face slightly sideways.

Wang Yuniang suddenly saw someone coming this way, and subconsciously turned her face to look over.

Of course, in the incense room at this time, except for An Lan, no one would suspect Guizhi and Caryophyllus. Therefore, no one paid special attention to him, including Lian Xi'er.

However, Wang Yuniang saw it, although she didn't really see it, she still saw that when Shi Zhu took the thatched flower, she seemed to put something in her hand in Guizhi's hand.

An Lan retracted her gaze, her face did not change, and continued to write the name of the incense product in the back.

Wang Yuniang was a little stunned, because she suddenly discovered a secret, which made her face obviously pale.

She has been pampered since she was a child, and she has not experienced anything over the years, and when Wang Hua first entered the Yuanxiang Courtyard, it was Shi Zhu who received them first. She naturally knew that Shi Zhu was the person next to her uncle, so when she suddenly saw this scene and was not sure about it, her brain suddenly became a little confused.

Gui Zhi noticed Wang Yuniang's strange appearance and was shocked, but immediately glared at Wang Yuniang.

Wang Yuniang turned her face a little panicked, but after thinking about it, she raised her face and wanted to open her mouth.