As he spoke, the person who led the way walked to the first place and stopped, turned around and looked at the scholars, and said loudly: "You can sit down at will, but you must not make noise, the emperor will be there soon." ”

"The emperor is coming?"

"It turns out that the emperor personally came to invigilate us."

"The emperor is coming, I must win the champion."

"Hmph, how can you take the name of the champion, it should be me."

……

As soon as the man's words fell, the scholars all sat down one after another, and as they sat down, there was a murmur.

"Silence......! Quiet......! Seeing the whispering around, the man couldn't help but shout again, and this loud shout immediately suppressed the whispering, and the entire Guozi prison suddenly fell silent.

The man looked around again, and when he saw that no one had spoken, he turned and walked towards the side door.

As soon as the man left, everyone was silent, and the emperor was going to come later, if he left a bad impression on the old man, then it would not be a good thing to get into the top three.

"Hey, Brother Chen, have you seen the emperor before?" I couldn't help but be curious in my heart, and Chen Bo, who was close to the side, asked in a low voice.

Chen Bo looked at me and shook his head, "I haven't seen it." ”

"Your Majesty, he won't be a white-bearded old man, right?" I asked, guessingly.

"Bi Da...... Bi Gongzi, don't dare to say anything! Chen Bo listened to my words and couldn't help but whisper.

Looking at his serious expression, I immediately understood what he meant. In the hearts of these ancient people, the emperor is naturally an unattainable big man, not to mention seeing it, even saying something behind his back is never allowed, these little people can brag about it in their own world, but when they mention the emperor, they will naturally be respectful.

I smiled slightly at Chen Bo and didn't speak again.

"The emperor has arrived at ......!" Just when the scholars were silent, there was a sudden shout outside the hall, and everyone heard it. They all looked out the door in unison.

As the shout fell. Several people in red-robed official uniforms and official hats walked into the hall, followed by several little eunuchs, and behind these little eunuchs was a middle-aged man in a yellow robe. The middle-aged man wore a yellow square hat. The square hat is inlaid with a large white pearl. The cheeks are quite resolute, and there is a kind of majesty between the eyebrows, which is somewhat similar to the princes of Nanfu. And from the yellow robe on his body, it can be seen that he should be the emperor.

Just as I was looking at this middle-aged man, I don't know who shouted softly, "The grass people knock on the emperor!" ”

"The grass people knock on the emperor's ......!" With that soft shout, all the scholars shouted softly as if they had just woken up, and then they all bent down and knelt on the ground.

"Get up!" The middle-aged man's voice was thick and powerful, and there seemed to be a bit of indescribable majesty in his tone.

"Emperor Xie!" All the scholars responded in unison and slowly stood up.

The emperor walked to the first seat and sat down under the embrace of everyone, looked around with a majestic face, and then beckoned to the eunuch beside him, the eunuch understood, and approached the emperor, everyone saw the emperor whispering a few words to him, and then the eunuch straightened up, looked at everyone and said: "The emperor has an order, all the scholars obey the order, since it is a palace test, then the emperor improvised an exam question, please give a poem within the time of a stick of incense, and the person who makes the poem can enter the next round of the exam!" After speaking, he looked at the emperor beside him, and then continued: "Since this palace test is held in April, the title of the emperor is to compose a poem with the title of 'April Day', and the poem should set off the prosperity of the country and the country, and the people and peace of the country, and also express the scene of our emperor's great rivers and mountains. After another pause, he looked around and said, "Start now!" After speaking, he waved his hand to a little eunuch not far away, and the little eunuch took out an incense burner with incense inserted on the side at some point, and another little eunuch standing next to the little eunuch took out a fire fold and lit the incense.

The scholars looked at the light blue smoke of the incense pillars that were lit in the incense burner, and suddenly they all buried their heads and made a thoughtful look.

Since it was the emperor's own exam question, I naturally couldn't slack off, I looked left and right at the scholars who were thinking about it, and my heart couldn't help but tighten, and I pondered carefully.

There are not a few poems about the 'April Day', and each literati also has their own works, but there are many fewer poems that can contain the silence of the country and the people in the poems of the April Day, not to mention the poems that are appropriate to the time.

In a flash of my mind, I thought of a poem describing the sending of friends in April, the author is the poet Li Ji's "Sending Chen Zhangfu", plus the Southern Song Dynasty poet Weng Juan's "Rural April", if these two poems can be perfectly combined together, it is a good poem.

After a moment's thought, I picked up the brush in front of me, studied the ink, and then wrote on the paper:

April day

In April, the south wind barley is yellow, and the jujube flowers have not fallen and the leaves are long.

The green mountains and green fields are still seen today, and the neighing horse goes out to look at his hometown.

The general Hou Li's body is open, and the beard and tiger eyebrows are still big.

Scholars store tens of millions of books, and they refuse to bow their heads in recklessness.

The heart is wide and the wine is refreshing, and the heart is light, and everything is inferior.

Drunk lying especially knows the scenery of the rivers and mountains, and often looks up at the white clouds.

The mountains are green and white, and the rain is like smoke in the sound of the sub-rules.

There are few idlers in the countryside in April, so the sericulture is planted again.

I heard that I knew a lot about the old forest, and Huang Guanke was promoted to serve the country.

I read through a poem again after writing it, and I can't guarantee that what the eunuch said just now contains the rhyme of the country and the people, but this poem can be regarded as timely and in line with the requirements.

I changed a few more words, and I couldn't help but look up at the incense burner in the incense burner, and before I knew it, the incense had already burned most of it, thanks to my brainstorm, otherwise it would not have been enough time.

After correcting some minor flaws, I read it a few more times, and when I was satisfied, I put down the brush in my hand, picked up the paper, stood up, and sent it to me.

"You're done?" When everyone saw that I had handed in the poems, the eunuch couldn't help but ask in a screaming voice.

"It's done." I brought the poem to the eunuch and bowed and said.

The eunuch turned his head and glanced at the emperor beside him, the emperor nodded quietly, and the eunuch didn't say much, he reached out and took my poem, "You go and sit down first!" ”

"Yes!" I bowed again, then returned to my seat and sat down.

The eunuch didn't say anything more when he received my poems, but respectfully brought them to the emperor, who picked up my poems and read them up and down, without making a sound.

I wanted to see some clues from the emperor's face, but unfortunately the emperor's face was not sad or happy, there was no superfluous expression, and I couldn't see anything at all, so I didn't think about it anymore.

As the incense burned out little by little in the incense burner, the scholars who were waving the brushes in their hands stepped up their efforts to write, and there were constantly people who stepped forward to submit their poems, and whenever someone submitted the poems, the emperor just looked at them casually and then didn't say anything more, and he couldn't see the joy and anger on his face at all.

When the incense burned in the incense burner finally burned out, the eunuch standing beside the emperor said in a sharp voice: "It's ...... time!" As his words fell, all the scholars stopped their brushes.

Until the moment when the incense burned out, more than half of the original more than 30 scholars had already handed in the poems they thought were okay, and a very few people only wrote a few lines of poems on the blank paper in front of them.

Although I didn't finish my poems, but looking at the emperor's appearance, I knew that Lu Dao did not give up on them, and let the eunuchs around me step forward to put away their unfinished works, and at this time I quietly glanced at Chen Bo beside me, and then looked at the blank paper in front of him, and asked softly: "Brother Chen, can your poems be completed?" ”

"Thank you Bi Gongzi for your concern, it's just done!" Chen Bo looked at me with a smile on his face and replied.

"Hmm." I nodded.

…… (To be continued......)