The scholars lined up one by one to enter, and because they needed to verify their identities, they marched extremely slowly.

Li Yan took out the baojie and glanced at it, and couldn't help but smile again.

When the two of them went to the Ministry of Rites to receive the knot a few days ago, they also made a joke that made people laugh.

As the name suggests, a guarantor is required to vouch for the candidates, ensuring that they do not cheat, do not impostor, have no criminal history, and are five people in a knot.

So, you need to find five guarantors.

Li Yan still clearly remembered that when Chen He, Song San, Fan Er, the shopkeeper and the round-faced coachman stood in front of the head of the Ministry of Rites, the face of the head of the department instantly turned purple and blue.

But considering Li Yan's complicated identity, the principal did not immediately get angry, just to help: officials, to protect people, you have to find someone with merit.

This is stumped for Li Yan, he has no friends in Kyoto, where to find five famous people.

simply said: "Anyway, the emperor ordered me to enter Beijing, you look at it, if I don't have a guarantee, I can't take the exam, and the consequences seem to be very serious." ”

The director was so frightened that his body was stunned, he was only a sixth-grade official, how could he afford such a big responsibility, so he found his boss and a second-grade waiter.

The waiter's surname is Qu, he is shrewd, good at greeting, and he is quite concerned about the secrets of officialdom.

It was immediately decided that he would vouch for Li Yan and force the principal to sign the tie as well, so that there were still three people missing, and it was deadlocked.

There are a lot of officials in the Ministry of Rites, but it is a bit ridiculous that all five guarantors are from the Ministry of Rites.

Fortunately, the two brothers of the second uncle's family were requested by Yan Jiuniang and also signed their names on the knot, leaving the last person, but it took a day.

Just when everyone was at the end of their rope, Luo Zhu walked into the Ministry of Rites with a fan and said, "The official family has told me to vouch for Li Yan." ”

The principal trembled and wrote the word Zhao Ji on the knot......

Li Yan handed the seal to the inspection officer, who almost knelt on the ground and stamped it, his respectful appearance was beyond words, and he very deliberately printed the red seal in a corner far away from the emperor's name.

……

Smoothly entering the tribute courtyard, it was not as luxurious and solemn as Li Yan imagined.

The rows of low houses are very similar to the prisons in Yanggu County, divided into ten rows, and Li Yan walked towards the zigzag row with a lunch box containing food.

From beginning to end, the first room is 癸一, and the last room is 癸八, Li Yan recalled, making sure that he was not mistaken, what Wang Dalang said was Guijiu.

With doubts, he walked into the adjacent row again, and when he walked to the innermost part and saw Ren Jiu, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Just when Li Yan was stunned, he heard a person behind him shout softly: "Brother Yan, Brother Li Yan." ”

Li Yan was very familiar when he heard the voice, and turned around to find that it was Yang Ruobing, an ignorant scholar.

When he met an acquaintance, he couldn't help but talk a few words, and Li Yan asked him if there was any danger on the road, where he lived now, and so on.

Then, he boldly distributed half of the food in the food box to Wang Ruobing.

The latter looked at the pastries with a variety of patterns and delicate patterns, revealing envious eyes, not to mention the ginseng pieces that were rumored to be "test stimulants", and couldn't help but doubt Li Yan's identity.

Li Yan completely forgot that he was in the tribute courtyard, and leaned on the lintel to chat with Wang Ruobing.

The invigilator couldn't stand it anymore, so he reminded Li Yan and took him to room No. 9, which was far away from the examination room.

If Wang Ruobing's house is compared to an economic house, then Li Yan's room is definitely a presidential suite.

In fact, there was no No. 9 room in the Gongyuan at all, which was originally a residence prepared for the transcription officers of the Longtu Pavilion.

At this time, there were two old scholars of Longtu Pavilion waiting for Li Yan in the room, who had come to take the exam on their behalf.

……

The exam questions were issued, and after the two Longtu Pavilion scholars saw the questions, they all complained bitterly, complaining about Wang Fu, how could they have such an absurd idea.

Li Yan picked up the exam question and looked at it, only to see that it was written: Confucius is seventy-two sages, what is the virtue of sages? What will be the 28 generals of the PTZ?

"Two adults, is this difficult?" Li Yan asked ignorantly.

The two scholars glanced at each other, and there was a look of doubt in their eyes, and they all thought in unison: Why does the Holy Lord value a person who has no ink on his chest so much......

One of them, Changmei, patiently explained: "The exam questions require the seventy-two disciples of the Confucian Sage and the twenty-eight generals under the command of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, which is a full hundred." Moreover, it is necessary to discuss their virtues and merits separately, according to the old man's estimate, if you want to solve the problem satisfactorily, I am afraid that the test papers will have to be stacked half a foot high. ”

Li Yan silently calculated in his heart, one zhang is three meters six, half a zhang...... 1.8 meters!

"This ......" Li Yan was speechless in shock.

The bachelor sighed and said, "Okay, let's go and rest, don't bother us anymore." ”

With that, he picked up a stack of books from the back shelf and began to look it up.

……

And in the examination room, the pot has already exploded.

When the candidates got the questions, they protested and asked the examiner to come out and explain.

Wang Fu was not false, standing in the courtyard and shouting: This is the serious place of the Gongyuan, if there is any further violation of the regulations, it will be regarded as giving up voluntarily, and will be driven out of the examination room immediately, and will not be tolerated!

Obviously, this answer could not satisfy the candidates, and there were countless people who kicked the door and smashed the table for a while.

Wang Fu did what he said, and cleared out more than 20 troublemakers one after another before suppressing a "riot".

Because the exam is too important for the candidates, if you miss this time, you will have to wait for another four years, and it will be okay if you are a rich man. For poor scholars, the damage is too great.

Some of them came to Kyoto to take the entrance examination, but they emptied all their family savings, so they had no choice but to fight against the water, and if they retreated, they would die.

But there are two people who are extremely calm, one is the initiator of this matter, the arrogant scholar.

At this time, he was blushing and didn't dare to raise his head, if he let these candidates know that the source of the disaster was him, he would have to be torn alive.

And the other turned out to be the ignorant scholar Wang Ruobing.

He had two reasons not to make trouble, one was that he had already guessed that this would be the result, so he was not too surprised;

Second, it is the two upside-down idioms that the arrogant scholar said, who are confident and confident.

For him, the difficulty is not the name and the theory, but the time.

If you want to write so much content in four days, it is obviously not enough, but fortunately, Li Yan gave him a lot of ginseng slices, which are contained in his mouth and have the effect of refreshing his mind.

Therefore, Wang Ruobing was not ready to sleep, so he hurriedly called the invigilator to ask for a stack of papers, ten brushes, and a pot of ink, and began to write hard, racing against time to write.

……

Li Yan was bored with his head, and there was the triangular iron piece on the table, thinking about his thoughts.

Who is this Wang Fu?

According to Old Man Yan, this person is ambitious and talented, and his ability is mediocre, but he can please Zhao Ji, but this person can be promoted to eight levels in a row.

What a mystery......

However, at the moment, Wang Fu is Li Yan's first enemy in Kyoto, if Wang Fu is not eliminated for a day, Xiaomo will not be able to look at it for a day, and he Li Yan will not be able to sleep and eat!