In the early morning, the red sun slowly rose, slowly revealing the horizon, just like a bride wearing a red hijab in the night of the cave candles, slowly lifted the hijab, revealing a blushing face, looking down at the earth shyly.

"This damn sun, what are you doing so early, you have to get up early!"

In the courtyard of Zhu Ping'an's guest room in the Linhuai Hou Mansion, the bear child looked at the eastern sky with a bitter and vengeful expression, stretched out his little fat hand and drew the void for a while, it seemed that he was completely eager to pull down the rising red sun in the east as an oil cake!

Zhu Ping'an looked at the bear child who was holding the book and couldn't help but smile.

Since the completion of the palace examination, the Marquis of Linhuai has urged him to send the bear child to him early.

Zhu Ping'an likes to get up early to practice calligraphy, although he is now fully qualified to practice with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, but he is used to using a brush dipped in water to practice on the wooden board, so early in the morning he still practices by dipping water in water.

While Zhu Ping'an practiced calligraphy, he also fulfilled the duties of Xixi, urging the bear child to read in the morning, Ren is the bear child for a thousand reasons, and Zhu Ping'an also returned with a feather, and had to hold the book for a bitter morning reading.

In addition to the bear child in the yard, there is also a little Lori, which is the little Lori who claims to be called Niu'er. These days, this little Lori also likes to run to Zhu Ping'an, because Zhu Ping'an will tell stories every time he is tired of reading books and practicing calligraphy. Whether it's a fairy tale or the story of the little monkey that popped out of the stone, little Lori couldn't take her feet off it. So every time little Lori refuses to leave on the grounds of accompanying Brother Rui to study.

Of course. A certain bear child is the same, although he is not happy with Zhu Ping'an up and down, but whenever Zhu Ping'an tells a story. The bear child always looks like "my brother-in-law abuses me thousands of times, and I treat my brother-in-law like my first love", with a fat face, listening to it with relish.

After practicing calligraphy in the morning, the subordinates in the Linhuai Marquis Mansion also sent the breakfast of the three of them. There are three plates of lean porridge, hors d'oeuvres, and hot dishes, meat and vegetables. In addition, there are some steamed buns and eggs.

It looks very appetizing.

The bear child was very unhappy because he was under Zhu Ping'an's control of reading, and when he ate breakfast, his fat face was full of provocation. No matter what Zhu Ping'an says, he has to say a word.

Looking at the bear child's provocative fat face, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but smile, and then picked up an egg from the table in a foolish way. Take it in your hand. looked at the sun, then touched it left and right with his fingers, put it under his nose and sniffed, and finally pinched his fingers and calculated, and said seriously:

"It's an egg laid by a hen."

When the bear child heard this, his face was full of doubts, and he immediately retorted with a fat face, "How do you know? I don't believe it! ”

Little Lori, who was drinking porridge on the side of the table, listened to the bear child's words. I couldn't help but roll my eyes, "Stupid Brother Rui." It must be the eggs laid by the hens, because the roosters don't lay eggs! ”

Damn, I've been fooled again!

The bear child choked on a mouthful of porridge in his mouth, and his face turned black

Zhu Ping'an's breakfast had just been finished, and before he had time to clean up the table, he heard a burst of chickens and dogs jumping outside the courtyard, and the sound of footsteps came quickly.

"Zhu Gongzi, Zhu Gongzi, hurry, hurry, there is a holy decree here."

Just as Zhu Ping'an looked up, he saw a steward leading a few little servants to trot into the yard like they were being chased by dogs, and said anxiously.

Divine decree?

What are you kidding, this is the next day, isn't the palace exam released three days ago? In other words, you don't need a holy decree to send it to your home, right?

Although Zhu Ping'an felt weird, he still walked out with the steward, in the feudal era, the two words of holy decree weighed more than a thousand gold, and he was disrespectful to anyone, and he did not dare to be disrespectful to the word "holy".

When he arrived in the front hall, Zhu Ping'an knew what was going on, what kind of holy decree, but it was a small eunuch from the palace who came to pass Zhu Ping'an into the palace to meet the emperor.

According to the words of the little eunuch and his explanation, things are probably like this, it is according to the custom, after the minister finishes reading the papers, he will submit the best ten test papers in the palace test papers to the imperial review, and in front of the emperor, the ten test papers will be unsealed and the personal information of the candidates will be revealed, and the emperor will rank the ten test papers, and select the champion, the top eye, the tanhua, and the top seven of the second grade.

In addition, the emperor will summon the owners of these ten test papers into the palace and summon them individually, which is known as the "Little Chuanyu" in history.

The final palace examination rankings, including champions, lists, tanhua, and the top seven in the second grade, are all officially determined after being summoned by the emperor, and then the big and small gold lists will be filled in, and the palace examination will be officially released three days later. The palace test list is called "the Great Chuan Lu" or "the Great Chuan Yu Ceremony".

This time the emperor's summons was the "Little Chuan Yu", but listening to the little eunuch, the emperor personally reviewed 20 test papers in this palace test.

How do you feel like the modern civil service exam, the palace exam is a written test, and the written test results are in the top ten, no, this time it is the top 20, it is considered to have passed the written test, and you have the qualification for the interview, that is, "Xiao Chuanyu". The emperor is the interviewer, and the number of positions is finally determined after the interview, with three out of twenty, the first champion, the second list, and the third Tanhua.

Zhu Ping'an followed the little eunuch and rushed to Xiyuan in the carriage of the Hou Mansion, on the way Zhu Ping'an gave the little eunuch a red envelope without a trace, the little eunuch touched the red envelope and smiled, and talked a lot, and said a lot of precautions to Zhu Ping'an in the carriage, which was very detailed.

Entering the West Garden, Zhu Ping'an was led by a little eunuch to praise the Marquis in a palace in the West Garden, and about an hour later, a little eunuch came in and looked at Zhu Ping'an and said:

"Lord Zhu Ping'an, right, the Holy Lord announced that you are here."

"There is Father-in-law Lao." Zhu Ping'an bowed his hand and thanked the visitor.

"Lord Xiao Zhu is polite, please here." The little eunuch smiled and stretched out his hand to lead the way.

Zhu Ping'an followed the little eunuch step by step to the palace where Emperor Jiajing was located, and rushed to Emperor Jiajing's appointment. Having said that this is a separate meeting with Jiajing, I am still a little excited in my heart, and of course nervousness is inevitable.

Zhu Ping'an followed the little eunuch for about ten minutes, and then came to a splendid palace, the top of the palace is golden glazed tiles, the eaves are crowned, the eaves are placed everywhere with the heads of the zodiac animals, and the jade pillar stone carvings are also exquisite and gorgeous. The main colors of the whole palace are golden and red, and there are two rows of stone steps outside the palace that can lead directly to the palace, and there is a jade carving that looks like a whole piece in the middle of the two rows of stone steps, which is very huge and stretches for several meters, and the jade is carved with a dragon rolling between the clouds. Under the early morning sun, the dragon carving seems to come to life, shaking its head and tail, and it is magnificent.

The royal bearing made Zhu Ping'an smack his tongue.

"Lord Xiaozhu, please wait a moment, I'll go and say goodbye." The little eunuch led Zhu Ping'an to the door and spoke.

"I'm tired." Zhu Ping'an arched his hand slightly. (To be continued.) )