Xicheng Huangzhuang, Lu Jing and the people of the Internal Affairs Office worked hard for more than ten days, and finally completed the correction of the test paper at the end of July.

Subsequently, according to the score, 5,000 people were selected from high to low, and after checking that they were correct, they and Huang Yongzhong together presented the results to Emperor Yuan Yong.

Emperor Yuan Yong only looked at the top ten lists, and found that there were two women in the top ten, and he immediately felt a burst of surprise.

Wang Suxiu is among them, it is normal, after all, the queen has come forward to commend her, if Wang Suxiu's performance is mediocre, wouldn't it be a loss of the queen's face.

But among them, there is a woman named Xue Baochai, who is one place higher than Wang Suxiu.

So he asked, "The ranking of these two women may be convincing to the public?" ”

Lu Jing replied: "Back to the saint, the specific scoring criteria and the top 100 test papers will be posted, and the results will be clear at a glance, and the results of the two of them are indeed among the top ten. ”

After the ranking came out, he thought about this problem, and finally decided to rank Xue Baochai and Wang Suxiu in the top ten.

ranked Wang Suxiu in the top ten, and gave her the question, firstly, because the queen came forward and needed to take care of the queen's face; The second is to draw a successful end to the previous uproar about the recruitment of sons-in-law and maintain Wang Suxiu's character.

Ranking Xue Baochai in the top ten is to let her avoid the second round of selection, because the second round of selection is an interview, and it is always bad for a woman to show up, and she may not be able to answer well.

Emperor Yuanyong nodded when he heard this, and asked, "Where does this Xue Baochai come from?" ”

"Jinling Xue Family!" Lu Jing replied calmly, anyway, the emperor also knew what King Zhongshun let him do.

Emperor Yuan Yong knew in his heart, so he no longer asked about this matter, but continued to ask: "How many original imperial merchants have been eliminated?" ”

"Two families, one is the Osmanthus Xia family in the capital, and the other is the Yang family of the salt merchant in Changlu!" Lu Jing replied.

Xia Jingui's results are really bad, basically among the bottom, in fact, it's not just her, there are more than 500 women who took the exam, basically there are few outstanding, plus Xue Baochai and Wang Suxiu, only three people were shortlisted, and the other one was specially added in order to let there be a woman outside the top ten, in fact, her ranking was more than 6,000.

Although the Changlu Yang family is a little better than the Xia family, it is also ranked outside the 10,000 people, and the Changlu Yang family has offended Emperor Yuan Yong, so naturally there is no need for special care.

Emperor Yuan Yong nodded, and did not put forward the meaning, and even in his mind, he remembered bad memories, five years ago, he sent someone to take over Changlu Yanzheng, and he almost made a big mess, and there was a shadow of the Yang family behind it, but behind the Yang family stood the Zhenguo Bull family, and now is not the time to deal with them.

Then Emperor Yuan Yong asked about the process of reading the papers, and some details of the question, after a match, Emperor Yuan Yong was very satisfied, so he approved to post according to this list.

On 1 August, the Ministry of Internal Affairs posted the list of those who passed the first round of written examinations in the outer city, announced the scoring criteria, and posted the top 100 answer sheets.

At the same time, a notice was posted that if there is an objection to the results, the appeal can be checked within three days, and the specific process of the appeal will be publicized, the first step is to pay 500 taels of silver, and then submit an application to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will make unified arrangements after three days.

The team watching the list is even larger than the team that will try to release the list, first, there are more than 20,000 people participating, and second, many people and readers also come to join in the fun to see what the correct answer that has been debated for a long time is.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs posted it at the outer city wall, and the list was long enough and the space was huge, so it didn't cause any stampede accidents, but there were still crowds of people, and they were all over the place, competing to check them out.

When everyone saw that the eighth place Xue Baochai and the ninth Wang Suxiu were both women, they were not calm for a moment, some questioned it, and some were curious, and they flocked to the test papers of the two of them to see what was so peculiar about the answers of the two that they could beat all the men.

Especially the little-known Xue Baochai, who is even more powerful than Wang Suxiu, who is famous in the capital.

When they saw the answers of the two, especially after the answers to the first few questions, everyone was amazed, no matter how jealous and envious they were, but they recognized the ranking of the two.

At the same time, the names of Xue Baochai and Wang Suxiu also spread to the capital with the list of names, and everyone praised the two as strange women, and they were named Shanghai Shuangbi people.

After reading the list, all the businessmen on the list are smiling and happy, especially the top ten and top 100 businessmen, who are as happy as if they have won the Jinshi, after all, they are from the country's businessmen, and they can also be famous all over the world and improve their status in the business world.

The people who fell into Sun Mountain sighed secretly, not because they lost thousands of taels of silver in vain, after all, the last thing they were afraid of as merchants was the loss of silver, as long as the people were still there, they could earn it back.

It is a pity that he did not get a place to make the cut and become one of the best businessmen in the country.

After reading the answers, most people accept the fact that they are not on the list, and they are indeed not as good as others, and at the same time, they have learned a lot from other people's test papers.

Many people have secretly decided in their hearts to be angry and strong, and wait for the next imperial business selection, and then come to participate, and they must be on the list at that time.

When Zhang Jingyi saw that she was ranked third, she was very excited, although she was not the first, but it was a great honor to be among the top three.

At the same time, he was deeply interested in the first place that defeated him, Zhejiang Lu Bingyan, and the second place was Jiangnan Qi Xuezhao, and he was busy looking at the test papers of the two, wanting to see where he lost.

Although the results have been released, most of the unsuccessful merchants did not choose to leave the capital, wanting to see how exciting the next two rounds of selection will be, and at the same time find a way to start making friends with those top businessmen, especially the top ten, after all, these people are very likely to be selected as imperial merchants.

Xue Pan took the little servant and squeezed into the crowd with great difficulty, and when he saw his sister ranking eighth, he looked up to the sky and laughed excitedly, hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd, and ran back to tell Xue Baochai the good news.

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, after Xue Baochai learned the news, he still couldn't suppress his excitement and joy, because after entering the top ten, he might be summoned by the queen's mother, and then it would be an opportunity to change his fate.

At the same time, I am even more grateful to Lu Jing in my heart, if it weren't for Lu Jing planning all this, and telling myself some topics in advance, let alone the top ten on my own, it would be difficult to enter the list, and I was thinking about how to reward Lu Jing.

After Lu Jing handed over the rest of the affairs to the Internal Affairs Office, he rushed home non-stop.

After living in the Huangzhuang for more than ten days, and working in the Internal Affairs Office for another day, he is now homesick and homesick.

Although they were only separated for more than ten days, Daiyu felt as if they had been separated for more than ten years, and they often held the "Fengxiao Forest Collection" sung by the two in the study to read carefully, recalling the scene of Fengxiao and Ming between the two.

After getting the news that Lu Jing was going home today, Daiyu kept urging people to see it, but Zijuan had no choice but to stand at the gate in person.

Before Lu Jing arrived home, he saw Daiyu leading people, standing at the gate to greet her, and hurriedly walked to the door.

After a long time, they met again, speechless tears flowed first, Daiyu wiped her tears and welcomed Lu Jing into the house.

Lu Jing grabbed Daiyu's hand and comforted her while returning to the inner courtyard hand in hand.

As soon as she entered the bedroom, Daiyu threw herself into Lu Jing's arms like a milk swallow returning to her nest, unwilling to let go for a long time.

Lu Jing felt Daiyu's deep affection and extreme attachment to herself, and hugged Daiyu tightly.

After complaining to each other, Daiyu looked at Lu Jing's hair, and his beard had not been taken care of properly for more than ten days, so he hurriedly asked people to bring clean water and personally help Lu Jing wash his hair and take care of his appearance.

While taking care of Lu Jing's appearance, Daiyu asked, "Why doesn't the husband take care of it well?" ”

Lu Jing laughed and said: "This is deliberately done for my husband, in order to let the emperor see how hard I have worked these days!" ”

"Husband, aren't you afraid that the emperor will blame you for losing your dignity in front of the palace?" Daiyu asked with a smile.

"It's okay, the official uniform or something is cleaned up well, but the hair and beard are not combed much!" Lu Jing explained that he still pays attention to the details.

Daiyu looked at her husband's dignity, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Lu Xianggong's beard is like a willow, why do you need to be like this!" ”

When Lu Jing heard Daiyu's joke, he couldn't help but smile, touched Daiyu's hair, and replied: "Mrs. Lin's green silk is fluffy, and she can make a gimmick!" ”

When Daiyu heard this, her mouth flickered, her beautiful eyes flickered, and she did not immediately return the salute, but continued to serve Lu Jing to wash her hair.

After washing, Daiyu wiped the water droplets on Lu Jing's hair and chuckled: "The waves of water are inextricably linked, and the bright future starts from the beginning!" As he spoke, he patted Lu Jing's head.

Lu Jing smiled and continued: "Mandarin duck knife, straighten out the long hair and short beard, and the spring breeze will be made from now on!" ”

Daiyu suddenly said with high interest: "Husband's interest is very high today, so the concubine is not welcome." ”

Lu Jing saw Daiyu's cute appearance and said with a smile: "Come on, accompany your husband to the end today!" ”

Dai Yu smiled and said, "How many stacks of mountains are eyebrows? frowned, because of the king's thoughts. ”

Lu Jing stroked Daiyu's jade face and said with a smile: "The eyes are a puddle of water, looking forward to the whirlpool, and showing your face." ”

Daiyu grabbed Lu Jing's hand and continued: "The green willows hide smoke, and the cranes in the pines are shadowy. ”

"The red apricot is in the forest, the lizi is in time, and I happily stroke the piano." Lu Jing replied immediately.

Daiyu thought about it, and began to increase the difficulty: "Move here, watch the beads lock the deep curtain, comb the wind and fog sideburns, and decorate some green feathers and danxia." ”

Lu Jing thought for a moment and replied: "The spring breeze has passed, let the red fragrance be broken, and the twilight rain will roll up and the clouds will be paid in the smoke." ”

Daiyu nodded and smiled, her competitiveness was uplifted, and she couldn't help but continue to increase the difficulty: "Three days of wind, four days of rain, thick sleep does not kill the residual wine, and the sunrise and sunset are seen every day!" ”

After Lu Jing heard this, he was immediately stumped, the first two sentences are colloquialisms, the third sentence is a quoted poem, and the last sentence has four Japanese characters, and there are relative origins and falls.

After thinking about it for a long time, I only barely got it right: "Winter moon frost, wax moon snow, the quasi-good period is wrong, and the moon is half looking forward to the full moon!" ”

After finishing it, he hurriedly begged for mercy and said: "Madame's temples are like Guanyin, please be merciful!" ”

Daiyu smiled proudly, and still quipped: "Xianggong shakes his lips and puffs his tongue like a young gentleman, and talks big!" ”

Lu Jing hugged Daiyu into his arms, and pretended to be helpless: "The virtuous wife laughed at me, and I was ashamed to be the husband of the Lin family." ”

Daiyu comforted seriously: "The idiot man rides a horse and walks, and the clever wife often sleeps with her clumsy husband, and the concubine will not dislike her husband!" ”

Saying that, the two glanced at each other, and they both laughed happily, and after laughing for a while, Daiyu hurriedly asked Lu Jing to help her rub her sore stomach.

When night fell, the two of them were lying on the bed, like glue, and Daiyu said affectionately: "The flowers and silver lights dance together." ”

Lu Jing also responded with affection: "Embroidered house brocade tent and phoenix amphibious! ”

The newlywed Ben Yan'er, the little don't win the newlywed, the Luo tent hangs down the back of the silver candle, lingering people are drunk, *** entertainment, envy the empty boudoir and leave people's tears.