The sun sets, and time flows; Kiss the years, splash the ink orchid.

Between the pen holders of Zhu Ping'an's ink and calligraphy, time is like sand in the palm of his hand, passing quietly between his fingers, and the birthday of the old lady of the Linhuai Hou Mansion is coming in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Ping'an also prepared a birthday gift for the old lady of Linhuai, which was a calligraphy and painting, written by Zhu Ping'an himself. The paper is Zhu Ping'an bought the best Chu leather paper outside, white and smooth like a mirror, the fiber is pounded very finely, the knot is evenly knotted, exquisite as silk, this kind of paper is evenly inked, use it to make calligraphy and painting, can be appreciated for a lifetime.

When writing and painting, Zhu Ping'an also thought about it.

In ancient times, this kind of bell ringing Ding food home, every time the old man's birthday, people will always send birthday poems or couplets, most of the birthday words are used rotten, so some lyricists say the difficulty: "It is difficult to live in the words, if you are rich and noble, then vulgar; If you are famous, you will be famous; As far as the gods are concerned, they are broad and illusory. Throughout many birthday poetry couplets, they are basically inseparable from words such as "Blessing is like the East China Sea, longevity is better than Nanshan", and this kind of birthday celebration is almost rotten on the street.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Ping'an dipped himself in ink and wrote a calligraphy and painting on the best Chu paper:

"Not to mention that it is a Bodhisattva who lives in the world. Even this year, his countenance is sixty, and he is only sixteen when he sees the bottom road.

Mo Dao birthday incense candle, Mo Zhu Ling turtle Chun Crane. Just take the pen lightly, and add a touch to the cross. ”

Add a stroke to the cross, it becomes a thousand years old, this kind of birthday greeting is indeed a blessing such as Donghai Shou is much stronger than Nanshan.

Of course. This birthday greeting is not Zhu Ping'an's original, this is Xin Jiaxuan's word for being praised for his playfulness and joy. This is a birthday speech made to wish a relative of his own family 80th birthday. Zhu Ping'an changed eighty of them to sixty, also to meet the birthday of the old lady of the Linhuai Marquis Mansion.

Except for this calligraphy and painting. Li Shu also asked the little girl with the bun to send a jade carving ornament for Zhu Ping'an to give it as a gift. Li Shu thought very thoughtfully, afraid that Zhu Ping'an's gift would be looked down upon by the Hou Mansion if it was light.

Zhu Ping'an put the things away, lit the oil lamp, and sat at the desk with the book in his hand.

By this time it was already dark and the earth had fallen asleep, except for the gentle blowing of the breeze, except for the occasional barking of a dog or two. The prosperous Hou Mansion was silent.

Grandma Hou was in the old lady's room, telling the old lady about the arrangements for tomorrow's birthday. The old lady is very satisfied with the arrangement of the grandmother, and the main reason is that several shops in the house have been making money every day in the past few days, and the business is unusually good.

In order to expand profits, the old lady agreed to the grandmother's plan and invested all the funds that could be used in the house. Although there is a lot of investment, according to the income of the past few days, the profit can be multiplied several times.

The old lady felt many years younger. I'm in a good mood, and I'm about to catch up with the mood when I drove the fox spirit of the third family out of the Hou Mansion.

The eldest grandmother is in a better mood, and several shops in the house have received so much money on the surface, but in fact, they have actually received more. It's just that they all went into the pockets of the big house, and they have paid so much for the Hou Mansion in the same vein of the big house, and it is natural to get more. Today, I got the old lady's approval. Invest the funds that can be mobilized in the government, and the profit will be at least several times greater. This time and again, I can get a huge amount of money in my big house. There is no need to point to the third room to make up for the house. With money, you can also take a walk and move your lord's position up.

In a good mood, everything is fine. The grandmother cared about the old lady's daily life, and the old lady lovingly asked the grandmother to go back to the room to rest early.

In short, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are like fish in water, and they are in harmony.

In the silence of the dark night in the Linhuai Marquis Mansion, the Shuntian Gongyuan far away in the southeast of the capital is brightly lit, and the marking has reached the last moment, and the ranking will be examined.

In the public hall, the examiners worked overtime, and at this moment all the test papers have been reviewed and recommended, and the examiners Xu Jie and Yan Maoqing have also completed the review of all the test papers recommended by the same examiner day and night, and the examiners Xu Jie and Yan Maoqing even "searched" out two buried test papers in the falling papers, and finally won the 400-point test paper, and all the 400 places in the Enke examination have been selected so far.

The 400 test papers that will be admitted are lined up on several long papers. Each test paper on the long case has a five-color font, this is because the marking officer on the test paper with a very strict pen color, the supervisor and the invigilator, the promotion, the acceptance of the paper, the seal, the outer curtain and other official purple pen, the same examiner and the inner curtain official with a blue pen, the transcription officer with a red pen, the reading official with a yellow pen, the main and deputy examiners with an ink pen, together known as the "five-color pen", so the 400 test papers that are about to be admitted have five colors of fonts.

The ranking of these 400 admitted examination papers is also a lot of work.

According to the practice of previous years, examiners often have a dispute over the ranking work, because the ranking can be said to be too important.

Why is it so important, because the ranking of this examination is almost the ranking of the upcoming palace examination. The emperor personally made the palace examination, and the ranking of the new science and technology scholars will be rearranged, but if there is no accident, there is not much difference between the palace examination ranking and the ranking of the examination, and the emperor only makes a slight adjustment according to personal preferences, and generally does not change much, and it is often the champion of the yuan. The first, second and third places in the palace examination are the champions, the top eyes, and the flowers, and 99% of these three people will be in the top ten of the ranking in this examination.

The ranking of the examination is the last step of grading, and it is also a step to test the quality of the examination.

Therefore, the ranking of this examination is very important, and the examiners, whether they are the chief examiner or the same examiner, will often strive for this ranking and express their opinions.

400 test papers were placed on several long cases one by one, and nearly 30 test papers were additionally placed, and these 30 test papers were additionally selected by the examiner Xu Jie in the marking of the papers, which are all the best works in this examination and the focus of this examination ranking.

Under the auspices of the chief examiners Xu Jie and Yan Maoqing, the ranking of 400 test papers was carried out in an orderly manner.

In addition to the nearly 30 additional test papers, the remaining 300 test papers were ranked, and the curtain came down in a sea of saliva, and all of them were ranked.

Immediately afterwards, 20 of the 30 test papers were also ranked nouns, and the remaining 10 were also determined to be the top 10, but the top 10 test papers were specifically who was the first, who was the second, and who was the third The opinions between the examiners could not be unified, and the opinions between the examiners were arguing endlessly, and some examiners drank two cups of tea, but still felt that their mouths were dry, and they couldn't stop talking (to be continued......