"You just brag, you boasted that you were a champion, and you boasted that your apprentices were the top three. So what do I do when I hold the imperial examination? Directly give the champion and the example to your master and apprentice! ”

"It's not impossible!" Li Mu smiled: "It's easy to get trouble." ”

"What a hassle!" Li Shimin withdrew his smile, raised his hand and knocked Li Mu, and said: "Don't give me a hippie smile, I tell you, you have to give me at least one of the two champions, otherwise I won't be able to spare you!" You can't afford to lose people! In the afternoon, you can't hand in the papers in advance anyway, give me a good look, check carefully, and don't live up to my expectations! ”

Li Mu also became honest: "The minister obeys the order." ”

"I'm gone, remember, take the test."

Gao Gonggong also said: "Chase the title of Hou Jinbang!" ”

Li Mu nodded with a smile, watched the two leave, and then continued to walk towards Sun's carriage.

"Mother!" Li Mu got into the carriage, squeezed Li Zhien aside, and sat next to Sun. Sun glared at him with disgust, and said: "How old is it, still like a child, Zhi'en is your daughter-in-law, and my mother still expects her to add Ding, you are good, I don't know that I feel sorry for my daughter-in-law, I can't bully her just because she is small." ”

"Mother, how can this be called bullying, does the child just want to sit next to his mother? Mother, the child is just participating in a imperial examination, and he can use such a teacher to mobilize the public, and let you come here, and when the child finishes the exam, he will naturally go to ask his mother for peace. ”

"Isn't my mother worried about you?" Sun took Li Mu's hand and said with emotion: "My mother heard before that the county prince of our hometown of Mayi is a man who knows the law and enters the office, you don't know how envious my mother is." But our family is poor, I can't afford to hire a gentleman, and I haven't been able to teach you to read and write, I didn't expect my son to be smart, he learned to write, and now he has participated in the imperial examination. ”

Li Mu smiled bitterly, and Li Zhien explained for him: "Mother, what is the county lord now, the little Bapin county order can't be relied on by the husband." The husband is the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from Sanpin, and you are his mother, so your status is even higher. Now if you call the county magistrate, you are sure to scare him to death, he will not dare to respond. ”

"Yes," Sun said with a smile: "Actually, my mother doesn't understand this truth, but I'm used to it, you haven't seen it, and the county lord is so majestic." ”

"Mother, isn't my son majestic now?" Li Mu said conspicuously: "Now in Chang'an City, who dares to provoke your son?" ”

"Besides, I just let His Majesty kick it, right?" Sun looked at Li Mu's buttocks, stretched out his hand to rub it, Li Mu hurriedly hid back; "Mother, it doesn't hurt, it's fine. What a great honor it is to be able to make His Majesty kick it, and ordinary people don't have this treatment. ”

"I'm shy, haven't you seen your mother anywhere?"

"Oh, hasn't my son grown up?" If you don't know that the Sun family is not your mother, it would be fine, after knowing it, Li Mu's heart will be very different from this kind of physical contact. It's just that he deliberately didn't want to show it, for fear that Sun would think too much.

"My mother made you wontons in the morning." Sun turned sideways, took out a food box, opened it and saw a bowl of wontons, it could be seen that it was held in his arms along the way, and the soup of the wontons was not spilled: "It's too late, my mother will wrap you to eat alone, you eat, wait for you to go in for the exam, and we will find a place to eat." ”

"Mother, I'm not in such a hurry." Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's find a restaurant, you order, I'll eat the wontons of Niangbao, otherwise you are all hungry, only I eat, can I eat it?" Besides, Qiaoqiao is still pregnant with a child. ”

"Oh, look at my memory." Sun patted his head with remorse, and hurriedly said to Qiaoqiao: "Daughter-in-law, it's not good to be a mother, just thinking about this kid." Hurry up, find a place to eat, don't starve my grandson. ”

"Mother, I'm not hungry"

"No, no, no! If you are not hungry, you have to eat on time, and if you are hungry, your eldest grandson should not be strong. ”

Qiaoqiao was helpless, so she had to say nothing and obey Sun's arrangement. Li Zhien listened beside him, his mouth pouted, Li Mu saw it, patted her arm, and was comforted.

After eating the old lady's love wontons and chatting for a while, Li Mu walked into the Gongyuan again to take the Jinshi exam.

Jinshi is the top priority of the imperial examination. It mainly tests a specific topic, and then composes poems and fu based on this topic, which is somewhat similar to the propositional composition in Li Mu's previous life language exam.

Among them, 'poetry' can test the degree of proficiency of students' language, and can also reflect literary brilliance. And Fu, as the mainstream style from the Han Dynasty to the present, can best reflect a person's literary literacy, he must not only be clear, but also rhetorical and beautiful, non-talented people can not be Fu, this is recognized common sense.

Of course, this refers to the Jinshike of the Tang Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jinshike had changed its taste. From expressing one's own thoughts, to 'speaking on behalf of the saints', extremely particular about format, forming a deformed structure of 'eight strands', this kind of change, stabilized the rule, but also imprisoned people's thinking, lost the original intention.

This year's Jinshi examination is still different from the last imperial examination. The officials of the Ministry of Rites, in order to prevent Li Shimin from revealing the topic to Li Mu, adopted the 'question drawing method', that is, before the exam, dozens of questions were drawn up, and then after the exam, one topic was drawn, so that even if Li Shimin revealed the topic to Li Mu, Li Mu could not prepare dozens of poems in a short time, which greatly reduced the possibility of cheating.

The gong sounded, and the exam began, and the examiner drew out two questions about the poem, asking for the poem to be composed with 'Huai Cai is not met', and the 'rise and fall replacement' is the endowment.

These two topics are difficult to say, but they are not difficult to talk about. As long as you have read a book, you feel that you are a talented person. And the rise and fall of the change, it is not difficult, the fall of the Sui Dynasty has not been less than 20 years, it can be said that most of the people who participated in this imperial examination have experienced the 'rise and fall' and feel the same way.

But the question is not easy to answer, because the scope is too wide, so it is difficult to shine. And if you can't be brilliant, even if you answer, it's a vain answer. This is like the mathematics of the college entrance examination, if the last two big questions are extremely difficult, it is easy to open the score difference, but if it is not difficult, it is difficult to open the score difference, and if you want to open it, it is even more difficult. This is also the strategy of the questioner, they know that Li Mu's writing is good, and deliberately makes him unable to open the gap.

But for Li Mu, it doesn't matter at all. Anyway, his examination of poetry is also a copy, the difference is only in whose copy it is.