The box is not a special treasure, according to Li Mu's previous life, this thing can be called "Five-Year Mock Three-year College Entrance Examination", or "Huanggang Secret Volume", Kong Yingda brought the last imperial examination, that is, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, during the Wude period, the content of the first imperial examination recorded in Chinese history. This imperial examination was in charge of Kong Yingda, and all the topics were from Professor Guozijian, and then selected by Kong Yingda and presented to Li Yuan for final decision.

The contents of this box are the codex made by Kong Yingda. There are three books in total, and the first book is all the policy topics issued by the professors of Guozijian, which are not used, and those that are used. In addition to the questions, there is also a sample essay written by the professor who wrote the question, which was originally used to explain the idea of the question to the emperor, which is tantamount to the best reference for the candidates.

The second book mainly introduces the scriptures. Although the scriptures are mainly based on rote memorization, the questions are biased. Confucius and Mencius remarked so many and covered a wide range of aspects, many of which were dialogues. The imperial examination focuses on the so-called great righteousness, and some minor righteousness almost does not appear in the title. This excerpt from the scriptures is Kong Yingda's experience for many years, and it can be regarded as his 'lesson plan'.

The third is a collection of articles by those who excelled in the last imperial examination. Although Kong Yingda is old-fashioned, he also has the benefits of being old-fashioned, rigorous and serious, he attaches great importance to the first imperial examination he is responsible for, so he privately transcribed the articles of the outstanding people and compiled them into a volume, and now he has also given them to Li Mu.

Li Mu was very happy to see these three books. Originally, he was not so serious about taking the top prize. The exam is going to be examined, but he has already prepared for the worst, and he really can't be the champion, that is, losing to Wei Zheng with a thousand taels of gold, it's not a big deal. But if you can win, who wants to lose? After all, it is a pleasant thing to let Wei Zheng call himself a teacher.

Li Mu has analyzed this matter before, he is familiar with "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "Two Hundred Selected Song Poems", and has memorized a lot of famous classical Chinese from childhood to university "Language", as an orphan, primary school entrance examination for middle school, middle school examination for high school, high school entrance examination for university, usually once a month in school, two classroom tests a week, mid-term, final term - university examination level 4, level 6, computer qualification certificate, etc., he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles. At least he is very confident that he has experienced more exams alone than all the students combined.

For the exam, Li Mu was fearless. There is only one worry that he doesn't know what the exam of the Tang Dynasty is all about. Now that there are "counseling materials" produced by Kong Yingda, Li Mu is not panicked. Isn't it just doing the question, it's too easy. You must know that the college entrance examination in the previous life was a total of six courses in Chinese, mathematics and English, and Datang's 'college entrance examination' only tested one language, if you don't understand the test, you are sorry for staying up late in your previous life.

Wei Zheng also saw the contents of the box, but he didn't say anything. Although Kong Yingda is a Shandong scholar, he is a Confucian saint, his status is transcendent, and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are Li Mu who has no scruples about doing anything with him, no big or small is called Lao Kong, and when others see Kong Yingda, who doesn't call him Kong sacrificial wine, Confucius?

Li Mu happily accepted the box, called the waiter, and ordered the food to be served.

During the Tang Dynasty, the system of eating was shared, and the system of eating together was only seen in the homes of ordinary people, or in low-level places such as 'soup and cake shops'. Like Li Mu's mansion, there are almost no high-ranking mansions that have always had a meal system, which is also a point that Li Mu has been criticized, and people who look down on him think that as the Marquis of the Tang Dynasty, he is still so unruly, and he is really a country man, and he can't be on the stage.

Li Mu just likes this kind of scene where everyone is happy around a table, and he doesn't care what others say, he does his own thing. But when feasting guests, he still has to take into account the feelings of the guests, so after the opening of the heavenly and earthly world, Li Mu often comes to the heavenly and earthly banquets, where they can eat together or separately, saving a lot of trouble.

If there were no two old men, Wei Zheng and Kong Yingda, they would have eaten together, but when they came, it was not good for them to sit at the same table with a group of juniors, so they had to temporarily change the meal.

The private room in heaven and earth was greeted by Li Mu in advance, but the specific arrangements were handled by Wang Ou. She had already arrived, and had nothing to do, so she took out the hostess' sense of responsibility and arranged today's banquet.

Xiao Chen's father-in-law observed her words and looks, and knew that the relationship between Li Mu and Wang Ou was not ordinary, so he naturally did not dare to disobey her words.

A total of four private rooms were opened today, one from Zhangjiazhai. There is one of the people of the Hou Mansion, one of the female dependents, and one of the foreign guests. The dishes in each private room are slightly different, such as the private room where the people in Zhangjiazhai are located, with big fish and big meat. The private room where the ladies are located is relatively light and delicate, and it can be seen that Wang Ou has put a lot of thought into it.

Li Mu is in this private room, which is to entertain foreign guests, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Changsun Chong, Li Tai, Tang Guan, and Wang Pu are all in this private room.

For the sake of Wei Zheng's gift, Li Mu specially asked the waiter to add a bowl of vinegar celery. It's the middle of winter, celery is already very scarce, the whole Chang'an City, there are some in the cellars of heaven and earth, and you can't find them anywhere else.

If you want to say that the heavens and the earth have prepared vinegar celery, it is also due to Wei Zheng. The last time he fought with Wei Zheng, Li Mu bought all the celery in Chang'an in order to disgust him, causing the price of celery in Chang'an City to soar and spend a lot of money, the purpose was to make Wei Zheng unaffordable. Wei Zheng really couldn't afford to eat it, because then he was fined for it, not to mention green vegetables, steamed buns can't afford to eat. If there was no money Wei Yingluo got back, it would almost be cut off by now.

Li Mu asked the waiter to bring vinegar celery, pretending to be casual, but secretly looked at Wei Zheng. He had only heard that Wei Zheng liked vinegar paress, but he had never seen Wei Zheng eat vinegar parsley, and he wanted to know if it was as rumored.

He's seen it today, and the rumors aren't false at all.

When the waiter walked up the stairs, Wei Zheng's nose sniffed twice. Li Mu almost laughed, held back, and talked to Li Tai next to him, but his eyes kept aiming. By the time the waiter walked to the door, Wei Zheng had already looked at the door, as if he was expecting something, and he looked incredulous. The waiter opened the door and came in with vinegar celery, Wei Zheng actually stood up and left the table, and went straight to vinegar celery.

"There's celery at this time?" Wei Zheng was surprised, his eyes stared at the vinegar celery in the bowl, and his eyes were already straight.

Li Mu beckoned and said, "Come on, come here, I won't share this bowl of vinegar celery with five yuan, I'll eat it myself." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone knew that Li Mu was deliberate, and they couldn't help laughing.

Wei Zheng also knew that Li Mu did it on purpose, but he really wanted to eat jealousy. Counting the days, he hadn't smelled celery for almost two months. It's okay if you don't smell it, but if you smell it, you can't eat it, not to mention how uncomfortable it feels in your heart.

Seeing that the waiter was about to pass by and bring the vinegar celery to Li Mu's table, Wei Zheng couldn't help it, reached out and took the bowl from the waiter's tray and put it on his table.

"Lao Wei, why did you grab it, this bowl of food is not for you, I ordered lamb knuckle for you, how delicious the lamb knuckle is——"

"I swapped with you." Wei Zheng used chopsticks like flying, stuffed them into his mouth, this vinegar celery entrance, the taste burst out, Wei Zheng's whole person was refreshed, and the refreshing feeling was conveyed to the limbs, and the straight teaching person was like a fairy.

"As for it......" Li Mu looked at Wei Zheng's expression, it was really incomprehensible. Is this vinegar celery so delicious?

"Come on, come on, one bowl for one person!" Li Mu waved his hand and asked the waiter to bring a few more bowls. Everyone hurriedly waved their hands, and Li Tai said: "Big brother, don't bother, we don't like that taste." ”

"You don't eat it, I have to taste it, is it so delicious...... everyone didn't eat it, so Li Mu asked the waiter to bring another bowl. This time Wei Zheng didn't grab it, he hadn't finished his bowl yet, he ate very slowly, one bite after another, which reminded Li Mu that when he was a child in the orphanage, occasionally a well-wisher sent some eggs, and the children were divided into half of them, and they were reluctant to eat them, so they had to wait for a bowl of rice to be eaten up, and then eat the half of the egg in one bite, Wei Zheng's current appearance is as if he was eating that half of the egg.

Li Mu saw the true face of the dish for the first time, originally he thought that the vinegar celery was a cold dish, but otherwise, the vinegar celery was actually a soup dish. It is made by fermenting celery and mixing it with five flavors.

Li Mu picked up the spoon, and before he could take a bite, he didn't want to eat it. He had eaten spinach soup, cabbage soup, and radish soup, and this celery soup was still fermented, and he didn't dare to eat it. Li Mu looked at Wei Zheng again, still looking so comfortable, ruthless, put down the spoon, picked up the chopsticks, and stuffed a chopstick into his mouth.

"Poof......

A strange smell rushed to his mind, and Li Mu vomited instantly.

"What the is this! This is also what people eat? ”

The waiter turned pale with fright, and explained again and again: "Master Hou, this bowl and the bowl just now were made by a chef, and the taste should be the same." ”

Li Tai smiled: "Big brother, vinegar celery is this taste, it's a bit weird." ”

Li Mu threw away the chopsticks and said, "I can't eat this thing, throw it away!" ”

"Don't throw it!" Wei Zheng heard this sentence clearly, got up and came to Li Mu's table, and snatched the vinegar celery: "It's a pity to throw it away, I'll help you eat it." ”

Li Mu gritted his teeth: "Old Wei, you are really embarrassed, you have eaten ten times of my money inside and out, can you have ten times if you buy your broken house?" ”

Wei Zheng returned to his place and sat down, took a sip of soup, and still had the same expression as if he had smoked a big cigarette: "Chase the deer marquis, don't be angry, this is not hospitality." ”

"You're really thick-skinned...... Li Mu laughed angrily, called the waiter, and said, "Do it again, see if he finishes eating, I'll give him another bowl, I'll eat and vomit him today!" I'll see how much he can eat! ”