After the interview in the Golden Palace, all the candidates returned to the Ministry of Rites, and the confused Son of Heaven gave a wine banquet for the candidates to eat here.

After eating, Bai Xue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Hu Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, arranged to boast about the officials in the misty city for two days with the top three candidates.

It is said that it is two days of boasting about officials, but in fact it is only one and a half days. The country of Aolai is a small country, and Ethereal City is naturally not much bigger, a day and a half is enough.

At the end of the banquet, the official of the Ministry of Rites brought a red dress, a top hat and a big red flower, and asked the champion Mei Zheren and Bangyan and Tanhua to wear it.

An embarrassing scene appeared, Bangyan and Tanhua were both very tall, and there was no problem wearing dresses. Mei Zheren is a five-short figure, after putting on the dress, he can't see his hands on the top and his feet on the bottom, just like a child messing around, putting on the clothes of an adult.

There are no extra dresses in the Ministry of Rites, and it is too late to change them, so Mei Zheren can only wear the fat dress on his body, pull up the sleeves, and stretch out his hand. He tightened the saffron on his chest again, and it didn't look so awkward.

Looking at Mei Zheren in front of them, Bai Xue and Hu Arrangement couldn't help but laugh. Hu arranged the dialogue and said:

"Lord Bai, how is the etiquette department arranged, why don't you prepare a few more sets of small dresses?"

"Master Hu, where can the Ministry of Rites compare to your Ministry of Officials, we are the Qingshui Yamen, so we made these three sets of dresses, according to the average height of the thirty candidates. Kuaguan wants to ride a horse, find a tall horse for Mei Zhuangyuan to ride, and his height immediately reaches the average level. "White Doctrine.

When Mei Zheren heard the two adults say this, he had no choice but to laugh at himself:

It made the two adults laugh. It's okay if your height is below average, as long as your intelligence is above average. When it comes to my height, there's another story. ”

"What's the story?" White Doctrine.

"In other words, when my mother was not pregnant with me, she went to the temple one day to burn incense. When I got home, my mother had a dream that night.

She dreamed of fighting to defeat the Buddha, and my mother asked the fighting to defeat the Buddha: Buddha, what is the matter with you?

Fighting over the Buddha said: I will send you a champion, you will be pregnant soon, and your son will become a champion in the future.

My mother kept saying thank you to the Buddha for defeating the fight.

Dou defeated the Buddha and said: But there is one condition, only if you agree, your son can become the champion in the future. My mother asked, what are the conditions?

Dou defeated the Buddha and said: Your son must be the same height as me in the future, so that I can give him infinite wisdom and make him the champion.

My mother saw that the fighting Buddhas in the temple were all tall, and she happily agreed at that time. Later, she learned that the original Dou Shengfo was only four feet tall, and he was a short man. However, it was too late for her to regret it.

However, later, my mother went to the temple every day to burn incense and worship to defeat the Buddha, and the Buddha finally showed kindness and made me a little taller than him. Mei Zheren said.

"Mei Zheren, are you telling the truth or is it false?" Bai Xue Mei Zheren.

"True and false, false and true." Mei Zheren said.

"Mei Zheren, you're really interesting. Don't worry, if you are an official, the officials will definitely make you a set of official uniforms that fit. Hu arranged to say to Mei Zheren.

"Master Xie." Mei Zheren said.

Mei Zheren and Bangyan, Tanhua, Bai Xue, and Hu arranged to each ride a horse, and there were messengers in front of them who sounded gongs to open the way, and some errand servants followed. The crowd walked out into the street and praised the officials.

Everywhere the team went, both sides were full of people watching the excitement. People want to see what the new champion looks like.

When the procession passed by Prime Minister Zuo's mansion, they all went outside to watch. Mei Zheren rode a tall horse in front, and I recognized it at a glance, and the new champion was the scholar who played him on the street a few days ago.

I was very in a good mood, so I went back to Fuzhong and said to Dounilane:

"Prime Minister, the person who beat me and insulted the Prime Minister on the street a few days ago has been found."

It was all up to me to collect the sanitation fee on the street, and it was Dounidine who acquiesced. After I was beaten, I went back to the house and told Dounitan what had happened. Because the day of the imperial examination was coming soon, Dounitan did not immediately track down Sun Xiaosheng and Mei Zheren.

Hearing that I had found someone, Dounilane was also very excited, so he said to Me:

"Where are those two?"

"I found one, but the red-faced girl didn't find it, and the short scholar was on the street outside." It's all up to me.

"Then why don't you send someone to arrest that scholar?"

"That scholar can't be caught."

"Why can't you catch it?"

"He's the new champion."

"It's Mei Zheren?"

"That's him."

"It turned out to be him. Behold that I will send him far away tomorrow, and keep him away from the capital. ”

Put down the soxynilane and it's all mine, and then talk about the Meizhe people. The team of Kuaguan walked around the streets of Ethereal City, and it was dark as they turned.

Bai Xue asked the messenger to carry a sedan chair and sent Mei Zheren back to the inn, waiting for the second day to continue to praise the official.

After returning to the inn, the two of them had a good wine, good food and good hospitality to the Meizhe people.

In the evening of the same day, Dounilane sent news to all the important ministers of the DPRK and China, saying that thirty candidates had been crowned officials.

Nothing happened overnight.

On the second day, the Meizhe people were still riding horses and boasting about the officials as they had done the day before.

Mei Zheren has read countless books, and in many books, he has seen the champion riding a horse and boasting about the official, just in time to catch up with the dignified and beautiful lady of a large family throwing hydrangea to recruit relatives and finally achieve a beautiful marriage.

Now that Mei Zheren has become the champion himself, and he is an older leftover man, he also wants to encounter that kind of good thing. But after a day and a half, I didn't meet a young lady who threw a hydrangea to recruit relatives.

Mei Zheren secretly thought to himself: Is it because I am short because Mei Zheren is short, none of the ladies in the capital have taken a fancy to me? Tuxing Sun can marry Deng Chanyu, Wang Ying can marry Hu Sanniang, why can't I marry a beautiful girl? Oh, my God! It turns out that fairy tales are really all lies!

On the third day, it was the day to enter the court and seal the official. Mei Zheren and the other candidates came to the outside of the palace early to wait for the summons.

At four o'clock, the eunuch sent an order to let the thirty admitted Jinshi go to the Confused Hall to meet the Son of Heaven. Mei Zheren walked in the front, and thirty Jinshi came to the Confused Hall in turn.

After the people had saluted, the Son of Heaven said to the ministers:

"Enke's imperial examination is over, and these thirty jinshi are admitted. Let's talk about it, what officials should be sealed? ”

"Your Majesty, this year's imperial examination is different from previous years. This year is the first year of confusion, and the subjects examined are new, unprecedented, and Fengguan should also innovate. Dounystan said.

"Prime Minister Dou Cheng is reasonable, what kind of innovation method should be made?" The Confused Son of Heaven said.

"In previous years, in the imperial examination, the admitted candidates were all sealed according to their ranks, but this time we might as well seal them according to the size of the one." Soxynylane said.

"According to the size of the seal, interesting, it is really a strange story through the ages. What do the ministers think? The Son of Heaven said.

"Your Majesty, the method that Prime Minister Dou said is too wonderful, I think this arrangement is very good." Hu arranged.

Other ministers agreed.

"That's it. Thirty jinshi, you should line up according to the size of the group. The tallest row is at the front, and the shortest row is at the back. The Son of Heaven said.

Thirty Jinshi lined up, and Mei Zheren had no suspense and was at the end. The confused Son of Heaven gave them official titles one by one, the higher the size, the bigger the official position, the smaller the size, the smaller the official position.

Mei Zhe is the smallest, so he can only be the county commander of the seventh grade. When Mei Zheren was given the official title, the confused emperor asked Hu to arrange:

"Where is the vacant position of the county order in our Aolai country?"

"Your Majesty, Ma Erha, the county magistrate of Huaguoshan County, has been promoted to the county guard, and is waiting for the next county magistrate to take over." Hu arranged.

"It's the hometown of Fighting to Defeat Buddha, yes, Mei Zheren, you can go there and take office." The confused Son of Heaven said to Mei Zheren.

The confused Son of Heaven personally sealed it, and none of the ministers objected, and the Mei Zhe people were helpless, and they could only complain that their legs were too short.

Mei Zheren kowtowed in thanksgiving. The thirty jinshi were all sealed officials, and the official medicine was more salty and said to the confused emperor:

"Your Majesty, the thirty jinshi have been sealed, haven't you found any problems?"

"Questions? It's interesting. The Son of Heaven said.

"Bangyan and Tanhua have one sealed the third grade, and the other has sealed the fourth grade, but the champion Mei Zheren only sealed the seventh-grade official. It is said that the seven-rank official is a sesame official, and the champion is too condescending. "The medicine is more salty.

"That's what you say. I think about it, there it is. Other county orders are seven-grade sesame officials, and I am now crowning Mei Zhe as a seven-grade watermelon county order, and watermelons are much more than sesame.

The Meizhe people are nominally seven grades, but they enjoy the three grades. The Son of Heaven said.

The ministers praised the confused Son of Heaven one after another: "Your Majesty is wise, and it is really Yao Shun's rebirth." ”

The confused emperor said to Hu Arrangement again: "Hu Arrangement, you make a few sets of official uniforms for Mei Zheren, and embroider big watermelons on them." Others knew at a glance that he was the county magistrate of watermelon. ”

"Your Majesty." Hu arranged.

The confused Son of Heaven asked Mei Zheren again: "Mei Zheren, let you make the seven-grade watermelon county order, what do you think?" ”

"The Son of Heaven doesn't know. When my teacher Xi Shuo took me as an apprentice, he said that one day he dreamed of fighting to defeat the Buddha. The Buddha told him that I was the watermelon official in the sky.

Now Your Majesty has sealed my seven-grade watermelon county order, this is the will of heaven! His Majesty is worthy of being the Son of Heaven and can understand the will of God. Mei Zheren said.