Early the next morning, Liangyan asked the shopkeeper to wake up Mei Zheren, and brought him hot water to wash his face. The people of Mei Zhe have never enjoyed such good treatment.

After Mei Zheren finished washing, Liang Yu and the shopkeeper went to his room with breakfast and new clothes. Mei Zheren tried on the new clothes first, and they fit perfectly. He looked at the breakfast again, and it was very good.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, although Mei Zheren couldn't get used to the two shopkeepers in front of him, it was not good to talk about the other party's disadvantages, so they all gladly accepted it.

At two o'clock, Mei Zheren and the other twenty-nine admitted candidates came to the Ministry of Rites again. Bai Xue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the squire Lang Yichang each put on their official uniforms, and there they had to give some teaching to the candidates before entering the palace.

Bai Xue and Yichang took the candidates to the performance hall of the Ministry of Rites, and the thirty candidates sat down in their respective positions. Bai Xue and Yi Chang stood on the stage and addressed the candidates.

Bai Xue: "Do you know whose credit it is that you can stand here today?" ”

A few candidates: "I don't know. ”

Yiba: "How can you say that you don't know, it's all the grace of today's son." ”

Bai Xue: "What Yi Shilang said is right, you can stand here, and you will go to the Golden Palace to take the exam in a while, it is all the grace of today's foolish emperor." If it weren't for the fact that the Son of Heaven was confused for a moment and opened this Enke, you would not be standing here. ”

Yichang whispered to Bai Xue: "Bai Shangshu, the mouth is wrong. ”

Bai Xue: "What's wrong again?" ”

Yiba: "You said that the Son of Heaven was confused. ”

Bai Xue: "That's right, it's a fool." ”

Yichang: "You said that the Son of Heaven was confused for a while, and opened this Enko." ”

Bai Xue: "Slip of the tongue." Then he said to the candidates, "Did you hear me say the wrong thing just now?" ”

Candidates: "I hear you. ”

Bai Xue asked Yichang again: "Yishilang, did you hear that?" ”

Iba: "I didn't hear you. ”

Bai Xue said to the candidates, "You have to learn from Ishiro, hear when you should hear, and don't hear when you shouldn't." Ishirou said he didn't hear it, did you hear it? ”

Candidates: "I didn't hear you. ”

Bai Xue: "That's right. Let Isamura explain the etiquette of meeting the Son of Heaven. ”

Iba explained the etiquette to the candidates.

At five o'clock in the morning, the eunuch came to announce the decree, and the confused Son of Heaven summoned all the candidates. Bai Xue and Yi Chang led the candidates and followed the eunuchs into the palace.

The main hall of the king of the Mu Youchao Dynasty was originally called Mu Yougong, and after King Hao Hutu changed his name to the Confused Son of Heaven, Mu Yougong was renamed the Mu Yougong Palace.

The eunuch led the people to the hall of confusion. Bai Xue and Yichang led the candidates to make a big salute and shouted: "Long live the confused Son of Heaven." ”

Hao Hutu: "Flat." ”

As soon as everyone stood up, Hao Hutu said: "Among you thirty candidates, which one is a Meizhe from Jian County?" ”

The Meizhe people came out of the team and said, "The villain is the Meizhe people of Jianxian County." ”

Hao Hutu: "It turned out to be you." You actually got my brain teasers and riddles right, and I thought I was such a tall man, but it turned out to be a small one. ”

Mei Zheren: "The villain also happened to get it right." I'm not tall, and I've let the Son of Heaven down. I'll go buy a pair of height-booster shoes to wear. ”

Hao Hutu: "This topic is well received. I think you have to buy a pair of shoes with thick heels, so you might as well call them high heels. ”

Mei Zheren: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Hao Hutu: "Okay, Mei Zheren, you go back." ”

Mei Zheren: "The villain hasn't taken the exam yet, Your Majesty will let me go back to Yi County?" ”

Hao Hutu: "Who said that you should go back to your hometown, I will let you go back to the candidates." ”

Mei Zheren: "I thought Your Majesty was going to test my physical fitness." ”

Hao Hutu: "Hey, you kid, it's a bit interesting to talk." Mei Zheren, since you have come out, you will be the first to take the tongue twister test. Do you have the guts? ”

Mei Zheren: "The villain's surname is Mei, but he has the guts." ”

Hao Hutu: "Interesting, let's start." ”

The eunuch walked up to Mei Zheren with a tray on which were thirty folded exam papers. Mei Zheren took one at random. When you open it, there are two tongue twisters on it, which are "Cripple and Stubborn" and "Cui Thick Legs and Cui Thick Legs".

The two tongue twisters are not difficult for Mei Zheren, and he is already familiar with the content. Mei Zheren briefly read the two tongue twisters, folded the exam paper and held it in his hand, and began to recite:

"Cripples and cripples

A lame man came from the south, with a peg pinned to his waist,

From the north came a mangrove with an eggplant on his shoulder.

Don't be lame with a peg, exchange a peg for an eggplant with an eggplant,

Pick the eggplant and don't give the lame eggplant to the other peg.

Don't take out the peg in your waist and hit the eggplant's peg,

Pick the eggplant, pick up the eggplant, and hit the lame eggplant of the other peg.

Choi thick legs and Choi thick legs

There is a Cui thick leg in front of the mountain,

There is a Cui leg behind the mountain.

Two people come to the mountain to compete with their legs,

I don't know if Cui's thick legs are thicker than Cui's thick legs,

Or is Choi's leg thicker than Choi's thick leg? ”

Mei Zheren finished the two tongue twisters, word for word, word for word, word for word. The confused Tianzi was really taken aback, and asked Mei Zheren: "Mei Zheren, answer honestly, which quyi master's apprentice are you?" ”

Mei Zheren: "Back to Your Majesty, the villain's master is Xishuo." ”

Hao Hutu: "Is that the person who listens to people's love and flowers to listen to the flowers bloom?" ”

Mei Zheren: "Exactly. ”

Hao Hutu: "No wonder your kid has such a tongue twister." Let me ask you, where is your master, Xi Shuo, now? I want to meet him. ”

Mei Zheren: "Back to Your Majesty, the family teacher Xishuo is not in the country of Aolai now." ”

Hao Hutu: "Where did he go?" ”

Mei Zheren: "When the family teacher leaves—"

Hao Hutu: "What, Xishuo is dead?" ”

Mei Zheren: "Your Majesty, the family teacher is not dead, he is far away." ”

Hao Hutu: "Where did you go?" I'm sending someone to get him back, no, please come back. ”

Mei Zheren: "Back to Your Majesty, when the tutor and I separated, he said that he would first go to Antarctica to tell penguins stories, and then go to Oceania to talk to kangaroos about stand-up comedy......"

Hao Hutu: "Stop, is your master Xishuo swollen?" Can't you put on a show for people? ”

Mei Zheren: "The tutor said that he was not performing a show. ”

Hao Hutu: "It's not a show, what is it?" ”

Mei Zheren: "It's loneliness. ”

Hao Hutu: "Running so far to show animals is lonely enough." Didn't he say when he would be back? ”

Mei Zheren: "He said that he would come back after all the performances. ”

Hao Hutu: "Tell me, what are the programs he performs?" ”

Mei Zheren: "Back to Your Majesty, the commentaries that the family teacher gave to the penguins are "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Shuoyue", and "Great Sui and Tang". ”

Hao Hutu: "My grandma, can't he say something short?" What kind of show is the cross talk performing? ”

Mei Zheren: "The cross talk that the family teacher told the kangaroo is "The Legend of Jigong", "Officialdom Fight", and "Bachelor Jie". ”

Hao Hutu: "It's long enough." He's coming back after that, right? ”

Mei Zheren: "Back to Your Majesty, the family teacher will go to South America to tell the alpaca Shandong Kuaishu, go to the North Pole to sing the lotus flower to the polar bear, and go to Africa to sing the lion Hebei Bangzi ......"

Hao Hutu: "Okay, you don't have to say it, he can't come back." I now know who the saying "If you don't die, you won't die" is talking about.

Even if you, the master, don't freeze to death in the Antarctic and the North Pole, the polar bear won't eat him, and in Africa, he will have to let the lion eat him. He can't come back.

Mei Zheren, your exam is over, say tongue twisters to someone else. ”

Mei Zheren returned to his place, and the other candidates took turns to come out and say tongue twisters. They all looked at the tongue twisters, and none of them said it as well as Mei Zheren.

After all the candidates finished the exam, Hao Hutu said: "Okay, Mei Zheren, you are the first in the written test and interview." The champion of this subject is your Mei Zheren. ”