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. Bai Xue said:

"Do you know whose credit it is that you are standing here today?"

"I don't know." Several candidates said.

"How can you say that you don't know, it's all the grace of today." Iba said.

"Ishiro is right, you can stand here and go to the Golden Palace to take the exam in a while, it is all the grace of the Son of Heaven who is confused today. 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. Bai Xue said to the candidates.

"Bai Shangshu, a slip of the tongue." Iba dialogue.

"What's wrong again?" White Doctrine.

"You said the Son of Heaven was confused." Iba said.

"That's right, it's a fool." White Doctrine.

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

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

"I hear you." Candidates said.

"Ishiro, did you hear that?" Bai Xue asked Yi Chang again.

"I didn't hear that." Iba said.

"Learn from Isamura, hear when you ought to hear, and hear when you ought not. Ishirou said he didn't hear it, did you hear it? Bai Xue said to the candidates again.

"I didn't hear you." Candidates said.

"That's right. Let Isamura explain the etiquette of meeting the Son of Heaven. "White Doctrine.

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 foolish Son of Heaven."

"Flat." The Confused Son of Heaven said.

As soon as the people stood up, the Son of Heaven said:

"Which of your thirty candidates is a native of Meizhe in Jian County?"

Mei Zheren came out of the ranks and said:

"The villain is the Meizhe people of Jian County."

"It's 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. The Son of Heaven said.

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. ”

"It's a good topic. I think you have to buy a pair of shoes with thick heels, so you might as well call them high heels. ”

"Your Majesty."

"Okay, Mei Zheren, you can go back."

"The villain hasn't taken the exam yet, so Your Majesty will let me go back to the county?"

"Who said you should go back to your hometown, I will let you go back to the candidates."

"I thought His Majesty was going to test my physical fitness."

"Hey, you kid, it's kind of funny. Mei Zheren, since you have come out, you will be the first to take the tongue twister test. Do you have the guts? ”

"The villain's surname is Mei, but the guts are there."

"Interesting, let's get started."

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?"

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

"Is that the person who listens to people's love and flowers to bloom?"

"Exactly."

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

"Back to Your Majesty, my family teacher Xishuo is not in the country of Aolai now."

"Where did he go?"

"When the teacher leaves, ......"

"What, Western Shuo is dead?"

"Your Majesty, the family teacher is not dead, he is far away."

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

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

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

"The tutor said that he was not performing a show."

"It's not a show, what is it?"

"It's loneliness."

"It's lonely enough to put on a show for animals. Didn't he say when he would be back? ”

"He said he would come back after all the shows."

"Tell me, what are the shows he performs?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the commentaries that the tutor told the penguins are "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Shuoyue", and "Great Sui and Tang".

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

"The cross talk that the tutor told the kangaroo is "The Legend of Jigong", "Officialdom Fight", and "Bachelor Jie".

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

"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 ......"

"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, the confused Son of Heaven said:

"Okay, Mei Zheren, you are the first in the written test and interview. The champion of this subject is your Mei Zheren. ”