In the afternoon.

Zhong Xinyi came to Cao Yan with a little rain again.

I also brought some gifts.

"Alas, it's troublesome for Gongzi Cao and Gongzi Luo." As soon as she saw Cao Yan, she hurriedly apologized.

"Miss Zhong, I'm outside." Cao Yan stretched out her hand to stop her action of preparing to apologize, and smiled indifferently.

"This is as it should be, I didn't expect that when I gave the money, the shopkeeper was so careless that it was seen by those people."

"Miss Zhong's family, there was no accident last night, right?"

"No, an elder of my family is a famous man in the rivers and lakes, and he is an ordinary martial arts person, and he still doesn't dare to mess with him."

"That's good, I was worried for a while yesterday, by the way, where is Miss Zhong's house?" Cao Yan asked.

"My house is on the south side of the city, a little far from here." Zhong Xinyi knew what Cao Yan meant, and wanted to go to his house as soon as there was a problem.

"Oh, I'll have to pay a visit when I'm free."

"It is estimated that Mr. Cao has been at home for a while recently!" Zhong Xinyi said with a smile.

"Why?"

"One day, the matter of Cao Gongzi's competition with the subordinates of the Aoyun County Lord at night was rumored to the ears of Zhang Xijiu of the Guozijian, and he reported to His Majesty today and asked you to be grounded before the test, why haven't you received this grounding order yet?"

"I didn't get it!" Cao Yan was also a little strange, he really didn't receive it.

This Nima, people sit at home, and the pot comes from heaven.

Cao Yan didn't know how he offended this sacrificial wine and made him so yin of himself.

But he didn't know that Zhang Xijiu wanted to help him, and he didn't want him to go out to play every day, so he wasted the exam.

And why did he do this, firstly, because after the last exam in Jiangning Mansion, when those invigilators were leaving, they each asked Cao Yan to send them a pair of poems, and they were only seen and publicized by their relatives and friends when the invigilators came back.

And the font is really unseen before, it is also very artistic, and it also has a kind of arrogance among the literati that everyone defaults to, which makes many people like it at first glance, and many literati in the capital are also copying Cao Yan's words during this time.

Of course, the content of the poems Cao Yan gave them is also a must, and each of them is a masterpiece, which is even more powerful.

This second is related to Luo Ming, when he learned that he actually took the second place in the exam, this news is no less than a thunderclap on the ground, although he has no deep impression of Luo Ming, but at least he has heard it before, others in the court have talked about it, who is the kid of who's family, it is estimated that there is no salvation and so on, among which there is Luo Ming's name, which makes him a little bit want to prepare to get Cao Yan to teach in the country after the exam.

……

"Why hasn't it arrived yet? Impossible? Zhong Xinyi said a little strangely, the people who got the news by herself came in a hurry, and the will that was sent directly did not arrive? Does that make sense?

Cao Yan hurriedly looked at Lin Ruyi, wanting to see if she knew about it.

"Uncle, I forgot to tell you, the grounding order was sent by Xia Xiaohou a long time ago, but he left his things in the door room and ran away." Lin Ruyi explained.

Now Cao Yan understood that he had made this thing.

If he dared to bring it to his face, it would be a ghost.

"That garbage." Cao Yan scolded in a low voice.

But Cao Yan doesn't care about this, anyway, he has to make a show for the imperial examination recently, and he can't go out to wave anymore.

"By the way, Gongzi Cao, let Ruyi accompany me to Gongzi Luo's house to make a compensation." Zhong Xinyi said.

"I'll accompany ......" Speaking of this, Cao Yan thought that he had been grounded, and smiled "hehe": "Okay, Ruyi, you accompany Miss Zhong to Luo Fatzi." ”

……

In this way, during this period of time, Cao Yan stayed at home, and had nothing to guide them to play with the sword.

Practice by yourself, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which also made Cao Yan discover that in fact, his wife can also play the pipa.

And it plays very well, if it is equipped with internal force and the like, there is also a special effect of sonic power.

This makes Cao Yan like to play some later songs with her, and the two entertain themselves together.

That way, the days will pass faster.

……

Time came ten days later in the blink of an eye.

The first test in the Beijing examination is for men.

On the third day after the men's exam, the women's exam is held.

On the sixth day, there is the men's martial arts exam.

After the exam, it was followed by the women's martial arts exam.

After that, there is the strategy examination for men's and women's martial arts.

Finally, it is the release day of the civil and military together.

After saying this, it feels like the next days are quite tightly arranged.

The examination is in the Tribute Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites.

In the northeast of the inner city, it is the seat of what is now Henan University.

The entrance time for this exam is much earlier, and the inspection starts at 7 o'clock in the morning when the local Shangxiang test is taken, while the Jingshi examination starts at 5 o'clock in the morning, and it is still open at the same time with both doors open.

After all, the number of people is several times higher than the number of people who take the local exam, and if you don't take some time in advance, there is really no way to check so many people, and the inspection here is stricter than the township exam.

When the hour came, some people began to set out in groups and rushed there.

After all, at this time, there were not all kinds of convenient means of transportation like in later generations.

As long as you are in the city, you can get there in an hour at most.

At this time, it is very common to walk from the south of the city to the north of the city for several hours under the all-natural automatic transportation of No. 11, not to mention that some candidates live outside the city.

And there's no rule for letting your own guys line up here.

This also means that Cao Yan and Luo Ming must go in advance, or they will be in the back, and they don't know when they will be after the inspection.

And if you go in early, if you're lucky, you can squint your eyes slightly.

After eating at night, Cao Yan slept first.

When the gong sounded at the third watch.

"Master, Master......" Luo Ming's voice also came.

"It's coming!"

"Well, is Master ready?"

"Okay," Cao Yan pointed to the two large exam boxes behind him.

"Thank you, Master, take it quickly, let's go."

got into Luo Ming's carriage, but Cao Yan didn't let the family send it.

It's been the middle of the night, and Cao Yan has no habit of disturbing others to sleep.

Anyway, it's enough to have a Luo Ming as a companion.

Even so, with Luo Ming's shout just now, the entire family still got up, and one by one came to see Cao Yan.

"I wish the eldest aunt, eldest brother-in-law and little Luo Luo Fat Man to come out on top." A group of people looked at the carriage that Cao Yan was riding in and shouted from afar.

……

With the best wishes of all,

The carriage exited the alley, and the main street was already lit with a lamp at intervals.

Some entertainment venues closed early this morning, the only few days of the year when the city is not busy.

Standing guard on the streets, the number of patrolling forbidden troops began to increase.

When the carriage reached the section of Mahang Street in front of Donghua Gate, it was stopped by the forbidden army on duty and was not allowed to enter, because it was afraid that too many carriages would affect the traffic, and it was not safe, so the candidates needed to walk on the road behind.

Because there was once a thing where someone's carriage went out of control and injured countless candidates, and then there was this rule.

The two got out of the carriage, and a member of the Luo Ming family took the two of their exam boxes off the carriage, and then took out a flat pole and picked up the two of them's exam boxes.

The other six family members each held a huge glass blubber oil lamp around the two, illuminating the two of them transparently.

At this time, except for the light of Da Chu at night in the world, the whole world is dark.

And Da Chu was called the Land of Light by the merchants of those countries.