A small courtyard on the outskirts of Nanyang, although there is no prosperity in the city, but it is elegant and clean. The bamboo hut is also quite clean. A young man was holding a book and reading quietly, and the shelves behind the man were also full of books, and even many of them were stacked on the ground.

"Brother, stop looking, it's time to eat." A young girl walked in with a plate of wine and food in her hand, and when she saw that the man was still reading, she opened her mouth to remind.

"Oh, got it, you set the dishes first." The man reluctantly put down the book in his hand and got up and walked to the dining table. Looking at the rather sumptuous wine and food on the table, the man's eyes lit up. What day is today, how is there wine and meat? Some of them picked up a piece of chicken with their hands and put it in their mouths. Zhengmei tasted the taste, and suddenly there was an angry roar behind him.

"Chai Yang! Have you washed your hands? Chai Yang shrunk his neck, turned around and looked at his sister with a smile.

"Ling'er, I'm only reading books today, and I'm not doing anything else." Chai Yang said with a somewhat flattering smile.

"No, I don't know if you read the book, and when you're happy, you have to write a few strokes, that is, soak your hands in water, but in a moment the water will be dyed black, and you will have to take the steamed buns and dip them in ink to eat." Chai Ling'er aired.

Chai Yang had no choice but to go out to wash his hands, and after cleaning his hands, he saw that Chai Ling'er was still waiting for him, so he asked with a smile: "Are you rich today?" How do you make all this delicious food? ”

Chai Linger picked up a bowl and put some chicken soup and handed it to Chai Yang and said: "The Zhu family suddenly gave me the money you wrote a few days ago today, I think that the spring festival is about to start, you must always eat something good to replenish your body, otherwise I am afraid that you will not be able to survive the spring exam." ”

The spring exam requires students to stay in the examination room for three days, eating, drinking, and lazing must be solved in it, which is a big test of people's physical fitness, and his brother has been preparing for this big exam for two years, but he can't let him plant on these little things.

"It's not as exaggerated as you say, I'm not weak, don't forget that your brother and I are capable of holding three stone bows." Chai Yang said.

Chai Ling'er burst out laughing when she heard this, and she naturally knew what Chai Yang said about pulling the bow. At that time, Chai Yang shot five arrows, and only one arrow hit the target, which was still on the edge of the target.

Chai Yang blushed, and he didn't speak, bowing his head and drinking chicken soup there. Chai Ling'er just took a bite of rice and glanced at Chai Yang, her eyes full of smiles.

He Wenchang looked at the list of this year's Spring Exam in his hand, although it is not very accurate, but the people on it should all come to participate, this is the person He Wenchang has counted from visiting your Nanyang over the years, and the name of Chai Yang is written at the front of the roster.

Chai Yang is the most optimistic candidate for He Wenchang this year, this person is just a show of fame, but he became famous early, you must know that being famous in this Nanyang City with his literary talent can basically lock the top few in the big Zhou Chunfu exam. But in recent years, the name of Chai Yang seems to have been forgotten except for a few people who know it.

"It's a pity." He Wenchang sighed, he naturally admired Chai Yang's literary brilliance, and could even assert that if Chai Yang participated in this year's big exam, the name of the champion was not impossible. But Chai Yang offended the person who shouldn't be offended.

When Chai Yang won a great victory, the Xue family once handed him an olive branch, but was categorically rejected by Chai Yang, who was arrogant at the time, and it didn't take long for the eldest son of the Xue family to marry Chai Yang's sister, which was originally a good marriage, but the eldest young master of the Xue family's third room married Chai Linger for some reason just to be happy. Chai Yang made a big fuss about the Xue family after hearing about it, because the matter was not very glorious, and the Xue family didn't treat Chai Yang at that time, so the matter was over.

I thought that this matter would be over like this, who would have thought that the eldest young master of the Xue family's third room would suddenly die, and then the Chai family seemed to have a different situation, but in half a year, the family was ruined, leaving only the two brothers and sisters of the Chai family, and then the old house of the family was forced to sell and move out of the city.

He Wenchang naturally knew why this matter was so coincidental, the shadow of the Xue family must be indispensable, but those who knew it would not say it, because compared with the Xue family, no one would stand up and speak even if the ten Chai families were destroyed, and this Nanyang City was the Nanyang of the Xue family.

His finger clicked on Chai Yang's name, and He Wenchang thought for a moment and drew a pen on it. Although he couldn't let Chai Yang bypass the Xue family to take the exam, it was still okay to keep it.

It's a little troublesome to choose someone for the Zhao family, but there is no one in Nanyang City who doesn't want to be familiar with it. It's more difficult to find a few people who have the ability and no one knows yet, but since the money has been collected, even if it is troublesome, this matter must be done, otherwise the Xue family will not be able to save face, and he may not even have room for maneuver.

Before the spring exam began, the undercurrent began to surge in Yuzhou, and Wang Ming could encounter a lot of exam questions secretly selling cheating tools and "leaking" out of the tea house in the past few days.

Some speechless sent away the vendors who had just come over to sell the exam questions, Wang Ming complained in his heart, although he did not and did not participate in the scientific examination, but he still knew about the exam questions, the exam questions were divided into three parts, except for the first two questions were given by the states according to the scope given by the imperial court, and the last question was the emperor's personal policy. Generally, they will be secretly escorted out of Beijing by the military department seven days before the start of the examination. This is less than two months away from the Spring Exam, where are the exam questions, are you eunuchs in the palace?

After taking a sip of tea and looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, Wang Ming couldn't help but feel a little emotional, this Nanyang City is worthy of being the most prosperous place in Yuzhou, looking at the costumes of pedestrians coming and going on the street, I am afraid that I will throw a stone down and smash three, two of them are participating in the Spring Festival exam this year, and the other is afraid that they are preparing for the next time.

The weekly newspaper has now come out of the second issue, sales are still good, now there are many people talking about this booklet composed of several large pieces of paper after dinner, the customs recorded on it make many people who have not been far away are very curious, Wang Ming has been according to the steps explained by Lin Yuan in doing it seems that the effect is good, some sigh Lin Yuan's foresight, even if he is in the capital, the plan he has made is almost a comprehensive consideration of the problems encountered in Nanyang, at least so far he has not encountered problems other than those mentioned in the plan.

Listening to the diners at the table next to him discussing the latest issue of the weekly report, Wang Ming had a smile on his face. The table was discussing the scenery of Liangzhou published in this issue of the weekly newspaper.

"Brother Feng, you have been far away, this Liangzhou is really what is written in the weekly newspaper?"

I saw that the person known as Brother Feng shook his head and said, "I don't know this, I have only been to Suzhou once, although it borders Liangzhou, but even the local style of Suzhou is different. ”

"So amazing?"

"That's nature, I tell you, Suzhou can be roughly divided into three landforms, close to Jinzhou, because the terrain is flat and rainfall is a rare place to produce grain, most of the people in Suzhou rely on this place to live, as for the central part because of the mountains, there is very little land to plant, and then it is by the Liangzhou area, there are many mountains and mountains everywhere and there are many loess highlands. Except for the perennial garrison of the border army, there are few people. ”

"Compared with our Yuzhou, we are simply a paradise here." One of them sighed.

"Speaking of Liangzhou, the DPRK and China don't know how to deal with that case in the past few days." One of them was curious.

"It was mentioned in the weekly report that Bei Liang plans to send someone to investigate the case, our emperor has already given time, if there is no result, our surrounding army will go to the law themselves."

"Another war?" The crowd exclaimed. Da Zhou's side has just finished playing the golden tent, and in the blink of an eye, he has to deal with Bei Liang again, no matter how he thinks, something is not right.

"It is said that the Beiliang royal family is in chaos, and there is no one in charge at all. This doesn't have to be the perfect opportunity for me to have a big week. Someone analyzed.

"Today, no country has the strength to annex the world at one time, and our Great Zhou has too much energy because it is held back by the Golden Horde." Some people are more sensible.

"Be cautious, don't talk about state affairs, drink and drink." Brother Feng, who began to speak, opened his mouth and interrupted everyone's discussion.

Wang Mingzheng on the side was listening energetically, and he was a little unhappy to see that Brother Feng interrupting the conversation. I turned around and planned to take a sip of tea, but I was almost scared to death when I turned around.

I saw that Wang Ming didn't know when a person appeared next to him, Wang Ming turned his head and almost put his face together, he leaned back in fright, and asked angrily, "Who are you?" Do? ”

Seeing that everyone was looking towards him, the man hurriedly put his finger on his mouth and made a silent motion. beckoned to Wang Ming.

After passing the test with some doubts, Wang Ming still looked at the other party with some vigilance, not knowing what the other party was going to do. I saw the man come to Wang Ming's side and say, "This gentleman, do you want to buy an official?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang Ming looked at this person in surprise, and set off a storm in his heart, where did this come from, this is a day, Wang Ming saw that there were not eighty people who sold exam questions, but more than a dozen people, and it was the first time he had encountered a traitor. Is this a fool?

Seeing that Wang Ming stretched out his hand to drive him away, the man hurriedly said: "The guest officer is not in a hurry, I know it's a little difficult to understand, but let me tell you in detail." ”

Wang Ming stopped his movements suspiciously, looked at the man and asked, "You are not a liar?" ”

"No, no, there are people above us, this thing is reliable." The man said hurriedly.

Wang Ming's eyes rolled, and he pointed to the seat next to him and said, "Tell me in detail and see if it's reliable." ”

The man didn't think much about it, sat down next to Wang Ming and said: "It's inconvenient for me to say who this matter depends on, do you know about the recommendation of academic politics in various places in our Great Zhou scientific examination?" ”

Wang Ming nodded, what does this have to do with the recommendation, and how long has it been since the Great Zhou Dynasty had a recommendation, it is really too risky.

Seeing that Wang Ming was a little hesitant, the man said, "I know what you are worried about, but I tell you that there is no problem. Just do what we arrange and make sure nothing goes wrong. ”

"How does it work?" Wang Ming is interested, this is a group of fierce people.

"You can't say that, you have to pay the money and sign before you can say it." The man shook his head and said.

Wang Ming frowned, how could this matter look a little unreliable. Seeing that Wang Ming didn't believe it, the man explained: "This does sound a little implausible, but I promise that there is no risk in this matter, and we have already sold three." There are only two left. ”

"There are five of them?" Wang Ming was surprised.

The man nodded and said, "A name is rated at 5,000 taels, and another 10,000 taels will be paid after the matter is completed." ”

Wang Ming smacked his lips, this is a money grab, an official position is 15,000 taels, and the deposit alone is 5,000 taels. Wang Ming thought about it, took out a silver ticket from his arms, handed it over, and said, "This is five hundred taels, you take it first and leave a place for me, and then I will think about it." ”

The man was stunned for a moment, looked at the silver ticket in his hand, and then said: "Don't worry, I'll wait for you in this matter, but it can't be too long, you don't want it here, I have to hurry up." ”

"Don't worry, I'm still talking about credibility." Wang Ming said, but he thought in his heart that he had to report back to the capital quickly.