The time to wait for the trial release of the list is torturous.

Ning Xiu and Liu Weining stayed in the Huguang Hall all day long, so they played chess to get by.

Naturally, it is Go.

Ning Xiu had also played Go in his previous life, and he was an amateur master. But when it came to Liu Weining, he didn't seem to be able to exert his strength at all.

Liu Weining's style is too restrained for him.

Perhaps this is the difference between ancient and modern chess players.

Ning Xiu said with emotion in his heart.

The ancients paid attention to the overall situation when playing chess, and often did not care about the gains and losses of one son and one place.

Modern chess players, on the other hand, are good at calculating and robbing, but they don't know that this itself is inferior.

Ning Xiu was eaten by Liu Weining, and the dragon was unable to return to the sky, so he had to sigh and surrender.

Liu Weining was in a good mood after winning three games in a row, and said with a smile: "Brother Ning Xian, your chess skills are not superb enough." It is important to know that playing chess is like business, and this chessboard is like the world. The golden-horned silver-edged grass belly occupies the four corners of the world. How can you win if you let your brother occupy the triangle? ”

Ning Xiu rolled his eyes when he listened.

How did he not know this?

It's just that Liu Weining is very cunning in chess, and he can't see his intentions in less than five moves. Ning Xiu was sold and returned the money!

It's no wonder Liu Weining is so excited.

Of course, he is not Ning Xiu's opponent, and he can't compare to fame.

He is just a mere person, Ning Xiu is Xie Yuanlang.

Finally, there is a place that is more powerful than Ning Xiu, and Liu Weining has not hyped it up enough to be a gentleman.

"Brother Liu is a saint in the chess world, with the posture of a big country, Ning admires, admires!"

Ning Xiu arched his hand at Liu Weining and said sincerely.

When the two were talking and laughing, a hall servant hurriedly ran to the courtyard and said to the two people in the house: "Good news, good news, the two masters will be on the list of Chinese style!" ”

Ning Xiu and Liu Weining were both shocked, and Liu Weining went to open the door and let his little servant in.

It turns out that all provincial halls have a service, that is, to watch the list.

They often send a small servant to look at the list outside the Gongyuan on the day of the list.

In this way, you can avoid the embarrassment of lifting people and men to squeeze through the crowd to see the list, and secondly, you can also have a psychological buffer.

The little guy smiled and said, "Master Ning is eleventh on the list of high school entrance exams, and Master Liu is also ranked seventy-third." Congratulations to the two masters, congratulations to the two masters. I wish the two old masters to try Lian Jie, and Qionglin feast! ”

The little guy was obviously used to the good news, and his mouth was extremely sweet.

He stood there and refused to move a single step, Ning Xiu said in his heart that this must be asking for money.

Ning Xiu went back to the house and took out fifty taels of silver, coughing and said, "You have also worked hard, this is fifty taels of silver, so take it to buy some wine to drink." ”

It's a reward for that little guy.

The little guy took the silver with both hands and immediately put it in his arms, for fear that Ning Xiu would regret it and take it back again.

"The two masters are Wenqu stars, and the palace test must be overwhelming!"

The little guy naturally had a sweeter mouth when he got the reward, but he didn't know that there was only one Wenqu star, and he said that so that Ning Xiu and Liu Weining were embarrassed.

"Alright, let's go down."

Ning Xiu waved his hand to signal the little guy to retreat, and the little guy nodded and retreated backwards.

When the little guy withdrew from the Hanging Flower Gate, Liu Weining, who was originally calm and relaxed, immediately became ecstatic.

"Hahaha, hahahahaha"

He looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, until he bent his waist with laughter.

Ning Xiu coughed awkwardly and said, "Brother Liu doesn't have to be so excited, right?" ”

"Haha, how can you not be excited, how can you not be excited. This time, the Chinese style is on the list, but it is on the list! ”

Liu Weining clenched his fists, and his face was full of joy.

"The Chinese style of the list, no matter how bad the palace exam is, there is a fellow jinshi background, who can be awarded the official state and county officials, and he will be a scholar!"

He bit the word "out" very hard, obviously thinking that this was an extremely glorious thing.

Ning Xiu poured a basin of cold water on him.

"There are still some differences. Tongjinshi was despised and excluded in the same year, and it was difficult to be an official of the six departments and a minister of the auxiliary cabinet. ”

Liu Weining smiled: "Brother Ning Xian is really ambitious." But the foolish brother focuses on the present. Being able to be an official, the foolish brother is already very satisfied. ”

This is true. With different moods, expectations are naturally different.

Ning Xiu bears the name of Xie Yuanlang, and the identity of the same Jinshi is naturally not very good.

And Liu Weining's township test results are not too good, and he is barely able to get a person's identity. In this case, being able to take advantage of the victory to pursue and get the Jinshi fame, regardless of whether it comes with or without that dazzling word of the same word, is enough to be satisfied.

"Haha, it's a joy after all. What Ning means is that we might as well hold a village banquet in the Huguang Guild Hall, so that the Chinese fellow villagers can have fun together. ”

As soon as Ning Xiu's proposal was put forward, it was immediately praised and supported by Liu Weining.

The Ming officialdom has intricate relationships. The most important of these is the same countryman, the same year.

If you are stained with these two things at the same time, that is, you are absolutely your own people, and you want to report to the group for warmth.

Huguang is also a major province for the imperial examination, and it is naturally impossible for only Ning Xiu and Liu Weining to be on the list in this examination, and it is okay to gather Chinese talents together and have fun.

"Okay, I'll arrange it!"

Liu Weining was in a good mood, so he naturally rushed to get the job, not to mention that this was not too tiring work.

Ning Xiu nodded lightly, his cheeks full of warmth.

A little later, the results came out.

There are a total of 23 scholars from Huguang who will test the Chinese style in this meeting, which is very gratifying.

There are no Zhang brothers among them.

Although the ancestral home of the two of them is also in Huguang Jiangling, they took the township test in Shuntianfu, so their hometowns were written in Shuntianfu when they signed up for the exam.

Although this is not very in line with the rules, the father of the two is Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, who dares to say anything.

Arranged by Liu Weining, several tables of banquets were set up in the restaurant of the Huguang Guild Hall.

Twenty-three Chinese-style talents have been crowned with Bobo, Shi Shiran walked into the restaurant, and talked in twos and threes.

"Brother Donglou, congratulations, I heard that you won the thirty-seventh place on the list, which is really enviable."

"Haha, Brother Shen's ranking is not bad, only two places lower than Brother Wei."

"If you want to say that Ning Jieyuan is the best in the exam, he has taken the eleventh exam on the list."

"Yes, Ning Xie Yuan Tianzong is a talent who fights for our lake. I only hope that he will continue to work hard and be able to rush into the first class when he takes the palace test! ”

Although Huguang culture and education are prosperous, after all, it is not as strong as Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, which are super imperial examination provinces, and it has been a long time since there has been a first-class jinshi.

Even the current cabinet first assistant Zhang Jiangling's original ranking was also very average.

Therefore, this fellow Huguang villager, known as the East Building, pinned his hopes on Ning Xiu, hoping that he could boost Huguang's prestige