Zheng Qi didn't answer, he pursed his thin lips, turned his face away and looked at Gao An's door, and no longer paid attention to Gao Yue's words.

Gao Yue thought to himself, this imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty is also a bit too black, you say that imperial relatives like Zhu Sui and Wang Biao come to join in the fun, and Zheng Qi who is a literary name that shakes the two prime ministers also comes, and he uses his reputation to blackmail his head, and he doesn't leave a way for us people to live!

Just as he was thinking about it, the crowd crowded in front of the door was in a commotion again, Liu Deshu and Wei Cigong were sweating, and even shouted their names, and caught up, "Yisong, why did you come so early, if I didn't hear your quarrel, I wouldn't know that you were under the gate of the imperial city!" ”

At this moment, Zheng Qi turned his eyes sideways and looked at Gao Yue, "It turns out that your name is this." ”

"According to the regulations, the time has come, and the door is open!"

With this long shout, the door covered with golden nails slowly opened with a heavy momentum in the rumbling drums, and the black shadows on it swirled.

Gao Yue raised his eyes, the colored light of the morning sun went down the arch on the city gate, until it reached the ground stone on the edge of the road, and then two rows of court halberders took rumbling steps, holding all kinds of long weapons and ran out, the lifters retreated one after another, this group of halberders then stood along the clothes and trees on both sides of the city gate, several eunuchs in splendid clothes slowly walked out, the leader squinted his eyes, looked around at the black pressure crowd that could not be seen, and then laughed, let him on the side, made a gesture, and shouted loudly: "All virtuous and virtuous scholars, White-clothed Prime Minister, please go inside and follow this road. From day to night, please do your best to be suave and flexible. Jinshi Keju to the South Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites, Ming Jing and other various subjects to the Ministry of Officials Hall. ”

At this time, Gao Yue saw that next to the high-ranking eunuch, there was a little eunuch with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and immediately shook his head and said: "The three candles are exhausted, burning the heart of the bachelor; Eight rhymes are endowed, and the smile breaks through the mouth of the waiter. ”

As a result, these eunuchs and the halberd people standing under the city gate laughed when they heard the jokes of the little eunuchs.

But Gao Yue didn't listen, he continued to look at the towering golden plaque and vermilion arch of the city gate in a daze, and then said slowly in his heart, "Once I get through today, I will see much more than most people in the original era!" You have also been to the college entrance examination room in your respective counties and cities, but Uncle Ben participated in the Jinshi exam of the Tang Dynasty Rite Department! That's enough for me to brag about for a lifetime, hey, just no one to brag about. ”

Before the impassioned was finished, there were Wei Cigong and Liu De in front of him, and there were countless exam-taking people pushing and shoving in the back, Gao Yue stumbled a few times, hurriedly lifted the luggage and food box, his face was about to be squeezed and distorted, sandwiched between countless heads, and slowly went to the imperial city in Anmen, "Damn, the first thought, this imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty is comparable to the Spring Festival ......"

From the door of the door to enter, the east is the Taimiao Department, the west is the Taichang Temple, and then go forward two or three hundred steps, that is, the east is the Shaofu Supervisor, the west is the Taifu, the Taifu two temples, and then go forward, to the east is the left leading military guard, the left Weiwei, the Ministry of Officials Nancao (South Courtyard), the Ministry of Rites South Courtyard (Gong Yuan) four offices lined up, a total of half of the place, of which the Ministry of Rites South Courtyard is located in the westernmost place.

The crowd of nearly 3,000 people separated here - just north of the South Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites, that is, where the capital of the six departments of Shangshu Province was located, and all the subjects such as the Ming Sutra should go there for the official examination.

All of a sudden, there were only seven or eight hundred people left in the three thousand, but this was also overwhelmed for the small southern courtyard of the Ministry of Rites, Gao Yue saw that all around its walls were lined with thorn fences, and many officials stood in front of the only entrance, and loudly called the Jinshi and Keju sons to stand in a row, and when they called their names, they stepped forward and entered in turn with their family documents, as if they were checking tickets for high-speed rail.

So the lifters lined up chaotically, Gao Yue stood in front, Liu De in front, Wei Cigong in the back, and the arrogant Zheng Qi on the left, always with his face held high, looking like he was bound to win, and on the right was a young man with a sad face, as if he was full of worries.

Gao Yue and the young man looked at each other and smiled at each other, and then the young man gently arched his hand and introduced himself to Gao Yue, "The junior is a good weapon. ”

Oops, this young man has a good name, it's pretty good.

"Zheng Qi, Zheng Qi, Xingyang Zheng Qi is here!" After a while, the clerk waved the roster and shouted, shouting a few times, and seeing that no one answered, he was very annoyed, stretched his neck and shook it from side to side, "Is Zheng Qi here?" ”

Gao Yue was so anxious that he stared at this slow and rational master, and thought to himself, "Zheng Gongzi, don't take Qiao, don't you know that three generations of people are in trouble, and arrogance ruins your life!" ”

"It's me." Finally, Zheng Qi walked up to the official and replied clearly.

The whites of the official's eyes immediately swelled up, full of anger, "Zheng Qi, how can you—what—no—early—answer!" ”

After speaking, the official spat on the ground, and pointed to the wooden arm hanging from the gate of the guide courtyard, "As usual, except for the exception, you are not allowed to hold books and policies privately when you enter the house." Then he stretched out his hand, meaning to search Zheng Qi's body, in case he brought the "Collection of Strategies and Treatises" from previous years.

Who would have thought that Zheng Qi would be furious, and knocked down the salty pig hand of the official who leaned over, and his voice trembled, "Since entering the door, the name must be checked, the identity must be checked, the tableware must be checked, and now the body will be checked, and all kinds of reprimands and insults by you little officials, is this the national selection of talents?" Is it the attitude towards the virtuous? ”

"I ......" The clerk couldn't say what he was suffering, he tilted his neck and spread his hands, meaning that I was just doing things according to the rules, where did such a "master" come out.

"Sir, you continue to investigate, we can understand." Gao Yue raised his hand and replied.

Zheng Qi glared at Gao Yue fiercely.

At this moment, an official in scarlet clothes and silverfish walked over by the fence, and said to Zheng Qi with a sneer, "This man, you are all just Gongsheng now, as for this Gongzhu and the Holy Lord, we will not know until tonight." ”

"Indeed—the Holy Lord asks for virtue, and we ask for tribute, but all this, how can I think I am virtuous?" Zheng Qi flicked his sleeves and said.

The official didn't have anything to refute, so he glanced at the official, turned around and walked through the gate of the south courtyard, walked to the heavy door of the middle hall, remembered Zheng Qi's question, looked up at the sky again, sneered a few times, and pushed the heavy door open with force.

As soon as the door opens, the atrium suddenly opens up, the east and west two corridors are opposite, the sun has risen at this moment, the sun is full of sunshine, the spring day of the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, it is a very good sunny weather.

In the center of the corridor, Pan Yan, the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was sitting in a precarious position, facing the official across the long courtyard, "Outside the fox member, the hour has come, let the man sit down under the east and west corridors." ”

Eight hundred Jinshi scholars, including Gao Yue and others, followed the surging flow of people, walked into the heavy gate of the south courtyard, and then under the guidance of the officials, they went to the two opposite corridors to sit down in rows.

"The Datang Jinshi exam has finally begun!" Gao Yue thought as he walked.