Yuan's wife pursed her lips and continued to help her husband clean up the ceremony, he had a lot of things, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, four books and five classics, bed sheets and bedding, kettles, tea bowls, dry food and snacks, all of which were packed.

Yuan's wife complained while cleaning up, "Didn't you go to the exam?" What to do with so many things! ”

"What do you know, no one has ever taken the imperial examination in our Ming Dynasty before, who knows what it is, bring more things in case you need them, and they always use them again."

Yuan's wife shook her head, "But how should you bring so many things, or I'll go to Master Hou's house to borrow a carriage to send you there." ”

Yuan Jiuli waved his hand again and again when he heard this, "What do you know, you can't let Master Hou know about this." This little thing is nothing, forget that when I was young, I could pull a plow and plow two or three acres of land in a day. ”

As he spoke, he put on the old cage on his back, and went out with a large cloth bag in one hand, and he seemed to be a thief and had to bypass Zhuangzi from the ditch in the field, and finally got on the official road, but at the moment he was tired and panting and sweating.

"Old Yuan, are you going to participate in the scientific expedition?" A familiar voice came from behind him.

Yuan Jiuli turned his head in shock, only to see Ma Du holding Song Shuang, who was pregnant with Liujia, with one hand, and pressing the two calves hanging from his neck with the other, and walked over slowly.

Xiao Dongmei was riding on Ma Du's neck, two white and tender little hands, constantly pulling his hair, Ma Du's hair bun was messy, and the chicken nest seemed to be very funny.

Yuan Jiuli shouted bad luck, he really didn't want to meet anyone the more he saw someone, he hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, "I'm not going to participate in the scientific expedition, or I'm going to Zhaozhuang in front of me to go to a relative, well, go to a relative!" ”

"Oh, go relatives!" Ma Du smiled and said, "Otherwise, I'll send a carriage to you, you can bring a lot of things!" ”

"Huh...... No need, no need, thank you for your kindness, Zhao Zhuang didn't go far and said goodbye! Yuan Jiuli fled before he finished speaking.

Looking at his hasty back, Song Shuang couldn't help but chuckle, "It's really funny, when I saw this Mr. Yuan, I remembered the thing you told me." ”

Ma Du said seriously: "I think he has suddenly become respectable, and it is much better to have a pursuit than that kind of muddy life...... Hiss! ”

Xiao Dongmei, who was riding on Ma Du's neck, finally succeeded in pulling a few hairs off her father's head, and immediately giggled happily.

Jiangning County does not have an independent county seat, and the county government is located in Yingtian City, so Yuan Jiuli must go to Yingtian City to participate in the county examination. Now Yuan Jiuli regrets that he didn't accept Ma Du's kindness, carrying a full cage on his back, carrying two heavy burdens, and dozens of catties of things almost cost him his life.

The spring cold is cold and cold, Yuan Jiuli was almost soaked with sweat, and he couldn't help but shiver when a cold wind blew, he sat on the cage and panted heavily, and kept dripping water into his stomach.

All the hard work was not in vain, and the tall city wall of Yingtian was already in sight, only two or three miles away. He rested enough and was about to set off, but there was a dull spring thunder in his ears, and I don't know when the sky was already cloudy, and before he could get up, the raindrops had already fallen.

Spring rain is as expensive as oil, good rain! But it was not the right time for Yuan Jiuli, and it didn't take long for him to be drenched, and he brought a lot of things, but he forgot to bring an umbrella.

In desperation, he carried two burdens that became heavier and heavier and hurried to the city, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and every step was so heavy.

The muddy water splashed on his body, and the neat and tidy Confucian robe became dirty, and he didn't go far, and the pair of cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles that his wife gave him also got stuck in the mud, such an embarrassment could only be experienced when he had fled.

He didn't remember how he got to the city, and he didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly found an inn to rest so that he could cope with tomorrow's exam. When the gray-haired shopkeeper stretched out his hand to him to ask for 200 Wen, Yuan Jiuli was angry, and his palms full of muddy water slammed on the counter, "The old man is just staying for one night, you dare to ask for 200 Wen, this is simply grabbing money!" ”

It's rare that the shopkeeper is good-tempered, wiping the table with a rag while talking, "This gentleman, if you only stay for one night, the Tianzi room will only cost fifty wen, you just said that you want bath water, dry clothes, take care of your two meals, and two candles, and ask you for two hundred wen is really not much." Although the face of the small shop is not big, it is also a century-old store that operates in good faith, and your loud voice will ruin the reputation of the small store. ”

"Really, I need money everywhere when I leave the academy, I only stay for one night, and I don't want anything else!" Yuan Jiuli touched the money bag on his waist again as he spoke.

"Huh! Isn't that Mr. Yuan? ”

Yuan Jiuli looked back and saw that it was a little turtle, and subconsciously replied: "Mr. Xiao Feng, why are you here!" ”

"The juniors are here with the students in the Zhuangzi!" Xiao Turtle has a disability and can't take the imperial examination, even if he is really admitted, he has no chance to be an official, "Mr. Yuan, you also came to the county to take the exam?" The students are all upstairs, you don't need to book a room anymore, just stay with the juniors today. ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said in his heart: "This embarrassed appearance is here to 'present life'." ”

The shopkeeper's inexplicable laughter made Yuan Jiuli feel weak, and hurriedly covered up: "The old man is also looking at the students, since you are here, then I will rest assured, and I will leave!" Yuan Jiuli ignored the pouring rain outside, turned in and left the inn, picked up the two wet packages at the door and left.

"Mr. Yuan's umbrella!" The little turtle chased out with an umbrella, his legs and feet were not good, Yuan Jiuli didn't know which alley he drilled, and he had already run away.

The little turtle reluctantly returned to the inn, but the shopkeeper said to him with a smile: "The old man has read countless people, and knows that what this gentleman lacks is not an umbrella but face and silver, hehe......" said and gently patted his face.

Yuan Jiuli finally found a place to settle at the right price, and as long as five cents, he could sleep in a Chase bunk with a group of Liba who carried work on the dock, and there were no bedding, hot water, clean clothes, and dinner.

He had to take a few pieces of snacks that had been soaked in the rain to satisfy his hunger, but luckily there was a kind man who was willing to share a quilt with him. Although the quilt stinks, it is still warm, which makes Yuan Jiuli, who has been drenched in cold rain for a long time, grateful.

It's just that after the lights went out, a powerful big hand touched his ass and kept kneading. Yuan Jiuli is a scholar anyway, he still knows the allusions of "Longyang" and "Dividing Peaches", and suddenly he only felt that this warm quilt became like an ice cellar, but he didn't dare to squeak in his mouth, so he had to withdraw from the quilt.

He was wrapped in wet clothes, endured in the corner for a night, and went to the county government office early the next morning to take the exam, full of grief and indignation turned into a thousand words, and a word-for-word article made the county respected the case amazing, and named him the head of the case on the spot.

Since then, he has passed five levels and killed six generals, all the way to the Jinluan Palace, was appointed as the champion by Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor patted his shoulder with a smile on his face, "The first time I saw Yuan Qing, I knew that you were a pillar of talent, and you really lived up to my expectations, and you will be the head of the academy in the future, if Ma Du is not obedient, you can clean him up, and I will be the master for you!" ”

A Liba removed his ear from Yuan Jiuli's mouth, and said to the people around him incredulously: "He said, 'Weichen Xie Huangshang Longen'!" ”

Everyone looked at Yuan Jiuli, who was shivering in the corner of the wall, and couldn't help but feel sympathy, and an older man said: "Look, it's really pitiful that he's all burned, didn't he sleep with you last night?" You didn't think you kicked him out. ”

A sturdy man with a bearded face said: "This is a shame on me, he touched my ass in the middle of the night, so obscene!" ”