Coming out of the Cao family, Yang Zhengcai intuitively felt the status of the literati of the Great Song Dynasty, and an article of Ailian said that not only gave him a certain reputation in Shilin, but also changed Cao Tong's attitude towards him.

not only turned a blind eye to his dealings with Cao Min, but also solved a lot of unnecessary troubles for the Yang family, and Cao Tong also took over Li Yonghe's affairs, obviously Cao Tong had regarded him as the son-in-law of the Cao family.

Returning to his own small courtyard in Yang's mansion, he checked the wound of Hu Yanshan as usual, the speed of wound healing was beyond Yang Zheng's imagination, Hu Yanshan was almost no different from ordinary people except that he couldn't do too much action to avoid collapsing the wound.

"Okay, don't use force recently for your injury, it should be fine, Uncle Cao Guo will find a way to deal with Li Yonghe's matter, what are your plans next?"

After checking the injuries, Yang Zheng asked.

"Young Master Yang, I discussed it with my junior sister, I want to stay in the capital, and ask my son to take us in, we are really unwilling not to see Li Yong and Fu Xu,"

Hu Yanshan glanced at Ruyi and said.

Ruyi next to her didn't say a word, obviously the two had already discussed it last night.

Now his small courtyard Lao Zhang acts as a porter, his son Zhang Quanfu is in charge of chores, and his daughter-in-law is a cook.

"Okay, you just stay here, there will be no result in this matter for a while, you must be prepared in your hearts,"

Yang Zheng nodded and agreed, this courtyard only lived in him and Lao Zhang's family, and it didn't hurt to have more of them.

There were only two bedrooms in the backyard of the small courtyard and Yang Zheng's study, Hu Yanshan gave up the room for Ruyi to live in, and he moved to the front yard to live with Lao Zhang's family.

Early the next morning, Yang Zheng, who rarely slept well, got up from the bed, a change of clothes had been placed on the stool next to the bed, and the wooden basin for washing his face was also filled with water.

Just as Yang was getting dressed, Ruyi, who was wearing an ordinary mattress skirt, was already carrying a bowl of porridge and a few stacks of side dishes walked in.

"Miss Ruyi, you are a guest, how can you do such a thing, I will come by myself", seeing Ruyi's personal maid's style, Yang Zheng said with a wry smile, he is really not used to being served by others, and Cao Min also laughed at him for this.

Ruyi is also a young lady of the official family, and after being loyal and good, let her be a maid, he was uneasy.

"It's okay for the slave family to be idle, Yang Gongzi doesn't have to be polite, let's eat quickly", Ruyi put the tray on the table and said in a low voice.

No wonder Hu Yanshan said that his junior sister was stubborn, Yang Zheng had told her several times, every morning, she would prepare her clothes, washing water and the like on time, and then clean, wash and cook, and completely take over the work of Lao Zhang's daughter-in-law.

Yang Zheng had no choice but to let her.

After the Li family's Yamato firm lasted for two months, it finally couldn't hold on, and after selling half of the shares to the Shi family, he relied on the Shi family's recipe to improve the Yamato Spring, and borrowed the Shi family's channels, so he barely improved, but the share of the grassland was completely snatched away by the Cao family.

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to August, and the imperial examination that the world's scholars are eager to wear is finally held as scheduled.

The test is held by the local state capitals themselves, and the quota of each state capital has been determined after countless consultations and compromises in the imperial court, and Kaifeng Mansion is naturally the largest number of places as the imperial capital, followed by the Jiangnan states.

Only after the examination can they participate in the provincial examination presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and these two procedures must screen out hundreds of people among tens of thousands of students in the world, and the proportion of admissions can be imagined.

Early in the morning, Yang Zheng came to the gate of the Gongyuan with the pen and ink and living utensils prepared by Ruyi, and the gate of the Gongyuan was crowded with scholars who participated in the imperial examination, including well-dressed rich families, children of official eunuchs, and ordinary poor students, and Yang Zheng was inconspicuous in carrying a basket.

At this time, the imperial examination system has been relatively perfect, although the opening of subjects such as arithmetic, law, etc., the Jinshi department is still important, and it is also the largest number of people, and the imperial court has almost zero tolerance for fraud in the imperial examination, so the atmosphere of the whole department is relatively fair, especially after the adoption of the vague name system, the fraud in the imperial examination has become more difficult.

At this time, the Tribute Academy was surrounded by forbidden legions, and a pair of soldiers at the entrance of the Tribute Academy examination room were responsible for checking what the candidates were carrying, and immediately handed out a small sign with the seat number written on it.

There was no inspection of stripping naked like the legend, Yang Zheng passed the inspection smoothly, and walked to the examination room with a small sign that said No. 15 of Renchou No. 15.

There are dozens of examination rooms in the entire Gongyuan, each examination room can sit down 30 people, Yang Zheng looked for a long time, only to find the Renchou examination room, fortunately the 15th is just in the middle, if you get the 29th, 30th, which is the back of the examination room on the edge of the thatched house, now is the hot time, eat and live on the edge of the thatched house for three days, but also answer questions, that kind of sour...

Each seat is a simple cubicle with a desk and chair, a table for utensils, and a simple bed for reclining on.

After a moment of silence for the candidates who were sitting, Yang Zheng wiped the tables and chairs clean and put his things away.

After the candidates arrived one after another, the three officials in charge of the invigilation walked into the Renchou examination room.

The middle-aged official who took the lead held a brown paper bag sealed with red lacquer, which contained the questions for the exam.

"This official is the invigilator of this exam, everyone is not allowed to make noise, no permission is allowed to move around, and no cheating, once violated, do not blame the official for being merciless and start the exam!"

After the examiner finished speaking, he opened the paper bag in front of all the candidates and took out the test questions inside, which had a total of three questions. A question of scriptures, a question of poetry, and a question of strategy.

It is enough to answer these three days within three days, and you are not allowed to submit the paper in advance.

A clerk brought answer sheets and scratch papers.

The answer sheet is three good copies of rice paper, not more, just a little more scratch paper.

The first two questions are relatively simple for Yang Zheng, and the comparative exam questions are all from the Four Books and Five Classics, and there is a limit to the number of questions in it, and the poems are backed by the history of the last few hundred years of the Great Song Dynasty, even if he has limited knowledge, it is absolutely enough, and for Yang Zheng, these two questions are simply sending points.

The topic of the policy discussion is about the governance of the southern rebellion after the subsidence, which is in line with the current national conditions of the Great Song Dynasty, this question is estimated to be the largest proportion of a question, not only to have literary talent, but also to have a certain amount of knowledge, and this question will also brush off most of the candidates, after all, the south is too far away, many students do not know the specific situation of the local area, let alone write the corresponding countermeasures.

Literary talent may really need talent, Yang Zheng is self-aware of his literary talent, so if he wants to be brilliant, he can only work strategy.

Unlike Yang Zheng, who is confident and answering questions step by step, the examination room is simply a picture of ten thousand lives, some scratching their ears and cheeks and thinking hard, and some are confident and calm.

Three days to eat and live in the examination room, Yang Zheng, who was tempered by a small test in three days and a big test in five days, was quite adaptable, spent a day doing questions, a day checking transcription, and Yang Zheng, who was bored in the examination room for a day, walked out of the Gongyuan with a tired face after Lingxiang after the exam.