Yun Shao hurriedly stepped forward.

Sure enough, the children were holding the magpie's nest in their hands, and there were a few chirping magpie cubs in the snow, still covered in tender fluff, lying there with very sad screams.

"What is this doing?" Yun Shao hurriedly asked.

A fat boy held a wooden flint in his hand and said to Yun Shao, "We're going to burn the magpie cave." ”

"Why?"

"Burning magpie cave in January can avoid military disasters."

"Is this the way to avoid disasters by damaging living beings like this?"

Gao Yue stepped forward and gave the children some money, saying not to burn it. So the group of children returned the magpie to Gao Yue's hand, and took the money to run away, but the little fat man who was about to drill the fire was dragged by Gao Yue.

Yun Shao squatted down, carefully picked up the magpie cubs one by one, and put them back into the cave, at this time, the shack friend of the five-frame house took a ladder, and the little fat climbed the ladder to install the magpie back, and Gao Yue gave him some extra money and let him go.

Under the trunk of the tree, Yun Shao put his palms together on his back, while Gao Yue looked at the black hole on the branch, and really remembered what Liu Yan had said to him, the imperial magpie and the folk magpie have such different fates because of the different branches they inhabit.

At the same time, I also remembered what I said in front of Zhang Tan's tomb in Changle Slope, "From now on, I, Gao Ziyang, am willing to install a gate on the Lingque tree in the imperial city and occupy a branch." ”

At this time, Yun Shao looked back at him, this beautiful girl, the tip of her nose was slightly red from the cold, and then he looked up at the magpie hole on the tree, the winter sun shone straight down, reflected by the snow, and the warmth made him unable to open his eyes: before he crossed, he was obsessed with studying, and he had been single for twenty-five or six years, but he didn't expect that after coming to Chang'an City, he was still studying hard to prepare for the exam, and now he felt a little tired, and he suddenly had the urge to build a "hole......

But Gao Yue didn't have time to think too much about this matter this month, because he was about to go to the Dutang Rite Department with the entire Taofen Shed to submit the provincial papers.

The investment paper is different from the ordinary investment bank paper.

In the Tang Dynasty, the people who participated in the Jinshi examination visited the powerful families and presented poems and chapters to win appreciation, which was the investment bank volume. Of course, there are some taboos in the investment bank, for example, it is not good for you to vote more than one volume, and it is also criticized to use the old volume to vote, and you should pay more attention to the format of the paper (before Gao Yue paid attention to the format requirements when he gave the little lady Yunshao a roll, and it seemed that he attached great importance to it very seriously, which made the little lady quite swaying), and also pay special attention to avoidance, not only to avoid the secrets of their own homes, but also to avoid the family secrets of the objects of the papers, otherwise the results will be very bad.

If the investment bank paper starts in the late autumn and October of the year before the exam, and can be used until before the exam, then the "investment provincial paper" is fixed in time and place: it requires Juzi to compile the most proud old texts in previous years into a collection, and deliver them to the Ministry of Rites Tribute Academy, and then the chief of the Ministry of Rites will review them as a reference for the Spring Ceremony Examination.

When Gao Yue went to participate in the spring of the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, the dead ghost was burned and had already submitted the provincial scroll.

But the thirteen-year provincial paper must be voted by himself.

So speaking of this, Gao Yue also understands that the reason why he was deposed by the Ministry of Rites in the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, except for the poems and essays, I am afraid that he will no longer be in Pan Yan's eyes when he is in the provincial volume.

Why do you want to take a provincial ticket? In fact, it is very simple, when Wei Zhi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites in the first year of Tianbao, presided over the spring of that year, he thought that before "the main division took and with, all with a good one, and did not fulfill his talents." "It means that our Datang scientific examination, just such a decisive victory, is not very fair to some people with poor test-taking ability, in addition, everyone is rhymed and limited by time during the exam, and it is difficult to write any splendid words and chapters, so who to take or not to take, not convincing enough (everyone writes like that, half a catty, eight taels).

Therefore, Wei Zhi asked Juzi to hand over his former proud works to him before the exam, so that he could be more objective when he released the list again. Later, a fixed system of "submitting provincial volumes" to the Ministry of Rites was formed (the Ministry of Rites was one of the six departments of Shangshu Province, so it was called the Provincial Volume).

Submitting provincial papers, although it is something that Juzi has to do every year, but the time is not necessarily, or around the winter solstice of the previous year, or on a certain day before the spring of the next year, it all depends on how the head of the Ministry of Rites arranges.

The time requested by Pan Yan was February 5.

On that day, Gao Yue got up at dawn and stood in the courtyard, and soon all the shed friends gathered, although the expressions on everyone's faces were trying to be flat, but in fact, Gao Yue knew that they were very excited and nervous in their hearts - the success or failure of the provincial scroll was second only to the spring and the moon itself.

"Let's go." Gao Yue took a deep breath and said to Wei Cigong, Liu Demuro and others.

Shuangwen chased out at this time, stuffed Liu De's room with pancakes, and told him not to be nervous, and to check carefully before submitting the volume, don't make a mistake, the frontispiece must pay attention to: the frontispiece, that is, the poem selected by the volume of the book, and then the beginning of the transcription, it must be the most proud of the head, because the main director is also the same as the current teacher, "due to time relations, the review of an essay can not exceed how many seconds, it is so, so I often look at the title of the review of the composition, the beginning and then look at the end to give points", so whether the frontispiece can satisfy the main division, which is very important.

Pan Yan sat in the hall of the Ministry of Rites, and the lifters of various investment papers walked in from the corridor and the foyer one after another. Pan Lizhi was afraid of trouble, so he asked the ten people sent by Jingzhao Mansion to vote first, and among these ten people, there were five of the Guozijian, namely Gao Yue, Liu Demu, Wei Cigong, Huang Shun and Li Wei (the other disciples continued to be sent by the Guozijian under the Ministry of Rites), and the remaining five were headed by Zheng Qi.

Soon in front of Pan Yan's case, Zheng Qi and Gao Yue quickly walked out of the corridors on both sides and met each other on a narrow road.

However, to Pan Yan's surprise, the expressions of the two were very flat, as if they didn't know each other at all, and there was no conflict between the usual arguments.

Pan Yan coughed lightly twice, saying that the two of them were both white-clothed and famous figures in the capital, so they could submit their own papers.

"Please Zheng Wenming vote first." Gao Yue was very polite.

"Don't dare, please ask Gao Yisong to vote first." Zheng Qi is also very humble.

"That's right, after all, Zheng Langjun still owes me ten yuan, so I'll invest first." Gao Yue slammed a blow, causing Zheng Qi to immediately blush, and then quickly threw the provincial scrolls of Liu Demu and the others first.

Pan Yan really just flipped through the frontispiece of each provincial volume, and then nodded slightly, praising Wei Cigong, Xie Shanji and Li Ji, saying that the words are rich and quite impressive, especially Wei Cigong, who suffered an accident last year, and should be able to win this year-Wei Cigong is very happy; And Huang Shun and Li Wei are also quite good, and the possibility of being in the first place in the next two years is also very high.

Soon, Pan Yan set his sights on the frontispiece of Liu De's room.