Zhao Yan opened the door with a dark circle under his eyes, and asked helplessly: "Brother Li, you got up so early, is there something wrong?" ”

Li Xun smiled when he saw Zhao Yan's disheveled clothes and unkempt hair, turned sideways to let go of the person behind him, and said: "Brother Zhao Xian, this is Captain Yuan in the Jinyi Guard, everything is ready, and Brother Fool will be on the road today." ”

Zhao Yan looked at it, that Captain Yuan looked less than forty years old, not wearing a flying fish robe and an embroidered spring knife, but wearing a small velvet hat and a dark color robe, looking ordinary, just like many ordinary people.

In line with the idea that if he can not provoke Jinyiwei, he will not provoke, Zhao Yan immediately dressed up, and then bowed his hand thoughtfully: "Captain Yuan, Xiaosheng Zhao Yan, be polite." ”

That Captain Yuan had already heard Li Xun talk about Zhao Yan, and he was not self-conscious when he saw this, and said politely: "Yuan Bin, the captain of the Jinyi Guard, is of literary quality. Zhao Gongzi's song "Bamboo and Stone" and "Zhending Mansion" yesterday have spread all over the streets and alleys overnight, and they admire Zhao Gongzi very much. ”

"Hehe, Captain Yuan has won the award, but it's just some poetry and grapevines, and it can't be elegant." Zhao Yanxin said that this genuine brocade guard looks very easy to speak, but I don't know why it is so unbearable to be rumored by the outside world? Presumably, as the old saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds.

After the two finished talking, Li Xun said to Yuan Bin: "Captain Yuan, you go downstairs and wait for a while, I will say a few words to Brother Zhao Xian and we will go on the road." ”

"Yes, take down Deputy Li's luggage first." Yuan Bin bowed his hand and retreated, looking very respectful to Li Xun.

After Yuan Bin left, Li Xun said to Zhao Yan: "Brother Xian, you also know the reputation of Jinyiwei, if it weren't for his father's fate, the foolish brother really didn't want to eat this bowl of rice, but the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to say more, so the foolish brother will not say goodbye to Brother Liu, and the virtuous brother will look at it when he arrives." In addition, there are government offices, county government offices, and one of the 22 guards of the pro-army Shenwu Right Guard, and the Zhending Guard, which is directly under the Governor's Mansion of the Rear Army, and other yamen, and the forces of all parties are mixed. You offended Kang Changheng's hypocrite yesterday, although there are Han Governor's Mansion and Professor Zhu to take care of it, just in case, if the virtuous brother and others encounter any difficulties in the city, you might as well go to the Jinyiwei station in Xicheng, find the trial hundred households there to ask for help in Cunyi, and directly report the name of the foolish brother. ”

"Thank you, Brother Li." At the beginning, Zhao Yan's precautions against Li Xun now seem to be a bit of a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain, but if it comes again, Zhao Yan will still think like that, knowing people and faces but not knowing their hearts, everything must be left behind, believe what others say, say it is simple to say good, and stupid to say ugly.

Li Xun patted Zhao Yan's shoulder and chuckled, "Why thank you." Take care, I don't know when the next time we will meet. ”

Li Xun left, and at breakfast, Zhao Yan talked to Liu Jing and others, only saying that Li Xun's father sent someone to look for him and asked him to rush to the capital as soon as possible, as if he was going to send him an errand for Jinyiwei, and then said half-truthfully: "See you later, maybe Brother Li is already the general of Jinyiwei." ”

A few people didn't take this sentence to heart, only complained that Li Xun didn't say anything about waking up a few people when he left, if it weren't for Zhao Yan's 'coincidental' encounter when he got up at night, and when Li Xun disappeared in the morning, everyone might think that he was kidnapped.

The days passed, and Zhao Yan didn't dare to go out again in the past few days, but hid in the inn to read and practice calligraphy, just because he was standing on the cusp of the storm now and had to avoid the limelight.

After Zhao Yan and the others left that day, Professor Zhu saw that the scholars present were stopped by Zhao Yan's poems, so he took advantage of the situation and talked about the road of saints.

Subsequently, a poem "Zhending Mansion" and a "Bamboo Stone", these two poems brought Zhao Yan to the stage, and his name was also spread throughout the city by the people who participated in the poetry meeting that day.

The so-called people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and after becoming famous, this drawback has also been highlighted.

In the past few days, people have come every day, either to discuss poetry with Zhao Yan, or to come to slap and be slapped in the face, which makes him annoyed, but he has to be patient to socialize one by one.

In the end, he was so annoyed that he had no choice, so Zhao Yan had to tell Xiao Er that if anyone came to visit, he would not see anything, just say that he had moved away, and then hide in the room to 'retreat and cultivate', so that his ears were quiet for a few days.

On the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, the government examination was held as scheduled.

A total of more than 1,000 candidates from 11 counties in five states of Zhending Prefecture gathered at the gate of the Zhending Examination Institute before the fifth watch, and the noise was better than when the county examination was made.

The name of the Zhending Examination Institute is good, in fact, it is a big examination shed, which is not like the temporary examination shed built during the Shenzhou County Examination, this is a long-term building, which is a long-term building, which is persuaded by the successive prefects and counties to donate to the people, and has been repeatedly added and expanded.

The procedure of the prefectural examination is almost the same as that of the county examination, except that candidates are not allowed to bring one thing into the examination, and pens, ink, special paper, etc. will be provided by the examination room, and the name will be confused when submitting the paper.

In addition to taking off their clothes and shoes for inspection, even the clothes and shoes that have been taken off must be checked for dissection.

After entering the house, it was already the beginning of the hour, and after Han Wen wore court clothes and said a serious cliché about serving the country and serving the country, Zhao Yan was led to his seat by the small official to sit down, and then grind the ink, waiting for the official to carry the lantern to show the exam questions.

In the first test of the government examination, there are four books and two questions, and each one is limited to more than 200 words; The Five Classics are limited to more than 300 words, and the total number of the three questions shall not exceed 800 words.

When the official carried the lantern to show the exam questions, Zhao Yan glanced at it and suddenly became happy, when he took the county exam, he thought that Li Zhizhou was taking the 'Gou Rixin' language, but the result was the 'way of the university'.

For this 'Gou Rixin', Zhao Yan had worked hard to write an eight-strand essay before, and now he is just using it.

The title of the second Dao Sishuyi is 'The gentleman is sick and the name is not worthy of the world', as for the title of the Five Classics, because Zhao Yan's book is the Book of Changes, so the title is also taken from it, it is 'Kun" Yuan Heng, the upper six, the dragon fights in the wild, and its blood is Xuanhuang. ’

Zhao Yan ignored these two questions, but first copied the eight-strand text of 'Gou Rixin' to the scratch paper, and then began to read the title of the second four calligraphy.

The gentleman is sick and unworthy of his name, and he speaks out of the "Analects of Wei Linggong", which means: until he dies and his reputation is not praised by others, the gentleman hates it, and to put it simply, he is afraid that he will be nameless before and after his death.

Since the topic is there, according to the definition of the eight-strand article, it is necessary to solve the problem first, that is, to establish the central idea of the article first.

Zhao Yan has already integrated the three views of later generations with the three views of people at this time, and the perspective of looking at the problem is more comprehensive than others.

The so-called life in the world, only the word fame and fortune, for the sake of a "name", how many young people's heads have been white, and how many heroic tears have been shed.

The old man is about to die, and he is afraid that his name will not stand. This is the fear of Qu Yuan, the Sanlu doctor, in "Lisao".

Ten years of cold windows no one asked, and in one fell swoop became famous all over the world. This is the highest ideal and spiritual comfort for scholars in the imperial examination era.

It can't be remembered for a hundred years, and it is better to be stinked for ten thousand years. Huan Wen's words have pushed the pursuit of 'fame' to the extreme, and how many people in later generations are actually practicing it?

After reading through the Confucian classics, it can be seen that 'making the reputation of the public be applied to the body', Confucianism is not that it does not respect the name, it is not that it does not like the name, but it is just against the reputation of the people, the sale of fame, and the deception of the world to steal the name.

The pursuit of fame is human nature and should not be blamed, but if the pursuit is a temporary name, it is very hateful, so Confucianism advocates the pursuit of the name of the eternal generations, and the name will remain in history.

Zhao Yan didn't know how long he had been thinking about it, now that his thinking had been straightened out, he was about to start solving the problem.

"There is no name of the posterity, and the worries of the saints are also", this is the words of the saints.

After taking this sentence as the central idea, Zhao Yan continued to 'inherit the topic' and wrote: "The name of the husband for the time does not need to be there, and the name of the future generations cannot be dispensed without." Therefore, the gentleman does not seek fame, and he has to be anxious about this. ”

After writing the article in a free way, Zhao Yan went back and forth twice, and felt quite satisfied, so he copied it on the main volume together with the first article.

After the transcription was completed, Zhao Yan stretched his back, and at this time, he was in a state, and continued to concentrate on the topic of the Five Classics.

During the county examination, the title of the "Book of Changes" was the loss hexagram, and this time the government examination was the kun hexagram, which was literally interpreted as: good luck, the dragon fought in the wilderness, and the blood flowed all over the land.

This sentence is not a full hexagram, it looks similar to the 'interception question' after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but there is only interception, no ride, for Zhao Yan, there is not much difficulty, and it has been written with a little effort.

Because the first four calligraphy articles save a lot of time compared to others, after Zhao Yan finished writing all the articles, it was only the end of noon, and the food sent by the handyman on the table was still warm.

After hastily eating a few bites of unpalatable food, and drinking a few sips of water, Zhao Yan carefully checked the article to confirm that there were no omissions and mistakes, then closed his eyes and rested, and after a while, he saw someone hand in the paper, and then rang the small bell on his side.

Hearing the bell, two officials came over with white paper, paste and the exam box, and after confirming that Zhao Yan was handing in the papers, they quickly pasted the name of the papers, and then put the exam papers into the exam box.

After waiting for a while to get enough people, Fang Shi released the dragon gate, and everyone had said before the exam that there was no need to wait for others after the exam, just go back to the inn first.