Li Xun looked decent on the outside, but the amount of alcohol was surprisingly good, and the three of them pushed the cup in a restaurant near their residence, and in the end, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan were almost carried back.

The night was dark, Zhao Yan woke up in a deep sleep, only to feel that his mouth was abnormally thirsty, and he saw a cup of tea next to the bed in a daze, so he didn't want to take it up and drink it all.

'......Huh' let out a long breath, the herbal tea entered his stomach, Zhao Yan's mind cleared up a little, thinking that Li Xun's maid Qiuyue was very good at taking care of people, knowing that drunk people would be woken up by thirst in the middle of the night, so he prepared a cup of tea in front of the bed in advance.

The wine has woken up, but his head is still a little painful, Zhao Yan put down the teacup, and then put his hands on the temples on both sides and rubbed it slowly, after a while, the headache was reduced, but he did not feel sleepy, so he sat on the couch and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Thinking of the letter that he secretly put on Li Yun's dresser before leaving home, Zhao Yan couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in his heart, although he didn't know what Li Yingqiu said to Li Yun in the letter, but he could guess that it was almost the same, and the letter should be roughly some words to report safety and ask about Li Yun's recent situation, but no matter what Li Yingqiu said in the letter, after a long time, he finally had news of his relatives, and with the more and more sentimental Li Yun's temperament, he would definitely cry.

Zhao Yan felt that he was born in the world, and he should be in awe, he respected heaven and earth, and feared all terrible things, among which there were women's tears.

"Alas......" Zhao Yan couldn't help but sigh, as the saying goes, heroes are short of breath and their children are long, and they have not experienced it in their previous lives, but now they have experienced it once, if they don't know Li Yun, it's okay, what is his Nanzhuang Li family doing if he is dead or alive, but now, ......

Both of them have been honest with each other, although they have not broken through the last step, but from the perspective of the universal view at this time, no matter what, Zhao Yan and Li Yun have had a continuous intimate relationship in their lives, and Li Yun's official marriage into the Zhao family is a certainty, and in the future, whether Li Yun is Zhao Yan's wife or his wife, Zhao Yan, as Li Yun's man, can not turn a blind eye to the affairs of the Li family, so it seems that he really has to think of a way.

The Li family was exiled because of offending the great eunuch Wang Zhencai, and now Wang Zhen is covering the sky in the court, and also controls Dongchang and Jinyiwei, with many eyes and ears, if Li Yingqiu and the Li clan are secretly taken back to Shenzhou, it is really too risky, and the slightest carelessness will affect themselves and their relatives, it is not advisable, it is really a headache.

Zhao Yan sat and thought for a while, limited to his own ability at this time, but he didn't come up with any good way, and he must have sent food to Wang Zhen, so he could only wait for the opportunity. If everything is okay after Wang Zhen's downfall, before that, you can find an opportunity to send some silver taels to the Li family, so that they will not have a difficult life in Yunnan, and when Wang Zhen falls, all the officials who were demoted and punished because of Wang Zhen will naturally have someone to run for him.

It is now the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, and the middle of next year will be Wang Zhen's death, and even if he can't pass the Jinshi exam and can't be an official, he can try to operate some things as a person.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan's mind turned, and he couldn't help but ask himself, can he really sit back and watch the civil engineering change happen? If he can't bear to sit back and watch the civil engineering changes happen, or even change history, what will happen to Wang Zhen when he arrives? Will you continue to be stoned to death with a hammer, or will you return to Beijing intact and continue to be powerful? But if you really sit back and watch the civil engineering changes happen, then how can your conscience be at ease?

Zhao Yan sighed, he is not dead-headed, since the future is full of variables, it is useless to think more at this time, now his first thing is to take the exam, and the rest of the things may as well wait until after the exam to make plans.

Time is like water, the sun and the moon change, and the time is on the eighth day of the second month in a blink of an eye, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan are concentrating on studying books behind closed doors, and Li Xun is also busy with business.

The day before, the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen had ordered the cabinet ministers to preside over the examination, Cao Nai, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhang Yi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were only eight examiners, and then there was a slight increase, and the number of people was often 20, and most of the seals, transcriptions, proofreading, marking, and filling in the list during the examination were handled by the same examiners.

Today, Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan got up early to tidy up their outfits, Qiu Yue and the cook Hu Shi were on the side, after the things were sorted out, Zhao Zhang and the two ate something at will, chatting with Qiu Yue during the period, only to know that Li Xun had not gone home since yesterday, saying that it was a heavy official business in recent days, and only asked Qiu Yue to wish Zhao and Zhang the two of them this time to try Lianjie and shine on the lintel.

Cao Nai and Zhang Yi, as the chief and deputy examiners, had already entered the Tribute Academy in advance according to the regulations, and were 'isolated' up, on the morning of the eighth day of the first month, the orthodox emperor appointed the cabinet minister, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Gao Yu, to pay tribute to Confucius, after the Ming orthodox thirteenth year examination officially began, the Tribute Academy was opened, and the candidates entered.

It has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the style of writing has gradually flourished, and the people who participated in the examination and the students of the Guozi Prison Supervisor have a cursory look, at least more than 2,000 people, and in order to prevent candidates from cheating, they need to be searched layer by layer, so the speed of entry of candidates is not fast.

Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan each lined up in the line with their luggage, and from a distance, they had already seen several sergeants standing at the gate of the Gongyuan who were carrying out the duty of searching, and the old man who was searched had his hair bun opened, his clothes were disheveled, and the luggage he was carrying was also checked in a mess.

After the search was completed, the old man didn't know whether he was angry or had never been so untidy in front of people, his old face became red, and after he hurriedly packed up his belongings, he muttered a few words of complaint in his mouth, and the two sergeants in charge of the search looked at the 'old man' in front of him with a smile, and said with a fright: "The search has been completed, don't enter quickly, if you block the entrance, although we are little sergeants, we can ask the chief officer to arrest you for the crime of disturbing the examination room, At that time, I don't want to say whether you can still participate in this spring festival, I am afraid that you will not be able to participate in the spring festival in the future. ”

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the entrance search of the corresponding examiners was relatively wide, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, once said: "This has been the song "Deer Song", why treat it as a thief? "The Deer Song" is the first article of the "Book of Songs", and it is a poem about the banquet of the nobles. The "Preface to the Poem" says: "The music used by the guests of the banquet. After the township trial list is issued, all provinces will hold a "deer singing banquet" to invite Chinese-style people. What Zhu Yuanzhang meant was that the people who participated in the examination were all talents with excellent character and learning who had been selected by various provinces, and their personality should be respected. Therefore, in the Hongwu period, the method of searching and checking will be tried from time to time.

Due to the relaxation of search and inspection, the phenomenon of cheating in the examination has occurred from time to time, and in the last years of Jiajing, the situation of entrainment in the entrance has become more and more serious. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Ming Shizong "ordered the addition of two members of the imperial history to be in charge of searching, and the offender, Xianhe (wearing a flail) was still sent to the legal department for conviction one month before the Ministry of Rites." Since then, the search has been very strict, and even the clothes and hats have to be undressed. For this kind of overkill, Shen Defu expressed deep emotion in "Wanli Ye Won the Chapter: Science Field", he said: "In the past 40 years, although there have been strict and lenient examinations, but undressing and taking off hats, searching again and again, there is no main body to be treated at the beginning of the restoration of the country!" ”

Now it is the orthodox year, and the reason why the examination is so strict is because of the fraud in the previous Shuntianfu Township test, and because someone is not pleasing to the reader.

Needless to say, the former is self-explanatory, and since the latter says that someone has the ability to influence the great ceremony of this dynasty, the identity is naturally a fairy fart - extraordinary, as long as a clear-eyed person calms down and thinks about it, he can naturally guess who it is, but there are not many people who can guess his motives.

After Li Er and Zhang Shun sent Zhao Yan to the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, they were driven to the crowd on the outer edge by the sergeants who maintained order, at this time the two were tiptoeing in the queue at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard to search for Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan's figures, and there was a commotion behind them, and the two turned around to see, but they didn't know whose family several big shoulders and round waists were rampage in the crowd, and after they made a way in the crowd, the two young noblemen walked over accompanied by an old man in Chinese clothes.

Li Er and Zhang Shun were also squeezed aside, but the two of them were steady, although they were pushed a few times, but they didn't move, and when they saw that the other party was not small, they only secretly took a sip, and then they no longer paid attention to the comer, if the two of them looked back, maybe they could recognize the old and the young among the people, it was Zhu Zhen and Wang Zhen who had a relationship with each other in the Yuelai Inn during the previous township test.

The movement made by Zhu Zhen and his party was not small, but it was a big deal at a glance, and the sergeants who maintained order saw that their master and servant were only standing in the crowd overlooking the Gongyuan, and did not make any other moves, so they ignored it with the idea that more things are better than less.

Zhu Zhen saw the embarrassed people at the gate of the Gongyuan because of the search, and couldn't help but turn around and whisper to Wang Zhen: "Sir, is this move too much?" Taizu Youyun, who has come from the song "Deer Song", why treat him as a thief? This has not been the case for decades, but now ......"

The slightly younger noble son next to Zhu Zhen nodded when he heard this, as if he agreed with this very much, so he turned his head to look at the old man Wang Zhen, wanting to see how he replied.

Wang Zhen smiled lightly and replied with a sharp voice: "The two sons, the old slave grew up in Ulzhou since he was a child, and he also studied poetry and books hard, looking forward to one day returning to his hometown with the title of the gold list, but the old slave is stupid, and he can only be admitted to the student with his ability, and then he has been doing nothing for many years, and it can be said that he has achieved nothing." It's just that although the old slave is stupid, he used to be a reader, and he knows the twists and turns in the hearts of these readers the most, if the old slave uses a word to compare with the reader, the old slave feels that the word 'cheap bones' is really suitable. ”

When the slightly younger noble son heard this, he felt that a breath of evil qi in his stomach rushed straight to the heavenly spirit, and he reprimanded without thinking about it: "It's nonsense." ”

Zhu Zhen glanced at him complainingly, and said lightly: "Zhu Yu, and listen to Mr. Wang's words, if you dare to interrupt again, I won't take you out next time as a brother." ”

Under Zhu Zhen's powerful 'coercion', Zhu Yu could only obediently bow his head and be small, but he said arrogantly in his heart, who rarely comes out with you, anyway, my palace is in the capital, come out when you want to, do whatever you want, much freer than you, hum ......

The names of the three people in front of them should be worthy of the four words of fame, because one of them is the orthodox emperor Zhu Qizhen, the other is the Jingtai emperor Zhu Qiyu, and the last one is the great eunuch Wang Zhen who has been stinking for thousands of years.