Li Rizhi touched his chin, he is quite excited now, at this moment, you have to pretend to be calm, that's hypocrisy, sluts are hypocritical, so it's time to be excited!

His hands trembled a little, and Li Ri knew: "Do I want to grow a beard and grow a beard?" ”

Chen Yingying said: "Aren't you going to take the test again the day after tomorrow?" Time is not coming, so don't stay, I see that your chin is very good, you look young! ”

Li Rizhi said twice, he said: "Let's go over there and have a look, I want to see if my name is really on the list!" ”

At this time, the owner of the soup cake shop also heard that Li Rizhi had passed the exam, at least the Ministry of Rites exam, and he hurriedly told Li Rizhi: "Xiao Langjun go and see the list, this meal will be invited by the villain, which can be regarded as congratulating Xiao Langjun on his leap into the dragon gate!" ”

Cheng Zizi said: "How can you let the store break the bank, and you will receive it!" He took out a small bag of money from his bosom and placed it on the table.

The three of them hugged Li Rizhi out of the soup and cake shop, stepped over the idler who was still dizzy, and went straight to the entrance of the ceremonial department.

There are countless people on the list, some are crying, crying, some are laughing, laughing loudly, and some are scolding, aimless, just full of swearing, I don't know who they are scolding, and they look like they have fallen into evil.

Li Rizhi was riding on a horse, he didn't squeeze into the crowd, but he looked around, and saw a list on the shadow wall of the Ministry of Rites, with sixty or seventy names written on it, looking from right to left, his name was exactly in the thirtieth position, Xingyang Li Rizhi.

Li Rizhi secretly said in his heart: "My Datang is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I originally thought that my article was already well written, after all, before the exam, I personally went to the market to learn to deal with people's disputes, and I also know a lot about civil affairs, but even so, I can only be the thirtieth!" ”

Although Li Rizhi worships a famous teacher and has a talent for learning, this does not mean that he is the first person in Datang, and this is his first time in the exam, if he can directly rank among the best, it will be even more unrealistic, in fact, the ranking of thirty is already very good.

But the ranking of thirty is still extremely dangerous, because of the Tang Science Examination, there are very few people who have been selected in the Jinshi Branch, generally about twenty, up and down, each subject is different, but whether it is twenty-one or twenty-nine, there is nothing wrong with thirty, so this thirtieth place is very likely to be eliminated, and at least more than half of the official examination must be brushed off!

Li Rizhi was only looking for his name just now, and his mood was stable, so he began to look at other people who had passed the exam, but he only looked at one name forward, and the twenty-ninth place turned out to be Zhao Jian!

Li Rizhi sighed, pointed to the list and said: "Am I mistaken, the person in front of me is Zhao Jian, the one who didn't go to the banquet!" ”

Cheng Zizi's eyes were the best, and he nodded and said, "Yes, it's that Zhao Jian, he actually did better than you in the exam, senior brother, this is really weird!" ”

Fu Guibao also said: "The other people on this list are not from our Zhengzhou, we don't know how good their knowledge is, but this Zhao Jian is from our Zhengzhou, I have said a lot to him along the way, and his knowledge is not very good, how can he be better than the eldest brother?" ”

Zhao Jianzi didn't have any outstanding performance on the way from Zhengzhou, among the scholars, he definitely can't be regarded as the talented one, at least he is better than Li Rizhi, and he can't compare them at all.

Among the candidates in the Tang Dynasty, the Gyeonggi candidates are the most powerful, which is almost the same as in later generations, the richer the place, the more people who read, the better the books, the richest in the Gyeonggi region of the Tang Dynasty, and the powerful people are everywhere, and the examination papers are not famous, so a quarter of the people on the list are in the Gyeonggi area.

Li Rizhi is tough in the background, it is not unusual for him to be on the list, even then he is only thirty, but Zhao Jian turned out to be twenty-nine, and he also pressed Li Rizhi by one ranking, which makes people feel strange!

Chen Yingying said: "This Zhao Jian, who did he invest in when he invested in the bank, is it the book of the Ministry of Rites?" Or the prime minister of the dynasty? ”

Li Rizhi smiled and said: "What's wrong with him, how others do is someone else's business after all, let's take care of our own business, I'm on the list is the point, shouldn't you celebrate me?" ”

Fu Guibao and Cheng Zi congratulated together, but Chen Yingying said: "Today I will cook myself and cook you a few good dishes to eat!" ”

"Do you cook? That's punishment, did I do something wrong? Li Rizhi laughed, and it was only at this time that he was completely relaxed and in a happy mood!

The four of them left the Ministry of Rites and returned to the Chen family's mansion together, but as soon as they left, chaos was released under the list, and someone actually fought.

It turned out that among the crowd watching the list, there were three people crying loudly, one of these three people was Wu Wenshi, one was Wang Laozhi, and the other was of course the young man who partnered with them.

They didn't know Zhao Jian's name, but they could hear Zhao Jian's accent, and they could hear that Zhao Jian was from that part of Zhengzhou.

Old man Wang remembered that his old wife guessed casually, and he actually guessed the exam question correctly, and this exam question worth thousands of gold only let him sell 250 yuan, so he was sad from his heart, crying came out of his mouth, and couldn't help but howl.

As soon as he cried like this, Wu Wenshi and the young man originally wanted to persuade him, but when they thought about it, they were also at a loss in this transaction, and the person who lost was not only the old man, so they also cried, and they cried deeply, touching the heavens and the earth, and the voice was loud.

Participating in the scientific examination, and it is a scholar who participates in the Jinshi examination, tens of thousands of people are exaggerated, but there are at least thousands, at this time there are more than 1,000 people who come to see the list, only sixty or seventy people are selected, and the rest are all off the list, and the people who fall off the list must be in a bad mood, and the number is extremely large.

As soon as the old man and the king wept, the sad scholars could no longer bear it anymore, and they all began to cry, and some of the scholars even screamed.

But the old man Wang and the scholars are different after all, they didn't take the exam, they can't experience the pain of falling off the list, seeing the people around them crying, they can't bear it, a few of them laughed a few words.

This ridicule is terrible, the surrounding scholars were furious, provoked, did not control their emotions, and then educated the old man Wang on their fists and feet, the old man Wang They are few, of course, they can't beat the scholars, after being beaten violently, they all fell to the ground, and were trampled on by the scholars!

The old man Wang couldn't stand it at that time, and died on the spot, and Wu Wenshi held on for a while, and was also trampled to death, only the young man insisted for a long time, and insisted until the tolerance in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites came out to drive away the scholars, and he was saved, but he didn't hold on for a while, and after being carried into the yamen, he died before Lang Zhong arrived.

When the scholars saw that they had lost their lives, they scattered in a hurry, the law did not blame the public, and the tolerance did not catch anyone, so the matter could only be stopped.

Old Man Wang's wife guessed the exam question, it was definitely not a lucky thing, Zhao Jian and Old Man Wang all died because of this.

After Li Rizhi and the others returned to Chen's house, Chen Yingying said: "Rizhi, the day after tomorrow will be re-examined by the officials, what exam questions they can make, you can estimate it." ”

Li Rizhi thought for a while and said: "If I want to guess, then I guess that whether it is the Ministry of Rites or the Ministry of Officials, those exam questions may be from Empress Wu, at least they will be reviewed by her and finally determined." ”

Fu Guibao was overjoyed and said: "Big brother, you can be regarded as throwing the scroll to the emperor and Empress Wu, as long as you don't answer the question off, then you will definitely be selected!" ”

Li Rizhi shook his head and said, "It's possible, but it's really hard to guess Queen Wu's thoughts, I really can't guess what kind of topic she will come up with." ”

"Go and ask Yan Liben, Yan Shangshuxing?" Cheng Zizi asked.

Li Rizhi shook his head again and said, "Yan Weng won't say it, and it is estimated that he may not know!" ”

Chen Yingying said with a smile: "So, if you can't guess the exam questions, then you have to rely on your face, I'll draw eyebrows and sideburns for Rizhi, smear some rouge on your face, and then put some lip gloss on your mouth. ”

"Seductive examiner?" Li Rizhi frowned.

Cheng Zizi and Fu Guibao said in unison: "This plan is wonderful! ”

Li Rizhi is still very confident in the re-examination of the Ministry of Officials, after all, although he does not know who is the person who presides over the examination of the Ministry of Officials, he will definitely not be able to bypass the level of the Ministry of Officials, and the Ma Shilang of the Ministry of Officials happens to owe Li Rizhi a favor!

Look, isn't this favor used now, and the favor should be used at a critical moment!

Fu Guibao said: "Big brother, otherwise, let's hurry up and prepare gifts to visit Ma Shilang's house, don't you have a letter for him, just take this opportunity to send it to him!" ”

Li Rizhi immediately shook his head and said: "This is not good, now I can't go to see Ma Shilang no matter what, it will make it difficult for him to do, and it will also be unfavorable to me, when it comes to the retest, even if I do well in the exam, but with Ma Shilang here, others will say that it is because I went to the knot in advance, so I will be selected, which is equivalent to denying my own ability!" ”

Fu Guibao sighed, he didn't think about this, but Cheng Zizi said: "Yes, if Ma Shilang wants to clear up the relationship, obviously the senior brother is the first in the exam, but he gives a tenth, wouldn't it be even more unlucky!" ”

Li Rizhi nodded, this is a very likely thing, although they are all selected, but the ranking is also very important, but it is not very important to him, but if the top few are brushed to the bottom of the list, it will be uncomfortable after all!

He said: "The top ten estimates are unlikely, I don't think I have such ability, after all, I am the first time to participate in the scientific examination, thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi, I haven't even reached twenty, it's good to be able to win, but, in fact, even if it is the penultimate first, I am also very satisfied!" ”

Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi, which means that the content of the Ming Jing subject is shallow, and it is too old to pass the exam at the age of thirty, and it is too difficult to enter the Shi subject, so the fifty-year-old exam is already considered young.

In later generations, Bai Juyi was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-seven, and he also wrote poems excitedly: at the inscription under the Ci'en Pagoda, the youngest of the seventeen. Twenty-seven years old should be called the minimum year, which shows how old the person who passed the Jinshi examination in the Tang Dynasty was.

Li Rizhi is only how old he is this year, only eighteen, and he is only nineteen if he works hard, not even twenty, and he is considered young in the Ming Jing subject, let alone in the Jinshi subject, so he can pass the exam, even if he is the first from the bottom, it is also worth celebrating.

However, if he took the penultimate exam, and then Ma Shilang forced him to become the penultimate in order to show justice, although they were all selected, although there was no difference between the penultimate and the second-to-last, then Li Rizhi would be unwilling, so there was no need to go to see him in advance.

If Ma Shilang wants to take care of it and doesn't see him in advance, he will take care of it, and thank him afterwards, so that the other party will not be embarrassed, and at the same time, it will not be difficult for himself.

At the same time, still under the list, a person who looks like a housekeeper looked at the list blankly, this is the butler of the Zhao family, he arrived here from Liyang, and when the list was released, he saw Zhao Jian's name on the list!

The housekeeper muttered: "I won, I really passed the exam, and it is the top twenty-nine, this is a great joy for the glory of the ancestors, but the people are gone!" ”

The housekeeper's tears came out, the Zhao family finally came out with a Wenqu star, a nephew of the Jinshi, well, a nephew who was about to be a Jinshi, but this nephew was killed by the villains, this revenge must be avenged, absolutely revenge!

The housekeeper squeezed out of the crowd and immediately returned to Liyang to report to his master!