In the Chen family's mansion, Li Rizhi is sitting in the middle of the hall, today is the day of the list, although he already knows the results, but it is inevitable that there will be some slight nervousness, afraid that things will come to an end, but something will happen again.

Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizi sat on both sides of him, the two of them were more nervous than Li Rizhi, and although Chen Yingying was a girl, her personality was more anxious than the three of them, and she was walking around the yard.

The gate of the Chen family is closed, and inside the gate, the housekeeper of the Chen family is lying on the crack of the door, looking out.

Suddenly, there was a noise outside, from far and near, the housekeeper turned his head and said nervously: "Miss, someone is coming from outside, they are coming to our house, and it is estimated that they are coming to report the good news to Li Gongzi." ”

Li Rizhi breathed a sigh of relief, he stood up, and said: "Don't open the door yet, wait until they knock on the door, lest they don't give us good news, let's open the door first and make a joke." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone outside shouted: "Is this the residence of Li Zhilangjun?" ”

The butler replied inside, "Yes, is there something wrong?" ”

As soon as he replied like this, there was an uproar outside, and there seemed to be hundreds of people shouting indiscriminately: "Li Rizhi Langjun, he has won the Jinshi, he is the second place in the first class, second only to the first place, and please Li Langjun open the door and let the villains give you good news!" ”

Li Rizhi laughed, no accidents happened, very good, very good, he could finally let go of all his baggage and laugh.

The housekeeper immediately opened the door, and saw a sea of people outside the door, I am afraid that there are four or five hundred people standing outside the door, could it be that these people are all here to ask for rewards?

There are too many people who announce the good news!

However, it doesn't matter if these things matter, Chen Yingying's family has nothing else, that is, there is money, how much money is needed, the servants of the Chen family filled bamboo baskets with copper coins, carried baskets after baskets, and more than 20 baskets of copper coins came out and scattered the money to the crowd.

This is generous, there is no one in the entire Chang'an City, those who come to report the good news, as well as the people who watch the excitement, suddenly went crazy, if the hand is faster, they can grab enough food money for a month.

Li Rizhi put on a new set of clothes, rode a tall horse, and accompanied by Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizi, left the Chen family's mansion and rushed to Shangshu Province.

Chen Yingying also changed into men's clothes, followed Li Rizhi's horse, and further out, there were more than 20 strong servants of the Chen family, surrounding Li Rizhi and Chen Yingying, protecting them.

Along the way, the people talked a lot, is this the second place in the undergraduate exam, it looks okay, but I don't know if I have a relationship, if I can recruit my own family as a son-in-law, it will be really famous.

Swaggering all the way, until they reached Shangshu Province, those scholars who passed the examination were going to gather here, and then go in together to meet the officials in Shangshu Province.

On such a special day, as long as the officials of the six ministries can come, they will basically come here, and the officials all want to take a look at the new branch jinshi, and of course, let the new branch jinshi see them.

In this scientific examination, a total of 21 Jinshi were taken, of which the first Jinshi Hongli did not show up, Li Rizhi was already the last one when he arrived, so now only twenty new Jinshi came, and the new Jinshi are very conscious, and they took the initiative to take Li Rizhi as the leader, as long as Hong Li is not right, then Li Rizhi is the leader of everyone.

After entering Shangshu Province, the twenty new scholars worshipped teachers, officials, and so on, and the officials also took the initiative to talk with these Jinshi who had just stepped into the official career, which was also a social activity.

However, Li Rizhi did not worship the teacher, because he did not have a teacher, although the second place in the first class should be worshiped by the examiner as the teacher, but because of Hong Li's relationship, everyone tacitly understood that no one was willing to be his teacher, and Li Rizhi naturally did not take the initiative to ask, so it seemed that he had no tacit understanding.

In Shangshu Province, Li Rizhi saw Yan Liben, he stepped forward to salute, and said, "Yan Weng, the student has lived up to Yan Weng's teachings and finally been admitted to the Jinshi." ”

Yan Liben admires Li Rizhi very much, this young man is calm, capable, and reads well, there are not many such young people, and he has not seen a few over the years.

Yan Liben said: "Li Langjun, do you have a table word? ”

Li Rizhi now has the rank of Wensan official of Cheng Lang, and he can definitely be called Lang Jun, but it still means to call Lang Jun outside, so it is better to call him a cousin.

Li Rizhi has no table words, and he has not yet gotten up, Yan Liben is clear about this, if Li Rizhi has a table word, then he will report it to himself when they meet for the first time, instead of Yan Liben asking now, so Yan Liben is asking this now, in fact, it is to have the meaning of giving Li Rizhi a table word.

Of course, Li Rizhi understood the meaning of these words, if his expression could be as good as Yan Li's original, then he couldn't ask for it.

Li Rizhi hurriedly said: "If you go back to Yan Weng, the student has not yet given up the word, if Yan Weng does not give up, the student wants to ask Yan Weng to give the student a word." ”

Yan Liben touched his beard and said with a smile: "Okay, then the old man will get you one." The day is wise, Lao Tzu said, the wisdom of the person who knows the person, the person who knows the self, the word "know the person", it is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, then retreat and ask for it, do not seek to know the person, only seek to know yourself, old man, I will send you a table word, know, what do you think? ”

In fact, the meaning of this table is that people are self-aware, don't be proud, and don't do things beyond their ability.

In fact, there is a meaning of self-humility in this table.

When Li Rizhi heard this, he immediately bowed his hand, bowed to the ground, and said: "Thank you Yan Weng for giving me the words, and the students' future words will be called Zhiming." ”

When the jinshi next to them saw it, they hurriedly came over to congratulate them, and some of the jinshi were quite jealous in their hearts, and they couldn't wait for Yan Liben to give them a watch.

But most of the Jinshi still admired Li Rizhi very much, they didn't know that Li Rizhi and Yan Liben had known each other before, but thought that with just such a short period of effort, Li Rizhi would be able to pat Yan Liben's ass, and he could also successfully get Yan Liben to give him a watch, this ability, they could never match.

After a lively passage in Shangshu Province, next, of course, is to go outside to feast and drink, anyway, the current atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty is that as long as there is a happy event, you have to go out to eat and drink, and then find some blonde orchids to dance, when everyone is full of food and drink, but also to make poems, if anyone knows martial arts, then take a weapon and play a few times, it will also win a round of applause.

Anyway, at such a banquet, whoever has what kind of talent must show himself to the fullest and show himself, this is the heroic style of the Tang literati.

In the next few days, such banquets would be held every day, and the next day they would go to meet the emperor and empress, and then cross the horse and parade the streets, showing the demeanor of the new science and technology to the people of Chang'an.

Then the emperor and the empress gave a banquet, then ate and drank, and then performed all kinds of talents, and the various performances at the banquet in Shangshu Province the day before were considered rehearsals, and the performances at the emperor's banquet could be regarded as real performances.

After such a performance, they were in high spirits, and the next day, the new science and technology scholars would go to Qujiangchi, and then eat and drink, compose poems, and perform various talents.

This time, the performance is aimed at the general public, and it shows the general public their various demeanors after winning the Jinshi.

At this time, there was no habit of leaving a name in the Wild Goose Pagoda, otherwise the new science and technology scholars would definitely be led by Li Rizhi to go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and paint on the wall to leave all kinds of ink treasures, but now they don't think about it.

Because Master Xuanzang is still alive, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a Buddhist treasure place for translating Buddhist scriptures, and idle people are forbidden to enter, even if they are new scholars, so the matter of leaving a name in the Wild Goose Pagoda will be talked about in a few decades.

After that, it is the holiday, the new scholars have a three-month vacation, during which they can go back to their hometown, if the home is close and does not need such a long time, then they should also use this time to adjust their mentality and prepare to change from a scholar to an official

After finishing all this, it has been a few days later, Li Rizhi has been feasting and drinking for days, his body is quite unwell, he has drunk too much, his stomach hurts, and he feels like he is going to be sick.

On this day, he did not go out, but hid in the Chen family's mansion, wanting to rest and rest.

Suddenly, a servant of the Chen family came to report, saying that someone from the palace was coming, and it was a little eunuch, saying that he was sent by Tong Guinu and wanted to see Li Rizhi.

Li Rizhi heard this, and hurriedly came out to greet him, and it happened that this little eunuch was the one who went to Liyang County to find him that day.

Li Rizhi said with a smile: "Zhongguan, the injury on your leg is better, at that time, the injury that looked at you from below was quite serious, but because I had to do something, I couldn't accompany Zhongguan, and I asked Zhongguan not to be surprised!" ”

The little eunuch smiled: "At that time, we also felt that the injury on our legs was very serious, but in fact, it was not that serious, and it would be good to raise it for a few days. Li Langjun, don't say anything weird, what's so strange about us, you left that day? Let's let you go, what can we blame! ”

The two laughed together, which can be regarded as acquaintances and acquaintances.

Li Rizhi accompanied the little eunuch into the hall, and the little eunuch said: "We came this time to bring you a message, the queen asked you to report to the yamen of Yongzhou Mansion, to be a political jinshi, and by the way, learn how to deal with the affairs in the yamen from the newly appointed Changshi." ”

Li Rizhi hurriedly said: "Changshi has been replaced, who has been replaced?" ”

The little eunuch said: "It's Lord Xu Jingzhong, but he is not a serious long history, but an agent, I heard the general manager Tong say that he will have to be replaced after a while." ”

Li Rizhi sighed and said: "The position of the governor of Yongzhou has always been difficult to sit firmly, and with a famous minister like Lord Xu acting for this position, I believe that I will definitely learn a lot of useful things from him." ”

He is an official, he is just a new science and technology scholar, he is a civil and prose official, or a petty official from the eighth grade, what can he learn from a big man like Xu Jingzhong, it is estimated that Xu Jingzhong is not even interested in looking at him!

He played officially, but the little eunuch didn't fight, but smiled: "Lord Xu has a good temper, and he likes to promote his juniors, maybe he can really teach you a lot of things, then you have earned it." ”