There is no special reason why Lin Yi did not participate in Xiao Mu and Lai Zongdao's questioning, but she has traveled to Daming for more than three months, and the original pregnant body of Queen Zhou has been relatively obvious, or it may be due to the long time and space living in Daming, which has been affected by some subtle influences, so that she has a little bit of identity with some etiquette that she could not understand and accept-moreover, there is also a very important reason that Xiao Mu will not hide anything from himself, will come to tell him that he even needs to discuss it with him, so there is no need for Lin Yi to destroy the etiquette of this time and space. Anyway, I will definitely know the result in the end, so why do I have to cause criticism in plain www.biquge.info?

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lin Yi to see Xiao Mu again, it was obvious that he had already asked Lai Zongdao to understand the situation, and then came to Lin Yi to "report" as soon as possible.

"How do you explain it?" Lin Yi once again asked a question that didn't need to be asked, because even if she didn't ask, Xiao Mu would still say it.

"He gave me a relatively acceptable answer." Xiao Mu directly said the final conclusion, "At least it's a little better than I originally imagined that the exam marking is heavy and important." ”

Obviously, Xiao Mu didn't understand what he said, and Lin Yi naturally didn't understand it, so she continued to ask, "What do you mean by a 'relatively acceptable answer'?" is obviously comparable to the champion's article, but it was ranked eleventh, what is this not the shady of grading? ”

"The truth is not so complicated, in fact, the reason is much simpler than we imagined, but the society before we crossed over did not see such a phenomenon for a long time, so we didn't think of it." Xiao Mu said vaguely again, but fortunately, he also knew that his statement would definitely not satisfy Lin Yi, so he continued to explain before Lin Yi's questioning, "Lai Zongdao told me that this exam paper should be the best one in this palace examination from the point of view of the article, even better than the article that is ranked first now, but in the end, the reason why it is only ranked eleven is because of one point, that is, appearance. ”

"Looks?" Lin Yi was a little puzzled after listening to Xiao Mu's words, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong, "When you say 'looks', do you mean the 'looks' of appearance?" ”

"Yes, it's just appearance." Xiao Mu nodded, and replied helplessly, "In the various exams of the original modern society of you and me, where will the final score be affected by the factor of appearance?" So it's no surprise that you and I didn't think of that. ”

"That means that this ......" Lin Yi was halfway through his words, then he paused, quickly flipped through the stack of exam papers to the eleventh one, glanced at the names on the exam papers, and then continued, "This candidate named Liu Ruozai is the type that is not good-looking?" ”

"Although I haven't seen this candidate named Liu Ruozai, but according to the description of the sect and the records of the Ministry of Rites, this person's appearance can indeed be said to be the kind that does not dare to compliment and lowers the average level." Xiao Mu nodded, and replied with a little embarrassment, after all, it is not so easy to say that others are ugly behind their backs.

"And then because of that, he pushed his results back by ten?" Lin Yi was still a little incredulous about this, "The imperial examination selects talents, not beauty pageants. ”

"It seems that in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, appearance also has a certain influence on the imperial examination." Xiao Mu replied, "And if you think about it now, the courtiers that you and I have seen since we traveled to the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, do you have the kind of monkey gills with sharp beaks, not like decent people?" Anyway, when I think about it now, even Liang Yanyang's relative, Liang Yuehao, the magistrate of Daxing before, but from the outside, he is a person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he doesn't look like a bad person. As for these ministers in the court, not to mention, they are all righteous men and gentlemen. ”

"When I used to read the Three Kingdoms, there was Pang Tong who was abandoned by Sun Quan because of his ugly appearance, and then when I came to Liu Bei, I didn't pay attention to it at first, and I thought it was an exaggeration of the novel, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to really exist." After listening to Xiao Mu's words, Lin Yi thought back to the Ming officials he had seen, and found that it was indeed as Xiao Mu said, so he had to accept the reality in front of him, "Moreover, Luo Guanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is also a figure in the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that this point about appearance has a great impact on the Ming Dynasty readers. ”

"This Liu ......" Xiao Mu just said three words and listened to it again, just like Lin Yi just now, after glancing at the exam papers, he continued, "This Liu Ruozai has not yet reached the level of Pang Tong in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", otherwise, it is estimated that he will not even have the current eleventh place score, maybe he will not even pass the examination, and even the qualification to participate in the examination." ”

"So, is that what you call a 'relatively acceptable answer'?" Lin Yi remembered the conclusive words that Xiao Mu had said when he first came, and asked.

"Yes, compared with the shady and impostor, this is not so bad because of the appearance, at least in the current Ming Dynasty, those courtiers who participated in the marking of the papers are still disciplined, and they don't have the courage to openly challenge the fairness of the imperial examination." Xiao Mu nodded and replied, it was obvious that this matter was not as serious as he originally expected.

And this kind of actual situation is better than expected, which will undoubtedly make people breathe a sigh of relief, in fact, Xiao Mu has already begun to think about how to deal with the examiners who come to Zongdao if there is really a shady scene in the marking process, but now such a thing does not exist, of course, he also suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

"It's really not that serious compared to the shady grading of the papers." Lin Yi also had to admit that the problem was not as serious as she imagined, but not serious did not mean that there was no problem, and soon she continued to ask, "But you just accepted this explanation of Lai Zongdao, and you plan to admit this Liu ...... Is Yoo Ruojae's final ranking? ”

"Of course not, you and I are both people who have received education in the modern society of later generations, how can we still have this idea of judging people by their appearance?" Xiao Mu shook his head confidently and replied, his body filled with an indescribable sense of superiority.