? On the fifteenth day of the month, at the entrance of the main gate of the palace, a large number of scholars have gathered, and when it comes to the palace examination, all the candidates are waiting for the palace gate to open and enter the court for the examination.

After participating in this palace examination, it only takes two days to mark the papers, and they will get the name of Jinshi, and from then on, they will soar, these people will enter the court or temple, and from then on for the country and the people, or for the development of the country and the temple to make their due contributions.

"Yongning, I originally wanted to go with you, but something was delayed, and we found out that you didn't come when we arrived at the palace gate, why did you come so late?"

As soon as Ji Ning stood still, Tang Xie and Han Yu came over, and Tang Xie said with some relief. Obviously, he was afraid that Ji Ning would delay the palace test because of something.

Ji Ning said: "I didn't go back to my house yesterday, I just found a place to change into my uniform, so I'll come over immediately!" ”

Tang Xie smiled and said: "It's good to come, today's palace test will last for a day, Yongning, here is some food for you, have you used it together?" ”

Ji Ning shook his head slightly, saluted and thanked him: "No need, I'm ready to enter the arena next!" ”

Outside the palace gate, the number of candidates is increasing, and before the time comes, the people have basically arrived.

The palace gate is open to candidates can enter the time is at two o'clock in the morning, to everything is ready, the time will be officially opened, the afternoon sunset before dusk must be handed in, the palace examination does not have the number of candidates, all candidates are in the same venue for the examination, after entering the palace gate, each candidate's seat is pre-arranged, is to be arranged according to the results of the examination, from high to low.

Ji Ning, as the leader of the tributes, will be the leader of the Ming Dynasty examination, and he will be in the front row of this exam, and even when he enters the venue, he is also a column of candidates with odd numbers.

Until the time of Chen, the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple each came out to preside over the affairs of entering the palace, and all candidates needed to re-verify their identities, and the Huiyuan and the second place in the examination were each as the team leaders, and Ji Ning was beside Qin Feng, who had a grudge against Ji Ning.

Qin Feng looked proud, obviously Qin Feng was very confident in this test, and seemed to think that he could be the champion.

Ji Ning himself doesn't have too many ideas, he just wants to strive for himself to be ranked among the top 1 people, so that he can avoid the hard work of taking another temple exam, if this exam is not normal, he may also be ranked among the first jinshi, after all, among the hundred candidates, there are only one first-class jinshi, and there are only ninety-five second-class jinshi, and the remaining two hundred and two people are all first-class jinshi.

For most candidates, the goal of this temple examination is to strive to enter the top 98 by hard work, if unfortunately not ranked among them, they can only hope for the subsequent Hanlin Academy Jishi examination, as well as the temple apprenticeship undergraduate examination.

"You're Ji Ning?" As the first person to go up to verify his identity, Ji Ning needs to tell the truth about the content of his knot, including the situation of his ancestors and his family, and finally compare the portraits to make sure that there is no problem, and then he can be allowed to wait at the gate of the palace.

Not long after, Qin Feng also came over and stood not far from him, although the two of them were one Huiyuan and the other were second, their status was obviously different.

The two of them are both Xie Yuan of the Jinling Township Examination, and they have been held twice, and then Ji Ning Huiyuan, which is equivalent to the possibility of Lian Yuan in the palace examination, and Qin Feng took the second place in the examination, which seems to be good, but history always remembers successful people, and the second place in the examination means that he has failed, even if he is the champion in the palace examination, he has also lost the famous history.

Purely from the results of the examination, Qin Feng, as a failed candidate in the previous examination, is already considered good to the second place in this session, but he is afraid that people will be compared to others, and if he compares Ji Ning, he will be dwarfed.

Immediately, the first Xu Jiangming also appeared behind Ji Ning.

Although several people had gone to the Ministry of Rites to get their uniforms together, Ji Ning had not greeted Xu Jiangming at that time, and he didn't know which one was Xu Jiangming.

After meeting this time, he knew how heroic this Xu Jiangming was, to say that this is also a standard handsome guy, with an unruly indifference on his face, as if everyone was inferior to him, but it was a pity that no matter how beautiful he was, he was still behind Ji Ning and Qin Feng, which was also something he was dissatisfied with.

Ji Ning didn't say hello to Xu Jiangming, after all, the two didn't know each other, but Qin Feng on the other side arched: "Brother Donghe, it's been a long time!" ”

Xu Jiangming, the word Donghe, like Qin Feng, is also the second time he participated in the examination, maybe the two have crossed paths before, so they know each other.

"Humph!" Xu Jiangming snorted coldly, he didn't even have the most basic politeness, and didn't pay attention to Qin Feng at all.

Qin Feng glanced at Ji Ning, and saw that Ji Ning was not even interested in talking to Xu Jiangming, so he didn't say much.

After that, it was the arrival of the fourth Zhang Shu.

Ji Ning is also very curious about the fifth place, you must know that this fifth place is precisely the person who has been talked about the most in this examination, and even more famous than him, the person who is even more famous than him, is Gu Yuming, a talented man in Jiangbei.

Gu Yuming was beaten by the people of Huiwangfu before, and since then he has been in a slump, recuperating at home for nearly a month, and now he has just stepped out of bed, and the whole person is sluggish, and he almost needs someone to help him, even so, the person walked over awkwardly, still coughing, looking like a sick old man, without the heroic demeanor of the Jiangbei genius before.

After Gu Yuming came over, he didn't say hello to anyone, but he was always the one who attracted the most attention from others present, and everyone was looking at him, also because there were a large number of scholars who went to the temple to cry because of him yesterday.

Ji Ning found that as a Huiyuan, he was also the only person who had a Huilianyuan, and he was not as famous as Gu Yuming.

This Gu Yuming seems to be the star candidate of this examination, even if he came from behind, he was counting from the front, counting the first one from Ji Ning's side, to see which one was the famous Jiangbei talent.

Ji Ning showed a knowing smile on his face, he didn't have much sympathy for Gu Yuming, the main reason was that Gu Yuming himself was a fame seeker, Ji Ning thought to himself: "Everything Gu Yuming encounters now is his own fault, if he didn't have to pretend to admit that the poem was written by himself at the Beijing Poetry Conference, why would it be discredited?" In the end, after the ups and downs, I will try the fifth place, and I will be able to enter the Shishi in the future, which may be the best ending. ”