Huang Huaixin rarely saw the Son of Heaven so eager.

As soon as he handed over the admission list of the Ministry of Rites Examination, which had been sealed with fire paint, Zhao Ji immediately asked Lan Yuanzhen, who was accompanying him, to open it. I didn't ask Huang Huaixin if he had just gone to the Gongyuan, what he had seen and heard, and whether there was anything to tell the examiners. After taking the unopened list scroll, he immediately began to look through it.

Among the first dozen people, Zhao Ji did not find the name he wanted to see. Zhao Ji was slightly disappointed and looked all the way to the left.

Seeing half of it, Zhao Ji's moving gaze froze. stared at the list of names, places of origin, year numbers, and the location of the tribute on the paper, and looked at it for a while. He looked up.

"Huang Huaixin." He called the name of the chamberlain below.

"The slave is here." Huang Huaixin hurriedly lowered his face.

"The dragon boat in Jinming Pond was supervised by you?"

Huang Huaixin was stunned for a moment, "It is indeed supervised by the slave maid." ”

"Well done."

praised a good word, and motioned to Huang Huaixin, who was kneeling below and touching his head, but still kowtowed to thank him, to step back. Zhao Ji put the scroll away and asked Lan Yuanzhen behind him, "I heard that Wang Anshi recruited Han Gang as his son-in-law yesterday?" ”

Lan Yuanzhen is the same as the Imperial City Division, of course, he knows a lot of rumors and news in Beijing, and Han Gang's marriage was also reported to the Son of Heaven a few days ago. Hearing the Son of Heaven knowingly ask, he still hurriedly bent down: "If you go back to the official's house, that's exactly the case, the family matter was decided when the moon was born." ”

Zhao Ji nodded: "Go to Zhongshu on behalf of me to congratulate Wang Xianggong...... has a son-in-law of Jinshi. ”

Lan Yuanzhen was just behind Zhao Ji when he had already seen the word 'Han Gang' written on the list. was secretly shocked by the importance that the Son of Heaven attached to Han Gang, and he didn't wait for the official release of the list, so he had to send someone to tell Wang Anshi first.

He congratulated Zhao Ji playfully: "Congratulations to the official family for getting another good minister." ”

Zhao Ji laughed, very happy: "I am the minister of the DPRK and the central government......"

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Spring rain continues.

Compared with the two torrential rains that filled the pond in the backyard of Wang Shao's mansion a few days ago, today's thin rain is like spring.

The rain fell on the freshly sprouted leaves, and there was no sound. Only the water that slides down from the eaves makes the bluestone slabs in the corners of the walls splash with a continuous sound of water.

Two small trees that Hangang can't name, the branches that have just sprouted, the tender green mixed with the tender red, and the new leaves half the size of the palm are fresh and lovely under the rain.

Han Gang was in a daze, looking out the window at the courtyard bathed in the spring rain. Half of the article was spread out in front of me, but the pen in my hand had stopped for an unknown amount of time, and the ink on the soft bristles of the nib had dried out.

Han Gang's personality and personality make him not accustomed to exposing his weak side to others. It is only when you are alone that the emotions hidden in your heart will come to light.

The results are coming out today. Whether it is in the middle or not, there will be a letter in a few hours.

For such important matters related to officialdom's career, no matter how deep the cultivation of qi is, it will not be able to avoid the tension in his heart. Han Gang has never been a person who is indifferent to fame and fortune, since he has the heart to show in this era, he can't be tripped up because of a mere qualification.

After a moment of stupefia in the sound of water, Han Gang's scattered gaze refocused. smiled self-deprecatingly, everything that could be done was done, the flustered was waiting, and the calm was waiting. The result will not change because of my current mood, and there is no need to think about it at all.

The brush was dipped in ink again, and Han Gang lifted the pen with a wave.

Wang Shao, Wang Yan, and the three of them guessed the palace examination questions, and Han Gang has simulated five or six papers, evaluating the advantages and shortcomings of the new law in the past few years from different angles. Which article to use in the last depends on the bias of the topic of the Son of Heaven.

However, these articles are basically a little more talked about by Xihe and Qin Feng, on the one hand, reminding the Son of Heaven of his Han Gang's merits; On the other hand, this is also to echo the will of the Son of Heaven, so that Zhao Ji knows the information he wants to know.

If you don't pass the ritual exam, it would be a joke to write these words now. It's just that once he is selected, it is his Han Gang's extraordinary insight to take precautions.

Immersed in pen and ink, Han Gang vibrated his pen and wrote. Since he began to lock the hall in the middle of last year, for more than half a year, he has been writing articles continuously, and on average, it is basically the speed of one article a day. After a long time, it goes without saying that his writing has improved, and his writing speed has improved by one point faster.

In less than half an hour, Han Gang had already completed an assignment of more than 2,000 words. Even in the rapid writing, the words on the paper are not distorted in the slightest, and they are still extremely neat. In the past, the pen power of the regular script of the three museums was close to that of the three museums, and in the past few years, it has also reached a higher level, and the personal style has become a little heavier.

Slowly read the words and sentences in the article. The pen in his hand drew dots on the manuscript, and a clean manuscript was soon filled with clumps of ink.

When the sound of the water falling on the rocks outside the house finally became quieter, Han Gang also felt that his article had almost changed. After reading it twice, he took a piece of paper again and began to copy it.

Lines of text appeared on the paper, and the article was revised and cut down to only fifteen or six hundred words, and most of it was quickly copied.

It was getting dark, and the rain was about to stop. In the corridor outside the door, a series of hurried footsteps came from far and near.

Without knocking on the door, Wang Hou rushed into Han Gang's room and shouted loudly: "Yukun, congratulations!" ”

Han Gang's pen paused, but immediately continued to write.

‘…… Foolish and hasty, unable to speak, dare to have what he hears to offer, and only the sacred heart will be observed. Fortunately. ’

Horizontal and vertical, meticulous, even after hearing this long-awaited good news, Han Gang still copied out the last few lines of an article without a little wavering.

After writing, he put down the pen in his hand, put away the paper in front of him, and then got up and thanked Wang Hou:

"Thank you for the briefing."

Wang Hou saw Han Gang's soothing and comfortable actions, first for a while, and then shook his head and sighed: "Yukun, are you going to be Xie An?" ”

Han Gang smiled slightly, "The little brother doesn't wear clogs, so he won't stumble." ”

The two glanced at each other, and suddenly burst into laughter.

Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty heard that Xie Xuan had won a complete victory in the Battle of Weishui, and the entire division of the 970,000 former Qin army was scattered, but he just said plainly, 'The children have won', and he still played his chess. But when he got up to go out, he tripped over the clogs on his feet at the threshold.

It seems calm, but in fact it is already excited.

Han Gang's longitudinal voice is small.

It's been three years, and I've been looking forward to this qualification for three years.

Sleeping, thinking, tossing and turning.

Practicing three dogs in summer, practicing three nines in winter, hard as promised, and finally a jinshi.

After obtaining the qualification of Jinshi, the institutional obstacles that stood in his way to the rule no longer existed.

Wang Hou still felt a little regretful: "It's a pity that the ranking is not very good, and it is outside the hundred." ”

"It's a blessing to be able to win, even if it's the last one, there's nothing to regret."

The palace test is set to be high, and the provincial test is set to stay. At the extreme, the last place in the provincial test is equal to the status of the first place. To distinguish between the superior and the inferior, it is still decided at the temple examination. said so, but Han Gang had no intention of competing for a good ranking, and he was already satisfied with a Jinshi.

"That's right." Wang Hou said again, "A long drought is a rainstorm, a foreign country meets an old acquaintance, the cave room spends candle nights, and the gold list is inscribed." Yukun, among the four joys, there are three joys now. ”

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Han Gang is already a jinshi.

Wang Anshi returned home with the news, and the happiest person was not Wang Yi, but her mother Wu.

In early March, the palace test, followed by the banquet of Qionglin Garden. After the feast, the second daughter, who is already twenty years old, can finally marry Lu.

After Han Gang's exam, Wu Amitabha Buddha didn't know how long he had been reading, and he was afraid of Han Gang, who was stubborn, and his temper came up, and he insisted on marrying his daughter after taking the Jinshi exam.

Now I can finally put my mind at ease, and I don't have to chant Buddha all day.

Wu was overjoyed, took Wang Yi's hand, and said vigorously, "I will go to Daxiangguo Temple to repay my vows in two days, when my mother promised a lot of incense for your second sister's marriage, I don't know how much incense I promised, and this time I finally want to go and go back." ”

Wang Yi was silent.

Han Gang passed the Ministry of Rites exam. She was a little happy, a little worried, and even a little flustered.

The lover who wants to spend a lifetime together, she still thinks that he is really difficult to figure out, his mind and personality are the same.

Han Gang's people are certainly not bad.

The second brother didn't mention it when he praised him, and the arrogant eldest brother nodded a few words of approval after seeing him a few times. Wang Yi also knows how rare it is to be a peer who can make the eldest brother agree. Wang Yi knows better that her parents, who have always loved her, will not casually choose an unorthodox husband for her.

And Wang Yi went to see Han Gang that day, and he also felt that he was no worse than those brilliant uncles and brothers in her clan. Even in terms of heroism.

But she went to see Han Gang to refuse marriage, but somehow it turned into a marriage proposal.

Just because of these words, Han Gang changed his mind, not only the eldest brother and second brother were surprised, but also his father and mother.

But Wang Yi really didn't know how Lu Dao persuaded him by himself.

Every time he recalled the conversation with Han Gang at the beginning, Wang Yi couldn't help but turn pale.

Is it pity for yourself?

Do you really think that you have delayed your marriage and married yourself in order to compensate?

Wang Yi pinched a picture of a mandarin duck lotus embroidered on his hand, and his knuckles were white. Compared with her past works, this embroidery has improved a lot, and it is all practiced day and night by her mother and sister-in-law urging her to do so these days.

But is Han Gang sincerely willing to grow old with him?

Maybe this idea is a little too extravagant, but Wang Yi really doesn't want her husband to marry her because of sympathy or pity.

The wedding date is imminent, and Wang Yi is still confused.