Although Cui Laodao said this in the Taihe Palace, even if the entire Jianghu heard it, he had to be convinced.

Although Su Qingmu is usually stern and does not smile at Li Changan, it is impossible to say that he is not worried about this child.

But it's like the simple four words in Cui Laodao's mouth: I'm still alive.

It was enough to dispel most of his concerns.

At this time, it was early autumn, and the weather began to cool down, Li Changan and the two actually still had some time to delay on the road, and the scheduled day of Qingcheng Mountain was to start holding a conference on the first day of winter.

Then it will last for a whole month, and when the many sects have dispersed and returned to their own territory, just in time for the turn of the old and the new.

On the surface, it seems that the arrangement is just right, but the full month of hospitality also shows that the owner's heritage is extraordinary.

This is also why only powerful sects take the lead in doing this kind of thing, and guests can't afford to lose this face regardless of food and lodging when they come.

Just when Li Changan and the others were in a hurry, the annual autumn exam also began to set foot on the agenda.

In the county town of Qiling County, it was still the inn, and Lu Ze was wearing a patched coat and sitting in the lobby drinking tea.

The shopkeeper on the side was very puzzled, tomorrow is the autumn exam, and if you pass the exam, you will be a showman, and once you become a showman, then you will be a real scholar.

In the spring of the second year, you can go to the state city to participate in the spring and autumn examinations of Jinshi, and then you can go to Chang'an to take the Gongshi, and if you pass the examination, you can meet His Majesty the Emperor in person.

Basically, he became a tribute, that is, he had meritorious fame, he could enter the temple and contribute to the country.

I don't know how many people want to read this process, but those who are really willing to settle down will not be able to win the Xiucai again, and they will be directly admitted to the Jinshi in the second year, and steady progress is the right way.

But although I am puzzled, the shopkeeper has opened a store here for five or six years, and all kinds of people have seen it.

There are those who drank heartily on the first night of the exam, and they were still able to win the next day; There are also those who studied hard all night, and the result was not to leave here depressed, but to be nostalgic and to be a genius in the Qing Museum.

But the student in the hall looks like the former, but who can say for sure?

Looking at Lu Ze, who looked complacent, the shopkeeper thought for a while, took a bowl of porridge from the back kitchen, and sat aside.

"This gentleman, this is a small shop, it is noon, and I will not be in a good state when I am hungry. ”

Lu Ze put down the tea bowl and looked at the shopkeeper with a smile: "Seriously, I dare to assert that in less than five years, your store can be doubled." ”

"Hahaha, then Mr. Hongfu, take your high school lottery in advance. The shopkeeper clenched his fists and walked away with a smile.

Lu Ze took a sip of porridge, shook his head and looked at the crowd coming and going on the street, and muttered to himself in the faint sound of mosquitoes:

"People are like this, you carry me, I carry you, everyone is happy, but if anyone is hated......"

As he spoke, Lu Ze stopped his mouth, took out the paper bag on his chest, drank a pack of Wushi San with the help of the porridge, and fell asleep on the table with a scattered expression.

The next day, it was still the same big body, as if Lu Ze didn't have any other clothes at all, anyway, the shopkeeper hadn't seen it.

Lu Ze packed his luggage and left the room in front of the counter, and the shopkeeper couldn't help but ask more.

"Sir, leaving today?"

Lu Ze raised his eyebrows, waved the big flick on his body, and walked out of the inn with a big smile.

"Now that you know the result, why stay longer, the shopkeeper, in less than five years, you must be the largest restaurant in the county. ”

"Mr. Cheng Jiyan, Mr. High School. ”

Leaving the restaurant, Lu Ze bought two steamed buns on the street, walked slowly to the examination room, and walked in after some inspection.

In a separate room, looking at the paper, inkstone, pen and ink uniformly distributed by the official office on the table, Lu Ze nodded and sighed.

It is true that Duan Chao is heavy on literature and martial arts, but it is still the same sentence, what is the use of paying attention to it, the poor family is still a poor family, and he can't afford to go to school, and he doesn't even have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination.

Boom......

The bell rings, and the examiners walk into each room at the same time to hand out the test papers to the candidates.

There is no difference between Xiucai's autumn exam and spring exam, except that the content of the first volume is more hidden, and most of them are books that are not commonly used.

The second volume of the explanatory scriptures no longer simply deals with the Confucian classics, but the heads of each family appear.

So much so that the second volume of the Jinshi or Gongshi Autumn Examination, even including those schools of thought that have disappeared hundreds of years ago, also because of the disappearance of the inheritance, the answer score depends more on the examiner's own understanding.

Time passed little by little, and Lu Ze, who had finished writing the second volume, wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking that if the answer in the future depended on the examiner's own understanding, then there would be many ways to do it.

Looking at the third volume again, perhaps it is modeled after the preferences of His Majesty the Emperor of the palace examination, the third volume of the autumn examination does not test the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, but is asked by the chief examiner.

If the score is mediocre, it is okay to answer the beautiful answer in front of you, but I am afraid that some candidates' answers are just the opposite of the examiner.

No one is perfect, and among the examiners, there are clean officials who are dedicated to the country, and naturally there are also filthy people, and I don't know how many hard-working students have been stopped from this threshold.

At this time, Lu Ze opened the third volume, and there were only two lines of words and two exam questions.

"Why study?"

"What is benevolence?"

Shaking his head, Lu Ze couldn't help laughing, presumably this examiner must be a Confucian scholar.

I didn't think too much about it, I just picked up my pen and wrote.

"Why study?"

Answer: "For the country, for the people, for the society......"

Suddenly, Lu Ze stopped his pen, thought for a while, and said to himself: "It's too clear, you have to be vulgar." ”

Answer: "A bookish body, sold to the emperor's family." ”

"What is benevolence?"

Lu Ze frowned, and a moment of distraction flashed in his eyes.

Answer: "The revenge of the tenth life can still be avenged." ”

Putting down the pen, he didn't read much about the answers in the third volume, checked the first two volumes, and handed in the paper ahead of schedule.

Lu Ze, who walked out of the examination room, stretched his waist, carried his luggage, and drank a pack of five stone powder through the wine jug on his waist, and the patched daze swayed in the wind, and walked towards the city gate without looking back.

......

......

Three days later, in the school, several examiners were carefully reading the papers, and the land of Yuezhou was no better than other states and counties, and the readers were also like mountains.

However, the imperial court has always been forbidden to be examined by local examiners to take the imperial examination, which is to prevent the formation of a group of scholars.

The first examiner is from Wanzhou, which smells of wine and rouge, but unlike other examiners, this examiner has always longed for Yuezhou.

When I read at night, I was always moved by the desperate resistance of 100,000 foot soldiers in Wanzhou a hundred years ago, and the love of the mountain people in Yuezhou as a gift of blood, so I was very strict and fair when reading the papers.

"My lord, look at this scroll......"

The examiner raised his head, and the test papers handed by his hand, the font of the first two volumes was atmospheric and chic, and the answers were simple and clear.

But this third volume ......

"Sold to the Emperor's Family...... It's a bit vulgar, but it's also true, but I'm more curious about what he wrote before. ”

The examiner shook his head, these two questions were written by him, and he naturally knew it when he read it.

Look down.

"The hatred of the tenth world can still be ......"

The examiner was stunned for a moment, looked at the answer that was not asked, and frowned.

"The school of scholars of Wenying University, I haven't seen it for decades, and Yuezhou is really Yuezhou. ”

I agreed in my heart, but the examiner did not dare to show on his face that there has always been a controversy about the status of Wenying scholars among Confucian scholars.

Let's not say that the paranoia of this sentence is incompatible with Confucianism, but one of the propositions of this school is that courtiers can take revenge on the monarch.

There is a reason why such a bold idea will decline, and no emperor dares to let it develop.

It has been a hundred years since the era of Wenying University Bachelor's degree, and it is estimated that in another few decades, no one will remember it, and it will not even appear on the test paper.

"My lord, this ......"

The examiner nodded: "You continue to mark the papers, leave this to me." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

Then the examiner looked at the test paper and was silent for a long time, and put down the ink pen he raised several times, until it was time to change the candle on the lampstand, and finally gave a comment.

"Read, Jiashang!"