Jing Niang's uncle and aunt's home is in Juxian Fang, coincidentally, less than a hundred steps away from their house is the mansion of Guan Lone, the mansion is not big, covering an area of only ten acres, this is because the old house of the Guan family is in Weiyang County, here is just Guan Lone's residence in the capital, and it also belongs to the property of the Guan family, because Guan Lone's wife is in his hometown, so there are not many people living in this house, only a dozen maids and servants, and there are two concubines who take care of Guan Lone's life.

But these days, Guan Lian's son, Guan Xianju, also lives here, and he will participate in the Jinshi Imperial Examination in early September, and since the Luo Qiyu incident broke out a few days ago, the competition to propose to the Su family has immediately cooled down.

It's not that the matter is over, the marriage proposal is still valid, but it has changed from three competitions to two competitions between King Liang and Uncle Shen, and King Qi has been eliminated.

But the Su family did not reply, and the reason was very simple, everything was said when the head of the family, Su Xun, came back, and the marriage proposal was frozen.

Guan Xianju seems to have calmed down these days, studying hard at home, and a few days ago, he went out to drink and visit the Qinglou almost every day, but in the past few days, he has just woken up and never went out again.

Guan Xianju knows very well in his heart, in terms of status, he sent Huangfu Wujin 108,000 miles, in terms of family background, after he is King Liang, in terms of character, Huangfu Wujin and Luo Qiyu are completely different, and he never even visits Qinglou.

and Su Hanzhen also admires Huangfu Wujin, Su Hanzhen is the prince's confidant, of course he will not support his niece to marry Shen Guo's uncle.

From the analysis of various conditions, he can't compete with Huangfu Wujin, but he also has two advantages, one is that Uncle Shen Guo personally asks for him to marry, with Uncle Shen's status in the imperial court, the Su family will not ignore it, maybe they will not just burn a stick of incense for the prince.

The second is knowledge, it can be said that knowledge is the only advantage that he Guan Xianju is far ahead of Huangfu Wujin, he won the first place in the county test of Weiyang County, the second place in the county test of Donghai County, and obtained the qualification of a tribute scholar in the state test of Chuzhou, and Huangfu Wujin is not even a talent.

To put it mildly, it is called not learning and no skills, he inquired, that Huangfu Wujin did not go to school for a day, he was still a fool when he was a child, and he was very different from him in terms of knowledge.

But Guan Xianju also understood in his heart that the weight of a tribute warrior was still far from being comparable to that of Liang Guogong, not to mention that Su Xun was the prince of the country and the priest of wine, and the qualifications of a tribute priest were simply not worth mentioning in front of him.

Unless it is the champion, he can puff up his chest and compete with Huangfu Wujin, but the champion is absolutely no play, and even his hope of being admitted to the Jinshi is very slim, if he can't get into the Jinshi, then he has absolutely no hope, if he can be admitted to the Jinshi, maybe Su Xun can still look at the knowledge without looking at the power.

Jinshi! In the past few days, Guan Xianju has dreamed of his own gold list title.

But he dreamed that he couldn't marry the daughter of the Su family, and Su Han, who was so beautiful that he almost wanted to go crazy, he just learned her name.

He has to take action, he has been waiting for an opportunity for the past few days, today, his opportunity has finally come, last night his father told him that Huang Hongyuan's younger brother in the Ministry of Rites has agreed to help with this, and this afternoon there will be a servant of the Huang family to send some daily necessities to Huang Hongyuan, who is quarantined, and ask him to prepare a note for help.

Huang Hongyuan was isolated in the Taixue Library Building, closely monitored by embroidered guards, unable to speak, only to send something and leave, and his belongings were strictly searched.

This really makes Guan Xianju nerve-wracking these days, not only not to be searched, but also to let Huang Hongyuan understand that there is a note hidden, and he can't find it, which is really difficult.

After thinking about it for a night, Guan Xianju finally thought of a way, he prepared a pill that Huang Hongyuan often took, this pill was wrapped in a wax pill, and he had to crush the wax pill before he could take it, so he hid the note in one of the wax pills, this kind of pill, Huang Hongyuan has to take three pills a day, and he only prepares nine, that is to say, within three days, Huang Hongyuan will definitely see the note.

Huang Hongyuan's family will have a second chance to visit him in five days, and they will be able to bring up the topic at that time.

The pill was ready, Guan Xianju checked it one last time, and then put the bottle containing the pill in a small bag and went out, he was going to Huang Hongyuan's house, and he had to hand over the pill to him before the Huang family's family left.

Guan Xianju walked out of the gate quickly, a Guan carriage stopped at the door, he got into the carriage, the carriage started, and soon left the gate.

Just as Guan Xianju left, in an alley outside his mansion, a carriage and several men on horseback also appeared, wearing the same black short clothes, with a sword in their waists, dressed like a family member, they were the forty plum blossom guard elites drawn by Wu Jin, and the task was to keep an eye on Guan Fu and Guan Xianju day and night, and Wu Jin knew that he would inevitably make moves with his understanding of Guan Xianju.

Guan Xianju's carriage galloped all the way, and after a short time entered Zhang Shanfang, stopped in front of Huang Hongyuan's mansion, Guan Xianju stepped out of the carriage, said a word at the door, and walked into the Huang Mansion quickly.

This is, three carriages appeared near the Huang Mansion, in three directions, staring at the Huang Mansion from a distance, not long after, Guan Xianju came out of the mansion, a middle-aged man of the Huang family sent him out, a few words of greeting, Guan Xianju got into the carriage and left.

And the three carriages around, two of which were one in front of the other and one behind, followed Guan Xianju's carriage, leaving one of the carriages to stare at the Huang Mansion.

After another quarter of an hour, a carriage sped out of the Yellow Mansion and sped north, and a third carriage followed it all the way.

The Taixue of the Daning Dynasty and Guozixue, like Guozixue, were not in the imperial city, Guozixue was in Daozhengfang, and Taixue was in Xiuyifang, and the thirty-seven examiners who participated in the Jinshi Imperial Examination and marking papers were all isolated in Taixue and Guozixue, and there was no opportunity for communication between them, so they were isolated separately.

The quarantine period is 20 days to a month, and they can only come out after the list is released, and according to the custom, they have two opportunities to contact their families, mainly to send some things that are often needed.

Of course, some people also pointed out that this will cause the leakage of examination questions, which will lead to fraud in the examination room, but in fact, the fraud in the examination room caused by this link rarely occurs, the reason is that the cost is too great, the gains outweigh the losses, and the officials leak the questions and cause the fraud in the imperial examination Once it is discovered, the light will be lost and the heavy will be imprisoned and exiled, the consequences are very serious, and the benefits obtained are far from the risk, so the officials generally will not leak the examination questions, or other things to assist candidates in cheating.

Because there was no large-scale cheating as expected, the family gift system has been in place since 10 years ago.

Huang Hongyuan was isolated in the Taixue Library Building, a small two-story courtyard, and in addition to him, there were two other marking officials in this building, a total of three people who were quarantined here, each with their own room, and according to the regulations, they would be isolated in this small courtyard for a month.

The carriage on Huang Hongyuan's house drove into Taixue and slowly stopped in front of the small courtyard behind the library, a forty-year-old middle-aged housekeeper got out of the carriage with a big burden and a food box, he walked quickly to the front of the small courtyard, and four embroidered guards stood at the gate of the small courtyard and stopped him.

"Four military masters, I am Huang Langzhong's housekeeper, and my wife ordered me to send something to Huang Langzhong."

Hearing that it was Lord Huang's family, Xiuyiwei's face became softer, and he nodded and said, "I see, please later, we will report to the school captain!" ”

A sergeant entered the hospital to report, and after a while, an officer in his thirties came out, looked at his family, he had already checked, Huang Hongyuan did not have a family to visit, this was the first time, according to the regulations can be visited twice, he said lightly: "There is no problem with the visit, according to the regulations to strictly inspect, I don't know what to bring any pieces of paper, do you bring anything illegal?" ”

The housekeeper nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, general, it's not the first time that my lord has been isolated, we understand the rules, there is absolutely no illegal thing, they are all necessary supplies for my lord, I was afraid that I didn't bring enough last time, so I will add a little more this time." ”

The officer waved his hand, "Okay then!" Check it out first. ”

Several sergeants took the butler to a small room next door, there was only a large table in the small room, and the things were placed on the table first, and they did not panic to check, but first carefully searched their bodies, and did not let go of their hair, shoes and socks, and then took a set of clothes to the housekeeper, and pointed to the hut next to them, "Go and change all the clothes, and you can't wear a single piece of your own clothes, this is the rule." ”

The butler had obviously experienced it, he had no doubts, took his clothes and went next door to change them, and several sergeants began to check the items, put everything on the table, and began to carefully inspect them one by one.

It took nearly half an hour to check all the items, there was nothing abnormal, and the housekeeper also changed his clothes and waited in the courtyard for a long time, and the captain and two sergeants led him up to the second floor.

knocked on the door of a room, "Lord Huang, the family has sent something." ”

The door creaked open, and a man about fifty years old came out, it was Huang Hongyuan, who was in charge of the topic of the scripture this time, and the middle-aged housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, "Master, it's me!" ”

Huang Hongyuan saw that he was the second housekeeper, so he nodded, "Leave the things behind, go back and tell Madame that everything is fine with my body, so I don't have to worry about it." ”

"Yes!"

The housekeeper brought everything over and said, "Madame said, the master is old, and the cup should be covered for an extra year at night, and you must remember to take medicine on time." ”

"I know!"

Huang Hongyuan stepped forward and brought all the things into the house, with a bang, the door closed, and he didn't pay attention to the sergeant of the embroidered guard, the captain of the embroidered guard knew that they had a temper, and he didn't care, so he smiled and said to the housekeeper: "You go back!" You can come again within five days, and you are not allowed to visit again after five days. ”

The housekeeper went downstairs to change his clothes, went out of the yard and got into the carriage and left, Huang Hongyuan stood at the window and looked at the carriage and walked away, his eyes were thoughtful, his wife hated him taking medicine the most, how could he let him take medicine on time, there was a problem here.

He found a bottle of pills from his bag, each medicine was wrapped in wax pills, one of the pills had been crushed, this was a random inspection by the soldiers, Huang Hongyuan crushed the wax pills one by one, and when he crushed the fifth wax pill, he found an abnormality, and a small paper ball rolled out of it.

(To be continued)