Weng Shuping was a little panicked, I don't know what's going on? In the past, I often heard that there was a sudden illness of exam-taking children, and I couldn't finish the game, and I still felt ridiculous, and I wanted to study hard for ten years and treat me hard for three years, so why couldn't I persevere? At this time, it was my turn, and I realized that everything is easier said than done, and sometimes I can't help it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, he suddenly remembered the high-quality Korean ginseng in his sleeve, and quickly took it out and chewed it. After a while, he was in high spirits, and his pen was even more like divine help, and he soon handed in the paper.

After that, the second strategy and the third trial poem, the questions were not difficult, Weng Shuping was in good spirits and did very well in the test.

Finally, it was the day when the fifteenth hand in the papers, Weng Tong came out of the door, stepped outside the door, only to see butterflies and swallows dancing, the spring sun was brilliant, and he felt a sense of being separated from the world for a while.

The fifth brother and uncle Fu were standing under the bright sun, looking at him with a smile.

When Weng Shuping stepped forward, he thought in a trance: I don't know how sure I am this time?

"Okay, okay," the fifth brother patted him on the back: "Don't think about it anymore, it's all over, and people come out safely, it's fine." ”

In the days when he was waiting for the list to be released, he was really annoyed, and he was scratched by a cat in his heart.

finally survived until the day of the seventeenth release, Weng Shuping became more and more uneasy, tossing and turning in bed, almost sleepless all night, tossing and turning until dawn, before closing his eyes in a daze.

I don't know how much time passed, I woke up suddenly, sat up and looked out the window, the dawn had already passed through the window paper, and the alley was faintly heard, and there was the sound of a rolling waterwheel.

Weng Shuping didn't dare to slack off, quickly got dressed, walked to the opposite window with chagrin, and went to call the fifth brother uncle.

"Fifth brother, fifth brother!"

Seeing that the house was brightly lit, I walked in and saw that Uncle Weng was already waiting there in full dress.

"We're going to see the red record too!"

Zhengyuan, Zhenggui and Zhenghan rushed into the house together, clamoring to go to the glass factory together. The room suddenly became noisy, and Weng Shuping couldn't help frowning.

Weng Zhengyuan ran up, grabbed his hand, and said coquettishly while shaking: "Take us there!" ”

"Good, good, good!" Weng Shuping said helplessly: "You little ones, it's really noisy!" ”

Surrounded by a group of children, the two brothers walked in the direction of Liulichang. Although the sky has not yet brightened, there are already pedestrians on the street, and it seems that they are all in a hurry to go to the head of the glass factory to see the red record. Originally, the list would be released on a trial basis, saying that it would be carried out in the Ministry of Rites, but for some reason, the place to see the list was in Liulichang. Of course, the list is still filled in by the middle of the house, on the Jukui Hall, a president and two vice presidents are sitting in the south, and the eighteen officials are sitting in the east and west, and the file is unpacked in the hall. It's to split one, sing one, and fill one. Liulichang's bookstore, Pen and Ink Village, had already connected with the miscellaneous servants in the house, and a new tribute came out of the crack in the door. After receiving the note, while reporting the good news and begging for rewards, he rushed to the Liuli Factory and pasted the red newspaper on the gate of the Liuli Factory.

The original yellow list has also been changed to a red list, commonly known as "out of the red record".

Once every three years, the glaze factory is a red record, which is a big landscape that has caused a sensation in nine cities.

The more pedestrians walked, the more people came, and when Weng Shuping's uncle and nephew arrived, the street in front of the Liulichang was already surrounded by a sea of people, and the water was impenetrable. The vendor who sells rock sugar gourd sesame cakes is constantly shouting and walking around in the crowd, hoping to take advantage of this once-in-a-three year opportunity to sell a few more pennies.

These days, the provinces gather in the capital, and the market is extraordinarily prosperous.

Just after eight o'clock in the morning, the good deeds in the capital who are in charge of this matter have already made the glaze factory thunderous. But the onlookers were full of anxiety, looking at the sun from time to time, looking forward to the arrival of the time - the red record of the glass factory was from the time, that is, from nine o'clock in the morning.

It starts with the 382nd place - a total of 382 people in this section. The people who gathered around to watch the excitement were not in a hurry, but the people waiting for the roll call were anxious - the real life was like a year. One by one, they rushed forward and sang until the time they came, and Weng Shuping's name had not yet come out. Uncle Weng was calm and became more and more vented. The sky was already dark, and the moon was so clear that the moon wheels, which were almost full, sprinkled the moonlight like water on the earth. Weng Shuping left his brother and nephew, stood far away, looking up at a few faint cold stars in the vast night sky, and there was an indescribable dazness in his heart. On the side of the glaze factory, there are lanterns and torches, reflecting most of the sky. The cheers were still wave after wave, and the noise made him upset for a while. He really wanted to be like this, just throw his hands and leave, and wait until tomorrow morning after the red list is posted, and then come to see it.

In Weng Shuping's temperament, there is actually a very extreme side.

At this moment, he heard his nephew Zhengyuan shouting and running this way, and when he got closer, he panted and said, "Sixth uncle, hit, hit!" ”

When Weng Shuping heard this, his brain suddenly lost his reaction, and he asked blankly, "Hit?" ”

"Hit!"

"How much?" It is to ask for a ranking.

"Well, I don't know."

Weng Shuping ran forward and asked the fifth brother, only to know that he had won the sixty-third place. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but what followed was indescribable melancholy, and he thought: How did he win the sixty-third place?

This is how the human heart is long.

"Sixth brother, don't be discouraged, you can be sick and can be successful, and on the day of the palace test, you will definitely be extraordinary!" The fifth brother and uncle saw Weng Shuping's thoughts and persuaded him like this. The children didn't care what the ranking was or not, they only knew that they were overjoyed, shouting and screaming, and they were so excited that they were a mess. I didn't want to go back, so I had to wait until "Wukui" came out with the name of Huiyuan.

The first test is called Huiyuan.

In general, the red record of the glaze factory is from the beginning of the morning to the end of midnight. Singing to the last five, people will hold the lantern torch together above their heads, the bright and bright in front of the glaze factory is like daylight, full of luxury, the good deeds light the fireworks again, light the firecrackers, one by one, compete to echo, called "make five kui".

This is the climax of the "roll call", and it is also the end.

Weng Shuping insisted on refusing, he must go back, and fight with the children.

"Sixth brother, what's wrong with you?" Weng Shufu looked at him in surprise: "Didn't you win?" Still so unhappy! ”

Weng Shuping ignored him, shook his hand, and walked away.

"Hey—hey!" While chasing after him, Weng Shufu shouted: "Sixth brother, wait for a break, Ah Gui's shoes have run off!" ”

"That's what it was!" Mrs. Xu, the mother who was lying on the bed, saw Weng Shuping come back with an indifferent expression, and felt a little relieved: "What can you do if you don't win?" ”

Neutral or not, it's still different, Weng Shuping retorted in his heart. Fortunately, he has seen it, so he will stop talking.

However, on the third day, the list was released, and it was very unexpected that Weng Shuping won the second place in the first class.

"Huh? What's going on? He looked a little disbelieving: "Could it be a mistake?" ”

You really are! The mother's face was still pale, but at this moment she forced her eyes to open and laughed at him: "It's high or low, it's not to your liking!" ”

This result suddenly plucked up the confidence of Weng Shuping Palace's test yuan. All the members of the Weng family, facing the first and second ranking, also looked nervous and excited, obviously thinking about it. His father, Weng Xincun, stayed awake all night, sitting under the lamp and snoring and smoking a hookah, while his mother, Mrs. Xu, got up in the middle of the night and went to the backyard alone to burn incense and kowtow to worship the Bodhisattva.

It turns out that the Chinese-style students who have passed the examination and re-examination cannot be called Jinshi, and only after passing the palace examination can they be regarded as real Jinshi and first. The palace examination is the highest level of imperial examination, which is presided over by the emperor himself, so the students in the palace examination are also called "protégés of the Son of Heaven".

The second place in the first class of the re-examination is very likely to win the champion.

"Bottle Raw!" Weng Xincun called his son into the upper room, and said solemnly: "These days, don't think about anything, don't do anything, sort out your thoughts, my Weng family is looking at you!" ”

"Don't scare him," said the mother, laughing, "this child has been timid since he was a child. ”

"Mother!" Weng Shufu smiled and complained about his mother, shook his fist again, and said to Weng Shuping: "What Daddy said is that the Weng family in Changshu is about to become famous all over the world!" ”

"Oh! Oh! When the children heard this, they also coaxed, "Uncle Six wants to win the champion!" ”

Father, brother and nephew are such expectations, and Weng Shuping is completely relieved from his decadent mood. In the days leading up to the exam, his mind was extraordinarily calm and his spirit was extraordinarily focused. After years of hard study, he is ready to devote what he has learned to the title of champion that the world's scholars dream of.

The new tributes are also nervous, ready to enter a new round of competition. Those who live far away, or those who come from other provinces, borrow the Jiutian Temple in the northern suburbs, and they all drill their bits to find cracks, and they are coaxing to find a house to settle down near the left side of the door. Three years ago, after the Weng family moved from the middle street of the Terracotta Division to the alley of Nanheng Street outside Xuanwu Gate, although he only went to Tianjie for half a step, Weng Xincun was still too far away from the palace, in order to be able to recuperate and have full energy to deal with the next day's big exam related to the rise and fall of a person's life, he decided to find a house near the imperial city, so that Weng Shuping could live in the first day.

was nervously manipulating, and the people from the Sun Mansion arrived.

"Lord Weng, my family asked the little one to come over, and asked the young master nephew to come over and rest when the time comes."

The Lord Sun in his mouth refers to Sun Ruizhen, a three-year jinshi of Daoguang, from Hanlin official to Hubu Shangshu, and Weng Xincun has been a colleague for many years. His son Yuwen, this time he took the same exam as Weng Shuping. The Sun family's mansion is close to the court.

Weng Xincun was very moved by such concern. Naturally, I had to be polite, but I couldn't stop the Sun family's hospitality, so I agreed.

The Sun Mansion had already prepared a sumptuous dinner, just waiting for the banquet to start as soon as the people arrived.

During the banquet, Sun Ruizhen used his father to hold the friendship, entertained him diligently, and frequently persuaded him to drink.

When the child was already handed over, the night was very late, and there were a few more drinks during the banquet, Weng Shuping's eyes were heavy at the moment, and he wanted to leave immediately and go to sleep for a while. But Sun Ruizhen kept grabbing his hand affectionately, so that he couldn't get up, and he also talked about all the rules of the palace test, tirelessly instructing and talking.

Weng Shuping wanted to interrupt several times, but he couldn't interject.

It wasn't until he heard the drum beat of the third watch coming from the tower that Weng Shuping was so tired that he couldn't open his eyes, and the Sun family stopped. After grinding for a while, he finally let him go. When he returned to the guest room, Uncle Weng didn't take off his clothes, so he lay down randomly, trying to hurry up and sleep for a while, but he had a headache, tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep.

Just in the midst of the daze, the sky cleared.

Weng Shuping didn't sleep all night and was in a state of malaise. looked at Sun Yuwen, who came together, but he looked radiant, and Weng Shuping at this time suddenly realized. While scolding the shamelessness of the Sun family in his heart, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and his feet began to stumble, and his eyes began to fly like the day of the test.

He couldn't help but get nervous, and panicked, and before he knew it, he stood still.

"Hey—hey! Can't leave yet? The man behind him shouted.

let people push like this, Weng Shuping almost fell. This made him inadvertently touch a piece of hard stuff in the roll bag, and suddenly remembered that it was the half-gnawed Korean old ginseng that day.

Weng Shuping avoided the side, fixed his mind, took out the mountain ginseng, bit a small piece, chewed it, swallowed it, and suddenly felt refreshed.

Looking further, the new tributes have entered the Taihe Hall under the leadership of the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the officials who read the scrolls. Weng Shuping walked a few steps and was at the end of the line. The Taihe Hall is the main hall of the Dynasty, the hanging mirror is coiled with dragons, the gold is splendid, every ceremony and celebration, such as the New Year's Day, the winter solstice, the longevity, and the Yan Fang, the fate of the teacher and so on, the emperor is in the Taihe Palace. Of course, the palace examination is held in the Taihe Temple; The policy questions are nothing more than some big topics of advocating learning, governing officials, people's livelihood, and Jingbian. The old ginseng does have a miraculous effect, Weng Shuping, who has not slept all night, is in high spirits, gets the topic, sprinkles with enthusiasm, and consciously writes with divine help, and more than 2,000 words are done in one go.

"What this branch has taken is very much in line with my intentions, Yucheng!"

"The minister is here!" Yucheng took a step forward, removed the seal of the first-class test paper placed on the top, and held it to the emperor with both hands.

The emperor looked at the scroll and announced loudly: "First place, first place, Weng Shuping!" ”

Weng Shuping, who was kneeling in the black pressure against a large number of new science and technology scholars, made a "hum" sound, his head was swollen, and he didn't know what he was talking about below.

"It's Weng Xincun's son, right?" The Emperor asked, "I know this man, good, good, good!" ”

The emperor stepped down from the throne and stared at it for a long time before he said slowly:

"Weng Shuping! Lift up your head and let me see. ”

Weng Shuping raised his head, but he didn't dare to look up, and the palace was deep, only in a trance he felt that the emperor's face was thin and kind.

"Your handwriting is very good," the emperor praised, "and you have the grandeur of the champion!" ”

Before Weng Shuping, the new champion, came back from the palace, this "heavenly praise" had already been transmitted back to Weng's mansion.

On that day, it was the festival of Weng Province.

Weng Shuping knew why the Sun family wanted to be so bad.

At this time, the court and China, on the one hand, were fighting for power among the ministers of Boxia, and on the other hand, there was a dispute between the north and the south. Behind Sun Yuwen is his teacher Li Gaoyang, and behind Li Gaoyang is the entire "Beiqingliu" group.

And those deviants, like Hong Yun's generation, are all the people of their "Northern Clear Stream"!

By the way, that Lin Yiqing is also a student of Li Gaoyang......

Thinking of Lin Yiqing, Weng Shuping suddenly had a cold war, and woke up from his dream.

This time, the impeachment of Lin Yiqing jointly launched by Zeng Boheng and himself not only did not hurt him in the slightest, but sent Zeng Boheng to prison!

Now Weng Shuping is still not sure whether Lin Yiqing is secretly fighting back, because since the rise of the bullets, Lin Yiqing, who is in England, has not defended himself even a word!

Uncle Weng was shocked and suspicious, but he heard a noise and hurried footsteps outside.

"The Criminal Department is ordered to handle the case! Everyone, wait, stay put! If there is a violator, the punishment will be severe! The official of the Criminal Department shouted loudly, probably scaring the female relatives and maids in the Weng Mansion, and immediately the cry of a woman came.

Hearing that it was someone from the criminal department who came to his house to handle the case, Uncle Weng rushed up in anger, immediately jumped up, and strode to the front hall.

As soon as he entered the corridor, he saw that the officers of the Criminal Department had already pushed Weng Zhenghan and walked out.

Seeing Weng Shuping coming, Weng Zhenghan, who was already extremely frightened, immediately shouted for his life: "Uncle save me!" Uncle save me! ”

"Wait!" Weng Shuping had been the right attendant of the Criminal Department, and when he recognized this criminal officer, he shouted loudly, "This is my nephew, he has not broken the law, where are you going to take him?" ”

"I've seen Lord Weng." Seeing that it was Weng Shuping, the official of the Criminal Department smiled and gave a salute, "The one who is looking for the lowly position is Ling nephew Weng Zhenghan, this person is suspected of forming a party with Zeng Boheng for personal gain, bribing the minister for impeachment, and our Criminal Department Shangshu Gangyi Gang wants to ask Young Master Weng to go over for questioning." ”

Listening to the answer of the criminal department's officer, Weng Shuping was taken aback.

In order to avoid people's eyes, these bigwigs in this operation are not in direct contact with each other, and they rarely meet, and the contact between Weng Shuping and them is his favorite and trusted nephew Weng Zhenghan!

In fact, the news between Weng Shuping and his own disciples was mostly transmitted through Weng Zhenghan.

"Without following the emperor's orders, you dare to casually enter the minister's house to arrest people, is there any royal law?" Weng Shuping saw that the official of the Criminal Department did not have a holy decree, nor did he show him anything like a warrant, so he had the audacity to ask.

"Lord Weng's words are a bit too much, if you don't follow the emperor's orders, you have the courage to humble your position, and you don't dare to come to Lord Weng's mansion to arrest people." The official of the Criminal Department smiled, stretched out his hand and took out the detention warrant and fire sign issued by the Criminal Department from his arms, and handed them to Weng Shuping, "I have already shown it to Young Master Weng just now, Lord Weng, please take a look." ”

Seeing that the Criminal Department had really issued a detention ticket and a fire sign, Weng Shuping's heart sank.

"As for the will, it has to be issued by the father-in-law in the palace, has Lord Weng seen it?" The officer of the Criminal Department pointed behind him, and Weng Shuping realized that among the officers, there were actually two young men in eunuch uniforms, one of whom was holding a golden silk nan dragon pattern wooden box in his hand. (To be continued.) )