Ye Chang squinted slightly and looked towards the city.

Then he laughed.

No wonder everyone was shocked at the same time, it turned out that on the side of Lushun Academy, the three of them actually stood up at the same time.

They had already solved seven questions, and at this time, the three of them stood up at the same time, which meant that the remaining three questions were also solved, and Lushun Academy completed all the problems in front

The movements of the three of them also alarmed Qu Tanxun, and he jumped up with a look of disbelief: "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible"

"No, it's not what you said." Cai Chenguo smiled, avoided Qu Tanxun's outstretched hand, and directly handed the answer paper to the little official. The little official took it, looked at the numbers on it, and then looked back at Qu Tanxun, and his hand was slightly off, so that Qu Tanxun could see the numbers on the paper.

Qu Tanxun only glanced at it, and his face changed.

This number coincides with one of the three most difficult answers to the question he has ever made

Looking at the question number in front of it, it was indeed that question

"This ...... How is this possible, this is the secret of Tianzhu arithmetic, there are few people in Datang who can solve it, how can you solve it? ”

He was in a hurry, and looked at the other two solution sheets, and sure enough, on the other two solution sheets, there were no mistakes in the answers written.

Qu Tanxun staggered and muttered, "This...... How can it be? ”

"Huh." Cai Chenguo shook his head: "You still don't give up, what we have learned, covering all families, just Tianzhu arithmetic, what is it?" ”

After finishing speaking, the three of them dressed up and walked out of the test booth, but they didn't wait for the results to come out.

"This ...... Do you think Lushun Academy has won? When someone in the crowd of onlookers saw this scene, they couldn't help but ask the people around them.

"That's natural, the ten questions of Lushun Academy have been completed, and the Guozi Supervision School is now only seven questions. Although it seems that the difference is not far away, after all, it is Lushun Academy that solves it first. The man replied.

Hearing them say this, Lu Yu shook his head, he also hoped that Lushun Academy would win, but the outcome of this competition was not so easy to judge.

"It's not that whoever finishes it first wins, and in this competition, the winner is judged by the number of points. There are ten questions on each side, and each question is counted as ten points, as long as the right questions on the Guozijian side exceed the academy's side, even if the academy submits the paper early, it is the Guozijian side who wins. "There is an explanation of the rules of the way.

"But looking at the appearance of these three people in the academy, it seems that they are all right."

"Hehe, I always feel that I am right, as for whether it is true or false, I have to check the answer with the questioner."

When each side comes up with a question, it is natural to come up with an answer to be ready to test whether it is right or wrong. After Cai Chenguo and the three of them came out of the test room, they bowed to the city, and then walked back to Ye Chang and his entourage. At the head of the city, Ye Chang smiled and said, "Looking at their appearance, this test is quite smooth." ”

"In less than an hour, I finished the question...... It's just that I don't know what is right or wrong, Wang Qing, let's bring up the answers and solutions. Li Longji did not respond to Ye Chang directly, but ordered.

After a while, the little official respectfully presented Guozi Jian Yu to prepare the answer to Lu and the solution made by Lushun Academy, Li Longji picked up a magnifying glass, shook it on it, first found the question number, and then looked for the answer. The two correspond one-to-one, and when he saw the first question, he nodded, and the second question, nodded again.

Ye Chang didn't care, he knew that these ten questions should be done correctly.

For Cai Chenguo, Yue Xi and Yang Fan, the questions that can be solved by the Datang Guozi Supervision Hall are really easy. The reason why it took them so long was only because they had to check it repeatedly, otherwise, half an hour would be enough to hand in the papers.

"Ah, Ye Qing really knows how to teach his disciples, and he actually ...... It turned out to be all right. After Li Longji looked at all the numbers, Ha Luha said with a smile.

He also called Ye Chang "Ye Qing".

Ye Chang bowed and thanked him, Li Longji pondered for a while, and then said, "Since it is all right, then there is no need to go down this competition...... Ye Qing, summon the three of them to the city, I want to be commended. ”

"Thank you for the sage's kindness, but the minister feels that there is no need to be in a hurry at this time, and let the people of the country finish the question." Ye Changdao.

"Oh, why so?"

"Although the students of the Guozi Supervision School are not as good as the disciples of the ministers, they are the students of the imperial court after all, they are not afraid of strong opponents, dare to challenge, and persevere to the end, which is also worthy of the praise of the saints." Ye Chang looked at Li Longji squarely: "Sometimes the competition is not only about winning and losing, but about win-win." ”

"Win-win?"

"If you lose a little for a while, you can make the shame come back, and the loser wins."

is just a sentence, so that everyone doesn't know what to say for a while. In the minds of these people, there is no concept that the loser also wins, in their opinion, losing is losing, how can there be a thing where the loser wins?

When Ye Chang said this, he didn't say anything further, and Li Longji and the others didn't think about it, they only felt that it was Ye Chang's generous words.

At this time, the onlookers were talking, and even the servants of Jingzhao Mansion couldn't hold it back, Qu Tan Xun Yu Crisp personally picked up the pen and paper, fiddled with the calculation chips and began to calculate. After a quarter of an hour or so, he figured out one of the problems, but as he was about to pounce on the other, he was stopped by the messenger.

"Hugh has to stop me, my time is precious," Qu Tanxun's eyes were red.

There was a bit of sympathy in the officer's eyes, but he still stopped him: "Assistant Teacher Qu, look at the copper kettle." ”

Qu Tanxun looked at the copper kettle, only to see that the water had dropped below the eighth scale.

A scale is a quarter of an hour, and eight quarters is an hour, although Ye Chang marked every half hour as an hour on the clock, but now the clock is not popular, that is, Li Longji, who has seven clocks, is not suitable for the concept of "hour".

"This ...... This...... Why is the time up, are you filling less water? Qu Tanxun asked in a trembling voice.

"Teaching assistant, the time is indeed up."

Qu Tanxun sat down dejectedly, looking at the little official with his eyes, those students of the arithmetic hall were still reluctant to stop the calculation in their hands, but the little official really couldn't delay it any longer, and put away the paper.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the test booth became extremely depressing, even more tense than before the start of the competition.

"These people...... Don't talk so much at the beginning, and it won't be like that at this time. Yang Fan sighed

Yue Xi nodded, there was a trace of sympathy in his eyes, but Cai Chenguo's words next to him made all his sympathy disappear.

"When shouting at Ye Langjun, they should have thought that there would be today's Langjun who seems to be a little bad in the court, so they jumped out, if it was really just an academic dispute, it would be fine, but a group of corrupt Confucians would dare to participate in the court dispute."

It is indeed not worthy of sympathy, if it is sympathetic to them, who will sympathize with Ye Langjun?

Qu Tanxun sat there for a long time before he came to his senses, and a student next to him came over, and he didn't care about being rude, and grabbed his arm: "Teaching assistant, we won't lose, they do it so fast, there must be mistakes, we shouldn't lose to them."

Qu Tanxun suddenly had a glimmer of hope in his heart, he tried to recall the answers handed over by the three people of Lushun Academy, he saw six or seven of them, those were all correct, but the other three or four he didn't see, maybe there would be mistakes in them?

Thinking of this, he stared at the officials of Jing Zhaoyin who were proofreading the answers, those officials had actually already proofread the answers of Lushun Academy, and now they are in the Mathematics Academy. It didn't take much time, it was about half a cup of tea, and the officials of Jingzhao Mansion raised their faces, a little expressionless: "Guozi Supervision School, solve eight questions in one hour, and all eight questions are correct." Lushun Academy, solve ten questions within an hour, and all ten questions are correct. ”

"Boom"

Qu Tanxun felt that such a voice suddenly sounded in his ears, which was even louder than the ringing in his ears when he ate Ye Chang's slap yesterday. It took him a while to realize that it wasn't his tinnitus, but that the onlookers around him were talking out loud at the same time.

"I have said a long time ago, Ye Zhongcheng is a pedantic celestial, and he is a contemporary master of learning, and these pedantic people in the Guozi Supervision School also dare to challenge him, but it is just a humiliation."

"Just now, you still said that the academy will win, and now you have changed your words?"

"Nonsense, when did I say that the Arithmetic Pavilion was going to win, and you don't want to think about it, if these people in the Arithmetic Pavilion have real skills, wouldn't they be like Ye Zhongcheng, going to the frontier for national merit, why would they still stay in Luoyang?"

"Alas, it seems that the arithmetic hall is in ruins...... are all incompetent, more than 20 people, even their teaching assistants and doctors are personally in battle, and they are still compared to the three young people...... Tsk, don't learn no skill, don't learn no skill"

The sound of discussion came into his ears, and Qu Tanxun felt that his chest was tight and panicked, and he couldn't breathe. His face was pale, and he was still shaking as he sat there, when a student came to help him, he suddenly broke away, got up and said sharply, "I don't accept it."

"What, what did he say?" The onlookers asked in surprise.

"He said that he still didn't accept it, and he lost like this, but he still didn't accept it, he was really a villain."

"Teaching assistant, the saint is above, don't lose your honor before the saint......" Another doctor who came with them stepped forward to appease Qu Tanxun.

Qu Tanxun pushed the doctor away, strode out, and then knelt down under the city gate: "Saint, saint, this time the arithmetic hall is not convinced"

Li Longji watched the excitement in the city and smiled, but in vain he saw Qu Tanxun kneeling below, still shouting something, he looked left and right: "Let him get up, what Ye Qing just said is that victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged, if you can cheer up, shame and courage, you can also win." ”

He didn't hear what Qu Tanxun said, and issued such an edict, and when the lively people saw that someone in the city had issued an order, they finally quieted down. At this time, Qu Tanxun shouted "dissatisfied" again, and the voice came into Li Longji's ears, and the smile on Li Longji's face suddenly disappeared.

He originally had a bad impression of this Qu Tanxun, and felt that this person was too speculative, but now it seems that he doesn't know how to advance or retreat not only for speculation, but even whether he knows whether to live or die.

"If you are not convinced, ask him, this is in public"

A eunuch asked in the city, and Qu Tanxun raised his head under the city and shouted: "The ten questions produced by our arithmetic hall are all difficult problems found over the years, and these problems are impossible for people who are full of learning to solve them all in one hour." Ye Changquan is all over the world, and there are many assassins who are dead, and he must be the one who sent the chicken and the dog to steal our test paper last night, and knew the answer in advance. Today, these three rats are pretending to be solving the problem, but in fact they are just taking out the answers that they stole last night."

Li Longji heard him shouting like this below, and his heart was about to explode.

Looking at Ye Chang again, standing there indifferent, even with a smile on the corner of his mouth, thinking about it again, Ye Chang obviously won, but he still spoke for the arithmetic hall, and wanted to give them the steps, Li Longji couldn't help but say, Ye Chang really has the demeanor of a famous minister, and this Qu Tanxun below is really a scoundrel villain.

"You said that Ye Qing sent someone to steal the answer, do you have any evidence?"

"The three of them can solve the answer and prove it"

Li Longji shook his head slightly, his face turned cold, and he gestured to Gao Lishi, who nodded to the two eunuchs, who were originally standing under the city, and at this moment, they went over to the left and the right, clamping Qu Tanxun.

"Huh?" Qu Tanxun was shocked that it was not good, wasn't it that the Son of Heaven had a disgust for Ye Chang, so he would snub Ye Chang, he tried his best to toss here, wasn't it just for the sake of welcoming the Son of Heaven, why did he testify like this, the Son of Heaven didn't even ask?

"Call all the students to come up, and summon the three people from Lushun Academy as well, as for this guy, I don't want to see him again." Li Longji said in a low voice.

Gao Lishi nodded and gestured to the two eunuchs, who understood, blocked Qu Tanxun's mouth, and dragged him down. Ye Chang looked at this guy who disappeared like a dead dog, shook his head, and then turned his gaze and saw Wang Weld.

Wang Weld, who once slipped to the city, came to the city again at this time, and looked at the appearance, he had just spoken to someone, and now he was turning back. Ye Chang frowned, this guy is in cahoots with the torturers, and is planning a big conspiracy, although he doesn't know the specific content of it, but the news from Bian Ping, this matter should be today

Looking at this guy's expression, he was full of anger, as if he was dissatisfied with something, and he had just had a seizure. Ye Chang didn't pay much attention to it, his eyes turned back to the city, and looked at Li Longji.

Li Longji was holding a hand stove, slightly tired. After all, he is old, and after sitting here for so long, even if he has a stove fur to protect himself from the cold, his body feels a little sad.

At this time, all the students of the Arithmetic Hall and the people of Lushun Academy went to the city. Li Longji looked at the dejected students of the Arithmetic Hall, and then saw Yue Xi and the three of them heroic, and sighed secretly in his heart.

The appearance of these two sides is a bit like himself and Ye Chang.

Li Longji didn't want Ye Changsheng to win, but today's result was a slap in the face to him in a sense, and he still had to swallow the beaten teeth into his stomach.

After encouraging the arithmetic students, Li Longji turned to Ye Xi and the others, with a smile on his face: "Qing and other young talents, I am the most happy, I don't know if Qing and others are willing to go out and work for Datang?" With the talents of the Qing and others, I will not hesitate to reward the officials, and the Qing and others will not be able to give their wives and sons to the glory of their ancestors."

The eyes of everyone in the city suddenly turned to Ye Chang again, this is Li Longji personally came forward to dig Ye Chang's corner, Ye Chang has cultivated a talent with great difficulty, Li Longji Xu is rich and prosperous, and he will be directly poached