"Sven sweeps the floor," Wei Erlang shouted.

Dugu Xinci didn't bother to pay attention to it, and asked Wu Qilang to buy a shop in the West Market quickly, the location did not need to be special, and put the detailed address as a single page on the back cover of the Yuedan review, and the name of the bookstore was called Qinglong Bookstore.

Wu Qilang was decisive, and the next day it was convenient for the West Market to purchase a street shop, and he took the sample of the Yuedan Review to the three Langjun to taste.

Wen Wei and the two Langjun were quite appreciative, Dugu Xinci frowned and looked at it for a long time, and suggested that the cover be replaced with hard yellow water-patterned paper, and also drew a pattern.

After such a toss, 500 books were finally completed the day before the examination began.

Zhang Zhen and his wife also came early in the morning for the three Lang Jun Zhuang Xing, seeing this book is also quite novel, although the second sister of the Wu family has uncertainties, but only this book for the younger brother to work hard, and then heard that Dugu Xinci priced this book as a consistent money, the heart is more happy.

"Who can buy it at such a high price?" Wei Erlang questioned.

"Qianwen, it's just a meal, and you won't care about this consistent if you can spend five times going to Pingkang Beili" Dugu Xinci explained.

"This picture is good, but it's too simple," Zhang Zhen's secretary commented.

"It's too complicated to print," Wu Qilang smiled bitterly.

"That's right, the three Lang Jun will take the exam tomorrow, first wish the three of them the middle and high ranks" Zhang Zhen raised the lamp. Everyone drank together.

"He Shaoqing of Taichang Temple saw the thread-bound book yesterday, and he was very interested, the three Lang Jun can have a heart for poetry, and they can find an opportunity for them to taste one or two, and he is also a grader." Zhang Zhen continued.

"Rowscrolls?" Everyone kind of understood, He Zhizhang Shaoqing is a master of poetry and calligraphy.

"Is it a little late, it's going to end tomorrow" Wu Qilang wondered.

"The time is really good" Zhang Zhen said meaningfully, "The winter solstice is November 23, and there are still more than a month before the end of the system." ”

"Don't send some burning knives anymore" Dugu Xinci said with a smile, He Shaoqing's famous wine poet immortal.

So the next day, Zhang Zhen dedicated the poems of the three people and a jar of burning knives to He Zhizhang.

Wen Wei's poems are old works the day before yesterday, and Dugu Xinci wrote a new work with a smile, but the content made Zhang Zhen cry and laugh.

"Boudoir, congratulations to Shaoqing" He Zhizhang Shaoqing praised the poems of Wen Wei and Langjun, thinking that it was fresh and profound, and then opened Dugu Xinci's poems "The calligraphy is good, the wind god is sprinkled, and the charm is quite the essence of the book"

"The red candle was stopped in the cave room last night, and I will worship my aunt in front of Xiaotang.

Makeup asked her husband in a low voice, and the thrush was not deep or shallow. ”

"Haha, interesting, interesting" He Zhizhang laughed.

"Well, a certain congratulatory song to him" He Zhizhang thought about it and wrote it

"The new makeup of the Yue girl appeared in the mirror, and she knew that she was more silent. When Qi is not enough, people are expensive, and a song of Ling Song is worth ten thousand gold. ”

The vertical pen is like flying, in one go, the dragon and snake are flying, the spirit is vibrant, and the flow is flying.

Zhang Zhen's secretary Lang is a scholar, with his own heritage, both poems are secrets in the boudoir, but they are ingenious, how is the poem of Dugu Xinci asked, can it be satisfied? He Shaoqing replied that you should know that your talent is worth ten thousand gold.

Not to mention the harmony of the verses in this room, the Tribute Courtyard of the South Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites is now crowded, but it is quiet and wild.

Qinglong Sanyou and his party got up in four shifts, Meimei enjoyed a love of Dugu Xinci early, what steamed buns and scallion porridge, duck gizzard salted eggs and cranberry strips, the three Langjun knew that they could not go out of the imperial city within three days, and they would eat and sleep in the Ministry of Rites and Tribute Courtyard, so they were afraid that they could not enjoy such food, so they cherished it and enjoyed it quietly.

Five more two o'clock, the drum from the inside, the street drum Chengzhen, the door of the fang market is opened, the big bear and a dog drive to carry Dugu Xinci, Wu Qilang and Wen Yu Wei Bin three people on horseback, a group of six people out of the Qinglong Fang straight to the imperial city.

Walking to the Suzaku Gate, the time is coming to an end, the sun has risen, and the Suzaku Street is already crowded.

At the end of the autumn of the first year of Kaiyuan, nearly 10,000 people, plus nearly 50,000 people, Jin Wuwei also dispatched several Zhichong Mansion to maintain the scene, and the soldiers on the city wall were neat, and the square in front of the gate was full of people.

Yan Tangchen was named when he was working, and now he has entered the imperial city council, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials have already gone out of the Suzaku Gate with the roster, ready to put the reference scholars inside.

In August, the state capitals remitted the list of township tributes to the Ministry of Officials, and in early September, the major colleges also handed over the list of students. The roster includes a letter of recommendation, that is, a letter of recommendation from the local government, the family history of the child, the settlement of the loan, and the residence.

There are five openings in the Suzaku Gate, and the five loud officials of the Chenshi Rite Department each occupy a hole and begin to roll call, and those who hear the hearing come forward to verify that they can enter the Imperial City, and are guided by the officials to the Tribute Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites.

Although the saint wears a shirt and lifts a child, the examination room provides food and beverages, and although the night is spent in the examination room, blankets and other cold things are also prepared, but candidates are not allowed to bring their own food and bedding.

For a while, it was much quieter in front of Suzaku's door, and only the call was heard.

Hearing the long-rumored name, such as Wang Wei and Cui Hao, there were also discussions in the venue.

Wen Wei and the two waited on their horses, while Dugu Xinci buried his head in the car to make up for sleep.

Wen Yu is a tribute to Lantian Township, but Wei Bin is a student of Luoyang Academy, and he had to listen to the roll call early, and he entered indifferently in the comments of everyone.

Dugu Xinci is a tribute to the border county, until the time to hear his name, at this moment the crowd on the street has dispersed seven, seven, eighty, eight, less than a thousand people, the candidates who should go in have entered, and the companions are also looking for their own places to wait.

Dugu Xinci carried a large wooden box, which contained all the food except pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

A Jinwu Acropolis Gate Lang opened the box and looked at it, but he was speechless, this City Gate Lang was Wu Zhen, the eldest brother of the Wu family.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites checked the roster, and the letter of recommendation was issued by the Far Eastern Governor's Office of Hebei Province, and the face was described as white and unnecessary, and Dugu Xinci handed over the address of the ancestral house of the Wu family and the document of guarantee of Wen Wei and the two, which are all necessary procedures for scientific examination, not only to have the local government and the academy to guarantee the book, but also to have three scholars to jointly guarantee when they arrive in Kyoto.

Perhaps the roll call and the nuclear inspectors were tired, so they hastily verified it and let them go.

Dugu Xinci waved at Wu Qilang and Big Bear Agou, and slowly walked towards the Yantang Imperial City with the box.

"I'm afraid I'm hungry," a member said with a smile, Dugu Xinci was the last on his inspection list.

"Chao is Tian Shelang, and he is in the Tianzi Hall at dusk, maybe this son will be a certain boss" The eldest brother of the Wu family stretched his waist and said with a smile. Everyone praised Wu Chengmen Lang Yaju.

Chang'an is composed of the outer Guo City, the palace city and the imperial city, the imperial city is the place of the ministers and workers, out of the Suzaku Gate, it is also a forest of buildings and palaces, and the inner side of the Suzaku Gate is respectively Honglu Temple and Taichang Temple.

Around the east of Taichang Temple to the north is the Taifu Temple and the Dafu Temple, the Dafu Temple is the south courtyard of the Ministry of Rites to the north again, the tribute courtyard of the south courtyard of the Ministry of Rites accounts for most of it, it is set up for the inspection of Yantang College and scientific research, and the director of the Ministry of Rites is the north courtyard of the Ministry of Rites of Shangshu Province in the north.

The courtyard is also placing the candidates' seats, the courtyard is a large square paved with blue bricks, hundreds of columns are placed, and there are countless door panels on the side.

Wen Wei and Langjun were already seated in the shed, waiting for the head of the First Rite Department to give Dugu Xinci a board, and they were taken to a secluded place in the corner of the square.

It's really secluded here, with two walls, and the courtyard gate on the left hand behind it, just like the territory of the Far East in the empire. There are actually three or five vacant seats around, and the case is only a few feet high, and several blank pieces of paper are placed on it.

Dugu Xinci opened the wooden box, took out a blanket under the surprised eyes of the invigilator and Jin Wuwei, spread it on the straw mat prepared by the Ministry of Rites, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and recuperated, and waited for the scientific examination questions.

Today's subject of the scientific examination is the scriptures, and the papers are graded on the spot, and five of the ten questions can participate in the tomorrow's poetry examination.

At three o'clock, several officials came down holding a card, and the title was on it.

All the candidates were silent and began to copy the questions. A few people wanted to stand up and check, but they were stopped, some people laughed and said that they couldn't see clearly, and Dugu Xinci secretly laughed at these people who were afraid that they were short-sighted.

Dugu Xinci saw the topic clearly from afar, swept his eyes and wrote down the question and answer, and when the sign-raising clerk came to the case, Dugu Xinci had thrown the pen and sat upright.

The clerk looked at Dugu Xinci's roll of paper suspiciously, saw that there was handwriting, and still stood still for a while, seeing Dugu Xinci nodding with a smile, but no longer started writing, knowing that he had finished copying the topic, he left to wander elsewhere.

Yan Tang Zhenguan has an edict for four years: "The third grade or more is purple, the fourth grade and the fifth grade are served, the sixth and seventh grades are green, and the eighth and ninth grades are green." The woman is the color of her husband. Still take the yellow.

Li Yuan is the main person of the Ministry of Officials from the Eight Grades Examination, and he is standing on the side of the invigilator at this moment, looking at the various postures of the candidates around, and he is full of emotion.

Among the candidates, there are those who are blind and thinking, there are those who scratch their ears and cheeks, there are those who write calmly, and there are those who are smiling.

When he came to the case, Dugu Xinci opened his eyes to take a look, and continued to close his eyes to recuperate, secretly slandering was really a waste of time.

Li Yuan looked at the exam papers on the case, and there were eleven lines of regular script on them.

The most upper, the candidate of the Far Eastern Governor's Mansion of Hebei Province, is Dugu Xinci.

The Son of Heaven sacrificed oxen, the princes used fat oxen, the doctors used oxen, and the scholars used sheep and pigs.

The gentleman does not sacrifice the lungs, the horse does not eat the grain, the gallop does not remove, and the sacrifice does not take the county.

The Tao and the Buddha lead the harmony, the strong and the Buddha is easy to suppress, and the open and the Buddha thinks;

And so that the Buddha can also be reached. Therefore, three years thought it was long, and it was a small work to kill, and the period of nine months was thought to be intermittent.

Where there will be a life, the village funeral will be a life, and the son will worship Jifeng. Sit on the west side and entrust it.

The way of a gentleman is to go far and wide, and to be inferior if you climb high

Loyalty and forgiveness are not far from the way, and do unto oneself and do not do unto others

The government is not good, the teaching is not successful, the lord is not enough to persuade, and the punishment is not enough to shame

The minister is not cured, and the minister is compared. Therefore, the minister must not be disrespectful

Lei Nai sounded, the electricity began, the stinging insects moved, and the household began to come out

It was ten answers.

The post is meant to stick to the middle field of the scriptures, only the beginning and the end are left, the candidates fill in the complete and can, the scriptures are taken out from the five classics, and the three people of Zhigong Ju discuss the question on the spot.

For example, the first question only has four words: the Son of Heaven and the Sheep and Porpoise, the second question is not a county, and the third question is five words.

This son looks at the question and answers the question, all in one go, so fast Li Yuan has not yet found the second person. Li Yuan recited it silently twice again and found that all ten questions were correct.

Li Yuan only answered six questions correctly for two hours, narrowly passed, saw this scene, and left silently, and the hurt in his heart was known.

Half an hour passed, Dugu Xinci opened his eyes and looked at the sky, blue and cloudless, and the warm autumn sun made people drowsy.

Dugu Xinci yawned, looked at Jin Wuwei on duty in the corner, smiled, pointed to the wooden box, and slowly opened it, Jin Wuwei was speechless, Li Yuan came over, and asked with his eyes.

Dugu Xinci pointed to the box, and Li Yuan saw that the roast chicken flatbread was packed on a plate, and there were several jars and jars, which seemed to be all packed with food.

Li Yuan motioned to Dugu Xinci to hand in the exam papers, Dugu Xinci nodded, Li Yuan saw that the ink was dry, put away the exam papers and number plates and went to the shed where Han Xiu was in Zhigongju.

Dugu Xinci didn't care, first took out a wooden plate, then put the food on the table, and chewed it openly, fortunately, there were no candidates within more than a dozen steps around, and this move did not disturb others.

After eating lunch, Dugu Xinci cleaned up the residue, put it back in the box, thought about it, took out another roast chicken, and motioned to Jin Wuwei on the side, Jin Wuwei smiled and shook his head, Dugu Xinci smiled and stopped.

Got up and stretched his hands and feet, Li Yuan came back, returned the number plate to him, and drew a circle on the back of the license plate with cinnabar to indicate that he could participate in the tomorrow's poetry examination.

Dugu Xinci smiled and thanked him, at this moment, there were many officials to eat, to Dugu Xinci in front of him, Dugu Xinci curiously received a share, two Hu cakes and a bowl of soup, Dugu Xinci drank the hot soup, put the Hu cakes into the box, saw that Jin Wuwei and Li Yuan were also the same meal, so he took out a jar of food from the box and opened it and handed it over, Li Yuan hesitated for a moment, the result was that the altar was actually a bad duck, fried and mixed with sauce, delicious and delicious.

After lunch, it was already a moment, and there were candidates who handed in their papers, of course, they all went to the Gongju hut by themselves, and got the pass or reject number plate on the spot.

Dugu Xinci was still curious at first, but after a while, he fell asleep with a blanket.

Dugu Xinci was woken up by the sound of street drums in Chengtianmen, and when he got up, he saw that Wen Yu and Wei Bin were drinking when they opened his wooden box.

Dugu Xinci didn't bother to pay attention to their instructions, got up and took a piece of silk cloth, slowly walked out of the gate of the tribute courtyard, and went to the carriage shed on the opposite side of the house, there was a pool in the carriage shed, and he was ready to go there to clean his face.

A Jin Wuwei lieutenant on the side looked at him in astonishment and followed.

Dugu looked at it suspiciously, "But you are not allowed to leave the hospital?" ”

"As long as you don't go far," Captain Jin Wuwei smiled, and arched his hand, "I've seen the Dugu Grand Sorcerer"

"You know so-and-so?" Dugu Xinci pointed at himself.

"I also fought in the Far East last year," the lieutenant laughed.

"Yo, old man" Dugu Xinci suddenly felt familiar, and remembered that he often followed Cheng Peng Qin Chong and other forbidden military captains, who were only a lieutenant at the time, and also smiled and said, "But the right leader guards Captain Li?" The eldest man of the Li family, the brother-in-law of Cheng Xiaopapa? ”

"The Great Sorcerer has a good memory"

"A certain is a guess," Dugu Xinci smiled and said, "I moved to the left."

"By the Grace of the Saints, One Level Higher"

"That's not bad, General Yang Tong has only just been promoted to the Duke of the Kingdom."

"How can the Grand Sorcerer participate in the scientific expedition? Also, the great magician learns from the heavens, and the little scientific examination is just a red dust experience."

"Du Wei praised, now that the war is over, it's just a different way to serve the country"

Here the two began to make small talk. From the last few feudal marquis to the swordsmanship of Pei Min, the current general of the Right Jin Wuwei, they chatted with great interest until Wei Erlang came out to find him.

After eating, the three of them received blankets from the officials, and took out their own blankets and lay down in the corner of the wall.

The three of them didn't talk about it, and they slept soundly.

At one o'clock on the fifth day, the bell and drum of Chengtianmen rang on time, and the sky was still dark.

(End of chapter)