Chapter 605: Bai Shang Palace

With plenty of time, she first listed her thoughts one by one, wrote an outline, and then picked up the pen and wrote it on scratch paper.

Because there is no process of copying and sealing the township examination and the meeting examination, the test paper is directly presented to the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the emperor, so the neatness of the volume and the beauty of the calligraphy are extremely important, which determines the ranking to a large extent.

Since the articles of the palace examination were reviewed by the emperor, it was impossible to write a long treatise; Coupled with the concise form of classical Chinese, the longest of a policy is three or four hundred words, and the short one or two hundred words.

Zhao Ruxi was baptized in high school for half an hour to write an 800-word essay in his last life, and he was also able to write a long essay in an hour when he was a university, graduate student, and doctoral student. Although the writing of classical Chinese is a little more difficult than that of the vernacular, it is written a lot, and that's it.

Her thinking is already quick, and after taking the agility pill, she is even more agile, and her kung fu is much more agile than before, practicing a thirty-character calligraphy is of the same quality, but the time is saved by one-third compared to before.

Therefore, these three articles, more than 1,000 words, have been meticulously crafted, revised and revised again in the case of her previous writing of such articles and her deep thinking about these issues, and the work of one and a half hours and a half has been completely completed.

It's also time for lunch.

Lunch is two steamed buns and a bowl of meat and vegetable soup. Along with these came a damp cloth towel.

Zhao Ruxi carefully wiped his hands with a wet cloth towel, then picked up the steamed bun, broke off a small piece, and ate it slowly.

At this time, the food was served, even the candidates who were unwilling to interrupt their train of thought had to take into account the rules of the palace, put down the pen in their hands and eat, at this time everyone also had time to appreciate the beauty, and their eyes looked at Zhao Ruxi intentionally or unintentionally, wondering what this talented woman was like when she ate.

Only Duan Chen has always maintained a gentlemanly demeanor, and he did not look at Zhao Ruxi, and ate his lunch quietly.

The gazes of so many strange men were relatively vague, but Master Mo was still worried that Zhao Ruxi would be uncomfortable. But I didn't want her to be generous, as if she didn't know those eyes, she ate steamed buns in small bites, her movements were not hurried, her posture was elegant, and there was no trace of hesitation and panic at all.

Looking at Zhao Ruxi's posture, those male candidates suddenly felt that the drink in their hands was as delicious as a national banquet dish.

This is the same style of drinking cake as the beauty, and the taste is very different.

After Zhao Ruxi arrived in ancient times, except for the days in the small banyan tree, the rest of the time was also regarded as brocade clothes and jade food. She really can't eat this bare white flour steamed bun, and she doesn't want to touch the soup and water like meat and vegetable soup, and it's really troublesome to go to the toilet.

Therefore, she only ate half a steamed bun, drank two mouthfuls of soup, and was hungry, and also expressed that she was not dissatisfied with the meal in the palace, so she gave up.

Motioning to the maid to take the food from the table, she cleaned her hands with a wet handkerchief and began to copy it.

Two years of practicing calligraphy, as well as the habit of writing as quickly and well as possible when taking notes, made her transcribe extremely fast. By the time the male candidates had finished lunch and gone to the toilet to come back, Zhao Ruxi had already copied all three articles.

She had no intention of staying any longer, and raised her hand to gesture to Master Mo.

When Master Mo approached, she said, "I'm done." ”

Master Mo was very surprised, looked down, and found that the test paper was full of words, beautiful and neat, not at all like it was written in a hurry.

Zhao Ruxi has always submitted her papers in advance, and it has never affected her grades. Although Lord Mo was surprised, he was not surprised.

He said: "You take it and put it on the desk in front of Master Shangshu, and someone will lead you out of the palace." As he spoke, he gestured to the female officer.

Originally, there was no distinction between men and women in this hall test, they were all in the same hall, and there was no need to prepare special invigilators for Zhao Ruxi.

But the palace exam takes one day, and you can go to the toilet halfway. The Ministry of Rites still specially applied to the emperor, and Xiao Qi sent a female official and two palace maids in the palace to stay in the palace with the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, in case of emergency.

The male examinee in the hall had just sat down after having lunch and tidying up the housekeeping, and was about to ponder the last article, when he saw Zhao Ruxi stand up, put the test paper in front of the Ministry of Rites, and went out accompanied by the three palace maids after making a bow.

Everyone was dumbfounded, looked at each other, and almost asked each other, realizing that there was still an exam here, so they closed their mouths in time.

God, is this Zhiwei layman so powerful? Why did you finish writing and handing in the papers?

Everyone's eyes were on Huiyuan Duan Chen.

Duan Chen's original performance had been very flat, and he didn't seem to care about Zhao Ruxi's appearance. Seeing that Zhao Ruxi had handed in the paper so early, he couldn't help but look at his test paper, although he had already made a draft, but he had only copied one question, he couldn't help but look at Zhao Ruxi's distant back, a little stunned.

Feeling everyone's gaze, he retracted his gaze and resumed his indifferent look, but the speed of copying was significantly faster.

"It is really admirable to know the talents of the people who know the micro and win glory for our women. Although the slave and maid are only one housekeeper, they are also honored. The female officer accompanied Zhao Ruxi out and praised her.

This female official is Shang Gong next to Xiao Yu, who is a fifth-grade official, and is the highest official among female officials.

Although she has an official rank, has certain rights in the palace, and also receives the court and has palace maids to wait, she is still selected from the palace maids and belongs to slavery, so she still calls herself a "slave" to Zhao Ruxi.

"Bai Shang Palace is overrated." Zhao Ruxi said, "Bai Shang Palace is only eight buckets high. Zhiwei is in front of Bai Shanggong, but he doesn't dare to call it powerful. ”

It is not an easy task to become a female official in the palace. Talent must be extremely outstanding, scheming, means are indispensable, and appearance must also be excellent, absolutely "talent and appearance".

This Shang Gong, surnamed Bai, seems to be only twenty-five or six years old, and he can climb to the top of the female official, which shows that he is an extremely powerful person. The concubines' promotion depends on their family background, appearance, and luck, while female officials really come up by virtue of their talent and ability. If she were a man, she would definitely be no worse than those tributes in the Wenhua Palace.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ruxi was not only sympathetic to Bai Shanggong, but also grateful to God, although she was allowed to cross into cannon fodder, it was not the beginning of hell mode.

If she crosses into a woman who has been brought into the palace by Wencai, no matter how talented she is, no matter how hard she works, I am afraid she will only be like Bai Shanggong, even if she climbs to the highest level of female officials, she is still a slave, there is no freedom, and life and death are in the hands of others.