On the day of the spring exam, it was drizzling in Shengjing City.

Nan Baoyi and Nan Baozhu sent Nan Chengshu to the Tribute Academy.

Gongyuan Street is full of candidates, from weak crowns to the year of the sixtieth year, and there are many family members who send the exam, who are holding umbrellas to tell their own candidates, and the posture is even more nervous than the candidates.

Nan's carriage drove to the intersection of Gongyuan Street, and it couldn't go in.

Yuan Bao held an umbrella for his son-in-law and carefully stepped out of the carriage.

Nan Baoyi rolled up the curtains.

Her brother can't even memorize the four books and five classics, even if she knows that he is just here to accompany those talented people, she still can't help but advise: "Fourth brother remember to review the questions carefully, if you can't meet them, don't panic first, choose the topics you are good at first." ”

Nan Chengshu's face turned pale.

He pulled the basket full of dry food and nodded nervously, "I wrote it down." The weather was bad, and the two sisters went home early, so they didn't have to catch the cold. ”

Nan Baozhu leaned on the car window, watching him merge into the crowd rushing to take the exam.

She took a bite of the flower cake and whispered: "Jiaojiao, do you think he can be admitted to the Jinshi?" ”

"Difficult."

"I think it's hard too. It's good to smoke once from the ancestral grave, where can you smoke every year......"

Nan Baoyi was about to tell the carriage to turn around and go home, when she suddenly noticed a person in the crowd.

The man was handsome, wearing a blue jacket, and flashed through the crowd.

Nan Baozhu curiously stretched out her hand and shook it in front of her eyes, "Jiaojiao, why are you stunned?" ”

Nan Baoyi hesitated: "I just saw Nanjing......

"How is this possible? Nanjing broke his brain, and ran out of the mansion without permission, and now he doesn't know if he is still alive. What's more, he didn't take last year's township exam, how could he possibly participate in the exam? ”

"Yes."

Nan Baoyi's heart was slightly lowered.

Under the eaves of the wine shop.

The handsome-looking man quietly watched the carriage disappear in the field of vision.

He dusted off the raindrops on his jacket and lowered his eyes to sort out the food in the basket.

As the gate of the Gongyuan opened, the candidates lined up to enter the examination room.

Nan Chengshu was standing alone in the team, reciting the Analects silently, when a gentle voice suddenly came from the side: "Brother Chengshu." ”

He looked.

Liu Zhenxin came with an umbrella and said softly: "I came here to send the exam for Brother Chengshu." ”

Nan Chengshu nodded, his posture detached: "Thank you." ”

"In the past, it was all my fault, I shouldn't have played tricks on you with Li Gongzi and them, and I shouldn't have kissed you shamelessly." Liu Zhenxin's eyes were slightly red, "Brother Chengshu, I went to your house with my mother last time, but I was slapped hard by the county lord of Baoyi and beat us out." Brother Chengshu, are you still blaming me? ”

As she spoke, she reached for Nan Chengshu's sleeve.

Nan Chengshu hurriedly avoided her hand, "You, don't be ...... like this"

"Brother Chengshu, I like you!"

Nan Chengshu was already nervous about the Spring Exam, and when she made such a fuss, her heart beat suddenly, and she was even more panicked.

He knotted his mouth: "Miss Liu, you, please respect yourself......"

"What is your own respect?" Liu Zhen's tears fell down in her heart, "Did you see that fox spirit from the Cheng family?" Because her family background is better than mine, you empathize and don't fall in love, don't you?! ”

Nan Chengshu was nervous: "I, I really like her...... Miss Liu, I met her and I knew what liking is. I like her and I want to marry her......"

A young scholar in the year of the weak crown, fair-skinned and gentle.

is obviously thin and clear, but it is like a pine bamboo in the cold wind, especially tough and powerful.

Liu Zhenxin frowned.

In the pupils of his eyes, jealousy and hatred could not help but pass.

Nan Chengshu originally belonged to her!

The Nan family is rich and rich, originally she could be the young lady of the Nan family!

She was annoyed in her heart, but her face showed loss: "In this way, I can't say anything more." Brother Chengshu, can I hug you? After hugging, I have nothing to do with you. ”

Nan Chengshu twisted his eyebrows, hesitated for a long time, and nodded.

Liu Zhenxin handed the paper umbrella to the maid.

She stepped forward and hugged Nan Chengshu.

Rubbing Nan Chengshu's clothes, she smiled and took a few steps back, "Brother Chengshu, from now on, I won't pester you anymore." I hope you can play well and strive to be on the list. ”

After saying that, he turned around neatly and walked away.

Nan Chengshu reasoned straightly.

I felt a strange feeling in my heart, but I couldn't tell what was strange.

He shook his head and continued as the group walked on.

Before going to the Tribute House, it is customary to inspect the clothes and food baskets.

Two officials broke the steamed buns and cakes in the food basket and carefully inspected them, and two officials were responsible for checking the candidates' clothes, shoes and socks.

When it was Nan Chengshu's turn, he generously put down the food basket and stretched out his arms for them to inspect.

I just memorized the yang goods chapter of the "Analects" in my mind——

"Eh, what is this?!"

An official suddenly raised his voice.

The crowd looked.

What the official held in his hand was a rolled-up note.

Unfolded, the note is densely filled with the contents of the Four Books and the Five Classics in tiny block letters!

The official sneered: "Good boy, looking at the bookish air, I didn't expect to hide this kind of cheat sheet in the mezzanine of my sleeve pocket!" Drag it down, hit! ”

Nan Chengshu was stunned.

That cheat sheet is not his thing at all!

"Official," he was anxious, "I'm wronged, it's not mine, it's not mine......"

"What I found from you, it's not yours?!" The official impatiently threw the cheat sheet into the bamboo basket, "You are a scholar, I have seen a lot!" Drag it down and fight! ”

The other officials ignored Nan Chengshu's argument, dragged him to the side of the tribute courtyard, pressed him on the bench and pulled off his pants, and the boards fell down one after another.

Next to the Tribute Courtyard, there are more than a dozen benches on display.

Each bench is tied to the candidates, all of whom are trying to cheat on the exam.

The howls came and went, making the scholars who lined up to enter the venue tremble.

In the midst of the commotion, the lifters suddenly got out of the way.

"The examiner is here!"

"The examiner is here! Hush! ”

They all looked to the end of Gongyuan Street.

Several spacious and luxurious carriages came in all directions.

The first to come out of the carriage were Jiang Taifu Jiang Hua and Taishi Lingshu Changyong.

The other officials were all deputy examiners, but these two were the only ones who looked ahead.

Walking to the gate of the Gongyuan, Jiang Hua shook his head, "It seems that there are a lot of cheats this year." You scholars, you don't study well, just thinking about cheating, what are you like? What a disappointment to the old man, to the master, and to the country that cultivated you! ”

He was born with a big belly, and the official robe was worn on him, which had a different kind of majesty.

With Zhou Zheng's facial features and elegant beard, he stood in the pile of officials, looking like a Qing official and a loyal minister in the middle hall, which was unprovoked and convincing.

Shu Changyong suddenly smiled and pointed at one of them: "Yo, the one who picked up his pants and was beaten seems to be a kid from the Nan family." When the old man was having a banquet at Liu's house, what was it called, Nan Chengshu? ”