Poetry is in a hurry, and you have to find a suitable opportunity.

The state exam will be held in another month, and Wang Xu's focus will also be shifted to the exam, and everything else will have to be left behind compared to fame.

Wang Xu settled in Fahuai Temple and settled down.

The next day, Zhang Minghuai hosted a banquet in the Caoyun Mansion and invited everyone to drink wine and taste poems, which were the poems sent by Wang Xu.

With this parting poem, plus Zhang Minghuai said that Zhang Xiaomei and Wang Xu are cousins, and they can finally borrow the slope to get off the donkey.

After a while, Wang Xu took the time to go to the embroidery girl's painting boat, and the embroidery girl had Wang Xu's support, and the painting boat had been opened.

The effect of the small advertisement is very good, and the embroidery girl really has two brushes, and gradually stands out among the many oirans in Yangzhou Mansion.

As for the plan to build momentum for the embroidery girl and praise her as the first prostitute in Jiangnan, Wang Xu decided to postpone it a bit.

After all, it is not calm at the moment, and in the face of the possible assassination of the demon clan, Wang Xu does not dare to show his head easily.

No matter how good his reputation is, it is not as important as his own life, he needs to keep a low profile now, and it is better to keep a low profile until everyone forgets about him, and it is better to be a non-existent person.

In this way, Wang Xu hid in the Faming Temple, did not go out of the gate, did not step out of the second gate, and prepared for the state test.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the time has come from July to the end of August, and the day of the state exam has arrived.

On this day, Wang Xu got up very early, the state examination is also called the lifting test, and the prescribed examination time is three days, enter at 10 o'clock this morning, and come out at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow.

In the past three days, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all in the examination room, where there is a small room with a large toilet for one person, sleep when you are sleepy, write when you wake up, and are not allowed to talk or communicate.

Wang Xu got up early in the morning, packed up his things, and ate a bowl of corn porridge cooked by Xiao Shami.

The little novice also knew that today was the day he was rushing for the exam, and in the past there was only one bowl of porridge and one dough cake in the morning, but today he not only had one more cake, but also gave him an extra plate of pickled cucumbers.

"Master Wang, the master knows that you are going to take the exam today, these are specially ordered to prepare for me, I wish you an early enrollment!"

Putting down the food box, Xiao Shami held his hands in front of his chest and said auspicious words with a smile.

Wang Xu rubbed his head, picked up a piece of bread and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Eat quickly, eat strong, and only then can you have the heart to recite the Buddha." ”

"Thank you, Lord donor...", the little novice was overjoyed, and ran away happily with the bread.

The monk pays attention to not eating at noon, and the seven or eight-year-old little novice, when he is growing his body, feels that he can't eat enough three meals a day, let alone two meals a day.

Looking at the little novice who was bouncing away, Wang Xu sat down to eat with peace of mind, and after eating, he called Fahai, who was still chanting, and walked towards the county school in Yangzhou Mansion together.

The county school, that is, the county school, the world's scholars, want to study there are three places, one is to follow the Confucian to study, one is to worship the major academies, and the other is to enter the officially founded county school.

Wang Xu wants to take the exam, and the exam venue is in the county school in Yangzhou.

When I arrived here, it was already nine o'clock in the morning, and the county school was full of candidates, waiting at the door one by one.

Looking at the crowd, the Xiucai present were of different ages, the small ones were about the same age as Wang Xu, and there were even thirteen or fourteen young Xiucai.

The big ones are over the sixtieth year, and they are all supported by others, I really don't know how old I am, and what kind of people are tested.

Similarly, the crowd was divided in twos, with the children of the Han family standing on the left and the children of the gentry standing on the right, looking at each other with unfriendly eyes.

This is also inevitable, the gentry and the Han family are naturally opposed, otherwise they would not be divided into the Han Party and the Zhu Party.

As a reserve member of the Zhu Party, Wang Xu naturally would not go to the Hanmen to ask for his own boredness, and took the initiative to go to the side of the gentry.

"Wang Xuzhi is here!"

Seeing Wang Xu coming, I had seen him say hello.

As soon as others heard Wang Xu's name, they didn't need him to open their mouths at all, they automatically got out of the way, and occasionally a few people who didn't open their eyes were also dragged by their friends.

"Who is this, and why make way for him?" Someone was not convinced and muttered.

"You're crazy, you don't even know him, don't you read the Jiangnan poetry collection every season?"

"What does this have to do with Jiangnan Poetry Collection?"

"Hey, it's a big deal, this person's name is Wang Xu, the words continue, one person has written seven famous essays, all of which have been included in the Jiangnan poetry collection, and as a front-page print, don't say you haven't heard his poems."

Jiangnan Poetry Collection, which is regarded as the land of Jiangnan, is a semi-official publishing house dedicated to collecting poems written by children in Jiangnan.

Once a quarter, 100 poems are selected and bound into a book for readers in the land of Jiangnan to browse, and the readers in Jiangnan are all proud of the poems being selected into the poetry collection, just like the scientific magazines of later generations.

Although Wang Xu's output is not high, he is full of high-quality products.

To this day, his poems have been in the Jiangnan poetry collection several times, but unfortunately there is no intellectual property right in this era, and he has not been given a penny for printing his poems for sale.

"It turned out to be him, I said who is so capable of making everyone sell face!"

Hearing the explanation, people who didn't know Wang Xu also suddenly realized.

Wang Xu listened to the discussions of the people around him, carried the book basket on his back, and walked all the way inside.

The crowd automatically gave way to him because he could afford him, and he couldn't help but give face, even if he acted, he had to act a little closer to the people.

After all, the hundreds of thousands of talents present were scattered to various prefectures and counties, and they were all figures with heads and faces.

If you don't have real talent and learning, you can hope to be successful, and these people won't come to the state city to take the exam.

Do the math, there are tens of millions of scholars in the entire land south of the Yangtze River, and there are millions of Xiucai, not to mention the millions.

There were only tens of thousands of people present, and in the Xiucai class, less than one-thirtieth came, and everyone in each county was like a reading seed.

Don't look down on these people, put down the future generations, those who can be admitted to Xiucai are equivalent to being admitted to key universities.

Lift people, that is Tsinghua University and Peking University.

As for the difficulty of being admitted to the Jinshi, not to mention comparable to academicians of the Academy of Sciences, at least it is similar to that of university professors.

If you can't pass the exam, you won't say it, once you get in, this life is right, even if you don't want to be an official, write a plaque for the newly opened shop, make a couplet, and you will be rich and expensive for a lifetime, and ordinary people can't imagine people's lives at all.

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang!"

When Wang Xu walked to the front, he heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, it was Zhang Xiaomei's brother Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu is also a talent, and he said before that he would end this session and go back with a reputation.

Seeing this, it was expected and reasonable, Wang Xu did not seem too surprised.

What really surprised Wang Xu was Zhang Xiaomei next to Zhang Xu.

During this time, Wang Xu has been studying in retreat, and he thought that Zhang Xiaomei would be locked up and cleaned up.

At this time, I saw that Zhang Xiaomei not only did not lose weight, but gained some weight, and looked at him shyly.

At Wang Xu's gaze, Zhang Xiaomei's face turned red instantly, and she didn't greet him, and hid in the carriage shyly.

Wang Xu looked very strange and asked, "What's wrong with your sister?" ”

"You'll know when you come out."

Zhang Xu looked eager, looking at that look, as if he didn't blame him at all, Zhang Xiaomei went to Hangzhou Mansion to find him.

Wang Xu was dizzy, as the eldest brother, his sister was unclear with the person, and there were rumors outside, but when he saw the person concerned, he was the same as being a brother.

No, it's not like he's nothing, and he's even happy to see him, just like meeting his own real relatives, what kind of attitude is this?

Wang Xu asked himself, if he had a sister, left a letter, ran away from home to find a wild man in a foreign country.

Regardless of whether the man is justified or not, break his leg first.

Zhang is good and enthusiastic, could it be that the Zhang family decided to let this matter pass, as if it hadn't happened?

If that's the case, it's really good news, many friends are better than multiple enemies these days, and Wang Xu doesn't want to fight to the death with Du Caoyun.

"Candidates are all in place, receive their waist cards, accept inspections, and prepare to enter!"

Wang Xu didn't wait to ask again, the time to enter the venue was up, and he could only suppress the words in his heart.

However, he still felt that Zhang Xu had something to say, and this matter was not so simple.

The Zhang family's attitude should not be like this, even if he really has nothing to do with Zhang Xiaomei and makes remedies, he will not like him.

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