In the early morning of the next day, Ah Xiu woke up from a dream, put on a coat and sat under the window in a daze.

Chunliu on Luohan's bed woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a person sitting under the window.

She rubbed her eyes, saw that it was Ah Xiu, and was about to say that it was a little cold outside in the morning, but after opening her mouth, she swallowed the words again.

The girl of the fourteenth and fifth years was full of sorrow, like a great regret caused by missing something.

Chunliu only heard that something happened to the young lady's family when she was young, but it has always been smooth sailing when she came to the Song family later, the old lady is good to her, and the son likes her so much, she should be happy.

By the window, Ah Xiu heard the movement and turned around, saw that Chunliu had woken up, and said with a smile: "It's quite early for you today." ”

This little girl is good at everything, just snooze, like a little pig.

She smiled, all her emotions disappeared, and she returned to her usual appearance.

At noon, Song Tian had to go to the inn to invite the Cangshan Academy and his party to dinner.

He doesn't have to go to the academy these days, and a lot of time can be arranged, except for going to the study with Hu Ke and his party, and then he is either in Cao's Mansion or goes out shopping with Ah Xiu.

Since most of the business of the embroidery workshop has been transferred to Jiangnan, Song Ercai has not much to do now, and he has been with his son and Ah Xiu these days.

With him there, Song Tian didn't find any more opportunities to get close to Ah Xiu, and the kiss two days ago became a miss he remembered every day before going to bed.

In the past few days, the government has been closely arranging the papers.

There is one chief examiner and two deputy examiners in the college examination.

The main examination is from Beijing, and the deputy examination is a local transfer, which is generally held by the prefect of the fourth grade.

In the dossier room, ten examination papers are placed side by side on the desk.

Although these papers are all named, Wu Yao, who has already taken the exam twice, naturally recognizes their question papers and handwriting.

After some evaluation, the tenth to third places were quickly determined, and several people at the top of the list were still undecided.

These two papers have their own merits, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the question alone.

Wu Yao looked at the one on the left and said, "The person who wrote this volume has a fair attitude, and his sentences are calm and rigorous. The center of the speech is broad-minded, far-sighted, and the meaning of the topic is penetrated into the wood and put forward new ideas, Wu believes that this volume can be the first proposal. ”

Wu Yao bowed his hand to the examiner and put forward his opinion.

But another person doesn't think so.

"Lord Wu, Yang feels that the two files have their own merits, but the poems on the right file are beautiful and far-reaching, and I feel even better. The first proposal on the right is the most appropriate. ”

There are conflicting opinions, this kind of thing often comes up at the time of ranking, but if you really want to treat them as a normal debate, then you are wrong.

Sometimes the chief and deputy examiners will fight for red-facedness, and they don't even tear their faces to recommend the papers they have chosen, which is nothing more than pulling people to cultivate power.

Who doesn't want their students to be at the top of the list, have a good future in the future, and become a help to their own faction at that time.

Both of them are deputy examiners, even if there is a slight gap between their identity and status, when it comes to such a critical time, no one can care so much.

Jian Qiu looked at the two scrolls, gently turned the tea cup in his hand, and said, "Since we all have our own opinions, it is better for us to draw lots to decide." ”

Can it still be like this?

Yang Fu glanced at him in surprise, shouldn't he have a decision at this time as the chief examiner?

What if you get caught in this trick!

"Master Jane, isn't it too child's play to come here for the scientific examination?"

Jian Qiu shook his head, "Jian is also wavering, I don't know if it's better to choose that volume, so I just choose it naturally, so as to save everyone's disagreement at that time." ”

He said this with great significance.

Yang Fu was silent for a while, and nodded in response.

Wu Yao also looked a little dissatisfied, but two of the three had already nodded and quickly responded.

Wu Yao quickly found a half-arm-high vase and came out, and the two watched Jian Qiu write the left and right two paper balls and threw them over, and then shook them, picked one out at random and opened it, only to see a left word on it.

Yang Fu's face changed when he saw it.

After the ranking is out, there is a special person who takes the exam paper and goes to dismantle the name and leave the case.

Jian Qiu returned to the guest house and was about to rest for a while, when Yang Fu came.

The two went into the inner room.

Yang Fu made a face, he couldn't wait so much when the door was closed, and asked Jian Qiu what he had just done, why didn't he do what he had said in advance?

Jian Qiu is from the Hanlin Academy, and this visit is the result of many people secretly planning it.

This time, I finally got a chief examiner, Yang Fu was full of confidence in this case, how could this person not act in the end.

Faced with the questioning, Jian Qiu was very calm, poured a cup of tea on the chair and said: "Lord Yang, I have already mentioned several people to enter the school according to your wishes, and the previous annual test also released water. ”

"Before the exam, don't you say you do it casually?"

Yang Fu couldn't believe it, obviously he looked like he came casually, but now how could he blame himself.

Jian Qiu nodded, "That's what I said, but I didn't expect that Lord Yang not only didn't shy away from contacting me at will, but also had such a big appetite." The two people who tried to release water in the previous year were your relatives, Lord Yang, right? ”

Jian Qiu's eyes were a little cold, and Yang Fu said uncomfortably: "It's all my own people." ”

"I have nothing to say if you think so, but Lord Wu is not a fool, how can he not know these tricks. If I follow you to take down the head of the case just now, when I return to Beijing, I will give it to Yu Shishen. ”

"That's the best way to deal with it just now, both of them have half a chance, and it's also providential that the Gao family is off the list."

Jian Qiu lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea, and remembered what Wu Yao said to him earlier.

"There is already a person in the Gao family who has entered the pavilion, and if he is so unrestrained, he will really become a pavilion elder in the future, do you think you can run away? Sometimes, being needed is at its best. When people are perfected, they want to erase the stains of the past......"

In the dossier room, Wu Yao finished arranging the last bit of matters and went out with the vase just now.

He went all the way to the study, closed the door, and reached out to take out the two paper balls in the bottle and put them on the candle lamp to extinguish.

Just now, when he was drawing lots, a paper ball had already been taken out and destroyed, but it was Wu Yao who had prepared it to stick to the belly of the bottle in advance, so that Jian Qiu could grasp it in the palm of his hand, and the two paper balls that were thrown in at that time were actually lying quietly at the bottom of the bottle.

On the day of the release, there were people squatting outside the yamen early, which was even more lively than the previous two times.

This time, not only did the prince and his relatives come, but also arranged a guard of honor in the yamen, which will distribute submissions to the students who entered the school in the lively sound of gongs and drums.

With these submissions, you can go to the corresponding official newspaper.

On this day, Ah Xiu also came with the carriage, although she was confident in Song Tian's entry into the house, but she had some expectations for the ranking.