At the end of March, Li Zhicai came out of the tribute courtyard with a face.

This time, someone naturally came to pick him up, and after returning home, he first fell into bed and slept in the dark, and only after another day did he go to see Chen Hui.

The invigilator does not read the papers, this is the rule of Daheng, so Chen Hui is naturally at home, and he also has Tan Huaiju.

Tan Huaiyu was drinking tea, and when he saw Li Zhi coming in, he also lowered it by the way: "Li Shilang, this is repaired?" I'm going to be at home for two or three days. ”

"They are young and in good spirits, so how can you compare them with me?" Chen Hui also laughed and let Li Zhi sit.

After Li Zhi sat down, he respectfully took out a few neatly folded pieces of paper from his sleeve, handed the paper to Chen Hui's hand, and said, "After the student finished repairing yesterday, he repeated the article he made in the Gongyuan again, although it can't be exactly the same, but it is almost the same. Thinking of visiting the teacher today, I wanted the teacher to help me take a look. ”

Chen Hui praised him a few words, then opened the paper, read it again, and handed the paper to Tan Huaiyu's hand, asking him to read it too.

These two people are also scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, although Tan Huaiyu has not taught his protégé yet, but if he is just asked to read an article, it is still not a big problem.

There was a large Western wall clock in the room, and the pendulum was striking again and again, making a sound. Li Zhi couldn't hear the sound next to him, and his ears were full of ears when he heard the big bell ringing one by one.

Who knows how many knocks, Li Zhidu felt that he couldn't count them.

Finally, Chen Hui took the lead in speaking: "It's not much different from what you usually do, there are no dangers and oddities, and there are no mistakes or omissions, it is a decent article. ”

Li Zhi was secretly happy in his heart, bowed his head and said, "Yes." ”

"Although it's not very exciting, but ......" Li Zhi heard that the writing was not exciting, both ears were pricked up, and he listened to his teacher add a second at the end, knowing that this was first suppressing and then rising, so he still lowered his head and listened.

Chen Hui recently had a new three-inch-long short beard, and at this time he happened to brush his hair twice, and said with a smile: "But it should be on the list, but it should be in the top few grades, then I don't know." ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, but in the end, this was in front of his teacher, so he was not too public, so he had to sit upright and salute Chen Hui.

A few people chatted for a while, and Chen Hui left Li Zhi for lunch.

Li Zhi excused himself for a while, but when he saw that he couldn't refuse, he had to stay at Chen Hui's house for dinner.

In the next few days, they were all waiting for the release of the list, and the teahouses and restaurants on the street were full of people, all of whom had just finished the exam.

What they are talking about is also the test questions in this imperial examination, and you exchange articles and read each other back and forth.

When Yu Zhiwei heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little envious.

She has also lived this kind of day, and in the days after the big exam, she was naturally quite comfortable, sleeping until she woke up naturally every day, and then went out to play for a while. But these memories are already very vague.

To be precise, it's actually a matter of the previous life.

After hearing that the streets and alleys in the capital were such scenes, she suddenly felt emotional.

It is false to say that there is no envy.

They go through the imperial examination to become officials, that is the right way, like themselves from the harem to reach out to interfere in the government, in the end it is still inconvenient.

She thought about it, if she hadn't met Yu Jingning at the beginning, and she really went to the science field as a man, would the direction of the story be more interesting?

But there is no such thing as an "if" or "if."

……

In the noisy teahouse, a blonde and blue-eyed foreigner walked out, dressed the same as the Daheng literati.

He wandered the streets for a while before slowly returning to his house.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the owner of the house, the old man, carefully looking at the flowers he had planted, and when he saw him come in, he looked up and smiled at him: "Ruowen." ”

Ruowen stepped in a few steps and asked the old man, "What do you think, sir?" ”

"If I heard that in Daheng in the past few years, not only has the official language been much better, but I have even learned the elegance of some literati, which is really good." The old man laughed a few times, and naturally someone from the house came out to serve tea to them.

"My father told me." Ruowen blinked, his eyelashes were very light in color, but they were extremely long, shrouded in his eyes, looking like a hazy mist, "If you want to defeat your enemy, then you must first understand him, which is why I have been in Daheng for so many years." The capital of Daheng is already completely familiar to me. ”

Ruowen thought about it, and said with a smile: "If Daheng allows foreigners to participate in the imperial examination, I think I will definitely go." ”

Speaking of which, the old man couldn't help but remember that the exam was over a few days ago, and the topic had just been revealed.

The old man is an official in the end, and he read it hastily, and said that if he heard this article, he might not win the examination, but if he took the township examination, he would definitely win.

If you hear that you are a foreigner, you can speak the words of Daheng official well, and the words are also good, it is not easy, and it is rare to write such a strategy.

The old man thought for a while, and then smiled: "Not to mention previous years, if you go this year, I'm afraid you'll be hit." ”

Ruowen obviously understood what he meant, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Sir, have you seen this?" ”

"They have long regarded me as their own, and they naturally don't shy away from doing anything, so I know." The old man narrowed his eyes, revealing a little sly light, which looked very inconsistent with his age.

Ruowen: "If Mr. bumps into something that shouldn't be seen, let's pretend not to know, just watch the play, don't get involved, so as not to dirty Mr.'s own hands." ”

"I know that we have always borrowed knives to do things, and when such things are involved, I have been in the officialdom for so long." The old man smiled, the sun shining on the white porcelain cup in his hand, emitting a little strange light, not like the sun shining, "I won't give them anything this time, just look at it." This time, the people on our side just have to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and see what they have to do before it ends. ”

"It's worthy of being a gentleman, I understand, if you hear it, you will know that there is nothing wrong with cooperating with Mr." Ruowen raised his small teacup, touched it with the old man like drinking, and said with a smile, "I wish we can see a good show this time." ”

"I lend you good words." The old man laughed too.

The two of them drank the tea in their cups.