The head of the Qin family thought for a moment and said: "I am very relieved of Yang'er's knowledge, he will not be able to run in the top three after the exam." As for the other children in the family, they all went down to try, and the number of people who took it this time was much higher than the previous one, and their chances were also very great. As for how to elect officials, the ghost king naturally has her considerations in doing this, and it has nothing to do with her daughter-in-law, so don't criticize her. ”

Mrs. Qin said angrily: "How can you say that it has nothing to do with it, you don't know, I asked her to go to the ghost king today and intercede with Yang'er, isn't it normal for a wife to help her husband, but what do you say, she refuses to go alive or dead, she would rather kneel in the courtyard for two hours and not move, marrying her Our Yang'er can be said to have suffered a big loss, I knew this, I should have persevered to the end and never let her enter the door of my Qin family." ”

The head of the Qin family slapped the table and said, "Nonsense, why do you still want her to go to the ghost king and talk nonsense, if she goes, our Yang'er will be finished." You have been in Beijing for so many years, have you ever heard that when the ghost king bends the law for personal gain, if you really let people come to the ghost king to intercede for Yang'er, then it will make the ghost king look down on Yang'er, and it will ruin Yang'er's life. ”

Mrs. Qin was startled, flattened her mouth and stopped talking.

The head of the Qin family looked at his wife and sighed secretly, she was just a side branch of the Shang Shuning family in the Ministry of Rites, her family background was average, her personality was too stingy, and she always lived in the inner house, her thoughts were limited, and she couldn't think of or understand some things, she just wanted to think about her son, and he couldn't say it too seriously.

Breathing a sigh of relief, the head of the Qin family persuaded: "The ghost king is also a human being, she will be able to distinguish between relatives and distances, even if she doesn't say it, she knows what to do at the critical moment, we just need to keep our duty." You have to be better to your daughter-in-law, no matter how bad she is, she has already entered the gate of the Qin family, and she is already the Qin family. ”

Seeing that Mrs. Qin was still sulking with her head bowed and silent, the head of the Qin family had to make her words clearer, "Actually, there are some things that we might as well do it." We are good to the ghost king's cronies, and the ghost king is naturally happy, needless to say, he will also take care of the sun. If you look at the people who follow the ghost king, you will know which one is not a young man, and then he is rising. ”

Mrs. Qin knew that the head of the Qin family had made up her mind, and seeing that he was very sure of what he said, she had no choice but to respond, but in her heart she was very disgusted with the unlucky ghost, and she could only think that in the future, out of sight would be pure.

Beijing was calm for a few days, and the time of the big exam was coming in the hot June.

Yun Yuhong said that she was the chief examiner, but she still handed over most of the affairs to the Qin scholars and the Yi family master, and she herself was busy teaching the little prince to practice martial arts recently. Fortunately, as long as nothing happens, no one dares to say anything about her. Many people prefer that she not show up, so as not to provoke her to be made worse than dead. So everyone worked together to prepare for the invigilation, and everything was fine.

The Moyun Imperial Examination stipulates that there are four Jinshi examinations: one is a major examination, two are combined with the classics, three are examinations, and the last examination is a strategy. If you are on the list after the list is issued, you can participate in the final palace examination. Of course, the palace examination is usually just a ranking, and finally confirm who is the champion, who is the leader, who is the tanhua, in the past few years Qianzong did not pay attention to these, they are all families or people who rely on them, which one is the same, so the palace examination is a bit of a formality.

The exam questions were given by the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, and Qianzong also came out to express his attention. After the questions are finished, they are sealed and placed in the box, and they are not opened until the day of the test. Candidates' examination papers are obscured and transcribed after they are received, which is a way to prevent favoritism. Blurring the name is to seal the personal information such as the name and place of origin on the candidate's exam paper, so that people do not know which paper belongs to whom. Transcription is to find someone else to transcribe the candidate's test paper. In this way, when the examiner marks the examination paper, not only does he not know the candidate's name, but also the candidate's handwriting cannot be recognized. This system is very effective in preventing examiners from making favoritism.

But can this really put an end to the examiner's favoritism? Yun Yuhong didn't think so, so although she didn't care much before the exam, but when it came to the exam, she took out the exam questions and opened them, and changed half of the questions, and she changed it very "meaningfully", she asked the examiners to each come up with a question, and then make a sign by Zhou Daxue Scholar, which avoided the problem of leaking questions or bias caused by her or someone's shot.

Of course, Scholar Zhou disagreed, but the examiner was the eldest princess, and with Yun Yuhong's temperament, whether he did it or not was a result, and Yun Yuhong's test questions were changed. He pulled out the question with a black face, Yun Yuhong smiled and read the question in public, and then it was written and passed on, and the exam officially began.

As for the invigilators, Yun Yuhong directly pulled the four princes in, and several princes were either in the palace or in the barracks, and they were not familiar with these people, so naturally they couldn't talk about any feelings, let alone any personal feelings. So their eyes were wide one by one, and they watched the invigilator and the candidates closely, after all, the ghost king's statement to several princes was that they would really be killed if they saw cheating. The children of the nobles in the candidates are very well-behaved, jokes, this is the prince, if it is someone else, it may not be ruthless, but these princes are brought up by the ghost king, and they may really kill a few.

Yun Yuhong just sits, occasionally looking at the candidates who are taking the exam inside, and most of the time her gaze follows that of Senior Scholar Zhou. This week, the scholar had a dark face when he first changed the question, but he didn't see any anxiety or disappointment on his face, and now he was even more calm and unconcerned. Yun Yuhong didn't believe that they didn't make a ghost at all, but looking at his appearance, this ghost should not be on the test paper, nor in the exam process, that is, in the later marking of the paper?

At the end of the three-day examination, when the candidates came out of the examination room, their faces were pale, their feet were weak, and a few of them were still supported out by servants. Although the exam is hard, it is fortunate that it has passed, and the next hard work is the examiners who mark the papers.

In the process of blurring and transcribing the test papers, Yun Yuhong found some literate people in the army to help, and all this went smoothly, so smoothly that Yun Yuhong was a little hairy, no, it was so wrong, how could those families move at all, there was no sign of doing anything at all, was she missing something?

Yun Yuhong couldn't figure it out, but everyone had already entered the process of marking the papers. She could only pick up a few scrolls and read them. To be honest, the humanities who can participate in the imperial examination are not bad, but most of the students have little experience, no ideas and new ideas, and although the articles are written in a colorful manner, they are actually empty. Yun Yuhong didn't have the patience to read it anymore after reading two chapters.

Pushing the thick stack of test papers on the table in front of Scholar Qin, Yun Yuhong said "hard work" and pushed these things clean. The others looked at the paper with their heads down, as if they were unaware of these things.

Yun Yuhong, who was idle, still set her eyes on Scholar Zhou, wondering what the hell this group was doing. At first, Scholar Zhou was uncomfortable, but after a long time, he gradually got used to it, treating Yun Yuhong's gaze as if it were air, and he was engrossed in his own affairs.

Yun Yuhong is annoyed by reading two pages of the test paper, but she is very patient with Scholar Zhou. One stare is two hours, and she can still summarize a pattern. When Scholar Zhou got the test paper, he did not look directly at the beginning to the end, but first looked at the back, and then returned to the first page to look back from the front. There is no name on the back of the test paper, and the handwriting has changed, so what is he looking at at the back?

Yun Yuhong got up and came directly to Scholar Zhou, picked up the few papers he had seen and looked at them, Zhou University's morale was so angry that he "snorted", but continued to do his own thing, ignoring her.

Yun Yuhong repeated the method and eyes of Scholar Zhou when he looked at this volume, but found no problems. Yun Yuhong picked up another one and repeated it again. This time, a familiar place name caught her eye: Qizhou, the state managed by the Bai family's aunt. Of course, these two words are not put together, but the first word of the last paragraph and the second word of the penultimate paragraph are joined. Yun Yuhong suddenly realized, and then looked carefully at the third word of the penultimate paragraph, the fourth word of the penultimate paragraph, and so on, and finally Yun Yuhong came up with: Qizhou Zhang Huaitong five words.

Yun Yuhong said to the head of the Yi family: "Lord Yi, please help me find out, is there a person like Zhang Huaitong from Qizhou?" ”

Everyone was stunned, and everyone stopped looking at the test papers, but looked directly at Yun Yuhong. Looking closely, many people were not only shocked, but also scared, and the sweat on their heads came out all at once.

Yun Yuhong read the reactions of everyone in the house, and she already counted them in her heart, and the head of the Yi family over there also checked it, and replied: "Back to the ghost king, there is such a person." ”

Yun Yuhong nodded and said to everyone: "Curious how I know?" Don't you think that some candidates' writing is a bit strange, and they suddenly interject nonsense when they don't need to say that? You can take the first word of the last paragraph, the second word of the penultimate paragraph, and so on, and so on, and connect those words, and if you can connect them, you won't wonder how I know the candidate's name. ”

A few adults hurriedly took out the papers and compared them, and then half of their faces changed. What is this, this is cheating, there are so many candidates who use this method to reveal their names, then there must be someone among the examiners who has benefited and will help them. It is self-evident how important this scientific expedition is, and how dare these people do this. Now that they have been discovered by the Ghost King, what awaits them is a dead end.