Seeing that Su Xiaoman and Du Yue were already busy, Lord Lu naturally walked out of the room, leaving the night time for them to slowly solve so many paperwork.

To say that Su Xiaoman closed her eyelids, swayed on the chair in a sleepy manner, and then looked at Du Yue, she had already begun to talk nonsense in a trance.

The fatigue of the day really made them unable to support it, and it was simply impossible to deal with paperwork at this time, but since they had promised Master Lu, it would not work if they didn't do it.

Su Xiaoman patted his face so that he could barely sober up, then walked to the side, made some charcoal fire, put a brass teapot on top of the charcoal fire, and found some broken tea leaves from this room, and made a cup of tea for her and Du Yue.

Looking at the broken tea leaves in the cup, even the water in the pot can't be dyed green, Xiao Man felt a little aggrieved in his heart, to say that what he drank in the Lu Mansion was the tribute rewarded by the emperor, but at this time there are only these broken tea dregs, and they feel astringent when they drink it.

But in order to refresh himself, he had to drink this tea in one go.

"Xiaoman, I seem to have found a problem!"

Heard Du Yue say this. Xiao Man rubbed his eyes reluctantly, leaned his head to Du Yue's side, and fixed his eyes on the paperwork he was working on.

"Xiaoman, look at these documents, aren't they the ones that Lord Lu handed over to other Jinshi during the day, why did Lord Lu hand over these documents to us to check again?"

Xiao Man sighed, it is absolutely impossible to say that Master Lu values them and asks them to check whether there are any mistakes in the work of other Jinshi.

I think Master Lu just wanted to humiliate them and deliberately find something for them to do.

"Can't you see this, of course Lord Nalu just didn't want us to go home, so he deliberately let us do this work again, I really don't know if I can survive this assessment time."

Hearing Xiaoman's complaints, Du Yue also felt that his body was more tired, and his arms and lumbar spine were aching faintly, so he stood up and moved for a while, raised his waist, and stretched again.

"Xiaoman, I'll go to the thatched house and I'll be back soon."

Xiao Man nodded, to say that as soon as Du Yue walked out of the door, he found that there was a food box at the door, which looked very exquisite, with two orchids carved on it, lifelike, and the beige white orchid immediately appeared in people's eyes, fluttering in the wind, noble and elegant.

This Du Yue took the food box to Xiao Man and asked, "Xiao Man, did you send this to you?" How could no one knock on the door, just put a food box at the door. ”

Xiao Man thought about it for a while, Pearl and Xianglan were in the Lu Mansion at this time, and he had already sent someone back to the Lu Mansion to pass the word, so that they didn't have to worry about themselves, this food box would definitely not be sent by them.

But most of the people in the Jinshi Courtyard were hostile to her and Du Yue, who would be so kind to send a food box.

"Anyway, let's open it first, maybe someone left it at the door of our room."

After Xiao Man opened this food box, there was a smell of meat on his face, and there were four big meat buns in this food box, Xiao Man and Du Yue were working too late at this time, and it was when they were hungry, when they saw this bun, their saliva was about to flow down.

This Du Yue hurriedly took a sip of saliva and said to Xiao Man: "Xiao Man, I really want to eat it, but I don't know if this bun will be someone else's." ”

Xiao Man saw this snow-white bun at this time, and the fragrance kept drilling into his nose, only to feel that his stomach was gurgling, and the gluttonous worms seemed to be constantly gnawing at his stomach in his body.

Xiao Man took the plate of buns out of the food box, but found that there was a note pressed under the plate, and Xiao Man read out the note: "A reward for the two Jinshi." ”

After reading this note, Xiao Man felt very strange, it seems that this food box was not accidentally dropped here, but it was indeed left for her and Du Yue, but I don't know who would be so friendly to them in this Jinshi Academy, and send them meat buns so late.

The more Xiao Man thought about it, the more suspicious he became, and he always felt that this meat bun was not easy to eat, and he was afraid that it was poisonous or someone else had put something bad to tease them.

But Du Yue couldn't bear it anymore at this time, and directly grabbed a meat bun and ate it, Xiao Man saw that this meat bun had been bitten in Du Yue's mouth, and he was a little anxious.

"Du Yue, don't be so anxious, what if this bun is poisonous?"

Du Yue is still a thirteen-year-old child, and this is the time to grow her body, where can she manage so much.

So he sniffed, with a bun in his mouth, and muttered: "No matter, Xiaoman, I'm really hungry, even if I want to die, let me be a full ghost!" ”

Seeing that Du Yue was so refreshing, Xiao Man no longer resisted the gluttonous worms in his stomach, clenched his fists, picked up a snow-white bun and bit it, as soon as the bun entered his mouth, the taste of meat spread on the tip of his tongue, and his fatigue was reduced a lot.

Two big buns for one person are in the stomach, and the stomach is filled in an instant, and I feel more energetic to work.

Du Yue licked her lips with satisfaction, and said to Xiao Man: "After I ate this bun, my body didn't feel a little uncomfortable, this must be some kind person who knew that we stayed up late here, so he sent us buns." ”

Xiaoman nodded.

"If I let me know who gave this bun, I will definitely thank him."

Although Xiaoman said so, she had no clue who sent the bun.

About an hour later, Xiao Man finished transcribing all the documents, and after Xiao Man packed up the papers, he found that Du Yue had fallen asleep on the table.

Xiaoman looked at Du Yue with pity, after all, such a young child with such a heavy workload was really difficult for him.

So he took a piece of clothing and draped it on Du Yue's body.

Suddenly, there was a sound in the bamboo forest at the door, like a wind passing through, and a black shadow appeared in the window, which frightened Xiao Man, and he didn't know who dared to break into the Jinshi Courtyard like this.

The black shadow quickly spoke, and when Xiao Man heard this voice, it was a voice that he was familiar with, so Xiao Man hurriedly ran out.

Sure enough, at the door of the room, seeing Lu Li in a night suit, seeing Lu Li, Xiao Man was naturally very happy, so he hugged him, and wrapped his hands tightly around Lu Li's body.

Seeing that Xiao Man was so enthusiastic, Lu Li naturally hugged Xiao Man with both hands, looked down at Xiao Man's bright red lips, and covered them, and the two made love for a while before they calmed down from the joy of reunion out of breath.

"Lu Li, why did you come here?"

Lu Li touched Xiao Man's hair, since Xiao Man participated in the imperial examination, he has never seen Xiao Man again because of his busy political affairs, and he misses it very much at this time.

"You also said, didn't I say that you should write more letters, but you have not heard from the palace in the past few days, how worried I should be."

Xiao Man knocked his head in annoyance.

"I'm sorry Lu Li, I've had too many things to do in Jinshi Academy these days, you see I'm still working, so I don't have time to write to you, when I'm done, I will definitely go to the palace to see you."

Lu Li looked at the two candles in the room that had been bright all night, it could be seen that Xiao Man's hard work, Lu Li gently stroked the black circle under Xiao Man's eyes, to say that the fatigue on Xiao Man's face really made him feel distressed.

But although he is the Son of Heaven, he can't interfere with the Jinshi assessment, and he has heard a little about Xiaoman's grievances in the Jinshi Academy.

But he also heard that the examiner in charge of the assessment, Master Lu, is an honest and good official, who has been an official in the court for many years, and is very fair and strict to every candidate.

"Xiaoman, is Lord Lu very fierce to you?"

When Xiao Man heard Lu Li's question, he suddenly became aggrieved.

"What's more, let me tell you, he asked me and Du Yue to do some rough work, and I also went to sweep the stables."

After Xiao Man said this, he stretched out his hand, Lu Li looked at Xiao Man's hand, which was originally very delicate, but now because he had taken a broom and brush for a few days, there were some red blisters on his hand, Lu Li hurriedly put Xiao Man's hand in his palm.

"Xiaoman, you endure it a little longer, when you survive this time, you will be the official of the imperial court, and you will be able to see me in the Jinluan Palace at that time, although Lord Lu said that he is a little harsh on you, but you have to believe that he is definitely an upright person, and the Jinshi who are trained under him are all first-class powerful people, I am not by your side, you have to be stronger."

Hearing Lu Li say this, Xiao Man felt that his nose was slightly sour, to say that Lu Li was in front of him in front of him in the past, but now that he has to face these difficulties alone, he always feels that he has more than enough heart and less strength.

But hearing Lu Li's encouragement, Xiao Man's heart seemed to have ignited a flame of hope again, allowing Xiao Man to regain her fighting spirit.

"It's okay, Lu Li, don't you worry, don't you just do some rough work, I will definitely be able to get through it."

Lu Li nodded, and he was relieved to see that Xiao Man did not give up the road of becoming an official because of Lord Lu's strictness.

Looking at the sky, he sighed and said to Xiao Man: "You see that the sky is hazy now, I have to hurry back to the palace, after all, I will definitely be criticized if others see me like this." ”

Su Xiaoman nodded, she also knew that Lu Li's current identity was very embarrassing, if a son of heaven walked around in the Jinshi Courtyard in a night suit, he would definitely be ridiculed by the world.

So he no longer kept Lu Li, reluctantly let go of his hand, and watched Lu Li leave.