"We won't be so unlucky to meet him as the chief examiner, right?" Fang Shaohua said.

Xu Chengyuan frowned and said, "Zhou Dongping is a small-bellied chicken intestine, and now this Gu Xinian can achieve the position of Taifu Young Master, I don't think I am so narrow-minded." It's been more than 20 years, and I still keep the past in mind, and it was his family who was wrong back then, so it's embarrassing for us, aren't you afraid that others will find out the ugly things of the year? ”

"That's right." Qi Muyuan said, "Guan Shanchang has been in the capital for a long time, and he hasn't seen Gu Xinian do anything, let alone embarrass us juniors." Moreover, since it is Enke, then our candidates are all protégés of the first session of the new emperor, and the emperor must pay more attention to the scientific examination than all the time. embarrass us under the emperor's nose, he is not afraid of falling into the trap and ending up in a bad end like Zhou Dongping? ”

Everyone nodded, relaxed.

In fact, if Gu Xinian really wants to embarrass people, the most likely thing is to embarrass Jiaze and Du Jinning. Guan Jiaze is Guan Lehe's nephew, and Du Jinning is Guan Lehe's disciple, and their relationship is the closest. The others are fellow villagers with Guan Lehe, at most they are students in Guan Lehe's academy when Ren Shan was long, and Gu Xinian will not let them go.

But then again, instead of worrying about the people who had a holiday with Guan Lehe and being bad for him, Guan Jiaze was worried that the people who had a holiday with Guan Zhengxiang were not good for him. Guan Zhengxiang is confused at first glance, and there are many people who have offended. It is estimated that Guan Zhengxiang himself does not know who is the enemy. Guan Jiaze is invincible.

As for Du Jinning, she knows everything in her heart, and she doesn't have to worry about her at all.

Finally, when everyone was able to get together, they did not disperse immediately, but took out all the points raised by their elders and masters and shared them with everyone. Du Jinning simply came up with three more topics to write articles for everyone.

Guan Jiaze couldn't help wailing: "Forget about weekdays, today is finally Mu Rest Day, can you let everyone take a good rest?" ”

Fang Shaohua shrugged: "If you don't want to write, you can go back first, don't force it." He turned his head and asked Du Jinning, "Right?" ”

"Yes." Du Jinning replied very crisply.

Guan Jiaze pouted: "Then forget it." Maybe the essay you wrote today is what you will take when you take the exam. ”

Du Jinning ignored him: "Qi Muyuan, Fang Shaohua, the three of us will come up with a question for each of us." As he spoke, he added, "I will write the questions according to the style requirements of the first three examiners on my paper." ”

"Okay." Qi Muyuan and Fang Shaohua nodded in agreement.

Du Jinning laid out the paper, thought for a while, and wrote a topic on the paper.

The title is not enough, Guan Jiaze looked at the stylistic requirements above, it turned out to be a pun text, and couldn't help wailing again: "Why is it a pun style text again?" I'm the worst at writing this. ”

During this time, Du Jinning asked them to write essays.

"Because Gu Xi is so good." Xu Chengyuan didn't understand why Du Jinning repeatedly asked them to write a pun, but now he finally knew Du Jinning's hard work.

Pun was prevalent in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was endowed with poetry, and its work was derived from the law of the pun. The official documents of the Tang Dynasty were also written in the pun. Due to accommodating sentence structure and piling up rhetoric, the text often affects the expression of content, and after Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated the ancient literature movement, the language suffered a setback; After the death of Han and Liu, the influence of Punwen reappeared, and Li Shangyin, Wen Tingyun, and Duan Chengshi were good hands of Punwen. After entering the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Ouyang Xiu and others, the ancient literature movement set off a second round of climax, and prose came out one after another, and the prose gradually declined since then.

The history of turning a corner continues to the present, prose has become the main body, and few people write prose anymore. So Xu Chengyuan has never been able to understand why Du Jinning asked everyone to write a pun.

Guan Jiaze sighed and resigned himself to writing the article.

It's a day's work.

When they were in the capital of Gui Province before, they had a lot of gatherings at Du's house, and when Chen heard them coming, he was naturally very happy, personally sent some snacks and fruits, said hello to everyone, and prepared a rich meal at noon for them to enjoy in Du Jinning's courtyard. Everyone finally finished writing the article before the sun set, and then they politely declined Chen's offer to leave them for dinner, and they dispersed.

Du Jinning sent a small servant to send the articles written by everyone to Lu Jiuyuan and the three for correction.

In their intense preparations, the meeting finally came.

Du Jinning has already experienced a hundred battles in participating in the scientific expedition, and his mentality is still calm, but Chen is very nervous, and he is afraid of affecting Du Jinning, so he can only cover it up in every possible way and not let himself show his clues.

She checked her things with a calm expression and asked, "Is there anything else you haven't brought?" ”

Du Jinning couldn't help laughing: "I've brought it all." In fact, there is nothing to bring, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are all inside, and there is no need to bring a cover, just wear a set of clothes. And that dress, shoes and socks, you have checked it five times. ”

Chen's face turned red, and he said angrily: "Mother is not worried that you will be cold inside. Now it's just over the wax moon, and it's freezing cold, but you have to stay in the cold and damp test house for three days, and my mother is afraid that you will freeze out. ”

"Yes, yes, I know you're worried. But I've been exercising diligently over the years, and I'm not too scared of the cold, so you don't have to worry about having enough of these clothes. Du Jinning said with a smile.

Chen turned around, stared at his daughter, who was more capable than a man, and nodded with satisfaction: "That's good." ”

At the beginning, Du Jinning wanted to learn martial arts from the Qi family guards, but the Chen family was reluctant. Now she is extremely glad that she didn't succeed in the first place.

Although Du Jinning's martial arts practice is not particularly powerful, it can at least strengthen the body; And when she walks outside, she doesn't have to worry so much because she has a bit of self-preservation. Sure enough, if there is a pay, there is a gain.

"Young Master." Aoki's voice rang out outside the courtyard gate.

Du Jinning walked to the door and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Young Master Qi sent someone to deliver a letter."

Du Jinning's expression became solemn: "Take it in." ”

I was going to the Tribute Academy tomorrow, but Qi Muyuan sent a letter at this time, and there was only one content, and the list of examiners came out.

Aoki sent the letter in, but Du Jinning didn't open it immediately and asked, "Who sent it?" Did you say anything else? Where is he? ”

"Liu Gao sent it, he has already left. Didn't say anything. ”

Du Jinning waved his hand to let Aoki go out, opened the letter, and saw that only six words were written on it: "Gu Xinian, Jiang Tong." It was Qi Muyuan's handwriting.

Du Jinning raised his eyebrows slightly.

Her luck didn't seem to be good.

Gu Xinian has old grudges with Guan Lehe, but this Jiang Tong is Qi Yuandao's in-laws and Qi Siyu's maternal grandfather. He once served as the son of the country, but later resigned from the government to recuperate at home due to poor health.

I don't know what Zhao Yu thought, so he was invited out of the mountain again to serve as the deputy chief examiner of this year's Enke.