"Master Hou! Master Hou! Madam! The housekeeper rushed into the inner courtyard with a roll.

"Shocked, not presentable! What's up? Xuanyang Hou Ye Yanqing frowned when he saw that Laifu couldn't even walk well.

"Master Hou! Master Hou...... Come on......" Laifu couldn't breathe, and patted his chest desperately.

"What's coming? Look at your virtue, you won't be able to speak! Ye Yanqing glanced at Laifu, very disgusted, and continued to drink tea.

"Newspaper... The ...... of the Good News Good news...... Hit the ......" Laifu finally got to the point.

"Poof!" Ye Yanqing didn't swallow a mouthful of tea, sprayed all over the ground, and then hurriedly threw down the tea bowl, and ran to the gate of the Hou Mansion with trembling, which was actually not much better than Laifu's walking posture just now.

On March 18, the 49th year of the Ping Yuan Dynasty, the Hou Mansion ushered in the official errand of the good news, and Ye Hanlin was admitted to the high school Gongshi Huiyuan!

At the beginning of the first month of March, the examination was three, each three days, the ninth examination in the first month of March, the list was released on the 12th, and the good news was transmitted from the imperial capital to Ningyang City on the 18th.

Ziyu didn't come back with the good news, he had to wait until April in the imperial capital to conduct the last test of the king's palace where the carp turned over.

The imperial capital is the place where the imperial city is located, the countries of the world call the place where the emperor of a country lives as the imperial capital, the imperial capital of Nanping is called Wuyou City, the population in the city is more than 200,000 households, the building hierarchy is clear, the officials are in the east, the people are in the west, the prosperity is like a brocade, the singing and dancing are leveled, the ten-mile long street is lined with shops, the carriages and horses are sparkling and the flow of people is like weaving, the scale is far from being comparable to Ningyang City.

A very small inn called Bafang, only a hundred coppers for a night on weekdays, but now it costs three taels of silver for a room, and the number of the day is five taels, which is the wealth brought by the national examination.

Zi Yu lived in the Tianzi room of this Bafang Inn, at the beginning of February this year, Zi Yu set off from Ningyang City, walked for seven days, and then rushed to the imperial capital Wuyou City, thinking that he had come earlier, how to know that the inn of the entire imperial capital was almost full, and it took a long time to find the Bafang Inn that this private house courtyard was converted into, fortunately, there was also a Tianzi room, which still cost ten taels of silver in exchange for people.

The name of Bafang is quite atmospheric, but it is an out-and-out dilapidated small house, the so-called Tianzi room, it is just a room upstairs with a slightly better light on the street, the room is not as simple as the room where the Hou Mansion lived, a table, two round stools, a bed and a quilt with patches, there is a wooden shelf next to it, and a basin is placed on it, this is all the supporting facilities, Ziyu didn't care much, he didn't come here to enjoy comfort, the pressure was too heavy, and he didn't have the strength to care about these.

Today is the first day of the first month of April, I have been here for nearly two months, the March exam, Ziyu feels very smooth, on the 12th, I saw that I was Huiyuan, and I was not a little excited in my heart, this Huiyuan didn't know if it was his own, people who had studied hard for more than ten years, and now I don't know how much of my true talent I have learned, I feel sad when I think about it, and I am about to usher in the palace exam in front of the king, which makes him have a trace of expectation in his heart, the exam in front of the emperor, and his family still has the ability to put his hand in? Maybe this time I can know my true level of knowledge from the palace exam.

Just as he was about to blow the lamp to rest, the pane was pushed, and then the sound of gentle footsteps approached the bed, as if someone was standing in front of the couch, took something out of his arms, and flew towards Ziyu, the figure disappeared immediately, from entering to leaving in one go, it was only a moment's work.

Ziyu immediately got up and lit the lamp, and found that it was just a paper ball, which startled him, and thought that someone was trying to assassinate him!

The paper ball opened, Ziyu's hand trembled, and he slapped the paper on the table, his heart was like numbness, on the paper, he actually told him the questions of the palace exam two days later, sighed, he still thought that when he came to the Son of Heaven, he could show his true talent, but it turned out to be just a fantasy, he didn't know that the power foundation of his Ye family was so deep that even the people around the emperor could control it.

The note was crumpled into a paper ball by Ziyu, lit close to the candle, and burned to ashes in the blink of an eye, he was unwilling, he was obviously talented and learned, but he had to deprive others of his future, and his own paper was not approved by the examiner at all, and he only put the first name of the paper on his head, which was what they called foolproof.

I am so tired, I once scolded him in Tai'an Academy, so that he still remembers it vividly, a dignified student, how much knowledge is his own efforts, and it is his real ability, but fate does not let him be himself, and the whole family is pressed on his head, like a cow with a nose ring, taking the designated route in the designated ditch, going straight to turn around and someone leading the nose, and repeating it until he dies of old age.

Sometimes, he envies his eldest brother Ye Qinglin, he can do something nonsense, he doesn't care about being famous on the list, and he can also contradict his father, anyway, he doesn't want anything, and he can be a real himself.

Thinking of Ye Qinglin, and suddenly thinking of Hua Cry, did Yin'er like him because of his eldest brother's free and easy? Although Yin'er's attitude did not look down on him, a hypocrite who took advantage of him, he knew that if he could be as free as his eldest brother, maybe Yin'er would look at him differently.

On the second watch of the second day and night, the pane of Ziyu's inn was pushed open again, and the black shadow flashed in and stood in front of Ziyu's bed, this time he didn't immediately throw the paper ball over, Ziyu opened his eyes and sat up, didn't speak, and looked at the black shadow opposite in the dark.

"Ye Gongzi, Father-in-law Xue asked me to tell you, don't be in vain, do as we arranged!" The black shadow spoke, and the immature male voice threw a paper ball at Ziyu after speaking.

"You're spying on me?" Ziyu burned the paper ball last night when he waited for the person to leave, and the person who didn't copy the title also knew, so he could only be watched all the time.

The black shadow stopped talking, and jumped out of the window again, Ziyu quickly walked to the window, and saw that the black shadow jumped to the street, and quickly ran away, it didn't make sense to see who it was, let him go, if you want to monitor, you can monitor, it's weird if you don't monitor!

Turning around to go back to the bed to rest, the corners of his eyes seemed to shake on the street, and a few people in black walked from the other end of the street under the moonlight, not the black shadow in his room just now, and those men in black did not walk quickly, just walked normally, but why did they feel something unusual?

After thinking about it carefully, his pupils suddenly gathered, and he looked at the few people who were slowly walking away, they seemed to be the people under the hands of the eldest brother Ye Qinglin!

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