On March 1 of the first year of Qiongyu, the imperial capital of Great Chu.

Today is the day of the first imperial examination established by the Chu State, and the entire imperial capital becomes congested early in the morning, and the sixteen gates of the imperial capital are opened to welcome practitioners and students from all directions.

The entire outer city was already crowded, full of shouting merchants, hawkers, and soldiers maintaining order, as well as many people who got up early in the morning to watch the excitement of eating melons.

Comparatively speaking, the students who went to the examination room were somewhat inconspicuous in the crowd.

Although it is inconspicuous, it is they who serve the theater.

"Look at these students of the Confucian and Taoist Academy, all of them are handsome and dignified, Si Swenwen, the old man is so happy to see it!" A middle-aged man stood at the gate of the outer city and looked at some of the students wearing the beautiful white Confucian and Taoist student uniforms on the street, with a strong smile on his face.

"I heard that the 'Four Books and Five Classics' they read are the books of sages, and they will all become saints and immortals in the future, but they are not comparable to us cultivators. A cultivator next to him couldn't help but sigh.

"Alas, the empress opened Enke, and the shopkeeper personally came to the imperial capital to sit in the town, which really beautified this group of students of the Confucian and Taoist Academy. Another practitioner shook his head and stomped his feet, his face full of remorse.

"Yes, who knew that the shopkeeper and the empress would attach so much importance to the Confucian and Taoist Academy, not only breaking the seal of Haoran righteousness, so that all students can practice by reading the Four Books and Five Classics, but also opening Enke and holding this imperial examination. ”

At the beginning of the opening of the Confucian Academy, although it was considered a sensation, in fact, there was no particularly popular scene, because everyone did not know what was taught in the Confucian Academy, and the reason why more students chose the Confucian Academy was mainly to enter the college they wanted to enter by joining the Confucian Academy, and the Confucian Academy was just a pedal.

This also directly led to the fact that everyone later found that the Four Books and Five Classics in the Confucian and Taoist Academy could not bring them benefits, and everyone boycotted classes and went to other places to audit.

If it weren't for Ma Fei's timely discovery of the problem of the Confucianism and Taoism Academy, and the unsealing of the seal, it is estimated that the graves of the Confucianism and Taoism in the major colleges of Chu State are now three zhang high.

"You have all weakened this news, as far as I know! This time, the shopkeeper and his old man came to the imperial capital not only because of the imperial examination. At this moment, a young practitioner spoke, his face full of mystery.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" everyone's faces instantly turned into doubts and curiosity.

'Smack~'

The young man opened the folding fan, the weather in late winter was already a little cold, the young man not only wore less, but he was stunned to fan the fan in such a cold weather, and the biting cold wind was instantly floating around.

The cultivators standing around them shrank their shoulders and consciously took a step back.

The young man didn't care, glanced around, and said mysteriously: "The shopkeeper, his old man, I don't know where to snare some stunning women this time, and I saw the shopkeeper and those women enjoying the snow in Qinchun Garden two days ago." ”

"And then?" everyone heard the stunning woman, her eyes glowed green, and her gossip heart burned.

The young man smiled and said, "Then, the shopkeeper is twenty years old this year! According to the law of our Da Chu, if a man does not start a family at twenty, he must pay a poll tax and enter the barracks for three months.

"Yes, the shopkeeper is an old man born in Zhonghe 331, and this year is the first year of Qiongyu, exactly twenty years old!" said a cultivator with a sudden realization.

Since Ma Feifei and his magical bookstore became famous, Ma Feifei's identity has been no secret to the cultivators of the entire Canglong Continent, almost everyone knows that Ma Feifei's father is called Ma Zhiyuan, the down-and-out viscount of the Chu State, and Ma Feifei was born in Zhonghe three hundred and thirty-one years.

Even some of Ma Feifei's childhood things have been picked up and become interesting things to talk about after dinner.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be that the shopkeeper is going to tell the world that he's going to get married when he comes to the emperor this time?" said a cultivator in surprise.

"Quite possibly! And maybe there is more than one. The young man smiled, then his face regained his composure, and he fanned himself there.

"Hiss~!I remember that there was a rumor in the market that the shopkeeper and the old man came to the imperial capital this time with six stunning women!"

"No, I saw seven the other day!"

"No, no, no, you're all wrong, it's eight!"

“......”

Then it was chaotic, and the scope of the discussion became wider and wider, starting from a corner of the outer city, and finally the whole outer city was discussing this matter, and even the inner city slowly showed signs.

In the midst of this strange topical phenomenon, the imperial examination is about to begin.

The inner city, which is the most prosperous area of the imperial capital, is inhabited by all high-ranking officials and nobles and cultivators with advanced cultivation, compared with the outer city, the inner city is less noisy and more solemn.

Due to the large number of students who signed up for the imperial examination this time, a total of more than 30,000 people, the empress deliberately placed the examination room on the open-air square of the inner city, extending to the main street from the inner city to the palace, and the cases were lined up all the way down in a 16X16 format, with no end in sight.

On both sides, they were guarded by soldiers in armor, three steps and one person, with spears standing horizontally, the tip of the spear pointed at the tail of the gun, blocking all the gaps.

On the opposite side of these soldiers were onlookers eating melons, who were not forcibly isolated from the examination room area and could watch the imperial examination up close.

Around the examination room, there are one hundred and eight examination room entrances, and more than 30,000 students can pass through different examination rooms for inspection and admission, get their own examination room number, and find their own place to sit.

At ten o'clock in the morning, more than 30,000 students all entered the examination room, and all of them successfully found their seats and sat down.

"Your Majesty has arrived!" At the gate of the palace, a eunuch sang loudly.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

"Your Majesty......"

Everyone's eyes were burning in the direction of the palace.

"Squeak~"

The gate of the palace opened, and the empress walked out slowly in a golden dragon robe, followed by the maids holding lamps on both sides.

"Strange, why didn't you see the shopkeeper and his old man?" The melon-eating crowd in the inner city looked in the direction of the palace and found that except for the empress, there was no figure of Ma Feifei, and even the women he was carrying around him could not see a single one.