After making Bai Yingxuan's puppet, Gu Wen also made another one for Cangyuan.

This second doll looks even more elaborate and more attentive than the first.

Bai Yingxuan saw the puppet and said with a smile: "Chang Gongzi, it seems that the old man likes you very much." ”

Although Cang Yuan's intelligence was reduced by love, he was also a smart and clever person after all, and when he heard this, he looked at the two puppets and said, "Maybe it's Aiwu and Wu." ”

Bai Yingxuan couldn't help but laugh when he said this, and Pan Long also nodded secretly.

(This guy is still very good at talking!)

Of course, he understood why the Cangyuan puppets made by Gu Wen were more delicate than the Bai Yingxuan dolls - Gu Wen was a member of the Mo family, and the Mo family had always focused on protecting the common people and fighting against the powerful. Cangyuan and Di Luonan's changes harmed the interests of the powerful, and the commoners benefited from it, so they would naturally be appreciated by him.

But Gu Wen's explanation is: "It's just familiar...... I haven't ever made a few of these dolls, but I used to make them for my brother and two nephews. It is more skilled to be a man's puppet than a woman's. ”

Cang Yuan smiled and asked, "Then your nephew didn't learn the craft from you?" I don't think your skills are bad." If you learn how to be a puppet, you won't starve to death for the rest of your life. ”

Gu Wen lowered his head: "I am from Baixi County, Jingnan, and twenty years ago, I learned the craft outside...... Later, every year on their death day, I made dolls for my brother and two nephews and paid tribute to the dolls. ”

He skipped a lot of words in the middle and didn't say anything, but anyone who knew something about the bloody storm twenty years ago understood what he meant.

Cang Yuan was speechless for a moment, his face full of embarrassment.

The bloody whitewashing of Baixi was one of the most famous events in Di Luonan's life. As a good friend of Di Luonan, he certainly knew a lot about it.

Encountering Baixi's relics, this made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Bai Yingxuan sighed and asked, "Old man, you are also old, don't you think about finding an apprentice and settling down?"

"Stability...... I can't settle down. "A few years ago, I also tried to settle down, but after living in the same place for more than a year, I started to have nightmares. It is only when I walk around and meet all kinds of people that I feel more comfortable...... I think it was probably because I ran into an evil spirit when I went back to pay respects, and they have been following me all along. ”

Bai Yingxuan frowned and said, "There are various reasons for having nightmares, and the possibility of hitting evil spirits is actually the smallest. I'm also a doctor, would you like me to take my pulse?"

Of course Gu Wen was willing, so Bai Yingxuan took the pulse for him, and then muttered for a long time, saying: "You are an accumulation of depression, which has damaged your heart and brain, not an evil spirit." I'll prescribe a prescription, and you take the medicine according to the prescription and drink it once a few days...... After drinking it for about three months, it should be able to have some effect. However, the so-called 'heart disease still needs heart medicine', the key is to let go of the past in your own heart - 20 years, people can't always live in the past. ”

Gu Wen smiled bitterly: "I'm in my early forties this year, and my health hasn't been very good these years, and I guess I won't have a few years to live." That's it. Let go of the past or something...... Back then, a senior monk told me this, but I couldn't do it. ”

His situation is like this, Bai Yingxuan has no choice but to sigh.

Cang Yuan was even more uncomfortable, thought about it, and said, "I know a lot of locals, maybe I can go around in a circle and ask a certain imperial doctor if there is any unique secret recipe for relieving depression." How long will you stay here, old man?"

"I guess I'll stay after this wave of excitement. ”

"That's okay, before July 30 and August 15 today, I will definitely find you a unique secret recipe for relieving depression!"

Cang Yuan patted his chest and swore an oath.

Then, he and Bai Yingxuan went to the teahouse next to them, drank a cup of tea, chatted a few words, and saw that the sky was close to the end (more than 10 o'clock), so they apologized, agreed to see each other on the seventh day of the new year, and left in a hurry.

Waiting for Bai Yingxuan to leave, Pan Long smiled slightly, walked out of the corner of the teahouse, and went out leisurely.

Of course he didn't believe what Gu Wen said.

This Mo family master is almost 200 years old this year, and his brother and nephew, even if they were, would have been dead for more than a hundred years.

As the top master of the Mo family's heavenly lineage, he can be regarded as one of the most powerful among the great grandmasters in the world, and it is naturally easy to deceive Bai Yingxuan and Cang Yuan, two people who have not even returned to the basics.

It's just that...... Looking at Gu Wen's still somewhat melancholy expression from a distance, Pan Long suddenly felt that maybe what Gu Wen said was not all a lie.

In his heart, there must indeed be some sad past.

"Alas, the young children are old in the rivers and lakes, and those who are old in the rivers and lakes do not have a little sad past!" he couldn't help but sigh.

He thought of his grandfather Pan Shou again.

Pan Shou is usually an optimist, often smirking happily, looking like he has no heart and lungs, and there is nothing sad at all.

But who could have known that he was burdened with the huge secret of "Descendants of the Book of Mountains and Seas", which was enough to raid his family and wipe out the clan?

Even his sons and grandsons didn't know until not long ago that he was actually disappointed in life and had the idea of abandoning the world after the death of his wife.

Every old river and lake has many sighs and tears hidden in their hearts.

Even, even if they are not old and old, who will not have some sad things?

Pan Long sighed and thought of himself again.

It's great to be able to travel into this world and live a life all over again, and to be able to live a more wonderful life than in a previous life. But if it could be exchanged, he hoped that he could not cross, but be reborn.

Go back to the world of your previous life, go back to your teenage years, avoid some mistakes, and redeem some people or things......

"Alas, don't dream, how can there be such a good thing in the world!"

He sighed again, feeling that he was not even interested in walking, and returned to Cangfu with a heavy heart.

He wasn't in a good mood all day.

The next day, on the first day of the eighth month, one of the most important events in the Great Xia court, the "Beijing Entrance Examination", officially began.

There were three levels of imperial examinations in the Bactria court, with the junior level in the county capital, the intermediate level in the state capital, and the senior level in the capital.

After passing the primary assessment, he is a talent and can serve as a government technician for the corresponding project, similar to the treatment of civil servants in his previous life.

Xiucai has passed the intermediate assessment, and in order to raise people, they can apply for low-level officials, such as officials of the ninth rank or even the eighth grade, and a large part of them are directly selected from among the people.

The person who passed the senior assessment was a jinshi and officially joined the sequence of court officials. If you directly confer an official, it is generally at least seven grades, and after studying in the Hanlin Academy, many people come out as sixth-grade or even fifth-grade officials.

The Great Xia Imperial Examination is divided into ten subjects, including the famous cultural "Poetry and Literature Department" in the previous life, and the "Doctor and Witch Zhu Youke" that I had never heard of in the previous life.

From the first day of August to the tenth day of August, the ten subjects were tested in turn, and the results were released in order.

The first test is the "Poetry and Literature Subject", and the last test is the "Art of War and Martial Arts Subject".

As far as the practice of the Great Xia court is concerned, the Art of War and Martial Arts Section, as the head of all disciplines, is also known as the "Upper Branch", and has a transcendent status. This subject is the most rigorous recruitment, once admitted to the direct award, more than half of the high-ranking officials of the imperial court, especially the military attachés, are from this subject.

Under the Martial Arts Division, there are the "Operations Research and Arithmetic Division", the "Decree Litigation Division", and the "Hakutsujin Division". These three subjects have their own specialties and are easy to reuse, also known as "Chinese science".

As for the remaining six subjects, it can't be said to be bad - if you can be admitted to the Jinshi, there is no difference.

It's just that if there are conditions, it's better to be admitted to the upper or middle school after all, and to take a "lower subject", it's not a good thing in the court.asxs.

Of course, there are also many people who choose to apply for several subjects, the most common are arithmetic, law, ancient and modern, hundred crafts, astronomy, poetry...... Choose both of these.

The most awesome person is naturally all ten subjects, and all ten subjects. This kind of all-round talent has been produced several times in history, and each of them is an important minister who will go down in history.

In addition, there is a famous story that said that the imperial examination was first established at the beginning of the summer of that year. The talented son Wen Chaogong once participated in the imperial examination incognito, but although he was in all ten subjects, he did not get a single champion. Feeling a little embarrassed, he wrote a series of jokes and stories on the theme of the imperial examination.

Those jokes and stories were later compiled into a book, called "Dengke Xiaolin Guangji", which was quite popular in Daxia, and the jokes in it were widely circulated, and almost everyone knew and knew it among the more literate groups.

Pan Long naturally read that book, and the story in it was indeed funny, but ...... It would have been better if it hadn't matched many of the jokes he had in his previous life.

Wen Chao, this person, plagiarism, is really not particular at all!

No wonder his real name is Wen Xiaoxian, but he wants to give himself the pen name "Wen Chaogong" - to put it bluntly, he is satirizing himself!

Pan Long got up early in the morning to see the people rushing to take the exam. I saw that the sky was faint, and among the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, one after another heavenly boats rushed up and went straight to the divine capital.

As the name suggests, the Beijing test is taken in the Shendu. The people usually live in the satellite cities on the ground, and on this morning they took the heavenly boat to the Shendu and went to the examination room.

For many civilian-born lifters, this may be their only chance to get to that city in the sky.

If you can't be admitted to the Jinshi, even if you become an official as a lifter, you will generally reach the sixth grade at most in the future.

When the officials return to their hometowns, only officials above the fifth grade can get the opportunity to go to the Shendu to talk about their lives and even meet the emperor.

In the past ten days in early August, the first wave of Tianzhou was reserved for people rushing to take the exam, and no one could compete for seats with them, not Pan Long.

But Pan Long was not interested in going to the Shendu - he had been there once before, and the city in the sky looked really wonderful from a distance, but after entering the city, it was actually no different from an ordinary city.

It's just that the road is wider, and there are almost no shops on the roadside, all kinds of mansions and yamen. It's nothing more than a lot of officials coming and going on the road, and it seems that picking up a stone on the side of the road and throwing it out can kill one or two court officials.

So be it.

Could there be a more magnificent city in the sky than a permanent space settlement at Lacrone Point?

In his previous life, Pan Long also traveled to a space settlement called "Tianshiyuan", which has a famous attraction called "Space Walk". It is an area without artificial gravity that is far away from the main body of Amagi-kura, surrounded by specially made transparent walls that look as if it is floating in space.

Floating in space, looking at the Earth and man-made space settlements, huge cities, distant blue home stars...... That scene is much more awesome than any god!

Pan Long watched the wave of Tianzhou leave, smiled, and went straight to Nanxia City for a stroll.

Seeing this wave of scenery and remembering the magnificent scenery he saw back then, his mood was also broadened a lot.

Those melancholy thoughts before have been thrown out of the clouds by him.

Life can't be repeated, the important thing is always to grasp the present.

At the beginning of the afternoon (more than 3 o'clock), a mighty wave of heavenly boats returned and sent the people who had completed the imperial examination back to the ground.

After landing, these lifters came out of the heavenly boat with different expressions.

If you do well in the exam, you will naturally be full of energy and energy. Those who did poorly in the exam looked depressed and listless.

Those who are ready to take the next exams in other subjects hurried back to rest and recharge their energy for tomorrow.

All in all, it looks a bit messy.

Pan Long didn't care about these lifters, he sat in the teahouse, looking at Gu Wen from a distance.

Today, Bai Yingxuan came again, she paid and asked Gu Wen to make another doll for her.

"I love those laughing dolls you made. She said, "Please help me be one of that." ”

"Wasn't the previous puppet good?" asked Gu Wen, confused.

Bai Yingxuan shook his head: "The puppet before was very exquisite, and you could even tell that it was me at a glance - it was too delicate and too similar to me." Seeing it always reminds me of something upset. ”

She sighed: "Seeing this doll hanging at the head of the bed always makes me feel like I've become a doll." ”

Gu Wen was silent for a moment and said, "People live in the world, in fact, sometimes they are also like puppets. ”

"Well, when people live in the world, they will inevitably live like a puppet. Bai Yingxuan whispered, "But even if it's like a puppet, I hope I can be like a puppet who laughs loudly, and I don't always have a sad face." ”

Her smile was a little reluctant: "So, please make a laughing doll for me, I like that feeling of not having any sadness, just the feeling of simply laughing." ”

Gu Wen looked at her, and after a long while, he nodded and said, "I understand, Doctor Bai, I'll make you a smiling puppet, and I'll make you satisfied!"

Bai Yingxuan nodded and watched the puppet slowly finish.

Although it looked a little silly, and it was even difficult to recognize Bai Yingxuan himself based on the puppet if it wasn't for herself, but holding the puppet, she smiled happily.

"I'm very satisfied with this puppet. She whispered, "It's good to be able to laugh so happily!"

Looking at her smile, Pan Long couldn't help but frown.

A strange feeling came over him.

(This man...... I'm afraid it's not long before I die!)