I was in a bad mood, so I had a third watch

Descending the stairs, the crowd at the foot of the mountain looked at the two people walking down the empty mountain road with an incomprehensible look.

Yuan Lai didn't reveal anything to Xie Caiwei, but just said let's wait for the list to be released, and then the two went back to their respective homes at the foot of the mountain.

Time passed, and when the bell rang again, the preliminary examination was officially over.

The candidates who poured down the mountain had different expressions, sad and joyful, and then there were bursts of bitter complaints about the difficulty of the test questions and the difficulty of going to the sky, and in a burst of chaos, someone said that the young man and girl who went down the mountain in advance, and it was a coincidence that the two were also in the same examination room.

So under the propaganda of the candidates in the examination room, the matter of Yuan Lai handing in the blank paper suddenly became known to everyone, and it was really not something that could be done with ordinary courage.

Yuan Lai became famous, in a weird way.

After Liu Chonghu heard the news, he frowned and sighed three times, and he didn't know if these three breaths were because Yuan Lai was not angry or blamed himself for his high expectations or that he didn't know anyone, and he naively took Yuan Lai as an opponent on the way here, but unfortunately this opponent was so disappointing.

Shi Qinglin walked out of the examination room with a sad face, although his mind was smart and he had worked hard these days, he still had no absolute certainty, but when he heard about Yuan Lai handing over the white papers, he suddenly felt that the worry in his heart had also dissipated by three points.

"Fortunately, Young Master Ben knew people with a discerning eye, and as soon as we met, I knew that guy was a straw bag who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, so I punched and killed it, Lao Ding, you didn't have to pull me to apologize yesterday, how about it?

Shi Qinglin was triumphant, his face suddenly changed from sad to glorious, as if he admired his original decision and almost boasted of being the world's Bole.

Lao Ding smiled bitterly and nodded again and again, but he recalled the early morning when he saw Yuan Lai, and he looked at the young man's eyes, which didn't look like a straw bag?

He shook his head, always feeling a little odd.

On the same day, the gambling house in the west of the capital released a prediction list for the citizens of Kyoto to predict the results of the preliminary examination.

Of course, this is just a kind of gambling in the cloak of the list, and it is said that there have been dozens of plates about the assessment of the Northern Sect recently, which is not spectacular.

The list now occupies the first place is Xiling Zhao Xiping, Xiling Zhao is a scholarly master, and Zhao Xiping is said to be a first-class genius, he was taught by the cultivators at home when he was very young, and he broke through the first realm a long time ago, but for so many years, he has always pressed his talent and did not enter the second realm.

And the second place is Xie Caiwei of the Xie family, Xie Caiwei has always been extremely low-key, but her reputation is not weak under the publicity of some well-intentioned people, but the most important reason why it can be ranked so high is because this is the capital after all, and the background of Wang Xie and the two families in the capital is really strong and scary, and many people do not hesitate to sprinkle a large amount of silver into the handicap simply because of her surname.

Liu Chonghu ranked twenty-first, very low, but it is not surprising, although he is famous in Shencheng, but this is the capital after all, and he has not shown his talent and has not been active in people's field of vision, so it is normal to be ranked in this ranking.

Even Shi Qinglin is in a passable position, of course, being able to rank this position is inseparable from the lot of money he threw into the handicap.

Every time Beizong takes the exam, there will be this prediction list, and the candidates for each position are never fixed every year, but this year is different, at the end of the list is written Yuan Lai's name, although the ranking on the list keeps jumping, but he firmly occupies the last position, and no one can shake him at all.

"This is also a kind of ability, don't you say?" Yuan Lai stood in front of the desk, looking at the prediction list on the table, and seemed to be in a good mood.

Yuan Li looked at her young master with a bitter face, thought about it, and finally nodded: "Indeed, it's the ability." ”

"It's just that young master, you are holding this position so tightly and not giving others a chance, this is a bit unreasonable. Yuan Li smiled bitterly.

"Unreasonable? Yuan Lai nodded very seriously, as if he didn't hear Yuan Li's ridicule at all.

"Why don't I throw some money into those gambling plates? Yuan Li kindly suggested.

In all fairness, this is a good idea, but Yuan Lai shook his head and said: "It's not easy for gamblers in the capital, let's not throw money into it, our family is not short of those money, it would be too inhumane to let so many people lose too badly." ”

If he ruthlessly invests a lot of money to buy himself through, then according to today's odds, it will definitely make many people lose red eyes, Yuan Lai is very generous and does not plan to do this, this is a great good deed in his opinion, although it sounds more like nonsense to Yuan Li.

At this time, just when Yuan Lai handed over the white paper became a joke among the people of the capital after tea and dinner, the marking work of the Beizong Outer Court had quietly begun.

"This time, there are not only the seventeen scholars of the Hanlin Academy, but also the top three in last year's palace examination, as well as the famous Confucians in the capital, Your Majesty has a life, they naturally dare not do their best, but I don't know who you have arranged for the dean to judge that additional question? After all, that question is not something that ordinary people can see. ”

An archdeacon from the outer courtyard of the Northern Sect bowed down and asked.

After listening to the words of his subordinates, Tu Su said: "Additional questions, according to the practice of previous years, the elders are invited to comment, but over the years, there are only a few people who dare to challenge the additional questions in the written test, and most of the answers are just clever and nonsense, and it is difficult for those candidates, in such a short time, most of them can't even complete the previous questions, not to mention the additional questions, no one among the elders is willing to come this time, this question"

Tu Su sighed and said, "Let me evaluate it, you teach them to take out the additional questions of each test paper separately and send them to me with their signatures." Maybe there's something to surprise this year?"

"Yes. The archdeacon nodded and retreated, but thought to himself, where was the surprise so easy? There were only three people who had answered that question in five hundred years.

The thick test papers were spread out in a large room, and dozens of well-educated people in the room were already sitting in danger, and from this lineup alone, they were one level higher than the group of people who had scored the imperial examination papers.

The archdeacon who received the order pushed open the door, looked around the room, and said, "Dean Tu is presiding over the additional questions this time, please draw out the additional questions of each test paper, mark the numbers, and thank you, gentlemen." ”

Even if he is a native of the Northern Sect, he still does not dare to be presumptuous in the face of these well-educated Confucian scholars who do not have the slightest magical power.

Everyone received the order and began to pull out the papers, but most of them were empty.

A Hanlin sitting in the corner unwrapped a stack of test papers, then frowned, and couldn't help but shake his head after briefly flipping through it.

"It's a blank slate, it's hopeless!"

But even if he didn't have any expectations, he still pulled out the pale cyan paper at the bottom according to the rules, and with a casual glance, this Hanlin shuddered for no reason!