Zhao Ji looked at the paper sent by Gonggong Liu on Long Live Mountain, the name of this test paper has been framed, that is, the book on it, in order to prevent cheating, it is also a copy that the little official re-copied. Zhao Ji smiled and said to Yang Jian on the side: "According to me, eighty percent of this volume is made by Shen Ao. ”

Yang Jian didn't know anything about Jingyi, and seeing that His Majesty was in good spirits, he also smiled and said, "How can Your Majesty see it?" ”

Zhao Ji laughed and said: "Apart from him, who else in the world has this talent, I can't imagine that the first big scripture sent is so interesting, I don't know how the test papers of Cheng Hui and others are." ”

As he spoke, he excitedly picked up the red pen and drew a circle on the test paper.

Yang Jian was overjoyed in his heart, if this volume was really made by Shen Ao, the circle drawn by His Majesty, as long as there were no mistakes in the next two exams, a Jinshi and the first would not be able to run, after all, this is the Great Scripture Examination, which is the top priority of the imperial examination, and the rest of the two examinations and examinations have little impact compared with this Great Sutra.

I haven't eaten pork at least seen the pig go, I have accompanied the official family to participate in a lot of imperial examinations over the years, how can Yang Jian not understand the mystery, the Great Scripture and the Spring and Autumn Period, especially the Book of Rites, which describe the words and deeds of the saints, are the most important; As for the concurrent scriptures and examinations, they are just some of the contents of the "Book of Songs" and "Zhou Li", which can only be regarded as miscellaneous studies, and even some schools do not teach, but just teach everyone to memorize them, and pass on the rites wholeheartedly, which shows the importance of the Great Scripture Examination.

If Shen Ao passes the big examination, the qualification for the palace examination is considered to be nine out of ten, as the future father-in-law, how can Yang Jian not like it, although it was expected as early as possible, now seeing the results with his own eyes is enough for Yang Jian to be surprised.

However, Yang Jian was still a little unhappy in his heart, and couldn't help complaining: "This guy, I don't know why I want to marry Miss Zhou again, if he continues like this, I don't know how many wives he will marry, what is this wife doing with so much?" ”

secretly slandered in my heart, a little dissatisfied; Yang Jian thinks like this, but also for Yang Zhen'er's sake, he is now addicted to being a godfather, and he has entered the role, every time he returns to the house, that Zhenzhen is very well-behaved, and he will come over to say hello to him, call his father, and make him feel so uncomfortable, this kind of warm feeling has never been experienced since he entered the palace.

In the afternoon, five or six more papers were sent, Zhao Ji read them one by one, and said something good, good, and so on, and when he took a paper, he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and said with a smile: "This one, if I guessed correctly, it should be Cheng Hui's test paper, among the candidates in the world, the only one who can make the article so stable is afraid of this Cheng Hui family, this person is a real talent, unlike Shen Ao, who only knows opportunism." ”

When Yang Jian heard this, he felt a little uncomfortable, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Shen Ao is not an opportunist, even if it is, it is a unique opportunistic in the world." ”

Yang Jian's words made Zhao Ji laugh, and Zhao Ji said with a smile: "What you said is also true, these two people have different human thoughts, but they are both talents who have reached the pinnacle, it is rare to meet in a century, this year's Enke can take these two people, and I will be content." Then he cheered up, picked up the red pen again, drew a circle on Cheng Hui's roll, and dotted a red dot on the other rolls.

The circle represents excellent, and the dot means qualified, which means that these seven or eight papers are all admitted.

These days, Zhao Ji's mood is very good, occasionally there are test papers sent, he tastes it, or hits back, or circles it, but it is difficult to meet a good paper like Shen Ao, as smooth and outstanding as Cheng Hui, people are like this, once there are more good things to see, this vision is also a few points higher, after reading some excellent test papers, I can't help but compare the papers of the two, this comparison, I feel that although these test papers are full of flowers, there is always something missing.

It's aura, Zhao Ji suddenly woke up, whether it was Shen Ao or Cheng Hui, the two of them seemed to have an aura, and this aura couldn't be said, anyway, after reading their papers, the rhetoric was not necessarily more gorgeous than other candidates, but it could always make people feel happy.

So that the test papers sent later were miserable, and some obviously excellent articles were sent to the imperial case, Zhao Ji didn't even want to think about it, and directly crossed out and asked someone to send it back, which means that Jinshi and the first are not to be counted on, at most they can only give a Jinshi background or give the same Jinshi background.

But don't underestimate this difference, the same Jinshi, but these three Jinshi are extremely influential for the future career, the general Jinshi and the first officials, most of them belong to the reserve officials of the two provinces and three provinces, as long as there is no mistake, they will always be able to enter the court in the future. As for the Jinshi background, as long as Kennu works hard, there is still hope of entering the court. The worst thing is that you are born as a Jinshi, not only can you not raise your head in front of your colleagues, even if your position is higher in the future, and you meet those lower officials who are better than you, people can still not dump you when it comes to learning. And as long as there is no accident, if you are released to an official such as a county secretary or the chief bookkeeper, basically you have to be ready to be in office for the rest of your life, and it is already a great kindness to be able to transfer a county order at that time, and if you can do it, it will be considered shit luck, which is enough for you to secretly rejoice.

Therefore, if you teach those candidates that they know that they are hurt by Shen Ao and Cheng Hui and cannot be squeezed into the first echelon, they are afraid that they will have the intention of pulling out a knife and killing people.

After a few days, the examination and examination were carried out as scheduled, but these papers are no matter how good they are, and they do not have to be sent to the palace, it is all up to the examiner to dispose of them at their discretion, and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and the candidates have finished the last exam, and they will go back for reunion.

It's just that these examiners don't have the leisure of reunion, mounting, copying, selecting papers, recording, and sealing files, although this pile of things is orderly, but they are also too busy to stop, August 20 is auspicious, according to the rules, this list release period is in that day, just five days to dispose of 10,000 test papers, but also archive, entry, but not easy.

Shen Ao finished the exam, stretched his waist, and went out of the examination room, he saw Liu Wen personally driving the car and waiting outside, greeting him and getting into the car directly, he was quite excited, these few days the exam was crazy, he even forgot about the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he didn't even prepare a gift, so he taught Liu Wen to take him to Songzhufang first, this Songzhufang has a famous hall, a bit like an antique street in later generations, the shops along the street are adjacent to each other, all are antique shops and pawnshops, but this antique shop has a name, that is, there are genuine and fake, if you want to buy good goods, It's all up to your eyesight.

In fact, most of these so-called antiques are collected from pawnshops or the countryside, the good and the bad are mixed, if you suffer a loss, spend a lot of money to buy a fake, that is you deserve it, but if you have good eyesight, ten times through the hundred to buy a good goods, the store will never pull it, are you and I will.

The reason for the formation of this pattern, in fact, is intentional, it is said that during the Tang Dynasty Kaibao, an antique dealer came up with the idea, at that time the antique shops were invited to many treasure masters to identify for customers, so the sale is genuine, but the business is not very good, but later, the businessman came up with an idea, and did not invite any appraiser, just went to the countryside to collect a lot of porcelain vases and ancient jade, put them on the shelves to sell, good, he can't see it, it all depends on the customer to see, this business is surprisingly good, Therefore, everyone has followed suit and has followed suit, and this pattern has been formed today.

In fact, all those who love antiques experience the process of obtaining antiques, if it is too easy to get, but lose a bit of fun, or to buy by themselves, more appetizing.

Shen Ao taught Liu Wen to stop the car at the corner of the street, and went to see it one by one, those shopkeepers saw that Shen Ao was dressed extraordinarily, and they all came over to introduce Shen Ao, Shen Ao just smiled slightly, looked at it a few times, and then ran to another house.

After turning around like this for a few times, there were not a hundred but eighty antiquities that he had seen, and he wasted more than an hour, Shen Ao stopped in front of an inconspicuous shop, picked up a diamond-shaped bronze mirror, checked it in his hand, and asked the shopkeeper of this shop: "How much is this bronze mirror?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "Childe, this is a bronze mirror in the Jin Dynasty, and it can be regarded as an antiquity of some years." Stretching out four fingers, he smiled: "What does Childe think?" ”

"Four runs...... So expensive? Shen Ao took a cool breath.

The shopkeeper said seriously: "It's forty times." ”

Shen Ao smiled slightly, and said, "You see that this bronze mirror obviously has traces of polishing, what else do you say about the bronze mirror of the Jin Dynasty, do you deliberately want to scold me?" Forty runs, you sell slowly. As he spoke, he pulled his legs and left.

Seeing that Shen Ao was leaving, the shopkeeper hurriedly stopped Shen Ao and said with a smile: "If the son likes it, ten runs, ten runs sell you." ”

Shen Ao turned his head and thought for a while: "Siguan, I will pay this price at most, if you sell it, I will take it now." ”

The shopkeeper stopped squeaking and said, "It's not this price when you collect it, Childe, your price is too low, why don't you add a little more?" ”

Shen Ao pulled his legs and left, and the shopkeeper looked outside, and saw Shen Ao enter another shop, and only came out after a stick of incense, and the shopkeeper shouted at him: "Four runs will be four, if the son likes it, the little one would rather be scolded by the shopkeeper, and he should be a friend of the son." ”

Shen Ao knew that this was a means for the shopkeeper to solicit business, so he only laughed, took the diamond-shaped bronze mirror and passed the account, and said: "In my opinion, you can collect no more than five hundred wen from this bronze mirror, and this time you should let me blackmail me once." With that, he lifted his legs and left.

Holding the bronze mirror and Liu Wen to meet, and asked Liu Wen to buy some gifts, before going home, Zhou Mansion said that it was a lantern today, and a few people who hung new plaques at the door saw Liu Wen coming back with Shen Ao, and said one by one: "Young Master Cousin is back, haha, Young Master Cousin has finished the imperial examination." ”

went straight into the back garden, and learned that his grandfather had returned, so Shen Ao first went to the study to find this future father-in-law, and when he arrived at the study, Zhou Zheng was still reading, and when he saw Shen Ao, he said lukewarmly: "Oh, the imperial examination is over?" That's good, take a break these days, and wait for the list. He never mentioned the family affairs between Shen Ao and Zhou Ruo, and he was quite a bit of Jiang Taigong's leisure and elegance of fishing.