Han Changwan took a clean handkerchief and slowly wiped the oil stains on his fingertips, with a faint disgust between his eyebrows: "Do you know who did it?" ”

Yao Ji hung his head, his heart was weak but he was not honestly afraid: "From picking vegetables to chopping stuffing, to wrapping meat steamed buns, the lower officials have checked all over it, and they are all innocent internal guards, and no abnormalities have been found." ”

Han Changdui didn't delve too much into this matter.

There are many people in the stove room, and others may have omissions, but if someone tells him that Yao Ji can't keep an eye on it, there will be omissions, and he doesn't believe it if he is killed.

He raised his eyes and glanced at Yao Qi lightly: "Really?" ”

This sounds like a question, but in fact it is a statement of fact, this fact is only four words, don't lie to me.

The meaning of skepticism is undisguised and undisguised.

Yao Qi was stunned for a moment, and then recognized Han Changdu's deep eyes quickly: "It's the dereliction of duty of the lower officials." ”

"Really?" Han Changwan was still the faint two words, he looked at Yao Qi's eyes, so clear and pure, flickering, how could he be so untrustworthy.

Yao Ji also gave up to convince Han Changwei that she really stumbled this time.

In fact, she couldn't figure it out, there were only a few people in the stove room, why didn't she keep an eye on it?

Could it be that I've stayed up a little hard lately and my body has been hollowed out?

That's it, it's the same as before, when she tells the truth, no one believes it.

Seeing that Yao Qi didn't speak, Han Changwan didn't pursue it anymore, but secretly kept his thoughts, still pinching the handkerchief and wiping his hands, his fingertips were slightly red, and the oil stain was almost invisible, he lowered his head slightly, but the oily smell was still stubbornly drilling into his nostrils.

Eventually, he gave up and threw the dirty handkerchief aside.

Yao Qi pursed his lips and smiled dumbly.

Sure enough, the taste of meat bun filling is a long-lasting biochemical weapon from ancient times to the present.

Han Changdui smiled meaningfully, and the hand on the food table curled up slightly: "Yao hasn't used the twilight food to join the army, sit down and use it together." ”

Yao Qi's smiling flowers were bright, and the delicacies full of food immediately offset the sense of depression of not being believed, and there was a lot of truth between his words: "Thank you, my lord, then the official will not be polite." ”

Han Changwan bent his lips and smiled, and said to Meng Sui: "Go and add another pair of bamboo chopsticks." ”

The candles in the Mingyuan Building have been used a little bit recently, the doors and windows in the official hall are wide open, and the thick white smoke floats out along the doors and windows.

The hair on these heads is visible to the naked eye that they are balder than they were a few days ago.

He Zhenfu walked outside the official hall and saw their heads half-hidden in the smoke, but still shiny, and sighed.

With such a bright head, why do you still light the lamp, it's a waste.

In the past few days, everyone has stayed up until their eye sockets are deep, their eyes are full of numbness and exhaustion, and the hair on the top of their heads is thinning day by day.

Obviously, they are all good young people in their prime, but looking at the back of their heads, they are all bald half-centenarians.

If you continue like this, it's not just the thinning hair that can't be saved, but the person with long hair.

Seeing that if he didn't survive the end of the provincial test, he was afraid that a large number of officials would be injured or die of overwork, Jiang Shen weighed and thought about it several times, and after the internal guards searched the room on the second floor of Mingyuan Building, and found nothing on the surface, he asked these people to move back to their respective rooms.

As a result, the scope of He Zhenfu's internal guards is much larger than before, and the manpower is slightly insufficient.

As more and more transcribed exam papers were recorded, the desks of the eighteen fellow examiners were also piled up more and more.

These 18 fellow examiners were in charge of marking the provincial examination in another slightly smaller public office.

Two forbidden soldiers, one tall and one short, walked through the corridor and headed for the public hall with the transcripted examination papers.

The sky was already dark, and the dark and oppressive sky, and the dark stratus clouds, obscured the flickering moonlight and stars.

There was a dim lamp hanging in the corridor at intervals, and the night breeze blew in through the half-open window, blowing the lamp faltering.

The tall forbidden army walked and walked, and suddenly stumbled, and with a "bang", all the exam papers in his hands fell to the ground.

A gust of night wind blew in unexpectedly, and the exam papers on the ground were tumbling and floating all over the ground.

The two forbidden soldiers exclaimed, and the short forbidden army hurriedly put aside the exam papers in their hands, and together with the tall forbidden army, they hurriedly chased the exam papers flying all over the sky like snowflakes.

The exam paper flew lightly in the wind, grabbed this one, and flew another one.

Even the stack of exam papers that the short forbidden army was resting on the ground was blown up by the wind.

The forbidden army patrolling not far away heard the movement, rushed in in a hurry, and was shocked to see the exam papers covered with white flowers on the ground, and then came back to their senses and hurriedly picked up the exam papers together.

There were many helpers, and the exam papers that were floating all over the ground were quickly recovered.

The two forbidden soldiers thanked them again and again, stacked the exam papers neatly, and walked into another public hall with their arms.

The forbidden soldiers who had just helped pick up the exam papers also withdrew from Mingyuan Building and continued to patrol outside.

One of the forbidden soldiers turned his head to glance in the direction in which the two had disappeared, and pursed his lips into a strange smile, the meaning of success in the smile was fleeting.

He Zhenfu stood in the dark, and when he saw this scene, he squinted his eyes and turned around and walked towards the third floor.

As soon as he walked to the door, he smelled the aroma of food, pushed the door in, and saw the food table full of food and a pot of wine, and his heart immediately soured.

He was tired and tired of patrolling and watching, but these people were eating and drinking spicy food here.

Forget about Lord Han, who makes the family official, but why is Yao Qi and Meng Sui separated?

Because they are beautiful, because they are young, or because they will scold the street!!

He has never been good at hiding his emotions, all seven emotions and six desires are on his face, and he is indignant at this time, and his words bring out a little bit, and the hypocrisy of the smile is unwilling: "My lord, they did it." ”

Han Changwei saw the indignation on He Zhenfu's face, and laughed in his heart, but the expression on his face was faint, and his eyes were as dark as night: "What's the situation." ”

He Zhenfu's eyes kept staring at the meal full of food, and he stared diligently, but before he could take care of the twilight food, his already empty stomach became even hungrier.

He swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva fiercely, and replied absentmindedly: "Two forbidden soldiers escorted the transcribed exam papers to the public office, and one of them was injured in the leg and fell down by the secret weapon of the secret forbidden army in the shadows, and the exam papers were disrupted. ”

Han Changdu's eyes sank: "The north-south exam papers have been disrupted? ”

He Zhenfu nodded: "Yes." ”

Han Changdu's face was as deep as a pool, although there was no ripple, but there was hidden anger between his calm eyebrows.

There are two things in this world that cannot be calculated.

The lives of the soldiers who defend their homes and countries are incalculable.

The future of the scholars who have the world in mind cannot be calculated.

He nodded to the other side and said to He Zhenfu: "You don't need to eat at dusk, sit down, and talk while eating." ”

Hearing that there was food to eat, the little resentment in He Zhenfu's heart suddenly disappeared, he sighed, picked up the bamboo chopsticks handed over by Meng Sui, and took a few mouthfuls of food.

And Yao Qi and Meng Sui saw He Zhenfu's posture of chopping food from a glance, and they suddenly felt like they were facing a great enemy, and they also let go of their hands and feet, tried their best, and went straight to those hard dishes.

Just kidding, a chicken has a total of two legs, in this case, you can only fight for speed.

Han Changwan was originally full of depression, but in a blink of an eye, he saw that his group of big-hearted subordinates were all grabbing vegetables without distraction, he suddenly shook his head helplessly, and smiled dumbly: "Do you know who the forbidden army is?" ”

He Zhenfu was eating happily, and when he heard Han Changdu's question, he suddenly felt that he had eaten a little too much, and he was a little resistant.

He swallowed fiercely: "The humble post has been checked, the bottom is clean and innocent, and I can't see whose manpower it is." ”

Yao Qi looked up in surprise, feeling that today's feng shui didn't seem to be very good, why did they all stumble one by one.

Han Changwan twisted his eyebrows slightly: "The provincial test is the best time to cultivate protégés, and this time only the two who are qualified to collect protégés are Jiang Ge Lao and Mu Rongyao." ”

Yao Qi was a little confused, she knew that the Jinshi who were admitted from the provincial examination were all so-called protégés of the Son of Heaven, but in fact, she always had to rely on a rock-solid senior member of the court and the central government as a teacher, so that her career in the future could be smoother.

And this division is often the oldest one or two of the four chief examiners who presided over the provincial examination.

This choice is either active or passive, but the choice is in the hands of the examiner, and the scholars are only selected.

What Yao Qi couldn't figure out was, what does this have to do with disrupting the exam papers?

Thinking like this, she asked: "My lord, the lower officials don't understand, the exam papers have been sealed and re-transcribed, how can it affect the examiner's selection of protégés if it is disrupted?" ”

Han Changdui put down the bamboo chopsticks and explained patiently: "In the previous dynasty, when the provincial examination selected the jinshi, the south and the north were very different in terms of numbers, most of the jinshi came from the south, and the north was very few, and later the founding of the dynasty, the first emperor re-established a rule, when the provincial examination sealed the examination papers, the examination papers were separated according to the north and south, and when the jinshi were selected, the corresponding proportion of jinshi was selected according to the number of scholars in the north and south, so as to balance the gap between the number of jinshi in the south and the north. ”

Yao Qi suddenly realized.

This is the extreme imbalance in educational resources between the north and the south, resulting in a huge difference in the cultural level of scholars from the north and the south.

In the north, he is known as a scholar who is a leader in scribes, and in the south, where talented people are everywhere, I am afraid that he can only be called a middle-aged person.

In this dynasty where there was little food and clothing, and there was no heating, most of the famous scholars and Confucians abandoned the north with a long cold winter, and chose to stay in the south where the temperature difference between the four seasons is not large, the scenery is picturesque, and the people are outstanding, and the south has always had more people than the northerners, and the number of scholars who can be cultivated is large, so the number of talents is naturally more amazing than that in the north.