Several major events have happened in the capital recently.

The first is that the former king of Anbei, Pan Yuanzheng, was sent to prison, the specific reason is unknown to the outside world, only that it is the decree of His Majesty himself, and there is no room for relaxation, and even many ministers of the DPRK and China do not know the details.

The second thing is that the chief examiner of this year's Enke has been decided, and it is the once famous concubine Lian Li Lian Singbai.

A few years ago, there were high hopes for him both inside and outside the court, but in the end he chose to join the royal family. Although he was criticized at the time, this sudden entry into the office made many people start to speculate whether he had been in Taoguang for all these years, and even many Jiangnan scholars said that he was "retreating bravely from the rapids", which should be a model for contemporary readers.

You must know that the most derogatory to Lian Li at the beginning was this group of Jiangnan scholars who were fellow villagers, and now they saw that they had signs of a comeback, so they hurriedly changed their style of speech and regarded them as an example for young people.

As for this last thing, it is the marriage of today's son.

There was news in the palace that Emperor Shun was ready to set up the queen, but this woman was neither the daughter of a wealthy family nor the daughter of a prominent eunuch, but a female head catcher.

The king of a dignified country wants to set up a head catcher as the queen, not to mention the history of the dynasty, even if the entire history of the Central Plains is not precedent, even if the woman is born in the four gods, but she is still under the status, and it is not right to be a family with the son of heaven.

There is also a lot of discussion among the people about this matter, and Emperor Shun naturally ignored these voices, and directly handed over this hot task to the Ministry of Rites, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites turned over and over the ancestral system, but still couldn't find a suitable reason.

In the end, I flipped through the history books again, and found the sentence "The surname Nie is from the surname Jiang, and the surname is the ancestor Jiang Ziya", so he made up the identity of "Jiang Taigong's side branch" for the future mother of the country, which can be regarded as a famous family.

……

In the imperial study, Nie Yingxue was looking at a letter with a smile on her face, and after she read it from beginning to end, she finally couldn't help but smile:

"It's also difficult for these officials of the Ministry of Rites to set me an ancestor who can't be beaten by eight poles, Jiang Taigong."

Emperor Shun, who was at the back of the case, seemed to have long been accustomed to the woman's innocuous banter, and still bowed his head to review the recital.

"By the way, what are you going to do with Pan Yuanzheng?"

The woman fiddled with the fold in her hand and asked suddenly.

Wang Zhide stopped the pen in his hand, looked up and said:

"Of course you killed him as agreed, what, do you have any other opinions?"

The woman said thoughtfully:

"Lu Feng, an old minister of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, has to get along with a down-and-out vassal king, don't you think there is something strange in this?"

Emperor Shun put down the brush in his hand, closed the fold in front of him, and said:

"According to Lu Feng, Pan Yi was the first to step into the palace, and then killed many Lu family members in front of him, General Pan has long passed away, and his father and son have paid their debts, so Pan Yuanzheng is asked to come to his life."

Nie Yingxue's fingers tapped the fold regularly, and after a while, she said:

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to kill Pan Ziqian, who is the king of the county? The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, and this is the complete revenge. ”

After Nie Yingxue finished speaking, she found that the other party was looking at her in a daze, she subconsciously touched her face, and wondered:

"What's wrong?"

"I'm thinking, it's better not to offend you in the future."

“……”

After half a month of hasty preparation, the imperial examination came as scheduled.

Enke in the capital can only be called the township test, even if he wins the first, he is not the champion, but the solution yuan.

After passing the township examination, it can be counted as a lifting person, and then it is necessary to go to the capital to participate in the examination, and there is a palace examination after the examination, and finally the top three candidates are determined by the current Ninety-Five.

Township examinations are set up in each province with examination rooms, generally in the local tribute institute, candidates whether from a poor family or from the wang clan, are inevitably tortured for nine days and six nights, before and after three consecutive examinations, to complete the task.

In order to prevent fraud, there will be special personnel outside the examination room to check, one is to prevent someone from carrying a cheat sheet, and the other is to determine whether it is a personal reference, the inspection is strict, and even the candidates will be required to take off their clothes.

But even so, every time the township test will still find out a lot of cheaters, as for whether there are any luck among the remaining people, it is unknown.

Answering questions in the Gongyuan was a boring and arduous task, with two planks per person in one room, which was less spacious than a better cell, and three days and two nights of eating, drinking, and Lazar had to be eaten and drunk in it.

If you are lucky enough to eat roast chicken next door, you may be able to smell it, and if you are unlucky enough to meet a lot of farts next door, you can also smell it.

However, these difficulties are nothing compared to the title of the gold list, and they have been experienced for ten years, and they are not bad for a few days.

The reason why so many scholars choose to go to Beijing to take the exam is because the conditions of the Gongyuan in the capital are better than those in other places, although it is still a small single room, but at least there is a hot meal every day, and there is no need to gnaw dry food there.

This year, Enke is ahead of schedule, just in time for the hottest time, just after the start of the exam, just the next day, the entire examination room has begun to permeate a smell of sweat, individual candidates have no care about the image of readers, began to answer the sheet shirtless.

As the chief examiner of this year, Ma Lianli is very sympathetic to the candidates, after all, he came here like this, so he ordered his subordinates to bring some ice cubes to cool the candidates, and distribute well water every once in a while, so that these scholars did not die in a foreign land.

It was hard to stay up until the night, and the candidates had to endure the torture of mosquitoes, both mentally and physically almost to the extreme.

Some of them were prescient, and they all said that scholars could not carry their shoulders and could not lift them, but these brothers were so strong that they could almost kill a cow.

At the end of the three days and two nights, except for a guy who spun a stick of ginseng on the way to the exam, who was still slightly excited, everyone else hurried to the outside of the tribute courtyard as if frost had been beaten.

The guy who chewed roast chicken and ginseng on the way to the exam, Lian Li happened to know, and he was the son of a certain squire in the court. Compared with those children of the poor family who are only willing to gnaw on the head of the nest from beginning to end, this high-ranking disciple simply regards the imperial examination as a spring outing.

This is the way of the world, the Shu clan can take the exam with the wang clan, it is already a great gift, if you still want the other party to eat the same food and wear the same clothes as yourself, it is a big joke.

Even if the squire is just an ordinary tribute in the end, and a certain son of a poor family has become the first of the first class, but the officialdom is still a child of a wealthy family who is more smooth, this is the reality.

Lian Li sighed helplessly, put away the answer sheet, and walked towards the palace.

……

Recently, a suspicious fortune teller came to Longqi Bay, he neither set up a stall, nor did he wander around, every time he came, he went straight to the school, and stayed all afternoon.

If Ah Yue hadn't chatted with him every day, I'm afraid this old way would have been arrested as a tomb robber.

It's no wonder that the villagers think like this, recently there is a group of tomb robbers in Linxian County, who is also dressed as a Taoist, and his name is quite loud, called the mountain movers, and several ancient tombs have been emptied one after another.

In the school, Ah Yue finished today's teaching, and as soon as the students left, an old Taoist entered the hospital calmly.

"Ah Yue Xiaoyou, the poor road is also coming."

Ah Yue couldn't help but stiffen when he heard the voice, and said in his heart that this old way was too idle.

When Lao Dao walked into the house, Ah Yue said helplessly:

"This Daoist, I really don't have so much time to chat with you, it's going to change the sky, I have to go home and put away the salted fish, you see......"

Ah Yue's words couldn't be more obvious, Rao is old and cheeky, and he was embarrassed to stay any longer, so he stroked his beard awkwardly and said:

"Little friend, Poor Dao actually came to say goodbye this time, and I have bothered you for so many days, so I really don't want to ......"

The old Taoist said, and took out a scripture book from his arms, "This is left by the poor Taoist master, and it should be left to Xiaoyou as a souvenir." ”

Although Ah Yue was a little tired of the old way, he also had feelings after a few days of getting along, and now the other party is saying goodbye and giving books, which made him feel a little guilty, so he hurriedly said:

"If you don't do anything, you can't do it."

"Take it." Lao Dao directly stuffed the book into the other party's hand, "It's just my compensation to you." ”

Ah Yue was confused when he heard this, and just as he was about to ask, he saw that Lao Dao had already turned around and left.

"Strange guy."

Ah Yue scratched his head and muttered to himself, somehow, every time he looked at Lao Dao's back, he would have a sense of familiarity and the urge to go up and give him a stick.

After Lao Dao's figure completely disappeared at the door, Ah Yue lowered his head and looked at the scripture book in his hand, which looked like it was old, and there were only three words written on it - recreate the scripture.

……

At this moment, it is dusk, the sun is setting, the sloppy old road is walking alone on the country road with a broken sail, in the afterglow of the sunset, his face is uncertain, at this moment, the old road suddenly stopped, looked up ahead.

I saw that there was an extra woman in front of me at some point, the woman was dressed in green clothes and held a slender sword in her hand.

"Presumably the girl must be Aqing, right?" The old way revealed the identity of the other party.

"Exactly." Ah Qing said expressionlessly.

"The girl can't kill me."

"Why?"

"Because the poor way can help the girl."

Ah Qing didn't answer, and let the old Taoist continue.

"It's no secret, this trip, Poor Dao will fly pigeons every month to report his whereabouts to the capital, if contact is suddenly broken, His Majesty will inevitably send someone to investigate.

Now that the prince has lost his memory and cannot pose any threat to His Majesty, Poor Dao is sure to persuade His Majesty to give up the pursuit of you. ”

Ah Qing's expression was still calm, but there was hesitation in her eyes, and after a long time, she spoke:

"Why should I believe you?"

"The prince has fallen to this, the poor road has more or less some responsibilities, and the girl has no choice, you can't escape for a lifetime."

……

After nightfall, Longqi Bay is as quiet as ever, except for the sound of waves in the distance, only the occasional dog barking.

At the dinner table, Ah Qing, as usual, sandwiched a piece of fish meat with the man stripped from time to time, and the two rarely talked.

After eating, Ah Yue cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and talked about the trivial things in the village, and Ah Qing, who had been silent, suddenly raised his head and said:

"Will you marry me?"

Ah Yue was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then reacted, his face immediately turned a little red, and he whispered:

"Of course I do, but I'm afraid I'll wronged you."

The woman's gaze was much firmer than his, "You can do it if you want, and we don't need a dowry or dowry, just like ...... now."

As she spoke, Ah Qing was suddenly stunned, because although the man opposite had a smile on the corner of his mouth, he had two lines of tears on his face, and his eyes revealed a deep sadness.

"You, what's wrong?" Ah Qing asked softly.

Ah Yue touched his cheek when he heard this, and then his eyes were surprised, and he didn't even realize that he was crying.

He hurriedly said:

"Maybe I'm too excited, haha, I knew that today I would let that old Taoist help calculate the auspicious day."

……

It was late at night, and the men and women living under the same roof had their own thoughts, the woman's eyes were full of worry, and the man's face was full of doubt.

Ah Yue tossed and turned for a long time, his brain was like a ball of paste, and he couldn't sleep for a long time, and finally simply sat up and lit the oil lamp, and began to look through the scriptures left by Lao Dao.

Open the first page of the book and there is a poem:

My family grows their own fields, and they can raise spiritual seedlings to live for 10,000 years. The flowers are like golden buds, and the seeds are like jade, and the fruits are round.

"Oh, it turned out to be a land planter, but unfortunately it's all saline-alkali land here, so I can't use it." Ah Yue muttered with a little regret.

But when he continued to look at it, it didn't seem to be that simple.

"Cultivation is all through the soil of the Middle Palace, and irrigation must be based on the Shanggu Spring. One day, when you are full of achievements, you will be Penglai Daluo Immortal. ”

Ah Yue repeated these words, always feeling very familiar, as if it was some kind of Taoist practice.

Then he subconsciously crossed his legs and began to meditate with his eyes closed.

Unconsciously, Ah Yue seemed to have come to another world, where it was gray, surrounded by the howling of the wind, and only a little red light in the distance.

He was now a little dazed, forgetting who he was, and just wanted to get to the light as quickly as possible, so he began to move a few steps forward, faster and faster.

I don't know how long I walked, but I finally came to the light.

Ah Yue squinted, trying his best to see the shiny face, which seemed to be a beetle.

Just as he was hesitating to move on, the beetle spotted him, and immediately there was a buzzing sound, and the beetle flew towards him like crazy.

Ah Yue was shocked, and hurriedly retreated, the speed was so fast that it was a hundred miles away in the blink of an eye, and when he opened his eyes, he was already back in the room. Glancing at the oil lamp, it seemed that it had only been a while, but at this moment he was already in a cold sweat.

Ah Yue, who calmed down, recalled the blood-red beetle just now, and did not feel afraid, but had a very intimate feeling.

Ah Yue was puzzled, so he shook his head and suppressed this absurd idea, he closed the scripture and muttered:

"Don't practice this kind of thing in the future, it's easy to go crazy."

Then he blew out the oil lamp and fell into a deep sleep.

……

In the dream, a woman in red stood in the distance, this was not the first time he had this kind of dream, every time he tried to see the other person's true face, the woman's face would become blurred.

This time he simply didn't look at the other person's face, but stood quietly in place, waiting to wake up.

At this moment, the woman in the dream moved for the first time, and then walked towards him step by step, Ah Yue only felt that there was a trance in front of him, and then a sharp pain came from his brain.

"Don't forget me."

The woman spoke.

"Who are you?"

"I am ......"

Before the woman finished speaking, Ah Yue's eyes were full of flowers again, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was wearing a big red shirt, sitting on a tall horse, and watching the bride sit on the sedan chair with a smile on his face.

……

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