On the ninth day of February, the first session of the examination began.

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, Xu Qingfeng no longer struggled, finalized all those articles, read them more than a dozen times, and felt that they were impeccable.

Even if there is still room for improvement, it is not something that can be improved in the past few years.

I had a good rest for the eighth day of junior high school, recuperated my spirits, and went to participate in the scientific expedition early the next morning.

In the examination room, I saw that the question was exactly what the land god told me, and my heart finally settled.

I knew the topic more than 20 days in advance, and I had been preparing for so long, if this didn't work, then there was really nothing to say, it could only show that I was really not suitable for the road of the imperial examination, and I just went back and honestly became a petty official.

Throughout the exam, he was calm and relaxed, and his state was unprecedentedly stable.

Liu Qing also followed into the examination room.

He doesn't understand the quality of the article, so he can only analyze whether the question is difficult or not from the expressions of those candidates, and whether it is difficult or not.

After looking around, I was generally quite satisfied, and most of them looked like they were not confident.

It shows that the topic of this field has a certain degree of difficulty.

The supervision of the examination room is very strict, and there is basically no possibility of cheating.

Liu Qing wandered for more than half an hour, and felt that it was not interesting, so he drifted to wander elsewhere in the capital.

Except for the vicinity of the Dao Palace, there is no place where he does not go.

It has only been ten days since he came to the capital, and Liu Qing's understanding of the capital has surpassed that of many people who have lived here for decades.

He can go where the poor are gathered, he can go where the rich are gathered, and he can go where the powerful are gathered.

A high wall that can cut off the poor and the rich, turning them into people of two worlds.

How the rich and noble lived, the poor can only imagine through the high walls.

How the poor live, the rich and noble do not have the desire to understand.

It's the same city, but it's divided into several different worlds, and they don't know each other.

Liu Qing is not.

No matter what class of life it is, as long as he wants to understand, he can understand it.

The capital is known as the first good place, in fact, there are quite a lot of poor people here, and the poor people in this place are more tormented than the poor people in other places, because there are too many rich and powerful people here, and in contrast, they feel sad about their own lives.

He felt that there was a place to absorb some believers.

It should be easy to absorb.

He who has fallen into darkness, give a beam of light, and his whole world can be illuminated.

A person who is about to starve to death gives a steamed bun, which is his savior.

The more desperate a person is, the more likely he is to believe in the gods and the more he looks forward to the coming of a savior.

Having discovered the existence of gods, they will believe in them.

If they can't find out about the existence of gods, they will also create a god to believe.

In this life, they will not be able to get out of the quagmire of despair, they will pin their hopes on the next life, and they can even sacrifice their beliefs and sacrifice their lives for the sake of that illusory next life.

It has only been ten days since he came to the capital, and Liu Qing can see the poor and miserable people dying on the streets every day.

It should be an easy thing to expand believers in such a place.

In a place where the poor are gathered, take a thousand steamed buns and maybe you can exchange them for a hundred believers.

But thinking about the existence of that terrifying Dao Palace, Liu Qing still dispelled this thought.

On Xu Qingfeng's side, he didn't pay much attention to it.

- Everything he can do has already been done, and the rest is Xu Qingfeng's own business.

The reason why he is still staying in the capital and not leaving is mainly because there is still a palace exam on the first day of March, and he still needs to figure out what the exam questions are for the palace exam, and then tell Xu Qingfeng.

Although it is said that if he is selected, he will not be eliminated in the palace examination, but Liu Qing does not want Xu Qingfeng to perform too badly in the palace examination, which will make others wonder if his results in the examination are boring.

Now the results of the examination have not come out, so there is no way to talk about the palace examination.

In addition, he also wants to wait until the final result is in.

The three exams that will be tested this time are exactly the same as those that Liu Qing told Xu Qingfeng, so Xu Qingfeng's state in the three exams is very good.

At the end of the three exams, he was also optimistic.

It's a stark contrast to those who come all the way.

Some partners saw that he was in good condition and congratulated him in advance.

But he didn't get scared, but said very modestly:

"This is the fourth time I have participated in the scientific examination, and I told my family before I came out that if I can't pass this subject, I won't take the exam again in the future. So this time, no matter whether it is successful or not, it is my last scientific expedition, and my mentality is peaceful. ”

The exam is over, and there are still more than ten days to release the list.

The scientific examination is a national talent ceremony, and everyone who passes the examination is a future official.

Even if it is the worst, it can mix with a county and manage a population of hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

This is something that cannot be taken lightly.

Therefore, the marking of the papers should be quite cautious, and it will be reviewed alternately, and it is not so easy to get results.

Xu Qingfeng has been preparing for these three exams for so long, and even the examiner's thinking is understood, and he is still quite confident in the results.

The most difficult level has been passed, and then we are waiting for the day when the list will be released.

At this time, his mind was relaxed, and he didn't study how to make a fuss, and finally started socializing in the capital.

In the next ten days, the poetry club participated in four or five times, and each time the old slave brought the parrot over, and when he couldn't figure it out, he secretly asked the parrot if he had any good works to save the scene.

In this way, Liu Qing copied a few more poems and gave the naming rights to Xu Qingfeng.

In the past ten days, Xu Qingfeng's reputation as a talented man has spread all over the capital, and several poems he wrote have become popular songs sung by many famous prostitutes in Qinglou.

Xu Qingfeng has participated in three scientific expeditions before, and has also participated in some poetry meetings before and left some works.

Some people feel that Xu Qingfeng's previous works are too ingenious, have no spirituality, and the gap is too big compared with the present, and they don't seem to be made by one person.

There were even those who asked Xu Qingfeng in person.

Xu Qingfeng explained: "It's a shame to say, in the past, for scientific research, the heart of gain and loss was too heavy, and the heart was obstructed, just like a bird in a cage, there were too many fetters, and there was less leisure and elegance. This subject is the last time I participated in the scientific examination, and now the examination room is over, just like a bird out of the cage, returning to heaven and earth, and regaining its own freedom. If the mood is different, the poems written will naturally be different. ”

Such a statement has even been recognized by some people.

Liu Qing followed him, watching him shine in the literary world of the capital with the poems he copied, and sleeping with a few oirans in the Qinglou, feeling that he was in a panic.

I can only think about the benefits - at least it is helping this guy to make a name for himself, and it will still be good for his future career.