Misty drizzle, rustling underground, like transparent silver needles, falling from the sky, decorating thousands of mountains and ravines, and like bright pearls, falling one after another, inlaid with the green earth.

The drizzle is like silk, dripping down, and there are nesting swallows flying over the black tile eaves with water droplets with wet grass, and leisurely stopping at the sharp eaves corners to rest.

The sound of the carriage is like rain beating on the crystal white marble, in the golden sunlight, the ground leisurely sweeps the reflection of an elegant carriage, the carriage is wrapped in expensive and exquisite silk on all sides, and the windows inlaid with gold and inlaid treasures are blocked by a curtain of light blue crepe, so that the people outside the car can not explore the passengers in such a gorgeous and speeding car, but the distinguished guests in the car seem to be able to catch a glimpse of the pedestrians outside Yingying waving and snickering, which is to watch the prosperity of the green field, as if the spring grass is just born to gallop to the garden, and the autumn wind wants to move the long Yang.

"Good boy, these are not ordinary people!" Seeing this, Li Yumei looked at the coming carriage and said.

Seeing such specifications, most of them are the carriages of the eunuchs, and the carriage in front of them is extremely exquisite, with two white horses on the erection and maids on both sides of the carriage.

Seeing this battle, the candidates took a detour to make way for the carriage.

I saw a man in a white robe coming down from the carriage, he was wearing a jade crown and a beautiful face, like a handsome young man.

Such a fashionable dress, in Li Yumei's opinion, feels that this person's brain is not normal.

Looking closely, this person is gorgeously dressed, but in autumn he is wearing a thin white robe, and he is still shaking with a fan in his hand, and he really can't think of any effect except for showmanship.

In this way, the corners of Li Yumei's mouth twitched slightly, and she secretly said in her heart: Sure enough, the children of the big family are different, and they are not afraid of the cold.

Among the candidates standing next to him, someone seemed to recognize the man in white and muttered: "That's not the third son of the iron hat king monk Greenqin, this person is not easy to mess with, he is very domineering, let's stay away!" ”

Someone next to him also responded: "yes, who else but him would be so nervous?." ”

Hearing this, Shanxi Xuezheng Ge Xianzhou on the side said in a low voice: "Hanhui, let's not envy him, look at this product is a straw bag pillow, it is useless, and it will definitely be strained when you enter the examination room."

Hearing that Ge Xianzhou buried the noble son like this, Li Yumei couldn't help but roll her eyes: "As long as you can pinch it, I think you are a hater of the rich." ”

Ge Xianzhou was told that he was thinking, and his face suddenly couldn't hang up, so he had to laugh dryly and avoid the topic.

At this moment, the gate of the Gongyuan slowly opened, and several blue-robed officials walked out of it, followed by several errand servants.

The messenger walked in front of the examinees and shouted: "Quiet, except for the examinees, the family servants will leave the Gongyuan as soon as possible, and all the examinees will line up and enter the examination room in turn!" ”

When everyone heard this, they retreated, and Li Yumei took the basket of baggage in Ge Xianzhou's hand and followed the mighty team in.

After entering the Tribute Courtyard, there are all separately separated lattice rooms as far as the eye can see.

The candidates came in one by one, and then the officers took off their clothes one by one to check them for entrainment.

When the official checked his belongings, he checked his name again, and then began to draw the number plate of the booth, Li Yumei lined up in front, and went to his examination room after drawing the number plate.

The examination room for the examination is much larger than that of the previous township examination, and there is one room for each person, with enough space for bed, stove, table and chair and other items.

Set up the pen and ink inkstone and wait for the exam paper to be issued.

Before the examination papers were issued, the chief examiner and the deputy examiner came to the examination room and gave an impassioned beating, and the candidates were immediately excited.

The examiner then announces the rules of the exam, and then the exam papers are distributed.

After the first day of the examination papers were distributed, the four books and five classics were still more basic, but it was much more difficult than before.

The exam question is to cut out a certain word from the Four Books and Five Classics, and then ask the candidate to fill in it accurately, and then write the whole passage silently and give a handout.

Li Yumei looked at the exam paper, if she made a mistake in filling in a word, she would give up all the work later, so she needed to ponder and scrutinize it, first answer it on the prepared draft, and wait until the whole question is answered, and then copy it on the official exam paper to prevent typos and dirty papers.

The examination can not be careless, this is related to the fate of the candidates, such an opportunity is not available to everyone, the success of the fish leaps into the dragon gate, and the recklessness is not all beings.

After meditating for a while, Li Yumei picked up her pen and got up, and by the time she finished writing the exam paper, it was already the top of the moon.

Li Yumei stopped the pen in her hand, picked up the exam paper and carefully checked the article, for fear that there would be typos and disagreements, and after he carefully checked it, he found that there were no mistakes before handing it over to the receiver.

After handing in the papers, Li Yumei was refreshed, the mental pressure dissipated instantly, and his stomach was "growling" at this time.

When he opened the bamboo basket he had brought in, he took out the prepared cakes, dried meat, pickles, and water, and devoured them.

After eating, he lay on the table and prepared to sleep, and his energy was consumed a lot during the day, and it didn't take long for Li Yumei to snore.

In the early morning of the second day, when Li Yumei woke up, it was already dawn.

He took the water provided by the Gongyuan, washed up, and then waited for today's exam papers.

The next day, the law was tested, which Li Yumei did not expect, but fortunately, in his early years, he had memorized the Da Ming law, although he did not memorize it backwards, but he probably remembered it.

The law, Li Yumei pondered for a long time, did not put down the pen, and waited until the time was more than halfway, he frowned slightly, the pen went up, and when the final paper was handed in, he still felt a little regretful, many key points were not answered carefully enough, and secretly prayed in his heart: The examiner had better be able to open the net and not find faults, otherwise according to his own estimates, it must be a lot worse.

The law is not Li Yumei's strength, this is also the weakness of most peasant families, mainly because the family has no background, the stock of knowledge in this area is small, and there is no one to teach orally, and it is rare to be able to memorize by rote.

Who let it be a special monopoly of the aristocracy, the law was almost all family contracting in ancient times, and its related official positions, like the historians, were monopolized by the big clans.

On the third day, when Li Yumei woke up, her hair was messy, her eye circles were a little dark, and her spirit was slightly sluggish.

After taking a basin of water, he looked like himself, and couldn't help sighing, wiping his greasy hair, and he could only comb it slightly.

The last day of the exam, sure enough, is the same as Li Yumei's previous question, agriculture is the top priority of the current imperial court, because of the drought in recent years, the imperial court has been anxious every year, and the silver for disaster relief has been emptied of the treasury, so this year's imperial court is talented, and it must focus on governing agriculture and enriching the people.

Li Yumei has written many versions of this article, and he has already written it in his chest, and he is sure that he will hand over the answers that are in line with what the imperial court thinks and what the examiner thinks.

He took a long breath of turbidity, picked up his pen and wrote his manuscript on the exam paper, without even pausing during the pen.

After writing the last word, it is already close to the west.

When he walked out of the Tribute Courtyard, Ge Xianzhou was waiting at the door, and when he saw Li Yumei come out, he immediately came over and said, "It's going well, you are the first to walk out of the Tribute Courtyard, can you win this time?" ”。

"Datong Mansion lifts the son Li Yumei, and the table word contains Hui...", "Fujian Shizi Lin Zexu, the table character Yuan Fu."

Liu Changfeng, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, took out one from a large stack of candidates' papers, carefully pinched it with his fingers and handed it over: "This is it." ”

Monk Greenqin took a sip of tea with a smile, "Bachelor Liu, our family is a rough person, and I can't read a few words in Douda, this article should be reviewed by you to see if it is enough to meet the threshold of Longmen." ”

Liu Changfeng glanced at it, and didn't even see a word clearly, so he casually rested on the side of the table and said: "This volume is clumsy, and the idea is shallow. The prince can rest assured that the lower officials will definitely deal with it impartially, and will definitely not record such scholars who are not good at studying as tribute students. ”