On the day of the release of the list, Yu Yin Qiao took Sun Zhaoyuan to see the gold list, from the last place, I haven't seen it, and I am getting more and more discouraged, thinking that I didn't lift people in the exam, but I didn't think about it, Sun Zhaoyuan was the first place at the top, and he was the first person to be the science and technology.

Yu Yin Qiao screamed out, closed his eyes, and looked completely disbelieving. Sun Zhaoyuan thought it was very funny and said, "What are you doing?" ”

Yu Yin Qiao said: "You... Did you really get it? ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "What's so strange, I told you that I am a learned boy." What I have to do now is to prepare for the next spring meeting, this time to Beijing, the road is far away, the journey will be January, I will go alone, I am afraid that you will be sick on the road. ”

Yu Yin Qiao said: "No, I said that I wanted to go to the ends of the world with you." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Then it's up to you." ”

That Sun Zhaoyuan took the test to understand the yuan, and the whole city knew it all at once. When the news reached the Sun family in Qingqiu Prefecture and the Yu family in Yanfu, the Sun family was not surprised, only happy. Sun Shoucheng just wrote to Sun Zhaoyuan to read books and prepare to go to Beijing to take the exam. The Yu family was very surprised, when it was their own children, they used other excuses to invite relatives and friends to eat and drink.

That Wang Youming also set up a banquet to entertain Sun Zhaoyuan, and accompanied the relevant officials of the examination, including the deputy examiner Yang Keying, the prefect of the capital Lin Zihao, and even the little officials Zhao Shiqiang and Wu Cunxin were also invited.

The two officials had never entered such a high-level dinner, and they were sincerely frightened and surprised. But when others speak, they nod their heads and say yes, but when others laugh, they laugh along.

Both of them said in their hearts: "I have this good fate to be invited to a banquet by Governor Wang, but this time, I got the doorway, and I don't know if I have soared since then." ”

The two didn't know that when they went to the banquet today, what they were waiting for in the future was not Feihuang Tengda, but it was a catastrophe. If the two of them knew about the catastrophe they had encountered, even if Wang Youming carried a sedan chair to invite them, he would not dare to go if he was willing to lose his official position.

Wang Youming raised his glass and said: "Come on, come on, everyone, we salute the genius boy with a cup." Sun Zhaoyuan, Sun Xian's nephew, was able to go from Qingqiu Prefecture to Yong'an Prefecture to participate in this year's imperial examination and open the road to the office, which is very fortunate for us. My Wang Youming, with my 20 years of experience in the career, read countless people's eyesight, here can boldly predict that this son and this subject will be connected to the three yuan, and the name will remain in history. The future will be above us. We have made this toast, and I wish Sun Xian's nephew a smooth journey to officialdom. ”

Wang Youming appreciated this, and others naturally did not dare to lag behind. The rest of the people present all got up and gave Sun Zhaoyuan a drink. Zhao Shiqiang and Wu Cunxin even toasted themselves three times in a row, before they dared to clink glasses with Sun Zhaoyuan.

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "If it weren't for Lord Zhao and Lord Wu to help me, I wouldn't have been able to catch up with the University of Science and Technology exam. ”

The two of them only promised, and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Everyone was so drunk that they didn't go home until midnight.

After the list was released, the inn was full every day, but the difference from the past was that the people who used to live in the rivers and lakes were all people of the three religions and nine streams, and now they are all big and small officials, each of whom carries a gift box and wants to visit Sun Zhaoyuan.

Yu Yinqiao said: "It's so lively, these people downstairs are waiting for you to go out, and they want you to eat for nothing." There is such a good thing in the world, why are you hiding in the room? ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "There is more than Mo stretching out his hand in front of him, and there is no way behind him to turn back." If I pass the test in the real palace, I will be a member of the court in the future, and if I take people's money, I will eliminate disasters for others. If I follow him, I will be breaking the law, and I will not know if I will be questioned later. If I don't follow him, these people will not change their position, saying that I am an ungrateful person, not remembering the old feelings, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for me to have a way out. ”

Yu Yinqiao said: "You think really far, and now I believe your erudite boast." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "I told you, I was just injured by falling from a horse, and I used to be a person who never forgets, ten lines at a glance, and has no teacher, and sometimes even I myself will be startled." How can there be such a quick mind and such a supernatural person. ”

Yu Yin Qiao sneered and laughed: "It's also the first time I've seen such a boastful and self-selling person, and I'm also taken aback by you." I don't know what a hero is not to mention the courage of the year? By the way, you're not a good man. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan came to catch Yu Yin Qiao and tickle her.

After joking for a while, Yu Yinqiao said: "Then these people are waiting for you in the store every day, and you can't study well." How good is that? ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "That's not simple. I'll pack up with you tonight, bring a coil, and set off for Beijing before dawn tomorrow, and then review after going to Beijing, so it's good. ”

The two of them rode out of the city gate before dawn.

Fifteen days later, after passing fifteen mountains and wading through three rivers, we arrived at the capital of Yunxi Prefecture, Luyang Mansion.

Luyang Mansion is located in the plain, surrounded by mountains and loess hills, the pass is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Golden River and the Jade River pass through the city, and the gold of the Golden River produces wealth, and the jade of the Jade River produces rights, which is for the gold and jade in hand, and I have it in the world. Therefore, since ancient times, occupying Luyang Mansion has mastered the supreme wealth and power in the world, and it is also the most advantageous position to win in the world.

The two of them traveled for more than ten days, people were sleepy and tired, so they decided to stay here for a few days, one to rest and recuperate, and the other to the first time the two of them went to this thousand-year-old capital.

On this day, the two arrived at Yangshou Street. The Yangshou street, because there is a Yangshou temple, so the Yangshou people gather. As far as the eye can see, it is all the snack shops opened by the Yangshou clan, roast mutton, whole sheep feast, mutton patty and other snacks, dazzling, the two have walked for a long time, and they have not picked which one to eat this meal, and they can't help but sigh at the grand occasion of the street snacks of the Yangshou clan.

Just as he was hesitating, a white-haired old man came over and said, "Two foreign guest officers, don't you know which store to eat to feed your stomach?" The old man is a local of Luyang Mansion, and he is idle and bored, so let me show you around. ”

Yu Yinqiao saw that he was kind and kind, so he let down his guard and said, "This grandfather is so eye-catching. If you take us to a delicious restaurant, please eat it too. ”

The white-haired old man smiled: "Old man, I want to eat, but my stomach doesn't agree." I'm just idle and playing, talking to you and relieving my boredom. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan thought, this person is not a store trust, bring people to the store to eat and drink, then a few big men came, to leave the sky-high silver, willing to let people go, and said: "The old man doesn't have to, we just hang out, we can eat whatever we want, there is no fixed number." ”

Yu Yin Qiao said angrily: "There are so many hundreds of shops, how do you know which one is delicious and which one is not delicious, there is a local guide, isn't it just right to solve the puzzle." ”

The white-haired old man saw Sun Zhaoyuan's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The little boy is too worried, the old man is a person who is over half a hundred years old, and he wants to come here from other places, and he is not familiar with the direction, so he will be a guide, just to speak, not for anything else." ”

Yu Yinqiao hurriedly smiled at Sun Zhaoyuan, and nodded vigorously, so that Sun Zhaoyuan quickly agreed.

Sun Zhaoyuan looked at Yu Yinqiao's appearance, sneered, and said, "Then trouble the old man to lead the way." ”