For fools, as long as there is food and drink, waking up every day is a day full of vitality.

But for ordinary people who want to pretend to be fools, even if he has a lot of experience in being fools, there will inevitably be more or less loopholes.

Li Quan is like this, he was stunned in the queue for the exam, looking at Li Kui with strange eyes, he couldn't understand why Li Kui, who seemed to be more stupid than him, could already participate in the provincial exam, but he had to pretend to be a fool, afraid that people would see the flaws. What exactly was he afraid of?

Or to put it simply, he simply can't face everything that has happened in the past two years, especially his wife and children.

Just when Li Quan was stunned, or was he wondering what to do to look more like a fool?

Li Quan is sober, at least at this moment he is a normal person who is sober.

The biggest difference between a normal person and a fool is that a fool doesn't have to pretend, just follow his heart. A normal person needs to disguise, even if he wants others to believe that he is a fool, he must also disguise himself as a fool.

And often, the most impressive thing about a fool is that a fool touches his stomach stupidly and says: "Mother, I'm hungry!" ”

Li Quan did just that, not only did he do this, but he also pretended to be stupid and swallowed saliva at the jujube cake in a child's hand. How did he know that even when he was a fool, he would never swallow the food in the hands of children. According to his past bad deeds, he would snatch the 'delicious snacks' from the hands of children in front of other adults, and then grow his mouth and swallow them in one gulp.

If Li Quan didn't say this, Li Kui didn't plan to expose the truth that Li Quan was pretending to be stupid before the provincial test.

But Li Kui is a quick temper, if he enters the tribute courtyard with this awkwardness, maybe he can't figure it out in the middle of the night, so he has to come out for a walk.

This is also to blame Li Quan himself, he has to say such a sentence more.

But he can't blame Li Quan, the experience of being a fool is like a dream, which makes him confused, and he can't remember his momentum and unique temperament at the beginning.

There are two kinds of fools.

One is a fool who is often bullied, timid and afraid, with the same eyes as a lost dog, who only dares to look at the ground and does not dare to look at people.

One is a fool who is arrogant and unreasonable, causing trouble all day long, but making people helpless.

Li Quan's force did not allow him to be the first kind of fool.

Then, when you encounter something delicious on the street, there is only one move, grab it and talk about it. After all, when Li Quan went out before, there were always clansmen around him, and those who should make amends and those who should pay pay the money should be paid. Anyway, Li Quan's momentum of 'I am the master of the world' is definitely not an illusion that can be pretended by pretending.

Rather, it is the light of faith that he has a strong aura and the support of faith.

As soon as Li Quan opened his mouth to say that he was hungry, he swallowed the snacks in the child's hand, and immediately made Li Kui understand the truth, this thing dared to pretend to be a fool in front of him, the key was that it was not like it, and he found out.

Before entering the Tribute Courtyard, Li Kui came to Li Quan and instructed him to take care of the old lady Zhang and the rest of the family. Li Quan felt that he should have a little momentum to accept it, but when he saw Li Kui sneaking closer, he gritted his teeth in Li Quan's ear and said, "You don't look like a fool at all, and I will settle accounts with you after my province tries out." ”

Only then did Li Quan react, and everything about himself made Li Kui see through it.

This frightened him, and his eyes were about to pop out.

At this time, the official at the gate of the Gongyuan began to sound the gong and said loudly: "Jingdong East Road lifts, prepare to enter and get the number!" ”

Only then did Li Kui turn around and take Li Yun towards the examination room. Compared with the examinations of the imperial examination level in other dynasties, the tribute court of the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be a heavenly existence.

First of all, the examination room prepares meals.

Although it is not a delicacy, it is also meat and vegetarian until it is full. Li Kui and Li Yun didn't bring three days of food.

In fact, there are many other benefits for the provincial examination of the Great Song Dynasty, such as after the provincial examination, the juzi can live in the tribute courtyard. Of course, it is not in the examination shed, but in a serious house, which is just relatively small. This is also the reason why in the early years of Yuan You, because of a fire in the Gongyuan, more than ten people died, and there was a champion outside. There is only one gate in the Gongyuan, and if it really catches fire, the labyrinth-like environment will not be able to escape at all.

The palace examination may not be held, and sometimes the first place in the provincial examination is the champion. Generally, the palace examination was canceled because the emperor was too young to preside over the palace examination.

Entering the search area, the officials searched one by one's bookcase, and the other stared at the side, for fear of missing the evidence that the examinee carried. Li Yun and Li Kui were not in a hurry at all, he still had the mind to look left and right, and said to Li Kui in disappointment: "Brother Xie didn't come, it's a pity." ”

The Xie brothers' goal was not to take the provincial test at all, they were here to participate in the martial arts selection.

For many candidates, being able to take the provincial exam is a qualification that can be used when bragging. But for more candidates who have no hope of passing the provincial examination, the provincial examination is just to accompany the prince to study. Seeing the glory of others, but he was trampled into the dirt, the idea of joining in the fun faded.

The search was swift and there was no place for the candidate to feel insulted. At least it won't make people humiliated by stripping or something. The scholars of the Great Song Dynasty will be the reserve of scholars in the future, and this preferential treatment is still available. In fact, when it comes to the provincial test, it is useless to carry this kind of thing.

If you can't even recite the sayings of sages such as the Analects and Mencius, there is no chance of passing the provincial examination, and even if you open the book, it will be meaningless to these candidates at all.

Because the scholars who can participate in the provincial examination and stand out in the provincial examination no longer need to obtain the opportunity to be raised through the simple knowledge of dictating the scriptures.

More of their contests are to work the places where they test their literary talents.

Li Kui and Li Yun walked along the crowd and got the number.

"The word B of the test shed, seat twelve."

"Test shed word B, seat seventeen."

Li Yun looked at the location of his examination booth curiously, and secretly prayed that it would not be a stinky number.

Li Kui is also quite worried about this problem. The Gongyuan of the Great Song Dynasty is very well repaired, and there is almost no possibility of rain leakage. But there is only one thing that is unbearable, the smelly horn.

After the Gong courtyard is locked, it will never be opened for three days.

This also indicates that thousands of people in the Gongyuan will have to eat, drink and laze in this crowded examination room for three days.

Fortunately, the weather was not hot, but the filth that had accumulated for three days was a nightmare that haunted the hearts of all candidates.

How many students who are good at learning, because they are on the side of the stinky number, are smoked all day long, and have no appetite to eat, and after three days, they are out of the tribute courtyard, numb like the walking dead, let alone take the high school entrance examination.

Fortunately, Li Kui and Li Yun were not separated from the stinky number.

It's the middle place.

This made Li Kui also breathe a sigh of relief, even if their martial arts were high, they couldn't keep their noses out of breath for three days, right?

Candidates entered the examination booth one after another, and the whole process has passed, and it has been almost half a day.

The door of the Tribute Courtyard was still open at this time, and after Li Qingchen reported the exam questions to the emperor from the palace, the eunuch supervisor entered the Tribute Courtyard. As soon as his back entered the Tribute Courtyard, the gate slammed shut, the deadbolt and lock were dropped, and within three days, even if the sky fell, the gate would not be opened again.

Unless there is a situation that arises and the exam questions are leaked.

Li Qingchen entered the tribute courtyard, entered the examiner's official residence, thanked his colleagues, and then said in a deep voice: "Open dinner!" ”

The imperial examination in the first year of Shaosheng of the Great Song Dynasty officially began, with 4,327 participants.

As for why the first thing is to open the meal, there is no way. More than 4,000 scholars entered the Tribute Academy, and they had to pass the inventory and guide them in batches, which was really not fast for the Tribute Academy, which had only one gate. The first day of the provincial exam, in fact, the time when the real exam can be taken is two hours after the eclipse. After that, it's time to get dark.

In the Gongyuan, I have experienced several fire houses, and I am very nervous about lighting things such as candles.

If you can't use it, you will never give it to the candidates.

Li Qingchen was sitting in the seat of the chief examiner, eating the food made by the imperial chef, but it tasted like chewing wax. He had deliberately been angry on the Vertical Arch Hall before, introducing the three little guys of Sumen to the emperor. The purpose is to make Su Zhe ugly, and carry the black cauldron that makes Su Men carry the burden of bewitching the emperor.

Playing mahjong, as long as the emperor likes this thing, I'm afraid it will be uncomfortable if he doesn't play for a day.

If Li Kui is a few, he will accompany the emperor to play mahjong every day, it won't take too long, as long as it takes ten days, he will play a fold and reprimand Li Kui and others for using the art of obscene skills. Then, offering the privilege of his chief examiner, he deprived these people of the opportunity to take the provincial examination.

But what made him angry was that Li Kui accompanied the emperor to play mahjong for two days, because he was too ruthless to win the emperor, and was snubbed by the emperor.

is not a real snub, but Gao Yu unexpectedly became the emperor's companion. The emperor was not obsessed with mahjong, but was obsessed with keju. Even Gao Yu didn't know for what purpose, so he gave up the qualification for the provincial examination, which made Li Qingchen miss with a punch and flash his shoulder.

He originally wanted to end Su Men in a pot, even if he escaped Su Guo, Su Shi's youngest son, Li Qingchen was confident that after passing the comparison of literary styles, Su Guo's roll would be dethroned in the provincial examination stage, so that Su Men would be wiped out in Jinke. But what he didn't expect was that the plan he planned had not yet been implemented, but it had encountered a change. After Gao Yu gave up the provincial test, all Li Qingchen's plans fell through.

Li Kui and Li Yun actually escaped his scheme.

This made Li Qingchen feel like he ate a fly when he was eating a cake, but the store told him that it was a black fungus, which was like a mountain treasure, which made him nauseous.

But these are not difficult for Li Qingchen, as long as he knows the examination room where Li Kui, Li Yun, and Su Guo are, he can compare the previous articles of these people through his unforgettable ability, find out among hundreds of papers, and depose these few fish that have slipped through the net.

In the next few days, Li Qingchen found articles from Li Kui and Li Yun through various connections.

Li Kui is okay, at least the article on participating in the Yizhou County Examination and the Reconciliation Test has enough novelty to make him feel that this kid is a little witty. But Li Yun's article made him sick for a long time. This guy actually let him mingle among the scholars and participated in the provincial examination. What the heck?

It is also strange that Yizhou's literary style is not prosperous, although the Culai Academy is very famous. However, most of the scholars of Culai Academy will choose to enter Taixue for further study, and will not directly participate in the examination on Jingdong East Road.

This has caused the standard of scholars on Jingdong East Road to be surprisingly low.

Li Qingchen can be compared with Su Shi in the article, and even Ouyang Xiu, the great master of the literary world at that time, is full of praise for his talents. All of a sudden, I read Li Yun's literary style is strange, especially the articles that are not very smooth, and I feel sick to my stomach. After a few days, Li Qingchen finally gave up Li Yun, he felt that Li Yun would never pass the provincial test, so he spent time pondering.

As for Li Kui, he didn't dare to underestimate it, Li Kui's articles were average, but he always had amazing ideas.

Such an article can easily be pulled up, and if you are not careful, you will become the lucky one of the provincial exams.

As for Su Guo, he is easy to deal with, he is not very old, but his style of writing is very similar to that of his uncle Su Zhe, and they are all flat and stable. On the contrary, he did not learn the essence of his father.

However, the rhetoric is subtle and the intention is clear, and it is easy to be regarded as the lucky candidate of the provincial examination by the marking officer.

After all, where the talent and knowledge are placed, it is not impossible to pass the provincial examination. As long as you are in the circled examination papers, you will definitely find traces by searching. Su's examination paper passed through his eyes, and he was sure that he could see through it at a glance.

Thinking of this, Li Qingchen felt that the only thing to pay attention to was Li Kui. Pretending to be inadvertent, he asked the accompanying official: "How are the candidates of Gyeonggi 5th Road arranged?" ”

"The candidates of Kaifeng Mansion on Gyeonggi Road are all arranged in the Tianzi examination room, and at the same time, the Tianzi examination room also has the taxis of Jingdong West Road and Jingdong North Road, which are also in this examination room. The candidates of Jingdong South Road and Jingdong East Road were arranged in the local character examination room, and the scholars of Taixue were also interspersed in these two examination rooms. ”

"Good!"

Li Qingchen did it on purpose, how could he not know how the candidates of Gyeonggi 5th Road were arranged? When arranging the examination room, the officials of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Shangshu have all negotiated, and even if there is no consultation, according to the rules of the previous years, there will be no deviation.

I asked about the examination room arrangement of Gyeonggi 5th Road, but he was the head. What he wanted to ask more was that Li Kui was arranged in that examination room.

However, as the chief examiner, it was obviously inappropriate to ask such a question, so he could only ask euphemistically: "Is there anything wrong?" ”

The officials who inspected the examination were a little puzzled, but Li Qingchen was a high-ranking and powerful examiner, so he didn't dare to ask what Li Qingchen meant? I can only try my best to think about the real purpose of the adult's question. If you can't figure out the thoughts of an official, you've already failed. But there are also ways to remedy it, the inspector pondered for a while, and couldn't guess Li Qingchen's thoughts, so he could only tell the novelties of the two examination rooms one by one.

"There was a candidate who was assigned a stinky number. Seeking Death and Seeking Alive......"

The inspector secretly looked at Li Qingchen's expression, impatient.

Obviously, Li Qingchen should not listen to this.

I could only talk about them one by one, and it didn't take long for him to say: "There is a candidate from Jingdong East Road who ate twenty cookcakes in one go. The whole exam room was dumbfounded. ”

The cooking cakes in the Gongyuan are very large, one has less than half a catty, Li Qingchen will have some leftover when he eats one, and the candidates who can eat twenty will naturally be treated as wine bags and rice bags.

"So edible?"

Li Qingchen raised his eyebrows, but he was secretly happy in his heart, he seemed to have found his goal. Li Kui is a person who practices martial arts, and he is also a member of Jingdong East Road. When the inspector said: "This kid is black and bold, and he began to give a person who can't eat enough, and he wants to beat the officials, and he was almost reprimanded by the inspector." ”

Li Qingchen secretly said in his heart: "Boy, you can't escape." ”