Lao Fan, I think you still have to work hard to win the top prize! ”

"If you don't want to, you can't! Why don't you want it? ”

Li Kui stuffed a big bun into his mouth and muttered: "Look at me like this, are you making the material for the champion?" ”

For Li Kui, the champion is the target of everyone, if he wins the champion, there must be countless banquets, literati gatherings, and various occasions that require poetry to be opposed, for example, when he goes to the workshop to teach his sister, if he doesn't say two words of sorrow and bitterness, can the Oiran lady in the workshop believe it with him desperately?

This kind of predictable scene makes Li Kui feel terrible when he thinks about it.

Others play the game of literati, but he doesn't play it, it is unsociable, arrogant, and the champion looks down on people!

But if he followed the Jinshi and colleagues of the same department, and indulged in singing and harmony, as long as it took two months, the little ancient poems in his stomach would be exhausted. Since then, Jiang Lang has exhausted his talents, and he can only use limericks to mix in the flower bed poetry altar, which is better than not to.

Besides, the champion still lives in plain sight, and he can't tolerate the slightest flaw.

And Li Kui is a rough crockpot, with a rough texture of handles everywhere, which can't stand the attention of outsiders at all.

In line with the idea that a friend of the dead Dao will not die and the poor Dao, Li Kui tried his best to trick Fan Chong into doing this.

Can Fan Chong?

He also has difficulties.

However, his conversation had to be interrupted for a moment. Li Kui looked up and saw a man with a sad and angry expression, but his face was ruddy, not like a guy who had been greatly wronged, standing in front of him, holding a food plate and staring at him.

"Brother, we know each other?"

The other party shook his head blankly, but then nodded affirmatively: "I seem to have seen it." ”

Li Kui said decisively: "Then I don't know, there are people here, brother, please eat elsewhere." ”

The other party stared at Li Kui deadly, and in the end, he couldn't bear the huge pressure Li Kui gave him, and chose to retreat. Li Kui muttered: "Weird little white face." ”

Li Kui touched his face with his hand, it was a little rough, and the wind in Bianliang was very hard and hurtful. It's not as warm as the wind in Yangzhou, but it's a pity that he has been in Yangzhou for two years, and he didn't see the style of Yangzhou thin horses. It's not that he hasn't seen it, he followed Su Shi and Chao Buzhi to participate in the literary meeting, of course, Su Shi and Chao Buzhi are the division commanders and take the car. And Li Kui is more sad, he is responsible for catching the car. What's even more bullying is that no one at the young lady who attended the banquet looked at him squarely, let alone talked.

Besides, the horror of the Wenhui Li Kui is still fresh in his memory. At the end of a travelogue and a poem, sometimes Su Shi is happy, and the singers who attend the meeting can give a poem, don't go bald like money, and make Li Kui feel distressed.

Therefore, Li Kui, who knows his strength, has never thought of winning the champion at all, let alone the champion, even if he doesn't want to be the top actor or Tanhua. He didn't want to be famous for his literary style at all, and then be squeezed dry in the literary meeting.

This was not the result he wanted.

As a result, agitating Fan Chong has become the most important thing he has done recently.

Fan Chong was moved, but it was only heartbeat, he kept rejecting Li Kui. This time was no exception, Fan Chong sighed: "You know the sage's thoughts, but I can't betray my father." No matter what it is for, it can't be done. ”

Not to mention Fan Chong, Li Kui also saw that the emperor was ostensibly summoning a few of them, and he also wanted to give them a wake-up. I have become a pro-government, I have changed the name of the era, and I want to become an emperor like Shenzong. No longer compromise with conservatives, but change the law. In the palace examination held at this point in time, if the article did not strongly advocate the idea of changing the law and advocating the benefits of changing the law, how could it be possible for the emperor to appoint their champions?

Li Kui pretended to be stupid, and that was because he didn't want the champion. Fan Chong pretended to be stupid, because his father Fan Zuyu was a diehard loyalist of conservatives, and if he supported the change, he would betray his father and be a big rebel. Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, he chose filial piety.

This reason blocked all Fan Chong's thoughts.

Scholars participate in the imperial examination, how many of them don't want to be champions and travel across the royal street?

It is estimated that in the first year of Shaosheng, that is, Li Kui did not have much thought about the champion. Don't look at him patting his chest and talking big things on weekdays, as if it is easy to win the champion. But even if it was for nothing, he didn't want it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked for the exam in front of Zhao Xu, knowing that the emperor wouldn't give it, he wouldn't be able to do it. is to tell the emperor, don't take it too seriously, it is absolutely impossible to win the champion, at least this happened to him, extinction is death.

Fan Chong didn't have the idea of continuing to talk, and then said to Li Kui: "You shouldn't have treated Boren like that just now. ”

"You know?" Fan Chong's words said which one was standing in front of Li Kui just now, don't Li Kui give a word to the young scholar who blocked back.

Fan Chong nodded and said, "You should know each other too." Because you're making money from him. ”

"Just him?" Li Kui grinned, then restrained his smile, and asked as if he had thought of something, "It can't be such a coincidence, right?" ”

Fan Chong sighed: "No book can be written without coincidence. But Boren has a very good personality and won't be angry with you because of this little thing. Although he pretended to be angry just now, I could tell that he was not angry, but wanted to create an opportunity to meet you and get to know you. It's just that as soon as you open your mouth, you scare people away. ”

After speaking, Fan Chong also shook his head: "But after all, we kidnapped him and made a lot of money." ”

Li Kui definitely didn't carry this pot, took a sip of the soup, and after going down the food, he said nonchalantly: "We are doing this for his good, introducing him to a good marriage, and we should be thanked." By the way, where did he come from? ”

Is Li Kui the kind of lord who cares about one more enemy?

But he also pondered, and it stands to reason that he introduced him to marriage, although the process may be unacceptable. But the woman can be a wealthy family, if she is too a student, Ma Yu is likely to have immediate family members who are officials, and it is too unlikely that ordinary scholars will enter Taixue by selection.

"His father is a general judge in Xuzhou, and there is no hope for promotion." Fan Chong talked about Ma Yu's father, and the arrogance of the son of the family suddenly exuded. His father is in the middle of the matter, if he goes further, he will be a straight bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, a member of the third grade. His uncle's official position is even more prominent, just a general judgment, and the hopeless promotion shows that Ma Yu's father is an official position obtained by Enyin, not a Jinshi, how can it be in his eyes?

In the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhizhou is a hurdle. But to be a general judge, you don't necessarily have to be promoted to be a governor, and being called to Beijing is the real promotion. is like Li Kui's teacher Chao making up for it, and he is a nine-grade official in the capital. Going to Yangzhou is a general sentence.

As long as you can enter Beijing, the Beijing official of the seventh grade can be a governor when you are released.

This is not a key department, such as the secretary province, the Shangshu province, the menxia province of petty officials, in the capital sometimes poor can not even maintain decency. But in the blink of an eye, it can be released as a transshipment envoy and the like.

Li Kui pondered, was silent for a while, and then asked Fan Chong softly: "Is he okay?" ”

"Are you willing? Besides, Uncle Dang also won this time, and the ranking is also very high, and the champion has great hopes for him. ”

Fan Chong thought that Li Kui was deliberately putting on the shelf, but he didn't expect that he really didn't want to be the champion, and he was indescribably shocked.

Li Kui shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't have big ambitions, but it's better to give benefits to someone close to me than to let others get benefits, right?" Uncle Xiao disdains to do this kind of thing, besides, his situation is similar to yours. My ancestor is also a member of the conservative faction, and his old man and Sima Jun really don't deal with each other, because of the difference in political views of their older generation. If Uncle Zu knew that Uncle Xiao had won the champion by such means, he would probably be miserable. Also, the little uncle still has to face his uncle, if he really writes a strategy to tout the change, how can he face his own uncle? ”

Su Shi is open-minded on weekdays, but when he gets angry, he won't give face to anyone. Back then, he did it all to the emperor and the king Anshi. Although in the end he confessed and wrote a letter of repentance, did he admit his mistake?

If Su Guo relied on the means of flies and dogs to get the champion, according to Su Shi's character, this son would want to enter the house in this life. There is also the reason for Su Zhe, it can be said that Su Guo is the least likely person among them to tout the change of law for the sake of the champion. Because once he does this, he will completely break with the family.

It's funny to think about it, the champion of the Great Song Dynasty can't even be sent out. Fan Chong had no opinion, nodded and said, "I invited him to your room in the evening, and we will talk in detail." We are also kind to him, but the marriage of the Wen family was only made possible by our matchmaking, and he had to thank our brothers. ”

After evening, Ma Yu followed Fan Chong to find Li Kui with a heavy heart. Seriously, he was tied up by Li Kui and others on the day the list was released, and he was not angry. Because, there was no Li Kui that day, there were also Zhang Kui and Xu Kui. In the days when he caught his son-in-law under the list, there were only two possibilities for not being noticed, being too old or a family scholar. Of course, when he was put in a sack by Li Kui, he wanted to be angry, but in the end, he was only scared.

Especially Li Kui's fierce eyes that glared at him as if he could eat people, made him feel a kind of frightened palpitations every time he thought about it.

was invited by Fan Chong to see Li Kui, and Ma Yu felt nothing at first.

But the more he walked into Li Kui's yard, his legs couldn't help but tremble.

Especially when he saw a tower-like back standing in the dim courtyard, he even had the idea of turning his head and running.

Li Kui invited Ma Yu with a smile: "Brother Boren, the younger brother was offended a few days ago, and I also asked Brother Boren not to hold a grudge against the younger brother." ”

"No, the little brother wants to come to meet Brother Renjie at noon, but ......" Ma Yu was stunned, and he really couldn't say anything. He recalled the whispered conversation between Li Kui and Fan Chong before, and he didn't remember anything else, but he still listened to the matter of Zhong Zhuangyuan.

The two of them seemed to let go back and forth, and they both looked disgusted.

Ma Yu couldn't wait to rush up at that time, and yelled at Li Kui and Fan Chong: "You don't want it, give it to me!" ”

However, he is just thinking about it, he and Fan Chong are not related, and they have nothing to do with each other, and the relationship between classmates is there. But the problem is that Fan Chong is a noble son in Taixue, and he is the focus of everyone's attention. plus talent and learning, otherwise Fan Chong would not have won the prestige of the first place in this provincial examination. In addition, the paradigm is a noble family, and it is a big family in Huayang, Chengdu Prefecture, and his father Fan Zuyu is still married to the Donglai Lu family, and his grandfather is the prime minister. A child of a family like him can't enter the circle of a son of Fan Chong's level at all.

That is, Fan Zuyu is now unlucky, and he has been degraded out of Beijing, and Fan Chong has signs of loneliness.

But even so, Huang Tingjian and others were still willing to take in Fan Chong, which shows that the background of the son of the family is incomparable to the son of a petty official like him. Unlike his father, Enyin was born, even if it was the county order and county Cheng under Xuzhou, as long as he was a bureaucrat from Jinshi, he looked down on his father. So much so that his father lost interest in being an official, and began to think about it.

What's even more embarrassing is that if it is an official from Jinshi, even if the invitation to the scholar is written, the court will still keep it once or twice to show favor. However, the official of Enyin, the document of Zhishi was sent to the ministry, and the big seal would make him leave immediately, and he didn't take people seriously.

This is the case, Ma Yu inevitably has a feeling of inferiority in Taixue. It doesn't matter if you have low self-esteem or if you don't fit in, anyway, Ma Yu is quite marginal in Taixue, no one can be offended, and no one dares to offend.

After sitting down, Ma Yu thanked him very well: "Boren thanked the two friends Yuan Chang and Renjie for their help, and achieved a good marriage. ”

However, Li Kui has always done things in a hurry, waving his hand and saying: "This is your creation, the Wen family is a family with a large number of families, you can be recognized by the Wen family, and it is your talent that has been recognized." But the younger brother came to you, not for the previous matter, but to ask Brother Boren, do you want to win the champion? ”

Of course Ma Yu wanted to, but he felt that Li Kui seemed to have a pastime when he said this, and his eyes looking at Li Kui were a bit like watching the gods who set up stalls on the day of the temple meeting of Daxiangguo.

I can't help but feel sad and indignant!

You kidnap people and bully people.

Anyway, it turned out to be good.

Now I still want to deceive people, is it possible to see that I Ma Yu is a bully?

There is a way that a soldier can be killed but not humiliated, Ma Yu's truth is determined to die in front of Li Kui, so that the demon king in front of him knows the integrity of a scholar. But if he dies, wouldn't the daughter-in-law who finally said he was good want to cheapen others?

Thinking of these, Ma Yu felt that he had to endure it, and if he couldn't bear it, he would make a big plan, which was also a wise saying, talking about a strategy.

Li Kui didn't look at Ma Yu's reaction at all, but asked: "By the way, Brother Boren, I want to ask you, what does your family think about your support for the reformers and conservatives?" ”

Opinion?

What do you think?

His father was a grace officer.

It doesn't matter if it's a reformer or a conservative. They are all elites in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty. His father couldn't even pass the Jinshi exam, and he didn't even have the qualifications to be accepted as a younger brother, otherwise his father wouldn't have thought about Zhishi.

Seeing that Ma Yu didn't speak, Li Kui continued: "Let's put it this way, the Wen family doesn't have any restrictions on your position. After all, you should also know that Lu Guogong is a conservative person, although he is old, his influence in the court is still there. ”

Ma Yu was really scared, he had a feeling of encountering a madman. But the huge amount of benefits made him not want to leave at all, and said with a crying face: "The younger brother was led by his father-in-law to see Lu Guogong, and he can't say what he wants from the younger brother." But Brother Renjie, this champion won't be talking, right? ”

"That's what Your Majesty meant." Li Kui knew from looking at the other party's expression that he was not convincing enough to move the emperor out.

Ma Yu's eyes widened, trembling with excitement, and his voice trembled: "Is this true?" ”

Seeing that Ma Yu finally believed it, Li Kui grinned, slapped Ma Yu on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Master Kui taught you to be the champion!" ”