Yuan Rui used his housekeeping skills, Xiaohe helped, Aunt Wang helped, and after a while, a large table full of dishes made the two of them feel fresh when they looked at them, and there were many dishes, even Xu Guangjun, a frequent visitor who often went to various places in the capital, was surprised.

"This is what your young master did himself?" Xu Guangjun really doesn't believe it, scholars can still cook.

Even Miss Xu was curious, she had never heard of it, and she could cook. This Yuan Rui is becoming more and more incomprehensible, the more familiar he is, the more he understands, the more familiar this guy is, the more unfamiliar he is.

After the two of them start eating, they can't stop. Nowadays, the dishes are more steamed, paying attention to health and nutrition, and many things are boiled in vain, and the taste cannot be mentioned at all. Yuan Rui is more fried and roasted, the nutrition may be reduced, and the taste has come up.

Later, both of them found that they had eaten too much, and they were still unsatisfied, and they heard Xiaohe say that there were still delicious nights to eat, and the two were even more surprised, feeling that these dishes were invented by Yuan Rui himself.

"If this is in the capital, it is not a lot of money to make a restaurant to be made," Xu Guangjun said in three sentences.

Yuan Rui smiled, this is to satisfy his appetite, go to open a restaurant, forget it, tired to death!

After a few people finished eating, they sat down and chatted a few words, seeing that the time was not early, the two were about to leave for Yangzhou, when there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the door. A soldier who was waiting outside came in to tell the news, and several messengers from the border army came.

Miss Xu wondered, how did she find here, is there something at home? It shouldn't be a border army, there are a lot of believers in the capital! When the letter soldier led by the leader came in, Miss Xu stepped forward and asked directly, "Where are you a soldier, what's the urgency?" ”

Xinbing hurriedly knelt down on one knee, "I am the border army of Yulin, and my Huai King has a letter to Yuan Rui and Yuan Xianggong, may I ask who you are?" ”

Miss Xu was stunned, King Huai's letter was going to be sent to Yuan Rui, what was going on at this time?

When Yuan Rui heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to register his number. The messenger presented the letter, gave a salute, and took his leave. He is also inexplicable, King Huai is looking for himself, and he also sends a letter to himself alone, King Huai knows who he is!

Miss Xu was surprised and quickly asked Yuan Rui to open the letter to see what was going on.

Yuan Rui opened the letter, read it again, and handed it to Miss Xu.

This is a temporary conscription notice, requiring Yuan Rui to rush to the Longzhou border army after receiving the letter to counsel military affairs. Yuan Rui was directly stunned, looked at Miss Xu, and thought it was recommended by the Wei State Mansion.

Miss Xu was also confused, King Huai, personally recruited a little scholar to go to the border army to counsel military affairs, and he didn't dare to joke like this!

Now the two of them were not in a hurry to go back, and sat back at the stone table, and there was not much content on the letter. It is also true that if the dignified King Huai wants to summon a people, do you still need to make it clear to you?

Several people were wondering, and there were bursts of gongs and drums, from far to near, and the sound was getting louder and louder. This time, everyone, including Xiaohe, understood that this was the Annunciation.

Yuan Rui smiled bitterly, this day has passed!!

On the eighth day of September, the list of Yangzhou Township Examination was announced, and a total of 96 people were admitted to this township examination, and Yuan Rui ranked fifth.

Yangzhou's township trial looks like an undercurrent surging, and many people are waiting to see the excitement, but they have been waiting until the end, and they are all calm.

The local officials were all in a step-by-step manner and did not do anything. The inspector and Xuezheng avoided suspicion and did not participate at all to prevent involvement.

As long as there is no problem on the ground in Yangzhou, no one can find fault with the local officials in Yangzhou, which is also a correct coping strategy.

The examination has ended, and the chief and deputy examiners have begun to mark the papers together with the examiners of each room, which is different from the college examination and much stricter.

It was another eight or nine days, especially after the strategy and sifted out most of the people.

It is because of this that Yuan Rui was given a chance to reform, and this continuous examination form began to change, and finally formed a screening mode of one pass and one pass, which is a later story.

Yuan Rui's first two exams were normal, there were no major mistakes, and he was considered to have entered the list.

To put it simply, everyone's room number is fixed, and the individual test papers are grouped together first.

When grading, the first test paper is reviewed, if it is found that there is a taboo or a very poor test paper, it will be eliminated, and the next two test papers will not be read at all, which is why many students can't figure out why they write very well in the back, but there is no explanation.

Therefore, after reading the first test paper, more than 700 test papers were lost, that is, more than 700 people had no chance.

The second scene is an official document, this one, Yuan Rui feels okay, I don't think it's too difficult, after all, it's all standard topics.

He didn't expect to eliminate more than 1,000 people, and many people denied all of them just because of one word, and some of them just one format. It can be imagined how high the requirements are and how strict the house master is.

By the time the policy was reviewed, there were less than 300 copies of the entire student examination paper left.

There is also attention to this in the middle, first look at the review topic, as long as the point of view is deviated, no matter how wonderful the writing is, it is eliminated, this is the direction.

Moreover, if we want to explain the problem and think clearly, the analysis and understanding are poor, and the angle is deviated, and the argument loses its meaning.

In the end, it is whether there is something to say, the question is there, it is basic to think of, there are ideas and methods to be tested, the clouds and clouds are foggy, and there is nothing to be done.

Those who can be examiners in each room are not given for nothing, they all have their own cognitive thinking, and if you write nonsense there, you will be killed directly.

To say that it is a coincidence, it is that Yuan Rui's strategy was personally reviewed by Song Qiulin, the deputy chief examiner.

Originally, Du Shaogang, the deputy chief examiner of Yangzhou, was also recommended by Zhu Fantao, a university scholar, and came to Yangzhou this time to assist Wang Weimin, not to mention anything else, at least in the general direction to be consistent with Wang Weimin.

Song Qiulin originally went to Qingzhou with Master Meng. Before leaving, the saint suddenly issued an order and transferred the two, which not only made the two inexplicable, but even the important ministers of the court were full of doubts.

This is thanks to Zhu Fuzi, since he saw Yuan Rui's treatise on Song's foreign policy, he was full of appreciation, not only carefully studied it several times, but also played it alone, and presented this treatise that he had perfected to the saint.

And the saint also got the complete Yuan Rui's strategy from Yinying, and combined with Zhu Fuzi's analysis, his thinking suddenly became clear, and he also realized the value of this strategy.

So this time, he sent Song Qiulin directly to Yangzhou, and specially asked people to tell him a few words to see more of Yuan Rui's strategy.

Song Qiulin didn't know who Yuan Rui was, but the saint asked him to come, he must have a purpose, and he did it himself. It's all vague, and he doesn't know who it is, it's also simple, it's all reviewed, and then slowly look for it.

When he read the Pentagonal Theory, he immediately realized that this person was Yuan Rui, because he had read the Song Dynasty's treatise on foreign policy, and the techniques were completely similar, and even the ideas were similar.

After reading the whole strategy, he was also emotional, there is a reason why the saint let himself pay attention to this person, talent, really a talent, such insight, such ideas, and some countermeasures are refreshing.

He didn't delay, and took this policy to Wang Weimin's side, "Lord Wang, please read this policy." ”

Wang Weimin also knew a little in advance, this Song Hanlin came here, as long as it was not a big principle, he could be left to him.

However, seeing the strategy, Wang Weimin was also shocked, based on this idea alone, there is nothing to say about these countermeasures, coupled with the particularity of Song Hanlin, he didn't say much, who else would be chosen if such a talent was not chosen, and he was not here to be a villain.

Finally, after a few days of comprehensive examinations, Yuan Rui ranked fifth in the township examination with his outstanding performance in strategy.

That is, on the same day, Yuan Rui's strategy and test papers were copied and sent to the capital overnight.

Here, Yuan Rui asked Xiaohe to pack his luggage quickly, and there was no room for refusal, so he could only go to Longzhou according to the notice.

Miss Xu made a suggestion, Xu Guangguang should also go to Longzhou during this time, and suggested that he go to the capital first, meet Xu Guangguang Hou and then go to Longzhou together, and be with his eldest brother on the way, you can take care of him.

Xu Guangjun thought about another point, what he meant was that with him, Brother Xu's person was in too fast, Yuan Rui estimated that he couldn't bear it, and it happened that Xu Guangjun was going to Longzhou to make fried noodles on the spot, and he could discuss it on the way.

When Miss Xu heard this, she felt reasonable, and it was much better to be with Second Brother Xu.

Early the next morning, Yuan Rui took Xiaohe and followed Xu Guangjun to the capital, and Miss Xu was going to Yangzhou to accompany her mother.

This time I took the waterway, and after two days, I entered the capital from the north gate.

After a hundred years of stable and rapid development, it can be said that this is the largest and most prosperous city in the entire East and West.

The capital is 42 miles wide from north to south and nearly 55 miles long from east to west, and nearly one million people live in such a huge city.

Now the industrial shops in the capital are densely gathered, and there are merchants from all over the country, and you will find that all kinds of people have lived in the capital for a long time, and it is not strange that people in the capital have seen a lot.

They sorted and sorted out the goods that were shipped from all over the country, either by ship or by car, and then brought back from China to the rare items that were easy to sell.

Following the caravan into the city slowly, Yuan Rui was still shocked, although he had seen the market, but now the capital still gave him a great shock.

At this time, the capital exuded the glory of the nation, and only the diligent people could build such a great city. Now it is late autumn, the weather is slowly getting cooler, and the people in the capital are also wearing thick clothes.