In the early hours of the morning, when the wind was cold, the sky was as bright as liquid, and the wind tore the leaves off the treetops, rolled up the house, and landed at the feet, and the two wild cats chased after each other on the roof, without disturbing a single piece of tile.

The oil lamp was lit in Wu Jin's house, and the sound of rustling sounded, and it was Wu Jin who got up to comb his hair and put on his clothes.

"A-Niang," he whispered, "you can help me get the toothwood and fetch water." ”

Mother Wu nodded, walked to the door and opened it halfway.

Her withered body unfolded into a huge black shadow under the light, spreading from her feet to the door, and then folding out of the porch, drawing a chasm between Mo Lingfeng and Wu Jin.

With the tooth wood and water, she hurriedly returned to the house, handed the soaked willow branch to Wu Jin, Wu Jin bit off the branch, rinsed her mouth and teeth carefully, washed her face, and went out dressed neatly.

When he opened the door, the cold autumn wind rushed to him, and he carried his wide sleeves and hunted.

He saw Mo Lingfeng sitting in his own chair, probably uncomfortable, sitting very shallowly, blowing and drinking while holding a tea bowl, Rao was like this, his mouth was still stained with broken tea leaves, and the lantern was placed on the table, and the yellow light inside fell on her forehead and cheeks, illuminating her into a fluffy peach.

Wu Jin remembered the nightmare she had two years ago and stepped forward: "Thank you. ”

Mo Lingfeng put down the teacup, wiped the broken tea leaves from his mouth, got up and said, "The Gongyuan has already opened, and when I came, I saw the piles of reeds and firewood on both sides shining to the horizon." ”

Then she carried the lantern and handed it to Yin Nan: "I'm leaving." ”

She came suddenly, and she left simply, and as soon as she left, the small courtyard resumed its busyness after a short silence.

Wu's father and Wu's mother heard that the Gongyuan had lit a pile of reeds, and they didn't look at the time, so they hurriedly set up a pot to cook, and called Wu Yi up again.

Wu Jin carried the burden, Wu Yi carried the examination basket, and went to the Guanxi Bridge Tribute Courtyard together, and before they arrived at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, they saw the fire soaring into the sky, and sure enough, they set up a high pile of reed firewood, and illuminated the Guanxi Bridge.

The two of them involuntarily quickened their pace, and when they arrived at the door, Wu Yi couldn't go in again, so he could only give the test basket to Wu Jin, who carried it through the gate with a strap, searched once in Yimen, and searched again in Longmen.

The external supervisor of Longmen took Wu Jin's floating ticket and looked at it repeatedly, but did not let Wu Jin in.

Wu Jin didn't know what was wrong, seeing that the external supervisor was hesitant, his heart fell suddenly, and a cold breath rose with his heels, straight to the heavenly spirit, and his body was full of qi and blood, almost frozen in the cold wind.

Even the first two soldiers who searched their belongings tightened up—and if there was any negligence, they would be punished together.

Fortunately, although Wu Jin was worried, he was not modest, so he arched his hands in front of his chest, rubbed them deeply, and said frankly: "Dare to ask the examiner, is the student float dirty?" ”

The external supervisor examiner looked at him again, and saw that although his face was uneasy, his expression was upright, so he said: "It's not defaced, it's just that the floating ticket says that your face is white, but your face is black, just after summer, you must be tanned." ”

He put down the floating ticket and beckoned to a soldier: "There is a teaching from the state school to do an inspection here, please come and identify one or two." ”

At this time, it happened that Governor Cheng led a group of external curtain examiners to inspect from the inside out, and when he saw Wu Jin standing there, he asked, "Wu Jin, why are you standing here?" ”

The external supervisor and examiner hurriedly stood up and explained the reason.

"I'll vouch for him." Governor Cheng slapped the examiner appreciatively with a fan-like slap, and almost slapped the examiner to the ground.

The external supervisor accepted the praise with grinning teeth, and saw that the prefect Cheng was guaranting for Wu Jin, so he picked a ticket and let Wu Jin in.

Wu Jin took the ticket, crossed the dragon gate, and at a glance, he saw a three-storey Mingyuan building standing in the middle of the building, with an examiner overlooking the scholars, a row of fifty rooms in the house, and a thatched house at the end, like a beehive, neat, cramped, dusty, dense.

He found the third room of the Xuanzi number on the ticket, and saw that the walls and tiles of the house were complete, and it was not near the thatched house, so he knew that it was the external supervisor who looked at the face of Cheng Zhifu and assigned him a good number house.

He put down the burden of the examination basket, fetched water to wipe the number board, thinking that there was Mo Lingfeng to remind him of the time today, so that he would arrive early, and the examiner was not busy when he checked the floating ticket, and was willing to listen to him.

He carefully wiped the board, and his expression gradually became as solemn as this examination room - the young man is hard, not lazy, and Lingyun's ambition will be displayed.

When the candidates entered, the Gongyuan locked the door, and Kuanzhou City immediately became deserted, and countless expectations were suppressed, only to be sprayed out when the list was released.

Mo Mansion was already silent, but after the test began, it became more and more lonely.

Mo Lingfeng went all the way back to Changsuiju, fell asleep again, and woke up in the morning.

She ate and drank to her heart's content, sat for a while, bored, took a goose pear from the fruit bowl, ate it "click", and went to the study as she ate, and a grasshopper crawled on the bluestone slab, which made her step into the crack of the brick.

After eating the pears in the middle of the course, she broke off a branch of osmanthus, used the cinnamon branch as a shovel, pouted her butt and dug a hole in the chrysanthemum bush, and buried the pear core in it.

There was no sun at all, the cool wind blew on her, she walked all the way to the study, and before she entered the door, she saw Mo Qianlan and Zhao Shiheng gathered together, chattering endlessly.

Since July, the two have been busy non-stop, conspiring together every day, and the degree of conspiracy can be called rebellion.

As soon as Mo Qianlan saw her sister, she immediately got up, walked out of the door, bent down and touched Mo Lingfeng's hair, and led her into the study.

He asked Mo Lingfeng to sit in his chair, turned his head and told Yin Bei to go out to deliver the letter.

As soon as Yin Bei left, their conspiracy also ended, Mo Qianlan asked Mo Lingfeng to eat rice cakes, and reached out to dust off the rice cake crumbs on her clothes, and at the same time lowered his head to smell the fragrance in her hair, and talked to Zhao Shiheng about today's test.

Mo Lingfeng ate a piece of rice cake, drank a cup of tea on Mo Qianlan's teacup, and ran out unwilling to listen to them reminisce about the past.

She walked aimlessly to the backyard, squinted her eyes as she left, thoughtfully, and after thinking for a while, she went to Jiu Si Xuan for a turn.

The big yellow dog lay lazily outside the door, opened his eyelids and glanced at Mo Lingfeng, waved his tail carelessly, and saw Mo Lingfeng touch Tao Xun, without saying a word, his four legs stood upright, spread his hooves and escaped.

Mo Lingfeng whimpered and blew for a while, and asked people to carry a basket of tangerines to the aunts, and she was going to talk to the aunts.

Mo Qianlan has six aunts, with a uniform waist and thick hips, and they look like they are good children, all of whom were bought from poor families to spread out for the Mo family.

However, for many years, they have never given birth to a son and a half daughter to Mo Qianlan, if this is placed in someone else's house, it is unforgivable, but in Mo Mansion, no one cares.

Although they live in the cold palace and are widowed, they eat and drink well, and occasionally they can go out and go back to their parents' house, they are more and more like made dough, white and fat, if they stand with Mo Qianlan, they don't know who takes advantage of whom.

Hearing that Mo Lingfeng was going to eat oranges with them, the aunts immediately dressed up, shook their shoulders and waists, and asked for peace to the little ancestor of Mo Mansion.