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Approaching the academy and entering the meadow, I found that those pink and tender flowers and trees are not one, and now the most prosperous is the apricot blossom, but the most number of plants is still the peach blossom, those light first peaches are avoided behind the apricot blossoms, and they look up with their little faces secretly looking at these people who come to disturb their peace, full of shyness.

Sang Sang looked up with his little face, curiously climbed on Ning Que's shoulder and looked out of the window, looking at the academy that was getting closer and closer, looking at the mountain behind the academy that was covered by clouds and mist, and found that he didn't feel uncomfortable, and his thin willow eyes narrowed with a smile, full of happiness.

The students who were waiting for the examination at the academy got out of the carriage one by one, lined up in front of a spacious stone terrace under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the teachers of the academy, and then entered the two rows of rain corridors next to the courtyard to rest.

The students to be examined come from different places, most of them are personally selected by the academy teachers in the village schools of various counties in the Tang Dynasty, and the rest are selected by various ministries, among which the military department alone has selected more than 70 prospective candidates, the number is very large, but so many students sit in the rain corridors on both sides of the stone flat, it is not crowded at all, you can imagine how spacious the place is.

Above the stone flat is the main building of the academy, hidden in the light mist of flowers and trees, but because the building itself is extremely tall, the two oblique corridors are like the wings of a phoenix, so there is no sense of small jasper, but there is a kind of indescribable clear and refreshing taste, which is extremely atmospheric.

Ning Que's focus at this time is not the appearance of the academy, if he can be admitted to the academy, he will have several years in the future to measure the breadth of the academy with his feet, and look at the beauty of the academy with his eyes, what he is more concerned about now is that at this time, the waiting candidates in the rain corridor are only afraid that there are more than five hundred, and the academy will only admit two hundred, which is not too high a ratio of two out of five, and he can't help but be a little worried.

The students waiting for the examination under the rain corridor were all calm, there was no chatting left and right, and no one took out the real paper test questions in their arms to make the final sprint, and they were the best young people in Datang and even the whole world - yes, although there were school captains who were over thirty years old and had their faces full of bitter cold and frost, and there were also genius children who were brought back to Chang'an from a certain remote rural village school by Jiao Xi and looked at them with childish and ignorant faces, but they could all be regarded as young people - no one wanted to show their lack of confidence at this time.

Ning Que's confidence became less and less, his right hand trembled slightly, and he was about to reach out to Sang Sang several times to ask for the real test papers in her package, but he forcibly took it back, and just when he was finally about to break the jar and break it, and he wanted to sharpen his best knife in front of the formation without any face, a solemn sound of palace music suddenly sounded around Shiping.

The Yulin Army arrived, the guard of honor arrived, the officials of the various ministries arrived, and then the spectators who spent money to buy tickets arrived, the palace guards arrived, His Royal Highness the Prince arrived, the Empress arrived, and His Majesty the Emperor arrived.

Li Yu, the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty, walked slowly across the stone flat under the arch guard of the eunuchs and palace maids, walked through the ardent envious and admiring eyes of the young unmarried students in the corridor, walked past the surprised eyes and whispered discussions of the ministers, walked up the long phoenix wing road to the main room of the academy, came to the stone fence and bowed to the emperor and the queen mother, and then stood quietly beside the left hand of the emperor's majesty.

Unlike the ill-intentioned imagination of the enemies of the rest of the world, and the imagination of some conspiracy theories and paranoids such as Ning Que, there is no opposition between the imperial power and the academy within the Tang Empire, and only a very few people know that the current Tang Dynasty Emperor once studied in the academy incognito for two years when he was a teenager, and after he ascended the throne, no matter how big or small, he would come to the academy to rest, and he might even stay in the academy for a whole month in winter.

If the Tang Dynasty Imperial Power is really faintly afraid of or even balancing the power of the academy, then when the academy opens, the imperial court will definitely not put on such a big battle, and the Son of Heaven will not regard himself as a second home.

The ministers of the court and the central government knew the feelings of His Majesty Xià for the academy, and knew the importance of each academy opening ceremony to His Majesty, so they could not suppress the shock in their hearts when they saw the fourth princess Li Yu, and they looked at the high railing, looking at the women standing on the left and right sides of His Majesty, and their feelings could not help but be extremely complicated, the four princesses returned from the grassland for less than a month, and they showed the world the unparalleled favor they received, I don't know what the queen mother who was standing quietly on the other side of the majesty at this time would think at this moment。

The bell rang crisply behind the mountain, which was the first call for the entrance examination of the college, and hundreds of students waiting for the examination in the rain corridor rushed out under the command of the academy teaching, walked through the flat road under the railing of the main building of the college, and walked towards the courtyard.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty looked at those handsome and dashing students, and under his gaze, he couldn't help but brush his beard slightly, showing a satisfied and joyful smile.

The fourth princess Li Yu saw her father's expression, smiled and said, "Congratulations to my father, all the talents in the world have entered your ranks." ”

The emperor laughed when he heard this, but he didn't think so, but he didn't think it was angry.

The queen didn't say anything, just smiled and looked up at her husband, her eyes were full of admiration and admiration, and her soft right hand lightly put it on his hand to express encouragement.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at his wife and daughter beside him, the ministers on both sides, and the countless pillars of the empire in the future, and couldn't help but feel satisfied, and suddenly he felt as if there was one less person beside him, frowned slightly, and asked a minister behind him, "Master...... Still won't come?"

The minister was terrified and said, "The dean said that the entrance examination of the academy is to select talents for His Majesty and the empire, and he ...... He didn't need to show up, he had to prepare his luggage and leave in two days. ”

His Majesty the Emperor remembered this, and his face was full of regret, like a child who had done a good deed but had not been praised by his father, patted the stone fence and sighed: "I almost forgot that the time when the master went to the country this year was earlier than before. ”

He glanced back at the mountain behind the academy that seemed to be looming among the clouds, and was silent for a moment and bowed.

About ten miles away from this mountain, somewhere on the side of the road, there is a monk who is drinking tea and talking to each other, it is still early in the morning, and I don't know where they came from so interested.

The monk was about thirty years old, with a handsome and peaceful face, and naturally had the intention of getting rid of the dust, his eyes fell between the vertical and horizontal lines on the table, and then he raised his head to look at the high mountain and the academy in the distance, and suddenly asked, "I heard...... The Master is very tall. ”

The Taoist usually looks solemn inside and out, but today he looks extremely casual, stretching out his hand and flicking the air lightly, and responding: "Master...... Extremely high, of course. ”

"How tall?"

"How do I know if I'm a little character?"

"The Tang Dynasty National Teacher doesn't know?"

"You are the imperial brother of the Tang Dynasty, don't you know the same?"

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