In the panic, Shen Shangshu was carried to the side hall by the imperial doctor for treatment, which was like a buffer.

After the ministers were shocked, the confusion in their minds gradually dissipated, and the reason of calculation gradually returned.

Unexpectedly, in this strictest palace test in history, Lin Tailai also wrote a subtle eight-strand essay, what is the reason for this?

Could it be that Lin Tailai has been hiding his strength, and ultimately pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and he has endured it from the beginning and deceived the world?

Or is there another reason why someone superior is secretly helping each other? After all, there is no one in a certain profession who does not want auspiciousness, and this is the motivation.

Ministers prefer to believe in the latter rather than the former.

Thinking of this, more than a dozen ministers all took the risk of looking up at the king, and all peeked towards the throne.

Emperor Wanli, who was on the throne, met more than a dozen small glances, and after being stunned, he suddenly had a realization.

The young emperor, who was less than thirty years old, was not so calm, like a good family who was suspected of stealing people, and couldn't help but shout: "I haven't leaked the question!" ”

Shen Shoufu couldn't help but ponder, is there such a possibility that the emperor bypassed everyone and directly colluded with Lin Tailai?

Wang Situ, who has been keeping a low profile to avoid suspicion, felt that he could finally come forward at this time.

So he immediately jumped out and took the lead mountain and shouted: "Fortunately, the Holy Emperor is alive, and Deze is alive, so that he has the unprecedented nine-yuan Renrui, and the ministers congratulate the world!" ”

The main reason is that Wang Situ felt that the situation was still a little unstable at this time, so he took the lead in jumping out and first sat down on "Xiangrui".

Since they are all auspicious, there is no reason to take back auspiciousness, right? That would be unlucky.

Emperor Wanli received another minister's congratulations, and the Wenhua Hall was not lively.

But the work is not over, after the Wenhua Hall is lively, the ministers returned to Wenyuan Pavilion and continued to rank more than 300 test papers, and opened the seals and filled in the lists.

After the Golden Palace's ceremony, this list will be posted outside the left gate of Chang'an, which is commonly known as the emperor list or gold list.

According to the old practice, the top three on the gold list are still empty, and they will be filled in when it comes to the ceremony, although the champion candidates have been leaked in advance.

Near dusk, more than a dozen paper readers finished all the palace examination work and went out of the palace to their respective homes.

Then the news about the ranking of the palace examination began to spread gradually.

At this time in the past, the top three test papers were not opened. You can know who the top three are through the elimination method, but you don't know the specific ranking of the top three.

As a suspense, the champion candidate will not be revealed until the ceremony.

But this year is unusual, Junchen is too curious, and he actually opened the champion test paper in advance.

In the seventeenth year of Wanli, the name of the champion of the Yichou Branch Hall had been circulated in advance before the Golden Palace was passed on.

Lin Tailai is spending time in the Hubu Shangshu Wangfu today, and Wang Situ is also a paper reader, as long as he returns home, Lin Tailai will be able to know the news as soon as possible.

When it was about to get dark, Wang Situ appeared with a smile and said to Brother-in-law Lin with sincere admiration: "In the future, you can take the number nine yuan!" ”

Lin Tailai hurriedly welcomed Wang Situ into the study and carefully inquired about today's situation.

After listening to Wang Situ finish the process, Lin Daguan felt that he was a little lucky, and sighed:

"Fortunately, I have previously concluded that Shen Xiang does not have much competitiveness in the palace examination, and he is not very able to rely on it.

On the contrary, Shen Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had to prove himself in the palace examination, and he was much more determined than Shen Xiang.

He will definitely look for the test papers that are suspected of being his own people, even if he does not enter the top three tripods, at least he is in the top five of the second grade.

However, in the end, there is still some luck in winning the champion. ”

Wang Situ, who witnessed the whole process, also agreed: "As the so-called narrow road meets, the brave wins, once in front of the Son of Heaven, when the two sides enter the handover, Shen Xiang will give in slightly, and he will not be able to fight Shen Li to the end."

In addition, Gao Panlong's test paper was also an accident, and he was constantly pushing the battle to escalate, and I don't know what Gao Panlong thought. ”

Lin Tailai said casually: "This is up to him, maybe he wants to speculate, or maybe he bets on two sides with other accomplices." ”

After finishing speaking, Lin Tailai got up and walked out.

Wang Situ asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Lin Tailai turned his head and replied, "Go visit Shen Xiang." ”

So Wang Situ pretended to be dissatisfied and said: "You are a relative of the Wang family, and you don't celebrate with your family when you encounter a happy event, why do you want to run to Shenfu?" ”

Lin Tailai calmly explained: "It's not time to celebrate, after all, the ceremony has not been held, and the emperor list has not been hung.

It is not that there is no precedent for temporary change of rank in all dynasties, maybe there are villains who still want to do bad things!

So to continue to stabilize, I'll talk to Shousuke first, so as not to think about it. ”

Wang Situ was speechless, this brother-in-law was wild on the outside, but he didn't look like a young man on the inside.

Since before the exam, he has been talking about someone trying to harm him every day, and everyone looks like a wicked person. Now that the temple examination papers are over, he is still wondering if anyone will harm him.

If it were an ordinary person, it should have been so ecstatic that I didn't know what to do, right?

"So what else can you do?" Wang Situ couldn't help but ask.

Lin Daguan rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully: "I just want to preemptively find those officials who have old grudges with me, and then go to work hard to smash them again, as a warning?"

In this case, if they still want to harm our champion's good deeds, it will not be out of public intentions, but out of personal vendetta and revenge, and they will lose justice and justice in their position. ”

Wang Situ understands that this little brother-in-law is not Gou, but a dog, and this preemptive idea is too magical!

"No matter what you do or where you're going tomorrow, you have to stay home and have a few drinks tonight when the news starts circulating!"

Wang Situ opened his mouth and forcibly kept the guest, which was the last stubbornness of a household secretary.

Lin Daguan couldn't bear the sophistication of the real power boss of Zheng Erpin, so he could only continue to spend the night in the Wang family.

Early the next morning, Lin Daguan, who was about to become nine yuan, made a public appearance, and the location was still outside the gate of the Shen Mansion, as if he would try it.

Shenfu Menzi looked at Lin Tai with a complicated expression and said: "My master said that you can now set up your own door, and in the future, when you act outside, don't say that you are a guest of Shenfu anymore." ”

"No!" Lin Daguan seemed to be underestimated, and said excitedly: "Is it a person who forgets his roots?" As long as there is no official award on the next day, as long as there is no public office on the next day, you will still be a guest of the Shenfu for one day! ”

Shenfu Menzi: "."

There are dozens of big men behind this Lin someone, and he has no ability to drive them away.

Because of the relationship between the palace examination papers, Shen Shoufu has not dealt with official affairs for several days, and the cabinet has a backlog of many notebooks.

So Shen Shoufu is like a social animal today, and he has to go out to work.

He had just walked to the front yard between the gate and the gate, ready to get on the sedan chair here. Suddenly, I saw that the tall and majestic Lin Tailai rushed to the side of the sedan chair.

Before Shen Shoufu could react, Lin Tailai immediately bowed at a ninety-degree right angle and shouted, "Red bean puree Smith, no, I'm really sorry!" ”

Shen Shoufu glanced at Lin Tailai coldly, didn't speak, and left directly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Shoufu's sedan chair and walked away, Lin Tailai straightened up, turned his head and shouted to the instrument door: "Uncle Mao come out!" ”

Shen Yongmao walked out and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you can come back in a few days." ”

Then he said to Lin Tai: "I have another matter, and I am about to talk to you." ”

Lin Tailai asked in surprise, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Under normal circumstances, Lin Tailai directly looks for the first assistant if he has something, and Shen Yongmao also looks for the first assistant if he has something.

Shen Yongmao said: "Now that you are about to become the unprecedented nine yuan, the Xu family's bookstore wants to continue to cooperate with you." ”

This Xu family is from the Huqiu Xu family, and everyone knows the relationship between Shen Shixing and the Huqiu Xu family, and now they are moving around according to their relatives.

Lin Daguan said bluntly: "I have a bad impression of them. ”

Shen Yongmao asked in surprise, "Why?" Haven't you worked together many times? ”

Previously, in order to carry out personal publicity, Lin Tailai started from "Wu Zhuangyuan Three Difficulties Gu Daru", and there were a large number of engraving and printing businesses, all of which cooperated with Xujia Bookstore.

Lin Tailai snorted coldly: "They refuse to be free, and they refuse to take credit, which makes me very unhappy." ”

Shen Yongmao: "."

Does this mean that he only loves white prostitutes in his life? If you don't prostitute for nothing, you're uncomfortable?

However, Shen Yongmao had no intention of reversing Lin Daguan's consumption concept, and hurriedly said: "You don't have to spend money this time, on the contrary, I will give you a share of profits!"

They want to publish a book called "Nine Yuan Poems", which will compile all your poems so far into one book.

What are the three songs, the fourteen bitterness of Xinyuefu, the ten articles of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the five blessings of the lunar month, and the five words of spring, as well as those who ridicule the world and scold people, there will be no less! ”

Lin Tailai has no opinion on this kind of long-faced thing, he just wants to ask: "Why are you so positive?" ”

Shen Yongmao raised his head and chest: "I am specially invited to write an exclusive preface to this poetry collection and comment on it exclusively." ”

Lin Tailai: "."

Even if the old leader of the literary world is unwilling to make a preface, then wouldn't it be more face-saving to call a household department Shangshu or a minister's department Zuo Shilang to write a preface?

Forget it, anyway, I am working alone in the literary world, and I don't need to rely on the big guy to add glory, so it doesn't matter if Shen Yongmao is the preface.

After Lin Daguan figured it out, he put forward a small condition to Uncle Shen: "I can let you make the preface, but you are responsible for leveling Ling Zun!" ”

"It's easy to say, it's on me." Shen Yongmao agreed.

Then he said: "The poetry collection must end with your literary champion, not only your own works, but also some poems given to you by others, as well as poems written by others from the side."

Therefore, you should mobilize your relatives and friends to write more poems for you in the near future, so that you can choose the best ones when you publish them. ”

"Got it." Lin Daguan casually came down, and then left the Shen Mansion.

There are still many things to do today, and if you don't preemptively strike, you will feel uncomfortable.

(End of chapter)