At this point, the case is basically qualitative.

None of the ministers present came out to give their opinions, for them, Cheng Min's political advice is the best result, and it may be a big matter if they continue to pursue it.

The court discussion has not yet ended, and here Zhu Youzhu has asked Xiao Jing to take a few people who were not involved in the case out of the palace.

Tang Yin thought that he couldn't leave the palace today, but when he turned his face and was acquitted, even he didn't know what he had experienced, and when he left the palace, he was very wooden, as if he had lost himself in thinking about life, and his eyes were empty.

"Mr. Zhang, today is the day when the list will be released, and Your Majesty has also ordered, there is nothing more important today than you waiting for the release of the list, and our family will send it here first."

Xiao Jing was overjoyed.

Today, the emperor won back a city in the court, and he was rejoicing for the emperor.

Of course, he also knew that the credit was on Zhang Zhou, if it weren't for Zhang Zhou's proposal to implicate everyone who went to visit Cheng Minzheng in the case, and shifted the focus of public opinion to the issue of "seeking progress through fate", the matter would not have ended so easily.

Zhang Zhou glanced at the scholars who came out not far away, and then leaned over and said, "I know the result, what are you waiting for?" ”

"Yes, Gongshi first, that's Huiyuan, what a scenery. You just pretend that you don't know the result yet, and wait for others to envy you. ”

Xiao Jing said, and hurriedly asked Sun Shangqi to drive the carriage over, meaning to let Zhang Zhou leave.

Tang Yin on the other side walked out of the palace gate with mechanical steps and looked around.

There was still some confusion on his face.

He is fine, but Xu Jingke, the big money behind him, is miserable, and his crime is second only to those scholars who sent silver to Cheng Fu but did not admit that they were still discussing the case outside.

Tang Yin lost his support, and he even had to think about his own meals.

"Brother Tang, why don't you go with us?" Zhang Zhou walked over and asked with a smile.

"You ......"

Tang Yin glanced at Zhang Zhou, with jealousy in his eyes.

He now knows very well that he is different from Zhang Zhou, Zhang Zhou has been exonerated from the beginning, and he has never even been to Beizhen Fusi, while he, Tang Yin, has been in it for seven or eight days.

He saw Zhang Zhou as if he saw the plague god.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Everything is settled, don't worry about walking with me, our bet contract has not been fulfilled, do you want to go together and wait for the release of the list?" ”

It just so happened that Xiao Jing said that he could pretend not to know the result and pretend to be forced in front of others.

Isn't this just the right to provide a Tang Yin to pretend to him?

Xiao Jing, who came over, said with a smile: "Our family has informed him that he will test the results." ”

Zhang Zhou's face was regretful, it seemed that there was no need to pretend to be this force, he said: "Congratulations to Brother Tang first, it's a pity, you will try to rank after me." ”

Tang Yin suddenly remembered that in addition to getting out of trouble, he also won the tribute

…… Thirteenth?

will try the thirteenth, this ranking is already very good.

He suddenly realized that Xiao Jing and Zhang Zhou walked together, and Zhang Zhou himself must have known in advance, and Zhang Zhou also said that his ranking was higher than him...... How many did you get in that week?

"Father-in-law Xiao, I'm going to walk with Tang Yin now, is it okay?" Zhang Zhou inquired.

Xiao Jing said with a smile: "The case of the two of you has been closed so far, where and how you two are going, our family has no way to ask." Please. ”

"Under ...... I have to go back and pack up ...... first."

Tang Yin didn't want to go with Zhang Zhou.

Zhang Zhou didn't mean to avoid suspicion at all, but he Tang Yin was very jealous.

Zhang Bingkuan doesn't know about the crimes he committed in the edict prison, right? Walking with you, and being criticized for two more sentences, wouldn't I want to enter the palace for the second time?

suffered the loss of getting close to Cheng Minzheng, and resolutely did not eat it a second time.

Say goodbye to you.

"Then don't send it, I'll go first."

"Please." Xiao Jing smiled and sent it off.

Zhang Zhou is not reluctant, anyway, he has a carriage to sit on, and he wants to go wherever he wants.

As for Tang Yin...... You are very diligent on both legs, and if you don't accept kindness, you can walk on your own.

Tang Yin saw that when Zhang Zhou left, there were both Jinyi guards driving the car, and people riding horses to see him off, so he knew that he couldn't compare, he lowered his head in front of Xiao Jing, and didn't dare to say anything, until Xiao Jing entered the palace gate, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Will try...... How many is he? But it seems to be ...... We have to wait for the results of the temple examination to judge the victory or defeat......"

"What's the point of winning or losing?"

Tang Yin was admitted to the Jinshi, but the arrogance in his bones seemed to have been sucked away by this unwarranted case.

……

……

The city was very lively that day.

After the end of the examination, the rumors of the question were boiling, and after the delay in the release of the list, it was finally about to usher in the finale of the examination on this day, and the scholars were nervous to wait for the release of the list.

The entrance of the Gongyuan of Ming Shifang is the place of the list, in addition to the list on the day, there is the Yacha of the Shuntian Mansion to cooperate with the roll call to announce the good news, etc., it can be said that it is a sea of people in the morning, the most lively.

However, the place where Zhang Zhou went that day was Guozijian.

Because he's going to drop out.

They have all been admitted to the Gongshi, and when the palace examination is completed on March 15, they officially become Jinshi and officially enter the court.

came to the capital, saying that he was a tribute under the name of the Beiguo Zijian, but he did not enter the Guozijian to read for a day.

When he took the carriage to the gate of Guozijian, he was told that Guozijian had a holiday today.

Whether it was a tribute or not to participate in the examination, he went to the outside of the tribute courtyard to see the excitement that day, and Guozijian also fully took into account the herd mentality of the candidates, and he didn't even teach or anything that day.

"Go, go, what's the mess? Insect removal! The medicine deserves to die! ”

On that day, there was a holiday, and the country was doing spring deworming.

Zhang Zhou had no choice but to walk out, and when he turned around, he saw the Yuesheng teahouse where he had written poems before, and then looked upstairs and found that Lin Ting and Lin Yi were looking down at the open window.

Probably the brothers and sisters of the Lin family also felt that it was a little strange that Zhang Zhou came to Guozijian at such a time.

Lin Ting made an invitation: "Bingkuan, come up and sit down." ”

Zhang Zhou didn't refuse, and entered the Yuesheng Teahouse, which was not very deserted, and there were two tables of guests upstairs, who seemed to have come to Lin Ting and Lin Yi for face.

These people are relatively low-key, and the dozen or so people upstairs can also be quiet and elegant.

Probably this will make the high-profile people in the whole capital make a fuss at the gate of the Gongyuan.

However, looking at the age of this group of people, and Lin Yi wearing women's clothes next to her, Zhang Zhou probably felt that this group of people was pretending.

A bunch of old ruffians.

"This is Bingkuan, Jiangnan Xie Yuan, you should have heard of it, right?" Lin Ting first introduced the surrounding scholars.

Of course, those people had heard of Zhang Zhou's name, but most of them had not seen it with their own eyes, and when they heard that this was Zhang Zhou, their faces were not enthusiastic or jealous...... Rather, it is a kind of avoidance and fear.

Zhang Zhou felt that others were treating him as a plague god.

He just smiled and arched his hands, and he didn't need to say anything.

No one seems to welcome him.

"Bingkuan, why don't you wait for the list to be released in the Gongyuan today?" After Lin Ting asked Zhang Zhou to sit down, he couldn't help asking.

Zhang Zhou's eyes fell on Lin Yi, Lin Yi, as Lin Han's daughter, was dressed in men's clothes every time she came out before, but this time she was dressed in women's clothes, and in front of so many "crazy bees and butterflies", she said in her heart Could it be that the old man Lin has changed his sex, in order to make the Empress Dowager Zhou die and no longer beat his daughter's idea, let her daughter come out more and ruin her reputation?

"I just came out of the palace, and I have a result. Why don't you come over and take a look at it, and give you a refund of your student status or something. ”

Zhang Zhoudao.

When the people around heard this, the people who were still shaking their heads at Zhang Zhou and avoiding them couldn't help but gather around at this time.

One person asked, "What is the outcome of the case?" Tang Yin and Xu Jing ......"

Halfway through the question, I'm embarrassed to ask again.

Ask the person involved the result...... This can't be called rudeness, it's just a matter of not knowing what to do.

Although Lin Ting was curious in his heart, he would not ask about the question so rashly, he said: "You are raising people to pay tribute, if you are in Chunqiu High School, your student status will be promoted, you don't have to come in person." ”

Zhang Zhou smiled but did not say a word.

There are some things that he is embarrassed to say.

In the previous tribute selection, he took the first place, this selection examination is the back door opened by the emperor's special decree, and now he does not need to accept the tribute selection, as usual, he still has to come and retreat.

Strictly speaking, there is a certain conflict between the election of officials by tribute and the participation in the examination, otherwise the emperor will not wait for the results of Zhang Zhou's examination before deciding whether Zhang Zhou will enter the court with tribute.

"Why didn't Brother Lin go to the Tribute Academy?" Zhang Zhou asked.

Lin Ting said: "It's all tribute, if it really wins, there will be someone who will report it, and we agreed to wait here today early in the morning." By the way, let's talk about academic matters. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Zhou nodded.

I was thinking, you can't just talk about me here, talk about the problem, and just happen to be bumped into by me, right?

Lin Yi listened to Zhang Zhou's nonsense for a long time, but he didn't answer the question that everyone present was most concerned about, and couldn't help but say: "What about the problem?" ”

"Sister, you ......"

Lin Ting wanted to teach his sister a lesson, but found that the eyes of the people around him were more eager than his sister.

Lin Yi just asked the topic that she wanted to ask.

As the hottest hot spot in the capital recently, didn't they talk about it for a long time just now?

Now that there's finally first-hand news, who wouldn't want to ask for clarity?

Zhang Zhoudao: "Early this morning, there are many people who participated in the examination, were brought into the palace, early in the morning before the noon gate, there are many people who have visited Cheng after October last year, and there have been gifts, convicted of seeking progress, and the gift-giving department is deposed as a local official. ”

"Master Cheng ordered Zhishi to live in Beijing, and some others, such as Tang Yin, who had visited Cheng's Mansion but did not give gifts, would not be held accountable...... I've never been there, and this case has nothing to do with me, so I just stood aside and listened. ”

"That's it?" Lin Ting wondered.

In his opinion, this result seemed to be different from the scholar's expectations.

Zhang Zhou smiled and added: "Oh, there are still a few people, who not only went to visit and give gifts, but also discussed the case more afterwards and spread it a lot, but refused to admit it after being testified by the people of Cheng Mansion, they may be unlucky, and even the reputation of the person will be guaranteed, as for whether there are other punishments, then I don't know." ”

"Huh!?"

The people present were all candidates who were waiting for the results together, and I heard that some people had been dismissed for discussing the case, although there were other prerequisites, and the shock to them was also great.

Lin Ting sighed: "No wonder some people will chase after the wind and catch shadows, and make a big fuss about investigating unsubstantiated things, it turns out that there are small people who are fanning the flames behind their backs, thinking that these people can't make progress by themselves, but they slander others for no reason, which is really unjust, and this reputation has been unjust." ”

The people around didn't expect Lin Ting to be so disgusted with those people.

They are still thinking, isn't it because Zhang Zhou was there, you deliberately said this in order to curry favor with him, right?

Zhang Zhoudao: "Your Majesty also has an order, saying that the results of this case will be announced together with the test list, and you will probably know the details in a while." ”

As he was talking, someone outside was shouting: "Brother Lizhan, come down quickly, you are a tribute, the twenty-sixth place on the gold list, and the people who report the good news are here!" ”

Originally, they were still talking about the topic.

At this time, everyone seemed to come to their senses.

Today is the day of the trial list, and the major events that determine the fate of everyone are ignored, no matter what kind of problem he has, it should be hung high if it is not his own business.

"Congratulations!"

Everyone immediately began to come over to congratulate Lin Ting.

(End of chapter)