At this time, the national strength of the Suzaku Empire has fallen from the strongest of the four empires to the bottom.

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Getting back to the point, if you want to get ahead, in the Suzaku Empire, ordinary people have two choices.

Warrior: Pass the martial arts exam, enter the court as an official, and glorify the ancestors.

Literati: Passing the imperial examination shows his ability.

But here we don't talk about the martial arts, but only the imperial examinations of the literati.

It is said that 'ten years of hard work in the cold window, once jumped into the dragon gate.' It is the imperial examination of the literati.

If you want to participate in the imperial examination of Yuyue Longmen, you must first obtain the qualification - Xiucai. After these three examinations, you can become a talent and participate in the next exams - the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination.

The township examination is a local examination held by the southern and northern Zhili and the political envoys of each country, and the township examination is also called the township examination, and the examination site of the examination is called the Gongyuan. The examination period is in autumn and August, so it is also called Qiuqiu.

Feng Ye is not very old, but he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of eleven, and he is also a genius in the mouth of the people in this small city.

Of course, Feng Ye still has self-knowledge, and he is not arrogant that he will successfully pass the autumn festival and become a lifter, and then participate in the examination, become a tribute, and finally participate in the palace examination, and become a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

Feng Ye wanted to participate in this triennial autumn festival, even if he couldn't pass the exam to become a lifter, but he could accumulate some experience.

Feng Ye's parents also agreed with Feng Ye's idea, so they let Feng Ye set off for the exam before the golden autumn and August.

It is said that Feng Ye went to take the exam, although he set off from home, but the surrounding villagers still heard about it.

Everyone only knew that Feng Ye went out to take the exam, but they didn't know that he had just finished the exam, he got a letter from home, his mother's illness, and didn't even wait for the exam results to be announced a few days later, so he hurried home.

Feng Ye went home, and the whole family was served by horse bandits.

The horse bandits killed people and robbed money, and set a fire to burn people to ashes.

So in this way, the villagers thought that Fengye was still thousands of miles away.

Because of this, when Yexue, who was dressed in men's clothes, took her scholar - Zhou to make trouble; Yahuan - Luomei appeared at the door of the Feng family's shattered house that was burned by the fire, and cried sadly.

The villagers looked at Ye Xue's handsome face like white jade, and asked Ye Xue tentatively if she was the Feng family Fengye who went to catch the exam.

Naturally, the night snow is full of 'yes'.

Ye Xue, together with Luomei and Zhou Trouble, burst into tears, who can doubt that they have nothing to do with the dead Feng family.

Yexue introduced the identities of Zhou Chaoshi and Luomei to the villagers, saying that they were the scholars and maids who bought them on the road.

Although the Feng family has declined, the conditions are still good, and the villagers did not doubt it, and even felt that Ye Xue, who was more than thirteen years old, was a reading genius who was examined, and with a girl ring and a scholar, he was wronged by Ye Xue.

The fire burned down the Feng family's house, and the enthusiastic villagers worked together to extinguish the fire, and in the end, only a few bones were found from the ruins.

The villagers picked up the bones, swept up some ashes, and put them in jars.

Yexue took over the ashes of the three members of the Feng family from the hands of the villagers, she invited the monks outside the city to recite the scriptures for three days, overlived the soul, and buried the ashes of the Feng family in the ancestral grave of the Feng family, and finally put a funeral wine to invite the villagers who helped a lot.