The school palace in the Aoba world, I don't know day and night, and it's hard for the people inside to feel the passage of time, and they don't know that the real world outside has come to the next day.

It was almost noon, and the vendors seized the opportunity to shout desperately, using those stone pillars as the line, and the excitement outside the line was extremely lively, and the fragrance of osmanthus cake was the clearest in the taste of food.

The people who came to see the Great Dynasty Examination gathered around the periphery of the palace, discussing the latest news coming out of the palace from time to time, and people could not see the exciting pictures of the Great Dynasty Examination site, but the emotions were not affected, and the atmosphere was still very warm, and it must be said that this also had the credit of those storytellers.

On the street outside the palace, there will be a tea shop at a distance of dozens of zhang, there will always be an ordinary table in front of the shop, and the storytellers wearing long shirts or padded jackets stand in front of their respective tables, spitting and dancing, constantly telling what happened in the palace at this time, and I don't know who these storytellers and the boss behind them have anything to do with who in the palace.

There is a relatively quiet teahouse in the southwest corner, the decoration is quite elegant, but today this teahouse can not be vulgar, specially invited a storyteller to sit in the hall, and also spent a lot of money to buy the latest news from the palace, only to see the middle-aged storyteller with a clear face patted the wood, and said: " It is said that the Qujiang River is quiet and clear and can shine on people, and the candidates show their skills, or tread water to cross the river, or turn into flowing clouds, and they will leave the young man of the National Education College behind, and for a while the two sides of the strait are silent, and they all want to see how the young man crosses the river, who has sounded, only to hear a crane cry from the sky, and the white crane returns!"

Speaking of this section, the storyteller was shocked again, and shocked the tea guests who were engrossed, and then slowly said: "At that time, nearly 100 candidates on both sides of the Qujiang River were as stunned as you are. Because the next moment, the young man from the National Education College didn't say a word, lifted his front placket, sat on the back of the white crane, soared up the clouds, and headed towards the opposite bank.

There was a loud discussion in the teahouse.

The storyteller smiled and said, "You don't need to talk about it, you must know that those candidates who participated in the Great Dynasty Examination, whether in the sect or in the academy, must have seen immortals, birds and beasts, but why were they so surprised? Because no one thought that they could cross the river in this way, and what shocked them even more was that the white crane was not an ordinary white crane, it was a white crane from the Eastern Imperial Divine General's Mansion in Kyoto, my Great Zhou Dynasty!"

The discussion between the buildings is even louder, and many people in Kyoto know that there are white cranes in the house of the East Imperial God General, but they have seen them less often over the years, and some people think of the marriage contract that has been spread so much, and they can't help but wonder why the white crane is willing to carry the young man from the National Education Academy. ”

"If you haven't forgotten it, you should know that the white crane has already followed Miss Xu to the Southern Saintess Peak, why did it suddenly appear in Kyoto, thousands of miles away? Could it be that Miss Xu really recognized the young man from the National Education Academy as her fiancé?

At this point, the storyteller coughed lightly twice, picked up the teacup and took a sip of warm tea. The tea guests in the building understood what this meant, although one or two tea officials said angrily, this is yesterday's story, how can it be said that they are still cheating money today, most people still honestly follow the tea money.

The storyteller was very satisfied with the number of copper coins in the tea tray, cleared his throat, and began to continue to tell the story of the Great Imperial Trial, and the teahouses listened attentively, and no one noticed that a middle-aged man wearing a hat drank all the tea in the cup and walked out of the teahouse. The middle-aged man's hat was pressed very low, and he couldn't see his eyebrows clearly, and the crowd that blended into the streets and alleys after leaving the building disappeared in a short time.

After a while, the middle-aged man appeared in an inn four miles south of the palace, he took out two crimson pills from his arms and took them, coughed painfully for a while, and finally suppressed the injuries in his body, walked to the bed and lay down, his hat was pushed aside, and there were two faint protrusions in his black hair.

After noon, the business of all the teahouses and tea shops became better, but the stories told by the storyteller were no longer so attractive, because the results of the imperial examination were officially announced, and the shopkeepers or men of the teahouses and tea shops went to copy back before leaving the palace and began to explain to the tea customers.

The last place on the list of literary exams is a candidate named Zhang Tingtao from the Star Picking Academy, and the people have no impression of this name, so naturally they don't have much to talk about, just laugh at a few words, and attack the purpose of the Star Picking Academy. Xuanyuan Po's ranking is very low, Tang Thirty-six is ranked seventh, Zhuang Changyu is sixth, and the four scholars of Huaiyuan have excellent results, and they are all in the top ten, of course, people are most concerned about the first two names - Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng are ranked first and second respectively, and there are remarks next to the names of the two people: excellent.

Looking at the final list of the Great Dynasty Essay Test, the spectators were full of discussions, amazed, and pointed at the names of Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng, and were amazed. Some tourists from other counties who came to Kyoto to see the Great Imperial Examination were very puzzled by this, thinking that even if they were at the top of the list, why was they so praised?

Some people in Kyoto explained to these people that the Imperial Dynasty Examination has always only been ranked, and only extremely excellent examination papers will be specially marked as excellent. Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng's names are both marked with excellent next to them, which means that their answers are perfect. You must know that this is a very rare thing, and it has not been such a situation for many years.

Those tourists from other counties understood the reason, but they couldn't understand it, since the two candidates' literary test scores were so good, they should all be correct, so how did they distinguish the high and low? Why did Gou Hanshi rank first, but Chen Changsheng only got the second place?

No one can explain this question, and those well-informed people in Kyoto are also very curious about it, and they are also puzzled by the examiners in charge of reviewing in the palace.

The examiner of the literary examination looked at the priest who had a slightly cold expression and was obviously looking for trouble, and thought to himself, even if the Sect Council was not angry that Chen Changsheng did not get the first place, why was it so obvious?

However, under the control of Bishop Merissa, the cardinal has been unusually strong for a year, and even if the rank of the examiner is higher than that of the other party, he still has to explain carefully.

"The question of terminology norms. ”

He looked at the priests who were in charge of reviewing the results of the literary examination, and said with a stern expression: "I can't tell the difference between high and low in other aspects, but Gou Hanshi's language is very strict and standardized, especially the special vocabulary related to the classics, even the avoidance of overlapping pens is not wrong, although Chen Changsheng has no problem answering, but his words are too old, according to the standards after the major editing, of course points should be deducted." ”

The results of the literary examination have been sent out of the palace and announced to the world, so naturally they have not been changed. Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng, who got excellent evaluations, became the object of everyone's admiration, and when some time later, after the candidates for the final round of the battle were confirmed, people were even more shocked and discussed, because those two people were still Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng, which also means that the first place in this year's Great Dynasty Examination will inevitably be produced from these two people.

One is the world-famous second law of the Seven Laws of the Kingdom of God, a young wise man from the Lishan Sword Sect, who reads through the Daozang's Gou Han Food. One is the first freshman of the National Education College for many years, the object of the old school of the National Religion, Xu Yourong's fiancé Chen Changsheng, the two are comparable in reputation, and being able to come this far also proves their respective knowledge and strength, but there are still not many people who are optimistic about Chen Changsheng.

The four major squares have opened the latest odds, Gou Hanshi is one and a third, Chen Changsheng is seven, the difference is very huge, and it can even be said that Gou Hanshi has won steadily.

Listening to the noise coming from downstairs, Tianhai Shengxue's face showed a thoughtful expression, although he had bought a lot of silver from Chen Changsheng before, he didn't expect that the young man from the National Religious Academy could really come this far, but even he couldn't be optimistic that Chen Changsheng would be able to continue to win.

The reason why no one is optimistic about Chen Changsheng in the end is because people, including Tianhai Shengxue, know that there is a threshold between Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng.

The bar is high.

That threshold is related to life and death, higher than life and death.

In the Zhaowen Palace, the Bishop Merisa slowly opened his eyes, looked at the list of literary examination results displayed on the light mirror, and was silent for a long time, then he laughed, stood up straight with difficulty under the support of Priest Xin, and walked out of the hall towards the Qingxian Palace. He was just thinking about using the Great Dynasty to try to make Chen Changsheng mature, but he didn't expect that Chen Changsheng really could pick this rich and juicy fruit, there was no hope, since hope was ahead, he naturally wouldn't allow anyone to destroy it, no one could.

In the depths of the palace, the divine crown bears the falling sky from the temple on the table, shining with dazzling brilliance, and the scepter reflects the reflection of the pool on the platform, as if it is in the deep sea, compared with these two artifacts, the green leaf in the tile pot inevitably looks a little shabby, but the Pope did not look at the divine crown, nor did he look at the scepter, but quietly looked at the green leaf, silent, a little distracted.

He had his hands behind his back, like an elderly flower farmer.

Not far away is the clear water pool, the wooden scoop gently undulates in the water, like a flat boat, ready to hold water, which can be used to water green leaves, or can be used to rain a rain.

At the farthest point from Kyoto, there are barren mountains with endless forests and white mist, slippery and unobstructed mountain paths, which may have been even more eerie if it were not for the occasional sound of tuk-tuk from the mountain paths.

The sound of those tuks was the sound of a wooden stick falling on the wet rocks of the mountain road.

The rest of the people walked with difficulty on crutches up the mountain road. He and Chen Changsheng's master, the mysterious Daoist was walking in front with his hands on his back, and he didn't seem to be worried at all that he wouldn't be able to keep up.

The sound of tuk tuk continued for a long time, and the clouds in the secluded forest became thicker and thicker, and there were many small sounds faintly coming from inside, as if many creatures were attracted to it by the sound of the staff.