Qi Niang actually didn't have any ideas.

She puffed out her cheeks, tilted her head and asked, "Lion Tiger, if I don't want to take any children's subjects, can I not take the test?" ”

"Even if it doesn't." Li Bai also reacted after speaking.

No matter how much this matter ferments, and how the old and new nobles, the old and new nobles, the family and the Hanmen in the DPRK and China take advantage of this, it will be His Majesty's decision in the end.

When they pondered this, they might as well drink two more jars of wine and eat two pieces of bean syrup.

Li Bai suddenly lost his shape again, and beckoned Pei Zhi and said: "Come on, come on, Pei Sanlang, Qi Niang is right, and get drunk first, don't let mediocre people disturb themselves." ”

Pei Zhi looked at the pair of masters and apprentices eating and drinking, he didn't worry about it at all, and shook his head helplessly and smiled: "It is worthy of being the child brought out by you Li Shibai." ”

After being able to see through the essence, she still maintains her cheerful chic, this big heart, and she will not be an ordinary girl in the future.

Pei Zhen's eyes when he looked at Qi Niang were full of appreciation and love for his juniors.

Qi Niang grimaced at him, and after "slightly", she took a clean spoon and scooped a large piece of pig's head meat and threw it to him.

Pei Zhi couldn't cry or laugh, knowing that he was being mocked in a vague way, but he still said good-naturedly: "I don't know what feats our Qi Niang has done in Mianzhou, so that you can ask Your Majesty to ask about this matter?" ”

Li Bai talked a lot after drinking, and described to Pei Zhi about the high drum car and the sour thorny willow with emotion, and at the end, he touched Qi Niang's head with satisfaction, like an old father showing off his daughter.

Pei Zhi was shocked, and sighed a little: "With Qi Niang's intelligence, I am afraid that I will have more insight in the future, but it is a pity that ......"

Qi Niang has seen such eyes.

Previously, in Qinglian Town, although the farmers were grateful to her, they also felt sorry for her look, and the villagers talked about it the most, that is, "who can marry the fairy boy of the Li family in the future, it is really a blessing."

Thinking of these, Qi Niang's stubborn temper came up, and she said to Pei Zhi fiercely: "Qi Niang is still young and promising, it's not a pity at all!" ”

Pei Zhi was slightly stunned, and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, yes, I want to fork." ”

He was amazed by the little girl's acuity, and also gave birth to the idea of "maybe she is really different".

Pei Zhi was born in one of the old clans in Guanzhong.

Led by Wei, Pei, Liu, Xue, Yang, and Du, most of the old gate valve families in the early Tang Dynasty would choose to consolidate their status through marriage, which was called "endogamy". After the empress ascended the throne, the nobles in Guanzhong gradually realized that only paying attention to the background of the gate valve could not guarantee the continued prosperity of future generations, and they were forced to have no choice but to begin to pay attention to the political status and talents of the other party. ①

This is the case with Pei Zhen's Aye Pei Guangting.

In that year, the family took a fancy to the status of Wu Sansi (the nephew of the empress) in the court, and chose Wu Sansi's daughter Wu as his wife for Pei Guangting. It's just that they didn't expect that once the Shenlong coup d'état, Pei Guangting would be demoted to Yingzhou because of this.

Now, the Pei family is finally getting better.

And Pei Zhi has seen the ups and downs of the family since she was a child, and she has been influenced by A-Niang, so she doesn't think it's a bad thing for a girl to be ambitious.

Lang Jun, who had not yet been poisoned too deeply by the court, laughed and cheered Qi Niang: "Eat more, and strive to help me beat Twelve Lang as soon as possible." ”

Qi Niang's arrogant face: "Hmph, Master said, do your own things." ”

Pei Zhi and Li Baideng laughed again.

Catching up with friends is always fast. The sun was setting in the west, and the twilight drums on the battlements were beating.

Chang'an City implements a strict management system of the fang market, and the inside of each fang can be walked at night, but as soon as the dusk drum sounds, the fang door is about to close. At that time, if you walk on the main road outside the workshop, you will have to be next to the board.

Pei Zhi lives far away, and his home is in Yongxingfang in the east of the city, so he hurriedly got up to say goodbye.

He also shouted as he walked: "Twelve Lang, I remember the mansion where you live." If there's any news over there, I'll come to you again, and you should prepare for the exam! ”

Li Bai sent the person away with a smile, and then took Qi Niang to the Persian's shop. Before closing, they bought a few pieces of exotic jewelry, all with small bells on them, and Qi Niang happily spun in circles.

After this day, Li Bai entered the intense preparation stage.

The Jingzhao Prefecture Examination has always been presided over by Gong Cao, or Si Gong to join the army (2), and in an eventful year, this Jingzhao Prefecture Government Examination Officer also had to serve as the Jinshi Examination Officer in the winter of that year.

On the day when the examiner was revealed, Li Bai came back and shouted at Qi Niang: "This year is really strange, the examiner actually invited the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the bachelor of Jixian Academy to serve as a scholar, fortunately, this is also a Jinshi from Jingzhao Mansion, I heard that he is still the champion, I think about it, the left of the examination school is just the flow of miscellaneous essays." ”

Qi Niang hadn't learned how to write an article yet, and looked at Li Bai a little nervously: "Then will Master?" ”

Li Bai was quite crazy, and said unashamedly: "Although I am not as good at vertical and horizontal arts, it is not a problem to pass the house test." ”

Seeing Li Bai's mad look, Qi Niang pouted with an indifferent face: "Oh." ”

Li Bai laughed twice and asked her, "What fun can happen today?" ”

Qi Niang thought about it and replied: "It's nothing, it's just that Pei Langjun came here after he got off duty, and Rory said a lot of things, I forgot about it." ”

Li Bai: "......"

"But he left you a word."

Knowing that this hairy girl was deliberately naughty, Li Bai pretended to murder her: "Then don't take it out, be careful to punish you for copying books!" ”

Qi Niang ran to the house with a cigarette, took Pei Zhen's message, and said angrily: "It was Pei Langjun who said that he had to hide it first, and he could only show it to you." ”

Li Bai roughly swept it, and couldn't help frowning-

"Twelve Lang, Yang Jue, the son of the country's sacrificial wine, is sparse today, thinking that in recent years, the number of people in the world's Ming Jing, Jinshi and the first, the number of Guozijian is only about twenty, and the remaining seventy or eighty are all embezzled by the township tribute, which is really inappropriate.

When His Majesty hesitated, the officials also stood up and asked the people who were recommended by the filial piety Li Tianke to be rewarded by the state capitals, and they could not be entrusted with important tasks, which would ruin the balance between the scholars and the peasants. ”

"Your Majesty is annoying, and has allowed the states to reward those who are filial piety and force the field to cultivate a cow, three acres of fertile land, and after the grain production increases in the following year, they can also be exempted from forced labor, and set an example for the township."

Pei Zhi did not mention his own views and judgments throughout the article.

But Li Bai knew very well that this matter was over, and Qi Niang would not be at risk of becoming famous in Chang'an for the time being.

He should have been happy, but at this time he pulled away his smiling face, but his smile was more ugly than crying.

Qi Niang was puzzled, and stretched out her two hands to help Li Bai raise the corners of her mouth: "Master, Pei Langjun said it was a good thing, why are you unhappy?" ”

Li Bai sighed, took Qi Niang's little hand and sat down: "I thought that Your Majesty opened the filial piety field to love the people, cherish good talents, and put an end to the situation of destroying the grain in the heavy rain." ”

Qi Niang was puzzled: "Isn't it?" Find talents, think about farming thoroughly, and the gift of land will definitely make the people of the world live a good life! ”

Li Bai smiled bitterly: "But we, everyone, I'm afraid we don't think so." ”

One cow, three acres of land.

The courtiers had only written once, and he was annoyed, so he dismissed them with some rewards at will. The so-called recruitment of talents, in the eyes of His Majesty, is it so called to come and go as soon as they are called?

Li Bai had been in Chang'an for a while, and only then did he understand a little that King Ning would let him go to pay tribute.

If he was recommended to join the court, he would be like these people.

What kind of talent is it, but it is just a "façade" used by His Majesty to decorate his prosperous achievements.

*

The heavy white rain in Chang'an summer starts as soon as it starts.

Like a rain column that fell on the ground, it gathered into a rushing shallow water, and the sky and the earth were vast, even if they were wearing a robe, their eyes were quickly blurred.

Today is the last test of the government exam, and I have passed the essay and the test, I thought that the third session would be Jingyi, but I didn't expect this waiter of the Ministry of Rites to write a poem.

This is not surprising, the Tang people's love for poetry is engraved in their bones.

When Li Bai saw the title, he almost laughed out loud on the spot.

The theme of this test was "war", and the examiner did not ask for it, so he let him play even more wantonly.

He picked up the pen habitually to reach the wine jug, and found that he was in the examination institute, so he wrote in a sprinkled manner: "The edge of Huangyun City is dark and wants to live, and it is flying on the dumb branches." In the machine, the brocade Qinchuan woman is weaved, and the blue yarn is like smoke through the window. Stopping and remembering the distant people, he stayed alone in a lonely room and cried like rain. ”

The title of the poem "Crying in the Dark Night" is about the time of the Wuhu Rebellion, Dou Tao went to the sandbank to serve hard labor, and there was no news, and his wife Su Hui missed it too much, and weaved it into a palindromic poem - "Xuanji Tu" to send her husband's affairs.

Li Bai did it in one go, dried the ink, and walked away in the surprised eyes of everyone.

It was raining even more outside the examination hall.

Some officials stood under the corridor and shouted "unlucky", but Li Bai laughed and walked into the rain, sighing "good rain, good rain".

The man walked away, and his test paper was presented to the examiner.

This former champion Lang's name is He Zhizhang, he is already old, he has goosebumps, but his spirit is very good.

He smiled and took Li Bai's test paper to read, couldn't help but sing it again, and praised: "There is no mention of conquest, but there is suffering caused by war everywhere, it is really a good poem for crying ghosts and gods!" ”

The people around him hurriedly agreed.

He Zhizhang smiled and looked at the name on the test paper: "Mianzhou people, Li Bai." On the day he gets his solution, the old man will definitely invite him to a deer banquet and drink wine together! ”

The so-called deer banquet is also the first of the four banquets of the imperial examination. It specifically refers to the township drinking banquet held by the magistrate to congratulate the candidates on the day after the release of the township tribute list.

Nearly 100 township tributes in Jingzhao Mansion are relieved every year, and naturally there are officials in charge of this matter who hold banquets and play sheng. An identity like He Zhizhang did not need to be handled in person.

However, who made He Shilang take a fancy to Li Bai.

At this end, Li Bai didn't know that a year-old friend was already on the avenue, he was drenched in heavy rain, and when he returned to the mansion heartily, he saw Qi Niang sneezing like a poor kitten.

"Haqiu!"

Li Bai's smile froze instantly, and he asked seriously: "Qi Niang, it's raining so hard, what are you still doing outside?" ”

Qi Niang sniffled and lay on the table aggrievedly: "Ah Weng said, if we live in Chang'an for a long time, we have to go to the tooth shop to find someone to buy a house in the workshop." I asked a few days ago, the house in Chang'an is too expensive, and we have no money to eat after buying it! ”

Li Bai was busy wiping Qi Niang's hair, and said along the way: "Then don't buy it, we can rent a yard." ”

"It's also very expensive to rent, I heard that there are Beijing officials who buy houses in Wannian County, and they ride horses in the middle of the night every day to get on the cost." Qi Niang turned her head, her eyes shining brightly, "I have been shopping around Chang'anfang City in the past few days and found a good way to make money!" ”

Li Bai was vigilant: "What do you want to do?" ”

Qi Niang rubbed her hands and smiled: "It's nothing, it's just that their cow dung, horse dung, chicken, duck and goose dung don't need to be on the right path, it's a pity!" ”