On the third day of the exam, there were a lot of literati and scholars, after all, appreciating calligraphy and painting is a kind of elegant thing, but you can also taste one or two.

Seeing Qi Huan's relaxed appearance, everyone couldn't help but feel a little strange.

After all, as long as Shen Yanshu wins her again in these two games today, she will be the one who needs to "bear the guilt" at that time, and she can not be in a hurry at this time, but she is really a little bit unlike her.

Ruan Leyao approached Shen Yanshu: "I think Qi Huan must have come up with some bad moves, you have to be careful." ”

When trying out the piano skills, everyone knows what is going on with those who are making noise in the audience.

Shen Yanshu nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll pay attention." ”

When King Ning and King Ling arrived, all the candidates also arrived in front of their positions and prepared to write.

King Ning sat down and said, "Then let's start." ”

As soon as the gongs and drums sounded, everyone picked up the pen one after another, some people immediately picked up the pen to write, some people were still thinking about how to write, and some people were still brewing in the air, and Shen Yanshu ......

When Ning Wang Yanxiao's eyes noticed Shen Yanshu, he found that she knocked lightly on the table, which was a signal made when there was a problem or need, and before he could ask what was going on, he saw that Yan Qinghan, who was still sitting beside him just now, had already walked in front of Shen Yanshu.

"What's wrong?" Yan Qinghan asked.

Although Shen Yanshu couldn't get used to him, she could only endure it at this time, she got up and saluted, and said, "Back to Your Highness, there is a problem with the courtier's paper and pen." ”

Shen Yanshu's voice was not high, but everyone could hear her words in the quiet examination room at this time, and everyone's faces were different for a while.

The first to react was the examiner this time, Cheng Ying, the secretary of the Guozijian Division, who stepped forward and said: "The pen, ink and paper prepared for everyone are unified, and there is no problem with everyone else's, how can you have a problem?"

Shen Yanshu said lightly: "What Lord Cheng asked, the little woman didn't know. ”

Yan Qinghan carefully examined Shen Yanshu's paper and pen, it looked no different from other people's looks, he reached out and touched the paper, and it felt a little strange.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, picked up the pen and dipped it in ink, and wrote the word "kill" on the paper.

If you look carefully, you will find that the hairs in the middle of this pen are uneven, and there are other different materials, and the words on the paper are slowly blurred, and the word "kill" is particularly weird.

Yan Qinghan threw the pen in his hand directly on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Check the paper and pen of all the candidates in the examination room." ”

The person in charge in the examination room dared not listen, and directly sent someone to check the pens, paper and ink of those candidates seriously, for fear of missing any details.

"Back to His Royal Highness, I have checked them all, only Miss Shen's pen and paper are defective. The main officer stepped forward tremblingly and said to Yan Qinghan.

As soon as the principal's voice fell, it caused quite a stir in the examination room, only Shen Yanshu had a problem, which was obviously someone targeting her.

For a while, everyone turned their attention to Qi Huan.

Qi Huan looked at everyone's suspicious eyes, and she was a little annoyed: "Look at what I do!"

Yan Xiao could probably guess a little, but for the sake of Mrs. Qi's face, he couldn't check it carefully, so he said, "Change the pen and paper for Miss Shen, and the exam will continue." ”

Shen Yan shook his head: "Thank you, His Royal Highness King Ning." ”

Yan Xiao looked at her indifferent expression, as if her thoughts of favoring the Qi family had been guessed by her, and her heart moved.

However, Yan Qinghan didn't seem to intend to expose the matter like this, and he asked, "Who is responsible for the preparation of this paper and pen?"

Shen Yanshu was stunned and glanced up at him.

"Your Highness forgives your sins, these preparations are the responsibility of the grass people. ”

Looking in the direction of the sound, everyone found that it was the master of Zhaodetang who taught painting, Master Cen. He taught Qi Huan's class, and he had taught a lot of students in the academy over the years, and he was in his early forties, and he was somewhat famous in Zhaode Hall.

I saw him walk out, knelt on the ground, and pleaded: "This matter is the grass people's fault, I accidentally mixed it up when preparing the paper and pen, if Miss Shen doesn't play well because of this, the grass people will not be at ease." ”

This reason is very lame when I hear it, Zhaodetang charges a lot of tuition fees every year, how can it be that even when preparing pen, ink, paper and inkstone, such a bad thing would be mixed in?

Yan Qinghan raised her eyebrows and said, "It's not that Miss Shen didn't play well, it's that this king used this pen and paper to write such ugly words, what do you say?"

"It's the fault of the grass people, please lower the blame!" said Master Cen.

Yan Qinghan said casually: "This king is not an unreasonable person, since Mr. is already old and dizzy, it is better to go back to retire as soon as possible." ”

"This ......" Master Cen was stunned when he heard this, did King Ling let him continue to teach in Zhaode Hall?

He is only in his forties, where does he come from! How can he need to retire!

Master Cen wanted to defend himself, but he knew that he couldn't defend himself, so he thought he was doing Mrs. Qi a small favor, but he didn't expect to fold himself in.

"The grass people know, Your Highness Xie. ”

Yan Qinghan is notorious, he still doesn't dare to provoke it, maybe he will pull himself out and behead him as soon as he is irritable.

Qi Huan looked at it, anger came from it, it was originally good, but he didn't expect that this Shen Yanshu could actually see that there was a problem with this paper and pen, it was really a blind cat running into a dead mouse!

This small wave passed quickly, and the exam continued.

Shen Yanshu was not nervous, he rolled up his sleeves and picked up a pen and wrote a small poem on the paper.

Yan Qinghan looked at her slender wrist, as if it would be broken if she bent it hard, and her green fingers held the pen, writing very casually, making people unable to take their eyes off.

Time passed quickly, Shen Yanshu finally finished writing and stopped writing, and a pair of beautiful and beautiful small characters were completed.

In the calligraphy and drawing exams, three examiners inspect and give scores, and then the two examiners determine whether the scores are reasonable, and after recording the results, all the candidates' calligraphy and paintings are displayed for others to enjoy and judge.

Qi Huan's calligraphy is average, one examiner gave seven points, Cheng Ying gave nine points, and another person gave eight points.

When he arrived at Shen Yanshu, the examiner who gave Qi Huan seven points just now gave him nine points, but the other two examiners were worried.

"Lord Cheng, Lord Mao, is there anything wrong?" asked King Ning.

Cheng Ying said: "Miss Shen's calligraphy looks very beautiful, but the strength is still lacking, and the lower officials think that they can only score seven points." ”

"Master Cheng, don't open your eyes and talk nonsense, this small character level is much better than the other one you admired just now!" Lin Ximing, the examiner who gave nine points, was not convinced.

Shen Yanshu's eyes flashed slightly, this Cheng Ying is a protégé of Mrs. Qi, so naturally he doesn't want to see him.

She just didn't expect that Mrs. Qi would even use this method for Qi Huan.

The two examiners argued, and Lin Ximing asked, "Do you want to say which word is not strong enough?"

Cheng Ying stepped forward and raised his hand to point out something, but with a sweep of his sleeves, he sprinkled the ink on the table onto Shen Yanshu's paper, and the calligraphy and painting that was neat and beautiful just now suddenly became jet black.

Shen Yanshu's eyes darkened completely.

"Master Cheng!" Lin Ximing said angrily, "You can't be like this!"

"I ...... I didn't mean to, didn't you ask me to point it out? How did I know I would get ink!" Cheng Ying defended innocently.

Yan Qinghan looked at Shen Yanshu's gloomy face, his heart tightened, and he suddenly said in a deep voice: "It seems that Master Cheng is also dizzy, do you also want to go back to your hometown to retire?"

When Cheng Ying heard this, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness forgives your sins!

All the women present were official women, looking at these twists and turns, even if they didn't understand it at first, how could they still figure it out now, this Qi family and the Shen family were completely carried on it.

It's just that everyone doesn't understand how King Ling, the living king of Hades, could suddenly be so kind and help Shen Yanshu again and again.

Even Yan Xiao couldn't understand his fourth brother a little, he said: "This matter is the negligence of Master Cheng, but you have all seen Miss Shen's words just now, you can also count how many points you should score, right?"

"Nine points. ”

"Seven points. ”

"Seven points. ”

The scores reported by the three examiners are only relatively high for Lin Ximing, anyway, now Shen Yanshu's words are also ruined, and without evidence, everyone can't tell whether it is good or bad.

According to the score statistics, Qi Huan is two points higher than Shen Yanshu.

Qi Huan ranked sixth, and Shen Yanshu and Shen Xi'er tied for eighth and ninth place.

"Do you still have any objections to this achievement?" King Ning glanced at everyone and asked.

Shen Yanshu stood up and said, "Your Highness, the courtiers have a request. ”

All eyes were on her.

"What's the matter?" asked King Ning.

Shen Yanshu said: "The courtiers ask to write another pair. ”

Cheng Ying stood up and said: "No, now that the time for the exam has passed, naturally you can't rewrite it." ”

"Master Cheng misunderstood, I don't have any objections to this result, but considering that when I hang out the calligraphy and painting later, I only have scores and no works, which will inevitably make people suspicious, so the results remain unchanged, and I will rewrite a pair of words. ”

Shen Yanshu explained unhurriedly.

"That's right. Yan Xiao said.

Spreading out the rice paper again, Shen Yanshu dipped the pen in ink and wrote a line of words, "The husband is flat and the evil takes the law, the mirror is bright and the ugly is not angry, and the reason why the water mirror can be poor and have no complaints is because of its selflessness." ”

The people around were all amazed when they saw this pair of words.

Shen Yanshu wrote a pair of wild grass, resolute and elegant, like a waterfall flowing straight down, which makes people fascinated, and can't help but want to clap their hands!

Such a pair of words, I am afraid that the famous calligraphy masters of the Great Zhou will be amazed, right?

signed, Shen Yanshu turned back to Cheng Ying and said, "Master Cheng, you must be careful this time." ”

Looking at the cunning in her eyes, Yan Qinghan knew that she was not a person who would let herself suffer.

Cheng Ying choked, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Now that so many pairs of eyes are watching, it is impossible for him to do it.