After the two broke up, Chu Menglin rushed to the capital alone, and after several days and nights, she arrived. First of all, I heard the news of the beheading of the demon girl a few days ago, and the Chen family's destruction by the Demon Sect for no reason, and everyone had different opinions and discussions. On the way, it was made up by good deeds, and it was even more miraculous. Another major event is the release of the imperial examination list, although the imperial list has been posted for several days, there are still many people gathered around to watch, pointing and discussing.

A white-faced scholar said indignantly: "Have you heard? That champion Gongtang is just a milky hairy boy, how much ink can be held in his belly? I heard that many old scholars who have been learning all their lives have been kicked out, and I said, there must be some catty here." ”

Another said: "Then it doesn't need to be said, this champion is a wreck who relies on women to eat soft rice, it is rumored that he is an old acquaintance of Concubine Yun, and it is with this layer of skirt relationship that the emperor promoted him exceptionally and made him the head of the Hanlin Academy." Phew, what old knowledge, I think it's Concubine Yun's private little white face!"

Another humane: "It turns out that Concubine Yun likes little white face, Erhei, you can't please her, otherwise everyone will strip naked and compete fairly, even our Erhei brother has also won him." In the midst of everyone's laughter, a short black man laughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, who doesn't know that my brother's house has a dominatrix, and I don't dare to look at the woman next to me when I walk on the street, let alone steal, don't you want to kill your brother?"

The first one said with a hippie smile: "Hehe, it turns out that the second black brother is afraid of his wife, as the saying goes, women are like clothes, not that the younger brother has more mouths, if the sister-in-law really hinders her career, why don't you kick her, and when you come out, you can't find a beautiful woman with you?"

Erhei said: "Who said it wasn't......" Before he finished sighing, he screamed like a pig-like "oops" and "oops", and everyone followed the prestige, only to see a fat woman twisting Erhei's fan-like ears, and screamed: "Okay, you dead ghost, you're going to turn the sky upside down! What are you saying behind the back of the old lady? Say it to me again!" Erhei shouted: "Madame is angry...... I said that my wife is as beautiful as a fairy, and when I look at you, I don't want to look at other women...... Ouch, be merciful, if you try harder, my ears will be screwed off for you!"

The fat woman shouted, "You gave birth to a pig's ear, and you only smell the shortcomings of your parents all day long, but you can't listen to the old lady's lesson, so why keep it?" Then she spread her hands and splashed them in the street, shouting: "What's the use of you as a man? It's like a stone in a thatched pit, it's lazy to eat, it's smelly and dirty, and it can't be hard! The old lady married you is really bad luck for eighteen lifetimes...... Erhei's black face has swelled into a pig's liver color, his neck is stalked, and he said: "It's not blowing! We are talking about the champion Gong who doesn't learn and can't learn, can't read Ding, and I'm better than him!"

The fat woman smiled and said, "Yes, my family's Erhei is the most promising, although he is an ironworker, he will also recite Li Taibai's 'Silent Night Thoughts' in the Tang Dynasty." Xianggong, show them a hand!"

Erhei cleared his throat, and was just about to raise his head, when he heard a clear voice in the crowd say: "Who said that the champion is not learned and has no skills?" A well-dressed beautiful young man walked out, holding a folding fan made of pure gold in his hand, and kept shaking it gently. Although he had been away for many days, his temperament and dress were very different from before, Chu Menglin could still recognize this young man as Tang Yuanyuan, and he couldn't hold back his smile at the moment and watch the changes.

Tang Yuanyuan walked straight to the Erhei couple, deliberately pretended not to see the two, and repeated: "If the husband dares to do it, he must dare to act, and if he dares to say it, he must dare to admit it, which one said it just now, stand up." Erhei only thought he was a pink-headed boy, and because he had lost face before, he was eager to redeem himself, straightened his chest, and said, "It's me, boy, what are you going to do?"

Tang Yuanyuan smiled and looked at him a few times, unfolded the folding fan and said: "It's nothing, you think that the champion is not learned and has no skills, but I think he has learned a lot of skills, who is right and wrong, there must be a conclusion." Come and compare with me, and if you win, you are right, and if I win, you must not make any more arguments about it. Chu Menglin said in her heart: "Sure enough, nerds have nerd solutions." ”

Erhei said: "Don't talk nonsense, how do you compare?" Tang said remotely: "The dead knowledge in the book is written in black and white, I understand your elm head, and I may not remember it all." What's more, you only know how to memorize, and it's useless in practice, so this item will be saved for you, so it's better for the two of us to make an article each, talk about the beginning and end of the Chen family's tragedy, and then take it out and ask everyone to evaluate it. ”

A porter-like man shouted: "No, this is more unfair! Erhei loses to you, because he himself has no ability, why should we lose? Only those who are willing to gamble will accept defeat, and the rules you have set, everyone is not convinced, and they are unwilling to gamble." Everyone responded in an uproar, but many of them had the mentality of watching the show, to see how this young man dealt with the thorny problem.

Tang Yuanyuan smiled and said: "Since you are not convinced, you might as well propose another fair method, I am close to the age of the champion and the princess, I can be his representative, and you will also elect a representative to compete with me." If you really respect age, you can first report your birthday, select the oldest one, and then compare. ”

Immediately, many young and middle-aged people said angrily: "How can you do it accurately? Who said that if you are old, you must be knowledgeable?" "Yes, how can you confuse age with the depth of knowledge? It is great to jump out of the mother's womb a few years early? What nonsense!" "Even if you win, we are useless, there are people outside the world, there are heavens outside the world, and the more learned ones disdain to compare with you!"

Tang Yuan tapped the palm of his hand with the handle of the fan, and said with a smile: "You are a little restless, and you are just obedient to the will of the people, so you have come to this conclusion. In today's world, are all those heroic men who are majestic and terrifying, all old men? Not to mention, the newly enthroned martial arts alliance leader Li Daxia, is he also a young and promising hero?"

Although not everyone of the onlookers practiced martial arts, they were also familiar with the affairs of the martial arts, and watched him fiddle with the folding fan for a long time, and a shrill voice said: "It is rumored that the demon of the Shadow Sacrifice Sect 'Remnant Star' is young and handsome, and he is used to folding fans and kills people without leaving a whole corpse, so he is a dangerous murderer...... Some people questioned: "I heard that 'Remnant Star' has a cruel and violent personality, if it is really him, how can he calmly tell us this?"

A vegetable farmer said: "People can change, listen to my eldest nephew, the sweetheart of the deceased hall master does not want him, and it is difficult to say that he is deeply shocked, so his temperament has changed greatly." "A few days ago, when I was parading through the streets, I showed up in the dark to fight with the officers and soldiers, but the battle was fierce at that time, and I heard Hu Wei report his name, so I was so frightened that I retreated far away, lest I be affected, and no one dared to look up directly, so I didn't know what he looked like. Tang Yuanyuan didn't know much about the Demon Sect, and casually mentioning martial arts reminded everyone of the dark night, and their faces showed a look of fear.

Tang Yuanyuan accidentally hit and reaped miraculous results, which was also an unexpected joy, and raised his voice and said: "Everyone, please be quiet, whether I am the 'remnant star' or not, everyone's awe of him is always from the heart, the original similarities between civil and military, he practiced the top martial arts at a young age, and he knew that the champion was a deception to the world and stealing his name? How can age and talent be generalized? Moreover, there is no first in the literature, no second in the martial arts, that is, the most knowledgeable person in the world, and he may not have taken the exam. The top three are the emperor's imperial pen, if you have any objections, why don't you mention them to the emperor?"

Originally, no matter how reasonable he was, this group of people were all reckless men who admitted to death, and they would definitely find fault with him and ridicule him to their heart's content, but the matter involved the death of the night, who had the courage to judge him? Once he refuted him, it was tantamount to belittling the martial arts of the Remnant Star, and he was afraid that there would be a misfortune in a different place overnight, so he had to say yes. Tang Yuanyuan didn't know that he borrowed the light of the dark night, and he also relied on his exquisite eloquence to convince the public, complacent, gently shaking the folding fan, looking around the audience, and smiling.

An old man with white beard and white hair said: "Young people have unique insights and immeasurable achievements in the future, but why do you force others to take this lead, who are you?" Chu Menglin finally couldn't bear it anymore, pulled down the veil, and said crisply: "He is the new champion Tang Yuanyuan this year!"

Tang Yuan was embarrassed, he has always been humble and polite, this time it was all because he had just won the top prize, showed his ambitions, and reunited with Shen Shiyun, and then was crowned by the emperor. On the street, I heard people chewing on the root of my tongue in the market, and I was not convinced, so I concealed my identity and said good things for myself, but I was exposed on the spot. He glared at Chu Menglin with shame and annoyance, and lowered his voice and said, "How do you recognize ......?"

Chu Menglin took a few steps forward, at this time the two were extremely close to each other, and even the tips of their noses almost touched each other, Tang Yuan could vaguely see her face through the thick veil, and saw the unique cunning in her eyes, and said, "Ah, it turns out that you are ......"

Chu Menglin said: "Shhh, don't say it!" Tang Yuanyuan was embarrassed by her, and he really wanted to retaliate and shake out her identity, but he didn't know that Chu Menglin was the daughter of the Demon Sect, and she had always been treated as an ordinary rich lady, and not many people had heard of it, and it was boring to expose, so he didn't say much. Suddenly smelling the aroma emanating from her body in her nose, her face immediately turned red, and she hurriedly took a few steps back and distanced herself.

When everyone heard that this young man turned out to be the champion himself, he was articulate just now, and shouted "champion father" one by one, as if the champion was the first in the world, and he was a bystander who was too brave and brave. The young man was strong-blooded, and it was not a big deal, but when he learned that he was desperately putting gold on his face, his gaze was filled with more disdain.

A man who had participated in the debate said with a smile: "The champion is really a cheerful person, everyone admires it! Today, I have to see the dignity of the champion prince, it is our ancestors who burned high incense." I think it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, it's better to invite the champion to be the east, go to the largest restaurant in the capital together, set up a banquet, and rest when you get drunk. Everyone responded in unison, but there were also a lot of whistles and inverted colors.

Chu Menglin said in her heart: "Sycophant, you didn't recognize him before, what kind of joy are you talking about?" pulled Tang Yuan's sleeve, Tang Yuanyuan was impatient to deal with him, and said: "I'm really sorry, I have an appointment today, it's better to leave it for the 'Enrong Banquet' of the Ministry of Rites, and then lead the new science and technology scholars and everyone to the banquet to drink." Tuan Tuan hugged his fists, took Chu Menglin's hand, and left through the gap in the crowd. Everyone was stunned, and it took a long time before someone said: "My old cow is really accurate, isn't Zhuangyuan Gong just a ruthless wanderer?"

Tang Yuanyuan and Chu Menglin returned to the inn where they stayed when they first arrived in the capital, and went upstairs to enter the room first, and saw that it was neatly cleaned and the mattress was flat, and there was no trace of the two of them staying here. Chu Menglin pushed open the window and looked at the prosperous scene in the city, the shouts of small merchants and hawkers came into her ears from time to time, and she couldn't help sighing: "Revisiting the old land, thinking of the prosperity is still the same, and the personnel are no longer there, I am embarrassed." Tang Yuanyuan also echoed: "Yes, Baiyun Canggou, the vicissitudes of life in an instant, it really makes people feel a lot of emotion." ”