(Sorry.,The last chapter was intermittently used with a mobile phone code.,When copying and pasting,I accidentally repeated three paragraphs.,Now it's been corrected.。 To make up for the mistake, this chapter was written with almost six hundred words more. I'm so sorry!)

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The journey along the way was relatively smooth, the weather was also very good, and there was no wind and waves, so the trip was much faster than expected.

In the Dali Dynasty, if there is something important to do, such as rushing for the exam, it has always been early rather than late.

Because the road is long and the traffic is inconvenient, the time spent on the journey is often a few days, ten days, and there are too many accidents that may occur in the middle, so it is common to advance the expected time by ten days and half a month.

Hangzhou and Jinling both belong to the south of the Yangtze River, the distance is not particularly far, and it is a waterway to take a boat, so Xu Xian and others will only arrive two days in advance.

Although there are still two days to go before the competition starts, under Xu Zhengqing's strict requirements, none of the five dares to go out to play recklessly, and even want to see the prosperity and liveliness of Jinling City was refused, and only allowed to read books and review homework in Jinling Academy. When this Jiangnan Talent Cultural Meeting is over, he will give the five of them a few days off and let everyone have a good time playing in Jinling City, but before the Cultural Meeting, they all have to hold their hearts and concentrate on preparing for the competition!

However, in the three days before the meeting, it is actually impossible to review your homework calmly.

Because at this time, almost all the colleges in the state capitals of Jiangnan have arrived. That is to say, the top talents in the entire Jiangnan have gathered, gearing up and getting ready to go.

When people who practice martial arts are together, they like to meet friends with martial arts, and when they are together, they naturally meet friends with literature.

Although the cultural meeting has not yet started, we will compare with each other privately to see how strong everyone is and know where the gap between them is. Even if you don't learn from each other, it doesn't hurt to get to know each other.

The talent who can participate in the Jiangnan Talent Literary Association, the talent and knowledge must not be bad, at least there is a lot of hope for the middle school in the future, and there are many people who are afraid of the middle jinshi, all of whom are the future pillars of the imperial court, and knowing one is equivalent to giving yourself an extra road in the future.

If the Hangzhou Academy participated in the Jiangnan Talent Literary Conference in the past, the situation was actually quite good, and occasionally people would come to visit, but the number was very small.

This time is different, Fang Zhongyong's fame is already a famous genius among the talents of this session, before he took the imperial examination, the fame has already spread out of Hangzhou Mansion, and there are many people who know him; now Xu Xian has appeared out of thin air, and several classics have been handed down, so that his fame has spread out of Jiangnan, and many people in the entire Dali Dynasty have known it. The presence of the two of them in the team of Hangzhou Academy naturally became a popular spot for everyone to visit.

It can be said that Hangzhou Academy is now receiving everyone's attention, second only to the host Jinling Academy!

It's a pity that Xu Xian and Fang Zhongyong are not people who like to be in the limelight, and most of the visits were dismissed.

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The two-day waiting time is finally coming to an end, and tomorrow is the official competition time of the Jiangnan Talent Literary Society, and all the academy people who participated in the literary meeting have arrived.

Before that, the mutual visits and acquaintances were all private, and it was not until this evening that the host Jinling Academy, as the 'host', really held a banquet for everyone to wash the dust.

The banquet was booked in Jinlingchun, the largest restaurant in Jinling City, and the three floors of the entire restaurant were all wrapped, which was used to wish many students to be able to play their strengths at the literary meeting tomorrow without regrets.

In fact, this reception banquet is not unique to this cultural meeting, and it has been held in every cultural meeting in the past.

Moreover, the purpose of this meal is not only to catch the wind and wash the dust, but also the foreplay of tomorrow's cultural meeting, so warm it up first.

At tonight's banquet, there will be some simple competitions, such as wine orders and guessing riddles, so that the talents who are really talented and knowledgeable and have the ability to compete for the position of Jiangnan talents can attract everyone's attention at today's banquet.

Everyone from Hangzhou Academy also went to the banquet, but they didn't expect the seats for the banquet to be arranged in the most remote position on the first floor. This is obviously the worst position in the field, and generally speaking, it is the academy at the end of the third rate that will be placed here.

Even if Hangzhou Academy is not very strong in the Jiangnan Prefecture, it is not at the bottom of the ranking, at least it can have a place on the second floor.

Obviously, they were being targeted again, and someone deliberately stumbled on them, just to make them uncomfortable and unhappy.

Moreover, Xu Xian, who was embarrassed two days ago, could still find a way to counter the other party's army, so that Jinling Academy had to treat each other politely. But at this banquet, everyone could only shake their heads angrily, but there was no good way to deal with it.

Because the order of the banquet location has never been clearly defined, it is all according to the preferences of the host's family, and the host's family does not like you, so they will arrange you in the worst position, and you have nothing to say.

"It's really too deceitful! It must be Shen Zhou, Qiu Ying, and a few of them again, they just deliberately want to embarrass us!" someone clenched his fists hard, but finally gently hammered the table, and said angrily.

"Rest easy. Xu Zhengqing's eyes narrowed and said in a deep voice.

In fact, the anger in his heart now is no less than anyone else's, or even the most.

There is no other reason, because he was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and when he came to Jinling Academy to inspect, he was regarded as a guest, and if the Jiangnan Cultural Conference was held, he could be a judge, even if the dean of Jinling Academy had to treat him politely.

But now?

He was demoted, lost his position, and in the two days he came to Jinling Academy, almost no one came to visit him.

Even if this is over, now he completely disregards his face, and humiliates the team he leads like this, which is too deceitful!

There is nothing more important than this.

Moreover, Xu Zhengqing now sensed a message that made him feel very bad, but he was unwilling to think about it.

His friend for many years, who is regarded as his confidant, Jiang Haibo, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, turned out to be one of the judges of this Jiangnan Cultural Conference. Jiang Shilang never mentioned this matter to him, and he didn't say it last time he came to Hangzhou!

When we met again in Jinling this time, he was completely like a different person, deaf to him, and had no intention of visiting at all.

Xu Zhengqing is not stupid, through the many signs, he can already roughly guess what happened. If there is no huge change, Jiang Shilang is the judge of this literary meeting, and he doesn't look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, how dare Jinling Academy treat him like this?

It's just that Xu Zhengqing is still unwilling to believe this speculation, he prefers to believe that there is a misunderstanding.

Xu Xian also said with relief: "Won't there be a small test such as a drinking order at the banquet later? ”

Fang Zhongyong also nodded: "Yes." It's definitely not us who will be embarrassed later!"

At a banquet, the order of seating is just a preconceived image, and if you perform well in the later trials, you will still attract everyone's attention even if you sit at the end, but if you sit on it, you will be incompetent during the test, which will make people laugh.

Hearing Xu Xian and Fang Zhongyong's relief, everyone's mood improved a lot.

The strength of Hangzhou Academy is still there, even if there are no Fang Zhongyong and Xu Xian, the two immortal geniuses, the other three are not so bad that they will not sit in this position.

The banquet began quickly.

Sure enough, not long after eating, a student from Jinling Academy stood up suddenly, first bowed to the teachers, and then also bowed to all the participating students, glanced around, took a sip of wine, and then said with a smile: "This literary meeting is a rare event in our Jiangnan for several years, and today so many outstanding talents gather together, if you just eat and drink, wouldn't it be too boring? ”

It is almost a semi-official established procedure, and naturally no one objected, and everyone applauded.

This person said again: "Since everyone has no objection, then all the academies that we participated in this competition should send two representatives to participate in this drinking order!"

So, from the upstairs, the college began to choose representatives.

On the side of Hangzhou Academy, if you want to choose two representatives, there is naturally no doubt that Xu Xian and Fang Zhongyong are the two of them, and there is no need for any discussion.

But at this time, something happened to me.

The Jinling Spring Restaurant, which had already been chartered, was mixed in with a middle-aged woman who didn't know what the origin was, and this woman seemed to avoid everyone's eyes, quietly came to the table of Hangzhou Academy, and found Fang Zhongyong directly!