When the father and son were left, Han Ling quietly asked his father: "Nothing else, don't you think Qingxin's face is a little blue, and her hair feels very dry?"

Han Su waved his hand, and said indifferently: "I bought a maid to work and not to put it so good-looking, maybe the hard life that people used to live in the past, it would be natural to raise it in our house for two days." ”

In this family, Han Ling has always had no right to speak, and he had to silently put it in his heart when he heard Han Su's words. It's just that Jia Mingsheng, this kid, although he looks sluggish all day long after he grows up, gets along well with this little maid, and he doesn't know what to gather in a pile of drums all day long.

Soon the time will come, and the civil and military tests will be at the end of summer, and they will also have their own considerations. The ink on the inkstone will not freeze in the summer, the clothes worn by the martial artist are less convenient for movement, and the weather is cool at the end of summer, so it will not be like a party of old men in sweatshirts.

Hansu is located in Shenzhou, Shenzhou is in the northern Xinjiang, but Fanyang County is at the junction of Shenzhou and Qingzhou, and it is assigned to Shenzhou, which is actually leaning on the inside. Although the border wars were frequent, the entire state was very large, and the residents of Fanyang County may not have seen the imperial court's border troops in their entire lives. The monarchs of the Great Qi were similar to the Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty in Chinese history, and both adopted the ideological strategy of "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies". Taking the meaning of "bathing in Qinghua", the imperial city is named Muqing, which is located in the south of Qingzhou. Although it is named after the city, the actual specifications are the same as those of the big county, or even higher.

So in this way, the road is not far away from the cross-regional travel of wanderers, but the entire Great Qi Dynasty has a population of nearly 10 billion, and its jurisdiction is very broad. According to the speed of traveling during the day, three meals and resting at night, from Fanyang to Muqing Imperial City, it is necessary to set off at least in the middle of summer.

Liu Pavilion parted, and the county lieutenant sent him off.

The warm morning light of midsummer softly passes through the flowers and willows, and falls in the sparkling waves at the stern of the boat. The people on the shore and the people on the boat stared at each other, farther and farther away. The county lieutenant's emerald green robe melted into the willow shade behind him, and only the cold blue cloth was still upright, faintly visible.

Han Ling turned his head and sat down on the boat, tightening his cuffs.

Most of the people on board were students rushing to take the exam. In addition to himself, Shide and Meng Ju, there are four other people who will go to Jinsi City, the capital of a state, to take the state exam. The entire civil and military examination is held once every four years, and this is for men. And the women's is once every seven years, and Yaoguang and Meihui will both participate next year.

Shide has changed from a tall and fat child to a burly white-faced scholar, the oldest among the students in the county who rushed to take the exam. And Meng Ju is more delicate than Han Ling's eyebrows and eyes, not as cold as him, the two of them are standing together, but they are a little brothers.

The people around him said that Meng Ju was a romantic man, but Meng's discipline was very strict, and it was just a small fight. In Han Ling's opinion, at most, it is just a rich young master who has some bad habits. However, I have to say that his tutor has cultivated him into a small fritter that is very suitable for officialdom, which may be the original purpose of the Meng family.

And for these little friends around the young master, people also have different evaluations. Meng Ni is regarded as a little tail, and Han Ling has always been a genius child in people's minds, but his personality is a little cold and gloomy, which makes people feel that although this child treats people with a smile on his face, this smile is like a spring breeze, only from the face. For a while, it was considerate and warm, but in fact, the smile did not reach the bottom of the eyes.

Despite this, there were still many people surrounding the child named Han Ling, just for that little bit of undetected hypocritical tenderness -- these were Meng Ju's original words, even the master.

In Han Ling's view, the master seems to be concerned, but in fact he is also taking advantage of it. The Meng family has always worked foreign surnames, and there is competition between foreign surnames and dependent Hanmen. In the old master's view, the friendship established between Meihui and him when he was young and ignorant was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to contain and ease. Therefore, Han Ling's cultivation of this old man at the beginning can only be said to have an attitude of mutual use. As time went by, the master was also infected by him, and he had some sincerity, and Han Ling treated him half-truthfully.

Along the Lujiang River, which originates from the mountain range, flows northward, just bringing all living beings from Fanyang to Huatian, this road is full of sails, buildings and boats, and it is busy coming and going. A group of teenagers were eating and drinking on the river, dazzling, and so unhappy.

When he arrived at Huatian Mansion, Han Ling first went to meet with Meng Ju to meet the state pastor. The thin old man of the year still hasn't changed much, even the clothes are the same as those days.

The state pastor received the two in the back hall of the official office, and Han Ling followed Meng Ju according to the rules at this time.

The layout of the back hall looks like the style of the martial arts, but the furnishings are elegant but you can smell a smell of swords and swords from the details. A crystal wood table is engraved with a map of the expedition, and a pair of white porcelain cups are painted with famous beauties.

Zhou Mu took another cup and poured a cup of tea for each of the three of them, and the mist was shrouded. Meng Ju took a step forward and said: "The kid has met Lord Zhoumu, he has made great achievements, he has been famous for a long time, and he can see him today." ”

The old man drooped his eyes slightly, and did not make a statement, only said that he did not dare, and said with a smile that the young master has a talent in civil and military affairs, and the future of the Meng clan is bright.

Han Ling also bowed his hand respectfully and said: "My lord's elegance has not diminished back then. ”

The governor's eyebrows moved slightly, and he smiled: "Old, old." I can only watch you fight bravely one by one. ”

After a few words of greetings and a few words, the state pastor said a few more serious words, and then said goodbye. First, Meng Ju has not yet reached the level of being a spokesperson, and secondly, the two parties really have little intersection, each with its own set.

Before the state exam, there is a county exam, and the test is not talent but identity, which is more like a threshold. Han Ling had his back against Meng and was directly exempted from the test. In the state examination, the best of the children of the family won the national examination. But even the state test has loopholes to exploit, and the central government issues questions in each state, and although it is said that leaks are severely punished, no one is stupid enough to say it. A behemoth like Meng's is not something that any state pastor can talk to on an equal footing.

In a few days, it was the state exam. There are five days in total, the first and fifth days are for the literary test, and the third day is for the martial arts test, and each day of the test is a day off.

Tens of thousands of candidates streamed in from the gate of the compound. The state school is temporarily requisitioned as one of the test centers, and this is the case every year.

Today's sky is gloomy, and there has been a gray cloud in mid-air. Two stern-faced state scholars stood at the door as a guide. Han Ling and a few others stood in the long queue, and the surrounding students were also in groups of people talking to each other.

There are also people in the courtyard to guide them to different rooms. There were only fifteen people in one room, and the invigilation was very strict. It was easy to get arranged, and everyone was divided into different rooms, which was also intentional in the arrangement.

The long corridor was dappled with light and shadow, and the students before the exam hurriedly walked towards their respective examination rooms.

Han Ling entered his seventy-one examination room, and happened to sit by the window, bored, so he had to recall the classic books that might be taken over and over again. The first scene is a classic paraphrase, and the second scene, which is four days later, is a text.

After waiting for a long time, all the living beings were seated, and the exam officially began. The state school students distribute the test papers.

The scroll came down, it was a long one, and when Han Ling saw the small words on the head, he felt a burst of expected "surprise" in his heart.